The Perfect Album Side Podcast
The Perfect Album Side Podcast
Two Middle-Aged Rock Nerds Walk Into A Debate And Forget Grease
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We kick off the new year debating whether music before 1996 truly hits harder and why easier tools may not equal better songs. Then we switch gears for a spirited soundtrack trivia run, crowning the top five best-sellers and arguing about Grease, Dirty Dancing and the Bee Gees.
• tech lowering barriers while raising noise
• the lost magic of bands in garages
• why friction and scarcity shaped taste
• record stores, ticket lines and shared rituals
• AI tools like Suno and creative shortcuts
• rock’s roots in regional sound migrations
• the new Black Crowes and Stones comparisons
• the highest selling movie soundtracks since 1970
One idea. Six songs. Infinite possibilities...
New Year Banter And Resolutions
SPEAKER_01What's my favorite song of all time?
SPEAKER_02Uh I want to sex you up by Color Me Bad.
SPEAKER_01What is my second favorite song of all time?
SPEAKER_04Welcome to the perfect album side. One idea, six songs, infinite possibilities.
SPEAKER_00Welcome to the show, everybody. Welcome to the show, Mr. Pridgin. Windom.
SPEAKER_01And T G I F. Happy New Year. Yeah, yeah. Happy New Year. Happy Friday. All that good stuff. Glad to see you, man. It's our first 2026 pod, right?
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say, I'm not crazy, right? Like we are starting. Well. Well, I'm crazy. Sorry. Yeah, I mean.
SPEAKER_01I think this is our first 2026 podcast. Installment? Yeah, because we did one right before Christmas. The songs of Christmas. Christmas by the decade. Phenomenal episode. One of my favorites.
SPEAKER_02It got a lot of a really positive pub. A lot of positive people listening.
SPEAKER_01A lot of people listening. Arguing.
SPEAKER_02Everybody wants a piece of the PAS.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's that's accurate. Uh, what's going on with you?
SPEAKER_02Uh, just getting the new year started, you know, getting uh kids set up back into uh the swing of things.
SPEAKER_01You getting New Year's resolutions?
SPEAKER_02I was gonna ask you the same. I don't really I you know what's what am I gonna do this year? I'm I'm gonna try and be nicer. Well, I feel like I feel like in my older age of us crustier.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was gonna say the rest of us had a meeting about that very thing that we we are gonna try and find a way to get you to be a nicer human being. You know, so many people reach out to me and say, Hey, really love the podcast. You Steve, you're hilarious. Wyndham's kind of a dick. And I I've I've never understood uh well, no, it's not true. But anyway, okay.
SPEAKER_02I've understood I understand where those guys are coming from, and please let those folks know.
SPEAKER_01Well, two of them were your family members, so I was a bit surprised, I'll be honest.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they're the ones that probably need to hear that the most. I'm making a concerted effort to be nicer this year. I felt like I have been hypersensitive. I feel like I have been crusty and just salty a lot, and not no more. We're not doing that this year. Okay. Do you think you're gonna keep the beard? Uh there's been talk, actually, of uh I'm gonna be out of town next week. Uh, and when I get back, there is talk. I've already I've already told my wife and my daughter that it may be it may be going
Beards, Aging, And Personal Reset
SPEAKER_02away. Oh my god. I I I've never known you without the beard. Ever. Yeah, it's just here's the deal with the beard. Like it's it's very light colored, it's got some blonde, some light brown, but it's also got a lot of it's got a whole lot of white and gray in there.
SPEAKER_01It's not salt and pepper. There's there's very little pepper. There's very little pepper.
SPEAKER_02Thank you for thank you for being so emphatic about it. Very little. You have lost a lot of hair.
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SPEAKER_02So I'm thinking about letting it go and seeing it.
SPEAKER_01Let it go. Let it go.
SPEAKER_02Thinking about going frozen on it. Yes. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01Um, we are here to do oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_02You have to Well you don't get to you don't get to play this game. What do you what do you got this year?
SPEAKER_01Uh you know, in all honesty, you you you may laugh, but I I I would like to do the podcast more often than we do it.
SPEAKER_02Oh shoot. I feel like I got set up and I did not give the right answer on my.
SPEAKER_01If you cared about this podcast, that's how you would have been. Here we go. You're focused on friends and family and your overall well-being. I'm all about the pod.
SPEAKER_02I I walked right into that trap. Give me a break. Yes, podcast.
SPEAKER_01Your friends are walking into a trap. Well, let's we are starting the new year off on a on a good ride as far as my uh good note uh concerning my my uh resolution of doing more podcasts. I mean, we're we're eight, nine days in and we're getting started. I'm excited.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, every nine days so far, so we should be able to hit at least three this this month, one uh the 18th and the 27th, if my math doesn't fail me.
SPEAKER_01Today, uh well, before we get to
Format Reveal: Side A And Side B
SPEAKER_01today's before we do, we are doing a perfect album side single. You brought a side A, which I know nothing about. I brought a side B, which you know nothing about, or at least you don't know what the topic is. You know a lot about the topic, but you don't know which topic it is. But before we do, as my friend Wyndham would say, I love saying that. Uh great things are happening. Tell us what they are.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there's some new music uh that we're celebrating today from a band that gets a lot of airtime
New Black Crowes Singles And Stones Vibes
SPEAKER_02on the perfect album side podcast. That's the Black Crows. Oh uh, they just released two new singles today, and and I'm assuming, Stone Cold, you have heard these. Am I right? 35 times. Okay, there's the there's Pharmacy Chronicles, which is awesome, and there's profane prophecy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh the the the the pharmacy chronicles is is is my favorite of the two songs thus far. It's really, really good. If you like And I'm the opposite.
SPEAKER_02I like I like Profane Prophecy better.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's that's good. That's good. It's not we're all we're not all loving the same thing. That's great. Uh, don't get me wrong, I like both of them. They're the Black Crows, it's the best band ever. Um if you liked, in my opinion, if you liked the last Black Crows album, Happiness Bastards, it sounds a lot like that. It sounds a lot like that. These two songs, they sound very familiar to me. And if you like the 1973 Rolling Stones, the song that you like reminds me of that a little bit. What?
SPEAKER_02That's what I was gonna say.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02Profame prophecy is brown sugar.
SPEAKER_01It is, it's brown sugar, yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's brown sugar, and the pharmacy chronicles is no expectations off Beggar's Banquet. Go listen to that song. Oh my god. Beggar's Banquet, go listen to that song, and then go listen to Farmer Pharmacy Chronicles and tell me that you don't hear the same. And you and I have had this conversation before, listening to both Amorica, listening to both uh the Southern Musical Companion.
SPEAKER_01Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.
SPEAKER_02Right? Those two songs, I think you and I have even talked about this before, those have just remind me of the Rolling Stones so much. These two songs take it to another level.
SPEAKER_01Both of them, I mean, I I don't think we're breaking new ground by saying the black crows sound like 1970s Rolling Stones. No, I mean that's that's a pretty popular opinion. But these two songs they put out today, uh it's it's like they said, you know what? You think we sound like the stones? Watch this.
SPEAKER_02It's so funny that you said that. I literally had I I texted you before the show that I was taking notes on the new crows music, and that's literally what I said. At peak Rolling Stones, that's what these songs to me remind remind me of. You know what they say about great minds? They think they think alike.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know, something like that.
SPEAKER_02And no one's ever said that to me, so I have no idea what the phrase is. No one thinks I have a great mind. Just a great mind.
SPEAKER_01Location, location, location. I came up with that. Um let's get to today's podcast. That's why all the people are here. That's why everybody has downloaded it, is to say, what are these two guys gonna talk about today? You have brought uh side A of this single, and I have brought side B. I don't know what side A is, you don't know what side B is, but we're gonna have a lively discussion about it, I think. Yeah, it's gonna be starting Peppy. Are you ready? Spin the black needle. Spin the black circle, spin the drop the needle and spin the black circle.
SPEAKER_02It's one of the things.
SPEAKER_01Let's get that record going.
SPEAKER_02Go. Let's get that record going.
The Big Question: Was Music Better Pre‑1996?
SPEAKER_02So here's my question. I and this is a yes or no question.
SPEAKER_01That's gonna be a real short podcast.
SPEAKER_02No, no, then I got a follow-up. All right. Would you agree that music uh say before 1995-96 was better than the music since then?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So here's what I'm gonna ask, or here's what came to my mind when we started talking about doing a singles episode. It's so much easier today to put music out there. It's so much easier to put music together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Right? You and I have even kind of toyed around with some trying to put some tracks down on certain things. Okay. My question is, how how is that that doesn't make any sense? I agree with you. The music pre-1996.
SPEAKER_01Wait, wait, wait, whoa. I disagree completely. I think it makes perfect sense. It's so much uh easier attainable. It's easier to make music, which is good and bad. Here we go.
SPEAKER_02It's easier to put out a crappy product.
SPEAKER_01Right. Anybody can do it now. I mean, with with the AI tools that are out there, this is if you haven't tried this yet. Um, what the what the hell is the name of this thing I just downloaded? Suno or Sono. Suno, yeah. So I tried playing with Suno like last week. It's the coolest thing in the world. You can do anything, you can create any song just by saying, hey, what I want is a 1973 uh British rock-sounding tune with uh seven backup singers, all female, but make them be from the southeastern United States and have the singer have a really raspy voice. Try and accent it with some horns. It's just like
AI, Suno, And The Ease Of Making Songs
SPEAKER_01prompting Chat GPT or Gemini, but it's for music, and then all of a sudden it kicks back uh a music song, and you can write your own lyrics, or hell, you could have you know AI write them for you, but you can make a song in five minutes that is equal to almost anything you hear on the radio, and that's really fun and it's cool, but to me, it it explains a little bit of why maybe music has gone taking a step backwards or creativity is taking a step backwards. Here's one more thing about all of this.
SPEAKER_02What a great question. Do you stop and say, Wow, I'm lucky to have you as a podcast partner?
SPEAKER_01I really am. This is you've you've opened a can of worms that I'm about to jump into. There's there's another thing. Uh I I play drums, you play bass, we've we've both played in rock bands, um, and it's a lot of fun to play in a rock band. Here's the thing, though. Now with garage band and other, you know, similar apps and technology out there, you don't need to know how to play the guitar. You don't need to know how to play bass. You certainly don't need to help play drums. Okay. There's no reason for kids to get together in somebody's garage or basement and form a band anymore. Because the one kid who wants to write music or play music can do it by his or herself. Whereas it used to be, you had to get a couple of 13-year-old kids who you know learned guitar for three or four years or drums or bass or piano or or vocals or whatever, and they all got good at their instrument and said, Hey, we should all get together in my basement and and play a band. I I don't I don't think that happens nearly as much as it did 30 years ago. I know it doesn't. Now people are making music at home, on their own, in their bed, on their iPad, and that's cool, but it's very different. And it it, you know, maybe it loses something. I know this, and then I'll get off my soapbox. Some of the favorite times of my entire life have been in a band rehearsal space when we write a song together and it starts to come together, and we're all just jamming on the tune. Those are some of the favorite feelings I've ever had in my life. I don't get that when I do it on my iPad.
SPEAKER_02Uh 100%. I mean, yes, I can remember you can too the first time me and a couple of other guys got together and decided, well, let's see if we can't play something. Yeah. And the way that sounds, there's no there's no greater feeling. And you've been you've been in it a lot more than I have. So I agree. So you're you're saying kids were better at math before calculators.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Because they had to do it themselves. Well, and and I mean, penmanship was better because you had to write letters and you had to write something now, and and then typewriters and computers came along. I mean and spelling, yeah. Uh, you know, I don't think I'm I'm breaking any any big ground here, but technology changes everything. And some of it's for the better, and some of it's it's not. And, you know, I don't want to sound like the old guy on the in the you know down the street on the who lives in the crusty house um that that's always pissed off about kids
From Bands In Garages To Solo Laptops
SPEAKER_01on his law. But you know, uh to me the fun part, and we've talked about this too, was going to the record store and flipping through records and then finding one and bringing it home and opening it and taking the cellophane off and reading the lyrics and seeing the pictures of your favorite band and the cool artwork they put together and listening to the thing that they wrote in their house, and you take it to your house, as Chris would say. Um, I loved that. Uh and now it's different. But you know what? My kids and your kids will be telling stories about, oh yeah, you used to have to stream it on whatever. You know, it's just things change, and old people like us reminisce about 30 and 40 years ago. You asked the question, was music better pre-1995? And my answer was yes. If you asked my dad, was music better before 1965, he would say, Absolutely. 1948 to 1959 was the greatest time ever for music. So it's to me, it's it's about when you come of age, the music that is popular when you come of age, when you go through your you know, 13 to 20 time frame, that's what you consider the golden years, most people. I'll let you talk now.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no. I love it. And and I'll throw one more in there. The joy of getting up at 4 a.m. and going and sitting in line at Turtles to get Rolling Stones tickets at at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
SPEAKER_01Turtles being the Atlanta record store where you could buy concert tickets. Um, you'd you'd go wait in line or camp out overnight in a parking lot to get tickets to a concert. That was awesome. It was awesome. If you wanted to be front row at Van Halen, you could be front row at Van Halen. You just had to have, well, no job and no responsibilities, and you'd go camp in a record store parking lot for a night.
SPEAKER_02And a lot of cash.
SPEAKER_01Not really, not in 1985. You could see Van Halen front row for eleven dollars.
SPEAKER_02Well, I meant cash on you to pay for the tickets. Like it wasn't like cash.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02Um, yeah, it wasn't the money it is today.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, look, technology changes everything, and some of it's for the better, some of it's not. I think that's gonna continue for forever. Um, and you know, people people will like some of it and people will hate some of it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I think you're right. I mean, honestly, and I think it comes down to it, it meant more back then because it took more effort, it took more of your focus. You couldn't just hit a button and have backing tracks. I mean, one of my favorite things to do is to play bass with the the backing track playing in my headphones. Yeah, you've done that a thousand times. So um I agree. Um, I just I ran thought about that. About how is it possible that the state of rock today and new bands are breaking breaking ground all the time, new music is being thrown out there all the time, boy, we've come a long way. But why was the music better back then? And I agree, that's exactly right. I think there's more effort that had to be made.
SPEAKER_01Well, you had to you had to get five kids in in a in the same room together who had all spent some significant
Nostalgia: Record Stores And Concert Lines
SPEAKER_01time of their life learning an instrument, learning a craft, creating a you know, uh a skill, and then sharing that you know together. That's a cool feeling. And uh now um you don't have to do that anymore. You can have uh the best drummer in the world at your fingertips, you know, you can have a guitarist that can play every chord immediately, you can have a bass player that you know can actually play bass, Nick. Uh you know, I'm not saying you I don't know any of those. Right, right. So I mean you have the best musicians in the world in your pocket. Um that's that's tempting.
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SPEAKER_02Yeah, and it's in you know what's even even crazier? Just think about in 30 years, right? Uh 25 years, where music how music will remember, you know, Chuck Barry, how music will remember Elvis Presley, you know, hadn't been around in almost a hundred years.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, crazy. It's a it's a strange thing to think about is that you know, in fifty years from now, no one will have ever no one will remember Elvis.
SPEAKER_02And how will be Yeah, well, okay. But but I mean, are there any rock? I mean, there's not. Of course there's not. There's not any rock artists from eighty years ago. No. 90 years ago that we're talking about. Bill Haley was close to that.
SPEAKER_01It was about it was about 80 years ago that rock really started to be born, with uh with with sounds coming up from New Orleans and coming down from the Northeast and coming west from Appalachia and all meeting, you know, right around uh Memphis, Tennessee in 1948, 1950. All those sounds coming together at that exact moment is how rock and roll was born. Yeah. Yeah, 100%. Um it's it's if you think about it like that about migration. This I don't mean to get all nerdy on this podcast, but that's that's what we're talking about. We're talking about those French jazz sounds coming north from New Orleans. You know, you have a French colony there, and then these jazz type sounds coming up, and they're as they start to migrate north up the Mississippi up Mississippi River, and then you have these Appalachian tunes with with fiddles and guitars and banjos that are moving west. And you have uh, you know, different sounds coming from from the northeastern United States, and they all meet together at this one time in the late 40s, and rock and roll was born. And to me, that's a fascinating thing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I agree a hundred percent. Um you know, it there is a legitimate history of great rock music and where it came from and how it got to the Delta, right? Yeah, I think that's fascinating. Uh and and how they got it, how did Robert Johnson uh, you know, yeah any transactions around his soul, not notwithstanding? Right, right. Uh but how did they figure all that out?
SPEAKER_01How is it they picked Ralph Macchio to play that guy in that movie? You know what I'm saying? Do you remember that?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, do you know who the bad guy was in the comp oh Steve I.
SPEAKER_01No shit. I didn't realize. I mean, I haven't seen that movie since I was 11.
SPEAKER_02Uh it was on the yeah, you got it, you're nailed it.
SPEAKER_01Karate the other day. The karate kid is a blues legend. The karate kid meets Stevie Ravant.
SPEAKER_02And I never understood how I mean that's not him playing.
SPEAKER_01No, I don't think so. Yeah. No, no, it's not him playing.
SPEAKER_02He sticks to karate. Wait, who's the other uh really I should know this? Oh my gosh. He had the surfing with an alien was his big record. Uh the other guitarist, like uh Steve Vai, but he uh like an like an Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover, but it was not him, it was the other one. He's a little more famous. I don't know. Surfing with the alien, it was his record anyway. It's either him or Steve Vi were the was the bad guy in that movie. Okay anyway, but they didn't have music theory back then. They weren't they weren't playing fifths and thirds, right? They weren't playing pentatonic, they weren't playing Dorian, they weren't doing all that back then, but the music was insane.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I mean, I think you go back 200 years prior to that, and Beethoven and Bach might have something to say about what you just said. I mean, they were playing thirds and fifths,
How Rock Was Born: A Migration Of Sounds
SPEAKER_01and they were creating huge orchestras, and like, you know, anyway, we could go on for days. I know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, uh let's let's flip the record because this is a this could be a really long, great conversation full of full of spry.
SPEAKER_01This might be a topic for another day. My my topic is not really as uh cerebral as yours, and um, maybe uh it'll be a little bit more fun for our listeners. I'm sure they listen, they love listening to me preach from a soapbox, but uh I want to ask you a question. No, and it's a trivia question. I'm
SPEAKER_02These are always so pressure filled.
SPEAKER_01I know, but I liked seeing your eyes dart back and forth with the body. Yeah, but you always see me start getting a little antsy in my chair.
SPEAKER_02Okay, let's go. I'm ready.
SPEAKER_01Side B today is music trivia. No Googling, no lifelines, just windem instincts. Can you name the top five best-selling movie soundtracks since 1970?
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Top five movie soundtracks. You're a movie guy, you're a music guy, you are the host of a globally renowned podcast about music. I'm hoping that you can come up with five of the best-selling movie soundtracks of all time. Well, since 1970. I figured let's keep it, you know, somewhat. Now I'm just gonna start naming I want you to put some put some thought into it and and and work through it and be like, okay, maybe this one, maybe not.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm thinking of the easy ones, the ones that everyone had. So I think of the big chill.
SPEAKER_01The big chill. Great, great guess. Do you want me to tell you if you're right or wrong as we start? Uh I'm gonna tell you, the big chill is not in the top five. Well, you really had to be a good one. It is also not in the top. It is also not in the top ten, nor the top 15. It is number the it is, however, the 18th best-selling movie soundtrack of all time. The Big Chill from 1983. Okay, Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is not in the top five, but it's a great one. It is, however, number eight on the all-time list.
SPEAKER_02So 18 and 8? Boy, I'm really making progress.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, maybe you get 20 with the next one. Uh, you know, the Forest Gump one, that if you remember correctly, it was like two CDs, if not three.
SPEAKER_02Everybody had it. One was blue, one was purple. Everybody had it. Yeah, a fantastic. And there were songs that had been around for ages. Yeah, but in their format, everybody jumped on and said, I gotta have that.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's the cool thing about that soundtrack, is that movie spanned multiple decades, you know, he 50s, 60s, 70s, uh, and into the 80s. Um, and because of that, you know, they pulled all these great hits from from four decades of rock music. Very cool.
SPEAKER_02Uh I want to go boogie nights, but I I'm pretty sure that's not gonna be on there.
SPEAKER_01No, but they did an excellent use of Night Rangers. Um, yeah, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Sister Christian.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Sister Christian. It is not in the top 20, certainly not in the top five.
SPEAKER_02Uh all right, now we're gonna go into another level. I want to say I'm thinking big
Pivot To Side B: Soundtrack Trivia
SPEAKER_02time big hits. Titanic.
SPEAKER_01Titanic is the number three best selling movie soundtrack of all time. Well, since 1970, but I think these are pretty much all timers. Uh Celine Dion, My Heart will go on. The rest of the soundtrack of the Titanic soundtrack is orchestral. Yeah, and it's mid. But that one Celine Dion song made it the number three biggest selling uh soundtrack of all time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, well, that's one of the biggest songs of all time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh okay, so at least I'm not gonna get shut out.
SPEAKER_01Um you know, the people in their cars are driving along and they're just yelling out movie titles right now and they're arguing. I hope they are.
SPEAKER_02I can hear them. I can see them.
SPEAKER_01Somebody's like, I'm pretty sure the Flintstone soundtrack was awesome. The other one's going, No, it really, you're insane.
SPEAKER_02If this guy doesn't say Police Academy 7, I'm hanging up.
SPEAKER_01It was certainly superior to the Police Academy 5 and four soundtracks.
Guessing The Giants: Titanic And Whitney
SPEAKER_01Uh, what about the bodyguard? The bodyguard is in the top five. It is the number one uh selling movie soundtrack of all time. Whitney Houston, I will always love you. I'll tell you that song's making a comeback. I mean, it never went away. But because of all these uh reels and TikToks on TV, people trying to hit the note. Yeah, the the the drum note, uh, it's it's it's all over the uh it's all over the interwebs.
SPEAKER_02That soundtrack and Titanic soundtrack, the movies obviously did both did well, but soundtracks that are based on two major hit songs.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, yeah. I mean, you gotta have one that that really uh drives album sales. So you've gotten two of the five. Now, these other two, these other three songs in the top five, uh, I'm pretty sure we have talked uh, I know we've talked at least about two of the three. I think we've talked about all three of them. Um, but think think about think think it through. What else you can do?
SPEAKER_02I think okay, well, uh Frozen.
SPEAKER_01Frozen. You heard us singing it earlier on this episode. Did you hear me sing it earlier? Let it go. Yeah, let it go. Let it go. Yeah, I was doing that as a little hint. It's not in the top five, though. It is, however, number 12 all time. Let it go.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Uh frozen. I want to stay Disney. I'm taking it. I'm thinking Beauty and the Beast.
SPEAKER_01I'm thinking Beauty and the Beast is not in the top 20. I'm sorry. I I correct, I I spoke too soon. It is number 17, 1991. Beauty and the Beast. Uh it's number 17.
SPEAKER_027, 16. I've that that's even harder than naming the top five. I've gotten 16, 17, and 18.
SPEAKER_01Uh, you didn't get 16. You've got 17, 18, 12, 8, 1, and 3.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I thought I thought Frozen was gonna be able to do that. That's number 12.
SPEAKER_01Number 12. Now, the most of these um are, you know, very few of them are are past 2,000. Very few of them. Okay, that's helpful.
SPEAKER_02Uh give me a couple more guesses and then we'll we'll stop torturing the little the listeners.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think we give you a couple more uh shots at this.
SPEAKER_02I think there are a lot of dashboards in vehicles that have holes in them because they're getting so frustrated that I'm not getting the obvious one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think there are two or three obvious ones that you are overlooking.
SPEAKER_02Um I'm thinking of big movie hits. Uh I mean, uh now I said frozen and beauty and the beast. Now I'm stuck on like cars and I'm stuck on Toy Story. Um, those aren't on
Cracking The List: Grease, Dirty Dancing
SPEAKER_02there.
SPEAKER_01Um can you give me, is there any type of hit? Two of them, two of them that are in the top five came from the 1970s, and they are both have big musical numbers in the movie. They are so Chicago. Chicago. No, no, Chicago is not in the top 20. Um these are sung oh, excuse me, one of them is sung by you know the actors, and we've talked about it on the Perfect Dom Side podcast. Uh and the duets episode. I it was my first duet.
SPEAKER_02Not officer and a gentleman.
SPEAKER_01No, no, Jennifer Warner and Joe Cocker. Uh the one I want. Oh, Grease? Grease is the number four. Damn it.
SPEAKER_02Sorry, so that's three. I'm missing two and five.
SPEAKER_01You are missing two and five, and I know that we have talked about number five. The song that drove the sales of this has been on the perfect album side uh a couple of times at least.
SPEAKER_02Um are both after 2000, both this century?
SPEAKER_01No, no. They're both of the uh one of them is 1977, the other is 1987. Okay, well, it'll be easy to say Star Wars, but that's not it. I was shocked to see that Star Wars was not in the top 20 movie soundtracks of all time. I was I was shocked. Yet the greatest showman from 2017 is somehow. I don't understand. Let me tell you a couple that you that you've uh let me go through some of the the top 20 while you're trying to think of two and five. Um, A Star Is Born, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, 16. There's your 16.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01Oh brother, where art thou? Which is one of my favorites, uh, number 20. Uh-huh. Uh the Batman uh movie with Prince. Uh 19. Uh, the greatest showman we talked about. Here's a here's one that I thought would be higher. Footloose. Everybody had the footloose cassette tape in in 1986, 85, 84. Uh, footloose is number 14. Rocky Balboa. Not Rocky Balboa, Rocky,
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SPEAKER_01the Rocky soundtrack.
SPEAKER_02The original Rocky, okay.
SPEAKER_01The original Rocky, 1976. Uh, Top Gun, yeah, Hans Zimmer. Top Gun. There you go. Uh, Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring from 2001. That one was a little surprising to me. Uh, one of the best-selling orchestral scores of all time. Um, 1983's Flash Dance.
SPEAKER_02What a pill. I get it. Yeah, totally. I didn't think that would make it, but that's another one with a big song that carried the soundtrack. Okay.
SPEAKER_01What's my favorite song?
SPEAKER_02I Wanna Sex You Up by Color Me Bad.
SPEAKER_01What is my second favorite song of all time?
SPEAKER_02It's a shit's a Cheryl Crow song because I know that you love her.
SPEAKER_01It's not. You know I don't like Crow.
SPEAKER_02I have me too. I can't remember. What is your favorite song of all time?
SPEAKER_01Purple Rain.
SPEAKER_02Oh, Purple Rain? Does that count? I guess so. I don't think of it as a soundtrack, though. It's it is, you're right. It is. There's a movie, Purple Rain.
SPEAKER_01Well, the song Purple Rain is from the album Purple Rain. Yeah, but I just never think of it.
SPEAKER_02I never think of it like that.
SPEAKER_01Uh okay, so Well, you might you might have been the wrong person to ask this question.
SPEAKER_02That's pretty good. I did get 40%.
SPEAKER_01You did, you did. We're down to um uh number six, and it's a cartoon.
SPEAKER_02And it's not uh it's not Beauty and the Beast, it's not um it's it's uh Thank you Elton John and Hans Zimmer.
SPEAKER_01Lion King. There you go. Lion King. I was surprised that that Tarzan was not on here. You know, Phil Collins and that whole Tarzan thing, that didn't make it. Um, 1977. Oh, uh Back to the Future. That's 1985 and now it's not.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Um I I'm thinking jaws close to the third kind.
SPEAKER_01I'm thinking uh
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SPEAKER_01I'm gonna put you for this. This is not working. You're you're just you're embarrassing yourself. Um I'm gonna give you uh I'm gonna give you two words.
SPEAKER_02No, dirty dancing, damn it.
SPEAKER_01There you go. Uh Dirty Dancing comes in at number five, and the number two, 1977, of Saturday Night Fever. Saturday Night Fever. You got it. The BGs. So the top five best-selling movie soundtracks of all time at number five Dirty Dancing. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you which I'm gonna tell you if I haven't seen it. That's impossible.
SPEAKER_02There's already a couple, so might as well keep going.
SPEAKER_01Okay, dirt Dirty Dancing, uh, number five. At number four, Greece. If you have you say you haven't seen Greece, we're gonna hang up this call and watch it right now.
SPEAKER_02I've seen it. Don't say I've seen a good bit of it. I haven't seen it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Jesus. I know that needs to be on your to-do list. Uh Titanic, which you've got at number three, Celine Dion and Friends. Number two, Saturday Night Fever, The Bee Gees, Stay Yeah.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_01Well, you you it you you act like You call yourself a movie guy. Like you say that I'm a movie.
SPEAKER_02You know, but you're you know the list of movies that I've not seen is uh disgusting.
SPEAKER_01Is long. I've not I mean uh did you own a VCR or a DVD player at any point in your life? Do you have HBO? Have you ever seen HBO? And the number one movie, uh excuse me, the number one best-selling movie soundtrack of all time, uh Whitney Houston, may she rest in peace. I will always love you. Uh, for those of you that were too little or too young um or too old and and don't remember the the hugeness of I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston in 1992. Uh it was it was big. It was big. A lot of people like that. Are you Googling? I see you typing away over there.
SPEAKER_02What do you what are you doing? Oh, just fiddling.
SPEAKER_01Just fiddling.
SPEAKER_02I've seen the bodyguard. Just uh in all honesty, that's the worst movie on the show. I don't think it's that good, but it's it the timing was great. Whitney Houston was mega popular, and Kevin Costner was just starting to emerge as uh a leading heartthrob.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I I look at this list of 20 best-selling movie soundtracks, and I I feel like I've owned 15 to 16 of these in my life. Like in physical form, not streaming, like I owned a tape or a record.
SPEAKER_02I'm of 100% past the big chill, guess. And you telling me not once but twice, great. You said great, great, and I'm like, we're getting started on the right note. This is gonna be awesome.
SPEAKER_01I mean, uh the big chill, I I'm I'm also I it's on here. I told you it's number 18. But not in the top five. But big chill, I mean, that's a good way to start. You know, filmed over in the middle of the city.
SPEAKER_02Can you tell me what um um what move what college they all went to?
SPEAKER_01Um I'm assuming it was somewhere in the northeast. They were not southerners in the movie, uh and it probably has something to do with you and your life, and they didn't go to Alabama. Um Wesleyan. Uh Michigan. I don't know. Clemson, Michigan. Michigan. What the hell would they want to do for South Carolina if they all went to Michigan? Well, they should have filmed that in Ann Arbor. Um, you know, they got their troubles, troubles of their own. Uh, everything okay at home? All good, still married?
SPEAKER_02I think so. Oh god. Uh yes. My my daughter off to London. And she is in London for the next six months.
SPEAKER_01You should have bought her a plane ticket.
SPEAKER_02Well, it's just shipping is um well, it was more of a castaway raft than anything. Um she should be she should be just hitting international waters right about now.
SPEAKER_03Well S.
SPEAKER_01So that's what's happening. And uh and your family. Uh this was a good perfect album side single, my man. Side A was great, a lot of deep cerebral discussion, a lot of me preaching, and then side B, uh watching you from the city.
SPEAKER_02A lot of you preaching on side A, a lot of you judging on side B. Critiquing.
SPEAKER_01If hey, if there's one thing I like to do, or two things I like to do, it's preach and judge.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm giving I'm giving you some great opportunities here on the pod. Uh, great episode. Uh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Good to see you. Good discussion. I don't know what our next topic is or when we're when we're releasing the next full perfect album side uh podcast, but I assure you it will be in the month of January of 2026.
SPEAKER_02We're on a good pace. All right. See you buddy.
SPEAKER_01Uh later, dude.
SPEAKER_02Bye.
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