The Perfect Album Side Podcast
The Perfect Album Side Podcast
2011
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One idea. Six songs. Infinite possibilities...
False Starts And Banter
SPEAKER_09In a masterclass intention and release. Every measure is engineered for euphoria.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Well, that sounds like my lovemaking, if you know what I mean. Go on.
SPEAKER_07Welcome to the perfect album side. One idea, six songs, infinite possibilities.
SPEAKER_09Perfect Album Side Podcast. My name is Steve. His name is Windom. Hello, sir. Good to see you. It's great to see you. Is it safe?
SPEAKER_11I think we're okay. Okay. For all those listeners out there, we were kind of stumbling.
SPEAKER_10Uh what just happened?
SPEAKER_09We've started this show four times, but this is this is the one that counts. This is this is it. Let's go. Is it still Thursday? I feel like there were multiple, you know, penalties, like uh, you know, dead ball fouls. They had that we had just had to restart the play. Nobody knows. A lot of pre-snap penalties. Let's move on. Uh I'm I'm happy to see you. I let's have I'm I let's just get it out in the open. I'm happy to see you. I haven't laid eyes on you in a while. And um, as always, it's good to see your face.
SPEAKER_11Yes, I say the same. Most people don't have the same sentiments you do when they say that's true. That's true on time. They don't. Um but I appreciate that. It's always great to see you. You're looking as good as ever. Uh and uh there looks like you know, I don't know what Zoom is doing, but can is there is there a beard? I've got a beard happening, yeah.
SPEAKER_09I you know, I can't I can't really grow hair on my head anymore. Um, so I've decided to to grow this beard. Uh it it in all honesty, my kids keep asking me if I'm Santa Claus. And I thought, well, if that's the case, I might as well grow out the beard. I've got a lot of it. If you're gonna sell it, you mean go all the way. I mean, uh, you know, there's a decent chance that I am Santa Claus. So I figured I should have the beard and get ready. That's a good look. Um how how are you? How are you what's good happening in your life? Are good things happening? Bad things happening? You still married?
SPEAKER_11No, I'd say uh yeah, as far as I know. Okay, yeah, look into that. Look into that. Yeah, I need to check on that. Uh no, great things are happening. Uh kids are home from college this weekend, so oh my god. Uh mother is happy. Uh, hearts are full. So yeah, things are great.
SPEAKER_08Well, I'm happy to hear. Are your kids in college yet?
SPEAKER_09No, no, no, no, no, no. There, I'm I think trade schools are in their future, to be honest.
SPEAKER_11Something more on the vocational track.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm I'm proud of them for anyway. Let's move on. Nobody wants to hear about the trials and tribulations of my seventh graders. Seventh grader, fifth grader, third grader, you know. Anyway, uh the holidays are coming up. Uh, I assume you've prepared a whole perfect album side for the holidays, like I have. Right? I always I always do. Will there be a Christmas songs that rock 2.0?
SPEAKER_11There should be, because that was one of the best episodes we've ever done. And I stand by that. I'll die on that hill.
SPEAKER_09Well, for those of you that don't know, I mean a lot of you listen to the show on a regular basis, but honestly, honestly, like our most successful episodes, and by successful, I mean the ones that people listen to most often are Christmas songs that rock and Halloween songs that rock. And it's those are those are those episodes are loved. I know worldwide. Can we do an Arbor Day episode? Or we should. That's that that's a market that's untapped right there.
SPEAKER_11Can we do a Secretary's Day episode? Or because those themed episodes from holidays or observances always seem to kill it. Songs about Columbus Day.
SPEAKER_09There's only one. So there is I don't think so. Today, let's talk about today. We're we're getting ahead of ourselves on all these topics. Let's let's talk about today. Today, we are here to build another perfect album side. And as all of you know, including you, Wyndham, we have done several episodes in the past that were specific to a year. And this episode is gonna be just like that. It's all about, and you've you've probably already clicked on it. You know it's about 2011
Setting The 2011 Challenge
SPEAKER_09because you clicked on that on your phone or in your car or on your computer or wherever you listen to our show. You said, Oh my god, it's a perfect outside of 2011. I've got to hear that. Well, this is it. You've come to the right place. We're all about 2011 today. This is it. Do you have anything to say about that before before I get into what I have to say?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah. I mean, uh this was one of the tougher episodes we've ever done, or hard ever episode ever to put together. I was I was in a uh having real issues with it, having major anxiety. There's there's one of the categories that I fulfilled. You know, I've got my six songs. One of them, I can't believe I'm using this. It's awful, but it was a really, really hard category, and I can't wait to talk more about it. But I absolutely loathe this year for music.
SPEAKER_09I'm so happy to hear you say that. And let me tell you why is because for every single episode that we have done of this show, I have started off and said, Oh, it's gonna be a great episode. I'm excited, and too, and 1983 was such a great year in 1991 or whatever the hell we've done, all those episodes. I'm like, what a great year for music. Uh, let me just go out and make the bold statement of the year. 2011 sucks.
SPEAKER_11The worst year, and I started off with such high hopes. I had this major song that everyone knows every lyric to, this major song that everyone knows every lyric to, only to look it up and be like, oh, it came out in 2010. Yeah. It's dead to me.
SPEAKER_09I had a couple of those. As you know, the rule is the song has to have been released. The single has to have been released uh in that calendar year 2011. So all of mine are. Uh, just like in previous uh episodes, we have narrowed it down to a uh a few categories. Uh like the previous episodes, there's a debut, has to be the debut of an artist, debut single of an artist that came out in 2011. Uh, a one-hit wonder from 2011. Um, we did change one for all the other episodes we've ever done that involved a year. We said, well, let's find the best, uh, the most iconic video, uh, music video. But in all honesty, videos just kind of stopped being a thing somewhere in the early 2000s. And so we decided to replace that one with uh the most iconic rock song of 2011. Since rock song seems to be somewhat dying on the vine a little bit, we said, let's let's see. Rock is dead, they say. Except if you go back and listen to episode nine of our podcast that said rock is not dead. I suggest you all go back and give it a listen.
SPEAKER_11Hey, I'll tell you what, and we usually don't have these conversations live on the air, but I'll say this a rock is not dead part two, because that was that might be something to we might need to look into that.
SPEAKER_09Uh a lot's changed since then. A lot has changed, and I feel like rock is making a little bit of a comeback. All right, but anyway, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what was not rocking 2011. Um, but we chose rock song. Uh, we we have to pick a song from a movie soundtrack. Um, we have always had a category that was uh has to be sung by a female. And let me tell you something about this. Every song that was released in 2011, every single one of them, done by a female. So I don't know why we needed that category. What we needed was a male category, but we're sticking to our guns and going with female. Uh, and then we have a wild card to uh to rattle it off.
SPEAKER_11I love the wild card. It's so refreshing to have a wild card because I could just choose whatever I want.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Um, I I'm just you know, I I think we've both alluded to it. 2011, maybe it's just that we're old and that our taste in music have changed so dramatically, but 2011 blows.
SPEAKER_11It it really did, and I'll tell you what else blew in 2011. Please do the movies.
SPEAKER_09Uh, I don't remember the movies from 2011.
SPEAKER_11Well, I mean, we have a movie category, yeah, yeah. And that's right, and I didn't want to just choose some you know random film, so I I kind of put some effort into it, and I didn't think the movies in 2011 were that great. Very fran it was a big gear for franchises.
Year Rules And Categories
SPEAKER_11I will say that.
SPEAKER_09I'll tell you uh 2011 sucks. It it sucked in 2011, it sucks even more now.
SPEAKER_11Every time I say something, you come back and say, I'll tell you this right now. 2011 sucked.
SPEAKER_09It was terrible. I mean, uh the the music was maybe it's just not for me. Maybe it was. It was flat, it was off key. Maybe our global listeners love 2011, but I can tell you right now, uh, not my favorite. Now, let me tell you some things that did happen in 2011 that were fantastic.
SPEAKER_11I can't wait to hear this.
SPEAKER_09My favorite part 2011. The top news of 2011. Osama bin Laden dead. That's 2011. 2011. I remember Barack Obama getting on television and saying the United States is conducting U.S. Navy SEAL, SEAL Team 6, I believe, double tap, uh Osama bin Laden, no longer with us. Uh Japan, uh, major earthquake, tsunami, and the uh uh Fukushima uh nuclear disaster. Terrible. Yes, yes, um, the Occupy Wall Street movement begins. If you remember that, all those hippies camping down on Wall Street, uh the 99%, etc. Uh Steve Jobs uh passes away at age 56 in 2011. That long ago. Prince William marries Kate Middleton in 2011. Uh the US military withdraws from Iraq in 2011. The Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl behind that uh what not Red Farr, but the other guy, Aaron Rodgers, I think. Uh-huh. Yeah. Um, Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals. Uh the St. Louis Cardinals uh win the World Series. Uh gas price, $3.53 a gallon. Not a whole lot different today. It's probably a little bit cheaper today, actually.
SPEAKER_11I think it's I think it's if that's it, I didn't I don't remember it being that high, but I I think it's a good bit cheaper than that. I think the national average is like two high twos, two ninety.
SPEAKER_09We'll talk about that on our global uh pricing podcast later. Uh the average US home price in 2011 was $227,000. That has changed dramatically. Uh some some famous births in 2011. Now, these people are only, you know, 13 years old now, but I've got a few of them. You're wondering. Harper Seven Beckham. By the way, the kid's middle name? Seven. They named the kid Harper Seven Beckham.
SPEAKER_11After the Seinfeld episode.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, you got it. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon had twins. Uh, I don't know their names, but I'm sure it's six, seven.
SPEAKER_10Oh, here we go.
SPEAKER_09Wow, it happened. It happened. Pink and Carrie Hart's daughter Willow was born. Um, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, part two is released. That was exciting. And this is a big one. Game of Thrones premiered in 2011. Game of Thrones.
SPEAKER_11A lot of those things are really happy times, but if you're like me and you watch an amazing show, you always wish you could go back to the very beginning and watch it all over again. Game of Thrones. Not knowing anything. One day I will start over.
SPEAKER_09Start over on that one. Uh, the rise of Instagram and Snapchat also started in 2011. Those are the good things that happened in 2011. What we are about to do right now, not as good. Not as good. You know, in all honesty, for those of you that are in your car or doing whatever you do and you're listening to Windham and I and your and your headphones here, uh, feel free to turn it off now. I mean, it's just, it's, it's, I don't have a lot of confidence in this perfect album side. And you know me. You know I always come in and I always say, This is the perfect album side, and I've got the six songs. I don't have them. I'll tell you that now.
SPEAKER_11I try to stay as optimistic as I can. Um, I'm not. And this, and we're starting off with the you know, the most sensible top uh this is the most sensible category, and it's my least favorite of my entire perfect album side. So well, uh I see Stalling would be fine with me.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, let's just wrap this shit up. Let's go, baby. Uh all right. Debut was the category. This artist had to debut in 2011. Uh, all jokes aside, uh, here we go. Let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me. May I?
Debut Picks: Lana Vs Scotty
SPEAKER_09Can I? Can I go? Can I start? Can we start? Can we begin? Are you asking me? I just do it. Pull the band-aid, man. Let's get we gotta get past this. I'm gonna start. Here we go. Uh, best, most iconic debut single of an artist. Here we go.
SPEAKER_00Swingin' in the backyard, pull up in your fast car, whistling my name. Open up a beer and you say get over here and play a video game. A minus fair sundress.
SPEAKER_09Video games by Lana Del Rey, her debut single October 7th, 2011, from the Born to Die album. The album was released in 2012, but the single was released as a standalone single in October of 2011. I guess before I go any further, Wyndham, we haven't talked about overlap. Now you have the advantage of knowing one of my songs. Let me ask you this right now. Is this song on your perfect album side?
SPEAKER_11It it uh it it came real close, but it is not on my perfect album side.
SPEAKER_09Okay, it is not on your perfect album side. Now, knowing that, we have five opportunities left to have overlap. I think that we're gonna have three. And I already know that one of them is not this one.
SPEAKER_11I think it's high. You can go with the over or the under. I'm going with the under, and I usually go over, especially three is my wheelhouse. I think we're gonna have two. So I'm saying, I'm gonna say under. Oh, you said you think we're gonna have three. I think I still think we'll have three, even though this one's not one of them. I'm gonna go under. I think we're gonna have two.
SPEAKER_09Uh, songwriters Lana Del Rey, aka Elizabeth Grant. For those of you that don't know, that's her real name, Elizabeth Grant, and Justin Parker. Uh, producers Justin Parker, uh, recorded at Rocket Studios in London. Uh, Lana Del Rey, she's born in New York, uh, raised in Lake Placid, and this song comes out of a huge moment of insecurity for her, creative insecurity. She had just been dropped uh from her record deal. She's riding alone in London. She's kind of doubting whether or not her music career is ever gonna take off. Uh, and then Justin Parker brings her this uh this piano progression, and she said the lyrics just poured out real really, really quickly. I mean, how many times have we heard that? All of a sudden, it just came to us, and this is a prime example of that. This uh the music video itself kind of became a story of its own. They had zero budget. Again, this is her debut, they got no money. She assembles webcam footage, paparazzi clips, vintage home movie reels, and scenes of herself in her room. It cost about $7 to make. And when it hit YouTube, uh the video just exploded. Uh, it launching her into an overnight uh global success on YouTube. The song itself uh hits number nine in the UK, hits number three on US rock songs. Nothing about this song rocks, F FYI, but number three on the rock charts. Uh, number one on Pitchfork, they called it the Song of 2011. Uh NME said it was the number two song of 2011. It gets the Q Award for Best New Act, and it is frequently included in the best song of the 2010 decade. Uh Rolling Stone, Billboard, The Guardian, etc., say this is one of the best songs of the decade. I don't have a lot to say about this song. You know, Juan Del Rey, I have great respect for. She's a musical icon now. And you know, but the song doesn't do much for me, man. What do you think of this song? Do you know this song?
SPEAKER_11I I do. I know this song, and I know very, very little. You've just exponentially increased my knowledge of Lana Del Rey. Um, but I don't Yeah, I mean, I Yeah, a lot of people think this song is amazing. Debut single, you know, as they as debut singles go, this is pretty good. Wouldn't have been my choice.
SPEAKER_09I'm not saying it's a bad song, and I'm not saying anything negative about Lana Del Rey. What I am saying is this is the best debut track we could come up with, or that I could come up with so far. Yeah, there's one other one, which I bet is gonna be yours. Uh Lana Del Rey said it was the first song where I felt like I wrote my own story. I thought nobody would hear it, so I felt free to be honest. And then on her viral rise, she said, I was shocked. It was like the world suddenly saw me. Uh, I mean, people have called this one a modern classic with cinematic, lush, uh, heartbreak. Uh NME said, the rare debut that immediately changes the landscape. It's a good song. Does it did it change music forever? I don't hear that. But Lana Del Rey uh makes my perfect album side uh uh for video games. It launched her career uh and it made the perfect album side. So congratulations to Lana Del Rey. Uh welcome to the Perfect Album Side Podcast. What do you have to say about this one, my man?
SPEAKER_11I tell you what, it reminds me of Adele, who who started things right around this time, not in 2011, I found out the hard way. Yeah. But um that has a little bit of an Adele sound to it. And that's the first thing I noticed. It's that it's that repetitive piano chord back and forth, you know? Yeah. Uh the the major minor back and forth. So um yeah, I thought it was good. That that music's not for me. Um, it doesn't mean it's not an amazing song, and you know, she came out of the gate with it, so and it ranked. Uh, what'd you say the billboard number was? Uh I think it got up to number nine.
SPEAKER_09Um it is widely considered. I read this, widely considered to be one of the most influential debut singles of the last 20 years. Nope. I'm not in I'm not in that camp. Consider me uninfluenced. But Lana Del Rey made my perfect album side. Uh, please do better than I did. Go.
SPEAKER_11I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna try to do better. Uh, but I don't know if it's big, but here we go. I'm listening.
SPEAKER_01I know I'm still young. But I know how I feel. I might not have too much experience. But I'm no love is real.
SPEAKER_11Stone Cold Weeds. We have a tendency on this podcast to kind of lean into the American Idol winners, and we're doing just that with the season 10 winner. That's Scotty McCreary. Holy crap, I forgot about that guy. That's a top oh god. That's horrifying. That's a little bit different of a reaction than I thought I was gonna get. This is a top 10 hit. Not on my radio station. Not on mine either. I had to dig for this one. I I was I was in the Earth's mantle looking for debut singles. I kept this is such a I it's category.
SPEAKER_09That nerdy kid with the deep voice from American Idol. I remember this. Yeah, I remember that guy.
SPEAKER_11So this was this this was the highest charting debut single from a new artist in 2011. That's preposterous. Preposterous. I don't like this category. It gave me fits. I said it, I'll keep saying it. Yeah, a date debut from new artists here is key. Debut can sometimes be mixed up stone cold with lead single. That's not the case. All right, tell me the name of this song. This song is I Love You This Big by Scotty McCreary off of his. Debut record. This is debut single, debut record, clear as day. And it's 2011.
SPEAKER_09You know, I bet that his own grandmother couldn't name this song.
SPEAKER_11I have never heard this song in my life.
SPEAKER_09This is gone to a roaring start. No, no.
SPEAKER_11I mean, I I can already see people saying, is there anything else on the radio? Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_09What about the uh the those guys from that other podcast? Let's pull this up.
SPEAKER_11Honey, where's that Hamas podcast?
SPEAKER_09Are we listening to Smartless today, honey? Because this is terrible.
SPEAKER_11Uh EO, he had a nice. Did you say Hamas podcast? He has a nice career. We've hit rock bottom. I really think we have. But you know what? Only we can only go up
One-Hit Wonder Debate Begins
SPEAKER_11from here. You can only get up, yeah. Uh, but he had a nice career. And of course, that famous baritone voice, that's what you picked up on immediately. It made a huge due to the American Idol prize and and winning that. He took off from there. This song, highest debut, any single.
SPEAKER_09Did he win American Idol? He did. Okay, so we got an American Idol winner here. This is real. This is legit. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_11So this song was the highest debut of any single ever in the history of the Nielsen. And that was number 32 on the U.S. Billboard Country. Okay, but he peaked on the Billboard Hot 100. He peaked at number 11, platinum single. Here in the US, I'm not ultra familiar with Scotty. I think around your level of Lana Del Rey, but I like his music, at least I guess when I hear it. But I love you big makes my perfect album side as debut from a new artist, 2011. And man, I'm just kind of speeding through this don't call because I want this category to be in my rear view mirror. Let me ask you a question.
SPEAKER_09Um, you chose that terrible song. Uh I chose Lana Del Rey. Uh neither one of those are gonna make the perfect album side because they both suck.
SPEAKER_11These these these artists make more money than than we do in in a half an hour.
SPEAKER_09I think Scotty McCreary, I think I saw him checking out bags at Publix actually. I don't think he's I don't know if that's accurate. Lana del Rey's doing fine, but I I don't know if Scotty McCreary is still.
SPEAKER_11I think he was making cute uh kebabs at the public's butcher department.
SPEAKER_09I'm yeah I'm not sure if that's accurate. Hey, let me ask you this. Did you look at um uh oh god, now his name falling out of my head all of a sudden? Um the redheaded kid from from London. Uh Ed Sheeran? Yeah, Ed Sheeran. Did you look at he had the a song called The A-Team, which came out in 2011, I believe. And I was kind of Yes, it did.
SPEAKER_11That was his debut record, but I didn't I didn't see anything. I did I looked, man, let me tell you, Steve. I I looked far and wide. Believe me, of course I ran into that.
SPEAKER_09Wasn't that album called Plus? I think so, yeah.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I I trust me, I I gave it the once over, but I didn't see anything there that would charted or at least outcharted Scotty McCreary. That's that's unbelievable to me.
SPEAKER_09Um all right, well, Scotty McCreary and Lana Del Rey uh make the I can't believe I'm saying these words out loud, uh make the debut. They're both gonna lose to that kid. We're just gonna go ahead and put the other kid on the perfect album side, I think. What's his name of the other kid? Edgar? No, no, no, no, no. The H Ed Sheron? I can never remember Ed Sheron's name when it comes time. Alright, I'm gonna write this down. Scotty Mercury. Alright. Alright, on to the next topic. Thank God that one's over. That was like a root canal, to be honest. That was god awful. I hope so.
SPEAKER_11If anyone is still listening, we're sorry.
SPEAKER_09All right. Uh this song is is better than both of those. Let me let me let me see if I can get this one going real quick. Uh this song was my choice. Actually, I think you get to go first on the second category. I'll let you go first. Yeah, we're doing we're doing that. Yeah, yeah, go for it. Okay. What's the one hit wonder? One hit wonder is the category we're going for here. What song did you choose?
SPEAKER_11Oh, I'm so much more comfortable with this one. And I think most of our listeners will start to perk up a little bit and uh we put this one here. Yeah, we sure did. Here we go.
Call Me Maybe Takes Over
SPEAKER_12When you said you felt so happy you could die. Told myself that you were right for me. It felt so lonely in your company.
SPEAKER_11Let that chorus hit Stone Cold, but I mean everybody knows this song. Everybody knows this song. I'm gonna ask you something. Right when this chorus is about to hit. Is this this is somebody that I used to know? And this is the artist Gauthier. Off his day off his record making mirrors from 2011. And the question is, and it's the same question everybody asks when you hear a one-hit wonder. Who? Wait. Gautier, right? Oh, is it is it gotier? I think it's Gautier. Okay, well that that helps me s with the never heard of it. I remember this song. Oh, this song's super famous. Yeah, this is a good one. That's the idea. One-hit wonder doesn't necessarily make the artists. Brick by brick. Here we go.
SPEAKER_09Go ahead.
SPEAKER_11Somebody I used to know by Gautier. Gautier, everyone knows this song. Everyone knows the lyrics, and that's the case here. Gautier, Australian, singer-songwriter. This song was released on July 5th, 2011, and it's off his third album, Making Mirrors, and it was a massive hit. Stone Cold. This was his third album? Third album. This is the lead single off his third album. A song was recorded at his parents' house, written there too, and of course, the song is about relationship experiences. Talking about stealing my records after you broke up. Yes, we get it. Relationship experience. But the song itself samples a 1967 instrumental. It's called Seville by Luis Bonfa. And let me tell you, I heard that song today. And they are the exact song. But they're sampled, so it should be. That's how that works so quite. Let me ask you, I'm gonna kind of pause my narrative here. Is this song? Could it be? Could we be back? We do not have We do not have overlap. Okay. I will stop getting excited about that, and I'll carry on like I didn't even ask you that question. Uh it's a number one hit. Number one hit! And it hit number one everywhere except Ukraine, where he was number nine.
SPEAKER_09Ukrainians, not big fans of Gautier.
SPEAKER_11No, it's also strange.
SPEAKER_09I've always said that.
SPEAKER_11Everyone knows that.
SPEAKER_09Everyone knows Ukrainians hate Gautier.
SPEAKER_11This was it. This was the song for Gautier. And hence the category, hence he made my PAS. Here's what I like most about this guy, though, is doing some digging about this guy. And we have a lot of fun with this. But this guy, Gautier, he refuses to allow this song to be used in advertisements. He doesn't want the money that way.
SPEAKER_09He's afraid of cash?
SPEAKER_11No, he's not afraid of cash, and believe me, he's definitely not with this song. He's made plenty of it. But he doesn't want to sell out. Okay? And he has licensed this for free. So if you're doing a student film, he licensed this movie for free. You can use it all you want for free. Well, that changes my afternoon plans, I'll tell you that. Well, I think it's a great thing. And if a commercial movie wants to use it, he says he looks at the budget, looks at the creativity of the film. And I like that. And I think that's the exact opposite of being a sellout. He sounds like quite quite the artist. Quite and quite the swell guy, if I do say so. Nice work, Gautier.
SPEAKER_09Alright, Gautier. And that that was a this is the one-hit wonder category. This is one hit wonder.
SPEAKER_11It makes my PAS somebody that I used to know.
SPEAKER_09I don't remember Gautier having any other song, so I think that qualifies as a one-hit wonder, even though it was his third album. I assume he had follow-up songs, but we never heard of any of them, did we?
SPEAKER_11No, and I've got another one that could be
Rock Lives: The Black Keys
SPEAKER_11borderline one hit wonder, but this one this one was far and away. Number one hit, can't argue with it. Somebody that I used to know by Gautier makes my perfect album side Stone Cold.
SPEAKER_09That didn't make my perfect album side because this one did.
SPEAKER_14I threw a wish in the well, don't ask me, I'll never tell. I looked to you as it fell, and now you're in my way. I trained my soul for a wish, pennies and dimes for a kiss. I wasn't looking for this, but now you're in my way. Your stare was holding, red sheen's skin was showing. Where you think you're going, baby?
SPEAKER_09Oh yes! Okay, I'm starting to really dig 2011, cause this song is just catchy as all get out. And it was in 2011, it still is today. Call me maybe Carly Ray Jepsen, September 20th, 2011, from her Curiosity EP, which was released in 2012. But the single was released in 2011. Songwriters Carly Ray Jepsen, Tavish Crow, and Josh Ramsey, produced by Josh Ramsey, recorded at Umbrella Studios in British Columbia. Uh Carly Ray Jephson, born in Middish, excuse me, Mission, British Columbia, Canada. I mean, you could not escape this song in 2011. It it to me, it rivals Hey Mickey as the biggest one-hit wonder of all time. In my opinion, that's not from Rolling Stone magazine or anybody over Emmy or Spin magazine. This is from straight from Tatum here. I think it's probably the biggest one-hit wonder of all time, beating out Mickey by Tonal, Tony Basil. Basil? Basil? Whatever.
SPEAKER_11I think straight from Tatum. That's the best thing I've ever heard.
SPEAKER_09Uh, originally written as a quiet acoustic folk tune, uh, Jepson and Crow performed an early version of it while touring coffee shops in Canada. Producer Josh Ramsey hears it, rebuilds the song from the ground up, swapping Folkstrums with these big synthesizers, drums, and one of the most addictive choruses and pre-choruses you'll ever hear. Uh so then they release it, they put it out, you know, on YouTube. Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Ashley Tisdell are goofing around. They record a video of themselves lip-syncing to this song. Nobody on earth has ever heard of this song, but the three of them start lip-syncing to it, and they put that on YouTube themselves. They never told her they were doing it, they just did it. And over freaking night, she's the most famous person on the planet because of what Bieber and uh Ashley Tisdale and Selena Gomez did. This song goes number one on Billboard Hot 100, number one hit for nine weeks. It goes number one in 18 countries. It is diamond certified, which means over 10 million units are sold. It's one of the biggest selling singles of the 2010s, and as you all know, it got the Tatum Nod as the biggest one-hit wonder of all time. Grammy nomination for Song of the Year, Grammy nomination for best pop solo performance, a Juno Award for Single of the Year, a Billboard Music Award for Top Digital Song. It's incredible. It's the most unbelievable uh ear candy you can ever hear. Windham, tell tell me I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_11You're not wrong. And I'll tell you something else. This song is on my perfect album side.
SPEAKER_09Say more things like that.
SPEAKER_11Yes. Uh I think you can't have as as much as I loathe and as depthless as I think 2011 was for music, this song is the uh contrary. Shining star. This is the song that says, not so fast, my friend. Yeah straight from Taylor.
SPEAKER_09Lee Corso.
SPEAKER_11Um I think that this song was incredible. Uh it is catchy. That that chorus that just hits with everything. I love it. And Carly, Carly Ray Jeffson was the first Canadian female to have a number one hit single on the Hot 100 in the 2010s. She's the first Canadian female ever to have a hot number or hot 100 number one single since Avril Avril Levine with girlfriend. I was gonna say uh Alanis Morris actually. Uh well that can't be had the longest run at the top of the hot 100 for a Canadian female singer ever, and she's tied for the longest run ever for anyone amongst all Canadian artists with Percy Faith, who I didn't know was Canadian.
SPEAKER_09I didn't either. Uh so this song did not make your perfect aluminum side for one hit wonder, but it has made it another category, and we will get to that momentarily.
SPEAKER_11Oh, I'm glad I didn't tell you the category already.
SPEAKER_09Oh no, no, please don't. I mean, it's it's the quintessential one-hit wonder. It's the perfect storm of melody, simplicity, charm, silliness, totally for lack of a better word. It combines everything. The term one-hit wonder was designed for this song in particular. And uh it made my perfect album side, it made yours in another category. We'll get to that momentarily. I believe uh the con is now mine, right?
SPEAKER_11We're on to rock. It stays with you. There I never had it for this, but this that song is the most ultimate bubblegum pop song
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SPEAKER_11I've I think I've heard ever. And that's a bold statement, but that's a that is bubblegum pop if I've ever heard it.
SPEAKER_09Rolling Stone magazine said it is the purest pop confection of the decade. Okay, well, we're saying the same thing. Those freaks at NPR said a masterclass intention and release. Every measure is engineered for euphoria.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Well, that sounds like my lovemaking, if you know what I mean. Go on.
SPEAKER_09Let's move on. Rock category, the most iconic rock song of 2011. I gotta tell you, man, there wasn't a lot to choose from.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but there was there was a good one to choose from. I hope maybe we have overlap.
SPEAKER_09Songwriters Dan Hourbach, Patrick Carney, Danger Mouse, produced by Danger Mouse and the Black Keys, recorded at EasyI Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Uh the Black Keys from Akron, Ohio, Danger Mouse from White Plains, New York. Uh it's a pretty good song. I don't know if it's the greatest rock song of all time, but to me, it was the most iconic rock song of 2011. Initially, this song was overproduced, multiple guitar layers, elaborate arrangement, none of it worked. At Danger Mouse's urging, they stripped the song back to this super raw demo. One guitar roof. Rip roof? Guitar roof? Did you say roof? Huh. Did you say youth? The two ute. Uh one guitar rip, one drum groove, and Dan Auerbach's gritty howl. Uh, that is when the song really came into focus. Uh the music video. You know, we decided to get rid of the music video category, but there are a couple of good music videos we've already talked about. This one is is they got the security guard just dancing for three minutes, which is freaking hilarious. Yeah, classic. And once again, it was supposed to be this overproduced, big hyped uh video. They found the security guard, had him dance for three and a half minutes. Uh, one of the most low budget videos ever made. Uh, the security guard's name was Derek Tuggle. Uh, and they they won a Grammy for this song. Best rock song. They won the Grammy for best rock performance. Uh, and they said Derek T. Tuggle, the security guard that danced in the video, uh, deserves half of the Grammy. I haven't asked you yet. Is this song on your perfect album side? It is. Yes! Yes! I'm so surprised!
SPEAKER_11I tried to look like I was I didn't know the song when you played it. I was like, wait, what?
SPEAKER_09But guys, if you guys can't see us at home, but on television, for those viewers that are seeing us on TV and and the YouTube, um, uh, you saw Windows face of utter confusion. But you are all on purpose. Wow. You would be great at running like a fake punt. You just you sell it really well. What do you have to say about this song?
SPEAKER_11Oh, I there's a couple things I like to I want to say about it. Danger Mouse produced it. You said that. Danger Mouse also plays bass on this track, which I think is really cool. The guitar riff inspired by Train Kept It Rolling by Johnny Burnett, then covered famously by Air Smith and perhaps the well most well known. Led Zeppelin played it in their very first rehearsal. Uh, but here's the thing that I like about this song more than anything that guitar riff. And it sounds like he's it sounds like Dan Arbach is literally tuning half step down in the middle of the riff. You know that boom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's not that's not what he's doing. That would be pretty incredible if he could tune his guitar and play it at the same time. But not what he's doing. He's using something called a dive bomb. Tell me more about that. I don't know what that is.
SPEAKER_09Is that incredible?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but you know what I'm talking about. I do, yes. Yeah, the sound, yeah. And it's called a dive bomb pedal. All right, he's using something called Super Shift to help get that sound. But that's the best part about this, is that the way it drops. Uh the other thing I wanted to point out is I love the drum riff on this Stone Cold.
SPEAKER_09And you have to you may if we have to go back and listen, but he sounds like he's just he's just I was I was playing along at the beginning, playing my eardrums. Uh the the guitar tone, uh, it has a very rock a billy surf rock yes kind of sound to it. Um I don't you don't hear the phrase surf rock very often, but I hope you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_11Well, to me, I'm I'm gonna make the I'm gonna respond in the most literal way. It sounds like it's got a beach boys riff to it.
SPEAKER_09A little bit, yeah. Uh um there's probably a few more artists, but I can't think of them right now. But uh yeah, I mean a really cool riff, a really uh raw, like I hate to say this, but garage recording field. Yeah, they didn't overproduce this at all. This is just go in and hit record and and this thing came out and and a hell of a tune. Um look, I'm not a huge black keys guy, you know, I'm a black crows guy, and you can't have you know black keys, black crows, you know, it's it's it it gets all confusing. So uh I wouldn't say they're top of my list, but this is I mean, this is a very memorable song. And as far as rock songs go from 2011, there just weren't that many.
SPEAKER_11There weren't that many. Um there's a couple more that I thought could have been rock if you wanted to really stretch it out. This is a pure rock and roll song, and I think it's a great song. I wish I wish this band did more, right? And I know we talked about Foster of the People a few episodes ago, and I was like, I only know this is one song by them, and then we had a couple people. Chime in and say you need to know this song, this song, this song. I wish people would tell me give me some more music from Lost or I almost said low lonely boys. Give me some more music from the Black T's other than Lonely Boy that we should be paying attention to. I want to know this band more. What's good from this band? Because I that that first time.
Female Lead: Adele Outduels Katy
SPEAKER_11I mean you have the power of the internet, right? You have the internet in our pockets now.
SPEAKER_09I'm trying to engage the listeners, Steve. Is that wrong? I mean, you run a globally renowned podcast about rock music, and I would think you could do better.
SPEAKER_11I'm asking for some help. I'm engaging.
SPEAKER_09Well, I mean, that's that's really the first step in healing is asking for help.
SPEAKER_11That's what that's what I need.
SPEAKER_09I need more number one billboard alternative songs, number one billboard rock song, top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, double platinum certification. Uh it made my perfect album side, it made your perfect album side, hence, it will be on the perfect album side at the end of the show. Alright, I think we are ready to move on to the movie category, and I gotta tell you, this one gave me a fence.
SPEAKER_11Well, like I said, there weren't that many really excellent movies in 2011. There's a lot of franchises. You already said one of them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part did. Um but a lot of franchise sequels, continuations. I just didn't think the movies were anything super great. But I did find one that I really like. Okay, who's got the con? Me or you?
SPEAKER_08I do, and I'm already ready to go. I was I think I may have just stolen it, but go back. You you you can go.
SPEAKER_10Okay, thank you.
SPEAKER_09I think you went twice. 2011 most iconic movie soundtrack song Wind and Prison begins.
SPEAKER_08I know that voice.
SPEAKER_03Leave some Muffin Amanda Because it would take a whole lot of medication. So we have what we used to have a home.
SPEAKER_11That's Bruno Mars, who I dig.
SPEAKER_09That's hard not to like Bruno. I think he's great.
SPEAKER_11I think his music is good. Uh this is It Will Rain. This is off the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 soundtrack. Part one. Part one, there's two of them. Uh this is 2011. Now, this song, we're gonna get to the movie in just a minute. Hit this song, hit number three on the hot 100. Alright, Bruno Mars lead single from this soundtrack. 2011 wasn't the biggest year for movies, and even though I haven't seen Twilight, I know this song. I mean Bruno Mars number one, number three, number three, number three hit. This song is everywhere. I mean, in Bruno Mars, everything he does is good and it's popular. Alright, let's go movie, then we'll dive more into Bruno. Second installment of the Twilight series. Okay, did 750 B, or excuse me, 750 million, three-quarters of a billion at the box office, fourth highest grossing film of 2011, and the only one of the top four that didn't gross a billion with a B. Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows, Part D, Transformers, Darker the Moon, Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides, all of those are sequels, by the way. Wow. And then came Twilight, Breaking Dawn, part one.
SPEAKER_09So not only did did the music of 2011 kind of suck so far, at least we think, the movie's not that great either.
SPEAKER_11I didn't think the movies were that great. The help came out. I really wanted to get the help in here because I love that movie. I think it's really good. But and uh there just wasn't The Artist one best picture in 2012 for 2011. I just didn't think there was a whole lot of great movies. I mean, look at this. The first four movies of the year were all sequels. Yeah, crazy. We get creative. Uh thankfully, seeing a film is not a requisite to be on the PAS because I've not seen this movie. But I do know the power of this film franchise, Stonefold.
SPEAKER_09You haven't seen the Twilight movies?
SPEAKER_11I mean, you have a daughter.
SPEAKER_09That was not her thing.
SPEAKER_11Percy was more Percy Jackson, didn't get into the vampire stuff. Um, but from 2008 to 2012, the Twilight series was a really big deal. I mean, I know I know that much. Let's go to the lead single and the most popular song off the soundtrack, Stone Cold, It Will Rain. Massive hit, peaked at number three, said that, but it didn't start off as anything super great, Stone Cold. It got a lot of pushback and a lot of heat. Number one, it sounded too much like a previous released, previously released Bruno Mars tune, Grenade. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it also got compared to Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones. Oh yeah. So Bruno Mars, you can kind of hear that a little bit, especially in the course. Mars wrote this song while on tour in the States.
SPEAKER_09Was he touring with the Rolling Stones by chance?
SPEAKER_11But that would be a great guess. I think we would have been able to connect the dots and solve that caper if he had been. I wrote it on tour, never finished it. Um, and the the music supervisor guy from the Twilight movies called him and said, We want you to run the soundtrack on this thing.
SPEAKER_09Was that his official title, the music supervisor guy? Is that what that says in the cards?
SPEAKER_11I think that's what his business card says. I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead. You were saying. I think that's what his LinkedIn profile says. Uh but he said, hey,
Wild Cards And Overlaps
SPEAKER_11this song would be great. I never finished it, but now's my chance to do it. And nobody knows how to make a better, I think, love song with some rock and with some pop to it than Mars. I mean, he does everything. Five times platinum stone cold. That's amazing. And I believe tell me if I'm wrong here. You're wrong. I believe we're introducing Bruno Mars to the perfect album side. That can't be right.
SPEAKER_09That's what I said, but I'm I'm gonna go with it. I welcome to the perfect album side, Bruno Mars. Mr. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I thought you'd like that.
SPEAKER_09I do. That's that right there. Uh can score you some point in my in my book right there. Introducing Bruno Mars to the perfect album side podcast. May I take the con, or are you do you have more to say about Mr.
SPEAKER_11No, I'm good. That's good. I mean, I'm gonna ask, is this on your perfect album side? I think I know the answer.
SPEAKER_09It's not on my perfect album side. But let me tell you something. Uh here we go. This one is movie soundtrack. I can see the look in your eye. You don't know this song, but you recognize the voice. I know that you do. You said, Welcome to the perfect album side, Bruno Mars, to much shock and and dismay on my face. Let me say these words. Welcome to the perfect album side, Taylor Swift.
SPEAKER_06Just close your eyes.
SPEAKER_09Wow. Safe and Sound featuring the Civil Wars from the Hunger Games movie. Songs from District 12 and beyond. Wow. Uh, the song Safe and Sound released with only five days remaining in 2011, December 26th, 2011. Wow.
SPEAKER_1111th hour. Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Taylor Swift, uh songwriter, Joy Williams, John Paul White, T-Bone Burnett. Uh producer, T-Bone Burnett, recorded. Goldfinger, everything he touches. Absolutely. Recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville. Uh obviously, Taylor Swift uh is Taylor Swift. The Civil Wars were a Nashville-based duo. Uh, they have since broken up. Um and then T-Bone Burnett uh from St. Louis. Uh this Taylor Swift was shown a single rough scene from the Hunger Games, uh, a really desolate scene from the District 12 landscape. And within two hours, Taylor and the Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett had written the entire song start to finish. Swift said the vocal harmonies came together like a seance. The trio of them instinctively layering their voices into this Appalachian lullaby, which was done deliberately. They said, think of this movie, this very desolate place, District 12. It's almost
Final Perfect Album Side Revealed
SPEAKER_09like Appalachia. And so they write this song, which has a lot of similarities there, which I thought was kind of cool actually. The tone of the recording was intentionally spare. Uh Burnett instructed the musicians to play as softly as possible to create an almost airless soundscape that evoked hunger, cold, and a quiet resilience. I mean, that's pretty cool to say that in the studio. Hey, I want it, I want this to sound like hunger, cold, and a quiet resilience. And I I think they nailed it. Uh only went to number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was platinum, number one on iTunes within 24 hours of release. It won the Grammy for best song written for visual media. It was nominated for multiple music and film awards tied to the Hunger Games. They said they wanted it to sound ancient, like a song that Katniss's grandmother might have sung. Katniss being the main character played by Gina for Lawrence. Uh I know this song is not on your perfect album side because we just did yours. Welcome to the perfect album side, Bruno Mars. Welcome to the perfect album side, Taylor Swift. I can't believe I'm saying that. And this is the song of all the Taylor Swift songs that we could have ever played. This is the first one to ever make a perfect album side, and that is shocking.
SPEAKER_11What's the name of the song again? Hit me with it. Safe and sound. Okay. How about that? And you know what? You know what she's she's. Can I tell you something crazy? Please do. She's credited on this song as Taylor Allison Swift. That's her middle name. Well, I hope so. How do you know that? Oh, I because I was like, I gotta look this thing up. Okay. I gotta I gotta get this. Um that's incredible. Great, great find. I've Taylor Swift may not be the last time we mentioned her on today's episode.
SPEAKER_09I can't believe it's the first time we've mentioned her on the purpose.
SPEAKER_11I can't believe it either, and I can't believe Taylor Swift was sitting right in front of me where I could be getting this kind of glory, and I let it whiff. That's incredible.
SPEAKER_09Uh a lot of a lot of her fans view this as the earliest blueprint of Taylor's folklore and evermore style, which were her some of her more recent albums, which are a little bit more folks-y, uh, and not as, you know, that huge country thing, and not the pop and not reputation. So they they kind of look at it as this was the first uh of her uh maturity. She got away from the Nashville country scene and stepped into a more uh folk-driven sound. Um yeah, I mean, look, it's a pretty good song. It only went to number 30. It's not a huge Taylor Swift hit like all these other ones that she's had, but uh it's probably at the time the most mature Taylor Swift song of all time. Uh it it stands as one of her most artistically important songs, if you will. Um that was it made my perfect down song. That's it. Of course, she has to. I just have a great selection of the song that did it. Uh having found you've seen Hunger Games. I have seen Hunger Games, yes. Uh all of them are just the Twilight movies, too. Oh, one more thing. They said they wanted this folksy uh Appalachian sound to be very mature and very uh quiet and mature, and they wanted to do it specifically so that everybody understood hey, this isn't fucking Twilight we're dealing with. It's the Hunger Games. And I'm paraphrasing, but that's that's a fact.
SPEAKER_11I feel like you know, I feel like everyone's taking a shot at my selection right now. Including the Hunger Games.
SPEAKER_09Just me. Just me. I'm the one taking the shots.
SPEAKER_11Tebo Burnett. I thought he and I were friends, but now he's taking a shot at my selection.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, that shit happened.
SPEAKER_11I've already seen the first Hunger Games.
SPEAKER_09I've seen the first one.
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SPEAKER_09No, they're pretty they're pretty good. You should watch them. The next category, you have the con, my man. The category was female. Has to be a song sung by a female. Like I said, almost every song we've done is sung by a female, it seems, and every song that was released in 2011, with the exception of your Bruno Omar song, was released by a female. Go ahead. What do you got?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, this is by the way, let me just go ahead and tell you, this is my last one. Okay, no big deal.
SPEAKER_09Here we go. I've got two left.
SPEAKER_05There's a stranger in bed. There's a palm inhead.
SPEAKER_11So cold. This is not somebody we're welcoming to the Perfect Albumside podcast. This is Katy Perry off her bigger than anyone could possibly describe album Teenage Dream. This is last Friday night TGIF, 2011, of course. But this is a great choice for this, but it was not my first choice. Number one hit from the number one album, Teenage Dream. And and Stone Cold, it's so funny. You just introduced Taylor Swift to the perfect outside podcast. This song to me sounds like a this has a Taylor Swift vibe to me. Like just the way the chorus goes and uh the verse. I don't know, but this song preceded Taylor Swift's real fame. But I'm putting my deluxe PAS parchment together listening to this song. It just had that vibe, as the kids would say. Song also has great sax. Oh my god. Here we are again. Wow, hang on, that sax is coming up. It's an alto sax and it's pretty solid. Hashtag Pastoffic Alert. But we've talked about this album before. But here we go on some nuggets, right? You ready? You got sleeves up? I'm ready. Nuggets. Okay. Teenage Dream was the second album ever. Ever to have ever. Second album ever. To have five consecutive singles hit number one. The first to do it, Michael Jackson. Thriller. And you name the album. Thriller. Bad. Bad, son of a bitch. I thought it was thriller too. I put can you guess the album in here thinking it was thriller, but it was actually better.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I told you.
SPEAKER_11That's a bigger album than anyone in the world could describe. This is teenage dream. I'm not, but I've not finished. Oh God. Perry was the first woman to ever accomplish that, of course. Let's keep this going. The sixth single, okay, was the one that got away. And it peaked at number three. Hence, it joined Janet Jackson and George Michael as the third artist ever to have six consecutive top five singles released from the same album. That's incredible. Janet Jackson and who? Who's the other one? George George Michael, your sound check guy.
SPEAKER_09So Janet Jackson would have been Rhythm Nation 1814. And George Michael has to be uh Faith.
SPEAKER_11Oh, that's exactly right. Okay. Right now, we just had the Alto Stack solo right there. That's really got its great set. Uh but a really fun song. Everyone can relate to this song, Hickey or a Bruise.
SPEAKER_12Uh gotcha.
SPEAKER_11You don't know. You don't know. You wouldn't have asked me that if you hadn't said thriller.
SPEAKER_09It's like you didn't do any homework at all.
SPEAKER_11Uh Hickey or a bruise, just for clarification. That line, which I think is great. In my case, it was always a bruise, so never in doubt. Song debuted, Stone Cold, at 67. Okay. And then it made its way up to number one. That's pretty incredible. One hit. Song debuted at 67 on the 100 and made its way all the way to number one. That's as impressive as it gets. Number one for two straight weeks. Now there was a video associated with this song, and it was a tribute to John all the John Hughes teenager movies from the 1980s. And it has a bunch of outtakes at the very end, which was a tribute to Cannonball Run. I never would have thought Cannonball Run would have gotten would have gotten a piece of that. Here's one way. That's Smokey in the Bandit. Oh, that's Smokey in the Bandit, not Cannonball Run. My bad. One quick nugget about the video, and you made a great point earlier. You know, we squashed the video category because MTV had squashed videos. But there were still a few videos hanging out, and this was another good one.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_11Go ahead. One quick nugget about the video. The video itself was filmed at the home of Bo Duke, John Schneider. Six times platinum. Really fun song, as I said. Last Friday Night makes my PAS. And if you hear the lyrics at the very end, it just ended. She ends the song with the whole song's about what did we do last night? You know, blah blah blah. The song ends with this Friday night, let's do it all again.
SPEAKER_09Oh my god.
SPEAKER_11Which I thought was kind of neat.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I hate that song, Wyndham. I'm not gonna lie to you. I absolutely hate that song.
SPEAKER_11Well, I actually think it's kind of fun. And I think it's right up there with Carly Ray Carly Ray Jeffson.
SPEAKER_09Carly Ray Jeffson, not Johnson. Um, I mean look, Mary Bubblegum Pop.
SPEAKER_11There it is.
SPEAKER_09We we've said a thousand times it's not Steven Wyndham's favorite song. This is not the perfect album side of our favorite songs, although that appears to be your favorite song. I just you know, it it it absolutely is iconic. It should be nominated for a perfect album side. It's not gonna make the perfect album side because of this song.
SPEAKER_02There's a fire starting in my heart. Reaching a fever pitch, and it's bringing me out the dark. Finally, I can see you, crystal cleave. Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship. See I'll leave with every piece of you. Don't underestimate the things that I will do. There's a fire starting in my heart. We should not be the pitch and it's bringing me out the dark. The scars of all of her mind of us take it. Thinking that we almost added all. The scars of y'all love the leafy's I can't help feeling we could.
SPEAKER_09Oh my god. I love this song, first of all. Let me just This is one of my favorite songs. I absolutely love the song. Rolling in the Deep by Adele released January 24th in 2011. Uh, the US single was released January 24th, 2011, from the album 21 songwriter Adele and Paul Epworth, producer Paul Epworth, recording location in uh East Coast Studios in London. Rolling in the Deep was created after Adele entered the studio furious from a breakup. Epworth encouraged her to channel that anger, leading to an unexpectedly powerful and aggressive vocal performance. A number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, number one in more than 12 countries. Billboard's number one song of 2011, Diamond Certified 10Time Platinum! Grammy Award, Record of the Year, Grammy Award, Song of the Year, Grammy Award, Best Short Film Music Video, ranked among Rolling Stone's greatest songs of all time! Take that, Katy Perry! Take that with your five tips! Uh, Rolling in the Deep by Adele makes my perfect album decide. What say you, sir?
SPEAKER_11I mean, I don't think you argue with Adele. And there's probably only one artist on this earth that you could have said, oh, she would be talking about Katy Perry, she would be great on the perfect album side, but unfortunately she's not gonna make it because of this artist. And you're right. I I I need to do better homework on this.
SPEAKER_09It's it's rare that I will call my shots, but this this this one will win, I think.
SPEAKER_11You don't argue, you don't argue with Adele, and this she's everything she touches turns to gold, very T-bone brunette-ish. But yeah, phenomenal. Great play.
SPEAKER_09Adele said, it's me telling the guy you didn't deserve me. He made me do things I didn't know I could do. That's Adele talking about the producer. Sorry, not the not the ex-lover. Um, can you hear me? Can you hear me? Okay. Um Aretha Lover. Aretha Franklin covered this song, which I mean, how cool is that? Aretha Franklin covers it. Uh Adele does all of the backing vocals. That choir you're hearing behind her. All Adele, which I thought was cool. Um is considered one of the greatest breakup anthems of all time. Uh, turned heartbreak into power. I absolutely love this song. I was so excited when I saw that it came out in 2011. Made my brother down inside uh as a song sung by a female.
SPEAKER_11That's all I got to say about that one. Do you know what's phenomenal? This is this is a great, great song. She was 23 when this came out.
SPEAKER_09Uh incorrect. I believe she was 21. Well, it was 20, she was 21 when she recorded it. That's why the name album name of the album is called 21.
SPEAKER_11Okay, all right. Well, it in 2011 when this came out. Uh, she was actually 22 because uh you I think you said the song released in January of 2011, and her birthday is in May. And I just looked that up. I don't know that offhand. But that's incredible. She's got such a maturity in her music, and I think that's what sells, right? It's not bubblegum pop. We've used that over and over again on this episode. She's not Carly Ray Johnson, she's not Katie Perry. It's it's Carly Ray Jepsen. Jeffson. She's not Carly Ray Jepsen, she's just got such a maturity to her. Uh, and I think that makes her music so much, so much more sustainable, and it gets her out of that one-hit wonder category, right? Because it's, I don't know. There's just a level of maturity to her music, and I keep saying it, but I believe it. And that's what I like about her, and it's phenomenal. She did this song when she was 21. Rolling in the deep.
SPEAKER_09Uh, it's got such a uh um muscle shoals vibe to it. A very speaking of Aretha Franklin, uh, it this song sounds like it could have been recorded in 1968. Uh yeah, anyway. Like, like, you know, with Linda Ronstadt, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, all of that really cool muscle shoals stuff. Anyway, I like that song. Uh, we got one category left, and it's the the wild card category, isn't that correct? Uh, for you, not for me. For me. Okay. You've already done all of your songs at this point. Okay. All right. The last song. Wait, haven't I? I don't know, but here's the here's the problem. Just who cares, Wyndham? Just this is this is my next song. You chose this song as the one-hit wonder. I chose it as my wild card. Uh, somebody that I used to know by Goatee, I believe it's pronounced, as we discussed earlier.
SPEAKER_10Uh no one would know how to pronounce it unless it was on their perfect album side. Don't play that game with me, Stone Cold.
SPEAKER_09Number one in 26 countries, number one in the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks. All the stuff that you said earlier. And the video's really cool. If we had the video category, this song would have made it. Really cool video. Uh, this one made my wild card. Uh it's already been on the perfect album side. I think we're I think we're done.
SPEAKER_11Are we done? We are done. You uh you're a little vixen, and I'll tell you why. Because you were giving me grief that I didn't sell the lonely boy. Uh facial expression, so to speak. Yeah.
SPEAKER_09The whole time. You had this in your back pocket. That's crazy. I'm sneaky like that. Uh, it's time to to to to build a perfect domain, I think. Are you ready for that?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, and we've got uh what did we what did we end up with? Result of three overlap. Uh we had three that overlap? Is that what you said? Oh, I said there would be three, but there were not three. Right? I think there were. Lonely boys, call me maybe, and that one. Okay, wow.
SPEAKER_09Uh Call Me Maybe. Was that your um one-hit wonder? No. No, it was my wild card. Wild card, okay. Call me. That's why we got confused. Okay, so as we look at the debut, uh I said Lana Del Rey with video games. You said Scotty McCreary with that song that no one's ever heard of. Um, and we were both wrong. We were both wrong. I'm not gonna lie. It's Ed Sheeran, the A-team, which we can even play.
SPEAKER_11No, and I need to do more listening on that because he should be on it just because it's Ed Sheeran, and what we were hearing was the beginning of greatness.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I I I think we're gonna make an unprecedented move here. Uh we talked about at the beginning of this one that 2011 sucked, and you know, I think we both just chose poorly on that debut category. I unless you uh completely disagree with me, to me, Ed Sheeran's A Team, which we didn't even play, maybe we'll play that one as we go out, uh, should should make the the debut over Scotty McCreary and Lana Del Rey. What do you say?
SPEAKER_11Uh I I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna balk at that. I I I think we stick true, we stay true to our roots.
SPEAKER_09It didn't make it make the cold day in hell before I allow Scotty McCreary to be on the perfect album side. So I'm gonna I'm taking that one with Lana Del Rey and video games. That's right. Uh One Hit Wonder, we both oh no, I said uh Carly Ray Jepsen. And you said what? Carly Ray Jepsen?
SPEAKER_11No, one hit wonder was uh somebody I used to know.
SPEAKER_09Oh, that's right. Okay. All right, well, let's come back to that since we have some overlap there. Rock category. We both said Lonely Boy by the Black Keys. That is on the perfect album side. Movie soundtrack, It Will Rain by Bruno Mars versus Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift. Uh Taylor Swift is a bigger name and went on to beggar things, but It Will Rain is a much better song, I I I believe for movie soundtrack. I I would concede to Bruno Mars for that one. It's just a better tune.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I I'll take it. But here's what I really like about Safe and Sound. You talk about the the you wanted that Appalachia, Appalachia sound. Yeah. I think they nailed it with that. And I think that's really cool because I do know the movie. And yeah, that's really cool how well they got that movie, that song to the movie. But yeah, let's do it. It will rain by Bruno.
SPEAKER_09The the the most iconic song by a female, you went with Katy Perry last Friday night, the fifth number one consecutive single from one album, unbelievable. Uh, versus Adele's Rolling in the Deep. Um, that's a tough one. I think that Rolling in the Deep is a better song, although Katy Perry's stat is much more impressive. Um, what do you think?
SPEAKER_11Well, uh you bring up a great point. Uh for the sake of what we're doing and staying within the parameters of 2011. I'd say Katy Perry uh and the run she had on that record teenage dream. I'm gonna have to stand with her.
SPEAKER_09Katy Perry's last Friday night. Uh, under the wild card, I said somebody that I used to know, and you said call me maybe. Both these songs are going to make the perfect album aside. In one hit wonder, it will be Call Me Maybe. Uh, and for the wild card, it will be Somebody I Used to Know by Gautier. Does that work for you? I think that works for me.
SPEAKER_11That's a I you know, can I just say something wrong? It's not as bad as we thought it was gonna be. I was gonna say it ended up being better than I thought. I I love the way we ended versus the way we started. If you get that debut stuff out of the way, Scotty McCreary. Um I the rest of the the rest of everything else was pretty good. Yeah, I feel good about it. Much better.
SPEAKER_09The perfect album side of 2011 includes uh video games by Lana Del Rey, Somebody I Used to Know by Gautier, Lonely Boy by the Black Keys, It Will Rain by Bruno Mars, Last Friday Night by Katy Perry, and Call Me Maybe by Carly Ray Jepsen. Not Carly Ray Johnson, everybody. Right that Jeff? Jeff Jepsen. Jepsen. Look, this was the hardest perfect album side I have ever built. We've built 92 of these now. 92. This is the hardest one I've ever done.
SPEAKER_11This, this, I can't believe we've done 92. Happy, happy 92nd episode birthday.
SPEAKER_09Well, thank you for the card. I appreciate that that you said.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, no, totally. Um, this was the absolute hardest episode we've ever done. Now I know why we stayed well away from the 2000s.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Well, at least the 2010s. I mean, that's a terrible time frame.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, but that this was very difficult. Um, I love the way it ended. Clearly, you had the same challenges that I did, which makes me feel better. So, yeah, man, hats off to you, man. Way to fight the good fight and and not give up. I feel like I've been beat with a stick. I feel like I just gave birth. Like legit.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, it's it's rough. Uh difficult, perfect album side, my man. Difficult, perfect album. But we did it. We did. Uh, to the listeners out there, thank you guys for listening. I hope I hope you enjoyed it more than we did on this one. Because this one was, as we've complained enough, it was hard.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, tell us how we did on the socials. Get out there. Uh let's get some socialization on this. Let's hear where we missed. Is it was 2011 as bad and empty of a year for music as we are claiming? Let us know. You know what it seems.
SPEAKER_09You know what it was a good year for? Maybe not music, maybe not movies, but SEAL Team 6, baby.
SPEAKER_11It sure was. SEAL Team 6. I can't believe that. Was it that long ago in the Steve Jobs thing?
SPEAKER_0913 years. 13 years. Uh hey, well, good perfect time, man. I'll talk to you soon.
SPEAKER_11Uh, can't wait. That's awesome, man. Good stuff today. Later, dude.
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