PAS Single: Rock Myths & Biopics

Some music stories refuse to die, not because they’re true, but because they’re irresistible. We go myth-hunting through rock and pop’s greatest legends: Paul Is Dead, Elvis is alive, “Eric Clapton is God,” Ozzy’s onstage infamy, and the backward-masking panic that turned Stairway to Heaven into a courtroom rumor mill. Along the way, we talk about why a single detail like a missing shoe or a misspelled name can become “evidence,” and how the internet helps conspiracies spread faster than the truth.

Then we flip the record and jump into music biopics. With the Michael Jackson movie landing in theaters, we ask why music biography films hit so hard when they’re done right. We stack-rank favorites, argue about what holds up, and come back again and again to the movie that sets the modern standard: Bohemian Rhapsody. From there we shout out essentials like La Bamba, Walk the Line, The Doors, Coal Miner’s Daughter, and Ray, plus curveballs like 8 Mile, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and even Amadeus for the reminder that musical genius and rivalry didn’t start with guitars.

We also get personal about how these movies and songs land at home, from sharing Queen with the kids to the brutal truth that our podcast might be the world’s most effective sleep aid. Listen, laugh, then tell us what we missed: what rock myth do you secretly love, and what’s your all-time best music biopic? If you enjoy the show, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review.

One idea.  Six songs.  Infinite possibilities...

Transcript

Cold Open And Host Banter

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Ambient, it's for suckers. Why don't you tune into this podcast?

SPEAKER_00 0:04

Welcome to the perfect album side. One idea, six songs, infinite possibilities.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

His name is Windham. Welcome back, everybody. We got a perfect album side single episode today. Uh, Wyndham, hello again. Good to see you.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

Hello. I'm, you know, and I want to start off by saying I'm sorry for that ugliness just now. That was a really uncomfortable moment. I got scolded because I was speaking unintentionally during the Steve's famous opening, global opening. And I hope we can get past that.

Michael Jackson Favorites And Feedback

SPEAKER_02 1:00

We can. It's just it's really become tradition now. I'm I I and now I have to warn you. Like, hey, that's boy, that look on your face. I'd hate to be on the business end of that look. I'm about to do it. I'm about to do the opening. And I'm like, are you ready? And you're like, yeah, I'm ready. And I'm like, so I start to do it, and then you start talking, and I'm like, did he not hear what I said? But I mean, it's okay. I want you to talk. You're welcome. It doesn't sound like it. It sounds the exact opposite. Like, I've told you not to speak on this podcast. Speaking of speaking on this podcast, we spoke uh last week on this podcast uh about uh the king of pop, Michael Jackson. Um I enjoyed that episode. It was really cool. Um yeah, I mean, what what did you think? Do you any feedback?

SPEAKER_03 1:45

I I I I I did love that episode, and I one thing I do I got some feedback too that I'm gonna share in just a second. I'm gonna spotlight something our listeners, one of our listeners said, loyal listeners at that. Any any favorite MJ songs that we didn't spotlight on the perfect album side? Is there any songs that you you know if we were gonna do you were gonna tell a friend if you you know you want to listen to Michael Jackson?

SPEAKER_02 2:08

You you know that I'm a a a rock and roll guy. I'm a rock guy. Yeah. And the most stars is the most rocking song that that MJ has, in my opinion, is Dirty Diana. And we I think we may have hinted at it briefly, but it wasn't we didn't play it. Um Dirty Diana is an awesome song. I think Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson and then Black Cat by Janet Jackson are are two of my favorite songs by the Jackson Pimp. They're both like that when when they go when they go rock, when they go metal, and I dig it.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

You I uh uh yeah, I both those songs are are great. Um to me, PYT.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

PYT, pretty young thing. I love that song.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Yeah, um, I think that's good. We talked about uh that one-two punch opening up off the wall, uh rock with you. I think that's a great song. It is. Um did you happen, I'm gonna put you on the spot, then I want to give you some feedback on the episode. Did you happen to give Al Capone a listen? We talked about it.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

I haven't yet. It's funny that you say that because uh I I was quality checking the episodes. I had to re-listen to the other day, and uh and I heard you say that. I'm like, oh yeah, I need to go back and listen to it. I have not listened to the Al Capone thing yet.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Yeah, everybody listen to the give Al Capone by Michael Jackson. It's a song, not it's a song title, not talking about the gangster. Uh Steve's the original gangster, but give that song a listen and see if there, and you may have already listened to the last episode, but see if there's a song by Michael Jackson. That song Al Capone reminds you of. You'll it'll come to you. Let me share some quick feedback, Stone Cold, and then we want to move on to what we're here to talk about. Side A and side B. Yeah, I got a really interesting post on Facebook uh from one of our most loyal listeners, Beth Cairns, and Beth uh was mentioning how much she loves this episode, and then she threw this out. It was so casual. Had a 10-minute conversation with a 24-year-old post-off the wall pre-thriller, Michael Jackson. And I'm just like, what? How do you not like carry that? That would be on my LinkedIn page. Yes, yeah. Uh she met him at the Royal Plaza Hotel at Disney. He was swimming late night, says very complimentary, says he was very sweet, very shy, and his family had gone off to do something else, um, and thought that he'd be being in the park would cause a little too much commotion. I get that, I'm the same way. My family doesn't want me around, that's what they tell me. Uh but and the night before, get this the night before she met Janet, Jackie, and their mom. And so I thought that was really interesting. Like having a random run-in with Michael Jackson, that's unheard of. At the swimming pool. No, at the swimming pool at Disney.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

What'd you do last night? Uh, I did some laps with Michael Jackson. Yeah. What'd you do? At the time, what'd you do?

SPEAKER_03 5:01

Uh, and I'll tell you another thing about that episode, and let's get into the conversation though. A lot of feedback on off the wall. You know, so many people automatically default knee jerk to thriller being their favorite album. Uh, a lot of feedback that we're getting on the social Stone Cold is off the wall. OTW is the is their preferred Michael Jackson record. And I find that interesting, and I love it because it's traditional.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Obviously, Thriller is Thriller. We all know it. We've beat that uh horse to death. Uh Off the Wall is great. I'll tell you what what I rediscovered was bad. The album Bad is fantastic, and it gets overshadowed just like Off the Wall does, because it's the album before Thriller and the album after Thriller that both get overshadowed by Thriller. But those albums are incredible, really, really good.

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Do you think with those, the three big albums? I mean, Dangerous is in there too, but just that three album run of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad, do you think his genre changes just a little bit with each of them? Because Bad to me is the rock album from Michael Jackson. You know, Billy uh Beat It's a rock song.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, off the wall. I mean, it's clearly closer to disco than anything else. But it's disco, but it taken to another level, a Michael level. Um, and then Thriller was just something we'd never heard before. I mean, it was pop music uh unlike anything we'd ever heard before.

SPEAKER_03 6:25

Rock pop for sure. Yeah. And I I just thought bad was just raw. I thought he just unleashed a little bit more. Steve Stevens plays that good famous guitar track on Dirty Dino. We talked about that. But never mind all that, Stone Gold.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Never mind all that. That was last week. Today we are here with a perfect album side single. You have brought a side A. I have no idea what it is. I have brought a side B. I did give you a heads up as what side B was because I didn't want you to come in completely blank. But hey, man, the con is yours. What are we talking about on side A of the perfect album side single today?

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Yeah, you definitely offered up your side B. Uh, I offered you no such grace. No, thank you. You're coming in blind on this.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

I mean, I'm a better person than you are. Yeah, you're more giving.

Rock And Pop Music Myths

SPEAKER_03 7:10

That's the better part. My soul is dark. I mean, let's just be honest. Wow. Uh, everyone knows it. Uh, what we're talking about today, Stone Cold, rock and roll myths. Rock and roll myth. There's always stories out there. You've heard some of the big ones of, you know, I I would say, you know, the oldest one, and is that Robert Johnson, the famous blues guitarist from the Mississippi Delta, that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Uh how about how about uh Paul Is Dead? That's the other one. I think Paul is Dead is one of the best ones. Uh, I've got a friend of mine that did a uh thesis on Paul is Dead, and it is a real thing. So, what I wanted to talk about is let's hear some. I know I'm hitting you uh, you know, off the cuff. You're not prepared for this, but you came up with a good one right out of the gate. A couple of others that I'll say, another big one, which I don't know if this is a myth or just like a uh I don't know what you call it, uh, but or an anecdote. Elvis is alive. Elvis Elvis is still living.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Paul is dead, Elvis is alive. Um those are both great ones. And and I, you know, I think we're both both old enough to remember uh, you know, people still talking about Elvis you know being alive like in the late 70s, early 80s, which was you know crazy, of course, but it it was certainly talked about. And and I think that Paul is dead is the same thing. Oh, oh, here's one more. Uh Eric Clapton is God.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

I mean that was so uh I'll tell you, when when you when you Well you said you book can believe uh you know, isn't it true that everything written on the side of a barn in rural England is true? Eric Clapton is God, sure.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

Um one that comes to mind is Ozzie Osborne. Uh, you know, biting the head off rats, you know, eating rats, eating birds, all all this shit that he did on stage. And you know, that there is some truth to that, but I think a a lot of it just got blown up into this he's this Satan worshipping freak who eats rats for dinner, and that wasn't the case. But you know, he was a lunatic, no doubt. But uh I think the mythology behind Ozzie is is real.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

And and those are ones that that's a good one. Everyone knows that one, right? And like uh him biting the head off bats. When did I say rats? I meant bats. You said rats, bats, yeah. I was thinking of rats. Yeah, bats. Everyone knew what you meant. Um, I love those. You know, the thing about Elvis is dead, I don't know if anyone, I mean Elvis is alive, excuse me. I don't know if anyone really believes Elvis is alive. Right. I I don't I but you say something there are people out there that will make a hell of an argument that Paul McCartney died in a fiery car crash, and that the winner of a Paul McCartney look-alike contest stepped in famously.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

The the the winner of the Paul McCartney look-alike contest, you know, I saw Paul McCartney in concert 15, 20 years ago, and that guy was fantastic. I don't know if it was Paul McCartney or not, but he looked a lot like him, and he sounded like him, and he was great. And he was great, yeah. I I I think it probably was Paul McCartney. I think he's I think he's alive.

SPEAKER_03 10:15

That's the that's my the first one I wrote down. I've got a few more, but the reason why this is that one is one of the more popular ones, look how the Beatles jumped in on it. The Beatles said, we'll play two. How about we have fun with it? Can we have fun with this? The Abbey Road cover. Explain. Uh, check out Abbey Road. Paul McCartney is not wearing shoes. You don't wear shoes in a coffin.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

So because he didn't wear shoes on the cover, everybody assumed he was dead. I'm stretched. I mean, I don't know. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

That didn't start it, that just kept it going.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Okay, well, here's one. Elvis uh Elvis is alive. The they misspelled his name on the tombstone, and it's still there today. I think it I think they've got either two A's or two R's in his middle name, which is Aaron, Elvis Aaron Presley, and it's spelled wrong on his tombstone. They're like, the family would never have allowed this if he was actually dead, which he is not.

SPEAKER_03 11:07

Yeah, I wish Elvis was alive. Uh it reminds me of former Falcons head coach Jerry Glanville, who always left two tickets at every game for Elvis Presley. Uh, I love that one. So here's here's what I like most about this, and I I've got a few more that I'm gonna read off, but what I like is when you can bring up a just one piece of however flimsy, one piece of evidence that might keep the myth going. How about this one? Stairway, I mean this is this is one of the first ones, Steve. Stairway played backward, played backwards.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

There are a few besides stairway, you know. I I think a few bands got sued in the early to mid eighties for for putting backward messages on their uh on their records. And you know, uh, I I think speaking of Aussie, I think Ozzy was one of them. Uh maybe Black Sabbath got sued for the uh unfortunate suicide of a uh uh a teenager. Tipper Gore. Yeah, yeah, Stipper Gore, thank you. Um tell me more about Stairway.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Uh well, I mean that listen, Stairway to Heaven is considered the ultimate rock song. It's considered the ultimate rock radio song. I think it's one of the most heavily played songs on rock radio. And it the the myth just came down to it that if you played Stairway backwards, it was uh it was encouraging cultish stuff, satanic stuff, um, and it was apparently clear as day. You know, you you nor I have ever met someone that tried this and can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that that happens. And and you know, and and there's also some Beatles stuff that that there's some Beatles myths about the same kind of thing. You play it backwards, it says Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead. So that's so easy, though, right? That's an easy one. What about a couple more of these Stone Cold as we as we're having some fun with this? I'm listening. Kurt Cobain. I'm familiar with his work. He was CIA and it was not suicide. Uh I mean, look, we had yes or no, you've heard that.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Uh yes, I've heard it that it was not a suicide. Uh CIA, I've I've heard all that. He was murdered. I've heard that that she was responsible for it. You know, there's all these rumors. Um, you know, it with the advent uh of Twitter and the internet, you know, these rumors spread faster than the truth.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

Uh totally. And it's yeah, especially these days, right? It's a lot easier for these things to catch fire. Uh we talked about Michael Jackson earlier. How about this one? Michael Jackson's nose was a fake. Too many surgeries destroyed the bone cartilage, and his fo his nose was a prosthetic.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

I'm not familiar with the rhinoplasty procedures of the day in the late 80s, but uh, you know, yes, I came up with the word rhinoplasmic called.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Yeah, yeah. Uh, I'm dropping rhinoplasty. Did you have that?

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Is that word of the day toilet paper? Uh I'm gonna talk to my ENT specialist about that and see if uh if that's doable. Because I could use a new nose, to be honest. I'm not thrilled with this one. Oh, really? It's a nice nose. Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03 14:11

See, I can be nice. Uh, how about this one? Uh Mick Jagger. You've heard this one. Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you've heard this one. Caught in the sack together by Bowie's wife, Angie. And the and the rock and roll myth, hang on, that's part one, part two. The rock and roll myth continues that Mick Jagger wrote the song Angie about that moment.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Uh, I cannot speak intelligently about the bedroom habits of Mick Jagger nor David Bentley.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

No, nothing wrong with that, of course. Uh, you know, if you watch the uh the video that they did together, uh it was it, 1985. Um uh what's the song? It's the Dancing in the Streets. Dancing in the Streets, thank you. Isn't this a rock and roll podcast? I mean, it took me a second, sorry. Uh Dancing in the Streets, uh, their cover of the Supremes hit, of course. Um was it the Supremes? Uh Martha and the Vandelas. Martha and the Vandelas. Gosh darn it. Oh my gosh. I'm way off my game today. My back hurts from carrying this podcast. Anyway, if you watch that video, you know, you can maybe start to see uh maybe they were right. Maybe they were right. I don't know they're right. Yeah, like I said, I I can't speak intelligently about the bedroom habits of uh of Mick Jagger, nor David Bowie.

SPEAKER_03 15:29

Uh let's let's oh I know we've got an exciting uh side B to get to. Let's let's broaden the scope just real quick for our listeners. Uh taking it one step out, one orbit out. Any other pop culture myths that you hang on to? I wrote down I wrote down three sports myths.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

Um I I I can I can combine those two into one. I mean, uh as recently as a couple of years ago, I mean, there was you know political talk out there about uh Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, and the NFL is rigged, and all of this is okay, you know, this relationship with with T Swift and and Travis Kelsey is is not real, and she's a a PSYOP for the Democratic Party, and and and and the NFL is scripted, and they they made the Chiefs go to the Super Bowl to promote, you know, just a bunch of F and nonsense, but it it was out there.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

Yeah, it's out there. I I had not heard the PSYOP part, I heard the others that you mentioned. Um here here's a couple uh sports myths, and I was just writing all this down. The first one is back in 2001, uh, everybody knows Dale Earnhardt died at the in the on the last lap of the Daytona 500. I watched it live. I did too. Uh what some people may not remember is when the rate when the NASCAR series came back to Daytona that same year in July, Dale Jr. won. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won that race. And there's a big myth out there, conspiracy theory myth, whatever you want to call it, that uh that rig that race was rigged um to spotlight Dale Earnhardt Jr. after his dad died on the track. Uh Cal Ripkin in his last All-Star game hit a home run. Cal Ribkin was not a home run hitter. Uh the myth is that that was scripted during the steroid era of baseball, that uh baseball needed to bring some better press. And they they scripted the pitch to Cal Ripkin and he knew what was coming. He still had to hit a home run. I don't care if he knew it was coming or not.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

I I I don't buy into many conspiracy theories uh at all. Uh I just you know, you know how hard it is just to pull a meeting together of of a few people uh and get everybody's calendars right, yet alone throw in, oh yeah, by the way, we also want you to hit the ball 485 feet uh at the end of this. Like it's it's just I I don't buy into many conspiracy theories.

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Call me.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

I see that. I'm hearing that. I'll tell you one, I'll tell you one of these that is not a myth. Uh Shakira. Uh her hips that they do lie. Just to be clear, uh they I've been lied to many, many times by Shakira's hips.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

Uh yeah, we all have. Mesmerizing, no doubt. Uh let's hear from let's hear from across the globe. Uh hit us on the socials, uh, Instagram and uh Twitter, uh X if you will at PerfectAlbum S I D. Let us know what you think. What are some music rock myths, not theories, rock and music myths that are out there? Uh, give us some really good ones. I want to see if we can come up with a few that I've not heard before. I heard one today. Uh Mr. Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo. When's the last time you heard that? I can't believe it. I'm hearing it now. Mr. Green Jeans was the father of Frank Zappa. That was a myth that went around for a while. Why is that? Frank Zappa had a song called Mr. Green Jeans, G-E-N-E-S. Uh, not J-E-A-N-S, but nonetheless.

SPEAKER_02 18:56

So you you came prepared today. I did not know that Mr. Green Jeans would get a reference ever again.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

I didn't know rhinoplasty would either. So and and and Beth Cairns is sitting out there saying, I didn't think I was gonna get mentioned on a global podcast like this. So, Stone Cold, why don't we flip this record and hit us with that side beat?

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Oh man, we were talking uh about um Michael Jackson, obviously, in the in the last episode and earlier in this episode, and you know, we put out that episode, and it just happened to coincide with the the um the the biopic on Michael Jackson that has just come out in the movie theaters. Uh, for those of you that are listening to this through two and three years in the future, uh the Michael Jackson movie just came out uh this this week, so it's good timing with our episode, but it started me thinking about hey, how come we've never talked about uh music biopics on the Perfect Dom Side Podcast? And I I was just curious, excuse me, you know, maybe what your top two, three, four favorite music. I know that you're you, like me, love a good uh rock and roll autobiography or a biography. Uh, but let's talk about the movies, the biopics, and give me your top two or three that that you remember that you love.

SPEAKER_03 20:06

Oh gosh. Well, I I'll say this, and and in the past when you and I have kind of just gone back and forth on something close to this, uh Bohemian Rhapsody.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Um, and it very well may be the best one. Uh a lot of people don't know the strife that was going on in that band, but to to come back, and they really made this work, I thought they did such a good job with the live aid piece. Yeah, I know we've talked about that a few times. That was gotta be one of my favorites. Um, I you know, I the Bob Dylan one I didn't think was that good. I to be honest with you, um, I didn't think the the recent Elton John Biopic was that good, Rocket Man was that good. Um I have I have not seen the Bruce Springsteen one. Um so uh yeah, I I I'd say Bohemian Rhapsody is probably my favorite. Hit me with hit me with one of yours. I'm interested in that.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

I'll tell you, yeah, I'm I I kind of ranked them myself. Like, okay, here are my three or four favorite. And number one, uh clear as day is Bohemian Rhapsody, but yeah, about Queen. It's it's just it's Bohemian Rhapsody, 50 feet of crap, and then every other movie uh in my mind. Um but that being said, you know, I I I still like La Bamba. I love the Richie Vallon story. Uh that is one of my favorites. Um then you get into uh walk the line, pretty darn good.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

On my list, absolutely sad. It's hard. That's a hard movie to watch.

SPEAKER_02 21:37

You know, we I don't want to just sit here and list every biopic ever, but Great Balls of Fire, the uh Jerry Jerry uh Jerry Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry thank you. Couldn't think of that. I was about to say Jerry Jones. Uh Jerry Lee Lewis story, uh good. Uh but uh the the the the big one uh to me is the doors.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

Yeah, that was that that was my next one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Um love that one. Uh a couple of them that I think get overlooked. Uh 8 Mile. You know, 8 Mile is kind of is it a biopic? Is it not? But I think it's based enough on Eminem that you would call that a biopic. It just happens to star Eminem. Coal Miner's Daughter. Really good. Yeah. Ray, pretty darn good. I have not seen the new Elvis one, and I'm really looking forward to the you know, it came out maybe a year ago. I still haven't watched it yet, but I want to see the Elvis one. How much do you? Any others?

SPEAKER_03 22:27

I love the doors. Um I that's I can't believe you said coal miner's daughter. That is I mean, that's that's one of the originals. That's a really good one. Um, one of the ones that I thought about uh that I thought was good. What's love got to do with it? Back from about 30 something or plus years ago. Um that came out in 1993. S 93, that's right. Um, which I thought was I thought it was good. And then another one of these that I first got to know, uh the Buddy Holly story, starring uh Gary Busey.

SPEAKER_02 22:58

Um what I like about that one is it ends the same way that Richie Vallens one ends. Crazy.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Yeah, and you know, the big bopper biopic, which is still being worked on. Uh well, they gotta find a new ending to that one. Yeah, it's very similar to what happens. We know how this one goes. Uh here's here's a rock and roll, just kind of doing some research on this. Here's a rock and roll biopic I had not seen, and I wasn't really up to speed that it was even out there. Okay, let me see if you've heard of this one. I know you have Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame, but weird, the Al Yankovic story.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

I I I watched it actually. Um, it's it's bizarre. I mean, it's what you would expect uh from Weird Al Yankovic. It's it is it's crazy. I mean, do I consider it a great movie? Absolutely not. As a as a Weird Al Yankovic fan, I had to watch it. You know, it's uh it's entertaining, it's just weird as it's weird.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

I mean, I I we talk about Weird Owl a lot, we give him a lot of props on this podcast, but I'm thinking Daniel Radcliffe, who was in probably one of the top three or four greatest movie franchises, the star of all time, and now he's doing a Weird Owl parody. Or not a parody, but a Weird Owl uh biopic.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

I'm like he needed to take a different turn in his career.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

You don't want to be typecast, Don Cole.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Uh One Love, the Bob Marley story, uh good. Okay. Um Amadeus.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Oh, that is okay. That's probably my favorite, I will say. I didn't even think about Amadeus.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Dude, I mean, I go 18th century with this stuff. You know, I go way too. Yeah, I try to do whatever I can. I hope it was the 18th century. Was that Amadeus time frame?

SPEAKER_03 24:50

Uh I think we, I think you actually 17th century. 17th century. Yeah, I think that's I think I misspoke. But anyway. Man, that is a good one. We watched that in school in seventh grade, and that movie I thought was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

It it really, it really is. Um I I think we we've both kind of uh I think we've both agreed that you know Bohemian Rhapsody's just set the bar for every other one of these movies, and it's gonna be hard to go past that. We watched it recently, and I mean as as recently as like five days ago, my entire family watched it, uh, let the kids watch it for the first time. And now all we listen to at my house is Queen right now, and my kids are getting really into it, which is super fun. And may maybe you've experienced the same thing with your kids. I mean, when they when you start to share a passion for the same music, uh that's pretty exciting. And it may not last forever. But right now, we're all into Queen.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

Yeah, and I'll I'll say this, that's so funny. Um, because my son likes music, my youngest son, and it it's almost rewarding or validating, or hey, I may have done something right after all when I hear him singing the lyrics of songs that I grew up singing the lyrics to. Yeah. And I'm like, how how do you but I'm like, I'll you know what? Just keep your mouth shut and let him have his day, because that's really cool. So totally get that.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

I'm glad to hear that you have that relationship going. I gotta tell you, uh, speaking of relationships and family and music in our podcast, uh, my wife said something very hurtful to me earlier this week that I thought you would enjoy. Uh, she said to me the other night as we were about to go to sleep, she's like, you know, do you want to put on something to listen to as he as we go to sleep? You know, do you want to like listen to your podcast or something so we can go to sleep?

SPEAKER_03 26:35

Backhanded compliment.

SPEAKER_02 26:37

Yeah, I was like, wow. Uh yeah, she's not a fan.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

Oh, that I don't believe that.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

I mean, she likes me. I mean, who doesn't? Please, please, it's me. But but you know, I don't think she's she's listening to every episode of the of the of the podcast. She's not stopping what she's doing to but and when she does directly to sleep, she goes, apparently. So uh, you know, I chose rolling ocean waves. She was like, Yeah, let's listen to your podcast. I'll be out in five minutes. So yeah, that's so great.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Ambient, it's for suckers. Why don't you tune into this podcast?

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Perfect Albumside Podcast, you'll be out in a minute and a half. So best sleep every year.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Whatever value we can bring with this thing, I've I'll I'll stick with it.

Wrap Up And What’s Next

SPEAKER_02 27:19

They tried to start a music podcast. What they did was corner the market on sleeping drugs. So uh look, this is a single. We're all done here today. Uh side A, musical myths. We crushed that. Totally much like uh Ozzy does with batheads. Uh, and then side B, all about uh music by Opic movies, and and we nailed that. I mean the answer is Bohemian Ahapsody and everything else.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

I'd say a hundred percent. I'll I I don't want to dismiss Amadeus. I think that was an awesome one. That was an incredible selection.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

Well, I'm glad I'm here. Uh, next episode of the Perfect Album Side. As today was a single, the next episode is a full-on uh perfect album side episode, and we are going to go back to the yearly format, and we're gonna pull out 1989. Not the Taylor Swift album, which is fantastic, but the year of 1989. I was 14. Windham was in his doctorate program uh at the University of Wisconsin, I believe. Is that right? Yes. I got the wrong bio. That's the other resume. Sorry. Um 1989. We'll we'll hit it next time on the Perfect Albumside Podcast. Thank you guys for listening. Check out uh Facebook, uh, Instagram, uh X, Twitter. MySpace. Sure, yeah, yeah. Phenomenal. Uh AOL chat rooms. Goodness gracious. There's a whole chat room about the PAS on AOL. Outstanding. Uh good Perfect Albumside single, my man. Talk to you later.

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Yes, absolutely. Later, dude.