Feb. 26, 2021
The New Wave Craze part 1 of 2


In this episode of Back to the 80s, Toscano and Chang talk about music that changed the 80s and would set a footprint for generations to come. Today we talk about the awesome world of New Wave music!
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I'm so scared. I wish I
had a ham sandwich to call my nerves.
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Find a place to hide. Where
are you going, fuzzy face,
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That's what I was afraid of.
I don't wait for me. Gave me
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back. This is Back to the
Eighties, the radio show that introduces the
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eighties to a whole new generation.
We're here to talk about the things that
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made that decade the best decade of
them all. We're here every Friday,
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and so glad you can make it
to this very special rendition of remembering the
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new Wave age with me as he
is every single Friday. Is a man
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that has been known to carry thirty
one flavors of rum under his lemmy of
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motor had Had. It's been said
that metal music got its name after Chain
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threatened every metal rocker with a metal
bat. We hear back to the eighties.
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Call him the Chang Oh, my
good friend, Tuscano, my favorite
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Italian since of course Chef Boyardi,
my favorite Italian since the Italian that made
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pizza. Before we start to show, let the battle give the rang for
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its time to sit with Tuscano and
Chang Oh boy, do we have a
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special show for everybody. You know
and this and this show is brought to
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you by by you guys, the
fans. We have had plenty of request
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to do specials on new wave music, and today is the day so change.
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Before we get started with the topic
of new wave, I do want
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to give a special announcement because we
gave a little bit of news the Friday
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after the Super Bowl. I don't
know if you remember the article that we
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read regarding Bruce Springsteen getting you know, getting arrested. Well, for those
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of you who don't know, Bruce
Springstein had pleaded guilty this is this past
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Wednesday, to charges that basically driving
under the influence right when they interviewed him,
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he said I only had two small
shots of tequila, bringing his alcohol
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level to point zero two, which
basically was well under the legal limit of
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point zero eight. So all charges
were dropped. He did, of course,
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have to pay five hundred dollars in
a fine and forty dollars in court
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fees, which I am sure he's
not going to have a problem pain.
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Wow, now that is how could
I say this a shot in the butt
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when you're not expecting it. The
funny thing is he's the boss. Of
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course he was going to get off. But the funny thing is being famous,
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having googles of millions, and to
get such a small fine. Oh
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my god, Tom Cruise is in
the room as he did. I find
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it appalling. I find it astonishing. I find it every bit ridiculous,
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and I will why now? Is
this because it was the fine was so
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low to me? It's on every
level, somebody of the working class,
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somebody a poverty level. First of
all, let's get this straight, bro,
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and I do not condone drinking and
driving. I don't care how many
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you had. The chang has made
that stupid mistaken his past, and the
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chant has learned from that mistake.
But also I've had my best friend killed
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due to under the influence of alcohol
on the open road. I don't conduct
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it's I mean, it's a serious
offense, very serious offense. And I
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don't care if he had two shots, three shots. I don't care if
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it was a bathwater that he was
drinking, if he was under the influence.
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Such a low fine is deplorable,
I think, yeah, I mean
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it, look if it would have
been you or me being pulled over with
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half a shot my friend exactly,
as a matter of fact, without even
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drinking anything at all, just having
a can of Coca Cola in there,
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it would have been a different story
just for having I don't know, a
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bottle of shoot. I drive with
wine, a wine bottle all the time
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next to me. Sometimes when I
come from the store, I don't open
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it, of course, And if
it would have been me, you know
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they'd give you, I don't know, a fifty thousand dollars fine and who
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knows how many months in jail.
So yeah, you're absolutely right. It's
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not now a guy like me.
You know what I look like? Our
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listeners they might know who I look
like. I don't know. I think
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I'll have to put a pay a
picture of myself on Facebook to let our
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lovely listeners know what the chain really
looks like. M But a guy that
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would look like me would be dragged
out of the vehicle, carded after Only
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after I was dragged, beaten,
kicked, dehumanized. Read the rights to
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me before. Because anybody that knows
a legal system, you are not proven
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innocent until proven guilty. You are
guilty to proven innocent, and innocence only
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falls upon those who have the proper
fiscal amount of money and the bank account
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or job, and you will walk
now Bruce Springsteen walked. I know this
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is taking it off guard, but
you know, I do love my Bruce
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Springsteen, and I'm a big fan
of the E Street Band, big fan
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of Bruce Springsteen. But I being
on the other side of the coin,
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the working man, the man of
color, the man that has a style
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that is unbefitting to the common man, that the police force find reputable to
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be let go on such issues.
So I have a very big problem with
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Today, we're gonna be talking about
music from nineteen eighty, eighty one,
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eighty two. The following Friday,
we're gonna be talking about eighty three
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and eighty four. So sit back, relax, grab yourself with your favorite
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Grab a drink at tickle your fancy
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pod. This is back to the
eighties. This is Chang of Toscano.
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Win Chang. I want to welcome
you back to night's topic, of course,
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Toscano eighty to eighty two new wave
music. And before we jump into
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that, I have a fun fact, a Chang fun fact, Tuscano.
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Are you ready for this? I'm
ready, man. Go ahead. Now,
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everybody of my eighties ladies and my
eighties babies has to remember in nineteen
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eighty one, August first, the
birth of Yes, Yes, I'm a
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Hater, MTV debut on TV America. Demand I want my MTV. I
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want my MTV, I want my
MTV, Hi Company, HI want my
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mt B. That's right. The
legendary MTV, which was a somewhat radio
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stationed of the eye, not the
mind, but the eye where video made
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its presence. And on that day
the very first new wave song played,
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Oh my God, hold onto your
seats, put your seatbelts on, throw
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your head in the toilet if you're
like me, and get ready to puke
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one up. The bubbles came out
with video killed the radio. And how
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many times have I stated this in
all the years that you and I have
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sat beside each other on the microphone, that this was a very, very
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the greatest slap in the face to
terrestrial radio ever since. MTV is crap.
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Now they don't even show music videos. It's a bunch of teenage reality
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craps condoning sex and stupidity. And
I'm not an old part Hell no,
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I'm as hip as they come.
Yeah, well, you know what.
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I loved MTV. Wh When MTV
came out, I was glued to the
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television because I've always been a radio
guy, and when I was at a
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very very young age when it came
out, I was just glued to the
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TV because for me it was actually
now I get to see what all the
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artists look like, and to me
it was it was fantastic. Now,
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granted, none of the videos made
sense. Could you remember that all these
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videos that they came up was back
then? None of them made sense.
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Majority of the videos made had nothing
to do with the song at all.
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Maybe some had storylines that were closed, but not It was all pretty much
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just a video shooting. They were
put in music behind kind of like a
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bad Runway show where a bunch of
models are stepping to the groove of a
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song that has nothing to do with
what they're promoting. Out there. Now?
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Do you remember the famous VJs of
MTV. Oh, who can forget
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of Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood.
Let's see Nina Blackwood, who, by
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the way, do you remember what
she looked like? She was gorgeous.
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She was a killer, right specy
blog rocker. I think she's had one
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too many camels with no filters.
But good guy, he was gorgeous.
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Who could forget the legendary J.
J. Jackson of La Rock fame of
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terrestrial radio back in the days of
KMET, A good friend of Jim Ladd.
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Triple J Jackson is what they would
call him, I believe on KMET
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and kills for the short time that
he was there. Also, there was
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Mark Goodman, who could forget that? Who could forget that? Perm Mark
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Goodman was the All Mark Goodman needed
was some rainbow suspenders and he was the
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guy to hang out with at a
park playing frisbee with lee by cut shorts.
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Who could forget? And then everybody
forgets this guy Alan Hunter. Yes,
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he was kind of the blonde,
kind of quirky guy, you know
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what I mean, kind of had
the little bit of a mullet going,
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but he kind of had that Brian
Adams kind of look, you know,
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the farm kind of kids. He
had that feathered yeah, he had that
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feathered hair that some that a lot
of women had. And I'm sure he
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used that quinnette too. Yeah lesbian, here's hey, Hey, that's right.
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I said it. We're not going
to cut it because here add back
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to the eighties. We want to
make you laugh and everybody needs a good
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laugh. I no pun intended.
I have no problem with homosexuality at all.
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I have many many cousins that are
no not at all. You know,
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I was thinking about that, Chang. I was thinking about that the
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other day. You know, we
have this program called Back to the Eighties,
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and people have to understand that people
back in the eighties didn't get offended
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for every single little thing. So
today we want to talk about new wave
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music. And just let you know, if you've just joined us, you
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can always join us every single day
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I want to encourage you guys to do
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so. So we're talking about the
eighties new wave music that was formed from
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the remnants of seventies punk rock.
Eighties new wave took the aggressive nature of
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punk then added a little bit of
dance beat to give it a little disco
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feel, and then through some of
the keyboards they gave it a distinct eighties
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new wave sound. I think it
was the birth of the synthesized rock and
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roll, synthesized music. And here's
the double edged sword of what Chang thinks
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synthesized music brought to the to the
status of music. I think the synthesized
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music that came into the eighties,
it had its positive effects on certain bands
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and certain songs sounding and styles correct. It kind of created a signature for
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certain bands and made them really stand
up of others too, almost a greatness
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of that era. But then also
you have some synthesized music that was utilized
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in other forms of bands that were
already noted for their great music without synthesizing
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it, such as Journey that of
course, this is a different realm of
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music. With Van Halen, synthesized
rock sounded really good with Gary Newman,
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but it didn't do too good with
The Cars, which is a great band
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that came out back then Human League, where the synthesized music kind of popeyes
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them and really kind of cheapened I
think some of the bands and didn't let
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them progress into the next level because
synthesized rock has it's positive and is negative.
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I don't know if I'm going off
key. I don't know if you
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kept up with me out there,
boys and girls, what do you think
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too? Well, No, I
think you're absolutely right. As a matter
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of fact, I would. I
remember an interview they did in the seventies
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Jim Morrison, and he said,
Oh, wait a minute, I think
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I think I've seen the red phone
go off behind you. This is the
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one and only back to the eighties. Who do I have on the other
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line? Is everybody in? Is
everybody in? Oh? Is this this
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camp? Be from beyond? It's
our line from beyond? Hey, how
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you doing. I'm up here with
Raymond Zeric and we're about to write another
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great Doors song, even though the
other two guys are still alive, but
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they're getting old, so they should
be up here right now. Riders on
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those doors into your house, we
roll. Somebody grabbed me a bong.
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Riders on the storm. Hey,
everybody listen, Jim Morrison, how are
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you out there? I've been gone
a long time. Who am I talking
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to you? Who called me?
Well? Actually, the phone rang in
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our studio. Jim, this is
Oscano from Tiscano and chang here at back
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to the eighties radio. And I've
never heard of you Italian restaurant. What
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do you fancy Hammela? Please get
me another. Well, you know what,
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whenever our red phone from beyond calls, we never know who's on the
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other line, and it just happened
to be you. Let me ask you
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another. I have you on the
line. I remember years ago, when
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you were alive and walking this earth, that you gave an interview and they
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asked you what do you think that
the future of music will be? And
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I remember very attentively that you said
that the majority of music would be done
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through electronics or a lot of synthesizer
being used. Do you remember, yes,
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I did say that. I remember
that, and I remember I had
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done a half ounce of smack,
I had smarked a quarter pound of Colombian
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goals and barbituates of that time.
Or get to lose your mom? Going
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to change your mom riders on the
store. Yeah, yeah, we know
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your use of illegal substances there,
Jim Oh Toscano. I wish you would
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have joined me in the door to
not get to Whiskey in the nineteen seventies
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A degree. Well, you know
what, I saw enough of you.
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I really enjoyed the music, but
you know there were times when you got
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naked on stage and started doing obscenities
that I was going, yeah, I
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could do without that, especially like
the time you started urinating them. I
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gotta get out of here, man, I'm about to go talk to Jimmy
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Hendrix on the next cloud. And
next time I called the order pizza,
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you'll be the first guy or order
there to Scotto. Oh you know you
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said Toscano and Chang. Is that
kind of an Italian Chinese restaurant? Oh
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yeah, I gotta get out of
here, man, all right, take
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take care of Jim. I hope
to talk to you soon, Jim Marston.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you know,
you just never know who calls on
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that on our Red from Beyond Line. I can't believe that that we get
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in touch with so many people from
beyond the next realm Toscono. I mean,
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I'm afraid to say that maybe one
of these days, Wrong Raging or
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somebody like that of that magnitude may
call. They've been they've been on the
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line. Before if you've just joined
us, we are talking about new wave
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music of the eighties in particular.
We want to mention to you that the
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main years of the eighties new wave
were from nineteen eighty to eighty four.
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I mean after eighty four, Madonna, Michael Prince, Bruce and really others
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took music away from new wave and
more towards a pop rock field. And
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so I want us to take a
look at some of the bands that brought
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the eighties new wave on the scene
and to the top of the charts in
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the early eighties. You know,
people like The Cars, Blondie, you
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know, you mentioned Talking Heads,
DeVore some of the early pioneers of the
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eighties new wave, and that's right. Don't forget you two in the Cure
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your Face well believe it or not. Yeah, and in bands like you
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two The Cure, even uh,
you know Billy Billy Idol at times were
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they were like brushing the fence on
that thin line. Yeah. You know,
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as you bring up Billy Idol,
Billy Idol, I remember him in
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the punk rock band Generation X.
Billy Billy Idol kind of wasn't new wave
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to me. He was kind of
a pop rock but I will say how
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about Oengel Bongo Depeche Mode, Well, definitely in excess, especially like for
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example in the UK, The Joy
Division, Joe Jackson, The Police,
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the Boomtown Rats. You know,
there were some some early some of the
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early adopters of this new wave sound. However, the album that really defined
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new waves signature synthesizer based sound and
brought the movement to the four front had
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to be Gary Newman's The Pleasure Principle, and the signature song of that album
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was, of course Cars Here in
My Car. If you don't remember Cards
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as a song by Gary Newman and
his debut single was released as the lead
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single from his debut studio album,
The Pleasure Principle and let Me give you
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a little a little touch of Gary
Newman. That's cars first release credited solely
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to Gary Newman after he dropped the
band name Tubeway Army. He said it
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was the first time he had written
a song with the intention of maybe it
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could be a hit, maybe not. That was Gary Newman who came up
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with a song in nineteen seventy nine, but it wasn't released until late of
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August twenty first, nineteen seventy nine
in the UK, and it didn't hit
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number one until it came to the
United States in nineteen eighty. Now I
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recall that song, you know that
was a pretty cool song. I gotta
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give it up for Gary Newman because
I believe he was one of the first
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artists back in the eighties in the
new wave era that I think he was
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pretty much open with his bisexuality.
I think he had an odd look that
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was captivating, very stylish, which
you could kind of say nabe model,
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like, yeah, he wore that
heavy eyeliner too, and a suit exactly.
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Yeah, it was kind of like
a modern day model. You could
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you could have acted We've seen that
guy walking the catwalk at one time.
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He created a fashion within his own
music. But I believe Gary Newman kind
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of evolved out of bands like Devo, you know what I mean, Soft
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Sell, Human League, bands of
that nature. You could even say Simple
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Minds, which was a great band
new wave, Simple Winds. Simple Minds
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did use a little bit of synthesize. But that lead singer, remember him,
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He had the orange hair. He
was a redhead. The guy could
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sing like he was a soul brother. I mean, it's it's it's great
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that we're going to talk about tonight. So many artists that take us back
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into the new wave. We can. We can bring up artists and take
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our listeners back to that time,
but we can also bring out the roots
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of where new wave came from and
possibly some of the roots that certain new
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wave bands did start, which started
a lot of other new wave bands which
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transcended into other types of music.
Like you said, we could we could
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talk about the Go Goes in Excess, like you said, Joe Jackson,
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bands that were of the new new
wave kind of era background, but then
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they evolved into something a little bit
more different, little bit more specially.
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Yeah, and you know what.
Speaking of special songs, the English band
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the Vapors, from their nineteen eighty
album Nuclear Days, came up with this
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song. Great song. Another song
was Turning Japanese by the Vapors, and
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it was an international hit, becoming
the song for which the Vapors were best
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known for. Yes and basically if
you don't know, the lyric describes the
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narrator being separated from a woman that
he loved and he was just preoccupied with
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her photos and this turned into Churning
Japanese. Well, what did you think
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Chang of churning Japanese by the favorite
what's funny. As a matter of fact,
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when this song came out, this
is pretty much when the name that
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I go by, the Chang was
given to me by my buddies at Montabello
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High School. We were in a
group called the Boys League. We don't
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dance, we don't date, We
prefer to drink and master bait. That
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was our logo that school. Yes, do you want that logo again?
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Yeah? What was that again?
Now? The name Chang that I go
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by that everyone does know me as, was given to me by my buddies,
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especially my late great buddy Ragmi Barazza, who is no longer here.
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And they used to play this for
me constantly because they gave me that nickname
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because you know, I fancy Asian
women at that time. I was going
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out with many, many, many, many many Asian girls then, So
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that was a song that they would
play for me, and I got this
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name. So it's it's fitting.
I sit here and I smile as I
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hear it, and I get somewhat
of a tear because I do miss my
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late, my late great best friend. Yeah, but uh, you know,
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it brings a smile because it takes
me back home. You know what,
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let me let me give you a
piece of a fun fact. Okay
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for American pop culture, as this
song was actually misinterpreted by American pop culture
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because the repeated lyric saying I think
I'm turning Japanese was widely believed by Americans.
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Okay, leave it to the Americans
to describe an orgasm induced by master
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mabing. But actually it was intended
to describe team angst or alien nation after
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a romantic breakup. I mean,
who in the right mind would understand that
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this song was talking about masturbation when
it was actually talking about a romantic breakup.
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I would say, anybody that was
like Kipper Gore, anybody that's conservative,
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anybody that hid behind the good book
and judged everybody hypocritically wise and then
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hid behind the right his book and
said, oh no. Another song from
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nineteen eighty was a song that has
been killed to death on Los Angeles radio
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because they believe that Devo only came
up with one song, and that's this
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song that we all know as wimmen
wrong now ripen shape Ye Yes sight.
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Interestingly enough, the American rock band
Divo from their third album, Freedom of
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Choice nineteen eight. Of course great
album. It was a new wave synth
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pop song that featured of course synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums
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all into one. But of course
the signature sound that that transcended it all
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was that rockish slash punkish style that
only Divo can share with the world now.
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Devo is a prime example of what, like I stated earlier, the
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difference of synthesized music, what it
brought to certain bands and certain artists,
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and what it took away from certain
bands and certis artists. And Devo is
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a top notch band where synth decided
music enhanced their music creativity, their musical
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sound, and engrave great following.
So it kind of it enhanced what was
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already there of a musical genius,
if I can say lightly. Devo was
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one of those bands that would come
up with a hit and you can find
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them on Billboard Hot one hundred all
the time and whip it became a hit
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single and found instant chart success,
and not only in the United States but
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abroad. I don't know if our
listeners are aware, you are the Mother's
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brawl of brothers that were two of
the founding members of Divo later created for
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Nick at Night. You remember Nickelodeon, the rug Rats cartoon that many of
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many children have grown up watching.
I know my daughter watched the Rugrats,
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my children watch. I'm sure your
kids did. That's a fun fact for
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everybody out there. So when you're
looking at the credits and you see the
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Mother's Brawl Brothers, those are the
two founding members of Deevo. I bet
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you I don't know if you knew
that I had. I hadn't the slightest
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idea, just like I had no
idea Chang that in September of nineteen eighty
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considered to be new wave in at
least in this particular song from a band
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that I used to listen to quite
often from their third album Zenyatamandana The One
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and Only the Police with Don't Stand
So Close to Me Now Tiscannell. It's
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oddly enough, this is another song
that was kind of hex with that taboo
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because it it was about a teacher, a story about feelings for a student,
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which have we've seen all over the
news, so many teachers getting in
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trouble and losing their jobs and going
to gale for this type of teed of
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feelage that's gone awry in our schools. Do you remember back in the eighties
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there was quite a bit of that
kind of story in the news. When
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you know, students either from high
school even junior high in some cases were
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involved with their teachers. And this, of course, this song concerned a
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schoolgirl and the teacher, which led
to an affair and then in turn was
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discovered. Now oddly enough, you
know here at Toscano and Chang, we're
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not going to condone any kind of
wrong behavior. But I'm going to have
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to go on a limb right now
because you know the change. I know
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what you're gonna say. Trust me, my head was that fortunate a young
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boy eager to ever would you ever
tell on her? And I had a
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hot Now if it was a hot
teacher, no, I would not tell.
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Well, of course, of course
I would have. Just hey,
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man, I'm going for an a
plus. I will stay after school and
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clean the floors, I will grade
papers, I will do things to you
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like you have never had a grown
man due to you before. Because I've
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had that rightful young age of being
a magnetic torpid. I went on back.
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I would have never read it out
any of my female never never.
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I always used to think that when
I was a kid, and when I
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was a teenager, I was going, I can't believe that guy snitched on
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his teacher. Look at her.
I would have never said anything until I
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was like in my forties. Now, trip out of it. I'm sure
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you had the same scenario. When
we were in high school. We had
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this one girl in our class and
she was freaking, amazingly hot. Her
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initials are are Gee. For any
of my good friends at Montebello High School
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listening, I'm pretty sure you may
know who she is. She was a
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an aid to the sports trainer in
our football program and other sports. She
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was a knockout. She looked like
she was twenty two twenty three. On
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top of she was in our class, and she would mess around with some
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of the football coaches. Oh really, oh yeah bro? And this was
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kind Oh she was killer. But
if I were to show you a picture,
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you'd be like, whoa ho.
She made the stand the chang stand
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at all four posts, but yet
she would never look at the chang because
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I was pretty much the bad boy, you know what I mean? Yeah,
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I was the only guy on the
football team that had long hair,
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you know, refused to cut it, which ended up me. I gave
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up sports because hey, we're gonna
hold you down cut your hair. And
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I remember looking at the couche wall. I'm gonna have to assault at least
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the first six guys that come at
me. So you're not gonna cut my
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hair, because I'll get kicked out
of school, I'll get expelled, I'll
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probably go to jail, and then
when I get out of jail, I'll
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come after you. Well, for
those of you who don't know regarding don't
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stand so close to me. The
Police won the nineteen eighty two Grammy Award
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for Best Rock Performance by a Duo
or Group with Vocals for this particular song,
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and I didn't. I never knew
that The Police was even considered in
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that same genre as a new wave
at all throughout their entire career. You
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know what, I didn't either,
I have. I think that should be
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corrected because I don't think that they
are new wave. I would kind of
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then they're not really new wave,
but it falls certain songs fall under that.
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So I don't really know what the
criteria is for the people who are
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organizing all these songs in the charts, but apparently Don't Stand So Close to
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Me was one of those songs that
fell under that banner, just like this
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following one, which one percent falls
into that genre. It was an anti
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war song by the synth pop group
o MD. For those of you who
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don't know, that's orchestral Maneuvers in
the Dark and the only single from the
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band's nineteen eighty album Organization. This
is a Nola Gay no Change. I
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don't know if you are aware of
the meaning of the song, or at
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least of this particular track, but
it talks about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
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by the aircraft in Nola Gay on
the sixth the August of nineteen forty five,
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towards the end of World War Two, and it was of course written
406
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:10.440
by vocalist, bassist guitarist Andy McClusky. It came out, I was not
407
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:15.360
aware of that story. And here's
the reason why. Okay, I'm gonna
408
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:20.159
I'm gonna give this to you really
quick. I never listened to that song
409
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.079
all the way through to get the
justification of the storyline of the lyrics.
410
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:27.960
Did you change it when it came
on the radio. Yes, Oh my
411
00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.199
gosh, you played that song.
I could not decide if I wanted to
412
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.639
wet my pants ramit closed the door
on my head five to six times,
413
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:45.920
possibly choked myself around the Chang bang. But good lord, no, my
414
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.320
friend, that song. You know, I think you're missing out. I
415
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:53.360
think you're missing out because it was
an inner national success, selling more than
416
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:58.920
five million copies of that particular by
one of those so it was an enduring
417
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:05.119
map I how did you buy?
You know what? I didn't have any
418
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:07.079
of the tricks, but whenever I
came on, Remember I've told you this
419
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:13.840
on multiple occasions, I was everywhere
every single genre. I love the music,
420
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:19.159
and I really really did like a
new wave and synth music. I
421
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.719
did like it. I enjoyed it
quite a bit, especially from bands like
422
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:30.000
OMD along with their nineteen eighty six
if you leave right on to you,
423
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:38.559
my brother, Oh my gosh,
a great called me. I love it,
424
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.480
I love it, I love it. This is back to the eighties.
425
00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:46.360
When we come back, we'll have
more hate from the Chang and more
426
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:50.880
madness from Tuscanno. When Chang don't
go away. Back to the eighties,
427
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:53.800
taking you on a trip to him
better time, A time when America used
428
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:58.639
to win at things, When we
won the Cold War by army in Afghanistan,
429
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:01.880
when we beat Russia boxers by jugging
in the woods, When a welder
430
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.559
could become a dancer, when a
poor immigrant could become to the power of
431
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:15.360
music, a guru to a generation
you're listening to. Back to the eighties.
432
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:23.679
Now back to good, wholesome,
politically correct entertainment. Oops rock station.
433
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:35.920
Now back to the eighties with Tescato
and Chay and a loft my life
434
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:45.000
for I Susan time. I can't
sleep by night once I ran. Oh
435
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.400
my god, I love this song. Hi everybody, boys and girls,
436
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:54.239
ladies, especially anybody on this side
of the coin, especially, this is
437
00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:59.199
your boy. Give you a holler, a stream, a snaky snaky on
438
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:04.039
my tushy. Touch it's me Rod
Steel. That's right, the official.
439
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:09.960
That's right, bitches. Official hair
stylists of Doscnalin Chang. Back to the
440
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:16.840
eighties. No one touches these boys
like I do. Starry Missus Chang and
441
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:23.599
Missus Tasty. Their hair is mine. Speaking of mine, Oh my god,
442
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:30.400
I can't believe these two enormous heart
drop battors would play this song for
443
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:36.239
me. Soft Sell was one of
my most favorite songs back in the eighties
444
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:42.960
when I was just a young thing
tender things. Oops, I dropped my
445
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:49.119
soap. Oh, soft Sell reminded
me of I always wanted to be in
446
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:54.119
prison and called my sealmuch soft selling
doc Chale Tho sala. Anyway, I've
447
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:58.920
got a friend of mine that's gonna
sit in in the studio with me while
448
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.880
sisconalin Chang. I put hair relaxer
in their hair. They're gonna come out
449
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:10.280
feeling vigorous, strong and affect seem
My guy Kai is with me, Kai,
450
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.559
sweetcair lovecakes, Kissy, Kissy.
Where are you? Tweety? Hi?
451
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.840
Roddy, how are you? Oh? I'm doing fantastic. Oh wait
452
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:23.079
a minute, cancastic. He likes
me to throw his name in there,
453
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.320
you know, just sweet nothing because
his wife does it. He's such a
454
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.000
roddy, you know, I know, you know why I call you roddy
455
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:35.519
because you remind me of Roddy mcdwald
from the Planet of the Apes. Oh
456
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.079
my, I want a monkey back
roll you monkey monkey, monkey nibble nibble
457
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:44.280
nibble. Oh, you're hairy like
an animal. I'm gonna appeel you like
458
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.719
a banana. Kai, my guy, you naughty boy. Now do you
459
00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:52.119
do you remember soft sell? Oh? Yes, it's something with rubber walls
460
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.119
and something like where I want to
put you in and just punish you.
461
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.800
Oh my god. It takes me
back into the eighties when I would go
462
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.719
down to Florentine Gardens with some of
my friends, you know, and they
463
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.760
would have gay night, straight night, and then there was new wave night
464
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.280
and I just could not get enough
blow and go from the sailors and the
465
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.159
boys out there. I used to
dance all night to new wave music.
466
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:17.719
I think I met you there,
right, my sweet guy. I think
467
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:23.400
you were dating a guy named Alan
or was it or was it Elmer?
468
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:29.039
I don't remember, but I remember
taking you back to the restroom, the
469
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.320
urinal, and we were powdering our
noses. Sniff sniff, whiffle, whiffle,
470
00:41:32.920 --> 00:41:37.639
I'm going to take a tiffle.
And I remember you looked at me
471
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:40.119
and you said, oh my god, your hair looks so boy, George,
472
00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:44.960
and we just became the best piece
right then and there, the bestiees
473
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:49.519
girl. That's right, Boddy,
I gotta go. I've got my car
474
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:54.119
turned on and self sell full blast. M I want to turn you on
475
00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:58.159
in a car anyway, I gotta
go Tscano and change. I'll be right
476
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.000
back. I'm gonna go take them
out right now, the Relaxer. We're
477
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.480
gonna play another great song and then
the boys will be back. Love your
478
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:13.880
hoots, remember if it's not yours, take it anyway right now, I'm
479
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:35.800
gone. Tainted Love, Sainted Love, Tainted Love Love, Touch Smithings Touching.
480
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.360
That's right, we're back here,
back to the eighties. One and
481
00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.480
only show that brings back the eighties
to a holy generation. This is Tisconno
482
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:45.400
from Tjiscata with Jang. I don't
know what happened while we were gone,
483
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.400
but this is Tainted Love by soft
Sell. You know, Tisconno. It
484
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:55.000
smells like vanilla and old flannel cologne
in this yeah here, it's yeah,
485
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:59.760
it smells a little bit of like
English leather. And uh what was that
486
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.079
brute? Brute? I bet you
Rod Steele put us in the relax or
487
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.320
mode with our heir and he I
bet you he came in here and he
488
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.719
started playing around with the buttons because
you know he likes to pull and push
489
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:14.679
things. And I bet you he
probably put on one of his favorite tunes.
490
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.639
He brought his aid with him,
right, his favorite guy guy,
491
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.920
the favorite guy guy. I think. So all I know is I saw
492
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.199
two guys acting pretty suspicious and I
knew they were up to something no good.
493
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.280
You know what. You gotta love
them though. And speaking of love,
494
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.039
we're talking about Tainted Love, of
course, by the British synth pop
495
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:37.880
duo Soft Sell, and in nineteen
eighty one they came up with Tainted Love.
496
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.119
I've had a lot of tainted and
you know what, this is one
497
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.000
of the Once again, this is
one of those songs that is Tuscan.
498
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:52.880
Was this on your mixtape? This
was definitely my mixtape And unfortunately, unfortunately
499
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:59.519
it's a song that's been drilled here
in local radio stations as if the band
500
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:01.920
only came up with this song.
You gotta do. It's a favor if
501
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.760
you're a lover of back to the
eighties and anything eighties. When you hear
502
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.000
an artist, when you hear a
particular song, for example, like this
503
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.880
particular one. Right, check out
their album. Right, check out their
504
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.039
album and see what other songs are
on that album and listen to the entire
505
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.639
See that's one of the great things
about listening to for example, a record
506
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:28.559
from beginning to end. You get
to hear the entirety of what that artist
507
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.159
wanted to wanted to share with the
world, you know, because I'm sure
508
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:36.639
that particular artist, they took their
time, they worked hard to come up
509
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.960
with a single in this case,
but it wasn't the only song, right
510
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:43.000
They wanted you to hear all of
their music. Well, that was a
511
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.920
beauty I think a vinyl because so
many times you don't want to really skip
512
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.519
to another song on vinyl because you're
afraid of scratching that new album up.
513
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.960
But when you have a cassette,
you could, you know, stop it,
514
00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:59.079
fast forward it, play it back. Oh, I'm almost over,
515
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.880
so you kind of it's easier to
get away from a lot of the other
516
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:09.400
hits that bands put out on a
certain album or a release. I'll call
517
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.800
it a release rather than an album
or a conseedera CD. It's always a
518
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:21.559
release. And the beauty of vinyl
is you have to listen to the album
519
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.960
in its entirety because you want that
album to be pristine. You don't want
520
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:30.039
to damage it. And as you
listen along, you tend to start grooving
521
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.599
to the beat of different songs and
That's one thing that I noticed in terrestrial
522
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:39.760
radio, we didn't get to do
that except for certain stations that would play
523
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:44.960
A and B sides in their entirety. We don't see that at all now.
524
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:49.679
No, you can get individuals that
will download one song and they're not
525
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.440
really going to sit through and download
that entire album. Do you agree.
526
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.440
No. I think one of the
biggest things that has been lost was is
527
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.960
the love for the art of music
in general, because people skip around,
528
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.360
they have playlists of their favorite and
they don't go beyond that. Like for
529
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.000
example, here's a fun fact of
the song Tainted Love. It was composed
530
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.199
by Ed Cobb formerly by the Four
Preps. Wasn't that was an American group,
531
00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:22.320
which was an originally recorded song by
Gloria Jones in nineteen sixty four,
532
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:24.960
and a lot of people didn't know
this. I didn't know that, Yeah,
533
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:30.960
but it didn't attain worldwide fame until
being reworked by soft Sell in nineteen
534
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:38.119
eighty one. That's amazing. So
that was probably a very classical piece with
535
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.920
the original artist, right, Yeah. I mean you can go back,
536
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.840
you can go on YouTube and type
in Gloria Jones Tainted Love and you'll hear
537
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:51.079
the original you know what's just go
I'm going to do that, and when
538
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:53.360
we get off air, I think
I'm going to post that on our Facebook
539
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:59.880
page. And here's something I think
to our lovely listeners in our Facebook fall,
540
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.519
I'm going to bring this up to
you. I'm going to start posting
541
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:10.119
up a fantastic musical event and I'm
going to call this these posts that I
542
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:14.880
will do. I also do a
post on my own page, Chansters Gangsters
543
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:19.360
of Rock. If you want to
to an instant on Facebook. It's kind
544
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.559
of radio via Facebook. I call
it f B FM. And I think
545
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.119
I'm going to bring to our back
to the Eighties page. I'm going to
546
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.360
call this musical segment I'm going to
endeavor in called fantastics, and what I'm
547
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:38.679
going to do for our listeners at
tuscanoll is I'm going to post great songs
548
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:45.639
from the eighties, hits and possibly
a B side hit that you're not familiar
549
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:50.480
with by the same band. And
I will do this nightly and I will
550
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:55.679
do it in a two fur so
I will do two eighties artists with two
551
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:02.239
songs, one a hit, the
other one another track off that album.
552
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.159
Let's see if we can get our
listeners and our viewers and our friends of
553
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:13.400
Facebook to bite on and see if
they want to indulge in this, and
554
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:17.559
feel free to go ahead and hit
me in Tusconnell with a band that you
555
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.199
may want me to put my fantastic
spill on. What do you think,
556
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.079
Toscano, do you think that's something
inviting we should do. I think you
557
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:29.280
should definitely get on that as soon
as possible, because I know people are
558
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:34.079
going to love it. We should
start reintroducing the way artists really wanted you
559
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:38.119
to hear their music and the way
radio should have always have been and not
560
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:46.039
change because of corporate these big mega
corporate companies that decided to buy a thousand
561
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:52.000
radio stations and turn them into just
a bunch of cookie cutter stations. Here's
562
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.440
another one of the groups that,
of course is also from the UK,
563
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:01.679
and here's the song that you hear
quite often but is still making their rounds
564
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:34.360
from twenty seventh of November nineteen eighty
one. That's right, this is Don't
565
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.559
You Want Me? By the Human
League. This is the band's best known
566
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:43.559
and most commercially successful song, and
it was it was basically the nineteen eighty
567
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:50.039
one Christmas number one in the UK, where it sold over one point five
568
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:57.679
million albums. They had other big
hits that fortunately we're playing on the radio
569
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.400
and still are, and we're going
to talk a about them, of course
570
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:07.159
in a another show, because we've
still got some room to cover other songs.
571
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.400
Here's this next band is a band
that I um, I didn't really
572
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:19.000
listen to very often because it just, uh, I thought the main singer
573
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:22.719
was kind of weird. And I'm
talking about talking heads. I knew you
574
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.119
were gonna I knew you're gonna bring
out I knew you were going to bring
575
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.480
out the dick hater in yourself.
We'll call you rich hater now. Now,
576
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:35.280
I really don't say, you know, many times I don't say,
577
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.400
well, here's a song that I
didn't like. Oh yeah, uh,
578
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.840
you know, I know, And
I will say that once in a while.
579
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:50.599
That's one, Yeah, that's one. That's one band I hate.
580
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.239
But but this was this was a
song that I just thought that he was
581
00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:04.039
so weird. And this is once
in a lifetime by talking heads and behind
582
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:21.320
automovideos. You might ask yourself,
how did I hear? Now? Tell
583
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.079
me this guy was kind of weird
you. I mean you must have bed
584
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.800
Burn a great vocalist. Yeah,
I mean he was a little on the
585
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:34.360
weird side. And this was the
lead single from their fourth studio album called
586
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:38.000
Remained in the Light from nineteen eighty, which was released on February the second,
587
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:43.599
just a few days before your birthday
and my birthday. Right, And
588
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:49.320
uh, I don't understand how you
could hate I never said talking Head,
589
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.000
never said that I hated talking Heads. Okay, I just now the talking
590
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:59.920
Heads was a cutting edge bend similar
to roxy music. Uh, similar to
591
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:06.920
the style that David Bowie brought out
now that I think thinking about upon it
592
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:14.360
now, David Bowie and Lou Read
there's some of the forefathers of the new
593
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:20.119
wave type music. Would you not
agree? Definitely? I would definitely agree.
594
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.639
And you know what I would also
agree on is that this following band
595
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:29.199
that we're going to talk about has
been a request. You may ask yourself,
596
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.760
my god, how did I get
here? This following band is a
597
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:44.719
request from one of our very very
special listeners of back to the eighties.
598
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:47.960
Oh, I know who the sexy
band? All those guys are hots,
599
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.960
right. So the person requesting the
song or the requesting us to talk about
600
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:58.199
the band is Beverly Blevin's Staley,
and she actually wanted to hear an entire
601
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:04.559
show dedicated to Duran Duran. And
we're really trying because we have a very
602
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.760
special surprise and as soon as they're
done with the recording of their new new
603
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:14.119
album, oh, you just might
hear Duran Duran on Back to the eighties,
604
00:53:42.800 --> 00:54:14.480
Camera on the back on Back Now. This single became Duran Durand's top
605
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:21.039
ten breakthrough. Of course it did
hot chicking it hot dude did band now?
606
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:24.960
Personally, I mean this is one
of the pioneers as well of new
607
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:29.519
wave in the eighties. Okay,
not new wave when it first started,
608
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but new wave in the eighties.
Correct. Wherever they would go, they
609
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would cause a sensation. And as
a matter of fact, this is one
610
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of the very few bands out there
that if you hear them today, they
611
00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:46.440
sing exactly the same. They have
not lost anything of the voice. They
612
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:51.920
don't look the same, but they
sound exactly the same. You know,
613
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.599
I know you're on the hater of
the Duran Duran, you know what I
614
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:58.679
mean, But I'm not Now.
I was going to do a skit when
615
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:02.119
we talked about durand or because everybody
in the age remembers Roberto Duran, no
616
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Mass, no Mass, so there's
no nos who worked through. But you
617
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know what it was. I thought
it was a very talented young core of
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musicians. I think that they were
phenomenal in the style that they got their
619
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fame in. And I also think
that they had the genius and the talent
620
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to transcend their band into whatever form
of music that they would have played,
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uh North shorter than of something maybe
you two could have done. I always
622
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:42.679
thought that Duran Duran was a very
very talented band. As a matter of
623
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fact, one of the players in
Duran Duran later on went and did his
624
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:53.440
own music The Power Station with Robert
Palmer back in the year right, and
625
00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:59.239
it was this really criticized you know, girls on a film, especially with
626
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their video. When the video of
Girls on Film came out on MTV actuated
627
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:07.840
my brother. Yeah, people actually
can compared it with porn. Yes,
628
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back then it was pretty risky.
And it falls right back into the category
629
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like we discussed the last couple of
breaks, the censorship on music, the
630
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:22.360
attack on music from conservative America.
Yeah, you know, you take it
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00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:27.039
away of freedom. Great video by
the way, my brother, good god,
632
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.039
great, what better video? You
have a grew a band with a
633
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bunch of smoking, hot dudes and
then you put a bunch of hot chicks
634
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:37.800
in makeup on there. It's like, oh, rah, Lee, I
635
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.239
would have been a cameraman and died
seven died seven deaths over to be on
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00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.880
that shoot. My brother, wouldn't
you him? Definitely? This following band,
637
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or I should say frontman or singer, first released a single in the
638
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UK and October nineteen eighty two,
and subsequently included on the EP Blinded by
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00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.559
Science and the second edition of Thomas
Dolby's debut album, The Golden Age of
640
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:07.679
Wireless. Interesting title right back then
in nineteen eighty two, The Golden Thomas
641
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.719
Dolby had a very original sound,
you know what I mean. But he's
642
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:16.800
kind of like a one hit writ
Thomas Dolby looked like Elton John discovered crack
643
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:22.880
and got electrocuted at the same This
is That's how Thomas Dolby looked at me.
644
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.199
And you know, no, Paul, you know, all due respects
645
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:29.440
to the great Elton John, you
can nobody can talk to the album.
646
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:32.880
But when I saw that guy with
that video, That's what I thought.
647
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.719
Wow, that's what Elton John would
look like on crack if he put a
648
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fourth Indee outlet and got electric.
Thomas Dolby with She Blinded Me with Science.
649
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Take a listen suns Now. Although
this was viewed as a success in
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the United States, but it only
peaked that number five on the Billboard Hot
651
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:19.320
one hundred and two weeks at number
one in Canada's RPM magazine, but it
652
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:27.119
definitely scored among the top fifty in
Dolby's native UK. No, I wonder
653
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.400
if did was that song used in
Weird Science? No? No, but
654
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.840
you would have me you would have
said that it was right, she blinded
655
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Me with Science. And no they
went with of course Oingo Boingo's Weird Science.
656
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:45.599
Uh yeah, weird Science. Oino
Bolling a great a great new way,
657
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:50.679
and we'll definitely talk about Oino Bongo
as well. But along with Thomas
658
00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:55.719
Dolby, there was a band from
another land, a land down under.
659
00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:15.239
Oh yes, on a free trails. I'm a strange lady. She made
660
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:36.400
me nervous and great band been at
work. I mean, here's another band.
661
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:42.000
I think if they would have given
a little bit more time, and
662
00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.960
and and mixed it up a little
bit. I think they had the potential
663
00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:49.519
to do something and lasts longer than
they did, rather than just something in
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00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.920
the eighties. Now, what's fitting
is the name of the band Mint at
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00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:59.679
work. Okay. Can you imagine
seeing the lead singer with a street sign
666
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:04.760
directing traffic that says minute work you. You don't know if he's looking straight
667
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.480
at you or the car on the
left. So who's that sign really going
668
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:13.880
to stop? Men at work?
Did you know that down enders perceived as
669
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:19.920
a patriotic song in Australia and it
remains popular and is often played even in
670
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.440
sporting events. And the song,
I mean, it's widely known here in
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01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:30.519
the United States when they played everywhere, Yes, isn't on a heavy trail
672
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:36.079
full of zomides? What a line? You know what I mean? I
673
01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:38.239
met a strange lady. She made
me nervous, she took me in and
674
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.960
yeah, yeah, that's right.
I've always wanted to do. The funny
675
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:47.679
thing is that I've always wanted to
know what a veggie might sandwich tasted like.
676
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:53.320
I am afraid because I hear of
veggie might is actually pretty pretty disgusting.
677
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:59.239
I would think that's a Vegan Sandy, Yeah, something like that,
678
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:02.000
but I don't know it just it
kind of it kind of scares me.
679
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:07.480
Vegam like, no, I don't
want to vega nothing. I'll take a
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vegeam nothing. Moving on, you'll
know this band, of course, we're
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talking about the One and Only a
Flock of Seagulls with they're one of their
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01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:45.280
one hit wonders. The song is
called Iran. I only remember hearing this
683
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:51.719
song on MTV. Very rarely did
I hear it on terrestrial radio. I
684
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:57.400
think maybe every now and then on
K rock. But whenever I hear Joe
685
01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:01.880
Jackson, you know who, it
reminds me of Bruce Hornsby. Oh I
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01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:07.280
don't listen again. You got to
remember a lot of the bands, they
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01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:13.159
were so ostentatious, they were so
over the top. You know. Part
688
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:15.880
of the reason that a lot of
people think that the eighties was all these
689
01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:20.440
weird hairstyles for the women. Don't
get me wrong, we know that was
690
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:25.000
true. Aquinitt was the craze back
then. Yeah, and for the guys,
691
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:29.280
of course, there were the mullets
and things like that, but not
692
01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:35.559
everybody had these black hairstyles. But
of course the bands, the bands were
693
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:39.119
over the top. All right,
let's jump because we're out of time here.
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We've got a couple more songs,
and then we got to call it
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a night. And one of those
people calling it at a night was Joe
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01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:53.760
Jackson with his hit single Stepping Out, written in nineteen eighty two and the
697
01:02:53.840 --> 01:03:20.920
album was Night and Day. There's
the Cross Now. This was a song
698
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:24.760
inspired by Jackson's time in New York
City and it was the highest charting single
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01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:30.760
in America in nineteen eighty two.
You know it was. It was a
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01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:37.000
song of anticipation and excitement of driving
around downtown and it just became an instant
701
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:39.920
success. And you know what,
chank, this was one of This is
702
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:45.400
one of those forgotten eighties songs that
I mean, I don't remember hearing on
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01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:50.639
any radio station, not even like
on Sirius XM radio and they played the
704
01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:54.760
majority of the biggest variety of songs. I haven't even heard this song anywhere.
705
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.159
I only remember hearing this song on
MTV. Very rarely did I hear
706
01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:03.920
it on terrestrial radio. I think
maybe every now and then on K rock.
707
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:09.880
But whenever I hear you, U, Joe Jackson, you know who,
708
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:15.599
it reminds me of Bruce hornsby Oh
I Don't Listen again, their next
709
01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:19.719
song give Me Something Else, and
last, but not least, to top
710
01:04:19.800 --> 01:04:24.719
off this show, we got a
song for you that's really one of the
711
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:49.480
forgotten grades of thineteen eighty two.
Oh yeah if. This is a song
712
01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:55.840
called Don't Go and it's by British
synth pop band Yazoo or otherwise known here
713
01:04:55.840 --> 01:05:00.639
in the United States as Yes,
and it was released in nineteen eighty two.
714
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:06.119
It peaked at number one three times
on the UK Singles Chart, becoming
715
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:13.519
yaz is second top number five hit. And of course we didn't want to
716
01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.400
call him Yazoo here in the United
States or in Canada, so we decided
717
01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:19.679
to change our name to yazz And
every time you'd hear on the radio,
718
01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:25.960
everybody knew that this song was Don't
Go by yazz Wow. Now I have
719
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:30.760
to tell you this song was on
my number one, my number one list.
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01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:34.320
Here we go for songs and songs
that I thought sucked more than anything
721
01:05:34.599 --> 01:05:44.000
that was number one, and there
it is ya Yazoo Chula Zoo. Of
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01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:48.079
course, ladies, gentlemen, this
is Back to the Eighties, the show
723
01:05:48.119 --> 01:05:51.920
that introduces the eighties to a whole
new generation and more. Don't forget to
724
01:05:53.079 --> 01:05:56.840
write in if you want to drop
us a little line letting us know a
725
01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:01.000
suggestion for a show topic through our
Facebook page. We will always do our
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01:06:01.039 --> 01:06:04.880
best to answer you in a timely
manner. On behalf of Tiscano and Chang,
727
01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:09.920
I'm Toscano, wishing you guys a
great week. Thanks for joining us
728
01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:14.199
on another edition of the one and
only back to the eighties. We'll see
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01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:16.719
you guys next week. God bless
you guys, ladies and gentlemen, boys
730
01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:23.280
and girls. And this is a
chang before I release you into another chantastic
731
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.519
we can remember, stay lifted and
gifted. Remember we are one race,
732
01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:30.880
stay human race. Go out and
make somebody smile, and always go out
733
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:34.679
and stand up for something bigger than
you. So until next weekend, I
734
01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:44.440
bid you an audios sayana asta manana, asta la vista asta la lawego,
735
01:06:45.079 --> 01:07:16.679
and to all my homies in Lavalio, take me back to the cold deree,
736
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:25.119
Take you back. I want to
go, dere, take me back
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01:07:25.280 --> 01:07:32.719
till nine is already whoa he ain't
for my go Deree
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I'm so scared. I wish I
had a ham sandwich to call my nerves.
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Find a place to hide. Where
are you going, fuzzy face,
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That's what I was afraid of.
I don't wait for me. Gave me
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back. This is Back to the
Eighties, the radio show that introduces the
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eighties to a whole new generation.
We're here to talk about the things that
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made that decade the best decade of
them all. We're here every Friday,
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and so glad you can make it
to this very special rendition of remembering the
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new Wave age with me as he
is every single Friday. Is a man
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that has been known to carry thirty
one flavors of rum under his lemmy of
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motor had Had. It's been said
that metal music got its name after Chain
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threatened every metal rocker with a metal
bat. We hear back to the eighties.
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Call him the Chang Oh, my
good friend, Tuscano, my favorite
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Italian since of course Chef Boyardi,
my favorite Italian since the Italian that made
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pizza. Before we start to show, let the battle give the rang for
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its time to sit with Tuscano and
Chang Oh boy, do we have a
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special show for everybody. You know
and this and this show is brought to
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you by by you guys, the
fans. We have had plenty of request
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to do specials on new wave music, and today is the day so change.
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Before we get started with the topic
of new wave, I do want
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to give a special announcement because we
gave a little bit of news the Friday
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after the Super Bowl. I don't
know if you remember the article that we
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read regarding Bruce Springsteen getting you know, getting arrested. Well, for those
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of you who don't know, Bruce
Springstein had pleaded guilty this is this past
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Wednesday, to charges that basically driving
under the influence right when they interviewed him,
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he said I only had two small
shots of tequila, bringing his alcohol
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level to point zero two, which
basically was well under the legal limit of
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point zero eight. So all charges
were dropped. He did, of course,
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have to pay five hundred dollars in
a fine and forty dollars in court
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fees, which I am sure he's
not going to have a problem pain.
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Wow, now that is how could
I say this a shot in the butt
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when you're not expecting it. The
funny thing is he's the boss. Of
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course he was going to get off. But the funny thing is being famous,
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having googles of millions, and to
get such a small fine. Oh
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my god, Tom Cruise is in
the room as he did. I find
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it appalling. I find it astonishing. I find it every bit ridiculous,
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and I will why now? Is
this because it was the fine was so
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low to me? It's on every
level, somebody of the working class,
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somebody a poverty level. First of
all, let's get this straight, bro,
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and I do not condone drinking and
driving. I don't care how many
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you had. The chang has made
that stupid mistaken his past, and the
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chant has learned from that mistake.
But also I've had my best friend killed
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due to under the influence of alcohol
on the open road. I don't conduct
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it's I mean, it's a serious
offense, very serious offense. And I
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don't care if he had two shots, three shots. I don't care if
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it was a bathwater that he was
drinking, if he was under the influence.
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Such a low fine is deplorable,
I think, yeah, I mean
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it, look if it would have
been you or me being pulled over with
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half a shot my friend exactly,
as a matter of fact, without even
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drinking anything at all, just having
a can of Coca Cola in there,
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it would have been a different story
just for having I don't know, a
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bottle of shoot. I drive with
wine, a wine bottle all the time
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next to me. Sometimes when I
come from the store, I don't open
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it, of course, And if
it would have been me, you know
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they'd give you, I don't know, a fifty thousand dollars fine and who
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knows how many months in jail.
So yeah, you're absolutely right. It's
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not now a guy like me.
You know what I look like? Our
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listeners they might know who I look
like. I don't know. I think
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I'll have to put a pay a
picture of myself on Facebook to let our
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lovely listeners know what the chain really
looks like. M But a guy that
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would look like me would be dragged
out of the vehicle, carded after Only
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after I was dragged, beaten,
kicked, dehumanized. Read the rights to
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me before. Because anybody that knows
a legal system, you are not proven
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innocent until proven guilty. You are
guilty to proven innocent, and innocence only
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falls upon those who have the proper
fiscal amount of money and the bank account
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or job, and you will walk
now Bruce Springsteen walked. I know this
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is taking it off guard, but
you know, I do love my Bruce
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Springsteen, and I'm a big fan
of the E Street Band, big fan
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of Bruce Springsteen. But I being
on the other side of the coin,
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the working man, the man of
color, the man that has a style
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that is unbefitting to the common man, that the police force find reputable to
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be let go on such issues.
So I have a very big problem with
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eighty two. The following Friday,
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eighties. This is Chang of Toscano.
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Win Chang. I want to welcome
you back to night's topic, of course,
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Toscano eighty to eighty two new wave
music. And before we jump into
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that, I have a fun fact, a Chang fun fact, Tuscano.
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Are you ready for this? I'm
ready, man. Go ahead. Now,
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everybody of my eighties ladies and my
eighties babies has to remember in nineteen
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eighty one, August first, the
birth of Yes, Yes, I'm a
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Hater, MTV debut on TV America. Demand I want my MTV. I
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want my MTV, I want my
MTV, Hi Company, HI want my
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mt B. That's right. The
legendary MTV, which was a somewhat radio
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stationed of the eye, not the
mind, but the eye where video made
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its presence. And on that day
the very first new wave song played,
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Oh my God, hold onto your
seats, put your seatbelts on, throw
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your head in the toilet if you're
like me, and get ready to puke
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one up. The bubbles came out
with video killed the radio. And how
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many times have I stated this in
all the years that you and I have
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sat beside each other on the microphone, that this was a very, very
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the greatest slap in the face to
terrestrial radio ever since. MTV is crap.
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Now they don't even show music videos. It's a bunch of teenage reality
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craps condoning sex and stupidity. And
I'm not an old part Hell no,
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I'm as hip as they come.
Yeah, well, you know what.
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I loved MTV. Wh When MTV
came out, I was glued to the
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television because I've always been a radio
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very very young age when it came
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TV because for me it was actually
now I get to see what all the
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artists look like, and to me
it was it was fantastic. Now,
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granted, none of the videos made
sense. Could you remember that all these
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videos that they came up was back
then? None of them made sense.
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Majority of the videos made had nothing
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Maybe some had storylines that were closed, but not It was all pretty much
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just a video shooting. They were
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bad Runway show where a bunch of
models are stepping to the groove of a
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song that has nothing to do with
what they're promoting. Out there. Now?
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Do you remember the famous VJs of
MTV. Oh, who can forget
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of Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood.
Let's see Nina Blackwood, who, by
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the way, do you remember what
she looked like? She was gorgeous.
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She was a killer, right specy
blog rocker. I think she's had one
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too many camels with no filters.
But good guy, he was gorgeous.
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Who could forget the legendary J.
J. Jackson of La Rock fame of
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terrestrial radio back in the days of
KMET, A good friend of Jim Ladd.
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Triple J Jackson is what they would
call him, I believe on KMET
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and kills for the short time that
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Mark Goodman, who could forget that? Who could forget that? Perm Mark
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Goodman was the All Mark Goodman needed
was some rainbow suspenders and he was the
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guy to hang out with at a
park playing frisbee with lee by cut shorts.
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Who could forget? And then everybody
forgets this guy Alan Hunter. Yes,
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he was kind of the blonde,
kind of quirky guy, you know
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what I mean, kind of had
the little bit of a mullet going,
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but he kind of had that Brian
Adams kind of look, you know,
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the farm kind of kids. He
had that feathered yeah, he had that
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feathered hair that some that a lot
of women had. And I'm sure he
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used that quinnette too. Yeah lesbian, here's hey, Hey, that's right.
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I said it. We're not going
to cut it because here add back
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to the eighties. We want to
make you laugh and everybody needs a good
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laugh. I no pun intended.
I have no problem with homosexuality at all.
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I have many many cousins that are
no not at all. You know,
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I was thinking about that, Chang. I was thinking about that the
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other day. You know, we
have this program called Back to the Eighties,
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and people have to understand that people
back in the eighties didn't get offended
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for every single little thing. So
today we want to talk about new wave
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music. And just let you know, if you've just joined us, you
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can always join us every single day
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day through our Facebook page, and
I want to encourage you guys to do
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so. So we're talking about the
eighties new wave music that was formed from
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the remnants of seventies punk rock.
Eighties new wave took the aggressive nature of
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punk then added a little bit of
dance beat to give it a little disco
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feel, and then through some of
the keyboards they gave it a distinct eighties
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new wave sound. I think it
was the birth of the synthesized rock and
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roll, synthesized music. And here's
the double edged sword of what Chang thinks
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synthesized music brought to the to the
status of music. I think the synthesized
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music that came into the eighties,
it had its positive effects on certain bands
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and certain songs sounding and styles correct. It kind of created a signature for
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certain bands and made them really stand
up of others too, almost a greatness
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of that era. But then also
you have some synthesized music that was utilized
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in other forms of bands that were
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it, such as Journey that of
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music. With Van Halen, synthesized
rock sounded really good with Gary Newman,
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but it didn't do too good with
The Cars, which is a great band
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that came out back then Human League, where the synthesized music kind of popeyes
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them and really kind of cheapened I
think some of the bands and didn't let
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them progress into the next level because
synthesized rock has it's positive and is negative.
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I don't know if I'm going off
key. I don't know if you
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kept up with me out there,
boys and girls, what do you think
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too? Well, No, I
think you're absolutely right. As a matter
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of fact, I would. I
remember an interview they did in the seventies
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Jim Morrison, and he said,
Oh, wait a minute, I think
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I think I've seen the red phone
go off behind you. This is the
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one and only back to the eighties. Who do I have on the other
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line? Is everybody in? Is
everybody in? Oh? Is this this
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camp? Be from beyond? It's
our line from beyond? Hey, how
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you doing. I'm up here with
Raymond Zeric and we're about to write another
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great Doors song, even though the
other two guys are still alive, but
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they're getting old, so they should
be up here right now. Riders on
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those doors into your house, we
roll. Somebody grabbed me a bong.
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Riders on the storm. Hey,
everybody listen, Jim Morrison, how are
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you out there? I've been gone
a long time. Who am I talking
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to you? Who called me?
Well? Actually, the phone rang in
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our studio. Jim, this is
Oscano from Tiscano and chang here at back
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to the eighties radio. And I've
never heard of you Italian restaurant. What
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do you fancy Hammela? Please get
me another. Well, you know what,
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whenever our red phone from beyond calls, we never know who's on the
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other line, and it just happened
to be you. Let me ask you
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another. I have you on the
line. I remember years ago, when
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you were alive and walking this earth, that you gave an interview and they
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asked you what do you think that
the future of music will be? And
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I remember very attentively that you said
that the majority of music would be done
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through electronics or a lot of synthesizer
being used. Do you remember, yes,
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I did say that. I remember
that, and I remember I had
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done a half ounce of smack,
I had smarked a quarter pound of Colombian
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goals and barbituates of that time.
Or get to lose your mom? Going
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to change your mom riders on the
store. Yeah, yeah, we know
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your use of illegal substances there,
Jim Oh Toscano. I wish you would
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have joined me in the door to
not get to Whiskey in the nineteen seventies
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A degree. Well, you know
what, I saw enough of you.
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I really enjoyed the music, but
you know there were times when you got
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naked on stage and started doing obscenities
that I was going, yeah, I
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could do without that, especially like
the time you started urinating them. I
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gotta get out of here, man, I'm about to go talk to Jimmy
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Hendrix on the next cloud. And
next time I called the order pizza,
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you'll be the first guy or order
there to Scotto. Oh you know you
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said Toscano and Chang. Is that
kind of an Italian Chinese restaurant? Oh
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yeah, I gotta get out of
here, man, all right, take
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take care of Jim. I hope
to talk to you soon, Jim Marston.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you know,
you just never know who calls on
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that on our Red from Beyond Line. I can't believe that that we get
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in touch with so many people from
beyond the next realm Toscono. I mean,
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I'm afraid to say that maybe one
of these days, Wrong Raging or
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somebody like that of that magnitude may
call. They've been they've been on the
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line. Before if you've just joined
us, we are talking about new wave
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music of the eighties in particular.
We want to mention to you that the
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main years of the eighties new wave
were from nineteen eighty to eighty four.
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I mean after eighty four, Madonna, Michael Prince, Bruce and really others
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took music away from new wave and
more towards a pop rock field. And
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so I want us to take a
look at some of the bands that brought
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the eighties new wave on the scene
and to the top of the charts in
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the early eighties. You know,
people like The Cars, Blondie, you
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know, you mentioned Talking Heads,
DeVore some of the early pioneers of the
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eighties new wave, and that's right. Don't forget you two in the Cure
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your Face well believe it or not. Yeah, and in bands like you
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two The Cure, even uh,
you know Billy Billy Idol at times were
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they were like brushing the fence on
that thin line. Yeah. You know,
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as you bring up Billy Idol,
Billy Idol, I remember him in
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the punk rock band Generation X.
Billy Billy Idol kind of wasn't new wave
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to me. He was kind of
a pop rock but I will say how
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about Oengel Bongo Depeche Mode, Well, definitely in excess, especially like for
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example in the UK, The Joy
Division, Joe Jackson, The Police,
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the Boomtown Rats. You know,
there were some some early some of the
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early adopters of this new wave sound. However, the album that really defined
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new waves signature synthesizer based sound and
brought the movement to the four front had
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to be Gary Newman's The Pleasure Principle, and the signature song of that album
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was, of course Cars Here in
My Car. If you don't remember Cards
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as a song by Gary Newman and
his debut single was released as the lead
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single from his debut studio album,
The Pleasure Principle and let Me give you
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a little a little touch of Gary
Newman. That's cars first release credited solely
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to Gary Newman after he dropped the
band name Tubeway Army. He said it
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was the first time he had written
a song with the intention of maybe it
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could be a hit, maybe not. That was Gary Newman who came up
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with a song in nineteen seventy nine, but it wasn't released until late of
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August twenty first, nineteen seventy nine
in the UK, and it didn't hit
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number one until it came to the
United States in nineteen eighty. Now I
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recall that song, you know that
was a pretty cool song. I gotta
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give it up for Gary Newman because
I believe he was one of the first
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artists back in the eighties in the
new wave era that I think he was
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pretty much open with his bisexuality.
I think he had an odd look that
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was captivating, very stylish, which
you could kind of say nabe model,
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like, yeah, he wore that
heavy eyeliner too, and a suit exactly.
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a modern day model. You could
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you could have acted We've seen that
guy walking the catwalk at one time.
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He created a fashion within his own
music. But I believe Gary Newman kind
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of evolved out of bands like Devo, you know what I mean, Soft
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Sell, Human League, bands of
that nature. You could even say Simple
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Minds, which was a great band
new wave, Simple Winds. Simple Minds
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did use a little bit of synthesize. But that lead singer, remember him,
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He had the orange hair. He
was a redhead. The guy could
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sing like he was a soul brother. I mean, it's it's it's great
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that we're going to talk about tonight. So many artists that take us back
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into the new wave. We can. We can bring up artists and take
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our listeners back to that time,
but we can also bring out the roots
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of where new wave came from and
possibly some of the roots that certain new
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wave bands did start, which started
a lot of other new wave bands which
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transcended into other types of music.
Like you said, we could we could
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talk about the Go Goes in Excess, like you said, Joe Jackson,
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bands that were of the new new
wave kind of era background, but then
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they evolved into something a little bit
more different, little bit more specially.
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Yeah, and you know what.
Speaking of special songs, the English band
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the Vapors, from their nineteen eighty
album Nuclear Days, came up with this
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song. Great song. Another song
was Turning Japanese by the Vapors, and
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it was an international hit, becoming
the song for which the Vapors were best
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known for. Yes and basically if
you don't know, the lyric describes the
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narrator being separated from a woman that
he loved and he was just preoccupied with
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her photos and this turned into Churning
Japanese. Well, what did you think
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Chang of churning Japanese by the favorite
what's funny. As a matter of fact,
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when this song came out, this
is pretty much when the name that
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I go by, the Chang was
given to me by my buddies at Montabello
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High School. We were in a
group called the Boys League. We don't
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dance, we don't date, We
prefer to drink and master bait. That
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was our logo that school. Yes, do you want that logo again?
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Yeah? What was that again?
Now? The name Chang that I go
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by that everyone does know me as, was given to me by my buddies,
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especially my late great buddy Ragmi Barazza, who is no longer here.
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And they used to play this for
me constantly because they gave me that nickname
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because you know, I fancy Asian
women at that time. I was going
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out with many, many, many, many many Asian girls then, So
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that was a song that they would
play for me, and I got this
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name. So it's it's fitting.
I sit here and I smile as I
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hear it, and I get somewhat
of a tear because I do miss my
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late, my late great best friend. Yeah, but uh, you know,
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it brings a smile because it takes
me back home. You know what,
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let me let me give you a
piece of a fun fact. Okay
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for American pop culture, as this
song was actually misinterpreted by American pop culture
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because the repeated lyric saying I think
I'm turning Japanese was widely believed by Americans.
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Okay, leave it to the Americans
to describe an orgasm induced by master
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mabing. But actually it was intended
to describe team angst or alien nation after
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a romantic breakup. I mean,
who in the right mind would understand that
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this song was talking about masturbation when
it was actually talking about a romantic breakup.
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I would say, anybody that was
like Kipper Gore, anybody that's conservative,
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anybody that hid behind the good book
and judged everybody hypocritically wise and then
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hid behind the right his book and
said, oh no. Another song from
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nineteen eighty was a song that has
been killed to death on Los Angeles radio
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because they believe that Devo only came
up with one song, and that's this
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song that we all know as wimmen
wrong now ripen shape Ye Yes sight.
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Interestingly enough, the American rock band
Divo from their third album, Freedom of
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Choice nineteen eight. Of course great
album. It was a new wave synth
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pop song that featured of course synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums
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all into one. But of course
the signature sound that that transcended it all
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was that rockish slash punkish style that
only Divo can share with the world now.
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Devo is a prime example of what, like I stated earlier, the
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difference of synthesized music, what it
brought to certain bands and certain artists,
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and what it took away from certain
bands and certis artists. And Devo is
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a top notch band where synth decided
music enhanced their music creativity, their musical
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sound, and engrave great following.
So it kind of it enhanced what was
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already there of a musical genius,
if I can say lightly. Devo was
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one of those bands that would come
up with a hit and you can find
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them on Billboard Hot one hundred all
the time and whip it became a hit
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single and found instant chart success,
and not only in the United States but
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abroad. I don't know if our
listeners are aware, you are the Mother's
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brawl of brothers that were two of
the founding members of Divo later created for
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Nick at Night. You remember Nickelodeon, the rug Rats cartoon that many of
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many children have grown up watching.
I know my daughter watched the Rugrats,
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my children watch. I'm sure your
kids did. That's a fun fact for
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everybody out there. So when you're
looking at the credits and you see the
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Mother's Brawl Brothers, those are the
two founding members of Deevo. I bet
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you I don't know if you knew
that I had. I hadn't the slightest
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idea, just like I had no
idea Chang that in September of nineteen eighty
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considered to be new wave in at
least in this particular song from a band
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that I used to listen to quite
often from their third album Zenyatamandana The One
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and Only the Police with Don't Stand
So Close to Me Now Tiscannell. It's
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oddly enough, this is another song
that was kind of hex with that taboo
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because it it was about a teacher, a story about feelings for a student,
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which have we've seen all over the
news, so many teachers getting in
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trouble and losing their jobs and going
to gale for this type of teed of
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feelage that's gone awry in our schools. Do you remember back in the eighties
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there was quite a bit of that
kind of story in the news. When
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you know, students either from high
school even junior high in some cases were
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involved with their teachers. And this, of course, this song concerned a
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schoolgirl and the teacher, which led
to an affair and then in turn was
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discovered. Now oddly enough, you
know here at Toscano and Chang, we're
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not going to condone any kind of
wrong behavior. But I'm going to have
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to go on a limb right now
because you know the change. I know
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what you're gonna say. Trust me, my head was that fortunate a young
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boy eager to ever would you ever
tell on her? And I had a
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hot Now if it was a hot
teacher, no, I would not tell.
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Well, of course, of course
I would have. Just hey,
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man, I'm going for an a
plus. I will stay after school and
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clean the floors, I will grade
papers, I will do things to you
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like you have never had a grown
man due to you before. Because I've
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had that rightful young age of being
a magnetic torpid. I went on back.
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I would have never read it out
any of my female never never.
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I always used to think that when
I was a kid, and when I
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was a teenager, I was going, I can't believe that guy snitched on
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his teacher. Look at her.
I would have never said anything until I
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was like in my forties. Now, trip out of it. I'm sure
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you had the same scenario. When
we were in high school. We had
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this one girl in our class and
she was freaking, amazingly hot. Her
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initials are are Gee. For any
of my good friends at Montebello High School
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listening, I'm pretty sure you may
know who she is. She was a
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an aid to the sports trainer in
our football program and other sports. She
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was a knockout. She looked like
she was twenty two twenty three. On
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top of she was in our class, and she would mess around with some
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of the football coaches. Oh really, oh yeah bro? And this was
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kind Oh she was killer. But
if I were to show you a picture,
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you'd be like, whoa ho.
She made the stand the chang stand
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at all four posts, but yet
she would never look at the chang because
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I was pretty much the bad boy, you know what I mean? Yeah,
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I was the only guy on the
football team that had long hair,
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you know, refused to cut it, which ended up me. I gave
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up sports because hey, we're gonna
hold you down cut your hair. And
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I remember looking at the couche wall. I'm gonna have to assault at least
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the first six guys that come at
me. So you're not gonna cut my
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hair, because I'll get kicked out
of school, I'll get expelled, I'll
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probably go to jail, and then
when I get out of jail, I'll
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come after you. Well, for
those of you who don't know regarding don't
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stand so close to me. The
Police won the nineteen eighty two Grammy Award
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for Best Rock Performance by a Duo
or Group with Vocals for this particular song,
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and I didn't. I never knew
that The Police was even considered in
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that same genre as a new wave
at all throughout their entire career. You
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know what, I didn't either,
I have. I think that should be
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corrected because I don't think that they
are new wave. I would kind of
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then they're not really new wave,
but it falls certain songs fall under that.
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So I don't really know what the
criteria is for the people who are
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organizing all these songs in the charts, but apparently Don't Stand So Close to
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Me was one of those songs that
fell under that banner, just like this
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following one, which one percent falls
into that genre. It was an anti
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war song by the synth pop group
o MD. For those of you who
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don't know, that's orchestral Maneuvers in
the Dark and the only single from the
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band's nineteen eighty album Organization. This
is a Nola Gay no Change. I
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don't know if you are aware of
the meaning of the song, or at
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least of this particular track, but
it talks about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
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by the aircraft in Nola Gay on
the sixth the August of nineteen forty five,
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towards the end of World War Two, and it was of course written
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by vocalist, bassist guitarist Andy McClusky. It came out, I was not
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aware of that story. And here's
the reason why. Okay, I'm gonna
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I'm gonna give this to you really
quick. I never listened to that song
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all the way through to get the
justification of the storyline of the lyrics.
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Did you change it when it came
on the radio. Yes, Oh my
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gosh, you played that song.
I could not decide if I wanted to
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wet my pants ramit closed the door
on my head five to six times,
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possibly choked myself around the Chang bang. But good lord, no, my
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friend, that song. You know, I think you're missing out. I
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think you're missing out because it was
an inner national success, selling more than
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five million copies of that particular by
one of those so it was an enduring
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map I how did you buy?
You know what? I didn't have any
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of the tricks, but whenever I
came on, Remember I've told you this
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on multiple occasions, I was everywhere
every single genre. I love the music,
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and I really really did like a
new wave and synth music. I
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did like it. I enjoyed it
quite a bit, especially from bands like
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OMD along with their nineteen eighty six
if you leave right on to you,
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my brother, Oh my gosh,
a great called me. I love it,
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I love it, I love it. This is back to the eighties.
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When we come back, we'll have
more hate from the Chang and more
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madness from Tuscanno. When Chang don't
go away. Back to the eighties,
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taking you on a trip to him
better time, A time when America used
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to win at things, When we
won the Cold War by army in Afghanistan,
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when we beat Russia boxers by jugging
in the woods, When a welder
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could become a dancer, when a
poor immigrant could become to the power of
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music, a guru to a generation
you're listening to. Back to the eighties.
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Now back to good, wholesome,
politically correct entertainment. Oops rock station.
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Now back to the eighties with Tescato
and Chay and a loft my life
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for I Susan time. I can't
sleep by night once I ran. Oh
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my god, I love this song. Hi everybody, boys and girls,
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ladies, especially anybody on this side
of the coin, especially, this is
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your boy. Give you a holler, a stream, a snaky snaky on
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my tushy. Touch it's me Rod
Steel. That's right, the official.
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That's right, bitches. Official hair
stylists of Doscnalin Chang. Back to the
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eighties. No one touches these boys
like I do. Starry Missus Chang and
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Missus Tasty. Their hair is mine. Speaking of mine, Oh my god,
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I can't believe these two enormous heart
drop battors would play this song for
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me. Soft Sell was one of
my most favorite songs back in the eighties
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when I was just a young thing
tender things. Oops, I dropped my
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soap. Oh, soft Sell reminded
me of I always wanted to be in
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prison and called my sealmuch soft selling
doc Chale Tho sala. Anyway, I've
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got a friend of mine that's gonna
sit in in the studio with me while
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sisconalin Chang. I put hair relaxer
in their hair. They're gonna come out
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feeling vigorous, strong and affect seem
My guy Kai is with me, Kai,
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sweetcair lovecakes, Kissy, Kissy.
Where are you? Tweety? Hi?
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Roddy, how are you? Oh? I'm doing fantastic. Oh wait
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a minute, cancastic. He likes
me to throw his name in there,
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you know, just sweet nothing because
his wife does it. He's such a
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roddy, you know, I know, you know why I call you roddy
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because you remind me of Roddy mcdwald
from the Planet of the Apes. Oh
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my, I want a monkey back
roll you monkey monkey, monkey nibble nibble
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nibble. Oh, you're hairy like
an animal. I'm gonna appeel you like
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a banana. Kai, my guy, you naughty boy. Now do you
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do you remember soft sell? Oh? Yes, it's something with rubber walls
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and something like where I want to
put you in and just punish you.
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Oh my god. It takes me
back into the eighties when I would go
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down to Florentine Gardens with some of
my friends, you know, and they
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would have gay night, straight night, and then there was new wave night
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and I just could not get enough
blow and go from the sailors and the
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boys out there. I used to
dance all night to new wave music.
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I think I met you there,
right, my sweet guy. I think
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you were dating a guy named Alan
or was it or was it Elmer?
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I don't remember, but I remember
taking you back to the restroom, the
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urinal, and we were powdering our
noses. Sniff sniff, whiffle, whiffle,
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I'm going to take a tiffle.
And I remember you looked at me
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and you said, oh my god, your hair looks so boy, George,
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and we just became the best piece
right then and there, the bestiees
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girl. That's right, Boddy,
I gotta go. I've got my car
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turned on and self sell full blast. M I want to turn you on
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in a car anyway, I gotta
go Tscano and change. I'll be right
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back. I'm gonna go take them
out right now, the Relaxer. We're
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gonna play another great song and then
the boys will be back. Love your
478
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:13.880
hoots, remember if it's not yours, take it anyway right now, I'm
479
00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:35.800
gone. Tainted Love, Sainted Love, Tainted Love Love, Touch Smithings Touching.
480
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.360
That's right, we're back here,
back to the eighties. One and
481
00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:43.480
only show that brings back the eighties
to a holy generation. This is Tisconno
482
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:45.400
from Tjiscata with Jang. I don't
know what happened while we were gone,
483
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.400
but this is Tainted Love by soft
Sell. You know, Tisconno. It
484
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:55.000
smells like vanilla and old flannel cologne
in this yeah here, it's yeah,
485
00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:59.760
it smells a little bit of like
English leather. And uh what was that
486
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.079
brute? Brute? I bet you
Rod Steele put us in the relax or
487
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.320
mode with our heir and he I
bet you he came in here and he
488
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:09.719
started playing around with the buttons because
you know he likes to pull and push
489
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:14.679
things. And I bet you he
probably put on one of his favorite tunes.
490
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.639
He brought his aid with him,
right, his favorite guy guy,
491
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.920
the favorite guy guy. I think. So all I know is I saw
492
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.199
two guys acting pretty suspicious and I
knew they were up to something no good.
493
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.280
You know what. You gotta love
them though. And speaking of love,
494
00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:32.039
we're talking about Tainted Love, of
course, by the British synth pop
495
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:37.880
duo Soft Sell, and in nineteen
eighty one they came up with Tainted Love.
496
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.119
I've had a lot of tainted and
you know what, this is one
497
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.000
of the Once again, this is
one of those songs that is Tuscan.
498
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:52.880
Was this on your mixtape? This
was definitely my mixtape And unfortunately, unfortunately
499
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:59.519
it's a song that's been drilled here
in local radio stations as if the band
500
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:01.920
only came up with this song.
You gotta do. It's a favor if
501
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.760
you're a lover of back to the
eighties and anything eighties. When you hear
502
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:10.000
an artist, when you hear a
particular song, for example, like this
503
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.880
particular one. Right, check out
their album. Right, check out their
504
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.039
album and see what other songs are
on that album and listen to the entire
505
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.639
See that's one of the great things
about listening to for example, a record
506
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:28.559
from beginning to end. You get
to hear the entirety of what that artist
507
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.159
wanted to wanted to share with the
world, you know, because I'm sure
508
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:36.639
that particular artist, they took their
time, they worked hard to come up
509
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:38.960
with a single in this case,
but it wasn't the only song, right
510
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:43.000
They wanted you to hear all of
their music. Well, that was a
511
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.920
beauty I think a vinyl because so
many times you don't want to really skip
512
00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.519
to another song on vinyl because you're
afraid of scratching that new album up.
513
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.960
But when you have a cassette,
you could, you know, stop it,
514
00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:59.079
fast forward it, play it back. Oh, I'm almost over,
515
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.880
so you kind of it's easier to
get away from a lot of the other
516
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:09.400
hits that bands put out on a
certain album or a release. I'll call
517
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.800
it a release rather than an album
or a conseedera CD. It's always a
518
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:21.559
release. And the beauty of vinyl
is you have to listen to the album
519
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.960
in its entirety because you want that
album to be pristine. You don't want
520
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:30.039
to damage it. And as you
listen along, you tend to start grooving
521
00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.599
to the beat of different songs and
That's one thing that I noticed in terrestrial
522
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:39.760
radio, we didn't get to do
that except for certain stations that would play
523
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:44.960
A and B sides in their entirety. We don't see that at all now.
524
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:49.679
No, you can get individuals that
will download one song and they're not
525
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.440
really going to sit through and download
that entire album. Do you agree.
526
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.440
No. I think one of the
biggest things that has been lost was is
527
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.960
the love for the art of music
in general, because people skip around,
528
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.360
they have playlists of their favorite and
they don't go beyond that. Like for
529
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.000
example, here's a fun fact of
the song Tainted Love. It was composed
530
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.199
by Ed Cobb formerly by the Four
Preps. Wasn't that was an American group,
531
00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:22.320
which was an originally recorded song by
Gloria Jones in nineteen sixty four,
532
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:24.960
and a lot of people didn't know
this. I didn't know that, Yeah,
533
00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:30.960
but it didn't attain worldwide fame until
being reworked by soft Sell in nineteen
534
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:38.119
eighty one. That's amazing. So
that was probably a very classical piece with
535
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.920
the original artist, right, Yeah. I mean you can go back,
536
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.840
you can go on YouTube and type
in Gloria Jones Tainted Love and you'll hear
537
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:51.079
the original you know what's just go
I'm going to do that, and when
538
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:53.360
we get off air, I think
I'm going to post that on our Facebook
539
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:59.880
page. And here's something I think
to our lovely listeners in our Facebook fall,
540
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.519
I'm going to bring this up to
you. I'm going to start posting
541
00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:10.119
up a fantastic musical event and I'm
going to call this these posts that I
542
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:14.880
will do. I also do a
post on my own page, Chansters Gangsters
543
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:19.360
of Rock. If you want to
to an instant on Facebook. It's kind
544
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.559
of radio via Facebook. I call
it f B FM. And I think
545
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.119
I'm going to bring to our back
to the Eighties page. I'm going to
546
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:34.360
call this musical segment I'm going to
endeavor in called fantastics, and what I'm
547
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:38.679
going to do for our listeners at
tuscanoll is I'm going to post great songs
548
00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:45.639
from the eighties, hits and possibly
a B side hit that you're not familiar
549
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:50.480
with by the same band. And
I will do this nightly and I will
550
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:55.679
do it in a two fur so
I will do two eighties artists with two
551
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:02.239
songs, one a hit, the
other one another track off that album.
552
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.159
Let's see if we can get our
listeners and our viewers and our friends of
553
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:13.400
Facebook to bite on and see if
they want to indulge in this, and
554
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:17.559
feel free to go ahead and hit
me in Tusconnell with a band that you
555
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:22.199
may want me to put my fantastic
spill on. What do you think,
556
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.079
Toscano, do you think that's something
inviting we should do. I think you
557
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:29.280
should definitely get on that as soon
as possible, because I know people are
558
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:34.079
going to love it. We should
start reintroducing the way artists really wanted you
559
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:38.119
to hear their music and the way
radio should have always have been and not
560
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:46.039
change because of corporate these big mega
corporate companies that decided to buy a thousand
561
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:52.000
radio stations and turn them into just
a bunch of cookie cutter stations. Here's
562
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.440
another one of the groups that,
of course is also from the UK,
563
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:01.679
and here's the song that you hear
quite often but is still making their rounds
564
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:34.360
from twenty seventh of November nineteen eighty
one. That's right, this is Don't
565
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.559
You Want Me? By the Human
League. This is the band's best known
566
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:43.559
and most commercially successful song, and
it was it was basically the nineteen eighty
567
00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:50.039
one Christmas number one in the UK, where it sold over one point five
568
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:57.679
million albums. They had other big
hits that fortunately we're playing on the radio
569
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.400
and still are, and we're going
to talk a about them, of course
570
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:07.159
in a another show, because we've
still got some room to cover other songs.
571
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:12.400
Here's this next band is a band
that I um, I didn't really
572
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:19.000
listen to very often because it just, uh, I thought the main singer
573
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:22.719
was kind of weird. And I'm
talking about talking heads. I knew you
574
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.119
were gonna I knew you're gonna bring
out I knew you were going to bring
575
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.480
out the dick hater in yourself.
We'll call you rich hater now. Now,
576
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:35.280
I really don't say, you know, many times I don't say,
577
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.400
well, here's a song that I
didn't like. Oh yeah, uh,
578
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.840
you know, I know, And
I will say that once in a while.
579
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:50.599
That's one, Yeah, that's one. That's one band I hate.
580
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.239
But but this was this was a
song that I just thought that he was
581
00:50:54.800 --> 00:51:04.039
so weird. And this is once
in a lifetime by talking heads and behind
582
00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:21.320
automovideos. You might ask yourself,
how did I hear? Now? Tell
583
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.079
me this guy was kind of weird
you. I mean you must have bed
584
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:29.800
Burn a great vocalist. Yeah,
I mean he was a little on the
585
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:34.360
weird side. And this was the
lead single from their fourth studio album called
586
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:38.000
Remained in the Light from nineteen eighty, which was released on February the second,
587
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:43.599
just a few days before your birthday
and my birthday. Right, And
588
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:49.320
uh, I don't understand how you
could hate I never said talking Head,
589
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.000
never said that I hated talking Heads. Okay, I just now the talking
590
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:59.920
Heads was a cutting edge bend similar
to roxy music. Uh, similar to
591
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:06.920
the style that David Bowie brought out
now that I think thinking about upon it
592
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:14.360
now, David Bowie and Lou Read
there's some of the forefathers of the new
593
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:20.119
wave type music. Would you not
agree? Definitely? I would definitely agree.
594
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.639
And you know what I would also
agree on is that this following band
595
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:29.199
that we're going to talk about has
been a request. You may ask yourself,
596
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.760
my god, how did I get
here? This following band is a
597
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:44.719
request from one of our very very
special listeners of back to the eighties.
598
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:47.960
Oh, I know who the sexy
band? All those guys are hots,
599
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.960
right. So the person requesting the
song or the requesting us to talk about
600
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:58.199
the band is Beverly Blevin's Staley,
and she actually wanted to hear an entire
601
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:04.559
show dedicated to Duran Duran. And
we're really trying because we have a very
602
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:07.760
special surprise and as soon as they're
done with the recording of their new new
603
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:14.119
album, oh, you just might
hear Duran Duran on Back to the eighties,
604
00:53:42.800 --> 00:54:14.480
Camera on the back on Back Now. This single became Duran Durand's top
605
00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:21.039
ten breakthrough. Of course it did
hot chicking it hot dude did band now?
606
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:24.960
Personally, I mean this is one
of the pioneers as well of new
607
00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:29.519
wave in the eighties. Okay,
not new wave when it first started,
608
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:32.840
but new wave in the eighties.
Correct. Wherever they would go, they
609
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:36.880
would cause a sensation. And as
a matter of fact, this is one
610
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:40.840
of the very few bands out there
that if you hear them today, they
611
00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:46.440
sing exactly the same. They have
not lost anything of the voice. They
612
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:51.920
don't look the same, but they
sound exactly the same. You know,
613
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.599
I know you're on the hater of
the Duran Duran, you know what I
614
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:58.679
mean, But I'm not Now.
I was going to do a skit when
615
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:02.119
we talked about durand or because everybody
in the age remembers Roberto Duran, no
616
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:08.519
Mass, no Mass, so there's
no nos who worked through. But you
617
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:14.360
know what it was. I thought
it was a very talented young core of
618
00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:22.039
musicians. I think that they were
phenomenal in the style that they got their
619
00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:25.119
fame in. And I also think
that they had the genius and the talent
620
00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:31.760
to transcend their band into whatever form
of music that they would have played,
621
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:37.039
uh North shorter than of something maybe
you two could have done. I always
622
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:42.679
thought that Duran Duran was a very
very talented band. As a matter of
623
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:49.119
fact, one of the players in
Duran Duran later on went and did his
624
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:53.440
own music The Power Station with Robert
Palmer back in the year right, and
625
00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:59.239
it was this really criticized you know, girls on a film, especially with
626
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:02.920
their video. When the video of
Girls on Film came out on MTV actuated
627
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:07.840
my brother. Yeah, people actually
can compared it with porn. Yes,
628
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:13.519
back then it was pretty risky.
And it falls right back into the category
629
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:16.719
like we discussed the last couple of
breaks, the censorship on music, the
630
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:22.360
attack on music from conservative America.
Yeah, you know, you take it
631
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:27.039
away of freedom. Great video by
the way, my brother, good god,
632
00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.039
great, what better video? You
have a grew a band with a
633
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.599
bunch of smoking, hot dudes and
then you put a bunch of hot chicks
634
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:37.800
in makeup on there. It's like, oh, rah, Lee, I
635
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:42.239
would have been a cameraman and died
seven died seven deaths over to be on
636
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:45.880
that shoot. My brother, wouldn't
you him? Definitely? This following band,
637
00:56:46.239 --> 00:56:51.039
or I should say frontman or singer, first released a single in the
638
00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:55.679
UK and October nineteen eighty two,
and subsequently included on the EP Blinded by
639
00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.559
Science and the second edition of Thomas
Dolby's debut album, The Golden Age of
640
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:07.679
Wireless. Interesting title right back then
in nineteen eighty two, The Golden Thomas
641
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.719
Dolby had a very original sound,
you know what I mean. But he's
642
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:16.800
kind of like a one hit writ
Thomas Dolby looked like Elton John discovered crack
643
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:22.880
and got electrocuted at the same This
is That's how Thomas Dolby looked at me.
644
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.199
And you know, no, Paul, you know, all due respects
645
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:29.440
to the great Elton John, you
can nobody can talk to the album.
646
00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:32.880
But when I saw that guy with
that video, That's what I thought.
647
00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:37.719
Wow, that's what Elton John would
look like on crack if he put a
648
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:44.239
fourth Indee outlet and got electric.
Thomas Dolby with She Blinded Me with Science.
649
00:57:44.360 --> 00:58:07.239
Take a listen suns Now. Although
this was viewed as a success in
650
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:12.559
the United States, but it only
peaked that number five on the Billboard Hot
651
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:19.320
one hundred and two weeks at number
one in Canada's RPM magazine, but it
652
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:27.119
definitely scored among the top fifty in
Dolby's native UK. No, I wonder
653
00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.400
if did was that song used in
Weird Science? No? No, but
654
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.840
you would have me you would have
said that it was right, she blinded
655
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:39.079
Me with Science. And no they
went with of course Oingo Boingo's Weird Science.
656
00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:45.599
Uh yeah, weird Science. Oino
Bolling a great a great new way,
657
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:50.679
and we'll definitely talk about Oino Bongo
as well. But along with Thomas
658
00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:55.719
Dolby, there was a band from
another land, a land down under.
659
00:58:58.079 --> 00:59:15.239
Oh yes, on a free trails. I'm a strange lady. She made
660
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:36.400
me nervous and great band been at
work. I mean, here's another band.
661
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:42.000
I think if they would have given
a little bit more time, and
662
00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:44.960
and and mixed it up a little
bit. I think they had the potential
663
00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:49.519
to do something and lasts longer than
they did, rather than just something in
664
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.920
the eighties. Now, what's fitting
is the name of the band Mint at
665
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:59.679
work. Okay. Can you imagine
seeing the lead singer with a street sign
666
01:00:00.159 --> 01:00:04.760
directing traffic that says minute work you. You don't know if he's looking straight
667
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.480
at you or the car on the
left. So who's that sign really going
668
01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:13.880
to stop? Men at work?
Did you know that down enders perceived as
669
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:19.920
a patriotic song in Australia and it
remains popular and is often played even in
670
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.440
sporting events. And the song,
I mean, it's widely known here in
671
01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:30.519
the United States when they played everywhere, Yes, isn't on a heavy trail
672
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:36.079
full of zomides? What a line? You know what I mean? I
673
01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:38.239
met a strange lady. She made
me nervous, she took me in and
674
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.960
yeah, yeah, that's right.
I've always wanted to do. The funny
675
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:47.679
thing is that I've always wanted to
know what a veggie might sandwich tasted like.
676
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:53.320
I am afraid because I hear of
veggie might is actually pretty pretty disgusting.
677
01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:59.239
I would think that's a Vegan Sandy, Yeah, something like that,
678
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:02.000
but I don't know it just it
kind of it kind of scares me.
679
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:07.480
Vegam like, no, I don't
want to vega nothing. I'll take a
680
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vegeam nothing. Moving on, you'll
know this band, of course, we're
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talking about the One and Only a
Flock of Seagulls with they're one of their
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one hit wonders. The song is
called Iran. I only remember hearing this
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song on MTV. Very rarely did
I hear it on terrestrial radio. I
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think maybe every now and then on
K rock. But whenever I hear Joe
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Jackson, you know who, it
reminds me of Bruce Hornsby. Oh I
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don't listen again. You got to
remember a lot of the bands, they
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were so ostentatious, they were so
over the top. You know. Part
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of the reason that a lot of
people think that the eighties was all these
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weird hairstyles for the women. Don't
get me wrong, we know that was
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true. Aquinitt was the craze back
then. Yeah, and for the guys,
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of course, there were the mullets
and things like that, but not
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everybody had these black hairstyles. But
of course the bands, the bands were
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over the top. All right,
let's jump because we're out of time here.
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We've got a couple more songs,
and then we got to call it
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a night. And one of those
people calling it at a night was Joe
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Jackson with his hit single Stepping Out, written in nineteen eighty two and the
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album was Night and Day. There's
the Cross Now. This was a song
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inspired by Jackson's time in New York
City and it was the highest charting single
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in America in nineteen eighty two.
You know it was. It was a
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song of anticipation and excitement of driving
around downtown and it just became an instant
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success. And you know what,
chank, this was one of This is
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one of those forgotten eighties songs that
I mean, I don't remember hearing on
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any radio station, not even like
on Sirius XM radio and they played the
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majority of the biggest variety of songs. I haven't even heard this song anywhere.
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I only remember hearing this song on
MTV. Very rarely did I hear
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it on terrestrial radio. I think
maybe every now and then on K rock.
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But whenever I hear you, U, Joe Jackson, you know who,
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it reminds me of Bruce hornsby Oh
I Don't Listen again, their next
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song give Me Something Else, and
last, but not least, to top
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off this show, we got a
song for you that's really one of the
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forgotten grades of thineteen eighty two.
Oh yeah if. This is a song
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called Don't Go and it's by British
synth pop band Yazoo or otherwise known here
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in the United States as Yes,
and it was released in nineteen eighty two.
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It peaked at number one three times
on the UK Singles Chart, becoming
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yaz is second top number five hit. And of course we didn't want to
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call him Yazoo here in the United
States or in Canada, so we decided
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to change our name to yazz And
every time you'd hear on the radio,
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everybody knew that this song was Don't
Go by yazz Wow. Now I have
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to tell you this song was on
my number one, my number one list.
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Here we go for songs and songs
that I thought sucked more than anything
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that was number one, and there
it is ya Yazoo Chula Zoo. Of
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course, ladies, gentlemen, this
is Back to the Eighties, the show
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that introduces the eighties to a whole
new generation and more. Don't forget to
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write in if you want to drop
us a little line letting us know a
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suggestion for a show topic through our
Facebook page. We will always do our
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best to answer you in a timely
manner. On behalf of Tiscano and Chang,
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I'm Toscano, wishing you guys a
great week. Thanks for joining us
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on another edition of the one and
only back to the eighties. We'll see
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you guys next week. God bless
you guys, ladies and gentlemen, boys
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and girls. And this is a
chang before I release you into another chantastic
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we can remember, stay lifted and
gifted. Remember we are one race,
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stay human race. Go out and
make somebody smile, and always go out
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and stand up for something bigger than
you. So until next weekend, I
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bid you an audios sayana asta manana, asta la vista asta la lawego,
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and to all my homies in Lavalio, take me back to the cold deree,
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Take you back. I want to
go, dere, take me back
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till nine is already whoa he ain't
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