Toronto Mike'd: The Official Toronto Mike Podcast - FOTM KOTJ, Vol. 4: Toronto Mike'd #614

Episode Date: April 8, 2020

10 FOTMs kick out the jams in volume 4 of this critically acclaimed series.

Welcome to episode 614 of Toronto Mic'd, a weekly podcast about anything and everything. Proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, a fiercely independent craft brewery who believes in supporting communities, good times, and brewing amazing beer. beer. Palma Pasta. Enjoy the taste of fresh homemade Italian pasta and entrees from Palma Pasta in Mississauga and Oakville. StickerU.com.

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and joining me this week is all of you. That's right. This is the fourth volume of the FOTM Kick Out the Jams series. Now, before we kick off the first jam, a little more detail on how you can all help the partners who help fuel the real talk here. These guys and gals are amazing, and we need to support them now more than ever.

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And this, I think it's going to be over the next several Saturdays. So all you have to do is text Toronto Mike, one word, to 59559. And Austin will send you the link. From the comfort of your own home, attend an educational virtual open house by the Keitner Group, proud sponsors of Toronto Mic'd. Now let's kick those jams.

So how do we know each other? And how do you have my number? Well, why don't you guide me? You be the driver. Say what you want and leave your shyness home And you should do what you want and light a little bomb. Leave it for her and never another day. You should leave it for her, the girl around the way. Write down a list of things you wanna do And then you leave it and work because you wanna live a little Pick up the girl in someone's bar with Minnie

Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money Hey lady, put the phone down Cancel all operations. Tell your friends to call it. Your car's blown. I want to see you alone. Cancel all operations. Tell your friends to call it. Your car's blown. Hi Mike, Greg from St. Catharines here with my contribution. The jam I've selected is Your Cover's Blown by the Scottish indie pop band Bell & Sebastian, a band that has received very little radio play in Toronto over the years,

despite their numerous hook-filled singles and clever lyrics, care of their charismatic vocalist Stuart Murdoch. When I first discovered the band in university in the early 2000s, it was their early acoustic songs that pulled me in. Your covers Blown, however, signaled the addition of danceable pop rock into their repertoire. Released in 2004, it's a mini-epic containing three distinct sections, and it's the final section that makes this song so endearing to me. I was raised in the harmonies of the Beach Boys, and featured here are some of the finest harmonies Bell and Sebastian have produced. Throw the headphones on and enjoy. She doesn't look at me the way I want her to look She doesn't comprehend My baby's got it going on

She's got a friend in every street in this town I want to go out but there's nobody home I'll go on my own The start's the lonely walking There's always too much talking I, I, I should have stayed home. She starts the cool caressing. The kids she starts undressing.

I should have stayed home. The DJ's picking up speed. That's something I just don't need I, I, I should've stayed home The gossip's bearing down on me The kids are tearing up in front of me I should've stayed home I should've stayed home

I think I'll go home I should've stayed home I should've stayed home I think I'll go home Thank you. operations tell your friends to call it listen lady leave your phone down cancel all operations tell your friends to call it your car first blown i need to see you alone cancel all operations tell your friends to call it hey lady meet my mom and dad You're a strange operation In this land of hearted plants And fun-like houses Where the cold's like pouncing With a long trial presentation

You resign yourself To keep on growing Like we see your soul You're a strange operation In this land of grandest dreams And galate Like we see your soul You're a strange operation Hit this, land off and escape Gallop days, the lady's setting away You had a long conversation With a kid named Stone

He's a little slow But in your favor it shows Cancel all operations Tell your friends to move on to the sticks Listen lady, leave the boy home Cancel all operations Tell your friends there's more to you than this. Listen to the girl As she takes on half the world

Moving up and so alive In her honey dripping Behind Behind It's good, it's all good You're tripping behind, behind. It's good, it's so good, it's so good, so good. Walking back to you is the hardest thing That I can do That I can do For you

For you I'll be a plastic toy I'll be a plastic toy For you I'll be a plastic toy for you. Need to let all this go. It's the hardest thing for me to do. Hello, everybody. This is Michael Lang. The song you're listening to is Just Like Honey by the Jesus and Mary Jane.

This is one of the first songs I remember in the 80s, in the midst of stuff like hair metal and the REO Speedwagon. This is one of the first songs I remember that really sounded different. The Jesus and Mary Jane, Love and Rockets, a couple others, all had a lot of distortion on all the instruments and didn't follow the usual verse chorus structure for songs I didn't realize it then, I don't really pay attention

to lyrics, but this song is 100% about sex besides that, it plays during the last scenes of one of my favorite movies, Lost in Translation and if anyone remembers a commercial 8 years ago where this guy drives around the block over and over until he gets the courage to give his girlfriend an engagement ring, this song was in it.

I ended up buying the car. So thanks, Toronto Mike, for pulling this together. Everyone has a story to tell with music, and this was mine. Just like a man Just like a man Just like a man Just like a man Just like a man Just like a man Just like a man Just a man Remember When you held my hand

Say remember Remember When you were my man am I a man walk talk in the name of love before you break

my heart dancing over rolling over in your mind Why don't you dance with me? I'm not the living God Why don't you dance with me? I'm not a little girl Oh, you say

Why don't you dance with me? I'm not a landbarker Just a landbarker Just a landbarker Just a landbarker Dance this mess around Dance this mess around my song is Dance This Mess Around, and it's by the B-52s from their 1979 debut album. I'd never heard the song before until I recently heard it played on an episode of the Amazon TV series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and it was quite a deep dive on the part of the producers to find this song because it received very little airplay when the album was released more than 40 years ago.

It's also very indicative of the new wave sound of music from the 1970s and early 1980s. Enjoy! So doesn't that make you feel a lot better, huh? So doesn't that make you feel a lot better? What you say? Well, I'm just asking Come on Shake Oh Bang

Shake Oh Bang Shake Oh Everybody goes to parties They dance this mess around They do the coo-ca-choo Do the aqua-fel-ba A sister dirty dog Do the escalator

Hippy, hippy, forward, hippy, hippy, hippy, hippy, hippy shake Oh, it's time to go on right Hey! So pretend to make you feel a little better? Huh? So does that make you feel a little better? What you say? Well, I'm just asking Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

It's over Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Can't dismiss a rub Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, We'll be right back. What are we gonna do now? Taking all this trouble And they say, who's this man? It's you Cause we're looking for the clampdown. They put up a poster saying we are more than you.

We're walking for the clampdown. We will teach our twisted speech to the unbelievers. We will train our blue-eyed men to be unbelievers. Church of 5 September, I say, double that again. Thank you. Hey, it's Johnny O, and if you think I'm not going to tell all FOTMs to follow me at Johnny O underscore 71, well well then you would be wrong anyhow uh despite being the world's number one talking heads fan uh i could not pick just one song of theirs um but when i thought about the whole idea of picking a song that means something which i take to mean you know something that has import well nothing beats this for me the The Clash, the only band that matters. And in this song in particular, which since I've, you know,

when I was 15 years old, when I first got into this, and this totally speaks to me and helped form my whole attitude on things in terms of being the kind of guy that's all about, you know, eat the rich and anti-corporate and so on. This song all about, you know, warning about being indoctrinated into a soul-crushing, spirit-stealing, evil corporate gig still holds true today and would explain, you know, why I'm poor. But also, I would not have it any other way. You know, it's all about staying true to yourself and to your ideals. And that's how we should live. And, you know, especially in the times we're in right now,

I felt this song is completely apropos as well. So there you go. And thanks, Mike. I hope everybody stays healthy. All right, stop, collaborate and listen. Ice is back, the brand new invention, something. Grabs a hold of me tightly, flowing like a ark. Daily and nightly, will it ever stop, y'all? I don't know.

Turn off the lights and I'll glow to the extreme. I rock a mic like a vandal Light up a stage and wax a chalk Like a candle dance Caress a speaker that booms I'm killing your brain Like a poisonous mushroom Deadly

When I play a dope melody Anything less than the best Is a felony Love it or leave it You better gain weight Better hit bulls at it. Kid don't play. If it was a problem, I would solve it. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it. Ice, vanilla ice, vanilla ice, ice, baby. Oh, ice, ice, baby. Yeah, ice. Vanilla ice. Vanilla ice, ice, baby. Oh, ice, ice, baby.

Now that the party is jumping. Mike, this is Brony, and I love cover songs. So my jam today is a cover. Now, I don't really care if an artist reinvents a song in their own style when they do a cover, but certainly some of the greatest covers in history are reinventions. Joe Cocker's With a Little Help from My Friends is possibly the ultimate example of this. And for the same reason, my personal all-time favorite cover song is I Will Survive by Cake. But my chosen jam today is a cover my kids and I are both loving right now.

It's a complete reimagining of Ice Ice Baby by the Marty Ray Project. Paul Schaefer said in his biography that being in a cover band is a higher calling. I think he's probably saying that tongue in cheek, but he also says if you can play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and Take heat, cause I'm a lyrical poet Memphis on the scene, just in case you didn't know it This is my town, that created all the blue sounds Enough to play and fill the soul all around Cause my style's like a chemical spill Feastful words you can vision and feel

Conducted and formed, it's a heck of a concept we make it hype and you want to step with this billy bends on the strings cutting to your heart like the great bb king so fast no other city that can if my music was a drug i would sell it by the gram keep my composure when it's time to get loose magnetized by the mic when I kick my juice if it was a problem yo I would solve it check out the hook while my DJ

revolves it Vanilla Ice Vanilla Ice Ice baby Oh Ice Ice Baby Vanilla ice, ice, baby Oh, ice, ice, baby Vanilla ice Vanilla ice Vanilla ice, Vanilla Ice, Vanilla Ice, Ice, baby. Oh, Ice, Ice, baby.

Stop, collaborate, and listen. Ice is back, the brand new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly. Flowing like a harpoon. Daily and nightly. Hey! It's Ian Service from Rome Phone.

I understand that we're all dealing with a lot of shit today, and that sucks. So when my buddy Toronto Mike asked to submit a track for the FOTM's kick out the jams. I was thinking originally about some Our Lady Peace track that got me into CFNY and all that whole world, and then I thought, nope, I think we've got to go with a track that talks about today and how we're all in this together. So this is Nine Inch Nails. We're in this together. So this is Nine Inch Nails. We're in this together. Impossible Holding on to when When everything seemed to matter more

The two of us Are all used and beaten up Watching fate As it flows Down the path We have chosen You and me We're in this together now Nada can stop us now

We will make it through somehow You and me If the world should break in two Until the very end of me Until the very end of me Until the very end of you Awake to the sound As they peel apart the skin They pick and they fall

Trying to get the fingers in Well, they gotta kill what we've found Well, they gotta hate what they feed Well, they gotta make it go away Well, they gotta make it disappear Before the rifle, I'm beside you As lost as I get, I will inside you As lost as I get I will find you The deeper the wound

I'm inside you Forever and ever I am a part of you And me We're in this together now None of this can stop us now We will make it through somehow You and me

If the world should break in two Until the very end of me Until the very end of you All that the world is gone We have to hold on All that the world is gone All that the world is gone No more World is gone No more We're free Our world has gone

But we can't go on I'm out. You and me We're in this together now None of them can stop us now We will make it through somehow You and me Even after everything You're the queen and I'm the king Nothing else means anything Thank you. Thank you. guitar solo

You do the combat math Under our test You can't take your shots back I have too much of this The basketball rim Shook like a tambourine Not gonna light me up then Hi, it's James. are. Make shift we are. Make shift as we are. Hi, it's

James. Just finished listening to Kick Out the Jams 1 and it was great. I loved every single song. Probably a surprise considering how dark and heavy mine was and how light and fluffy some of the other ones were. That's not an insult. That's just how I put it.

It was great. Really loved loved it i loved hearing what everybody was picking uh for kick out the jams too uh i am picking tragically hip as makeshift as we are from uh in between evolution it's one of my favorite hip songs mind you they're all my favorite hip songs but anyway uh i really love this one it's it fits how i feel most of the time sort of uh makeshift and certainly it fits today it fits these days everything's sort of up in the air it feels like anyway uh thanks everybody for contributing and thanks to all the uh frontline workers out there especially health care and grocery store workers who seem to be taking some abuse uh see you all on the other side, and take care. Bye.

¶¶ But as a fish I only sing for the whole sea Remembering that our tension springs We were gun smoke and the truth Let's shake some snow off of our shoulders Let's shake some snow off of the roof Let's shake some snow off of the roof Late shift we are A current we drive around on the sun and out of the stars Mateshift we are

We imagine us here and here we are Mateshift we are Through hask and lies becoming amorous Mateshift We are We are We are We'll be right back. I was working late at a dead-end job, She's just looking for something new, yeah. City wants me falling by the bass, repeating how. I was working late at a dead-end job 18 years ago when my co-worker, the only other person in the building, mind you, sent me an email with an mp3 file attached and the words CRANK IT in the subject line.

I turned up my crappy computer speakers as high as they could go, but was not prepared to be literally hit by a Mack truck of music with the brother and sister duo of the White Stripes behind the wheel. When I found out that it was only Jack and Meg White making all that racket on Fell in Love with a Girl, I was hooked on two-piece extra spicy garage rock, and have been ever since. She's just looking for something new Well, I said it once before, but it bears repeating now Is there a God? I really don't know Does he have a son?

I really don't know. But when I'm down and things are all wrong, I turn to him to help me be strong. And so I pray, Lord. Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on your light. Shine on your light. God made the sun At least that's what they say

The waters and trees He made night and day But who made the child Who's hungry and blind? And who has the answers that I cannot find? So I pray, oh, shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on your light And let me see Please let me see

Poor people everywhere living in despair No one really cares if they're dying Hi, this is Rick. Who Has the Answers is a very good song, I think, and very reflective of the time we're living through right now. Whenever I hear this song, I think about things, the greater things. And this song, I think, really hits the nail on the head. We're gonna lighten our children We're gonna lighten our children So I'll play home

Shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on your light And let me see Please let me see Please let me see Is there a God? Is there a God? Is there a God? I really don't know Who has the answer

Is there a God? Does he have a son? I really don't know Thank you. I walk your streets and live in your towns temporarily I can dance I'll walk your streets and live in your towns Camper out of the yuppie pants Over one You've served us well until now But soon we'll be on our own And I'll sleep

Sleep in your noble arms As things come apart I'll hide Hide in your noble arms At ease with the thought Hi Mike, it's Linda. My go-to jam to put me in a good mood is Noah Hart by The Spoons. It's such a happy song and it lifts my spirits every time I hear it. The lyrics are fun, the tune is upbeat, and I love that The Spoons are from Toronto. I can remember dancing to this

song with my friends and it was such a fun time in my life. So whenever I hear this, it brings me back to a time when all we had to worry about was where we were going that night so here's my jam nova heart by the spoons and thanks for doing this mike And I'll sleep, sleep in your arms As things come apart I'll hide, hide in your arms As things come apart I can't stop. Thank you. guitar solo And I'll sleep, sleep in your robot As things come apart

I'll hide, Hide in your robot At ease With my thoughts And I'll sleep Sleep in your robot As things come apart Thank you. I'm And all of us At ease With the thought That there's no more

Out of the world Oh, oh Oh, oh And that brings us to the end of our 614th show. brings us to the end of our 614th show. If you'd like to be a part of volume five or six or seven, record yourself for about 30 to 60 seconds talking about a jam you love and email the file to Mike at torontomike.com. If you want to be a sweetheart, put F-O-T-M-K-O-T-J in the subject line. It'll make my life just a little bit easier. Do it!

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