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[00:00:03] Speaker A: Hey, Al, how you going? [00:00:05] Speaker B: I'm very good. I've got some good news. [00:00:09] Speaker A: Oh, that's good. Welcome to another pardon? [00:00:14] Speaker B: Oh, no, you do the intro. [00:00:16] Speaker A: Oh, I was just gonna say welcome to another pair of old jocks. This will be number four. [00:00:21] Speaker C: Yep. [00:00:23] Speaker B: My friend Brad. [00:00:24] Speaker C: Who? [00:00:25] Speaker B: Brad Walker, who is an old jock. He made me bodge. I was just speaking to him on the phone. He made me promise that I would mention him, so. Yes, Brad's an old jock. [00:00:33] Speaker A: You should get him on the show. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Jockey. [00:00:35] Speaker A: We shall get other jokes. [00:00:38] Speaker B: He's in Queensland, so we'd have to invite them, wouldn't we? [00:00:41] Speaker A: Yeah, no, we just send him a link and he just signs in through the link on his phone or wherever. [00:00:45] Speaker B: What do you reckon? Next week, we'll get. We'll get Brad and we'll get Brandon and we'll get a few other old jobs. Who else? [00:00:53] Speaker A: We'll be next. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Next week. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Monday? [00:00:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:00:57] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll have to do it on the Monday because, um, I'm flying out on the Tuesday morning. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Oh, good for you. Where you go? [00:01:04] Speaker C: Work. [00:01:04] Speaker A: Three days of work. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Oh, that sucks. [00:01:08] Speaker C: Yeah, it does. Yeah. [00:01:12] Speaker B: I mean, I'm going to rouse myself tomorrow and get up for the dawn service and it's. If it doesn't feel right, does it? Getting up before the sun gets up on a day that's not work day. [00:01:24] Speaker C: I know. Yeah. [00:01:25] Speaker A: I want to go to the dawn service, but my car's dead, so I can't go anywhere. I've got a. I might get the bus to the later one. [00:01:34] Speaker B: Oh, they've got the, um. They've actually got some nice ones up here. [00:01:37] Speaker C: The. [00:01:37] Speaker B: The bayswater one's nice and the basso one's nice. And they've both got cenotaph the best. The bass and dean. Cenotaph is like, you know, it sticks. [00:01:45] Speaker A: Out like Ralph Harris's balls on a wobble board. [00:01:52] Speaker B: We don't mention Ralph Harris in Bassendean anymore. Anyway, good news. So after many years of promising myself and travels to Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia, read Bali, finally got myself a. I finally got myself a bid a spray and installed it. And I think every toilet in Australia should have a bid a spray. I'm just. They're awesome. [00:02:18] Speaker C: Isn't it just like. [00:02:21] Speaker B: A little thing that hooks up to the water supply? [00:02:23] Speaker A: Yeah, but isn't it like, can't you just hook up your garden hose from Bunnings and get a little squirty gun? [00:02:29] Speaker B: Oh, no, this is different. But I'll tell you what, it's going to be interesting in late July when it's really cold in the morning. It's like, yeah, just call me icicle mum. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Get it pre warmed up. Get it warmed up. [00:02:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:45] Speaker B: I'd have to work on that. And the bad news is I broke a filling. Got to go to the dentist on Saturday. That's. Yeah, that's an. That's an hour out of my day on Saturday. Not impressed by that. It is what it is. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Yeah. My doctor's got, um. I reckon he's got it all worked out. See, he sent me for, um, to a specialist, a referral. So he wrote out the referral and he gave it to me. I went away. So I sent the referral off and I rang him up, said, I just want to make sure you got it. And they said, oh, that doctor's no longer in the surgery. You've got to go to another one. And they gave me her newest surgery. So I rang them up and I sent them the referral. Oh, no, this referral's no good. You got to get one with the right dresses on it. So back to the doctor again. [00:03:26] Speaker C: Really? Yep. [00:03:28] Speaker A: So I had to go back to the doctor. [00:03:30] Speaker B: This is my area of expertise. It's like, no, all Medicare cares about. Is that that provider number can do a referral to that service. Yeah, that's all Medicare cares about. [00:03:41] Speaker A: Oh, it's crazy. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:03:44] Speaker A: Anyway, never mind, enough of the old man talking. We're just getting old and getting me. Got to get me Beck's pills. [00:03:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:54] Speaker B: Well, my HPF, my, um. Sorry. Promise I would not mention the health fund over, but my health fund will one day be purchasing a new need for me. [00:04:04] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:04:05] Speaker B: One day. [00:04:06] Speaker A: One day. A left or right knee. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Oh, it's my left. [00:04:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Too many years of playing sport. [00:04:15] Speaker C: Yep. [00:04:16] Speaker B: I sky skating. Ah. Regularly when I go for click, you know, you'd fall over and I'd go for collisions. It was always my left knee that hit the wall. It's like, yeah, someday soon, I'm going to get a new knee. [00:04:28] Speaker A: I remember when you played touch football that, you know, you. Your eyes on your knees falling over. You couldn't stand up. [00:04:34] Speaker C: You're useless. [00:04:39] Speaker B: Look into my eye. Seriously. I. I played representative Masters tutsfully at the start at the states four years in a row, so I can't have been that bad. [00:04:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:54] Speaker A: No, no. I think our team was. We just. The team was pretty bad. But the. [00:05:00] Speaker B: The pass winning, we ended up winning it. We ended up winning a grand final. It took us ages season after season after season. We, we ended up winning a couple of grand finals. Our first one was when young Jason was playing for us. It actually went into golden goal, extra time and that's what you want for a grand final. Yeah, golden goal, extra time and young Jason, he scored the winning golden gold, the golden tribe for us to win our first grand final. But it took us season after season after it took as many seasons before we got into a grand final and actually won the bugger. [00:05:35] Speaker A: I remember years and years ago playing touch football. I was in Adelaide playing. I was playing for an army team, even though it's in the navy. I think they were all ex army or, or something. They all something to do with the army based down in Adelaide. We're playing this, um, in a mixed comp and we're playing this one team and we were just murdering them. And at the end of the game, towards the end of the game, this one guy managed to, um, get through the line and he's running towards trying to get a try. [00:06:04] Speaker C: He's gonna. [00:06:04] Speaker A: It would be the only try for the night or something. And, um, I had no, nah, wasn't going to let him do that. Hey, he had half a field head start, half a field head start. And I called him, tapped him, gave him his good old tap and everyone on the field just went off their tree because they didn't want to. Because towards the end of the game they didn't want to have to run up the lengths of the field to do another play and they had to do it. Needless to say, they didn't score, actually. [00:06:33] Speaker B: It's cruel. It is what it is. It's what you do. But one of the things with touch football, because it is an honesty system and the things I used to feel bad about is you dive and to do a touch and you just. You'd feel their shorts on your fingertips and you go, yes, sir. But of course, the person that you've tagged didn't feel it and they're going. [00:06:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:02] Speaker B: I felt your shorts. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:03] Speaker B: But I was. I was always quick to do the yes, no, sir. And you know you get penalized for that, don't you? [00:07:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:09] Speaker B: Yes, no, you know, yeah, yeah, tagged them. No, I didn't. Yeah, you get a five minute, need a penalty. But I, I understood fully it was a game about honesty and I was always, I can say right now, I was always honest. If I tagged you, if I felt your shorts, I tagged you. [00:07:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:26] Speaker B: You know, and if I didn't take you, yeah, I didn't take that. No matter how close it looked, you. [00:07:32] Speaker A: Know, you got honesty's the best policy for that one, except for you losing and you need to catch up. [00:07:40] Speaker B: No, no, no. It's a game of honesty, Paul. [00:07:44] Speaker A: We play to win at all costs. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Play to play and for the love of the game. But I used to love it when rugby league players had come down to play touch footy. They do a lot now. Rugby league players do it in offseason. But, you know, back when I was playing, it was just, oh, yeah, I can do this because I play rugby league and it's so fun playing against rugby league players. A, you get penalty after penalty after penalty, penalty and. And be. It's such a different game. [00:08:15] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:08:15] Speaker B: And they think, I know this game. Touch, what is a totally different game. [00:08:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So you know what else is a different game? Music. [00:08:28] Speaker B: I don't play the guess what music. Always a different game. Music is always a different game. And we were talking about it early. [00:08:35] Speaker C: Yep. [00:08:36] Speaker B: When you start dj, you do the music that's in, for want of a better term, in your house. So when I first started djing the charts, it was the music I loved and that was what I was playing. So. And I think the year that I really got into it was 1981. And I'm looking at the chart now for Aria and it's a pretty good year for, you know, new romantic punk. I think disco's finally dead. Although there's a couple on there. [00:09:09] Speaker A: Stars on 45. Wasn't that disco? [00:09:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I think they were. I think they were a dutch band and it was actually a cover. It sounded like they'd mixed together or music. But no, it was actually band that sang and sounded like the originals didn't all mix together. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Didn't someone else do a remix of that in around the, uh, 2002 thousands. In the two thousands, 2045. [00:09:37] Speaker B: Yeah. They actually put out a couple of. A couple of different mixes. They did a Beatles version. It might have been the same people that did it later. You never know. It might be. [00:09:49] Speaker A: Oh, what's going on there? I don't know what happened there. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Let's not start on 45. [00:10:03] Speaker A: I don't know what happened. I think I do. I've started typing on the wrong freaking keyboard. I've got so many different keyboards here and laptops and dogs. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Yeah, the dogs are still harder. Are they? [00:10:21] Speaker C: Yep. [00:10:21] Speaker A: So stars on 45 were a pop group. [00:10:25] Speaker B: They were. And I think they were. I think they were Dutch. [00:10:30] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, they were Dutch. Dutch. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Normally pop act was successful in Europe. [00:10:36] Speaker B: Yep. I didn't even have to google it. I did that from memory. [00:10:42] Speaker A: There was one. [00:10:43] Speaker C: That's them. [00:10:44] Speaker A: But there was another. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Oh, there was the Beatle mix track. [00:10:50] Speaker C: No. [00:10:53] Speaker B: Um. Oh, no, actually, no, that one was the Beatles one, actually. Can you pull it up and we'll have a quick listen? [00:11:03] Speaker A: Uh, I don't know if we're going to be able to. I'm thinking of something totally different. Oh, my goodness. There's two dogs in the same room. The other one doesn't want him in there and he's barking away. Can you hear him? [00:11:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. It's a very strange bark. I'd have detected. [00:11:23] Speaker A: Oh, no, that's. Yeah, 2045 now. [00:11:27] Speaker C: That's not. It was. [00:11:28] Speaker A: It was in the. When was. It was in the two thousands. It was three. Three women did it. They sung the stars on 45. I'm trying to think who it was now. Um. [00:11:44] Speaker B: This is what Google's for. [00:11:45] Speaker C: Yes. [00:11:46] Speaker A: I'm trying to. [00:11:48] Speaker B: If I'm. Remakes. [00:11:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:55] Speaker A: Cover. [00:11:56] Speaker C: Sure. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Cover. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Would it be cover? [00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:01] Speaker B: The Beatles melody was remixed and released in house music version in 89. [00:12:12] Speaker C: So. [00:12:12] Speaker A: I thought it was ultra native as part of the girls that did it, but it wasn't. That's what I'm after either. [00:12:19] Speaker C: Oh, gosh. It's gonna. [00:12:22] Speaker A: It'll come to me. It'll come to me. [00:12:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:12:25] Speaker A: I don't want the original. Oh, I will hunt it down. I will hunt it down. [00:12:33] Speaker B: Well, I'm looking at number three amp music. Adam and the ants and I got story about that. My mate Andrew and I, we went to a fancy dress and Adam and the ants had just come out and we, strangely, we were both in theatre, but we went dressed up as ant people and had the white stripe across the nose and we couldn't get any pan stick white grease paint for that. So dick and him and I, we used liquid paper and after we peeled. After we peeled it off, we had these red stripes where it burnt our skin. Actually went and saw Adam in the answer to the entertainment center. And I have to say, one of the worst concerts I've ever been to. It was not good. [00:13:23] Speaker A: When was that? [00:13:26] Speaker B: Well, it would have been this year. [00:13:27] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:27] Speaker A: Oh, you went this year? [00:13:28] Speaker B: Oh, no, this year. The year I'm looking at. So it would have been 81, 82. [00:13:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:34] Speaker B: And they only had one album on the charts and so seriously, one album is not. It was mostly. They did mostly covers. They did their one album and that's not enough to do a concert. So they did covers for the rest of that. And. Yeah, live incubus did covers. [00:13:50] Speaker A: The other night I went to the Lookout festival and Incubus did covers. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Sometimes a good covers. All right. As long as you reimagine it. [00:13:59] Speaker A: As long as it's a good covers. [00:14:02] Speaker B: As long as it's a good cover and it's reimagined and done in your style. I remember Christmas playing some of my music a couple of years ago and disturb you, the sounds of silence and my brother in law just went, this is really good. And it's like, yeah, it's coming to me. A good cover can be good. [00:14:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:23] Speaker A: Remember the song, if you could read my mind. If you could read my mind, that's the song. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Bit like Quasimodo rings a bell. [00:14:40] Speaker A: If you could read one. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Mind if you could read my mind, babe. Yeah, something is that one. [00:14:50] Speaker A: That's the one. [00:14:51] Speaker C: That. [00:14:51] Speaker B: That's definitely nothing like stars on 45. [00:14:54] Speaker C: There you go. Here it is. Here. This is it. [00:14:56] Speaker A: Here. This is the song I'm talking about. Someone get it loud enough. Get the volume up. [00:15:04] Speaker C: I'm hopefully I'm pressing the right button. [00:15:18] Speaker A: I tell you what, I tell you what. I know what I'm gonna do now. You just hold it right there. You keep talking while we're doing this and I'm gonna go and find. Find me a YouTube. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Well, I'm looking at some of the stuff from that year where I sort of started djing. So there was canon, the beat the Swingers australian band. [00:15:42] Speaker C: Yep. [00:15:43] Speaker B: They. That. That song got picked up by Kmart for their advertising jingle for a long, long time. So those guys must have made a lot of money out of the residuals from that. Stars on 45. Of course, I had the twelve inch version, which went forever. [00:15:57] Speaker C: Yep. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Ant music. Adam and the ants, Betty Davis eyes. That was one of the ones that was in my playlist. That was. That's actually. Even though it's quite a slower beat, it's actually a good song to, you know, dance to scenery. So nine to five, morning train, not one of my favorites, but it was big. Who can it be now? Men at work. Men at work's first foray into new Zealand. And Colin Hay, great, great artist. Scottish, but australian. [00:16:26] Speaker A: What am I done here? Copy that. [00:16:29] Speaker C: Yep. [00:16:30] Speaker A: All right. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. [00:16:33] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:33] Speaker A: I didn't. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Um. I've got number ten. We got Marty Wild's daughter. Ken Wilde. The gorgeous Ken Wild. Her first one in America. [00:16:42] Speaker C: Yep. [00:16:43] Speaker B: Shaken. Even this old house. Ever heard of shaken Stevens? [00:16:47] Speaker C: Yep. [00:16:47] Speaker A: We used to have him in primary school. Listen to him on Friday music. [00:16:51] Speaker B: Yep. Turn me loose, love a boy, start me up stones. [00:16:56] Speaker C: Yep. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Oh, here's one for old favorites. Australian guy. He was classically trained. Billy Field. You weren't in love with me. Ever heard of that one? [00:17:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Yep. [00:17:06] Speaker B: That's a good sing along, especially when you drunk. Rick Springfield, Jessie's girl, slim dusty. I never played it as a dj, but slim dusty. Love to have a beer with dunk. I hate that. Yeah. [00:17:22] Speaker A: I don't know why. I just. I just don't get it. I get it. I do get it, but I just don't. I just don't like it. [00:17:34] Speaker B: This one, I'm surprised about John Lennon. Just, like, starting over at number 18. Now, he died the year before. Perhaps my memory is faulty. I seem to remember that song coming out just before he died, but obviously it came out just after he died. Um, say, oh, great track. Shaking Stevens again. You drive me crazy. [00:17:55] Speaker C: Yep. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:57] Speaker C: Slow one. [00:17:58] Speaker B: Reo speed, mate. [00:17:59] Speaker C: Yep. [00:18:01] Speaker B: Ah, the Nolans. Got to pull myself together. [00:18:06] Speaker C: Yep. [00:18:06] Speaker B: In the air tonight. Phil Collins. Not a dj song. [00:18:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Phil Seymour, one hit wonder, precious to me. [00:18:14] Speaker C: Yep. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Phil Seymour. Not relation to Mark. [00:18:18] Speaker B: No, no, he was. I think he was canadian. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:23] Speaker B: I think he died quite young. I could be wrong. Time walk, time warp. Original cast of the Rocky Horror picture. Never played that as a dj. Not back then. In later times. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Isn't amazing how some of these older songs come in, like, become more in the nightclubs later, like the YMCA and things like that. People used to go off on them in the club. [00:18:52] Speaker B: Do you remember a song called Groove is in the heart delight? [00:18:55] Speaker C: Groovy. [00:18:59] Speaker B: That had three goes at the dj scene and it was. It wasn't re released and it wasn't remixed. It's just it kind of entered the charts three times over a ten year period and did well. And you could probably actually go to a dj gig now and play it and people would go, yeah. You know. [00:19:18] Speaker C: Yep. Yep. [00:19:19] Speaker A: Without a doubt. [00:19:20] Speaker C: So. [00:19:22] Speaker B: All right, what do you got for me, Paul? [00:19:24] Speaker A: This is the song I was thinking about in the band. It's not stars on 45. I got it back to front. I'm gonna put it on, hopefully. [00:19:33] Speaker C: So after this one, we're jumping up. [00:19:37] Speaker A: This is the one I was thinking of, because I thought that the chip was alternated. It's stars on 54, not stars on 45. [00:19:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:47] Speaker B: No, stars on 45 is a better track. [00:19:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:51] Speaker A: So this is the one I was thinking after. Do you remember this one? [00:19:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Yes, I do. [00:19:58] Speaker C: Yeah. No. Okay. [00:19:59] Speaker B: Get it off before my ears bleed. Alright. We're coming up to the half hour. So we pull up the logo on so I can do the, do the old, old man. [00:20:09] Speaker A: Yeah, go for it. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Here it comes into the bladder thing. [00:20:12] Speaker C: Yep. [00:20:13] Speaker A: I'm just gonna move across. [00:20:14] Speaker C: There you go. [00:20:15] Speaker A: See, in a minute, while he's doing that, I'll do my bit. Um, I could slurp my, my beverage tonight, but I probably won't. I might have to just because Al goes with his headphones still in. And if he goes to the loo and you might get the trickle. If you listen carefully, you'll hear the trickle, trickle, trickle, trickle. Remember, no more than three shakes. Anyway, he probably need to, um, he's getting old in that now, so he's probably sat down for it. And, um, you're just having a bit of a tinkle in there. He'll be back in a second. Meanwhile, yeah, we've got some music popping up. We're gonna do some, bring some music in from the day, the years that Al's been chatting about. Meanwhile, I'm just, I'm doing some ad hoc producing on the run while we do this. That's how I got the stars on 54 video clip I to get, download it, put it and then get into the system and then we got it on there and then Al decided he didn't like it when he used to dance to it. I know that. Know he used to dance to it. He said, oh, that's why no one can hear me. I had his, um, audio muted, but it's now unmuted. We will bring him back. Anyway. [00:21:37] Speaker B: So does it get faster and does that, that version does get faster. [00:21:41] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:21:43] Speaker A: Picks up. [00:21:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:21:45] Speaker A: So, but never mind. Anyway, what, you've picked five songs that you wanted to talk about. Which one do you want to talk about first? Well, let me put, let me put this one on because we've already marked it up and, and brought it in. Here it is. I'm just getting the audio on. Let's bring the volume down so we don't blow everyone's eardrums. This is it, man. It work. [00:22:13] Speaker B: It was, it was just so different. So new wave, new romantic was in and, you know, there was Duran Duran's ultraviolet spandex ballets and this, I don't know, it just somehow slipped into that genre and it was, stayed there. It was so different and, and it was so different from australian music at the time. You know, if you didn't know it was an australian band, you would have gone up international band. Whereas it's really weird. Before the eighties, you heard an australian band go, yeah, that's an australian band. You could tell there was just something about it, whereas this was very international and, you know. [00:22:56] Speaker C: And. [00:22:56] Speaker B: Colin Hayes. Scottish. [00:22:58] Speaker C: Yeah. You know. Yeah. [00:23:00] Speaker B: And I think it's great track and very funny video. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they did a few funny videos as well. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Land down under and all the rest of it, so. Yeah. Hey, put your glass up to the camera again. Yours. [00:23:17] Speaker B: Oh, there you go. [00:23:18] Speaker A: Oh, is that a Father's Day present? [00:23:22] Speaker B: Um. I have no idea how I managed to score this one. I've actually got a birthday present. It's actually a pewter pint mug, which is really, really cool. But, you know, it does give a taste to the beer. Yeah, glass is better. Always better. I mean, I'm a stubby drinker, but I just think when. When I'm doing the podcast, it looks more classy drinking from a handle. [00:23:45] Speaker A: All right, I better get rid of this clip. What do you. What would you rate that compared to music nowadays? [00:23:52] Speaker B: I don't. It's like comparing apples and pears. I mean, you, um. I'm not a music snob. [00:23:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker B: You know, it was a good track. It was a great track. It was a great first hit. [00:24:06] Speaker C: Yep. [00:24:06] Speaker B: And they weren't one hit wonders. And Colin Hayes, a great writer, some of his latest stuff. Yeah. He's still going song. He did a song way, way back, a couple of decades ago called only freedom calling. And it's beautiful. It's got bagpipes and all that, you know. And, you know, great artists don't have one hit. They do have more hits and they have different hits. So they don't have the same sound, which is, you know. [00:24:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:37] Speaker A: So what about this one? [00:24:39] Speaker B: I mean, it's even purple psychedelic furs. [00:24:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:49] Speaker B: I got. I got this single from when I was at the George and the Dragon. A friend of mine, Jill, brought this, this over from the UK. And I've discussed it before. I said six over Australia was six months behind the UK. We weren't. We were about six weeks behind the UK, so I misspoke there. But this is one of the things that. One of the songs that Jill brought over and I stuck it on and I thought, this sounds great. And the crowd went, oh, this is great. It was that sort of crowd. They didn't care if they'd never heard this song before. They just knew, oh, this is a good song. So I'm quite possibly one of the first people in Australia to play psychedelic three. And it was what maybe was. It was it pretty in pink. [00:25:32] Speaker A: The wedding singer. [00:25:33] Speaker B: There was a. It was definitely in the wedding singer, but before that it was one of the brat pack movies. Pretty in pink or is. What's the one where they get that? They go to detention. But the breakfast movies all about them. [00:25:48] Speaker A: Breakfast club. [00:25:49] Speaker B: I think it was a breakfast club this was used in. But I was quite possibly one of the first people in Australia to play this song. And it's a great song. Yeah, it comes up on my playlist and I'll go, ah, yeah, it never gets old. Never gets old. [00:26:01] Speaker A: They were a one hit one my way. [00:26:05] Speaker B: They were. Yeah, unfortunately. [00:26:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:10] Speaker B: I've listened to some of the other stuff and it doesn't reach the heights of this one. [00:26:13] Speaker A: No, we'll get rid of that one even though you're loving it. [00:26:19] Speaker B: No, that's fine. We were just gonna have a talk. Gotta find stars on 45 though. [00:26:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we'd have to do that next week. Oh, I'm probably about to ad hoc it in like I did the last one, but let's get rid of that now. [00:26:31] Speaker C: And then. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Ultravox, we got ultraviolet here, have a, have a chat about ultraviolet. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I remember when that one first came out and it was so atmospheric and it was. I was living in waddle up with my sister and her future husband in the flats behind the Waterlott pub. The three mile point or whatever. It's a ten mile point. And it was the depths of winter. And I remember that this came out. It was just so atmospheric and it was. Yeah, this, this feels like. This song feels and sounds like winter to me. [00:27:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:11] Speaker B: I ended up becoming a big ultraviolex fan and got, you know, most of their albums and all that sort of. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Major crisscross who passed away. Yeah, I've got a. This what, this song itself, Vienna, was one of the first songs that they introduced. Well, not really introduce the synthesizer, but it was produced electronically. And back then in the eighties, the gear they had to use to produce it was phenomenal. And they did some. I remember listening to the professor of rock on YouTube talking about, oh, I watch him often. [00:27:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:52] Speaker B: And he has a good are over long, but I quite like him. Yeah, you've got to remember as well, prior to the. That's the other thing. This is slightly pre MTV. [00:28:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:04] Speaker B: But prior to this, when you watch the video clip of a band, it was what, what you was called a performance video. So they just videoed the band miming. [00:28:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:15] Speaker B: With their instruments. It was around this era with Bruce, Bruce Beresford and all that where they actually started making storytelling videos. They would tell a story with the video and that's. That's actually what resonates with me is these videos were the first, you know, Duran Duran and Spande Bella and, and these guys and all that, and men at work that it wasn't just them miming to the instruments, they were telling a story with their videos. [00:28:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:43] Speaker B: And this was really the start of it. [00:28:45] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:28:46] Speaker B: And, you know, who can forget King Kahn's Betty Davis eyes with all those fluttering, you know, net curtains and. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I want to try and mix. Um. You're so vain and Betty Davis eyes together. [00:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:03] Speaker B: They're about the right beat and time signature. Yeah, yeah, probably do it. [00:29:10] Speaker C: It's good. [00:29:10] Speaker B: Eat. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I'll have to rip them and get some stems going and see if I can do it. Give it a shot. See how we go. There you go. That's Vienna Ultra. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Yeah, well, so atmospheric. And, you know, can you make, like, look at this, this scene here I'm in waddle up and whatlup is in a hollow where all the swamps are and it's bitterly cold and foggy in winter. [00:29:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:37] Speaker B: And I was a. I was a patriotship back then. And of course, you had to get up early in the morning. 05:00 in the morning. 04:00 in the morning. [00:29:47] Speaker C: And. [00:29:47] Speaker B: Yeah, in this hollow with the swamps and all the mist. And this song comes out. [00:29:51] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:51] Speaker B: It's just, to me, it's like. Yeah, that's what it was like living in Waterloo. [00:29:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is such a good tracking video. Like you said, that they're storytelling, this, and it's all about the storytelling and the music. Storytelling, combining the two. [00:30:08] Speaker B: And that then, that was when it all started. And now, you know, I mean, Michael Jackson took it to the degree of, you know, they do whole movies of his music, but thriller, round about 80, 81, that was where it all started. [00:30:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:24] Speaker B: Doing that sort of stuff. [00:30:25] Speaker A: That's what Michael Jackson did. He took a three minute song and turned it into an 8910 minutes video and then meatloaf come around and said, hold my beer, I'm going to write an eight minute song. [00:30:38] Speaker B: And you know what? But back in the day, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was five minutes and 55 seconds long. [00:30:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:45] Speaker B: And it was like, it was. It was amazing that the radio stations would play a song that was five minutes and 55 seconds long, you know? [00:30:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:54] Speaker A: Oh, my nose is going, I'm going to sneeze in a minute. It's going to be a mess. [00:30:59] Speaker B: So we've got two more songs. [00:31:01] Speaker A: Yeah, two more songs you want to have a talk about? I put. I put this one on. [00:31:06] Speaker B: You surprised me. Because I've forgotten. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, I'll put this one on. [00:31:09] Speaker C: Hold on. [00:31:09] Speaker A: I'm just going to go and make sure I don't blow everyone's ear drums out. There we go. So now I'll bring this one on. My girlfriend loves this song, fisher's hat. [00:31:22] Speaker B: Well, actually, a strange band. This is the only song that ever was famous. And the last gig my band ever did, we learned this song to do. It's actually quite a high song. But if you go back to listen to some of Fisher's Zed staff, it's really, really good. But this is the only one that they're. There was another one that did well in the UK. The perfect day. Yeah, but they are a really good band. And it's such a change. They only had the one hit, international. But if you get a chance, write it down. The perfect day is a good one from Fisher's ed. [00:31:58] Speaker A: Cause I know we play some on pop rock radio and there we go. [00:32:04] Speaker B: I've gotta make sure you might be playing. You might play perfect day. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Actually, I think it might be. Yeah. Because it's so long, the perfect day. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Great track. [00:32:14] Speaker C: Never. [00:32:15] Speaker B: Never made it in Australia. Actually, it would. It never really took off in Australia. This one did. Yeah, yeah. Not the perfect day. And perfect days are great song. And so different as well, you know. [00:32:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:27] Speaker A: I'm just trying to think. So long. I think that one rings a bell, but yeah. [00:32:33] Speaker B: Anyway, so you've had. Have heard this one, haven't you? [00:32:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. This is 1981, Boston House. I started high school in 83. [00:32:53] Speaker C: So. [00:32:53] Speaker B: I am an old father. I was djing in 81. [00:33:01] Speaker A: What I say to people nowadays. 82, 82. I remember 82, 81, 82. Kiss started getting really big over here. [00:33:18] Speaker B: My old man was only 55 in 81. Oh, 56, yeah, yeah. [00:33:25] Speaker A: They got fishes there. See some kids these days. I'm not gonna get this. Get this type of music or video clips. They're just gonna get Nicki Minaj shaking. [00:33:33] Speaker B: Her ass on the same. My daughter got. She got a thorough grounding in old school music by being in my car, in her mum's car. My daughter loves old school music. And we discussed it before. She introduces me to new music, to new music. So there's a bit of a back and forth. A lot of kids I've seen, Jenner's friends. [00:34:04] Speaker C: Yep. [00:34:05] Speaker B: And listening to old school music. And they, most of them know all the words. And it's like a lot of the kids nowadays are getting a thorough grounding in old school. Don't despair now. [00:34:16] Speaker A: Talk about new music. I'm just gonna do a shameless plug for pop rock radio. [00:34:22] Speaker B: Why not? It's a good station. [00:34:23] Speaker A: We've got got it going now. I've got it set up that we do on the weekly rap on a Sunday. We do live reactions to ten songs from AMRap. Now, AMRAP is australian music radio airplay project. So all the bands put their music up there and radio stations from all around Australia, they'll pick songs and play them and introduce them. And what we do, we pick ten songs and we put them on the website. We do the live reactions, we talk about them on the show. Then we now put them on the website and you can go and listen to them and vote them up and vote them down. So there's ten brand new songs that have been released in the last week from australian artists that you probably never, ever heard of. You can actually go and vote for these songs and. [00:35:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I am, because I actually. I actually miss that from when I was djing at the lizard or vjing at the Lizard, getting the new videos and listening to new stuff. And I. The best time was when I was looking, working at the local radio station and the record companies would send us all these singles of brand new stuff and listening to it going, that is a great song. I'm gonna play that on Thursday night at the pub. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna put this one in high rotation. I actually miss that sort of thing. So I might actually check in on Sunday. [00:35:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:35:47] Speaker B: Depending on my. Depending on my blood levels in my alcohol streak, I could check in. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, do it. [00:35:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:55] Speaker A: But, um, you can get to the website and have a listen to the music because, um, when we do it, we're not streaming this Sunday. I won't be here on this Sunday. So this Sunday we've got this Sunday off. So it'd be the next Sunday. [00:36:05] Speaker B: Next time. No, yeah. Very interested. [00:36:07] Speaker A: But the exciting part is that when I put it on the Facebook and said, like. And I tagged all the bands in, I said, here you go, guys. Here's our live reactions. Get people to go and vote for them and the winners or the best songs will put on pop rock radio and. And tell you what, the musicians and the artists, they're getting right behind it and pumping it as well. It's crazy. I haven't seen so much action on the website in a long time. [00:36:33] Speaker B: I've noticed that Outback tracks gets high rotation. [00:36:37] Speaker C: Outback tracks? [00:36:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I've got a. Yeah. For some reason, the algorithm just loves Outback tracks. [00:36:45] Speaker B: Yes. I mean, some are okay, but some are a bit. [00:36:48] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:36:49] Speaker A: But you know. Do you know what it is? Do you know what Outback tracks is? [00:36:53] Speaker B: An algorithm. I know. [00:36:54] Speaker C: No. Outback tracks. [00:36:56] Speaker B: No. They've gone to communities and recorded written music and recorded music with the kids there. Yeah, I know exactly what it is. [00:37:04] Speaker A: I've got to get it off. I've got to cut it back, because they do come in. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Some of it's good, but some's a bit wishy washy. Honest opinion. [00:37:12] Speaker A: No, but we used to have, like, a segment in the early days. We used to have a segment specifically for outback tracks, and that's where the. [00:37:21] Speaker B: Algorithm somehow picked it up and just ran with it. And now it keeps running this. It's funny. I've noticed I've got about five working days worth of music on my phone. You know, I've got a knife you find with a huge amount of memory, but if you don't let it play all the way through. So if just every couple of days, you hit shuffle again, it gets. The algorithm will just start reading, oh, you played these before, but not these before. And it will just. Within the 600 or so songs, 700 songs you've got. It'll. It'll play a little select group of 50 songs, and so you. And that's. Let this be a lesson to you, kitties. If you're doing shuffle on your iPhone, let it play the whole playlist before hitting shuffle again. Otherwise the algorithm will go, oh, you like that song? [00:38:17] Speaker A: You've played it 756 times. [00:38:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:38:21] Speaker B: So, no, so the last couple of runs. So, for the last month or so, last couple of months, I've actually lit the whole. I avoid hitting the shuffle button with a passion. I let the whole playlist play through and I get a fuller, true shuffle of 700 songs, you know, so. [00:38:41] Speaker A: No, it's good. We're going to do the last song? [00:38:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. What song are we looking at? [00:38:46] Speaker C: Um. [00:38:47] Speaker A: You picked it. [00:38:49] Speaker B: I can't remember. I'm holding a nap. [00:38:51] Speaker A: I know you had a nap on the loop. [00:38:54] Speaker C: Here you go. [00:38:55] Speaker A: Are you ready? [00:38:57] Speaker B: Yep. Go ahead. [00:38:59] Speaker C: Oh. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Duran Duran. Our first introduction to Simon and the boys. [00:39:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:04] Speaker B: Um, John Taylor, one of the best bass players in the world. But this was just so different. It was definitely new, romantic, you know, look at the clothes and the dancing style. Yeah. But once again, this is a. This is a performance video. But it did tell a story and it was very different. It was a nice mix of electronica and guitars. [00:39:35] Speaker C: Yep. [00:39:35] Speaker B: Which is another thing. Before the. Before this, bands were either electronic keyboards, they were Devo, or their craft work, although it has. Whereas new romantic did a really nice mix of both of them. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Do you know the album third stage by Boston? [00:39:55] Speaker B: Yes, I've got that. Have a listen to it on my computer. [00:39:58] Speaker A: Yeah, have a listen to it. And when you find out that all the synth sounds are all guitars, you'll be blown away. Took them seven years. Seven years to make the album. And people go so synth, but it's not. Was all done by guitars. [00:40:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:15] Speaker B: Boston. Big guitar band. Very, very good guitar band. I actually remember the day, back in the early days, Queen used to proudly put on all their albums in small Britain. No synthesizers were used in the making of this album. And then years later, they had radio, gaga, all that sort of thing. Used to be a thing. No synthesizers. Good music. [00:40:40] Speaker A: It's an instrument, isn't it? You got it. People were scared of it. That's why it's like back in year 2000, people were scared of the bug. Y two K bug. And, you know, now they're worried about different things. What about, um, before we go, because we get it. We're getting close to out like the hour mark. We've got about ten minutes left, but let's pause this. It's another. It's great. Like, I like the videos during the music that you had come out with. [00:41:10] Speaker B: But they made great videos. If you get a chance, just look up the whole. That they did, the Rio album. They actually did it as a video album as well. And all the videos are. It was filmed in Sri Lanka. And all the videos are astounding, especially save a prayer. [00:41:29] Speaker C: Yep. [00:41:29] Speaker B: So, yeah, yeah. [00:41:30] Speaker A: Quick question. We're gonna go a bit off topic. And we're gonna go a bit, um. I don't know, what are you gonna call it? Current affairs type of thing. What do you pay much attention to Elon Musk and the government battling? [00:41:47] Speaker B: Am I allowed to say honestly what I say? [00:41:50] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:53] Speaker A: We'Re not on. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Elon Musk is a privileged dickhead. [00:41:57] Speaker A: What about the. [00:41:59] Speaker B: Everybody thinks he's so smart and he does this and he's innovative. He's an idiot. [00:42:04] Speaker A: What about the, um. [00:42:06] Speaker C: Um. [00:42:07] Speaker A: Censorship that they're trying to do? [00:42:11] Speaker B: At the end of the day, this free speech, which I want you to think about something that the USA struggles with, but the government, it's a fine line. Where do you draw the line between free speech and hate speech that hurts people. [00:42:29] Speaker C: Okay. [00:42:30] Speaker B: It is a very fine line because. [00:42:31] Speaker A: What they're doing, the government wants the banning of the video clip of the boy attacking the bishop. [00:42:40] Speaker B: And I don't want to see it. Me personally. Yeah, but if other people want to watch it. [00:42:45] Speaker A: Yeah, but the government's banned it. The government's banned it. You're not out of stream. It's not how to show it. [00:42:49] Speaker B: They want that. They want to band it. Yeah, yeah. Um, but, but I don't know where, whether their heart is in. They don't want to encourage copycats. Yeah, maybe that's what they want to ban it. I don't know. [00:43:02] Speaker A: People, some people want to watch it and see what happens and, you know, whatever your reasons are for watching it, because I always go back to thinking about it and I was thinking about it, like earlier on, if they can ban video clips like that, you can't do this, you can't do that, and obviously, you know, you can't speak about on social media. What about other things that we, we do that are bad lot, smoking and vaping. Why don't they get rid of some of that shit if they've got the power to get rid of it? [00:43:35] Speaker B: Um, the government makes too much money out of smoking. [00:43:39] Speaker A: That's the bottom line, isn't it? Yeah, but, um, it's just a thought we don't want to get. [00:43:45] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think you want to have a free fall like Paul. There is actually a website and it is a real thing, although, no, actually, I don't think it exists anymore. But it was a real thing, pirate bay. And it was. I can't, I can't remember the name of it. I was only actually reading about it the other day. But it was a site for people who liked watching monkeys being tortured. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:44:12] Speaker B: And they. And it got to the stage where people, the subscribers to the site, would pay money. The money would be sent to people in Indonesia who would do horrible things to monkeys, torture them. And for people who say, oh, but free speech, let it. Let it run rampant. [00:44:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:36] Speaker B: And then other people go, well, I don't want to watch that. So, you know, so if I don't watch it, it doesn't matter if it's on there. [00:44:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:41] Speaker B: The thing is, this was monetized because people were able to watch it. If a government, or if somebody stepped in and said, no, we need to ban that, that ip, that, that the whole thing, then money does not go to these people in India. And it was Indonesia, I'm sorry to say, but money does not go to these people in Indonesia to torture monkeys. So they're not going to torture monkeys. So there is a. There is a case to say. Sometimes you do. You do have to go, no, this is not going to. This is not going to be seen. The world does not need to see this. [00:45:19] Speaker A: Yeah, I just wanted your opinion, you know. [00:45:22] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. No, no. [00:45:24] Speaker B: The thing is, it is a gray area. It's very hard. Where do you draw free speech? I believe in free speech, but where do you draw the line? Yeah, I mean, we've got the situation where Andrew Tate, looking up, don't know, he's, um. He's an absolute misogynist. [00:45:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:39] Speaker B: He thinks. And young boys, and he's like the. The 13 year old's version of what a successful male looks like. Yeah, that's what he is. And the thing is. And then disease kids, because they look to Andrew Tate and go, oh, this is how men, man, supposed to be. There's these teenage kids in high school who are giving lip to their female teachers. [00:46:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:01] Speaker B: Yes, it is. It is a case of, okay, where do you go? No, this is banned. [00:46:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:07] Speaker B: And no, this is free speech. It's a hard one and I'm glad I don't have to make the decisions. [00:46:12] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good call. But, yeah, I was listening to their arguments back and forth. I reckon they got arguments both positive and negative on both sides. [00:46:21] Speaker B: But my thoughts are, I think they just don't want copycats. [00:46:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:26] Speaker B: And there are idiots out there who go, I'll do that. Yeah, I think that's what it is. You know, you can choose. I mean, for the gruesomeness of it, you can choose not to watch it. It's like the other state hacking off those people's heads. I never watched one of those videos because I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want. And, you know, I watched that, that orthodox priest being stabbed in the face, you know, twice. And I went, I don't want to watch it anymore. I don't want to see it anymore. You know, it's. [00:46:59] Speaker C: It's not. [00:47:01] Speaker A: Alrighty, what's that? Time of the evening where we start winding down. Thanks for your wisdom. We're going to do that. [00:47:08] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:47:08] Speaker B: And I think it. I think it was a good one tonight. I'm looking forward to watching it back on YouTube. Yeah, I watched about five minutes of last week's one and I went, yeah, last week. [00:47:18] Speaker A: You were sober last week, weren't you? [00:47:21] Speaker B: I know, that was terrible. That's why I thought, yeah. We had more views before I. Come on. [00:47:26] Speaker A: We had more views last week. It was our biggest watch. What show? [00:47:30] Speaker B: There you go. I might go on YouTube tonight and have a look then. Maybe. It was a good show. [00:47:36] Speaker A: All right, mate, we'll have to do. [00:47:38] Speaker B: Lovely to talk to you, as usual. [00:47:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Next week we'll have to do it again. Ours. Moment of wisdom. I'll have to come up with a. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Question and Al's moment of wisdom. Why not? I'm happy. Don't get me into religion. [00:47:52] Speaker C: No, no, no. [00:47:55] Speaker B: This is a fine balancing act. I'm actually an anti theist. [00:47:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:59] Speaker B: I've got a few friends who are really, really quiet. I've really got to be careful what I post. [00:48:05] Speaker A: No, because next week we're going to try and get a special couple of special guests. One or two. Or should we do like one, one every week? Or do we get a couple in or. [00:48:15] Speaker B: I'll see if Brad's up for it. [00:48:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:17] Speaker B: Or do you want to see if one of you. Yeah, I mean, there's Woody. There's a few details. Jenny. I've got a few dj's in my friend's feed, so. [00:48:25] Speaker C: Yep. Nice. [00:48:26] Speaker A: We'll do that. We'll get them and, um, we'll. We'll get them to give them a topic to talk about. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Have their opinions on music. Well, yeah, we'll do the music thing. [00:48:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:35] Speaker B: All that sort of stuff. [00:48:36] Speaker A: It was a pair of old jocks. [00:48:39] Speaker B: A pair of old jocks. More than a pair now. Can I do it again? [00:48:43] Speaker A: Do what? [00:48:44] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:44] Speaker B: Good night, Australia.