Patty Smyth

So do you remember when MTV could turn a song into a cultural event and apparently nobody at Columbia was checking the budget? Well, Scandals the Warrior was written by Holly Knight and Nick Gilder and it wasn't really about fighting or romance.

It was about standing your ground without becoming a complete jackass.

revolutionary concept patty smythe and body paint finger guns going bang bang and enough costumed weirdness to make you wonder if mtv had accidentally wandered into the set of cats smythe later admitted she was crestfallen when she saw it and somehow decades later the warrior became the theme for netflix's glow proving that sometimes the strangest mtv moments age into pop culture gold here is patty smythe this is called the warrior final on chrome

you betrayed.

Your eyes touch me physically

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I interviewed Patty Smyth here in New York.

I forgot who else I did.

But, um, anyway, so as they're about to go into production my boss calls me into his office and I thought nothing of it, and he's like, "I've got some bad news." [laughs] And I'm like, "What?" Because I was already starting research on doing the next wave of them, like they liked what we did.

You can go your own way.

[gentle music] Friends, I've got Patty Smyth taking us up to the break from the album Easter.

Take me now, baby, here as I am.

Pull me close, try and understand.

Same week, a lot of big, uh, records this particular week, the third week of October.

Uh, Radio Ethiopia, Patty Smyth.

I, you know, I'm not that familiar with this, this record.

Uh, Ivor, tell me about this album.

It was the... [laughs] So this was the second album, and it was credited to the Patty Smyth Group.

Um, and the first record that came out from Patty Smyth was, it was produced by John Cale, but this record was produced by Jack Douglas, who was best known up at that point for working with Aerosmith.

So, um, it was, it was kinda panned, but she wanted to push the agenda by, by just pushing at her, you know, soon-to-be husband Lenny Kaye and Ivan Kral in the band, along with Rich Soul and, uh, JD Doherty as a true collaborative rock band.

Uh, you know, I think it was an okay record, but it didn't, it didn't hit the mark for me compared to her other, other projects.

Uh, from 2006.

And this is the time that, uh, myself, Sean Daly, and Cathy Wass went to Ruth Eckerd Hall to cover the We Are the 80s tour, and it had Rick Springfield, Loverboy, Patti Smyth & Scandal.

Uh, so it might have been somebody else.

You'll, I'm sure you'll hear about it in the show.

[laughs]

That's not fair.

Actually, if, if I, I'm looking forward to meeting, if I can meet Patti Smyth, that would be pretty cool.

That's not all I heard you wanted.

Final clues now for the Who Am I? It's the sportsman known for his bad behavior on court.

Who am I? [whoosh] I was married to Tatum O'Neal from 1986 to 1994, and since 1997 have been married to the singer Patty Smyth.

I'm now a commentator known for my sometimes controversial views.

I once said, "If Serena Williams was a man, she would be ranked, like, 700th in the world." My tirades at umpires on the tennis court would often begin with, "You cannot be serious." I am [beep] [beep].