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You Should Know This SongIt's the End of the End. Are We Not APEZ? APEisode 52 Chapter 4 Wraps Up Our (?last?) Blast...The home stretch? The last mile? Or an extended absence? Only time will tell. We've had way too much fun for a couple of simple APEZ, and we've got to step away. This is Chapter 4 of APEisode 52 (playlist here), and we're gonna call it a day for a bit.
Officially we are on hiatus. But as we always do, we ramble on, so there's still hope. Thanks for riding along with us for this past year. Keep an eye on the website, we'll be dropping playlists, and posting whatever updates there may be.
Please, be...
2025-01-0551 minYou Should Know This SongAPEisode 52 rollin on with Chapter 3. Burps to start, then cheerz with our beerz, to one year's worth HEAR! HEAR!CONTINUE THE MOJO WITH OUR FIRST EVER AUDIO CHALLENGES! It's a bit of rapid fire middle finger to the universe. We do You Should Know This Song with tiny little song clips. (Playlist here)Then the ongoing mix of challenges: STARTING LINEZ, TWIZT AND SHOUT, PRIME CUTZ, BEAN ENCHILADAZ, AZK AND YE SHALL DECIEVE, YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW, and LOTS of UNC SUB.
It's the 3rd chapter of the 52nd APEisode. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG! Come on, get on board!
2025-01-051h 03You Should Know This SongDon't Get Me Wrong, I'm a Slave to Love, and I Need You Tonight. APEisode 52 Chapter 2 is here!It's our ONE YEAR anniversary, and we are still talking and pushing the APEisode uphill. Chapter 2 Playlist is here!
With the new year we are celebrating our 52nd APEisode, and we're not done. It's a MIXED UPZ MIXED APEZ format. We are into Chapter 2 of this APEisode. All kinds of challenges with all kinds of artists, and our usual rants. Continue with us on this odyssey of the MIXED APEZ kind.
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2025-01-0547 minYou Should Know This SongWe're ONE YEAR OLD, BABY! OR We're A ONE OLD BABY! You tell us? APEisode52 - Chapter1?We made it to a year's worth of APEisodes. How about that SHI... stuff? We have lost our minds (Still? Again? Whatever!) and we are celebrating our 52nd APEisode by going even farther off the rails than usual.
We've got some news, and we've got a load of folks to thank as well. And that includes ALL YOU APES out there!!!!!
There's the thanks, then the inevitable Nestkeeping. And finally, we start the challenges.
The APEisode is so long we had to break it up into 4 chapters. Each with their own playlist (Chapter #1 playlist h...
2025-01-0551 minYou Should Know This SongZombies, Saints, The Devil, and Father Christmas! All in a Red Barchetta. All that and more in APEisode 51!We're saying so long to 2024 in APEisode51 (playlist here). And as my stepmom used to say, don't let the door hit ya in the backside on yer way out! We roll into (and out of) the APEisode with music from Wayne of APEZ and his project Architects of Umbra, with the tune Burning Sands. With no Nestkeeping, we start right into a RANT about Kid Charlemagne, and roll directly into another about MFSB, the Philadelphia creation made up of the areas best session players and the force behind a bunch of hits. All that before we get started on...
2024-12-2957 minYou Should Know This SongOtis Redding, The Tubes, Deep Purple, John Prine, AND Rocky Horror? We're tearing it up for THE BIG FIVE OH!Welcome, and come help us celebrate APEisode #50 (grab the playlist here) of THE Lyric Challenge Podcast, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG! It's the holiday season, and while we don't need a reason to go crazy, hittin' 50 is as good an excuse as any!
After the usual ZANITY (I just made up a word there), of the intro and our traditional NESTkeeping, we jump into a PRIME CUTZ segment. There are clues and references to Otis Redding, Trooper, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes just to start off. We continue with The Tubes, Deep Purple, 10CC, and a...
2024-12-221h 00You Should Know This SongHO! You'll be Jolly, check our lyric volleys, & yuletide follies! AND HEY! GET THOSE REINDEER OFF MY LAWN!! IT'S #49Happy Holidays and welcome to APEisode 49 of YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG. Better known as THE #1 BEST LYRIC CHALLENGE PODCAST FROM MIXEDAPEZ ON THE ENTIRE INTERNET! Get that FOMO going and make sure you get in on this action! Grab the rocking playlist HERE!
It's the giving season, so give your mind a break from the shopping and holiday scurrying and stress, grab a nog (careful there...) and let us give you APEZ rock & roll gifts of verbosity on Spencer Davis Group, Traffic live albums, The "Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Beatles" story and the girl who possibly...
2024-12-151h 21You Should Know This SongWork Hard, Rock Hard, Eat Hard, Sleep Hard, Grow Big, Wear Glasses If You Need 'Em - Webb Wilder said so. #48 FOLKS!It's a MixedAPEZ, MuggledAPEZ, ShookAPEZ world. And It's not easy being APEZ you know. We get aches and pains just like everyone else! We have technical difficulties too. It's not our fault GOSH! Yep,a little adventure this time around with some audio issues for the last few minutes. But we make it look good.
We go over and over, Police, Squeeze, Waylon & Willie, Cheap Trick, VanHalen, The Kinks, Mack Rice, Wilson Pickett, Yes, The Everly Bros, Smithereens, Tears For Fears, Don McLain, Commander Cody, Graham Parker, and what a PLAYLIST it's gonna be (find it here). Co...
2024-12-0852 minYou Should Know This SongOOOH BABY...YOU KNOW IT'S THE R&B APEisode! And it feels...so good. IT'S #47 AND R&B RULES THE DAY!It's the YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG R&B EDITION. And we're on an R&B mission. There's soooo much great ammunition. And we can barely glance at the full condition. Playlist is here, and you know it's bitchin'! But you can always go on your own expedition. And enrich your R&B cognition. On 'the dock of the (internet) bay', go fishin! And reel in some sounds that are...'enrichin'. (sorry?)
We talk about Holland-Dozier-Holland songs. The list is filled with gold and pages long. Of course we babble on and on. These are the shoulders...
2024-12-0158 minYou Should Know This SongHOLA! DONDE ESTA SANTA CLEESE? Might do a full Cheech and Chong APEisode. Dumber Ideas Anyone? It's APEisode #46 For U!Welcome to fall, winter holiday season and....maybe a little global warming? We're outside Mid-November, in T-shirts at Rayce's Oasizzzz! (Or Rayce's Away-sizzz?) Crackin up! Crackin 'em open! Crackin Challenges!
This Playlist is gonna be LIT! Or FIRE! Or CHILL! (ask your kids, YMMV). Or for the appropriate age group RAD! YOU WANT TO GRAB IT HERE! We got Neville Bros, Sonny Landreth, VonDrukes, Monophonics, Steely Dan, Carole King, Elvis Costello, BadCo, Isley Brothers, Hendrix, and so on and so on, but not shooby doobee doobee.
Want to know more? Cole Porter as done by U...
2024-11-241h 17You Should Know This SongWe'll Spin You Right Round! Every SINGLE Time. MixedAPEZ challenges YOU with APEisode 45.We're spinning a new APEisode every week, and we're proud to present number 45. We've got a round of Quick Hitz to share. All the songs mentioned are available in our playlist here.
We have challenges for songs from The Police, The Eagles, Radiohead, Jeff Beck, Bob Marley & the Wailers, and a bunch more. We're moving fast and taking no prisoners.
Then, we've got a 'happy little surprise' (thanks you Bob Ross). We go through some of our old texts for clues shared OUTSIDE of the podcast, and drop them WITH NO ANSWERS. That's right, we w...
2024-11-1736 minYou Should Know This SongCan YOU name the planets in order? WHY would we ask that, you ask? All of the BIG answers lie here, inside APEisode 44!CONGRATULAPEZIONS! You've chosen to fill your ears and brain noodle with the finest quality, curated, bespoke, ham-hand-crafted, rock lyric challenge, and general music jabber charcuterie board cuts two MIXEDAPEZ ever made - YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG! Now...WHERE'S THAT CONFOUNDED BRIDGE? It's a goof, and it's cracking us up! BUT....wrong song. HELP US! Send your corrections and check out the playlist here.
Here at 'Rayce's Oaziz' we pride ourselves on unparalleled meandering off topic casserole. Prime Cutz challenges will again prove our world-class loquacity, bloviating about Maxine Brown and Rod Stewart - Oh No Not My B...
2024-11-1044 minYou Should Know This SongWHO IS THE FATHER OF METAL GUITAR? Think you know the answer? Well....who and why?? It's APEisode 43!WELCOME (BACK if it applies) to the pageantry, the celebration, the festival, the meandering that is YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG! This time we're gonna brave the question "who is the father of heavy metal guitar?" We're not answering it, but more talking about it and passing it along to you. So get into the discussion! The playlist for this APEisode can be found HERE!
Mike of APEZ suggested to Rayce of APEZ a now and again sharing of a new album. Awww, look at them sharing. Anyway, cool idea! AND we also do a song lyric...
2024-11-031h 03You Should Know This SongFour Hundred Covers? Over Seventy Band Members? Twofers? It's MixedAPEZ BY THE NUMBERS in APEisode 42!Hey Kidz! Here we are again, for what seems like the 42nd time. Oddly enough, it IS the 42nd time. How can you you miss us if we won't go away?
This APEisode is a no challenge zone. That's right, this one has all the calories, none of the challenges. Rayce gets going on a couple of topics, and he just won't shut up.
After some much needed Nestkeeping, we discuss some OUTSTANDING numbers that just seem unbelievable. We cover a few covers. And then we find a sneaky way to get some instrumentals on the playlist av...
2024-10-2733 minYou Should Know This SongOutside with NO SHELTER, Suddenly We're RIDIN THE STORM OUT, and then We Gotta RUN TO YOU! Rain Delay in APEisode 41!With all respect to John Sebastian and "Gabe Kotter" we're saying 'Welcome Back'. We were recording outdoors 'Late in the Evening', just poddin' along, when a sudden and totally unexpected rainstorm hit us. After a little natural panic, we hustled the equipment indoors with (thankfully) no damage, and we finished up inside. We appreciate your understanding if the sound environment changed, but we managed to finish up with little impact to the APEisode. Find the playlist for this week's mayhem here.
We start off with some Nestkeeping, re-iterating that Little Richard IS the King of Rock & Roll, and i...
2024-10-2046 minYou Should Know This SongWe're Turning 40! King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Edgar Winter, Leon Russell and More Join the Party! It's APEisode 40!40 APEisodes! We're getting (already were) up there, at least in APEisode age! Where does the time go...? Well, mostly it goes into editing. That, and trying to remember why we came into the room in the first place. But that's not what we're here to talk about. As always, you can find the playlist for this APEisode here.
This week we start of with a little nestkeeping (we're always cleaning up after each other) and move right into that segment we started with, PRIME CUTZ.
We lead off with ELO, and some banter about the actual lyrics, w...
2024-10-1341 minYou Should Know This SongIt's the last APEisode before our 40s!! MIDDLE AGE in APEisode years. We WISH we were middle age!We're out in Rayce's Oasizzz doing our first evening/sunset cruise. And this whole 40s 'thing' has the MixedAPEZ doing Mixed Upz! I mean Jack White is 49! WWHHAAT?!
PLAYLIST gonna be great! Get it here.
Anyway, after a little Nest keeping we bring you challenges and merriment from Chicago, Moon Martin, Robert Palmer, Kansas, James Taylor, Squeeze, Joe Walsh, Neville Bros, Stevie Wonder, Jeff Beck, Nina Simone....wwheewwww.
We 'cover' info on a lot of covers this time. Versions of Needles and Pins-aah were recorded by the likes of Ramones, Willy DeVille, more. Ja...
2024-10-0643 minYou Should Know This SongThe End of Wild Hot Summer Nights, But We Can See Clearly Now. Do You Know What I Mean? Its APEisode ThirtyAPEZ!Hey there groovy peoples, and all the other groovy folks! Are we back to inflict more musical pain to your brain? Nah, we just want to share our particular brand of weird again with those of you that enjoy that kind of thing (maybe you should see someone about that). This APEisode's playlist can be found here.
This APEisode is (almost) all about the BEAN ENCHILADAZ. We bend and break lyrics from all kindz of artists. Sheryl Crow, Free, and The Clash get us started. Then we have Lee Michaels, Johnny Nash, The Proclaimers, Eddie Money, and...
2024-09-2932 minYou Should Know This SongCan The APEZ Do an APEisode Short & Sweet? We Try To Be Lean And Mean. How'd We Do? Miss Us Yet? APEisode 37 is HERE!IN A WORLD WHERE THE APEZ TALK FOR WELL OVER AN HOUR, COMES AN APEISODE THAT....maybe you don't have to listen to in 3 parts. ARE YOU READY TO RUUUUMBBUUULLL??? Weird to stop talking well before an hour, but here it is! Never fear! We still manage to fill the airwaves with plenty of our drivel. Check out the songs from this APEisode HERE on the playlist!
A little Nest Keeping gets it all going, with corrections on Dire Straights' Expresso Love, and Queen's Killer Queen and how to say Moet Et Chandon.
Then jump a...
2024-09-2242 minYou Should Know This SongEat the Rich, and Some Humble Pie, but Don't Drink the Dirty Water. But only if you're Born for Adventure! APEisode 36 is HERE!We're here for APEisode36, and WE'RE NOT SORRY! You can grab the playlist for this APEisode HERE!
We keep trying to shorten the APEisodes, but we don't seem to be able to get there. What's an APEZ to do? We're going to start off with some PRIME CUTZ. We've got Porno for Pyros, (no, the band. Behave!), MotorHead, and even the King in this segment with lots of other artists.
We kick off TWIZT w very happy Reid ranting a bit about the LIVE version of I'm Ready by Humble Pie. Then we check out s...
2024-09-151h 01You Should Know This SongGodzilla, Dolly Parton, and Skunk?! Well, there goes Tokyo and Rock and Roll! And something unexpected... APEisode 35 is now!This time we talk about a few things in the Uncontrolled Substance style, while trying to keep the length of the show a bit more controlled. See what you think. The playlist is available here. We'll introduce some new APEZ family members, and Reid of APEZ has added an easter-egg of sorts to the APEisode. See if you notice.....🤣🤣
Many years ago someone in Japan had to come up with the noise of Godzilla's roar. These are our kinda people. Try even weirder ideas until something just works! Great things have created with that approach. APEZ are still try...
2024-09-0830 minYou Should Know This Song34 And you came back for more? Hey! So did we! Are we simpatico? We're all Apez so, must be. It's APEisode 34.We give our recent guest Wayne of APEZ, his first correction. Then we're all about Scandal, UFOs, and Bad Motor Scooter Queens in Dire Straights, when we do our ASK AND YE SHALL DECIEVE challenge. And Pretenders mix in with Tennessee Ernie, Sweet, and Styx. What a MIX! Speaking of the MIX, find the playlist here
We play TUNE THAT NAME, and STARTING LINES also giving some love to artists like INXS, Doctor John, Nine Inch Nails, Black Crowes, Motley Crew, Sweet, Donovan, Bad Co, Bee Gees and more. Have I mentioned the MIX on this show!?!?
2024-09-011h 11You Should Know This SongBut Seriously Folks... Farewell and thanks to Aerosmith, and a sincere tribute to Sir John Mayall. It's APEisode 33We're back at it, but with a little less silliness (kind of). We're still APEZ, but we all lost an icon with the passing of John Mayall. We wanted to convey the enormity of his contribution to Rock and Roll. Yes, he was largely a Blues and Jazz musician. However, the number of R&R musicians to pass through his bands is staggering. We even have a special playlist just for this APEisode here.
We open with some nestkeeping, mentioning recent items of note. The retirement of Aerosmith, and what they've meant to us and to Rock music...
2024-08-2534 minYou Should Know This SongAPEZin on a Sunny Afternoon. We may not be smart, but what did you expect! It's APEisode 32!Another brilliant, scintillating, informative... OK, let's not kid ourselves, we missed a bunch of these REALLY EASY clues. At least we got a great playlist out of this (available here). We're not the brightest bananas in the bunch some days. But we are havin' fun and nobody hits a home run every time, although even a stopped clock...you know how it goes.
We bring you Twizt & Shout, featuring songs by Queen, Aerosmith, Heart, Montrose and more. Unfortunately, we had to remind Reid that Ronnie has been gone for some time now.
We follow that with some t...
2024-08-1858 minYou Should Know This SongQuick, let's clean it all up! We have company coming! Join us in welcoming our 1st Guest on APEisode 31Welcome into our space, and PLEAZE help us WELCOME our very first MIXEDAPEZ guest. Wayne, a friend of the podcast is sitting in. We asked him to share his thoughts on the more METAL side of ROCK, but he's good for anything that get's you going. Of course, we still have a playlist, and you can find it here.
We start off with some thoughts on a couple of upcoming shows Rayce is lucky enough be be attending. And of course, we always suggest you GO SEE LIVE MUSIC and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BANDS (that's all caps...
2024-08-111h 17You Should Know This SongDirty Thirty?!? Is it possible? 30 is the new 20 right?? Dig in to APEisode 30 with us!What's good MIXEDAPEZ world? Ready for some YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG? You can grab the playlist to APEisode 30 HERE. We packed in a lot for the joyride playing ROUTE 66. We're traveling with Bob Seeger, ZZ Top, The Dead, Steely Dan, George Thorogood, and The Good Rats, to places like Miami, Negril, Hollywood, Detroit, Frisco Bay, Santa Fe, and of course back to Rayce'z Wentzville,Oasizzzzz.
WHAT THEN YOU ASK? Well, Your Mother Should Know! (queue circular logic comedy routine). But also, Only You Know And I Know, and that's Bloody Well Right! You're thinkin, Ain't That Pe...
2024-08-041h 20You Should Know This SongHey Tommy! Can you hear us? If you need assistance to hear to APEisode 29, We Can Make IT Happen! Yeah... APEisode29What's transpiring APEZ peoplez? Welcome to more of YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG, on MIXEDAPEZ RADIDIO, from Rayce'z Oasiz! Aside from the fact we've got playlistz now......HAVE YOU HEARD?? PLAYLISTZ! Playlist for this APEisode is available here.
After some "Jane you ignorant slut", and nezt-keeping about Uriah Heep and about Love N Rockets, it's on with some chat about The Tokens and the song Lion Sleeps Tonight and Solomon Linda, and Neil Sedaka, and other related Tokens stuff. Then the cool idea of choosing a theme band/artist/era/genre for vacation or a trip or m...
2024-07-281h 17You Should Know This SongPlaylists? You're talking about Playlists, You kidding me? Playlists? It's APEisode28!Welcome to APEisode 28 of YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG! We start off with some big news We have PLAYLISTS for EVERY APEisode! you can find the one for this episode here. We're kind of a big deal now.
And after we bellow about playlists for a while we roll on. Reid recalls the band Trapeze, leading Rayce into his mea culpa about not knowing his back end from a hole in the ground when it comes to the different Deep Purple line-ups. We talk about Connections, (not the song the PBS series) for just a minute, and ...
2024-07-2151 minYou Should Know This SongWE'RE SLICING CAKE! Learning To Crawl. Aaannndd Digging In The Dirt. HEY! Get your Apez in here! Get APEisode 27 now!ReidApez has a dumb road trip game idea for the listeners. His first dumb idea maybe? Hhhmmm....The actual show is MixedUpz. It's rock challenges in a blender!! From Hollywood Vampires, to People Who Died, to Dead Milkmen, and Joe's Garage. Get the playlist HERE, or at www.youshouldknowthissong.com/APEisodes
From The Beginning, there's No New Tale To Tell, but I Want To Hold Your Hand (did I just make it weird?). Weirder when we start gargling on about the continuum of cycles of rock music over the decades, remixing and reanimating old as new again. It gets Kinks-y f...
2024-07-141h 04You Should Know This SongBack to it, break's OVER! You're No Good, your Good Lovin's Gone Bad, but still, you Make Me Smile! It's APEisode 26We're back to business (APEZ Businezz). After going blabber only in our 25th, we're tossing challenges again in APEisode 26. And there's a bunch!
BREAKING NEWS! Going forward, all our APEisodes will have an accompanying playlist. Find this episodes playlist HERE. We are also filling the old APEisodes as well.
Starting w Prime Twizt & Shout, we include songs from Bad Co, Foghat, Chicago, R.E.M., and a bunch more. Of course we rumble our way through the jungle of clues, and come out pretty much OK (mostly!).
We start Quick Hitz by STEALING E...
2024-07-071h 03You Should Know This SongSILVER APEZ! A SPECIAL 25th APEisode. We're ALL TALK (what a surprise /s). APEisode 25 is HERE!We can hardly believe it's our 25th APEZiversary. To celebrate, we changed it up a bit. This APEisode is all talk. (All the APEisodes are all talk, how does this differ?). But this is different. Really!
For this go round there are no challenges. We wanted to share the kind of thing we do when we're just sitting around blabbing (like we do on every APEisode). Seriously, it IS different. I mean we're talking about music (isn't that what we always do?). But there's digressions and BS and the conversations go sideways in this one (exactly like a...
2024-06-301h 02You Should Know This SongBEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS - CICADAPALOOZA is over. At least it's safe to drive Route 66 with the top down again. APEisode #24So, what's up in APEisode 24, you ask? Well, Rayce has a Cicada public safety announcement. Reid went to see the MJ stage show and his wife says HE has something to say about it. Welcome new Certified Official APEZ Member Amity-Of-Apez! Get your official membership, just by stickin' your nose into our business. We'd love nothing more!
Musically, we determine that Vinegar Joe should have been a bigger deal that they were. KSHE classics come into the chat. No Shelter from Looks That Kill with a Sledgehammer, by an Evil Genius, is just Coincidental MOYDAHHH. And, friend...
2024-06-231h 02You Should Know This SongDroogie? What's a Droogie? Take Me to the Circus to see a Travelling Band. APEisode 23 is HERE!Hello, and welcome to APEisode # 23. We're outdoors, ya know. Starting with Prime, we hit (and miss) on a couple of lesser known deep cuts from Status Quo, String Driven Thing, and The Rainmakers, among some more well known PRIME cuts from Cake, Toto, and Joe Jackson, just naming a few.
Then on to Starting Lines w Floyd, Hagar, Montrose, and apparently one of us doesn't understand that DIO is a GOD!?!?!?!? Go Ask Alice, even she knows!
Lastly, we ask the question, What Are YOU Listening to? We share our thoughts, and ask for yours...
2024-06-1653 minYou Should Know This SongFrom the beginning, I touch myself, but not while dancin' in the streets. Twenty tooth APEisode.We are again in the wild for APEizode 22. Are you joining us? We are in the outdoorz for this APEizode. After a LONG intro, we finally get down to businezz. APEZ businezz, that iz. After shout-outs to worthy fellow APEZ, we cover some correctionz and clarificationz. And then we start on our most MixedUpz MixedApez antics yet.
No format, just a combination of challengez of ALL KINDZ.
We combine Prime Cutz, Bean Enchiladaz, Starting Linez, Tune Thiz Name, Route SixtySixz, Yout Mother Zhould Know, Azk and Ye Shall Deceive, Prime Twizt, and Quick Hitz into one CRAZZZZY se...
2024-06-0952 minYou Should Know This SongWild In The Streets, Or At Least in the Backyard! - Brought to You by the Cicadapocalypse: APEisode21!
Fresh air, sunshine, and shouting over the cicadas! (JK!). We are outdoors in our favorite setting, as it should be! We've got shout outs to FLOMO rock show, Hello Newman, Doorward, Dog-A-Boni, and all of the MIXEDAPEZ listening out there! Hey, we even announce a new official APEZ crew member too! Paula of APEZ!
After all that working up an appetite, we dig into a heaping helping of Bean Enchiladaz. Check out our jumbles and mumbles on Devo, Aerosmith, John Fogerty, Beach Boys and more!
Then it's down to business with some Uncontrolled Substance. DON'T TRY TO TELL US WHAT'S RO...
2024-06-021h 00You Should Know This SongTwentieth!! 20th!! XXth!! WHHAAAT!? WE MADE IT TO APEISODE #20???!! THE BIG TWW00 OOHHH!!Somehow we've managed to create 20 of these and inflict them on the planet! (Planet Of MixedApez??) Celebrate with all of the MixedApez for a minute, as we play on, talk on, laugh on, ramble on, carry on, babble on, and game on with THE PREMIER Rock music challenge, commentary, and factoids podcast, You Should Know This Song!
We've been doing the podcast for a minute now and it's pretty exciting to get to the 20th episode, considering the average podcast ends after 6 or 7. And especially after some of the early struggles we had. We keep on cranking out shows, calling al...
2024-05-261h 13You Should Know This SongHey 19! Lust for Life, Life's Been Good, Wild Wild Life, and a #1 hit from 1926? APEisode 19 is OUT (there)!Our latest APEisode is almost out of the teens, but don't think that means we're gonna grow up anytime soon. We begin with Starting Lines, offering only the first few words as a challenge. Nick Lowe, Pearl Jam, Kansas, Stealer's Wheel, RHCP, Iggy Pop, and others are included in the clues, and we keep em flowing fast and furious.
Our second segment is Your Mother Should Know. One of our faves. Appropriately, there is a Beatles challenge, and we also check in on The Cars, Pretenders, The Kinks, and because we have Too Much Time On Our...
2024-05-1949 minYou Should Know This Song18 And We Like It! - And U2! Cruise Route 66 with us! Stop for some PRIME! And Twist one up! Here's APEisode #18!This APEisode, the APEZ joy ride down Route 66 stopping in on the places in songs from CCR, Beatles, Cracker, 3 Dog Night, Wings, Mountain and more. Who knew Route 66 would go Back In The USSR, to Katmandu, and Spain?!?!?!
Then in Prime Cuts it's the expected hilarity and stupidity you've come to know and love. And maybe some talk about songs you love too! We Bullet The Blue Sky, we Turn Japanese, we pile up Dirty Laundry, and oops we Rusted our Root.... And Aerosmith, Pete Townsend, POCO, Don Henley and Steve Miller get in too.
But wait! In Prime Twist you a...
2024-05-1253 minYou Should Know This SongWell, We Were Just 17. Stray Cats, Zombies, I Like Mixed Nuts, We Only Want to Be With You. Delivering APEisode 17, BABY! Grab It!If only we'd learned the truth at seventeen... then we might not be bringing you this delightful new 17th APEisode. We start with some MIXEDAPEZ Twist & Shout. A twisted segment where the song comes first, and the LYRICS are the answer. Frankly, when I was 17, I THOUGHT the lyrics WERE the answer. Either way, we've got songs by Bob Marley & the Wailers, Timbuk3, Joe Jackson, Van Halen and so much more in this segment.
Then some tasty, if slightly weird, Bean Enchiladas. A listener favorite segment, where we mangle the lyrics to songs you know and love. Cl...
2024-05-0549 minYou Should Know This SongSWEET! We Talk No Doubt, Hendrix, Barenakeds, Pretenders, Der Stingle, & more! APEisode 16.Sweet Sixteen with MixedApez at Rayce's Oasiz! How can it go wrong? You'll see. Rayce makes up the word BLAZZ! It's a keeper! Let's play ASK AND YE SHALL DECEIVE with Joe Jackson, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Deep Purple, Jolene, more! And while we're at it, how about a new game STARTING LINES including Talking Heads, Bad Co, Hollies, Bowie, and so on. And then PRIME CUTS to finish the party! It's got THIS SONG by George Harrison (should have been our FIRST EVER), Ted Nugent, Tears For Fears, Sublime, Pretenders...wwhhheeewww! WE GO LONG with a 1.5 hour marathon. S...
2024-04-281h 31You Should Know This SongQueen, ELO, & Smithereens Challenges. Adam Ant’s new tour, ADD Apez and more in APEisode 15COME ON IN! Welcome to Rayce’z Oasiz! MixedApez are slinging another heapin’ helpin’ of song challenges, BS, and weirdity (Yep! Made up word. That tracks!) on You Should Know This Song. APEisode 15 has us chatting through the acts above as well as ABC, No Doubt, U2, Genesis, The Buggles, Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, Crowded House, Ministry, Billy Joel, Bill withers and others.
It all happens when we play our PRIME CUTS, and TWIST & SHOUT lyric challenges.
Then when we do UNCONTROLLED SUBSTANCE it’s APEZ messing with our own A D D. as we try lett...
2024-04-211h 13You Should Know This SongTequila Sunrise. It's a Drink, it's a Song, It's a State of Mind. APEisode 14!Hey there. Welcome! Is this your first time? Don't be scared, we're friendly APEZ. Weird and friendly! Very weird, but still friendly.
We've returned with more commentary and silliness about Rock music and lyrics. This APEisode begins with our Ask & You Shall Deceive segment. We include lyrics from CCR, the Byrds, Toto, The Blues Brothers, Tommy Tutone and even more.
Then a NEW challenge! It's called Tune That Name (at least for the moment), and it's basically word association for music nerds. The Police, Aerosmith, Pretenders, Tears for Fears, The Monkees, Talking Heads... all of...
2024-04-1349 minYou Should Know This SongMidweek Mayhem! Are these bands touring in your area soon? AND A LISTENER CHALLENGE!HEY! We just couldn't resist getting in a little MIDWEEK MAYHEM, so we whipped up a mini-episode to mention a bunch of bands that "YOU SHOULD KNOW" touring in the next couple of months. We'll run through part of the summer's touring announcements that MAY be showing up in a venue near you.
And just for fun we toss out a challenge to all of you, with a lyric challenge for the listeners. If you know the song (without having to look it up), drop a comment on your podcast platform or send an email to apez...
2024-04-1110 minYou Should Know This SongJudas Priest Spans 50 Years of Heavy Metal, and Route 66? APEisode 13 is here!We are still stupefied by the fact that Judas Priest has been making METAL albums for 50 years. On the other hand, we're not very smart and neither one of counts very well.
In APEisode 13, we open with our Ask and You Shall Deceive segment. Discussing songs by John Hiatt, Counting Crows, REM, Led Zeppelin, Eddie Money, and even Ronnie Spector, we cover the gamut of genres this time.
We debut a new segment called Route 66. The point of this challenge is to provide as many locations (city/state/country) as possible from a song, based...
2024-04-071h 20You Should Know This SongSeeing If You're Paying Attention. We're Late with the APEisode. Did You Notice? APEisode12It took a minute, but we got Prime, Bean Enchiladas, And Quick Hitz to reward your patience. In this APEisode we explore keeping our heads on straight while life rears up and calls for attention. We swing through with some corrections, PRIME CUTS featuring the likes of John Mayer, The Knack, Poco, Gene Vincent, Rage Against The Machine, They Might Be Giants, and more. Then, in BEAN ENCHILADAS we eat our words referencing Superstitious, When I Fight Authority, Beast Of Burden, BaBaBa Barbara Ann, a few others, and finally finish our Bean Enchiladas. Man, I'm stuffed.
We...
2024-04-011h 11You Should Know This SongAlready Been Covered. Listeners Contribute their Favorite Covers. It's APEisode 11Hello again! Apparently, he's SCRUMPTRULESCENT, and I'm fine, but not quite dandy! With 'nods' to Will, and the best ever, George, we kick off APEisode 11. We offer a NEW segment, PRIME "Twist and Shout". In the new segment, the challenger has to come up with a couple of lines of lyrics, prompted by a song name. Not always as easy as it sounds. We have clues from Ozzy to Squeeze, from Jane's Addiction to Jethro Tull, and for a change, we get most of them right!
Our Uncontrolled Substance session is a blast, talking about some of...
2024-03-241h 08You Should Know This SongRock & Roll HoF voting is OPEN to Fans! APEisode 10 is here. Nestkeeping? Really?Welcome to our 10th APEisode. We kick it off discussing the 2024 nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Plenty of entertainers, and plenty of opinions. Nominees include Cher; Foreigner; Peter Frampton; Jane's Addiction; Dave Matthews Band; A Tribe Called Quest; Kool & the Gang; and 8 other acts. Wherever you stand, the vote is open to fans until April 26th.
We move onto our Prime challenge, You Should Know This Song. Plenty of chatter about artists as varied as Otis Redding, Love & Rockets, Todd Rundgren, Smashing Pumpkins, Dire Straits, (the forbidden) Steely Dan, and a whole lot more.
2024-03-171h 14You Should Know This SongBOFFALONGO! And other musical FACTOIDS from MixedApez. It's APEisode9!Who knew? As old as we are, (VERY) we can still learn something. We go long in this one, and WAY far afield. Beginning with YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG, we cover Mojo Nixon stories, discuss the ?first? 'boy band', wonder about Paul Westerberg, and a bunch more music related rambles.
Moving to Quick Hits, there's a brief discussion on the song writing teams from the famous Brill Building in Manhattan. We touch on music by (OG) Elvis, JT, The Animals, Stray Cats, Uriah Heep, and other great artists. Fun, informative, BS from our resident APEZ.
2024-03-101h 03You Should Know This SongWho Do We Think We Are? (We're Probably Not Sure!) APEisode 8We haven't been able to determine WHY, but apparently some of you want to know how we became MixedApez. I think we were just born this way, but for everyone who wanted deets, here's a bit of MixedApez Lore.
This APEisode starts with the segment we've come to call 'Your Mother Should Know'. We play around with lyrics from Bob Marley, 3rd Eye Blind, Billy Idol, Squeeze, The Ohio Players and a bunch more. Then we spend some time on the Apez origin story. We talk about how this all started, and the road into the...
2024-03-0347 minYou Should Know This SongEverybody's Got to Be Somewhere: APEisode 7How can you miss us if we won't go away? We are back with APEisode 7 of our MIXEDAPEZ challenges. We have 3 great segments for you this time, starting with our "Prime" challenge, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG, then we roll right into ASK & YE SHALL BE DECEIVED. Lastly we finish with a little bit of QUICK HITS.
Challenges include lyrics from all kinds of artists, such as Elvis Costello, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Wall of Voodoo, & Bob Dylan and his son Jakob. We also have lyric challenges from the songs of The Grateful Dead, Dire Straits, Velvet U...
2024-02-251h 04You Should Know This SongAPEZ MAKEZ MISTAKEZ. We were wrong, and it's not gonna be the last time....Welcome to our little corner of the rainforest. We begin the episode correcting SEVERAL mistakez we've made since we started. After all we're only human, wait, APEZ are simians, right? Whichever, we've erred, and we're sorry.
Then we launch into another Bean Enchiladas segment (OH NO!) . We claim it's misheard lyrics, but it's really just an excuse to be sillier than usual. We butcher lyrics from Jethro Tull, Journey, Eurythmics, Bon Jovi, and so many more. Thankfully, we eventually segue into a segment called Your Mother Should Know, a 'lighter' version of our Prime segment, where everybody a...
2024-02-1846 minYou Should Know This SongIt Was 50 Years Ago Today...Prime Cuts & 1973Welcome back to another journey with MIXEDAPEZ. This APEisode starts off with our YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG challenge and then we take a hard left back to 1973, to revisit the music released that year. The APEisode was recorded near the end of 2023 while we still building content, and we looked at albums that turned 50 years old. If you want to follow along, you can find our source material here.
If you want to know more about us, or leave a comment, or even just look at the cool MIXEDAPEZ graphics from Christine Creatives, point your browser t...
2024-02-1151 minYou Should Know This SongBerwyn? All Over the Place!. Episode 4 is live.Surprisingly, we're still here. This episode begins with more of our "Prime" challenge, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG, and we discuss everything from Three Dog Night through the Amboy Dukes to Blondie and even Shel Silverstein's contribution to Rock & Roll. There's also a shoutout to the old heads in the Chicagoland area.
We also debut Your Mother Should Know, a segment designed to more accessible to the just about anyone who's ever listened to a radio. Come back in and let's get started. We're having a great time, and we'd love you to join us!
2024-02-0340 minYou Should Know This SongStill Rolling with Episode 3. Keep on Layin 'Em Down.Join us for a 3rd foray into MIXEDAPEZ territory. We start off with a segment called Bean Enchiladas. Named for the misheard lyrics to "The Pina Colada" song, the segment explores some VERY SILLY misheard or mis-interpreted lyrics. We follow with a ramble on the unsung heroes of the Motown era, known to some as the Fabulous Funk Brothers. Lastly, we hop into Ask and Ye Shall Deceive. Turn the clue into a question, and the correct answer reveals the answer to the challenge.
So jump in and joins for a crazy ride, Hopefully you'll be entertained, a...
2024-01-2848 minYou Should Know This SongWe're Back for Seconds! New Challenges, MixedApez Chatter, Cool Stuff.We're back with Episode 2. We show off the Quick Hits Challenge for the first time. It's a rapid fire segment. We also premier Uncontrolled Substance, a chance for us to rant and ramble about any musical subject we want. This time it's our FAVORITE live albums. Come on and listen, we're not gonna stop (talkin).
2024-01-2232 minYou Should Know This SongEpisode 1. Welcome to our MIXEDAPEZ Jungle! Introductions and Lyric Challenges.The FIRST episode of You Should Know This Song. We challenge each other with Rock music lyrics and comment on the music we know and love. This is just one of several different challenge formats we've been exploring. Come check it out!
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