Another collection of weekdays goes into the books, and we get ready to head out the door.  Spring Break will be coming up for those in the school business, and several shouters are preparing for St. Patrick's Day Friday next week.  Today we go back in time and revisit the movies and the music that defined a lot of us.  In another story today, it was part of your Reminiscence Bump if you were between the ages of 15 to 25 at any point during the 80s.  Add a collab between Johnny Cash and Nick Cave, and you will have a few minutes of music and memories for the rest of your day. 

Over the last week, we have watched two documentaries about director John Hughes who started writing for National Lampoon and created and wrote Vacation, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and many more.  Another W.A.S. staple is Mark Hoppus's Apple Podcast After School Radio, and this week the show's theme was songs from 80s movies.  A moment of memory heaven.

The Psychedelic Furs song that Hughes turned into a movie kicked off the radio show, as other songs from Peter Gabriel in Say Anything and every song from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  Once again, the After School Radio panel came in with "hot takes," and Gus Brandt won the quote battle with this one:

At the heart of With A Shout, we find the stories our audience loves to read in a few quick hits daily.  We highlight stories, writers, and artists; most of the content is complete.  We gather it up, add some commentary, and in a tight package, send it out.  Research isn't really what we do, but that doesn't mean that when a story about the 80s, music, and movies comes up, we don't move into various rabbit holes ourselves.  The link jumping based on this story led us to a music collection of John Hughes called Life Moves Pretty Fast Mixtapes.  The collection was put together with the cooperation of John's family.

Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, has been on the interview circuit recently.  The Red Hot Chili Peppers talk about working with him, and they are back on tour.  In several interview clips, Rubin talks about his almost anti-method; he is not classically trained, he doesn't read, write or play music, and what he brings to each production is an incredible ear and the ability to convince artists to do things they might not have thought about. 

In another one of those instances, Rubin called up Nick Cave in 2002 and asked him if he wanted to come to his L.A. studio and sing a song with Johnny Cash.  Cash was a hero of Caves, but when Cave asked Rubin what song he wanted him to sing with Cash, Rubin said it didn't matter.  Nick Cave goes through the story in his typical storytelling brilliance on his site, The Red Hand Files.  The story is another behind-the-scenes description of how magical music with extraordinary people is made.

The Atlantic has an excellent feature for readers called One Story to Read Today, and they send out one must-read story every afternoon.  We are highlighting a report from last month, a story about your age.  Jennifer Senior writes about why we think we are younger than we are.

Senior makes a clever albeit easily refuted case that we don't think of ourselves as shorter or taller than we are.  We noticed Senior didn't say weigh more or less, and we bet people do think they are taller than they are.  Locating ourselves in time through age is an excellent way of putting it.

In one of the studies, Senior discusses the outsized memories from 15 to 25, which can lead to moving back to those memories in our heads.  This was also why some of us always enjoyed the music we loved during our 20s. 

Age of Consent.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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