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This is the podcast that comes after the podcast. Welcome to Disgraceland, the after party. Welcome to the Disgraceland bonus episode, a little thing we like to call the after party. This is the show after the show, the party after the party, the bridge to get you from one full episode of Disgraceland to the other, the backyard to dig into the dirt. On this bonus episode, we are talking about this week's episode subject,

The Go-Go's. We're previewing the coming Marilyn Manson episode, getting into some recommendations and some subversive 90s talk. And we go through your voicemails, texts, DMs, emails, and as always, a whole lot of rosy All Right Discos. Let's get into it.

All right, the Go-Go's, this week's full episode subject of Disgrace Hand. They did something that no one has ever done before. They were the first group of all female musicians to have a number one album of songs that they wrote themselves. And that's noteworthy, as we discussed in the episode, because at the beginning of their career, they were told by music industry insiders, namely record executives, that they couldn't expect to write their own songs and have a hit album. But that's exactly what they did. So the obvious question then is,

Are the Go-Go's the greatest group of female musicians in pop music history? Now, I both love and hate these big dumb questions. I love them because as dumb as they are, they force us to have a conversation about things. I dislike them immensely because they're so basic and they are so limiting. Yeah.

and they eliminate any nuance, and that can be a drag. But hey, we do the nuance thing in the full episode. For these after parties, let's just get the conversation going. To do that, we need to say the obvious thing here, which is that there are plenty of women who have had number one albums, okay? Taylor Swift has 14 number one albums, for God's sake. But there's also Madonna, Barbra Streisand, there's others. Now,

Taylor and Madonna relied on co-writers for the songs on their number one albums. Okay? I'm not saying that Taylor Swift doesn't write her own songs. Don't hear this the wrong way. She does write her own songs. She just writes them with Jack Antonoff and other people. Okay? Other people have a hand in it. That wasn't the case with the Go-Go's. They wrote their own songs as the band members of their band. Okay? Okay?

Madonna, same thing. First album, I don't think she wrote anything on it. Then she got some success. She co-wrote with other musicians. True Blue in particular, huge album for her, number one. I think they're all co-writes on that. Barbara Streisand, to my knowledge, didn't write any of the songs on her number ones. I did a little bit of research into this. And Britney, Beyonce, Janet Jackson,

It's not like they were holed up in a dingy rehearsal space writing their own tunes, okay? They had writers and or co-writers crafting their hits as well. And again, there are zero girl groups. Everyone I just talked about was a solo artist. There are zero girl groups with number one albums who wrote their own songs, right?

Diana Ross and the Supremes, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Dixie Chicks or the Chicks. I'm sorry, Spice Girls, TLC, Danity Kane, Blackpink. None of you did what the Go-Go's did to achieve your number one albums, and that is write your own tunes. All right? It's such a singular achievement.

that I can't even find a proper list from Rolling Stone, the magazine of record when it comes to stupid lists. I can't even find a real list of greatest girl groups of all time from frickin' Rolling Stone. So, Billboard has a list, but it's paywalled, and I'm not paying for it. US Weekly has a list, but it isn't ranked, which doesn't do us much good.

So let's see what the robots have to say, all right? Google's AI, their Gemini product, when prompted with the question, who are the greatest girl groups of all time?

Gemini answers with the following. The Supremes, Spice Girls, Destiny's Child are widely considered the greatest girl groups of all time. Now, when I asked ChatGPT the same thing, ChatGPT gives me the following answer and ranked list. So here's the answer. Again, the question is,

Who are the greatest girl groups of all time? ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence, says the best girl groups of all time can vary depending on criteria like commercial success, cultural impact, critical acclaim, or fan-based devotion. Here's a comprehensive list that includes influential and successful girl groups from various genres and eras.

All right, so here's the ranked list in reverse order from ChatGPT. Number 10, Brownstone. I've never heard of them. Number nine, the Ronettes. All right, I get that. Eight, En Vogue. I get that. The Supremes are at seven. Yep. Six is Little Mix, a group I've never heard of. Five, Girls' Generation. That's K-pop that I've never heard of. Blackpink is at number four.

I believe Blackpink is the woman from White Lotus. Three, Destiny's Child. Two, TLC. And number one, Spice Girls. That is a tough list for a number of reasons. I'm not even going to get into it. I mean, Ronda and she are way too low. That's all I'll say. Okay, so...

The ChatGPT robot included other lists as well. Unprompted, because ChatGPT does right by me, okay? I guess. Let's see. ChatGPT, the good little robot, gave me, okay, critically acclaimed and culturally important, okay? So that's this list here. Four of the groups on that list

I'm sorry, four of the groups on the critically acclaimed and culturally important list are groups that were in the top 10. So I'm not going to get into that. It then gives me a list of underrated and cult favorites. And when I saw that as the heading, as the headline, I thought, okay, here we go.

This is where the Go-Go's are going to end up. So here's the list. Number five on the list of best underrated and cult favorite girl groups. Number five, the Bangles. Number four, SWV. Number three, All Saints. Number two, Sugar Babes. And number one, Danity Kane. The Go-Go's are nowhere to be found on any of these lists.

Which makes zero sense. Zero. The Go-Go's were not the runaways. The Go-Go's were not even the freaking bangles. They were so much more.

It's beyond discouraging that AI, two different AI applications, mind you, it's beyond discouraging that AI doesn't recognize this band. It's alarming, actually. Now, you might be shaking your head saying, well, it's just AI. Who gives a shit about AI? And I would say, yeah, okay, but artificial intelligence is a reflection of the actual intelligence that is currently on the internet, okay? Or I would say the lack of intelligence that is currently on the internet. How the girl group

that wrote their own songs and had the first and the only number one record in history of pop music that were not one-hit wonders, who had follow-up hits, a significant career, significant post-careers for its members, was just recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is still performing on relevant bills with other relevant artists.

How they're not number one on this list, never mind just completely excluded from these lists, is beyond me. It's like the Go-Go's have descended back into subterranean punk rock obscurity as it concerns the mainstream, the masses.

This should not be taken lightly. AI may not take my job as a guy who writes about music, but it's going to be the first veil of history. It's going to be the source that most people in the future reference first when they're looking for quick facts and quick views into the past.

And the fact that the Go-Go's aren't even mentioned is a freaking disgrace, okay? I feel like Belinda Carlisle pissed off some robots or something. I have no idea what's going on here. It makes no sense. Maybe I'm in the minority. Maybe the Go-Go's weren't that good. Maybe the Go-Go's weren't that significant.

Maybe because they come from punk rock, I elevate them somewhat in my mind for some reason, but I don't think so. I mean, those songs were ubiquitous. They were everywhere. They were stone cold hits. They're still being played. I just cannot get with the fact that they're not recognized here. It doesn't make any sense.

And if you want a deeper look into why I feel this way, obviously check out this week's full episode. We just released it a couple days ago. And we're going to find out where you guys stand on this and what you guys think and who you think the greatest girl groups are of all time when we get into your voicemails and your texts and your DMs in a bit. But before that, I got to tell you,

I got to tell you guys about the upcoming Rewind episode that's hitting your feeds after this one. That episode is on Madonna, and it's freaking awesome. And in it, I discuss some of the wilder moments in Madonna's career, of course, but I also talk about one of my favorite songs of all time, a Madonna song, but a song Madonna did not write, a song called Borderline.

And it features one of the coolest music cues that we've ever created in disgrace. And so check that episode out. It's coming your way next in your feed for some throwback disgrace and vibes. Then next week on Tuesday per your request. Okay. It's our brand new episode on Marilyn Manson. And Oh,

Oh, the inhumanity. What this guy did, what this guy admitted to doing, the staggering level of rock star hubris and depravity. This episode is going to give the Gigi Allen episode from our archive a run for its money, all right? And when you're listening to this episode, I want you guys to be thinking about who the most subversive artist of the 1990s was. Was it Marilyn Manson?

Was it Gigi Allen? Was it Madonna? Was it someone else? Let me know. I'm going to be talking a little bit more about this in the bonus section of this after party today, 617-906-6638. Leave me a voicemail. Send me a text on your thoughts on Marilyn Manson, the subversiveness of the 1990s. Marilyn Manson as an artist, was he the most subversive artist of the 90s?

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All right, we're back. Apple Podcast listeners, make sure you get those auto downloads turned on. All right? Get them on, get them on, get them on. Bang a gong. Let's make sure you get all episodes of Disgraceland. 617-906-6638. You know where I'm at. I'm in the phone booth. It's the same one I'm in every week. It's the one across the hall, hanging on the telephone. You guys want to send me a voicemail, want to send me a text, get at me. 617-906-6638. Just like Tony from the 206.

Jake, what's happening, brother? It's Tony from the 206. I know it's been a minute since I've talked to you. To answer your question on who the greatest girl group is, the Go-Go's, I'd definitely say the Go-Go's, but I'd also say the Bangles. I always thought the two of them would make for an interesting versus battle. If you remember the versus from the lockdown era, I always thought the two of them going head-to-head over who had the better songs would be interesting. So much love from the 206, and I'll holler at you later. Peace.

Tony in the 206. Thanks for the call, my man. I get the Bengals love. I do. I don't. I just don't rank them as high as the Go-Go's for various reasons. I don't want to beat a dead horse, but mainly it's it's just the hits. The hits are stronger and the Go-Go's came first as well. You get to give them some credit for that.

Johnny Vinyl from the 617. What's up, brother? Let's hear what Johnny's got to say. Hey, what's up, Jake? It's Johnny Vinyl answering the question of the week. Who's the best all-girl band? So I have to say the Runaways have a slight edge over the Go-Go's.

And then the Go-Go set the stage for the Bengals. So I would say it goes in that order. Throw in there for honorable mention, Vixen. Absolutely, for the 90s, you have to pick L7. And another honorable mention is the band Veruca Salt, where two out of the four members were the lead singers, guitarists, and wrote all songs.

and they were amazing in the 90s. So that's your lineup right there. You know I can't stick to just one, but great episode of the Go-Go's. Had me laughing with the whole situation of Ozzy kicking, I forget what her name is, but kicking her out of the hotel room. You have to be pretty fucked up to have Ozzy kick you out. Anyway, brother, have a good one.

Johnny, appreciate the voicemail as always. Great list. And you're kind of throwing what I just said back in my face. You're putting the Runaways at number one because they came before the Go-Go's. And yeah, I get how you can do that. They did not have the hits that the Go-Go's had, obviously, and neither did they write their own songs. I don't believe. I think it was all Kim Fowley, right? Yeah.

But I get it. And I love how you mentioned L7. No one's brought them up yet to me. Actually, someone on Instagram did. But I love that we got it in voicemail form here. And Veruca Salt as well. Huge. Great call. Appreciate you, my man.

617-906-6638. You guys want to send me a voicemail. Next week's question of the week is going to be on the 90s artists. Who were the most subversive? Is it Marilyn Manson? Is it somebody else? Was it Gigi Allen? Gigi Allen died in 1993. So I don't know that we can say that, but the 617 here writes in, hey.

Gigi Allen episode, you mentioned the pit in Harvard Square. It's gone now, which pisses me off, but it hadn't been the same since the early 2000s. However, it was a special place for me from about 1987 to 1992. You and me both. I didn't have any friends in the pit because I wasn't from Boston, but I was hanging out there on weekends. My dad lived in the city. I was from the Burbs with my mom. And I would come in. I'd go to Newbury Comics. I'd get some pizza in the mall there. I forget the name of that place. I can still smell that pizza, though.

And yeah, I'd go hang out in the pit and, you know, I'd hope to not get beat up by the skinheads. And I just sort of gaze upon the punk rockers and think, you know, what the hell are these fucking gutter punk kids all about as well? It's a whole thing, man.

And 617, we probably cross paths. 828 texts in, hey, just finishing up the Sign of the Times bonus episode and thought I'd throw you some PNC Park pics. I got to love Pittsburgh sports fans. I got to cut this texter off for a minute here. You know, I mentioned a Pittsburgh Pirates hat once, maybe twice, and the Pittsburgh fans come out of the woodwork.

It's, I can't tell you how many, how many texts I've got and voicemails from Pittsburgh and Instagram messages, just Pittsburgh sports fans, maybe pirates fans, just looking to talk. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of my dog Dusty who like, you know, someone says the word walk and she comes out, she goes, someone say walk, someone say walk. You know, it's like, you mentioned the pirates. It's like pirates. You guys want to talk about the pirates? It's like,

That's the Pittsburgh fans. I love it. And this one sends in these. I'll read the rest of the text. These pictures are probably mostly from Yankees visits since I'm a transplanted Connecticut native. Lee, I appreciate the text. And you have a beautiful ballpark there in Pittsburgh. Gorgeous. Someday I hope to visit. Thank you.

303 writes in, hey, if you need research help with hair bands, that's my jam. I read Circus and Hip Parader magazines cover to cover every month for almost a decade starting in the 80s. Listen, 303, appreciate you. I might take you up on your offer at some point. I just found out that the singer for Warrant died. Is that true? Is that true? And if you guys could have one episode on one hair band, who would it be? Let's make a quick little rundown here. Poison,

I'm thinking these are all bands I despise, by the way. Okay. Now, no shade if you like them. I get it. You know, I guess the older I get, a Poison song comes on. I have some nostalgia for it. But let's just go. I'm excluding Motley Crue. Let's just go five hair bands. You can get one episode on them. Poison, Skid Row, Warrant, Winger, and then, I don't know, Dealer's Choice for number five.

I don't know if it's Faster Pussycat, Cinderella. Who are we talking about? I can do one. Now, don't just be selfish and be like, I like that band. Therefore, it's number one. Come at me.

617-906-6638. Text. Come at me with what you think will make the best hair metal episode. Okay? Which, now to your point, 303, I was reading Hip Parader and Circus, but I was skipping those articles. And I definitely wasn't putting Janie Lane up on my wall. No shade if you were. But you know...

Some of you know way better than I the history of these bands, these hair metal bands. So I want the ones with the most criminality in their background. Is it Skid Row? Is it? Is it? I don't think it is. Is it Poison? I don't think it is. Again, Motley Crue does not count. We have a new episode of Nikki Sixx coming your way. And we, of course, have an episode on Motley Crue. So we're going to have two. So there you go. But get at me. Hair metal fans, let me know.

302 writes in, as a teenager in the 80s and the 90s, I grew up with a mom that was hyper-concerned about what neighbors thought. This banger was so important to me. And that banger is Salt-N-Pepa's None of Your Business. And this is on the heels of the Sign of the Times episode that we did on Prince, where we were talking about which artists best represented their generation. And the 302 wrote in ahead of that text, 302 wrote in ahead of that text,

I'm so mad at myself for not mentioning TLC and Salt-N-Pepa in the Sign of the Times conversation. Both bands were huge in making a statement about feminism and safe sex during the AIDS epidemic. And you're absolutely right. They were safe.

And they were female. So it's apropos of our conversation right now this week, as well as our conversation last week. Thank you 302 for tying it all together. You guys are the best listeners. Appreciate you. 617-906-6638. Voicemail and text. You want to get at me at disgracelandpod on the socials. You want to hit me there.

Paul over in the UK on Facebook writes, Hey, it's Paul from the plus four fours. That's the UK in case that's lost in translation, working my way back through your amazing back catalog and am still stuck in the past somewhere in 2023. When you're asking for recommendations, don't worry, Paul, we were asking for recommendations last week as well. We do it from time to time. Uh,

recommendations on stories to cover, and I thought to cast an eye to the future and see if you've covered Wales' very own Manic Street Preachers, and was surprised to see that you hadn't. Definitely something there regarding Richie's disappearance. Surely no worries. If not, I'll still continue to enjoy what you do offer. Many thanks, my good sir. Cheerio and toodle-pip. Paul, he really did write cheerio and toodle-pip. Paul, Richie Edwards...

Disappearance, Singer of Manic Street Creatures. I looked into this pretty significantly a bunch of years ago. It was the subject that Payne, Lindsay, and I were going to cover before we get into the Dead and Gone podcast. And

We just could not come up with enough information. There's really not a lot of information out there. So it's a tough subject to cover. But that doesn't stop me in the past. I think we could do one episode for sure. And Paul, we will probably get into that sometime in the near future. Okay. So by the time you catch up, hopefully that'll be sitting in your RSS feed. Thanks, Paul.

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As Boston fans, we are melding. I say that because the Red Sox, it's not even June and the Red Sox are dead. We need to lay the Red Sox out, lay them out down at McNally's Funeral Home, head over to the old timers for a shot of Jameson, a pint of Guinness, because the Red Sox are dead as a doornail. They're what, two, three games under 500 at this point, seven-ish games out of first in a not-so-great division game.

It's time for me, I think, to put my Mets hat on and hope for a Subway Series in October and come at the Yankees that way. This is embarrassing. They shouldn't be this bad, the Red Sox. They should not be this bad. I don't care that Bregman's hurt. I don't care that Cassius is hurt.

They have the horses. They're not playing them. And the ones they are playing are sucking. There. I don't know what's up. It's just management, coaching, playing. It's everything. It's fucking awful. Okay? I can't stand it. I can't stand that we have a payroll as high as we have and we are not in contention. I can't stand that we have an iconic team, an iconic ballpark, the best fans in sports, and we are out of contention. It's not good.

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The Fish fans are real. The Fish fans are plentiful. And the Fish fans are full-throated. Now, there will be a Fish episode. And I will bring love and intention to the creation of that episode. And it will come within this calendar year. Fish fans, I have heard you speak. I have heard you roar. This email comes from Lacey McNary. And I'm reading it.

Um, because it is just apropos of what we're doing right now. Subject fish message. Hey Jake, it's Lacey from the five Oh two. Just heard your bonus episode where you talked about fish and how you love the who you may be interested to know the fish cover the whole quadrophenia album at their Halloween show in Chicago. Back in the day, I was there and I had a blast. Here's the link. Lacey appreciate the email. I did not know that. And, uh, I believe I said that I, you know, I love the who now, uh,

it was a long road getting to love the who I didn't grow up loving the who, like I didn't grow up loving the fish. And, uh, I liked that the fish, I'm going to call him the fish from now on. I hope you don't mind. I liked that the fish covered quadrophenia. I think that's a, an incredible achievement and I'd actually be interested in seeing what that looks like. So perhaps I'll watch it, appreciate it. And maybe, uh, maybe that'll end it, end up in the episode, the episode on fish, um, excuse me, on the fish that we are going to produce next.

It's way more criminal than I could have hoped for. I'm pretty stoked about it. And I say all this because we just, and I read this email in particular because just yesterday I recorded a,

a new episode on the who on the riverfront Coliseum tragedy from the early eighties where 11 people died at a who concert. And, uh, it's a pretty harrowing story and I can't wait for you guys to hear it. And it's coming up in a couple of weeks. So you have that to look forward to. In addition to the fish, the fish, the, the fish episode, did I say that right? Okay.

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I go on these apps and I pull up your reviews and I read them here. And if you hear yours read, hit me and I will respond in time and I will get in touch and I'll get you some free merch, okay? Only for the reviews that I read here. I read two a week, one on Apple, one on Spotify. This one from C. Jove on Apple Podcasts, five stars, titled Jake Never Misses.

I've been listening since 2020 and I enjoy every episode, even ones which I do not care for the artist. Just finished the David Crosby episode. I never cared for his music until after he passed away. I took a deep dive into his catalog and I really enjoyed it. Man truly was an outlaw musician who made great music. My only complaint about the show is that I usually listen during my long work commute and I often think that the sirens and the screeching tires in the episodes are real.

Just kidding. Keep up the good work. Now, thank you so much, C. Jove. Y'all might be going to yourself, saying to yourself right now, what David Crosby episode? What are we talking about? There's no David Crosby episode of Disgracing. You're looking at your Apple podcast feed right now, your Spotify feed, your whatever feed. You don't see David Crosby in there. And the reason you don't is because the David Crosby episode is only available to our exclusive listeners.

All access members of Disgraceland, where every month they get a extra episode. Okay? C. Jove is talking about that extra episode on David Crosby from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and whoever the fuck, as a wise man once called them. And the reason that we covered David Crosby is because his story is insane. It's nuts.

This guy was off the fucking rails in the worst way. Anyhow, you want to hear that episode, you got to become a member. It's only five bucks a month that you can do so at disgracelandpod.com slash membership. Get that cross action like Melissa Etheridge. All right.

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All right, we are back. Everybody going to get out of here in a minute. I want to talk about some episodes that we mentioned here, some subjects, some artists that we mentioned here that we have episodes in the vault, in the archive. That's Taylor Swift. We brought up Taylor Swift and we have a two-part episode on Britney Spears who we talked about a little bit here. We did not, we don't have an episode on the Supremes. We do have a Motown episode. And of course you can't talk about Motown without talking about the Supremes. TLC came up, TLC. We've got a TLC episode in the archive. And Shania Twain is,

Did I talk about Shania Twain? I don't know that I talked about Shania Twain, but we do have an ACDC episode. Now, how is Shania Twain related to ACDC? Well, Mutt Lang was married to Shania Twain and Mutt Lang produced those massive Shania Twain records. He also produced Back in Black amongst other massive Def Leppard, just huge. So anyways, ACDC episode, check that out. Def Leppard, we'll get to at some point.

But not before we get out of here, unfortunately. Got to recap right now. Number one, my other podcast, Hollywoodland, is alive and kicking over in the Hollywoodland feed. So make sure you're subscribed and following Hollywoodland on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And check out our recent episode.

on dwayne the rock johnson number two right now your disgraceland feed has a brand new go-go's episode you know all about that because we spent the first half of this episode talking about it number three coming tomorrow our rewind episode on madonna and next tuesday our brand new episode on marilyn manson number four merch winners get in touch

You know who you are. Number five, remember, though, that no one cares about preserving the true spirit of rock and roll more than you do. And, well, that's a disgrace. All right, in honor of this week's subject, the Go-Go's, this is me reading you the Billboard charts of number one songs from the day that the Go-Go's debut album went to number one on March 6th, 1988.

Number one, centerfold, the Jay Giles Band. Last week, one, peak position, one. Weeks on chart, 18. Number two, open arms, journey. Last week, two, peak position, 18.

Weeks on chart, eight. Number three, I love rock and roll. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Last week, nine. Peak position, three. Weeks on chart, five. Number four, shake it up. The Cars. Last week, four. Peak position, four. Weeks on chart, 16. Number five, Stevie Wonder. Last week,

Quit talking and start mixing. Here's a swing and a high fly ball going deep left. Back to the wall goes Barra. It is.

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