This week: A story I've wanted to tell since we began Liner Note Leftovers! The bizarre tale of how Dan Rather being beat up by time travelers inspired R.E.M's "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"

Also- Why you don't tell Def Leppard to turn it down, and the making of classics by Nirvana, Green Day and Mötley Crüe.

This Week's Menu 

Part I- Nirvana The Pranksters: Nirvana plays a prank at Reading Festival 1992. It's a little dark considering future knowledge, but at the time and to this day, it's still a brilliant stab at the shysters in the tabloid media. Truly a great way to say screw you, like Nirvana only could.

Part II- Don't Wanna Be An American Idiot: The backstory behind one of the greatest protest tracks of the modern era, Green Day's American Idiot. How it came to be, how it almost wasn't, how a stab at Lynyrd Skynyrd got it started.

Part III- Dr. Feelgood: It's not often that your bassist and main songwriter DYING and then coming back to life inspires your greatest album. But with the help of Vancouver, Bob Rock, and sober champs Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe makes it happen with their greatest album, Dr. Feelgood. Here's how it happened.

Part IV- Why You DO NOT Tell Def Leppard to Turn it Down: "The Sound Police" screw up Def Leppard with their restrictive volume limits at the Oregon State Fair. It was so bad, it had Def Leppard giving out refunds while the show was still happening. Somehow, it's also M.C. Hammer's fault.

Part V- What's The Frequency, Kenneth?: A story I've wanted to tell since I started Liner Note Leftovers, and that's no fooling. This is the story about how time travelers (yes, time travelers) beat up Dan Rather and R.E.M. wrote a song about it.  Once you get down this rabbit hole, you'll realize it's the most normal part of this tale. It just gets weirder from here.

Thanks for coming along once again! If you’ve got a story you want featured on Liner Note Leftovers, have some feedback or you just wanna chat music, give me a shout at my day job 106.1 The Goat or email me at danielmsoul@gmail.com, I’d love to hear from you!

Also, if you can, leave a rating where you listen to the cast! It helps the show out a TON in getting more traction.

See you in the next one!

Songs Featured This Week:

• All Apologies [Live at Reading, 1992] - Nirvana
• American Idiot- Green Day
• Dr. Feelgood- Mötley Crüe
• Women- Def Leppard
• What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.

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Welcome back for another virtual crate-dig! This week: Did a romantic relationship between David Bowie & Mick Jagger inspire one of the best Stones ballads of all time? How did a bunch of bored kids help make a Gen X anthem? Also- concerts, for good or ill, that left a major mark on rock n' roll.

This Week's Menu 

A Whole Lotta Teen Spirit: A bunch of kids in LA think they're just showing up for giggles when they appear in a music video for a little known band called "Nirvana." They ended up becoming Gen X icons instead.

The Right Concert, The Right Time: It's been debated: Is Zeppelin or Rush the better band? Well, here's a story of how they intersect more than you could think. They were in the right place at the right time, I'd say.

Alice Cooper Almost Gets Rock Banned from YYZ: An Alice Cooper show in Toronto almost gets hard rock banned from Toronto- and he didn't even need to be there to make it happen. Talk about WRONG place, WRONG time.

Who the Hell is Angie?: The Rolling Stones "Angie" is one of their most popular songs, but who, or what, is it about? Angie Dickenson? A torrid love affair between David Bowie and Mick Jagger? German Chancellor Angela Merkel? We discuss the theories about the Stones' most popular ballad.

The Smashing Pumpkins Smashed my Eardrums!: From the Liner Note Leftovers archives, we discuss the time the Smashing Pumpkins got sued for being "too loud." Call this the WRONG place, WRONG time, part two.

Thanks for coming along once again! If you've got a story you wanna hear featured on Liner Note Leftovers, give me a shout at my day job 106.1 The Goat or email me at danielmsoul@gmail.com, I'd love to hear from you!

Also, if you can, leave a rating where you listen to the cast! It helps the show out a TON in getting more traction.

See you in the next one!

Songs featured this week:

• Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
• Working Man- Rush
• No More Mister Nice Guy- Alice Cooper
• Angie- The Rolling Stones
• Zero- Smashing Pumpkins

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Get it? Because a vinyl record is twelve inches? What did you think we were talking about?

This week: An exercise in self-sabotage with Jim Morrison. What is so heavy metal about parking lots. How Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos learned he shares his name with an MI-6 spy...the hard way.

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Part I- Parking Lots are Metal AF: The story of Heavy Metal Parking Lot. A couple young directors, Judas Priest, and their fans were responsible for one of the first viral videos of all time, years before a little thing called "internet."

Part II- Takin' Care of Business: The origin story of Bachman Turner Overdrive worker's anthem. How it might actually be a slacker's anthem, how it was made up on the spot at a gig, how it started a beef with a former Canadian Prime Minister.

Part III- From Russia With (No) Love: Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos finds out he shares his birth name with the fake name of a disgraced MI-6...the hard way. When his passport is flagged at a Russian airport.

Part IV- Just a Little Bit of Fire: When it came time to make a shortened (or butchered) version of The Doors "Light My Fire" no one, and I mean NO ONE, was a fan. Except Jim Morrison, who really dug the idea...or maybe he really did NOT dig the song? Conspiracies abound.

Part V- A Nasty Little Song: One of the great mysteries of rock n roll is why an uncomfortably large number of people think "Every Breath You Take" is a love song. I mean, why would you think a song Sting said is a "nasty little song, really rather evil."

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Thanks for swinging by for a spin once again! Got a story you want featured on Liner Note Leftovers? Send me an email, I'd love to hear about it! Also, leaving a rating on your favourite podcast app helps the show immensely. Love y'all!

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