“Am I going in insane” on Sabotage. And that was the song that got the airplay, surely the reason why it was the first Sabbath album not to go platinum. IMO it’s possibly their greatest work (excluding that one song)
"Benny the Bouncer" on 'Brain Salad Surgery' just doesn't work for me. Other bands can do comedy and get away with it, but I never saw ELP as a convincing comedy act.
Blue Oyster Cult's "Goin' Through The Motions" is a great song! Catchy, infectious and it matches up to the other excellent SPECTRES material in a fantastic way. Martin, what do you want, every song on the album to sound similar or the same? I like diversity within an album. And i do love AC/DC, The Stones and The Ramones. Still, I adore LPs that bring different, disparate vocals and song styles. This song makes Spectres even better Marc
Great theme. Zeppelin song D'yer Mak'er - the title is a colloquialisation of 'Did you make her?' - like in the joke (which I won't repeat). Pronounced 'Jamaica', hence the reggae feel.
Hey Pete Every Genesis album has one quirky jokel song.self titled " Illegal Alien" Abacab - "Who Dunnit" Selling England By The Pound "I Know What I Like" ...
Just clicking on. First thing that comes to mind is KISS Dynasty. People call it their “disco album.” It’s not a disco album. One song has a disco drum track.
Dynasty is not bad, but it's not great either. The problem with the album is that no one was getting alone and Kiss would never be the same again. And we all knew that Ace and Peter were going to leave.
Don't get where Martin was going with Trashed. Great song, my favorite off that album. Seemed like a nice marriage of Tony's riffing and Ian's screaming and lyrics. Exactly what I'd expect this collaboration to sound like.
I think some of you are missing part of the point of this or theme of this. You are bringing up some bad-smelling songs, true, but they aren't doing the back-end thing and painting the whole album with that brush. "Escape" didn't make people thing Metallica was poppy. "Mother" didn't make people think Andy Summers sings the whole album and it was all demented carnival music. "Am I Going Insane" didn't make people think Sabotage was all thespian ballet Broadway music.
I didn't like Revolution 9 when I first heard it,but I was listening with my rock or pop ears on. I now appreciate it as a revolutionary track. Progressive. Music need stop make you think as well as giving instant pleasure. Pete has panned ELP for tracks like Benny The Bouncer, I think it stops the album being samey and all of a piece.Also it pulls up the listener and pricks the pomposity that Prog can bring to the table.
Big Ten Inch on Aerosmith's Toy's In The Attic...Happy Trails on Van Halen's Diver Down...Are You Ready Eddy? on ELP Tarkus...I Think I'm Going Bald on Rush Caress of Steel...Every Bruce Springsteen song that told us 'Life is Hard, on the Boule-Vard'.
Love Is On the Way - Saigon Kick I’d put this one in that same category as Beth off the Destroyer album and More than Words by Extreme. Not necessarily a bad song but I bet lots of casual top 40 radio listeners who went out and bought The Lizard LP were in for a big surprise when they listened to the rest of the album. Personally, one of my favorite albums.
I’d throw in “Silent Lucidity” by Queensryche . Sounds like nothing else on the album or any other Queensryche material. To make things worse, some people only heard it on the radio and thought it was Pink Floyd.
cool topic, lets see... Bugs by Pearl Jam (Vitalogy), The Outsiders by R.E.M. (Around the Sun), You Not Me by Dream Theater (Falling into Infinity), Mama Said by Metallica (Load), Moto Psycho by Megadeth (The World Needs a Hero), Rocky Ground by Bruce Springsteen (Wrecking Ball), To Be With You by Mr. Big (Lean into It), Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull (Aqualung), Message of Hope by Marillion (This Strange Engine)
😂😂😂 Every time I hear something about , “we can’t dance”. I think about Banks despising and hating the lyrics of the Lamb, however he loves the lyrics of “we can’t dance”. 😢😢 Are we in an alternate universe????
For years I thought Cherry Pie was by Def Leppard as it's the same kind of Stilton as a lot of their hits. And The Final Countdown was once used as entrance music for my football team. The Laibach cover version is good though.
In the early 80's I was in a large UK chain newsagents that also sold records. A rather typical, frameless glasses bespectacled, stoutish blue-rinse dowager went up to the counter and asked the twenty-something clerk if they had the album with that lovely song about "hair golden brown" by the "Wranglers" (sic). He kept his composure and convinced her she would not really like the rest of La Folie.
Actually Satisfied man and Stone in your heart are the best songs on the album...the problems are the other stuff which does not have the usual greatness
Don't overthink it.. its a play on the word Jamaica.There aren't multiple ways to say it. Great show again..always a pleasure to join the FunHouse on a Friday.
We Cant Dance is one of those songs that I dont hate but I cant explain why I like it. I guess it because I grew up with the music video and saw it many times when it was new and I wasnt old enough to hate it know why it sucked.
@@Chaz4543 I was referring to the album, which is titled 'We Can't Dance', as opposed to the song on the album titled 'I Can't Dance', which the album is partly named after. Pete always talked in the past about how he didn't like the album, as well as the song, on various shows across the channel, especially on In The Prog Seat. But here he's revealed that after obviously listening to the album again recently, he's realised that his previous judgement was very much affected by that one song, which he still doesn't like, and that it isn't like anything else on the album.
Great call, Pete. On Rock me tonight by billy squire. I love his music, but i still watch that video when i want to laugh. Yes, that shot his career down and that album. Think ill put the video on now for a laugh. Lol
Albert King - Laundromat Blues Bob Dylan - Tight Connection to your Heart Bowie - Tonight Clash - Straight to Hell Stones - Going to a Go Go The Who - Athena Springsteen - I'm On Fire Fleetwood Mac -Tusk
Great lists gents. Pretty much every one you guys pulled up I immediately nodded in agreement! D'yer Maker, Wango Tango the biggest offenders for me. Just proves that popular doesn't mean good.
Blue Oyster Cult - Let Go - off Revolution By Night. The epitome of filler - it smells like someone literally "let go" in the studio. The lyrics are a perfect example of why someone coined the phrase, "I can pull better lyrics out of my ass". I recall a friend of mine playing that for me for my first listen, and the thing that sticks with me is the impish grin he had on his face as he watched my reaction. He KNEW the song was ridiculous, and took great delight in watching me melt down over its stupidity. After what seemed like the 50th chant of, "LET GO!!!!!", it was obvious I didn't care for it, as the look on my face was along the lines of, "WTF is THIS???", and he busted a gut laughing. To this day, I picture this song being used as inspiration in a wind-breaking contest. Big BOC fan here, but that song is NOT in my library for the single reason that I don't even want to accidentally hear it ever again. It sounds like nothing else in their entire catalogue, and I thank my lucky stars for that.
Straight Between the Eyes by Rainbow can't overcome "Stone Cold "which was a sappy power ballad that was in heavy rotation on MTV back in the day... the rest of the album was kind of banging.
"Another One Bites the Dust" used to be my favorite song from 'The Game' album, but now, it's "Dragon Attack"! I wish the band would play it live again and give "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" a break.
🎯! Killer Van Halen album, A Different Kind Of Truth, except for Tattoo, which upon seeing and hearing the video for the first time, I immediately went into a deep depression. That "lawn toffee" doesn't belong on the album!
On the album Turbo - I do remember an interview with Halford where he openly admitted he was looking at the Crue's and Bon Jovi's selling millions and wanting to get some of the same - not sure if that's a bad thing - but certainly an ambition that drove the songwriting
I know grunge is not mentioned much on this channel I will say there are great bands form that particular genre that are great and have 70s vibe from them stone temple pilots for example is great also recommend Alice In Chains and sound garden as well
Gary Numan "CARS" ... Dominated everything he'd ever done Fleetwood Mac "Tusk" ... Became the only FM song alot of people knew Bee Gees "Stay'n Alive" ..... Can save your life with CPR WASP "F**k Like a Beast" .... Even the album it wasnt on became overwhelmed by it. Joe Walsh "The Confessor" Very unlike his other work
Not sure how Third Stage and Amanda fit in. It was more of a ballad, but More Than A Feeling had its soft spots too....and so did Let Me Take You Home Tonight, Hitch a Ride, A Man I'll Never Be, etc....hardly out of character for Boston. I thought it was great....and so did the public, as both the song and album went to #1.
I knew one of you would bring up Anyone's Daughter and every time you do I will always say that the English sense of humour doesn't always translate to other countries.
Mr big is a good one. They had that ballad Just to be with you. Alot of rock fans didnt look further, but you had Paul Gilbert on guitar shredding it up.
Along the same lines as the Extreme album is Mr. Big and Be with you. I had female friends who bought that album for the song and they were pop and country fans
Im shocked Pete didn't mention Benny the Bouncer. That is the poster child for this subject. I disagree with Martin on Trashed . Love that and its a great opener. Always liked Dyer Maker and Roll the Bones. Also, i don't think a ballard is always out of place on albums.
"Bang on the Drum All Day" is a song that Todd DREAMED completely formed and don't tell me you've never heard a quirky song from Todd Rundgren...but it wasn't his idea to release it as a single, but it really IS fun to play!! I fantasized playing it with him on stage and it actually happened at LEAST 5 times!!! He hands me the sticks and I jump up and play it. That would NEVER happen today though...I moved up toward the stage toward the end of his last miserable show and got the shit kicked out of me by a bunch of bouncers at The Wilbur Theater, my most miserable Todd concert, and not just because of that. It was the icing on a flaming turd of a show. My worst concert experience EVER, and I'm certainly not the only one a LOT of people felt the same way, a lot of them left before the end...too bad, but, O.K., he did "The Last Ride" at the end, but trashed the guitar solo...something was just OFF from the very start. Sorry, he's usually amazing!
I'm not saying I dislike the song (and i am a huge Todd fan, seeing him again soon in York PA), but I perhaps was going more for a song that everyone associates with an artist, but is a song that isn't really like alot of what they do. Maybe that wasn't a great choice here, but the song is so pervasive (sports venues, etc) that I felt it kind of fit.
23:02 Martin mentions the song/cover but nothing about the album itself ... LOL. In my experience, Theatre of Pain is dominated by "Home Sweet Home": it is much more like Kiss and "Beth" than Twisted Sister.
First comes to mind before watching. I’ll Be There for You by Black 'n Blue (From Nasty Nasty), The Dragontower by Keep of Kalessin (from Reptilian) and Be Cruel to Your School by Twisted Sister (From Come out and Play). Also Leather of the Pack, but not as much. And I song I personally like, but know a lot of so called true black metal people didnt. Fuel for Hatred by Satyricon. The song is very much black n roll, but the rest of the tracks on Vulcano are pretty dark and cold
Apologies if mentioned (?) but I'm very surprised Van Halen's "Tattoo" wasn't the first thing? Pete and Martin mentioned it in a recent episode, in precisely this context... I actually think the verses (and even lyrics) are fine, but that damn chorus -- ridiculous. Obviously the album is much better.
Valley Girl is interesting. I think I was about 10 years old when it came out, so I guess it was in my wheelhouse. I didn’t know who Frank Zappa was, but quickly learned that he was considered cool. I got a kick out of the tune and it seemed to have a lot more credibility than some of the other novelty songs of the time, like Safety Dance or Mickey (those are novelty tunes, right?). Plus, I thought Moon was pretty cute and seemed to be saying some dirty stuff in the song.
Man…Final Countdown. We finally got MTV around that time and there was a half hour heavy metal show each afternoon that I watched religiously that summer so I could videotape some cool clips. While they would occasionally throw in a cool vintage live clip or some earlier 80s metal, they showed Final Countdown, In My Dreams by Dokken and Shot in the Dark by Ozzy nearly every freakin’ day. Awful.
"My Ding-A-Ling-"--Chuck Berry (All the classics that he wrote that didn't hit #1, and his one hit that does is a wee-wee joke song that he didn't even write. SMH...) "Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me"--Tiny Tim (pegged T.T. as a cutesy/fey/novelty artist, when he actually had a musicologist's knowledge of great old pop songs from the early 20th century) "The Loco-Motion"--Grand Funk (the rest of the "Shinin' On" LP is normal kick-ass GFR, but this Little Eva is just goofy) "I'm Bugged At My Old Man"--The Beach Boys (when you know the story of Murry's abuse towards his sons, it gives the song a creepy vibe that the rest of the "Summer Days" album lacks) "What's Wrong"--Dennis Wilson (most of "Pacific Ocean Blue" is moody, downbeat ballad-type material, which makes this one "rocking" song stand out like a sore thumb) "Bucket T"--The Who (I like Jan & Dean myself, but this Keith Moon-sung cover doesn't quite fit in w/ the rest of the "Happy Jack" LP's more rockish material) "Kissin' Time"--KISS (a Bobby Rydell cover on what's otherwise a kick-ass debut) "Something Happened To Me Yesterday"---The Rolling Stones (I kinda dig this in a novelty-tune way, but it shouldn't be used as a signpost for the rest of "Between The Buttons") "Baby, I Love You"--The Ramones (the obvious low point of "End of The Century)
I can't not like Goin Through the Motions by BOC. I think it's a great song. I always thought BOC named the record Spectres, because so many of the songs have the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" background vocals. The Spector layered "ahhhhhhhh" background vocals are all over this record. I always thought the spelling of Spectres was done to be kitschy. Of all the "ahhhhhhhh" type Spector songs, Goin Through the Motions has the full Spector effect. Simple bouncy keys at the intro, coordinated handclaps and the extra echoed and layeredbackground vocals. All staples of the Spector Wall of Sound production. But maybe I'm wrong!!!
B.Ö.C. Goin' Through the Motions is the second best song after Godzilla on Spectres and Trashed Is the second best song after Disturbing the Priest on Born Again.
@@dankelly-jl8xn I wonder if it was intentional that they didnt make a video for Amanda since they knew they wouldnt be able to compete visually with all the hair metal at the time. Still would have thought the record label would have demanded a video. They didnt have to put the band in it so you didnt have to see how out of place they looked in the hair metal 80s.
Until it sleeps by Metallica from Load. It's the first single and I remember alot of people saying they were not going to get the album when that single was released.
Great show as always - thank you - but I don't get the continued hatred for Revolution 9. Far from "filler", I've always considered it one of The Beatles' most radical and interesting tracks. And remember that at 45 minutes a record - quite the longest discs they ever made - the White Album was long enough to have left Revolution 9 off anyway should they have wanted to leave it off. And as for Money For Nothing, it ain't anything as much filler as the ultra cheesy Walk of Life which is easily the worst ever song ever released under the Dire Straits moniker IMHO. Heavy? I don't think so. But hey, horses for courses and all that. I Can't Dance I can't argue with - quite the worst song ever released by a band I (mostly) otherwise love. And Babe is so so bad it put me off Styx for life!
Johnny B. Goode from Judas Priest is one of the greatest covers ever. It takes the original, so that you always know what it is and yet they priestify it in a way that they make it their own. Criminally underrated and scored, without any merit. It also comes from a great album that is also rather underrated. Simply brilliant. I rather like Black Sheep Of The Family from Rainbow and I Can't dance is probably the only Genesis song that I ever liked. Red White and Blue is a good Skynyrd song but I do echo the points made abut it being a little too 'we are the greatest nation' vibe, which tends to be vomit inducing and eye rolling for people outside of the USA. I'm a huge Molly Hatchet fan and Satisfied Man is pretty much a perfect sound that matched anything that else that they did. It's awesome. The Final Countdown is very much the epitome of what this piece exemplifies. I don't agree with the Queen Play the Game critique as these are classic Queen songs when you take their versatility into account. Gillan New Orleans is also awesome and a credit to the album. Unskinny Bop is rather indicative of Poison in general and was never any surprise to me. Killer Queen? Are you kidding?!! Beth from Kiss has to rate as one of the worst songs from a rock band ever.
The unfathomable mind of Martin Popoff, he doesn't own a copy of Sabbath's Born Again, yet he has three assorted versions of Warrant's Cherry Pie.
Wonder what Martin's opinion of Babymetal is?
I love Born Again ,i like the muddy mix as well.
@@davej.meister5421 talk about Babymetal in real life-- why are tickets so expensive when most hath not heard of them?
@@steevenfrost wife is on notice if I find cheap used Ian G it is mine-- Can we be born again rockers without actually owning a copy of Born Again-
Hahaha! Fantastic comment!
Yeah, Born Again is awesome and who gives a CRAP about that stupid ass warrant thing!
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Yeah! Martin's back! My favourite person to slightly disagree with but still appreciate on a regular basis.
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I don't always agree with him, but I do like hearing him speak about music, etc. He's definitely passionate about it.
Trashed is one of the best songs on Born Again in my opinion.
I love Trashed too!
Mother from The Police - Synchronicity
Another stinker from The Police, "On Any Other Day" from Reggatta de Blanc"
ya i tried, lord knows how i tried...
YES!!!! I was going to post that, but you beat me to it.
AC/DC - "Ride on" from the album "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (1976). I think the slowest song from them, but so good!
Am I the only Zep fan that likes D'yer Ma'ker ? I've always loved it.
Not the only one! Always liked it, and always liked The Crunge. Nothing wrong with that album anywhere.
I love D‘yer Mak‘er, too!
I love this song!
learned yesterday that Jimmy Hendrix didn't like Led Zep or was it Lemmy of Motor Head perhaps it was both. ZZZZzzzz Did smelly nelly make the list?
I like it too
“Am I going in insane” on Sabotage. And that was the song that got the airplay, surely the reason why it was the first Sabbath album not to go platinum. IMO it’s possibly their greatest work (excluding that one song)
Sabotage is my favorite of the Ozzy albums and I even like Am I Going Insane but it being the single does give the wrong impression of that album.
TOTALLY agree!
Agree; it is the worst song on the album and one of the few below-average songs from the Ozzy era in my opinion
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Constipation Blues
I love it when Martin says "morning sir, morning sir" it's my new drinking game!
We may need a Bad-Smelling Songs part 2 as I believe there plenty more out there. Cheers !
48:48 😅
Bands that are difficult to categorize would be a great topic! Steely Dan, Dire Straits and maybe Peter Gabriel are examples.
"Benny the Bouncer" on 'Brain Salad Surgery' just doesn't work for me. Other bands can do comedy and get away with it, but I never saw ELP as a convincing comedy act.
Agreed. It's horrendous, I find it unlistenable.
Not as bad as Are You Ready Eddie.I do like The Sherrif
Blue Oyster Cult's "Goin' Through The Motions" is a great song! Catchy, infectious and it matches up to the other excellent SPECTRES material in a fantastic way.
Martin, what do you want, every song on the album to sound similar or the same?
I like diversity within an album. And i do love AC/DC, The Stones and The Ramones.
Still, I adore LPs that bring different, disparate vocals and song styles. This song makes Spectres even better
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Great theme. Zeppelin song D'yer Mak'er - the title is a colloquialisation of 'Did you make her?' - like in the joke (which I won't repeat). Pronounced 'Jamaica', hence the reggae feel.
Hey Pete Every Genesis album has one quirky jokel song.self titled " Illegal Alien" Abacab - "Who Dunnit" Selling England By The Pound "I Know What I Like"
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Just clicking on. First thing that comes to mind is KISS Dynasty. People call it their “disco album.” It’s not a disco album. One song has a disco drum track.
Good album, disco or not.
Dynasty is not bad, but it's not great either. The problem with the album is that no one was getting alone and Kiss would never be the same again. And we all knew that Ace and Peter were going to leave.
@@takodabostwick8507 i was made on radio now funnily enough
An ex introduced me to Dynasty. She thought I Was Made For Loving You and Sure Know Something were our songs.
@@stephenbrown4211 like them. Magic touch, charisma good too.
"Boom Boom" is Pat Travers taking a page out of the George Thorogood playbook. It's basically his "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer."
Canadians and Hudson valley dudes talking weather....priceless
Don't get where Martin was going with Trashed. Great song, my favorite off that album. Seemed like a nice marriage of Tony's riffing and Ian's screaming and lyrics. Exactly what I'd expect this collaboration to sound like.
I think some of you are missing part of the point of this or theme of this. You are bringing up some bad-smelling songs, true, but they aren't doing the back-end thing and painting the whole album with that brush. "Escape" didn't make people thing Metallica was poppy. "Mother" didn't make people think Andy Summers sings the whole album and it was all demented carnival music. "Am I Going Insane" didn't make people think Sabotage was all thespian ballet Broadway music.
Love Going Through the Motions. Co-written by the GREAT Ian Hunter
Great show and great idea for a show - thanks guys!!
More Than Words by Extreme
I didn't like Revolution 9 when I first heard it,but I was listening with my rock or pop ears on. I now appreciate it as a revolutionary track. Progressive. Music need stop make you think as well as giving instant pleasure. Pete has panned ELP for tracks like Benny The Bouncer, I think it stops the album being samey and all of a piece.Also it pulls up the listener and pricks the pomposity that Prog can bring to the table.
Pete is always in my head. I can't dance had a riff that never went anywhere. What a downer. I thought Phil was gonna rock but alas it was not to be.
Big Ten Inch on Aerosmith's Toy's In The Attic...Happy Trails on Van Halen's Diver Down...Are You Ready Eddy? on ELP Tarkus...I Think I'm Going Bald on Rush Caress of Steel...Every Bruce Springsteen song that told us 'Life is Hard, on the Boule-Vard'.
Love Is On the Way - Saigon Kick
I’d put this one in that same category as Beth off the Destroyer album and More than Words by Extreme. Not necessarily a bad song but I bet lots of casual top 40 radio listeners who went out and bought The Lizard LP were in for a big surprise when they listened to the rest of the album. Personally, one of my favorite albums.
Martin, when people usually put down Born Again it is more than likely about the album cover. Born Again is actually damn good album.
Both "Since You Been Gone" and "All Night Long" were Top Ten hits in the UK. Hence probably inspired Blackmore to keep going in that direction.
Remember seeing the video for the former on Top of The Pops.
so basically.... all the Radio hits (or attempts at hits) for these bands!
Loved this one in particular. Martin is a such character !
First one I thought of was I was made for Lovin’ You off Dynasty. Always classed as a disco album. Where in fact it’s anything but.
I’d throw in “Silent Lucidity” by Queensryche . Sounds like nothing else on the album or any other Queensryche material. To make things worse, some people only heard it on the radio and thought it was Pink Floyd.
cool topic, lets see... Bugs by Pearl Jam (Vitalogy), The Outsiders by R.E.M. (Around the Sun), You Not Me by Dream Theater (Falling into Infinity), Mama Said by Metallica (Load), Moto Psycho by Megadeth (The World Needs a Hero), Rocky Ground by Bruce Springsteen (Wrecking Ball), To Be With You by Mr. Big (Lean into It), Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull (Aqualung), Message of Hope by Marillion (This Strange Engine)
The Game is in my opinion their best. Coming soon is sooo good! Not a bad track to be seen!
😂😂😂 Every time I hear something about , “we can’t dance”. I think about Banks despising and hating the lyrics of the Lamb, however he loves the lyrics of “we can’t dance”. 😢😢
Are we in an alternate universe????
For years I thought Cherry Pie was by Def Leppard as it's the same kind of Stilton as a lot of their hits.
And The Final Countdown was once used as entrance music for my football team. The Laibach cover version is good though.
In the early 80's I was in a large UK chain newsagents that also sold records. A rather typical, frameless glasses bespectacled, stoutish blue-rinse dowager went up to the counter and asked the twenty-something clerk if they had the album with that lovely song about "hair golden brown" by the "Wranglers" (sic).
He kept his composure and convinced her she would not really like the rest of La Folie.
Actually Satisfied man and Stone in your heart are the best songs on the album...the problems are the other stuff which does not have the usual greatness
Nice show again fellows👍
Don't overthink it.. its a play on the word Jamaica.There aren't multiple ways to say it.
Great show again..always a pleasure to join the FunHouse on a Friday.
I like the solo on Winning … wish it didn’t fade out so fast though
Well done Pete for finally coming round on We Can't Dance! 🥳🥳🥳
We Cant Dance is one of those songs that I dont hate but I cant explain why I like it. I guess it because I grew up with the music video and saw it many times when it was new and I wasnt old enough to hate it know why it sucked.
@@Chaz4543 I was referring to the album, which is titled 'We Can't Dance', as opposed to the song on the album titled 'I Can't Dance', which the album is partly named after. Pete always talked in the past about how he didn't like the album, as well as the song, on various shows across the channel, especially on In The Prog Seat. But here he's revealed that after obviously listening to the album again recently, he's realised that his previous judgement was very much affected by that one song, which he still doesn't like, and that it isn't like anything else on the album.
Great call, Pete. On Rock me tonight by billy squire. I love his music, but i still watch that video when i want to laugh. Yes, that shot his career down and that album. Think ill put the video on now for a laugh. Lol
Albert King - Laundromat Blues
Bob Dylan - Tight Connection to your Heart
Bowie - Tonight
Clash - Straight to Hell
Stones - Going to a Go Go
The Who - Athena
Springsteen - I'm On Fire
Fleetwood Mac -Tusk
Twisted Sister originally covered Leader Of The Pack on their debut EP called Ruff Cuts. I think it was only ever released here in The UK.
Come on Martin, Wango Tango is a great song !!
Great lists gents. Pretty much every one you guys pulled up I immediately nodded in agreement! D'yer Maker, Wango Tango the biggest offenders for me. Just proves that popular doesn't mean good.
Pete and Martin, stellar show as always; Pete have you done that show, Bands hard to categorize? ex: Dire Straits
Blue Oyster Cult - Let Go - off Revolution By Night. The epitome of filler - it smells like someone literally "let go" in the studio. The lyrics are a perfect example of why someone coined the phrase, "I can pull better lyrics out of my ass". I recall a friend of mine playing that for me for my first listen, and the thing that sticks with me is the impish grin he had on his face as he watched my reaction. He KNEW the song was ridiculous, and took great delight in watching me melt down over its stupidity. After what seemed like the 50th chant of, "LET GO!!!!!", it was obvious I didn't care for it, as the look on my face was along the lines of, "WTF is THIS???", and he busted a gut laughing. To this day, I picture this song being used as inspiration in a wind-breaking contest. Big BOC fan here, but that song is NOT in my library for the single reason that I don't even want to accidentally hear it ever again. It sounds like nothing else in their entire catalogue, and I thank my lucky stars for that.
Straight Between the Eyes by Rainbow can't overcome "Stone Cold "which was a sappy power ballad that was in heavy rotation on MTV back in the day... the rest of the album was kind of banging.
Considering what Wango Tango is about,being a smelly song is quite apropos
I laughed way too hard at this.
I like "Black Sheep of the Family" a hell of a lot more than "If You Don't Like Rock N' Roll" - yeesh!
Escape, Ride the lightning.
Harsh but understandable.
"Another One Bites the Dust" used to be my favorite song from 'The Game' album, but now, it's "Dragon Attack"! I wish the band would play it live again and give "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" a break.
I absolutely love Cherry Pie. It's just a brilliant fun pop metal song, even if Jani (RIP) didn't like it.
I think the song Tattoo from Van Halen fits this perfectly.
Also, "Dance the Night Away" fits perfectly!
🎯! Killer Van Halen album, A Different Kind Of Truth, except for Tattoo, which upon seeing and hearing the video for the first time, I immediately went into a deep depression. That "lawn toffee" doesn't belong on the album!
On the album Turbo - I do remember an interview with Halford where he openly admitted he was looking at the Crue's and Bon Jovi's selling millions and wanting to get some of the same - not sure if that's a bad thing - but certainly an ambition that drove the songwriting
Y'all got my Priest and Twisted Sister's covers so I will go with...... KISS - Then She Kissed Me and Keel- Because the Night
Gentle Giant “The Missing Piece” because of Betcha Thought We Couldn’t Do It”.
mr. Big - To be with you
Muddy Waters - Garbage Man Blues
New York Dolls - Trash
Warrior Soul - The Wasteland
I wonder how long it'll take some people to get these :D
PS. you kinda got a double with "muddy waters"
@@JoelPrice253 i didn't even catch that until after i posted it. lol
I know grunge is not mentioned much on this channel I will say there are great bands form that particular genre that are great and have 70s vibe from them stone temple pilots for example is great also recommend Alice In Chains and sound garden as well
Def Lep's "Make Love Like A Man" definitely knocked Andrenalize down a peg.
I like Jamaica! (D'yer maker) ;-)
Quest for Fire. Iron Maiden. First thing I thought.
Gary Numan "CARS" ... Dominated everything he'd ever done
Fleetwood Mac "Tusk" ... Became the only FM song alot of people knew
Bee Gees "Stay'n Alive" ..... Can save your life with CPR
WASP "F**k Like a Beast" .... Even the album it wasnt on became overwhelmed by it.
Joe Walsh "The Confessor" Very unlike his other work
The Police Synchronicity - Mother
Not sure how Third Stage and Amanda fit in. It was more of a ballad, but More Than A Feeling had its soft spots too....and so did Let Me Take You Home Tonight, Hitch a Ride, A Man I'll Never Be, etc....hardly out of character for Boston. I thought it was great....and so did the public, as both the song and album went to #1.
Dog Years Rush. If not for this song Test for Echo would be perfect
In Through the Outdoor and Presence are Led Zeppelin’s lesser albums. Actually their first six albums are just great 😊
That is true, but “Achilles Last Stand” on its own is better than some ‘good’ albums.
I only half agree with you on that statement...
It’s cold here in the UK too.
I knew one of you would bring up Anyone's Daughter and every time you do I will always say that the English sense of humour doesn't always translate to other countries.
Mr big is a good one. They had that ballad Just to be with you. Alot of rock fans didnt look further, but you had Paul Gilbert on guitar shredding it up.
Along the same lines as the Extreme album is Mr. Big and Be with you. I had female friends who bought that album for the song and they were pop and country fans
Im shocked Pete didn't mention Benny the Bouncer. That is the poster child for this subject. I disagree with Martin on Trashed . Love that and its a great opener. Always liked Dyer Maker and Roll the Bones. Also, i don't think a ballard is always out of place on albums.
Was waiting for Miore Than Words
And I still enjoy a listen to The Final Countdown
Focus-Hocus Pocus
Todd Rundgren-Bang The Drum All Day
"Bang on the Drum All Day" is a song that Todd DREAMED completely formed and don't tell me you've never heard a quirky song from Todd Rundgren...but it wasn't his idea to release it as a single, but it really IS fun to play!! I fantasized playing it with him on stage and it actually happened at LEAST 5 times!!! He hands me the sticks and I jump up and play it. That would NEVER happen today though...I moved up toward the stage toward the end of his last miserable show and got the shit kicked out of me by a bunch of bouncers at The Wilbur Theater, my most miserable Todd concert, and not just because of that. It was the icing on a flaming turd of a show. My worst concert experience EVER, and I'm certainly not the only one a LOT of people felt the same way, a lot of them left before the end...too bad, but, O.K., he did "The Last Ride" at the end, but trashed the guitar solo...something was just OFF from the very start. Sorry, he's usually amazing!
I'm not saying I dislike the song (and i am a huge Todd fan, seeing him again soon in York PA), but I perhaps was going more for a song that everyone associates with an artist, but is a song that isn't really like alot of what they do. Maybe that wasn't a great choice here, but the song is so pervasive (sports venues, etc) that I felt it kind of fit.
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. I remember seeing the crowds after that single, and Metallica opened with Creeping Death. 😁
23:02 Martin mentions the song/cover but nothing about the album itself ... LOL. In my experience, Theatre of Pain is dominated by "Home Sweet Home": it is much more like Kiss and "Beth" than Twisted Sister.
First comes to mind before watching.
I’ll Be There for You by Black 'n Blue (From Nasty Nasty), The Dragontower by Keep of Kalessin (from Reptilian) and Be Cruel to Your School by Twisted Sister (From Come out and Play). Also Leather of the Pack, but not as much. And I song I personally like, but know a lot of so called true black metal people didnt. Fuel for Hatred by Satyricon. The song is very much black n roll, but the rest of the tracks on Vulcano are pretty dark and cold
Apologies if mentioned (?) but I'm very surprised Van Halen's "Tattoo" wasn't the first thing? Pete and Martin mentioned it in a recent episode, in precisely this context... I actually think the verses (and even lyrics) are fine, but that damn chorus -- ridiculous. Obviously the album is much better.
I love the shows with Martin.. there are times I disagree with some of his views but nevertheless it's great to see him on the show :)
Valley Girl is interesting. I think I was about 10 years old when it came out, so I guess it was in my wheelhouse. I didn’t know who Frank Zappa was, but quickly learned that he was considered cool. I got a kick out of the tune and it seemed to have a lot more credibility than some of the other novelty songs of the time, like Safety Dance or Mickey (those are novelty tunes, right?). Plus, I thought Moon was pretty cute and seemed to be saying some dirty stuff in the song.
Man…Final Countdown. We finally got MTV around that time and there was a half hour heavy metal show each afternoon that I watched religiously that summer so I could videotape some cool clips. While they would occasionally throw in a cool vintage live clip or some earlier 80s metal, they showed Final Countdown, In My Dreams by Dokken and Shot in the Dark by Ozzy nearly every freakin’ day. Awful.
"My Ding-A-Ling-"--Chuck Berry (All the classics that he wrote that didn't hit #1, and his one hit that does is a wee-wee joke song that he didn't even write. SMH...)
"Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me"--Tiny Tim (pegged T.T. as a cutesy/fey/novelty artist, when he actually had a musicologist's knowledge of great old pop songs from the early 20th century)
"The Loco-Motion"--Grand Funk (the rest of the "Shinin' On" LP is normal kick-ass GFR, but this Little Eva is just goofy)
"I'm Bugged At My Old Man"--The Beach Boys (when you know the story of Murry's abuse towards his sons, it gives the song a creepy vibe that the rest of the "Summer Days" album lacks)
"What's Wrong"--Dennis Wilson (most of "Pacific Ocean Blue" is moody, downbeat ballad-type material, which makes this one "rocking" song stand out like a sore thumb)
"Bucket T"--The Who (I like Jan & Dean myself, but this Keith Moon-sung cover doesn't quite fit in w/ the rest of the "Happy Jack" LP's more rockish material)
"Kissin' Time"--KISS (a Bobby Rydell cover on what's otherwise a kick-ass debut)
"Something Happened To Me Yesterday"---The Rolling Stones (I kinda dig this in a novelty-tune way, but it shouldn't be used as a signpost for the rest of "Between The Buttons")
"Baby, I Love You"--The Ramones (the obvious low point of "End of The Century)
To Be No.1 from Thw Scorpions Eye II Eye
I can't not like Goin Through the Motions by BOC. I think it's a great song. I always thought BOC named the record Spectres, because so many of the songs have the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" background vocals. The Spector layered "ahhhhhhhh" background vocals are all over this record. I always thought the spelling of Spectres was done to be kitschy. Of all the "ahhhhhhhh" type Spector songs, Goin Through the Motions has the full Spector effect. Simple bouncy keys at the intro, coordinated handclaps and the extra echoed and layeredbackground vocals. All staples of the Spector Wall of Sound production. But maybe I'm wrong!!!
And then they did cover Be My Baby by the Ronettes during this time too!
Babe by Styx was the first one I thought of
B.Ö.C. Goin' Through the Motions is the second best song after Godzilla on Spectres and Trashed Is the second best song after Disturbing the Priest on Born Again.
Amanda, and The Third Stage album by Boston both went to #1 at the same time!. People were still tuned in to Boston.
With no video on MTV, unheard of in 1986 and probably the only instance after 1982.
@@dankelly-jl8xn I wonder if it was intentional that they didnt make a video for Amanda since they knew they wouldnt be able to compete visually with all the hair metal at the time. Still would have thought the record label would have demanded a video. They didnt have to put the band in it so you didnt have to see how out of place they looked in the hair metal 80s.
@@Chaz4543 considering it’s Tom Scholz, and it took 5 years to complete the album, the video making process probably would have been more headaches.
Turbo lover live is amazing
Can’t ya smell that smell 😂😂
Until it sleeps by Metallica from Load. It's the first single and I remember alot of people saying they were not going to get the album when that single was released.
A huge change in direction at the time but Its grown on me over the years.
The video and off putting MTV interview with a whiny Lars accompanying it didn’t help matters.
Yeah but its not even one of the 5 worst songs on that album.
Love the inclusion of Valley Girl. 😊
I thought "Going Through the Motions" was a tongue-in-cheek comment about playing when they're not into it anymore.
Great show as always - thank you - but I don't get the continued hatred for Revolution 9. Far from "filler", I've always considered it one of The Beatles' most radical and interesting tracks. And remember that at 45 minutes a record - quite the longest discs they ever made - the White Album was long enough to have left Revolution 9 off anyway should they have wanted to leave it off. And as for Money For Nothing, it ain't anything as much filler as the ultra cheesy Walk of Life which is easily the worst ever song ever released under the Dire Straits moniker IMHO. Heavy? I don't think so. But hey, horses for courses and all that. I Can't Dance I can't argue with - quite the worst song ever released by a band I (mostly) otherwise love. And Babe is so so bad it put me off Styx for life!
Half the stuff on "Never Say Die"....but I still like the album.
Revolution no.9 you must listen on hard grass , or LSD - it's not song for regular listening by day .
Johnny B. Goode from Judas Priest is one of the greatest covers ever. It takes the original, so that you always know what it is and yet they priestify it in a way that they make it their own. Criminally underrated and scored, without any merit. It also comes from a great album that is also rather underrated. Simply brilliant.
I rather like Black Sheep Of The Family from Rainbow and I Can't dance is probably the only Genesis song that I ever liked.
Red White and Blue is a good Skynyrd song but I do echo the points made abut it being a little too 'we are the greatest nation' vibe, which tends to be vomit inducing and eye rolling for people outside of the USA.
I'm a huge Molly Hatchet fan and Satisfied Man is pretty much a perfect sound that matched anything that else that they did. It's awesome.
The Final Countdown is very much the epitome of what this piece exemplifies.
I don't agree with the Queen Play the Game critique as these are classic Queen songs when you take their versatility into account.
Gillan New Orleans is also awesome and a credit to the album.
Unskinny Bop is rather indicative of Poison in general and was never any surprise to me.
Killer Queen? Are you kidding?!!
Beth from Kiss has to rate as one of the worst songs from a rock band ever.