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TV's "The Greatest American Hero" debuted 45 years ago today - March 18, 1981. We honor the '80s TV show with a reairing of our 2007 interview with actor William Katt. On Sale Now! Stuck in the '80s: 20 Years of Conversations with Pop Culture Icons Who Defined a Decade, by podcast creator Steve Spears, is finally for sale as both a paperback and ebook. Featuring more than 60 interviews from the podcast, along with insider stories and other previously unpublished insights, the book is available on most online bookstore websites including: Amazon Barnes and Noble Walmart Our Sponsors SIT80s fans get 10% off everything at our new sponsor Rotellaresale.com. Collectibles, action figures, novelty genres, diecast cars, and even vinyl records, Zippo lighters and comic books. Use the promo code STUCK. The 2027 lineup of The 80s Cruise has been announced. Join us Feb. 27 to March 6 onboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas along with Chaka Khan, Night Ranger, Loverboy, DMC, John Waite, Peter Hook & the Light, Public Image Ltd., DJ Jazzy Jeff, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Stryper, The Romantics, Nick Heyward of Haircut 100, Bulletboys, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Slim Jom Phantom, the Plimsouls and more. We will have a promo code for you soon. For more information, go to www.the80scruise.com. Our podcast is listener-supported via Patreon. Members get special swag and invitations to patron-only Zoom happy hours with the podcast hosts. Find out more at our official Patreon page. The Stuck in the '80s podcast is hosted by creator Steve Spears and Brad Williams. Find out more about the show, celebrating its 21st year in 2026, at sit80s.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The new Stuck in the '80s podcast book is finally for sale. Brad interviews Spearsy about a project 20 years in the making. On Sale Now! Stuck in the '80s: 20 Years of Conversations with Pop Culture Icons Who Defined a Decade, by podcast creator Steve Spears, is finally for sale as both a paperback and ebook. Featuring more than 60 interviews from the podcast, along with insider stories and other previously unpublished insights, the book is available on most online bookstore websites including: Amazon Barnes and Noble Walmart Our Sponsors SIT80s fans get 10% off everything at our new sponsor Rotellaresale.com. Collectibles, action figures, novelty genres, diecast cars, and even vinyl records, Zippo lighters and comic books. Use the promo code STUCK. The 2027 lineup of The 80s Cruise has been announced. Join us Feb. 27 to March 6 onboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas along with Chaka Khan, Night Ranger, Loverboy, DMC, John Waite, Peter Hook & the Light, Public Image Ltd., DJ Jazzy Jeff, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Stryper, The Romantics, Nick Heyward of Haircut 100, Bulletboys, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Slim Jom Phantom, the Plimsouls and more. We will have a promo code for you soon. For more information, go to www.the80scruise.com. Our podcast is listener-supported via Patreon. Members get special swag and invitations to patron-only Zoom happy hours with the podcast hosts. Find out more at our official Patreon page. The Stuck in the '80s podcast is hosted by creator Steve Spears and Brad Williams. Find out more about the show, celebrating its 21st year in 2026, at sit80s.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
"Highlander" is officially 40 years old. Well, technically Connor MacLeod is 508 years old now. Here's our tribute episode recorded in 2012 with co-host Sean Daly. Coming in March Stuck in the '80s: 20 Years of Conversations with Pop Culture Icons Who Defined a Decade, by podcast creator Steve Spears, will finally be published. Featuring more than 60 interviews from the podcast, along with insider stories and other previously unpublished insights, the book will be available on March 11. Our Sponsors Our Sponsors SIT80s fans get 10% off everything at our new sponsor Rotellaresale.com. Collectibles, action figures, novelty genres, diecast cars, and even vinyl records, Zippo lighters and comic books. Use the promo code STUCK. The 2027 lineup of The 80s Cruise has been announced. Join us Feb. 27 to March 6 onboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas along with Chaka Khan, Night Ranger, Loverboy, DMC, John Waite, Peter Hook & the Light, Public Image Ltd., DJ Jazzy Jeff, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Stryper, The Romantics, Nick Heyward of Haircut 100, Bulletboys, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Slim Jom Phantom, the Plimsouls and more. We will have a promo code for you soon. For more information, go to www.the80scruise.com. Our podcast is listener-supported via Patreon. Members get special swag and invitations to patron-only Zoom happy hours with the podcast hosts. Find out more at our official Patreon page. The Stuck in the '80s podcast is hosted by creator Steve Spears and Brad Williams. Find out more about the show, celebrating its 21st year in 2026, at sit80s.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Et voici la suite, on commence avec les Kinks et les Who once again, ainsi que les Zombies (doublette). On quitte les années 60 et part dans les 70ies avec The Nerves, The Dwight Twilley band, the Paley Brothers, The Records. On remet une couche de Ramones, Flamin Groovies, The Knack, Blondie, Plimsouls, et on […] L'article Maggot Brain – Power Pop for who to blame est apparu en premier sur Radio Campus Tours - 99.5 FM.
Hoy os dejamos una lista con las 50 canciones más destacadas del año 1981. Es simplemente una playlist, sin comentarios añadidos, y donde podréis escuchar a Hanoi Rocks, Rolling Stones, Kim Wilde, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Ramones, The Gun Club, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Duran Duran, Joan Jett, The Police, Pretenders, Teardrop Explodes, Bauhaus, OMD, The Clash, Plimsouls, Madness, Rush, Birthday Party, U2, Adam and the Ants, Queen, AC/DC ... y muchos más. También recordaros que ya podéis comprar La gran travesía del rock, un libro interactivo. Jimi y Janis, dos periodistas musicales, vienen de 2027, un mundo distópico y delirante donde el reguetón tiene (casi) todo el poder... pero ellos dos, deciden alistarse al GLP para viajar en el tiempo, salvar el rock, rescatar sus archivos ocultos y combatir la dictadura troyana del FPR. ✨ El libro ya está en diversas tiendas, Amazon, Fnac y también en La Montaña Mágica, por ejemplo https://www.amazon.es/GRAN-TRAVES%C3%8DA-DEL-ROCK-autoestopista/dp/8419924938 ▶️ Y ya sabéis, si os gusta el programa y os apetece, podéis apoyarnos y colaborar con nosotros por el simple precio de una cerveza al mes, desde el botón azul de iVoox, y así, además podéis acceder a todo el archivo histórico exclusivo. Muchas gracias también a todos los mecenas y patrocinadores por vuestro apoyo: Contell Carles, Sergio Rodríguez Rojas, Javier, Jose Antonio Moral, Juanito, Octavio Oliva, Andreea Deea, Samuel Sánchez, Igor Gómez Tomás, Matías Ruiz Molina, Eduardo Villaverde Vidal, Víctor Fernández Martínez, Rami, Leo Giménez, Alberto Velasco, Poncho C, Francisco Quintana, Con, Tete García, Jose Angel Tremiño, Marco Landeta Vacas, Oscar García Muñoz, Raquel Parrondo, Nacho, Javito, Alberto, Moy, Dani Pérez, Santi Oliva, Vicente DC, Leticia, JBSabe, Melomanic, Arturo Soriano, Gemma Codina, Raquel Jiménez, Pedro, SGD, Raul Andres, Tomás Pérez, Pablo Pineda, Quim Goday, Enfermerator, Joaquín, Horns Up, Victor Bravo, Fonune, Francisco González, Marcos Paris, Daniel A, Redneckman, Elliott SF, Sementalex, Miguel Angel Torres, Suibne, Noyatan, Iván Menéndez, Niksisley y a los mecenas anónimos.
The Plimsouls, led by guitarist/singer/songwriter Peter Case, released a couple of terrific albums in the early ‘80's, fusing power pop, punk and R&B into their own unique blend. “A Million Miles Away” was featured in the film Valley Girl, and should've catapulted The Plimsouls onto greater fame, but their career stalled and the band split up by the mid-'80's. To some, this song marks The Plimsouls as One-Hit-Wonders, but their albums are chock-a-block with great songs. Still, there's no denying the brilliance of “A Million Miles Away” and on this episode, we take a close look at this timeless classic. "A Million Miles Away" (P. Case, J. Alkes, C. Fradkin) Copyright 1982 Baby Oh Yeah Music BMI/Nineties Music BMI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Plimsouls, led by guitarist/singer/songwriter Peter Case, released a couple of terrific albums in the early ‘80's, fusing power pop, punk and R&B into their own unique blend. “A Million Miles Away” was featured in the film Valley Girl, and should've catapulted The Plimsouls onto greater fame, but their career stalled and the band split up by the mid-'80's. To some, this song marks The Plimsouls as One-Hit-Wonders, but their albums are chock-a-block with great songs. Still, there's no denying the brilliance of “A Million Miles Away” and on this episode, we take a close look at this timeless classic. "A Million Miles Away" (P. Case, J. Alkes, C. Fradkin) Copyright 1982 Baby Oh Yeah Music BMI/Nineties Music BMI — This show is one of many music-related podcasts on the Pantheon network. Give 'em a listen! And remember to follow this show, so you never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, my guest is Dave Holmes (author, Editor-At-Large at Esquire, former MTV VJ, podcaster), who brings us our most requested film: VALLEY GIRL!!!We discuss the wild stories of Dave auditoning for and becoming a MTV VJ, reading symbolism in music videos with your teenage friends, how long we could stare at an album cover for, NIght Flight, our mutual love for Tommy Keene, did Dave ever get a music video of his choice on MTV during his time there, leaving your body while interviewing guests, messing up in front of Michael Stipe, was Nicholas Cage successful at playing a ‘punk rocker' in this film, director Martha Coolidge's contract stating there needed to be four scenes of female nudity and her solutions to that clause, the Valley Girl trailer, the soundtrack to this movie, how X was supposed to be in the film and why they turned it down, how the cast brought their own clothes to the set to save money, 80's Mall Culture and our adventures within it, Nicholas Cage's eyes, how Moon Unit Zappa changed culture and language forever (including this podcast), what lines from the film have never been said in real life, when KROQ got terrible, the Valley Girl remake, navigating curfew as a teenager, how the ages of the actors in the film are all over the map, The Plimsouls performance in the movie, how Josie Cotton and Fear were part of a coin toss for the rights to the song "Johnny Are You Queer?", Blotto, being suspicious of bands with names like the The Fabulous Poodles and Human Sexual Response and so much more.So let's crash the party and hide out in the shower on this week's episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!DAVE HOLMES:https://www.esquire.com/author/9774/dave-holmes/@daveholmesREVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE:Host Chris Slusarenko (Eyelids, Guided By Voices, owner of Clinton Street Video rental store) is joined by actors, musicians, comedians, writers & directors who each week pick out their favorite music documentary, musical, music-themed fiction film or music videos to discuss. Fun, weird, and insightful, Revolutions Per Movie is your deep dive into our life-long obsessions where music and film collide.The show is also a completely independent affair, so the best way to support it is through our Patreon at patreon.com/revolutionspermovie. By joining, you can get weekly bonus episodes, physical goods such as Flexidiscs, and other exclusive goods.Revolutions Per Movies releases new episodes every Thursday on any podcast app, and additional, exclusive bonus episodes every Sunday on our Patreon. If you like the show, please consider subscribing, rating, and reviewing it on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!SOCIALS:@revolutionspermovieBlueSky: @revpermovieARTWORK by Jeff T. Owenshttps://linktr.ee/mymetalhand Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you these artists for your weekly time warp: Pretenders, Sugarcubes, Rod Stewart, Echo And The Bunnymen, Blasters, Plimsouls, Paul Young, ArcAdiA, Fleshtones, Go West, Oingo Boingo, Rank And File, Ministry, Lene Lovich, and finishing off with Haircut One Hundred.
Nuestro pequeño homenaje al elegante Clem Burke, preciso y vistoso batería que falleció por cáncer el pasado 6 de abril a los 70 años de edad. Su arrolladora energía e impecable pericia fueron cruciales en el sonido de Blondie desde sus primeros días. Pero además, este todoterreno estilístico puso el ritmo a innumerables bandas y artistas.Playlist;(sintonía) BLONDIE “Call me (instrumental)” (1980)BLONDIE “X-Offender” (1976)BLONDIE “One way or another” (1978)BLONDIE “Dreaming” (1979)BLONDIE “Rapture” (1980)BLONDIE “Ring of fire (live)” (1981)JOAN JETT and THE BLACKHEARTS “Wully Bully” (1980)IGGY POP “The horse song” (1982)IGGY POP “Some weird sin (live)” (1981)IGGY POP “Repo man” (1984)THE PLIMSOULS “Kool trash” (1998)MAGIC CHRISTIAN “Out in the street” (2009)THE SPLIT SQUAD “Hey DJ” (2022)BLONDIE “Heart of glass” (1978)Escuchar audio
The week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following artists for your weekly time warp back to the 1980s: The Psychedelic Furs, Rank & File, Nu Shooz, Rod Stewart, Simply Red Bette Midler, Climie Fisher, The Smiths, Flash & The Pan, Madness, Missing Persons, Japan, Plimsouls. and ending off with Truth.
RockerMike and Rob Presents:Steve Allen and Ron Flynt from the band 20/2020/20 was a power pop band that emerged in the late 1970s, known for their melodic hooks, jangly guitars, and tight harmonies. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the band was formed by Steve Allen (vocals, guitar) and Ron Flynt (vocals, bass), later relocating to Los Angeles to join the burgeoning power pop scene alongside bands like The Knack and The Plimsouls.They gained recognition with their self-titled debut album, 20/20 (1979), which featured standout tracks like “Cheri” and “Yellow Pills”—the latter becoming a cult classic in the power pop genre. Their sound blended the British Invasion influences of bands like The Beatles and The Who with the punchy energy of new wave.Despite critical acclaim, mainstream success eluded them, and they released a few more albums, including Look Out! (1981) and Sex Trap (1982), before disbanding. However, 20/20 remains highly regarded among power pop enthusiasts, and their music continues to be rediscovered by fans of the genre.#20_20Band #PowerPop #NewWave #YellowPills #ClassicRock #70sMusic #80sMusic #PowerPopRevival #UnderratedBands #RockHistory #TulsaMusic #LArock #VinylCollection #RetroMusic #MusicDiscoveryhttps://bigstirrecords.com/20-20https://powerpophalloffame.com/portfolio-posts/20-20/https://open.spotify.com/artist/3MBZ7cW7vbWlM9YMYaXE9n?si=LYgEUuJzTlyQWZ6NCdbSAAhttps://www.discogs.com/artist/884409-2020?srsltid=AfmBOorjSey_01s_vFvwkJmOx9r9mgzL-ICx59UDTQqZtQdLAXvxeurjhttps://www.facebook.com/share/1HdWChUBpu/?mibextid=wwXIfrhttps://youtube.com/channel/UCtFIYSBKuKBQepSKitRZWXg?si=3X42GbIjX-lleoca
Hoy 19 de diciembre en La Gran Travesía podréis escuchar a Arde Bogotá que acaban de anunciar nuevos conciertos para 2025, entre ellas la actuación en el festival Cartagena Suena, el próximo 5 de julio. Toda la información y venta de entradas en su web https://www.exoplaneta.es/ También podréis escuchar a Ryan Adams, Foo Fighters, los Flamin´ Groovies, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Beatles, Ten Years After, The Plimsouls, Violent Femmes, Ramones, Turbowolf, The Brew... y muchos más. También recordaros que ya podéis comprar La gran travesía del rock, un libro interactivo que además contará con 15 programas de radio complementarios, a modo de ficción sonora... con muchas sorpresas y voces conocidas... https://www.ivoox.com/gran-travesia-del-rock-capitulos-del-libro_bk_list_10998115_1.html Jimi y Janis, dos periodistas musicales, vienen de 2027, un mundo distópico y delirante donde el reguetón tiene (casi) todo el poder... pero ellos dos, deciden alistarse al GLP para viajar en el tiempo, salvar el rock, rescatar sus archivos ocultos y combatir la dictadura troyana del FPR. ✨ El libro ya está en diversas webs https://npqeditores.com/producto/la-gran-travesia-del-rock/ ▶️ Y ya sabéis, si os gusta el programa y os apetece, podéis apoyarnos y colaborar con nosotros por el simple precio de una cerveza al mes, desde el botón azul de iVoox, y así, además podéis acceder a todo el archivo histórico exclusivo. Muchas gracias también a todos los mecenas y patrocinadores por vuestro apoyo: Jose Angel Tremiño, Marco Landeta Vacas, Oscar García Muñoz, Raquel Parrondo, Javier Gonzar, Eva Arenas, Poncho C, Nacho, Javito, Alberto, Tei, Pilar Escudero, Utxi 73, Blas, Moy, Juan Antonio, Dani Pérez, Santi Oliva, Vicente DC,, Leticia, JBSabe, Huini Juarez, Flor, Melomanic, Noni, Arturo Soriano, Gemma Codina, Raquel Jiménez, Francisco Quintana, Pedro, SGD, Raul Andres, Tomás Pérez, Pablo Pineda, Quim Goday, Enfermerator, María Arán, Joaquín, Horns Up, Victor Bravo, Fonune, Eulogiko, Francisco González, Marcos Paris, Vlado 74, Daniel A, Redneckman, Elliott SF, Guillermo Gutierrez, Sementalex, Jesús Miguel, Miguel Angel Torres, Suibne, Javifer, Matías Ruiz Molina, Noyatan, Estefanía, Iván Menéndez, Niksisley y a los mecenas anónimos.
Oingo Boingo “Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me” from Good for Your Soul (Rock, 1983)Devo “Gates of Steel (live)” from Live EP 1980 (1980) Spizzenergi “Where's Captain Kirk?” from High Crusade Soundtrack (LP, 1979) Toy Dolls “Nellie the Elephant” from Dig That Groove Baby (1983) Lene Lovich “Lucky Number” from Rhythm On the Radio - Oval Records Singles 1974-1987 (1979) The Flirts “Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)” from 10 Cents for a Dance (1982) The Polecats “Make a Circuit with Me” from The Best Of Polecats (Rock, 1983)The Waitresses “I Know What Boys Like” from Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (1982) The Members “Working Girl” from Working Girl (Remastered) (1983) Josie Cotton “He Could Be the One” from Convertible Music (1982) A Flock of Seagulls “Telecommúnication” from A Flock of Seagulls (1981) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark “Radio Waves” from Dazzle Ships (1983)Altered Images “Happy Birthday” from Happy Birthday (Single, 1981) The Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version] (1983) The English Beat “Best Friend” from I Just Can't Stop It (1980)Thomas Dolby “Europa and the Pirate Twins” from Golden Age of Wireless (1982) The Tenants “Look the Other Way” from The Tenants (1983)U2 “The Three Sunrises” from Under a Blood Red Sky (1985) Horizontal Brian “Practicing First Aid” from Vertical (1983) The Jam “Pretty Green” from Sound Affects (Remastered) (Rock, 1980) The Plimsouls “Zero Hour” from The Plimsouls (1981) Squeeze “In Quintessence” from West Side Story (1981) Nick Lowe “The Rose of England” from The Rose of England (1985) Kirsty MacColl “Terry” from Terry - Single (1983) XTC “Generals and Majors” from Black Sea (Rock, 1980) Gleaming Spires “Big Surprise” from Walk on Well Lighted Streets (1983) Book Of Love “I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed Version)” from Book of Love (Rock, 1986)The B-52's “Wig” from Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986) Almost Alone “Dancing to Kill” from Systems of Romance Vol. 8 (1984) Yaz “Nobody's Diary” from You And Me Both (1983)Soft Cell “Mr. Self Destruct” from This Last Night In Sodom (1984)
Esta semana, en Islas de Robinson, nos moveremos entre 1977 y 1981. Coordenadas: pop de guitarras y cruda energía a raudales combinadas con angustia juvenil y espíritu aventurero. Suenan: THE dB'S - "BLACK AND WHITE" ("STANDS FOR DECIBELS", 1981) / THE SOFT BOYS - "POSITIVE VIBRATIONS" ("UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT", 1980) / XTC - "SHE'S SO SQUARE" ("WHITE MUSIC", 1978) / RICHARD LLOYD - "SHOULD HAVE KNOW BETTER" ("ALCHEMY", 1979) / THE ONLY ONES - "WHY DON'T YOU KILL YOURSELF" ("BABY'S GOT A GUN", 1980) / BUZZCOCKS - "LIPSTICK" (1978) / THE SCRUFFS - "YOU, YOU, YOU" ("TEENAGE GURLS", 1978-79/98) / STIV BATORS - "BAD LUCK CHARM" ("DISCONNECTED", 1980) / SUNNYBOYS - "TUNNEL OF LOVE" ("SUNNYBOYS", 1981) / DIRTY LOOKS - "YOU'RE TOO OLD" ("DIRTY LOOKS", 1980) / THE PLIMSOULS - "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?" ("ZERO HOUR", 1980) / JO BROADBERY & THE STANDOUTS - "THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY" ("JO BROADBERY & THE STANDOUTS", 1980) / THE JAM - "THE PLACE I LOVE" ("ALL MOD CONS", 1978) / / ROY LONEY & THE PHANTOM MOVERS - "BORN TO BE YOUR FOOL" ("OUR AFTER DARK", 1979) / TYLA GANG - "ON THE STREET" ("YACHTLESS", 1978) / GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR - "SOUL ON ICE" ("STICK TO ME", 1977).Escuchar audio
Not many 90s rock bands called Arkansas home, and even fewer looked to the straightforward radio pop of 1970s and 80s as a launching point for their sound. Yet on Ho Hum's 1996 debut Local, the band from Bradley, Arkansas tuned the radio dial to sounds of Big Star, The Plimsouls, The Knack, Dramarama, and early Tom Petty, to name a few, for their catchy, unpretentious sound. Though released in the middle of alternative decade, there isn't a note of angst or grunge to be found, instead forging a sound closer to likes of Velvet Crush, Sloan, Superdrag and Matthew Sweet at their most straightforward. From uptempo gems like opener "Around the World" to the infectious "Don't Go Out with Your Friends Tonite," to soulful ballads "Disappear" and "Superhuman," both featuring horn sections, the band clearly has an ear for an earworm melody. Songs In This Episode Intro - Around the World 21:15 - Here She Comes 24:41 - Pills and Guns 27:04 - Frozen 31:06 - Disappear 34:12 - Superhuman Outro - Don't Go Out with Your Friends Tonite Support the podcast, join the DMO UNION at Patreon. Listen to the episode archive at DigMeOutPodcast.com.
We revisit the blockbuster movie saga that is Speed. You've already heard endless trivia, praise for the original, disdain for the sequel & more so what's left? Like every franchise before, it's just time to sum up our favorite moments: what makes these stunts, characters, concept & scenarios so much fun to watch? "D" is for Detail and we shall do just that! Follow Our Guests: Beau Maddox (from Collateral Cinema): https://www.amazon.com/Collateral-Cinema-Movie-Podcast/dp/B08K581VX2 Josh Hansen (from Action Movie Book Club): https://www.facebook.com/actionmoviebookclub/ Clips/Music Used: DVD Menu Music Siskel & Ebert's review of the original film "Speed" by Billy Idol instrumental (from the OST) "A Million Miles Away" by the Plimsouls (from the OST) "Kapital" by Laibach (from the trailer) "Like a Motorway" by Saint Etienne (from the OST) "Soul Deep" by Gin Blossoms (from the OST) "Speed 2 Main Theme Remix" by Tetsuya Komuro MAIN LINKS: LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/JURSPodcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JackedUpReviewShow/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2452329545040913 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackedUpReview Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacked_up_podcast/ Blind Knowledge Podcast Network: https://www.blindknowledge.com/ SHOW LINKS: YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCIyMawFPgvOpOUhKcQo4eQQ iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-jacked-up-review-show-59422651/ Podbean: https://jackedupreviewshow.podbean.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Eg8w0DNympD6SQXSj1X3M Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jacked-up-review-show-podcast/id1494236218 RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/the-jacked-up-review-show-We4VjE Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1494236218/the-jacked-up-review-show-podcast Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hNDYyOTdjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Anchor: https://anchor.fm/s/a46297c/podcast/rss PocketCasts: https://pca.st/0ncd5qp4 CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Jacked-Up-Review-Show-Podcast-id2591222 Discord: https://discord.com/channels/796154005914779678/796154006358851586 #MovieReview #FilmTwitter #PodFamily #PodcastersOfInstagram #Movies #Film #Cinema #Music #Reviews #Retrospect #Podcasts #MutantFam #MutantFamily #actionmystery #bmovies #scifihorror #truecrime #historydramas #warmovies #podcastcollabs #hottakes #edgy #cultmovies #nsfw #HorrorFam #badass
La música del azar. Canciones dedicadas a la buena y la mala fortuna. A ver si tenemos suerte, y te gusta.Playlist;(sintonía) NICK WATERHOUSE “Lucky once”MORPHINE “Have a lucky day”STEVE MILLER BAND Lucky man”LENE LOVICH “Lucky number”TOMMY and THE ROCKETS “Out of luck”THE PLIMSOULS “I’ll get lucky”DR FEELGOOD “Lucky seven”THE MUFFS “Lucky charm”DESCENDENTS “Lucky”SOCIAL DISTORTION “Bad luck”JOHN PAUL KEITH “Bad luck baby”KING KHAN and THE SHRINES “Better luck next time”GIANT SAND “Lucky star love”LABI SIFFRE “Thank your lucky star”C.W. STONEKING “Good luck charm”THE PARAGONS “Happy go lucky girl”RAY COLLINS HOT CLUB “Ready for luck”NICK CURRAN and THE NITELIFES “Good luck”Escuchar audio
Flopcast episode 637! Our five-part New Wave Game was just preparation for this week. Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown have a full report on the latest (and longest) retro 80s new wave concert to come to town. The eight (EIGHT!) acts were: The Plimsouls, Tommy Tutone, Bow Wow Wow, Wang Chung, Men Without Hats, […] The post Flopcast 637: Drummers With Hats appeared first on The ESO Network.
Our five-part New Wave Game was just preparation for this week. Kevin and the Mayor of Chickentown have a full report on the latest (and longest) retro 80s new wave concert to come to town. The eight (EIGHT!) acts were: The Plimsouls, Tommy Tutone, Bow Wow Wow, Wang Chung, Men Without Hats, Modern English, Thompson Twins, and Thomas Dolby! So we melted with you, we wanted candy, we were blinded with science, we got Jenny's phone number, and we may have even Wang Chunged. But let's keep that our little secret. The Flopcast website! The ESO Network! The Flopcast on Facebook! The Flopcast on Instagram! The Flopcast on Mastadon! Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts! Email: info@flopcast.net Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation! This week's promo: Modern Musicology!
This week, we're joined by Patron Marcia Potts as we travel back to a simpler time when the shirts were bright, the jackets Members Only and the music was...AWESOME! When director Martha Coolidge made her 1983 sleeper hit 'Valley Girl', she filled the movie with New Wave gems made popular by KROQ's "Rock of the 80s" format. Unfortunately the planned release of a soundtrack album was cancelled due to clearance problems with some of the songs. In 1994, Rhino Records FINALLY righted this wrong and released an official compilation of songs from the film's soundtrack on CD, making Marcia and her younger sister VERY happy! "Okay, fine Fer sure, fer sure..." Songs discussed in this episode: Valley Girl - Frank Zappa; A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls; Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie; Johnnie, Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton; Johnnie, Are You Queer? - The Go-Go's; Fetch Me One More Beer (1978 Demo) - FEAR; Eyes Of A Stranger - Payola$; Angst In My Pants, This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us - Sparks; Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work; Everywhere At Once - The Plimsouls; Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) - Pat Travers Band (Live); I La La La Love You - Pat Travers; He Could Be The One - Josie Cotton; Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs; Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) - The Flirts; Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shangri-Las; The Fanatic - Felony; Sidewinder - The New Order; She Talks In Stereo - Gary Myrick and The Figures; Oldest Story In The World - The Plimsouls; School Is In, Faster Pussycat - Josie Cotton; I Melt With You - Modern English; I Melt With You - David Hasselhoff (with Steve Stevens)
Another two hours of new wave, post-punk and more! Enjoy!
Peter Case in conversation with David Eastaugh https://petercase.com/ Case was born in Buffalo, New York. He wrote his first song "Stay Away," in 1965, at the age of eleven. A veteran of several rock bands and the local bar scene as a teenager, Case dropped out of high school when he was fifteen (he would later earn a GED), and after several years of traveling arrived in 1973 in San Francisco, where he performed as a street musician. During this period a documentary about the local music scene, Nightshift, directed by Bert Deivert, captured the young Case on film. In 1976, he teamed up with Jack Lee and Paul Collins to form the early punk-era band The Nerves in San Francisco. The group's 1976 EP track, "Hanging on the Telephone", was later recorded by Blondie.
If you have heard Big Star's music, chances are that you're a fan. If you haven't but love Cheap Trick or REM or the Replacements or the Plimsouls or the Go-Go's or Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers chances are that you're a fan but just don't know it yet. They were that good. In this, our first episode discussing the Power Pop geniuses, we deep dive record #1. RIP Chris Bell RIP Alex Chilton RIP Andy Hummel RIP Wayne Kramer RIP Mojo Nixon Recommended Listening The Box Tops “The Letter” https://open.spotify.com/track/6RJK553YhstRzyKA4mug09?si=87b3201939374987 Chris Bell “I Am the Cosmos” https://open.spotify.com/album/7a7Lzqu4AuMHVtCPkxASay?si=baGet3soSZWVtYuGcy4caw The Replacements "Alex Chilton” https://open.spotify.com/track/2g9EvzLR2sYscJQubwKGqu?si=6e2aaee1a7cb46c6 Movie Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star:_Nothing_Can_Hurt_Me HHPP Spotify Track: “The Ballad of El Goodo” https://open.spotify.com/track/1B5kQto4k99RG67TJEwwS5?si=cef86b8f1665466b Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg Contact us at: huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill Our Music manhuntsman: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy O.C: https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c Omertà 68: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ Mid City Three: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAfc-ig
Every time I hear "I Melt With You" by Modern English, I'm instantly transported back to the '80s classic "Valley Girl," where the soundtrack wasn't just background noise, it was the heartbeat of a generation. We'll unpack the film's standout montage and the pivotal role music played, from The Plimsouls to The Psychedelic Furs, while I share my own parallel high school journey. And of course, we can't forget those quirky lines that have become as iconic as the film itself.As we flip the record, we'll explore the evolution of '80s music hits that defined an era. From Duran Duran's chart-topping journey to The Romantics' sleep-talking beats, we're unpacking the story behind the Rockwell song "Somebody's Watching Me". Plus, a special nod to The Replacements' "Don't Tell a Soul". So tease up your hair and slip on your favorite leg warmers, we're about to hit play on a mixtape of memories and music that still resonates with us today.
Nearly two more hours of new wave, post punk and more! Enjoy!
Recorded live on KX FM 104.7 in Laguna Beach, California, today's Keith's Music Box show features Grand Funk Railroad, The Clash, The Plimsouls, U2, The Church, Cat Stevens, Radiohead, Gerry Rafferty, Gomez, Asia, Europe, America, Joe Jackson, Men at Work, Small Faces, Sugarloaf, Arctic Monkeys, INXS, Paul Simon, BTO, Steppenwolf, The Band, Otis Redding, Canned Heat, The Zombies and Queen.
Esta semana, en Islas de Robinson, cruce de caminos de 1978 a 1982, entre rock clásico, americana, punk y reflejo pop, new wave, propios de la época... Suenan: WILLIE NILE - "VAGABOND MOON" ("WILLIE NILE", 1980) / TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS - "SHADOW OF A DOUBT (A COMPLEX KID)" ("DAMN THE TORPEDOES", 1979) / TELEVISION - "AIN'T THAT NOTHIN'" ("ADVENTURE", 1978) / ROBIN LANE AND THE CHARTBUSTERS - "WAITIN'IN LINE" ("ROBIN LANE AND THE CHARTBUSTERS", 1980) / PAUL COLLINS' BEAT - "TRAPPED" ("THE KIDS ARE THE SAME", 1982) / THE PLIMSOULS - "HUSH, HUSH" ("THE PLIMSOULS", 1980) / D.L. BYRON - "BACKSTAGE GIRL" ("THIS DAY AND AGE", 1980) / GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR - "JOLIE, JOLIE" ("THE UP ESCALATOR", 1980) / JOE JACKSON - "IT'S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS" ("I'M THE MAN", 1979) / ANY TROUBLE - "FOOLISH PRIDE" ("WHERE ARE ALL THE NICE GIRLS?", 1980) / JULES AND THE POLAR BEARS - "SHADOWS BREAK" ("GOT NO BREEDING", 1978) / VAN DUREN - "OH BABE" ("ARE YOU SERIOUS?", 1978) / STEVE FORBERT - "SAY GOODBYE TO LITTLE JOE" ("JACKRABBIT SLIM", 1979).Escuchar audio
SUMMARY:Two-time Grammy nominee and acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter Case joins Songcraft to talk about his wide-ranging career.PART ONE:Scott and Paul chat about instruments that are nearly as famous as their players. PART TWO:Our in-depth interview with Peter CaseABOUT PETER CASE:Two-time Grammy nominee Peter Case made a name for himself in the pioneering California power pop trio The Nerves before going on to form The Plimsouls, which made a splash with the single “A Million Miles Away.” Launching a solo career with producer T Bone Burnett in the mid-1980s, Case went on to earn a reputation as a songwriter's songwriter with staples such as “Old Blue Car,” “Entella Hotel,” “Two Angels,” “Travellin' Light,” “Dream About You,” and “Beyond the Blues.” His songs have been recorded by The Go-Go's, Marshall Crenshaw, Goo Goo Dolls, John Prine, Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Chris Smither, Robert Randolph, John Prine, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Hayes Carll, Dave Alvin, and others. Peter's most recent album, Doctor Moan, is his first collection of original songs in seven years.
The legendary troubadour who fronted bands like the Nerves and the Plimsouls, talks about his five decade career as a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter.
What's up, dudes? I got the band of podcasters back together to share our wishlists of ‘80s musicians we wish had recorded Christmas songs! Duane from Tinsel Tunes, Ken from Sounds of Christmas, Scott from Holly Jolly X'masu, and Vinnie from Huey and Bax join me to delve into this fascinating look at missed opportunity! We cover all our bases! Metal? Check. Pop? Got it! Bands only ever heard on ‘80s movie soundtracks? Definitely! Oh, and of course we have equally long honorable mention lists! So grab your synthesizer, put on a ton of hairspray, and jam out to this episode to the max on our Top 5 ‘80s Christmas Artist Wishlist!Tinsel TunesSounds of ChristmasHolly Jolly X'masuHuey and BaxCheck us out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Totally Rad Christmas Mall & Arcade, Teepublic.com, or TotallyRadChristmas.com! Later, dudes!
Hoy hemos preparado una ensalada de rocknroll utilizando la receta de Bomp Records. Todo lo que vas a escuchar en este episodio procede de las valijas de aquella indispensable escudería californiana, sello independiente fundado por Greg Shaw y Suzy Shaw a mediados de los años 70. Bomp y la filial Voxx Records se convirtieron en baluarte del power pop, el punk rock, la new wave y el renacer del garage. Playlist; (sintonía) JON and THE NIGHTRIDERS “Rumble at Waikiki” IGGY and THE STOOGES “I got a right” THE MODERN LOVERS “She cracked” DMZ “Busy man” THE MIRACLE WORKERS “Already gone” THE CRAWDADDYS “I can never tell” THE PANDORAS “Hot generation” STIV BATORS “It’s cold outside” NIKKI and THE CORVETTES “Just what I need” THE BARRACUDAS “Surfer’s are back” RODNEY AND THE BRUNETTES “Little GTO” THE ZEROS “Beat your heart out” THE BREAKAWAYS “Walking out on love” THE ROMANTICS “First in line” THE PLIMSOULS “Millions miles away” FLAMIN GROOVIES “You tore me down” WILLIE ALEXANDER and THE BOOM BOOM BAND “Kerouac” SKY SAXON and SS20 “Born to be wild” Escuchar audio
On the show this week we have the incredible songwriter Peter Case, who I've been listening to for a long time. He's been making records for decades and has some really cool stories under his belt. He's also a bit of a guitar nerd, so it's fun to get into that with him as well. Peter's latest album is called “Doctor Moan” and it's available now at all the places.Originally from Buffalo, Peter moved to the Bay Area as a youngster and that's where he started getting into the punk rock scene with a band he started called The Nerves. After The Nerves disbanded, he moved to LA, and that's where he started to flourish as a performer and songwriter. He formed the Plimsouls next which were more of a straight up rock & roll band, signed to Geffen and made some killer records. “A Million Miles Away” was a hit for them and they started touring all over the country. After the Plimsouls, Case started his solo career, and worked with some amazing producers and musicians, some of whom he continues to work with to this day. His debut was nominated for a Grammy and led to a string of other cool records like “The Man With the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar”, “Six Pack of Love”, “Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John” and “Full Service No Waiting”. His brand new album “Doctor Moan” features mostly songs written and performed on piano, which is a departure for him in some ways, as he is known as a guitar player/singer, but he has in fact always been a keyboard player as well.You can keep track of all of his music and his tour dates at petercase.comBe sure to listen to the accompanying Songs Playlist which contains some of the artist's work, plus many of the songs we discuss on the show:Playlist on Spotify / Playlist on Apple MusicIf you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the show with a donation or Patreon subscriptionThe show's website can be found at www.makersandshakerspodcast.comYour fearless host, Steve Dawson can be found at www.stevedawson.ca Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mmasspodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bonus episode fourteen features the award-winning Lightnin' Lickers* Jay and Deon sharing what they've been sonically f#@%ing with as of late. A field trip to their record store of choice, Electric Kitsch, finds them seated in conversation with super special not-so-secret friend Trevor. Trev discusses then submits a LLR all-time record of FIVE (5) choice cuts to this month's mixtape. Five? You give an inch… Sonic contributors to the fourteenth bonus episode of Lightnin' Licks Radio include: Townes Van Zandt, the Jesus and Mary Chain, James Todd Smith, Supertramp, Wolf Alice, Jordana, Ohio Players, Arthur Brown, Liquid Mike, Arc of All, Jay Dilla, De La Soul, Madlib, A Tribe Called Quest, Flea, Nada Surf, Illuminated Hotti, Bonnie Hayes, Nic Cage & Deborah Foreman from Valley Girl, The Payolas, The Plimsouls, Yard Waste, John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotton, Sandy Bull, Bert Janache, Davy Graham, Quelle Chris, Aceyalone, Christopher Cross, Dave Coulier, Pesky Kid, The Meters, Elton John, The Neville Brothers, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, Adrian Young, Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Chico Hamilton, Yesterday's New Quintet, Ronnie Laws, Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar, Haim, Gorillaz, Buffalo Springfield, Lee Hazlewood, The Walker Brothers, Josh - Jordo - Deon, Rilo Kiley, Plains, Alabaster DePlume, Led Zepplin, and Kenny Beats. For the mix…Jay brought to the dining room table the musical stylings of: FAZERDAZE, Pom Pom Squad, Gary Myrick, The Bambi Slam, and Gion Piero Reverberi. Deon suggested cuts from: Slum Village, Suitcase, and Jenny Lewis. Our super special not-so-secret friend Trevor likes: Leo Nocentelli, Gary Bartz, Thundercat, Neil Young, and Scott Walker. The wait is over, here's your gawl dang mix tape: [SIDE A] (1) The Bambi Slam – Long Time Coming (2) Thundercat – Friend Zone (3) Pom Pom Squad – Second That (4) Leo Nocentlli – Your Song (5) Slum Village – Look of Love (remix) (6) Gary Myrick – Time To Win [SIDE B] (1) Suitcase – Save Me Some Gravy (2) Scott Walker – It's Raining Today (3) FAZERDAZE – Winter (4) Gary Bartz – Spiritual Ideation (5) Jenny Lewis – Psychos (6) Gion Piero Reverberi – Cat Casanova (7) Neil Young & the Santa Monica Flyers – Mellow My Mind (live) [END] Q: Is there any bass better than dinosaur fart bass? *Review Magazine's Reader's Choice 2023. Thanks to whomever nominated and voted. You are appreciated. Coziness :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/llradio/message
On this week's show, we... bid adieu to the late Gordon Lightfoot spin fresh tracks from Foo Fighters, Deer Tick & Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit spend quality time with new records from Esther Rose, Wednesday & Peter Case All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Peter Case (The Nerves, The Plimsouls, solo) drops by YMAAA to give Al a long-overdue introduction to Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album. Peter talks about how he got introduced to Dylan's music during his childhood, his life as a busker in San Francisco prior to his time with The Nerves and what is particularly special about Dylan's first album. He also talks about his new album, Doctor Moan, and his recent experiences with playing live shows.Keep up with Peter! @ThePeterCase on Twitter, @petercase111 on InstagramPeter's music, tour info, blog and more are on his site, petercase.com. Be sure to pay it a visit!Al is on Twitter at @almelchiorBB, and this show has accounts on Twitter and Instagram at @youmealbum. Be sure to follow @youmealbum to find out in advance about upcoming guests and featured albums for this podcast.You, Me and An Album: The Newsletter is free to all subscribers! https://youmealbum.substack.com/If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please check out the show's Patreon site, https://www.patreon.com/youmealbum. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and keep this show going.1:03 Peter joins the show2:23 Peter played songs from Bob Dylan's debut album when he was a busker3:50 Peter talks about his introduction to Dylan's music5:10 Peter explains what makes the debut album different from other Dylan albums8:17 “You're No Good” exemplifies several things that Peter loves about the album13:10 Peter notes a similarity between Dylan and early Elvis Presley15:02 Could a young Dylan sing about death and relationships with authenticity?22:43 “Talkin' New York” was not as much about Dylan's experience as Al thought25:51 Peter likes the symphonic quality of “In My Time of Dyin'”27:55 Peter talks about The Animals' covers of Dylan's songs30:17 Peter breaks down the arrangement of “Man of Constant Sorrow”33:00 Al asks Peter what it was like to hear early Dylan when it was new and fresh38:25 Peter talks about the mystery of how people decide to let unfamiliar music into their lives40:44 Al decided to listen to “Murder Most Foul”44:53 Peter reveals which Dylan album he listens to the most47:07 Dylan is an inspiration for Peter51:00 “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” is another one of Peter's favorite tracks from the album54:23 Peter talks about the community that helped shape Dylan's music57:28 Peter cites the song that got his kids into Dylan59:42 Peter recounts his journey over the years as a Dylan fan1:03:54 Peter talks about his new album and just-completed tourOutro is from “Have You Ever Been In Trouble?” by Peter CaseSupport the show
This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade. The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. On this episode, we're going to be looking back at a movie that will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its original theatrical release. A movie that would turn one of its leads into a star, and thrust its director into the mainstream, at least for a short time. We're talking about the 1983 Martha Coolidge film Valley Girl, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its release this Saturday, with a special screening tonight, Thursday, April 27th 2023, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with its director, doing a Q&A session after the show. But, as always, before we get to Valley Girl, we head back in time. A whole eleven months, in fact. To May 1982. That month, the avant-garde musical genius known as Frank Zappa released his 35th album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Released on Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin record label, Drowning Witch would feature a song he co-wrote with his fourteen year old daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Frank would regularly hear his daughter make fun of the young female mallrats she would encounter throughout her days, and one night, Frank would be noodling around in his home recording studio when inspiration struck. He would head up to Moon's room, wake her up and bring her down to the studio, asking her to just repeat in that silly Valspeak voice she did all the crazy things she heard being said at parties, bar mitzvahs and the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, which would become famous just a couple months later as the mall where many of the kids from Ridgemont High worked in Amy Heckerling's breakthrough movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. For about an hour, Frank would record Moon spouting off typical valley girl phrases, before he sent her back up to her room to go back to sleep. In a couple days, Frank Zappa would bring his band, which at the time included guitar virtuoso Steve Vai in his first major musical gig, into the home studio to lay down the music to this weird little song he wrote around his daughter's vocals. “Valley Girl” wold not be a celebration of the San Fernando Valley, an area Zappa described as “a most depressing place,” or the way these young ladies presented themselves. Zappa in general hated boring generic repetitive music, but “Valley Girl” would be one of the few songs Zappa would ever write or record that followed a traditional 4/4 time signature. In the spring of 1982, the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ would obtain an acetate disc of the song, several weeks before Drowning Witch was to be released on an unsuspecting public. Zappa himself thought it was a hoot the station that had broken such bands as The Cars, Duran Duran, The Police, Talking Heads and U2 was even considering playing his song, but KROQ was his daughter's favorite radio station, and she was able to persuade the station to play the song during an on-air interview with her. The kids at home went nuts for the song, demanding the station play it again. And again. And again. Other radio stations across the country started to get calls from their listeners, wanting to hear this song that hadn't been officially released yet, and Zappa's record label would rush to get copies out to any radio station that asked for it. The song would prove to be very popular, become the only single of the forty plus he released during his recording career to become a Top 40 radio hit, peaking at number 32. Ironically, the song would popularize the very cadence it was mocking with teenagers around the country, and the next time Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention would tour, he would apologize to the Zappa faithful for having created a hit record. "The sad truth,” he would say before going into the song, “is that if one continues to make music year after year, eventually something will be popular. I spent my career fighting against creating marketable art, but this one slipped through the cracks. I promise to do my best never to have this happen again." As the song was becoming popular in Los Angeles, actor Wayne Crawford and producer Andrew Lane had been working on a screenplay about star-crossed lovers that was meant to be a cheap quickie exploitation film not unlike Zapped! or Porky's. But after hearing Zappa's song, the pair would quickly rewrite the lead character, Julie, into a valley girl, and retitle their screenplay, Bad Boyz… yes, Boyz, with a Z… as Valley Girl. Atlantic Entertainment Company, an independent film production company, had recently started their own distribution company, and were looking for movies that could be made quickly, cheaply, and might be able to become some kind of small hit. One of the scripts that would cross their desk were Crawford and Lane's Valley Girl. Within a week, Atlantic would already have a $350,000 budget set aside to make the film. The first thing they needed was a director. Enter Martha Coolidge. A graduate of the same New York University film program that would give us Joel Coen, Amy Heckerling, Ang Lee, Spike Lee and Todd Phillips, Coolidge had been working under the tutelage of Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola at the filmmaker's Zoetrope Studios. She had made her directorial debut, Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, but the film, a docu-drama based on Coolidge's own date rape she suffered at the age of 16, would not find a big audience. She had made another movie, City Girl, with Peter Riegert and Colleen Camp, in 1982, with Peter Bogdanovich as a producer, but the film's potential release was cancelled when Bogdanovich's company Moon Pictures went bankrupt after the release of his 1981 movie They All Laughed, which we covered last year. She knew she needed to get on a film with a good chance of getting released, and with Coppola's encouragement, Coolidge would throw her proverbial hat into the ring, and she would get the job, in part because she had some directing experience, but also because she was willing to accept the $5,000 Atlantic was offering for the position. Now that she had the job, it was time for Coolidge to get to casting. It was her goal to show an authentic teenage experience in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, absent of stereotypes. As someone whose background was in documentary filmmaking, Coolidge wanted Valley Girl to feel as real as possible. Her first choice for the role of Randy, the proto-punk Romeo to Julie's… well, Juliet… Coolidge was keen on a twenty-three year old unknown who had not yet acted in anything in movies, on television, or even a music video. Judd Nelson had been studying with Stella Adler in New York City, and there was something about his look that Coolidge really liked. But when she offered the role to Nelson, he had just booked an acting gig that would make him unavailable when the film would be shooting. So it was back to the pile of headshots that had been sent to the production office. And in that pile, she would find the headshot of eighteen year old Nicolas Cage, who at the time only had one movie credit, as one of Judge Reinhold's co-workers in Fast Times. Coolidge would show the photo to her casting director, telling them they needed to find someone like him, someone who wasn't a conventionally handsome movie actor. So the casting director did just that. Went out and got someone like Nicolas Cage. Specifically, Nicolas Cage. What Coolidge didn't know was that Cage's real name was Nicolas Coppola, and that his uncle was Coolidge's boss. She would only learn this when she called the actor to offer him the role, and he mentioned he would need to check his schedule on the Coppola movie he was about to start shooting on, Rumble Fish. Francis Coppola made sure the shooting schedule was re-arranged so his nephew could accept his first leading role. For Julie, Coolidge wanted only one person: Deborah Foreman, a twenty-year-old former model who had only done commercials for McDonalds at this point in her career. Although she was born in Montebello CA, mere miles from the epicenter of the San Fernando Valley, Foreman had spent her formative years in Texas, and knew nothing about the whole Valley Girl phenomenon until she was cast in the film. Supporting roles would be filled by a number of up and coming young actors, including Elizabeth Daily and Michelle Mayrink as Julie's friends, Cameron Dye as Randy's best friend, and Michael Bowen as Julie's ex-boyfriend, while Julie's parents would be played by Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp, two industry veterans who had briefly worked together on Apocalypse Now. As the scheduled start date of October 25th, 1982, rolled closer, Martha Coolidge would be the first director to really learn just how far Nicolas Cage was willing to go for a role. He would start sleeping in his car, to better understand Randy, and he would, as Randy, write Foreman's character Julie a poem that, according to a May 2020 New York Times oral history about the film, Foreman still has to this day. In a 2018 IMDb talk with director Kevin Smith, Cage would say that it was easy for his performance to happen in the film because he had a massive crush on Foreman during the making of the film. Because of the film's extremely low budget, the filmmakers would often shoot on locations throughout Los Angeles they did not have permits for, stealing shots wherever they could. But one place they would spend money on was the movie's soundtrack, punctuated by live performances by Los Angeles band The Plimsouls and singer Josie Cotton, which were filmed at the Sunset Strip club now known as The Viper Room. The film would only have a twenty day shooting schedule, which meant scenes would have to be shot quickly and efficiently, with as few hiccups as possible. But this wouldn't stop Cage from occasionally improvising little bits that Coolidge loved so much, she would keep them in the film, such as Randy spitting his gum at Julie's ex, and the breakup scene, where Randy digs into Julie by using Valspeak. In early January 1983, while the film was still being edited, Frank Zappa would file a lawsuit against the film, seeking $100,000 in damages and an injunction to stop the film from being released, saying the film would unfairly dilute the trademark of his song. The lawsuit would force Coolidge to have a cut of her movie ready to screen for the judge before she was fully done with it. But when Coolidge screened this rushed cut to Atlantic and its lawyers, the distributor was pleasantly surprised to see the director hadn't just made a quickie exploitation film but something with genuine heart and soul that could probably have a much longer lifespan. They were originally planning on releasing the film during the later part of the summer movie season, but now knowing what they had on their hands, Atlantic would set an April 29th release date… pending, of course, on the outcome of the Zappa lawsuit. In March, the judge would issue their ruling, in favor of the film, saying there would be no confusion in the public's mind between the song and the film, and Atlantic would continue to prepare for the late April release. One of the things Coolidge really fought for was to have a wall of great new wave songs throughout the film, something Atlantic was hesitant to pay for, until they saw Coolidge's cut. They would spend another $250k on top of the $350k production budget to secure songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Payolas, Men at Work, Toni Basil, The Flirts and Sparks, on top of the songs played by The Plimsouls and Josie Cotton in the film. Valley Girl would be one of three new movies opening on April 29th, alongside Disney's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Hunger, the directorial debut of filmmaker Tony Scott. Opening on only 442 screens, Valley Girl would come in fourth place for the weekend, grossing $1.86m in its first three days. However, its $4200 per screen average would be better than every movie in the top 15, including the #1 film in the nation that weekend, Flashdance. Not bad for a film that was only playing in one third of the country. In its second weekend, Valley Girl would fall to seventh place, with $1.33m worth of ticket sold, but its per screen average would be second only to the new Cheech and Chong movie, Still Smokin'. Over the next three months, the film would continue to perform well, never playing in more screens than it did in its opening weekend, but never falling out of the top 15 while Atlantic was tracking it. When all was said and done, Valley Girl would have grossed $17.34m in the United States, not a bad return on a $600k production and music clearance budget. There was supposed to be an accompanying soundtrack album for the film that, according to the movie's poster, would be released on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records whose eclectic roster of artists included Michael Jackson, The Clash and Liza Minnelli, but it turns out the filmmakers only ended up only getting music clearances for the movie, so that release would get cancelled and a six-song mini-LP would be created through a label Atlantic Pictures created called Roadshow Records. But then that album got cancelled, even though some copies had been printed, so it wouldn't be until 1994 that an actual soundtrack for the film would be released by Rhino Records. That release would do so well, Rhino released a second soundtrack album the following year. The lawsuit from Zappa would not be the only court proceeding concerning the film. In July 1984, Martha Coolidge, her cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, and two of the actresses, Colleen Camp and Lee Purcell, sued Atlantic Releasing for $5m, saying they were owed a portion of the film's profits based on agreements in their contracts. The two sides would later settle out of court. Nicolas Cage would, of course, becomes one of the biggest movie stars in the world, winning an Oscar in 1996 for his portrayal of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. Deborah Foreman would not have as successful a career. After Valley Girl, it would be another two years before she was seen on screen again, in what basically amounts to an extended cameo in a movie I'll get to in a moment. She would have a decent 1986, starring in two semi-successful films, the sexy comedy My Chauffeur and the black comedy April Fool's Day, but after that, the roles would be less frequent and, often, not the lead. By 1991, she would retire from acting, appearing only in a 2011 music video for the She Wants Revenge song Must Be the One, and a cameo in the 2020 remake of Valley Girl starring Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies. After Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge would go on a tear, directing four more movies over the next seven years. And we'll talk about that first movie, Joy of Sex, on our next episode. Thank you for joining us. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Valley Girl. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
Initially compared as a rock singer with John Lennon in the late '70s and early '80s with The Nerves and The Plimsouls, his subsequent sixteen solo albums beginning in 1986 have embraced blues, solo acoustic guitar, and on his new album, highly percussive piano (on his new album). We discuss "Have You Ever Been in Trouble?" from Dr. Moan (2023), "Every 24 Hours" feat. Richard Thompson from Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (2007), "When You Find Out" by the Nerves from their self-titled EP (1976). End song: "Anything" from Torn Again (1995). For more, see petercase.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon.
Initially compared as a rock singer with John Lennon in the late '70s and early '80s with The Nerves and The Plimsouls, his subsequent sixteen solo albums beginning in 1986 have embraced blues, solo acoustic guitar, and on his new album, highly percussive piano (on his new album). We discuss "Have You Ever Been in Trouble?" from Dr. Moan (2023), "Every 24 Hours" feat. Richard Thompson from Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (2007), "When You Find Out" by the Nerves from their self-titled EP (1976). End song: "Anything" from Torn Again (1995). For more, see petercase.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon.
his week I'm joined by veteran rockers Dean and Brent Seavers of The Decibels, one of the best mod friendly, power pop acts of the past thirty years (yes we're all that old, get used to it). With five albums already under their belt they are back this year with a brand new release, When Red Lights Flash. And it rocks. It's got an accessibility to it that is familiar, but with enough newness to keep it fresh beginning to end. Songs like Enough
I wonder if it's Peter Case's slightly rebellious spirit that has endeared him to fans for so long. Within one decade he was a member of two hugely important rock bands - the Nerves ("Hanging on the Telephone") and the Plimsouls ("A Million Miles Away"), but since the late 80s he's been doing things his way - a little folk, a little jazz, a little blues, just whatever he felt like. His diverse tastes have made for an equally diverse body of work and his latest album, Doctor Moan, is no exception. The album explores his jazz and piano side more than any other release and is all the better for it. We hear about his love for all kinds of music, his historic legacy, playing piano at the church of John Coltrane, and much more. Enjoy! www.petercase.com www.patreon.com/thehustlepod
For this BONUS Patron-curated episode, we asked our Patrons to send in a song by a band/artist that's best known for ANOTHER song. So, there's this band. Many people know them by that one song. You know, "That band that did that song." Here's the thing, though: there's ANOTHER song they did that's just as good...or maybe even better! Songs featured in this episode: Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners; Call Me Maybe, Want You In My Room - Carly Rae Jepsen; Another Girl, Another Planet, Out There In The Night - The Only Ones; Bitter Sweet Symphony, Space and Time - The Verve; Karma Chameleon, Victims - Culture Club; There She Goes - The La's; I Am The Key - Britt Daniel (Live at The Hole In The Wall, Austin TX; I Am The Key - The La's; A Million Miles Away, Oldest Story In The World, Zero Hour (Live at The Golden Bear, 1983) - The Plimsouls; I'm So Excited, Don't It Drive You Crazy - The Pointer Sisters; Stand, Orange Crush -REM; Love Shack, Channel Z - The B-52's; All Right Now, Mr Big - Free; Wild Thing, From Home - The Troggs; I Want Candy, Chihuahua - Bow Wow Wow; The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, Rev Jack & His Roamin' Cadillac Church - Timbuk 3; Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell; Vaya Con Dios, I Really Don't Want To Know - Les Paul & Mary Ford; Boys Are Back In Town, Dancing In The Moonlight, Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy; My Sharona, Good Girls Don't - The Knack; Louie Louie - Richard Berry; Have Love Will Travel - Richard Berry & The Paroahs; Hallelujah, Forget Her - Jeff Buckley; Jessies Girl, I've Done Everything For You - Rick Springfield; Sex and Candy, Love Bug - Marcy Playground; Come On Eileen, There There My Dear - Dexys Midnight Runners
“Doctor Moan” Ever since he landed in San Francisco at 19, the Buffalo-born Peter Case pretty much hasn't stopped making music. He hit the Bay as a busker and from there joined pals Jack Lee and Paul Collins to form the punk band the Nerves. After the Nerves called it a day, Case formed The Plimsouls, who put out a handful of albums that were instant classics. When the Plimsouls broke up, Case stripped things back and put out his first solo album. The self-titled record was a critical favorite, and it kick-started a solo career that has found the singer/songwriter releasing close to 20 albums, including The Man With The Blue Post Modern Fragmented Neo Traditionalist Guitar, Sings Like Hell and his new one Doctor Moan. The Grammy-nominated Case is a true troubadour whose life has been devoted to song. He's put out several books, including As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport, had his songs covered by everyone from Blondie to Joe Ely to John Prine, opened for the Ramones and John Lee Hooker, collaborated with Los Lobos, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and Ry Cooder and you know what? The list goes on and on. This is just a fragment of what Peter Case has done—his CV has a lot of pages. His new album Doctor Moan is a stirring song cycle that's powered by Case behind the keys of an acoustic piano. And it's riveting work--The songs are heartfelt, arresting and filled with raw finesse that makes every moment immediate and engaging. www.petercase.com www.stereoembersmagazine.com www.embersarts.com www.alexgreenonline.com www.bombshellradio.com Twitter: @emberseditor Instagram: @emberspodcast Email: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com
Hello friends! One of the most well-respected singer/songwriters of his generation, founder of legendary power-pop band, The Plimsouls, three-time Grammy nominee, Peter Case, is my guest for episode 1256! His latest album, the piano based, Doctor Moan drops on march 31st and he'll be heading out on tour in April. Go to petercase.com for music, tour dates and more. We have an amazing conversation about his journey in music from street musician to legendary punk-pop band, The Nerves the The Plimsouls and "Valley Girl" to the incredible solo artist he is today, Writing Doctor Moan on the piano during the pandemic, the documentary, "Peter Case: A Million Miles Away" coming out later this year, the early 80's L.A. new wave scene and much more! I had a blast getting to know this legend. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down! Get the best, full-spectrum CBD products from True Hemp Science and enter code HDIGH for a special offer from How Did I Get Here? If you feel so inclined. Venmo: venmo.com/John-Goudie-1 Paypal: paypal.me/johnnygoudie
Peter Case is a singer-songwriter who has covered a tremendous amount of ground, both physically and stylistically, over a long, impressive career. He played pop-punk with the Nerves, power-pop with the Plimsouls (“A Million Miles Away”), Americana as a solo artist before Americana was a thing, and many styles since then, including the pounding piano blues of his upcoming Doctor Moan. Here he recalls days of scraping by as a street musician, tells jaw-dropping L.A. stories featuring the Go-Go's and Jerry Lee Lewis, recounts how Blondie came to cover the Nerves' “Hanging on the Telephone,” recalls the Plimsouls' appearance in Valley Girl and relives his dreams, disappointments (with a cameo by the label exec who also rejected Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and triumphs, This is a great conversation for songwriters and music fans alike.
This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time trip back to the 80s: Modern English, Plimsouls, UB40, Fun Boy Three, Culture Club, Eddie Money, Marilyn Martin, Ian Dury, Nails, Men At Work, Waterboys, Pete Shelley, Let’s Active, Huey Lewis And The News, Untouchables, and finishing off with Yaz.
This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins brings you the following bands for your time trip to the 1980s: Adam & The Ants, China Crisis, Rick Springfield, The Cars, Violent Femmes, The Art Of Noise, Plimsouls, Mental As Anything, Bob Seger, Kenny Loggins, Public Image Ltd., Madness, Gary Numan, Johnny Hates Jazz, George Michael, and finishing up with ABC.
“Memories To Burn” The Williams Brothers come from a rich musical lineage that goes all the way back to the late ‘30s, when Williams Brothers Andy, Dick, Bob and Don started their singing quartet that took them all the way from their home state of Iowa to sunny Los Angeles, where they appeared in movies and were under contract with MGM Films. The second iteration of The Williams Brothers featured Don's sons Andrew and David, who put out two albums in 1973. As teen idols they had a hit with “What's Your Name" and even made an appearance on The Partridge Family. They resurfaced again in the late ‘80s, putting out a trio of fabulous albums for Warner Brothers, their last being 1993's Harmony Hotel. Along the way they backed up Brian Setzer, Joe Ely and The Cruzados, sang back up on the Plimsouls' "A Million Miles Away" and were part of T-Bone Burnett's band for a tour of Europe. They had a hit with "Can't Cry Enough" in '92, appeared as an Everly Brothers duo in Alison Anders' Grace Of My Heart and after that…..well, after that, they stepped away and lived their lives. 28 years later we have Memories To Burn. This album gets done in 30 minutes what most bands try to do their entire careers. The harmonies are lustrous and elegant and the phrasing is delivered with finesse and grace. The two brothers' vocal interplay is effortless, organic and soul-affirming. Featuring covers by Robbie Fulks and Iris DeMent and with a band that features the marvelous Marvin Etzioni and Greg Liesz, Memories To Burn is one of 2022's very best. Good to have these guys back. Keep up with The Williams Brothers: www.sixdegreesrecords.com/regional-records-label www.regionalrecords.com www.facebook.com/regionalrecords Bombshell Radio: www.bombshellradio.com Stereo Embers: IG: @emberspodcast Email: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com www.stereoembersmagazine.com www.alexgreenonline.com
On this week's show, we... spend quality time with the superlative new record from The Mountain Goats celebrate 30 years of Sugar's Copper Blue feature 4 albums that - in our humble opinion - represent the artistic sweet spot of 4 very distinctive singer/songwriters. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.
The Colvin Brothers travel back to 1982 with some classic tunes from AC/DC, Golden Earring, David Bowie, Billy Squier and The Plimsouls. We also pay tribute to Frank Pallett, of Big Guns and The Chance in Poughkeepsie, who passed on August 11th. The Colvin Five investigates the ways you listen to The Colvin Brothers each week and we introduce a new game, Five Second Rule, which is sure to jam Mikey up. The Colvin Brothers Show is sponsored by Mahoney's Irish Pub & Steakhouse, 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie (845) 471-7026. Stop in for a pint today! The Colvin Brothers on z93 airs 3pm Eastern Time every Sunday on z93.3 FM, z93hv.com AND z93 on the iHeart Radio App and our archives will continue to be gathered here in podcast form for those of you who are unable to tune in --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/colvin-brothers-on-z93/support