I can't believe Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt" still makes me cry. Am I that big of a cornball? Do I have the heart of a tiny baby? Damn you, KEXP. I'm trying to get dressed for work.

• Becka Brebner

Since the age of eleven, he’s been living in and navigating through the justice system, having served prison stints of three years, three years, and four years. The last two were in Federal. At one point while serving his most recent sentence, he had the opportunity to be cell mates with his father, who he had not previously known. This past March, Supremo became a free man, and he doesn’t plan on going back. P.Supremo is a self educated individual. He has things to say, many songs to play, and much wisdom to dispense. There's an interesting interview where he talks about his life in prison – here. We spoke.

What will you be talking about on the show tonight? What will you be playing?

P.Supremo: I'm gonna play some West Coast 90s rap and talk about parents in prison, and how it affects their kids. Also talking about federal drug laws and the harsh prison time for drug offenders. Enchiladas will possibly be served to the people who show up, because it is open to the public. Hollow Earth is 2018 A E. Union St. 98122.

It’s basically a talk radio show mixed with rap music, and local songs too. I talk about my experiences in the prison system, state and federal. I talk about the reality of prison life. The violence, drugs, gangs, and lack of school programs. I have special guests as well. There’s a huge population of people in prison. Many of them will be out one day, possibly living in your community as well as mine. I think society needs to consider giving those who are locked up more programs inside, so they can acquire and obtain more skills. I think the system should be rehabilitating more, and sending more skilled, non violent people back into society. Not freeing people who are more violent than when they went in. “Welcome to the Yard” is what prison guards say to people when they arrive to be locked up.

I tie in the hip hop music as a way to show the world that we're not just making gangster rap. We’re simply tellin' our story, and it’s keeping a lot of people I know out of prison. So if any one wants to know how prison really is, I encourage them to call in, write in, or come down to the station. Shows like Lockup are not all that real. Actual prison life gets deeper. I take my listeners through some events in my life. At the end of the day I want the youth to know prison is a horrible place, and to choose another route.

"Eddie Money wi(n)ning 2:1 over "Double Vision" is a pile of shit." - biffp, 10/10/2012

Harumph. The last Classic Rock Garbage Thunderdome ended in such a shocker that I didn't think I could possibly want to match two songs against themselves again. I am certain that I'm not alone in being baffled by "Take Me Home Tonight" being voted as the best worst garbage track of CRGT#2, but the poll numbers don't lie. Does that mean the Eddie Money track is better at being worse than Foreigner? Is there any way to test the scientific validity of choosing radio songs that are really good at being bad? What if we force Eddie Money into battle with himself?

One thing I have learned, I kind of like Eddie Money. A CRGT#2 commenter named cracked chimed in with, "Eddie Money only had one good song and this ain't it." Which is so totally kind of true. There are many surprising jams in the Money Man's back catalog. Digging into a his back story, Eddie Money came from a family of police officers and decided to not be a cop so that he could rock. Do you remember the television show Cop Rock? I sure don't!

There's something completely excellent about "Think I'm in Love," the third cut on Money's 1982 platinum LP, No Control. If I had to describe it, I'd say that it had a boss urgency similar to "Heart & Soul" by Huey Lewis. There's something tough and relentless about the riffage, but still tame enough that your aunt would turn it up in her El Camino. I know mine did.

The lyrics are typical in their Eddie Money minimal brilliance, most likely about wanting some sex or a blanket. I just did a quick count and it seems that maybe there are only 40 different words in the entire song. Here are the verses:

Ooh, something's got a hold of me now
It's a feeling, burnin' up like I'm on fire
Hold me tight babe, don't leave me by myself tonight
'Cause I don't think I can make it through the night

It surrounds me, ooh, like a sea of madness
It controls me, makes me do all the things I do for you
On my mind babe, thinkin' about you now
And I don't know if I'll make it through the night

One of my favorite things in the world, besides egg sandwiches, is when somebody rhymes a word with mostly the same word. Rhyming tonight with night? That's tight, not trite.

Which then leads us to the chorus:

I think I'm in love
And my life's lookin' up
I think I'm in love
'Cause I can't get enough
I think I'm in love
It's gotta be love

HOLY F. That last line is seriously the best way a person could end a chorus of this type. He's doing all of this explaining, deciding how he thinks he feels. He admits that he's totally out of control in a "sea of madness." Like earlier, I was thinking that I could totally eat an egg sandwich, and I was wondering about all of the reasons why I might want an egg sandwich, and then it hit me—it's gotta be hunger.

But what does the brilliant Songmeanings.com website have to say about this new contender? Well, nothing really, as the meaning of this one can probably never be found. Commenter Derek8581 (not me, unfortunately) did state, "Wow, Eddie! How do you do it? When you make songs like this one, I KNOW I'm in love."

To which I can only respond, "Word, bro."

Last month's triumph of Foreigner's "Double Vision" over REO Speedwagon's "Take It on the Run" wasn't much a surprise to CRGT readers. Though it was brought up by camlux that there is "no good Speedwagon," I totally disagree. The Gary Richrath heavy "Ridin' the Storm Out" or "Flying Turkey Trot" could easily demolish most of what Styx or the Eagles have to offer. Alas, those are battles for later days.

As chosen by less than 30 votes, "Double Vision" advances into a higher imaginary CRGT tier. I'm not sure if a quick re-cap is needed, this is a song we've all heard waaaaaaay too many times. But in a way, it still rules. We discussed last month how it's mostly about getting wasted on a bunch of drugs. To further quote the brilliant Song Meanings website, user kfe2 describes "Double Vision" with:

The band wrote this after seeing New York Rangers goalie John Davidson get knocked out during the 1977 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Davidson is now a popular hockey analyst for ABC Sports. The changed it around to talk about being at a party.

My reply to that can only be: "?!?!??!??!??!?!??!??!??!??!??!??!???!?!??!??!??!?!??!?!?."

Today's challenger is a great one, though. Well, you know, great bad and then good again because it's so bad. It's Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight," a song so shallow and insipid that it reminds me of a 1983 Volkswagen Rabbit stuck in three feet of December snow in Ohio. In other words: it goes nowhere. Keith Whiteman of the Grave Babies offers: "Well, I listened to the song twice and all I could think of was if he was good in bed or not. So that's a disturbing thought. I feel a hunger. It's a hunger."

Released in 1986, "Take Me Home Tonight" hit #1 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. That's certainly enough copies sold to buy a few white Corvettes. Though, I'm not sure how much "aqua gravel" it could afford.

I used to read Hit Parader and Circus magazines as a child, and I remember a letter to the editor in one of those asking if Eddie Money had upper teeth, as he never seemed to show them. I usually think about this whenever I hear Eddie Money. Today, when I heard this song, was the first time I realized that he's actually referencing Ronnie Spector from the Ronnettes in the song, with the line, "Just like Ronnie sang." It would be embarrassing for me to tell you what I thought he was saying before, because it doesn't make any sense. It's nice that she duets on the chorus though, I guess.

As for the meaning of "Take Me Home Tonight," one doesn't have to travel too far in their brain to figure out what's happening in this song. Dude's got a hunger and he needs to eat physical love. According to the wonderfully poorly written Wikipedia page, when questioned about the song,

"...the band stated that it was inspired by an unknown person named "Garth," who, as childhood friend of the bandmembers, was constantly looking to sleep over at other people's houses. Other sources say it relates to Producer Jacob Dooley's obsession with convincing the drunkest girl in the bar to take him back to her house.

My reply to that can only be: "?!?!??!??!??!?!??!??!??!??!??!??!???!?!??!??!??!?!??!?!?."

Again, back to the ever informative Song Meanings, user darreno27 writes:

Me and my roomies constantly play this song at parties. It get the crowd pumped up with the ladies flying around. One of our favorite songs. I always jam this on my guitar full bore when finals are done and it's time for a break.

Dude, that's awesome. Regardless, in true Classic Rock Garbage Thunderdome fashion, we're here to decide: which of these awful songs is better? Vote quick, vote often.