The Bobby Bones Show - BONUS: BobbyCast #161 - Artists Who Hate Playing Their Hits with Bobby and Eddie

Episode Date: November 28, 2019

Bobby and Eddie talk about 9 artists who hated their biggest hits. From Oasis "Wonderwall" to Miley Cyrus "Party in the USA". Bobby and Eddie talk about the stories behind why the hated the songs and sometimes refused to play them live.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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which is interesting. I told you about this yesterday, and I was like, I want you to hop on because this is a good one. I like it. Do you know any of these? I was trying to guess some, and I would think red hot chili peppers would come to mind, like under the bridge. They don't like playing that one? I would think not, right? Oh, you don't know.

I don't know. Is that on here? Because every time I've been to like 10 chili pepper shows, they play it every time. Oh, they do? Yeah, and the whole place is like, and I don't ever want to be. That's their smash, right? Like, that's their big song. To me it is.

To me it is. That got them started. I think that that was their moment song, but I don't know if it was their biggest song. Because I would think that something like an aeroplane. Oh, yeah. Something that we don't think is the biggest, because we're, hardcore chili pepper fans but actually pop the mainstream because it was in Beavis and Butthead Pop Radio played the crap out of it right so I would think it would be something like it's my

Aeroplane yeah okay so not to totally shift at the beginning of this but I would think like that or that was something that came to my mind Brian Adams everything I do I do it for you know what I mean like his smash but why would he want to sing that it's the Robin Hood song because you got to get the people what they want so who are these people I'm so curious you're gonna know one of these easy. As soon as I play this note, the first one, you and I have talked about a lot. That's not the right one. Hold on. It's two songs with the same name. No, no. Here. Oh, chorus. Radiohead creep. They don't play it. This is the one that's the most

legendary to me of a massive band that will not play their biggest song. But this is the hey, we're so cool. We don't need to play that song. Like, everyone likes that song, but that's not even our best song. It's not who we are anymore. Right, right. Yeah. And this is what got me on to radio. But I agree with them. Like, there's a lot of good radio head. Okay. And it's not, and it doesn't sound like that.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. But still, that's what a lot of people, our age, in their 30s, got into radiohead for it because we heard this song. Okay. And we're like, well, that weird. And that, and if I'm right to it again, I'm just going from memory here. I don't know if it's written in here. But that, uh, was accident. Oh, really?

Yeah. I love those fun facts like that. Like, he was just. just popping his guitar. And a producer said, oh, that would sound cool there. I think it was rolling. Wow.

And they were like, oh, that works there. It was something like that. Fun fact. I knew a girl in college. She was at a club and saw Tom York. Yeah. It was like a jam-pack club. And she looks right on him.

She goes, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, you are. And he just put his finger up like, no. Oh, like, don't say it. Don't get a big doing. Like, just no, don't even say a word. And then walked off. She was like, it was amazing. Radiohead's never liked a song.

I'll read you from this article. Tom York would say that it's crap and had short shrift for whatever that means. Short shrift? I don't know, dude, he's from the country. For fans who asked to hear it in concert. The song has also caused legal trouble

with both the Hollies and there's a song called The Air that I Breathe suit over melodic similarities and Lana del Rey. And Crete became a mainstay in the mid-90s and they didn't want to play it. They went several years without performing at all

and they did it finally in 2016. That does say a little something about them. Like, they should respect that song because that really got the whole world listening. Yeah, that's what launched Radiohead. I wouldn't be able to know all those cool other songs if it wasn't for this song. Maybe, but I would say yes,

because that was basically a pop song. Yep. Here we go. This is one theory on Radiohead's guitar, right? The guitar crunch before the chorus and Radiohead's creep was from guitarist Johnny Greenwood intentionally trying to sabotage the song. Oh.

A lot of theories about it, but that's... I don't know about that one. I don't know if I buy that one. That's one that I just read there. I know that it wasn't supposed to be in the song. Like when it was written, it wasn't fixed. So that's one. They don't like playing that song.

Rarely do they only a couple times in the past set of years. The other one that I played was this one? That's also Creed. TLC Creed. They won't play it. Are they still around? Well, yeah, I think they play without left eye a little bit. Yeah.

But even then, you remember the song or did it? Yeah, vaguely. I mean, I wasn't, this wasn't my time to like listen. my time to like listen to radio. That was cool then, dude. I was listening to like... Oh, were you? Yeah. Other stuff. The song didn't even almost make it out of the studio. It's about women who cheat on their cheating partners

in order to make them feel jealous. Like you cheat on me, I'm gonna cheat on you. In the documentary of The Last Dates of Left Eye, she claimed she was so adamant the song should not see the light of day that she threatened to wear a black tape over her mouth during the music video. I wouldn't even sing during it. And they were like, we don't even want to sing. They hate doing it. They hate doing it.

I saw a show about them, like, not making any money? Well, yeah. So there's a whole podcast, too. Really? What's it cool? Well, the guy that does the, um, the disgrace. He talks about her and her story and Andre Arise and her burning his house down. Wow.

Andre Rising, yeah, that was a bad relationship. They talked about that on that show. Yeah. So, yeah, but they don't like that song. So that was like the last one on the list, but I since I accidentally hit it. You were to say that for the end. Yeah. Um, okay.

Here we go. No. She has to. Now, if you're Miley Cyrus and you're this big, you know, young adult star, do you really want to play your 15, except from your 15-year-old? Yeah. That's like Paul McCartney never singing, I want to hold your hand. No, it's not. Stop it.

Miley Cyrus not sing a party in the USA is nothing like a beatable. But in that aspect where like you're asking a 60-year-old man to sing something he wrote when he was 18, like, yeah. But again, sure, this is a young teenager. I would think that is a, you put, by the way, I don't think Miley wrote this. Oh, she didn't? No, I don't think so. So that when you get to be 30, you probably think it's cool again to play a hit from a kid. But when you're in that age where you're trying to redefine yourself as an adult and a serious artist.

Like, it's funny you say you shouldn't even write it. You listen to that, you're like, oh, yeah, she's a Nashville girl going to L.A. for the first time. Like, I understand this story. Like, it makes me feel close to Miley just by listening to the song. Is Miley listed as one of the writers at all? No. Miley Cyrus admitted that choosing the song was minimal. it was written by Jesse Jay and some others

that she picked a song because she needed something to go with their clothing line. Wow. She did not expect to be popular. It was something that she wanted to do because she needed a song, best for the album. Later, it was like, I feel like a sellout. So she doesn't like playing it.

That's crazy. She was so over that song that during a party in Chicago, she asked the DJ to play any of our own songs except for a freaking party in the USA. I was the opposite. When that song came out, I would be at bars and tell the DJ.

But you're not. party in the USA. Here's my point with this. She was a young teenager and she got famous when she was a teenager. Yeah. And as you try to grow out of that bubble gum pop, you don't want to have to play your bubblegum pop. And how drastic does she go? From that to like naked pool parties.

Well, she's 26 now. So I would think that now as she is more solidified with who Miley is, she's probably okay playing it now. I would think when you're 19 to 24, you're like, that's not who I am. I don't people think of it. We know who she is now. Sure. We understand who she is. But she hates it.

And you're at a concert and you're my Miley Cyrus show and she doesn't play aren't you? You're a little pissed right? Yeah. Yeah.

Makes no sense to me. I went to R.M. show. They didn't play any hits. That sucks. My favorite story of me hating in the concert. That sucks.

Sorry, dude. I love R.m. And I go to R.A.M. They played no hit. They just played their whole new album. It was an odd new record. That's cold. But I bet they were so happy

to do that. Like, that's such a band thing to do. Yeah. It was weird. They have a song that they don't play anymore shiny happy people love it

there's a story behind this it was supposed to be the friend's theme song yeah we'll talk about on this show right yeah it was the originally going to be the friend's theme song this shiny happy people and the singer is the B52 singer

love Shat girl wow it sounds yeah that's her so RAM's record company listen to the story of the song they say hey we need uptempo pop track we need something like fun goofy so they said okay we're gonna make stupid song and thinking the label would reject it and unfortunately for them they didn't

and then it became a huge single Michael Stipe said I hate that song and so he's like I just don't like it he said I wouldn't say I'm embarrassed by the song but it has a limited appeal for me I never bad mouth I try never to say anything bad about songs

that I don't particularly like because there might be someone out there who hears it and it means everything too but the band has decided to leave shiny happy people off their greatest hits albums they don't play it for the most part, he said if there's one song that I send to outer space that does not represent

R-E-M, it would be shiny, happy people. Wow. I love the song. It's awesome. Yeah. And I think of the music video, and them all dancing around. I don't remember that. You don't? No. What were they doing? It was just a bunch of people on, like, the soundstage dancing around.

It seemed like it was a farm, too. Like, they were just jumping around, dancing. What she's there? That guitar riff. It's so happy. Shiny happy people Michael Slype has like the goofy thing With the hat on backward

Oh okay I do remember that Do you agree with him though Do you listen to this and say I didn't sound like the rest of R&M I don't Well R&M is such a collection though Over Because it sounds like RIA

Over decades Yeah some It didn't sound like that crap They played that one time I went And they didn't play any other songs I'm still Do you know any of those songs That they played that night?

It didn't matter I mean None of those songs and R.M. was over being contemporary at that time. R.R.M. was awesome. What do you mean by contemporary? No, those songs were making the pop

charts. Got it. You know, R.M. Was it because it was beyond pop? They were older. They were more sad and cool. But R.M. had the jams. This sounds like,

like Stan sounds sonically like shiny half people to me. It does. That's why I'm saying he's full of crap. Like, this does sound like REO. Stand in the place Where do you live? How big?

I think about direction, wonder why. R.M. was so good. Losing my religion was like... That was their song. Like, that's the one that shifted everybody. The video. Listen to that. We were kids, young, young kids.

I remember watching it. And he had hair in the video. Did he? Yeah, I think so. Oh, you're right. I can picture it right now. Two artists that had hair that we don't think about having hair. Billy Corrigan and Michael Stey.

He had long hair. Yeah, this is the jam. I mean, R.M had, well, my favorite R.M. song is everybody heard. This is that's a set. But I'm telling you, I would just... What's gonna happen is I'm gonna go back and have to jam it all today. But like, what's the frequency of Kenneth? What's the frequency of Kenneth?

This is right in the mix. What's the frequency of Kenneth? This is your being so straight. And don't forget about this. You talk about songs. Come on. you have people? Come on.

The end of the world as we know it. Oh, come on. Listen that. Same sound. Yeah, fun. But then you have stuff like this. A lot of minor chords.

Sure. A little sadness. Yeah. Even though it's upbeat, it's still. The tones are darker. This one goes out to the one I love. Yeah, R.M. It's a jam, man.

This one goes out to the one I love. So they don't like playing shiny happy people. I thought we'd go down the REM train. I got to go to commercial real quick. Hold on. The world is full of sounds that warn you of danger. Like, if you get a little too close to a rattlesnake, you're the chich-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. But in the digital world, if your personal information is in danger,

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They've helped me so many times LifeLock.com All right, other songs that the bands don't like to play And if I went to an Oasis show Which there aren't any right now They don't play Wonderwall They don't like it

I don't get it They hate it Now the whole thing is that they won't play it at all But it's they hate it But isn't that kind of what this band's about Fighting and They're counterculture against themselves They are

Not even culture. Like, they hate themselves. There's a Netflix documentary on them. I haven't watched it yet, but I keep scanning by it. I'll watch it one day. On them? I've seen it. It's fantastic.

Oh, is it good? I just, this is what I picture, and you tell me if I'm right. You're right. They just fight the whole time? The two brothers? A bit, but it's very self-serving, but it's still, dude, they were so much bigger than even I remember them being. Especially.

Across the pond. Yeah. Yeah. Because they were big here, but I mean. Internationally. Like, I think that they probably. probably were the biggest band in the world at a time. Dude, when Wonderwall came out, that was something that we had never heard.

Like, we didn't hear music like that. We were just coming out of grunge. And they looked almost to grunge, but they didn't sound like it. Yeah. And they were British. It was a weird thing. He says, I can't effing stand that effing song. Who is this, Noel?

Yeah, I know, Liam. Oh. Every time I have to sing it, I want to gag. You go to America, and they're like, are you Mr. Wonderwall? Oh, I mean, I get that. and they both hate it though because that was Liam and Noel same thing he was like

I don't like the song they agreed on something so now if they stopped playing it it's called Supersonic at the documentary you'll like it supersonic that's it yeah it's a little cool guy so you would like it

because you're a music I just love learning about stuff and I don't know much about them other than just their brothers and they fought a lot and they broke up here's this one Madonna does not like playing like a virgin

that was one of my guesses was it? Yeah yeah this doesn't sound like like her. It sounds like an 80s song though and she dominated 80s and made all the other 80s songs sound like this. Like I think her and Michael Jackson were the

again, 80s icons. Sonically everybody chased them. Yeah. So she made this, everybody else chased it. She got away from that because everybody else was doing it. That makes sense? Yeah, it does make sense. She has 49 top 40 hits. Dang. She says

there are two songs that she hates. Holiday and Like a Virgin. I forget that's her. She goes, I just can't unless somebody paid me like 30 million or something. Not only will she not sing them, she doesn't want to hear them. She said it's an awkward experience she has to hear them. She did perform both in 2016 because she was trying to do a tour to get people to come. Yeah.

And so she did both of those, but she's like, I hate it. So again with her, like at some point she's going to play it, right? I don't know if she's older now. But I mean at some point you come to realize like, hey, you know what? Like, I was really lucky to have this life. And really this song those songs were probably the reason why I got to do everything else like I want to do I think that comes in if people get older and they struggle. Oh, she might not struggle anymore.

I don't think that, listen, she could. She's sick. She's only 60? I thought she's older than that. But she's got a lot of money though. Yeah, like I don't think she's in any struggle where she has to go, I need to kind of reembrace what I was. Yeah. And she's also making a lot of new music.

I don't. I just, like it's crazy to hear people like Garth Brooks, you know, who probably saying friends in low places. hundreds of times. Still today he will do it. Thousands. Tens of thousands. And he'll openly say like, why wouldn't I play that? But I wonder if secretly he hates it. You think? I don't know about hate. And I think getting tired of playing it is one thing. Yes. He's probably grateful for it.

And he probably, if you gave him a choice and it didn't, and the crowd didn't care either way, right? If the crowd was it didn't matter what you played, he plays it because the crowd loves it. Right. Which is why you do what you do. Right. But if you said the crowd doesn't care what you play, he's going to play whatever you want, I bet he wouldn't play friends in long places. If you go, if you had the chance not to play, you're right, probably. Right.

If the crowd's going to react the same exact way, regardless of what you play, you can play anything you want. He's not going to play Friends and Loaded Play. Guarantee you at the end of that show, they'll, somebody, everyone will be like, you know what he didn't play Friends in Low Places. Oh, for sure. That's his biggest song. Yeah. But I'm saying, I bet you that everyone that has to do it over and over and over again is like, I'd rather not. And you go into probably just a mode of, you don't even.

It's just automatic. Just what you're doing it. What you're doing. and I don't think Garth or anyone like that would ever say like, F this song. Like, I don't understand that I hate that song. Like, that's the part that I don't relate. Like, I can't really understand hating the song that much.

Like, at one point you liked it because you wrote it. You know, like, even though you try to sabotage it like Radiohead, like you did write that song. You did put it out. And it made you a lot of money. Beastie Boys. Yeah! They didn't like doing a fight for you, right?

Really. They said it was a frat boy song He says the only thing that upsets me Is that we might have reinforced certain values Of some people in our audience When our own values were actually totally different So the school's party party party And they felt like they weren't really all about that

They wrote once that that song sucks And they did it as a goof kind of I was the biggest Beast boy fan Yeah If you'd ask me five years I don't know what my favorite three albums would be like forever take on island. Continuum.

It used to be Beasty Boys Licensed Ill, which that's on. Is that the one with a plane? No, Beastie Boys is nothing. Licensed Ill is... What's the cover of that? I'm trying to think. Pull up the license to El cover.

Is it the tail of the plane? Oh, on the front of that. License to Ill, I think on the front cover. I'm trying to think. I don't remember. I just had this CD in a... Oh, yeah, it's like a jet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, got it. Yeah, look at that. So what do you think about? Like, what's your take on? They were kids This went in the wrong direction That's not who we are Like you're saying that

Beastie Boys are saying that 15, 20 years later Yeah they're probably embarrassed of it There were things I used to do embarrassed of Yeah But if that's part of You Bobby Bones Like do you embrace it or do you hate it?

That's a tough thing You probably secretly love it Because it was good for you Yeah But you probably can't say you love it anymore Because it's since I don't even know what messers are talking about it. Because it is stupid.

The song's dumb. Like, yes, it sounds like a 13-year-old wrote it. But that's what everyone liked about it. They were three white dudes, rock rapping. Right. At a time when that sound was so foreign. It didn't exist. Hip-hop wasn't even that big.

It was just starting to be a thing. Yeah. And there were no instruments to hip-hop. Three Jewish white dudes were crushing it. Yeah. And it was like, I watched them all was like, oh, I have a chance to do music. I saw the Beatsy Boys. Really?

Is that right? Yeah. I was like, oh, I could probably do music. Because if these guys can do it, they're goofy. Like they were always like goofy, you know, goofy white dudes I would look at and go, oh, if they can do it, I can have a shot. Yeah. And if you ever watch them play like sabotage on Letterman, you ever watch that YouTube video? They're so good.

Even playing instruments. Really? They're playing guitar and bass. I've seen old footage of when they came out playing their own instruments. It's like, look at that. No one did that. Speaking of Madonna, they used to tour Madonna. Really?

God, what a lot of. They were wild. Yeah, so they didn't like that. We got a couple more here. Run DMC, walked his way. Nice transition The idea for Run DemC to re-record Aerosmith's song came from Rick Rubin

The guy, the big great beer who produces everybody Never wears shoes Yeah He liked the beat Never heard the rest of the record So they were like, this is Hillbilly poetry More than a hip-hop song I get that

This is the one that doesn't fit You know, it's like, all right They were doing this publicity, make money, whatever Like you said Rick Rubin Maybe he thought it sounded cool but the label loved that, probably. It was such a risk.

Again, this featuring thing didn't happen. Very, very right. It didn't, you're right. Secondly, it was crossing genres, which really didn't happen. That's why it blew people's minds. Because, first of all, you rarely had two artists. You'd have occasion, like a David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Yeah.

But rarely did two artists hop on a song with each other. And the fact that it was two completely different type of artists was, and then, It was also really good and it was a remake of a song that was already I know it's like We don't want to perform it they're like we're embarrassed to perform it They didn't do it Then after it sold sold they started to play a little more Oh did they? Yeah okay but they hated it

So they gave in they hated it yeah so they like that and I give you one more Which is weird Robber Plant This is they never did it No this is they hated it they hated it they hated the song Oh but they played it would still play because even in their reunion I would they play to occasionally. Robert Plant was like,

if I have to sing that, every show, I'm going to break out on high, so they stop playing it. This wasn't my time. This was before us. Way before us. I don't know how songs

became big, but this song was huge. Like, stairway to heaven is... Yes, the classic rock anthem. Maybe the song of the 70s. Correct. We weren't born in the 70s,

but if you go, what's the song of the 70s? I start to go, you're not born. I go free bird. And that's even mostly geographical. But still huge. Yeah.

But I think Stairway to Heaven. Yeah. I think that's the song of the 70. Look at the biggest song of the 70. You see what pops up. And another one that came up was Hotel California. But this stairway to Heaven was it, man. I feel like it was it like the number one too.

Like I really do. He's going to look up. Do that 100 best song of the 70. Just see what people are saying. There's like an article written about that. That and I would say, because that late, 60 starts to fuzz into the early 70s. Like Crosby stills in Nash.

Crosby still's Nash and Young. Even like teach children. Like that's big. But still I think one. All right. We have 100 best songs of the 70s. All right. Go through all 100 of them.

From NME. Hold on everybody. We're going to go through all. Starting a number 100. Oh, it's going backward. Okay. Let me know when you get like the top of course. So anyway, those are songs that those artists hate playing.

I saw Robert Plant has something new out. Or he's back out. I actually heard. heard one of his songs on the radio. It is, and I, it's good. It's okay,

but the voice sounded like Robert Plant, which is something that I hadn't heard. I heard that, remember he did the Allison Kraus's Robert Plant. That was good, good album, but he never did the,

he never did the Zeppelin voice where he screamed or whatever. Hey, Mama's saying where you move. And he does a little bit in this new stuff where it's like, oh, he can still get there?

He's still, well, not that high, but you told me what time Elton John, like, doesn't even go that way. He changed his keys

completely on a song. That's got to suck. Well, he's also in his 60s. Right, but that was your sound. He's like, you know, instead of like, Blue Gene, he's like, Blue Gene baby. Like, hold me closer. Yeah, not that he's, hold me closer, tiny. He just keeps it low.

Just keeps it there. It's safe. That site we pulled up, like a lot of sex pistols. This is like cool guys stuff. Fleetwood Mac. Okay. Which would be their big song either. Well, on this list, that's the one they list.

Yeah. Is that to you the biggest Flewit Mac song? Yeah, I mean that would be the biggest Mine would be dreams Dreams is awesome But that wasn't the first one that came to my mind Like dreams Like Gypsy

Yeah And they're gonna have a hundred Massive hits Yeah go your own way Here's a list A hundred greatest rock songs in the 70s We nailed a lot of these I'm gonna tell you a few of them

Go for it. Start at one Number one stairway to heaven Led Zeppelin Boom Number two, Hotel California, the Eagle Boom. Number three. Is Skinner? No.

And I didn't think to even add this. 70s, give me a chance. Hold on. Give me a second. It may be the biggest song ever. And I know it's number three, but when I say it, you're going to go, oh, like it could be the biggest song ever. Of the seven.

Oh, of Neil Diamond? Period. No, period. Of all time? Of all time? Yeah. That's sweet Carolina? And I say that in the way that it's just that so many people have covered it too.

Like regardless of where it charts, it's the, I think it's possibly the biggest song of all time. Oh, Margaritaville. No, no, no, no. Would you agree that it's possibly the biggest song of all time? Pound for pound, maybe the biggest song of all time in Western popular culture. Yeah. And it was John Lennon. It wasn't even the Beatles.

I think that line gets, because it starts with imagine there's no heaven. A lot of people would get upset at that. The point is that there's no heaven. Well, I think John kind of did that to himself because he'd always, like even when, of the Beatles, he compared them to Jesus, which didn't really fit well with a lot of Christians. But again, he didn't, that's not really what he did. Right. He said it.

He would say stuff like that. But again, all misconstrued. Correct. Even that first line is misconstrued. I agree with you. He said, we're bigger than Jesus, right? The Beatles are. He didn't mean like, we're actually bigger than Jesus.

He goes, he can't believe how crazy people are for this. He said, we're bigger than Jesus right now. And he actually meant it as a slight toward the Beatles. Like, he couldn't believe that people were acting so crazy because, I believe he said we're more popular than Jesus. Correct. And people freaked out, but in reality, it was him disgusted by the fact that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. But then he would do the ballad of Johnny Yoko and be like, Christ, you know, it ain't easy.

And then all the Christians are like, here he goes again. And the line, and the whole point of imagine isn't that there's no heaven. Imagine. It's also imagine there's no hell. It's imagining just right now. And everybody just took care of each other right now. Like, that's why the song is so beautiful, but people will get all but her over. Words, man.

The first line without listening to the rest of the song. Words are more powerful than people think. Yeah. So, imagine. I think Born to Run was on that. Oh, gosh, Bruce Springsteen, of course. I'm just not a Springsteen guy. You've been born to run, though?

Like, when you listen to that, that doesn't get you, like, a hyped? I'm going to say this, and you're probably going to not like me for it. So I'm not a big Bruce Springston guy, period. And if I were going to pick a Bruce Springsteen, because I watched that document, that show on Netflix, Bruce Springsteen Live show. Okay. It's okay. I didn't watch it.

I'm just not a Bruce guy. A lot of my friends from the Northeast from like New York, New Jersey, all, they love them, right? And where's Born to Run? Let's see that. Not even in my top Bruce Springsteen songs. Don't, oh my gosh, do not say Born in the USA. Well, listen. I'll get to it.

Here he goes. I'm a poser. I'm not even poser because I'm not a big of Bruce Springton. I love, I love Glory Day. This is good stuff. You still like a sound? What is it? What is it, man?

Go ahead. Tell us. It was all pretty good. It was all pretty good. I like dancing in the dark. There's no dancing in the dark. Eddie, even songs like Thunder Road. Yeah.

It's good. I'm just not a big Bruce fan. The best song. Here he goes. What? Play it, go ahead. Why are you hating, dude? Start with the drums.

No, but for real. Like, of all the Bruce songs. Did you know this was not written to the patriotic song at all? Yeah, I think you told me this. What is it? What's the story? I think it was actually like the opposite. Look up there.

Oh, it was like a, like a protest song? Before I get into trouble, I'm going to have Mike look it up. Because the original title was Vietnam. Oh. born in Vietnam right is that a movie or a song about a rock band struggling

with life and religion it gave Bruce the idea for the new title unfortunately what's it say oh okay here we go Springsteen wrote this about the problems Vietnam veterans account are when they returned to America oh like the movie born the 4th of July the US didn't win

and while veterans of other wars received a heroes welcome those who fought in Vietnam were mostly ignored when they return to the states so have I started listen that song right now I can hear that but that's what it's about it's not I've never even it's not about look how wonderful the USA is it's about hey what's the deal wow right interesting and here we are playing it every 4th of July like yeah America that's so funny words man words dude I said on this one yep then the

other one the other one means super well but the words trick you this one doesn't mean that well but the words trick you yeah yeah and your favorite Springsteen song. I know. I'm such a poser, but I'm okay with that. Do you like the heat? I mean, the dude plays three and a half hours, like sometimes. It's like, there's a reason Eric Church is like he is because of Bruce Springsteen.

Like, I can admire that. I think it's cool. He loves the fans, makes music. Fans. Yeah. I think that's what drives him. I mean, you want to know my other favorite Bruce Springsteen song? I'm not kidding.

It's so good. What? Oh, no, no, I agree with this. Santa Paul's Comitown. Maybe one of the best Christmas song ever. I wore, now you can't really wear the. Where you're my app out but like I play this so much during Christmas Great right?

Jam, huh? Yeah Claire it's so gonna give you a new saxophone Is there anything that the raging idiots don't like playing anymore? We don't really play Starbucks anymore That's stupid so I don't do we Yeah we we don't play that one anymore we do we it's funny we do play fight for your right We do play all those songs that they don't want to play shiny happy people and here's oasis yeah Boy everybody plays oasis huh Everybody but them plays the voices. Yep.

Yeah, go downtown on a Friday night. They're playing it. That's the wrap, rock and roll. Eddie, appreciate you coming by. Thanks, dude. I always like it when you do the, people do too, don't they? I always like it when you come in. I like doing it.

Yeah, but you drop out of that podcast. Which one, the sports one? It's usually just sit around and listen to lunchbox. Yeah, yeah. No, that's not how locker room is. Listen, if I were the coach, this is what I would do. But you're not. And you've never been.

Right. You've never played football. He's talking about. Check out the Sourle losers' podcast. Eddie is one of the three guys over on that show, Lunchbox Eddie and Ray. And also check out four things. Amy Brown, that's Amy's podcast. And recent episode you had her husband on.

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