If You Love This Album, Maybe You Aren't a Fan of the Band? (w/ Martin Popoff)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 9. 07. 2024
- Join Pete Pardo & Martin Popoff for a discussion of favorite albums that might not be representative of what those bands are all about. Are you really a fan then?
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If "Slaves and Masters" is your favorite Deep Purple album, you are a Rainbow fan.
A Deep Rainbow fan hoping that one day Ian Gillan will leave Deep Purple and Joe Lynn Turner will join them again.
100 percent. It feels like the fourth Joe Lynn Turner Rainbow album.
â@@atmaweapon2803 Exactly.
thats really funny
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Child In Time is a masterpiece.
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the original track from In Rock. The re-make not so much.
So does this mean your not a fan of Deep Purple??
@@phillipanderson7398 a re-make?
@@franciskocher200 The Ian Gillan Band re-made Child In Time in 1976. It was also the title of their first album.
The first album that comes to my mind in this discussion is Metallica's Black Album. That album changed a lot in the Metal community back in the day. Up until that point Metallica were the heroes for almost every metalhead. Nothing they did was questioned whatsoever. Even when they produced this huge and expensive video for the rather unusual "One", every fan could relate to that. But in 1991 things started to turn. The self titled fifth album split the fanbase like no other in the history of heavy metal. The one half worshiped that record the other half hated every single second. It became this huge discussion about sell out and becoming mainstream as a true metal band. Everybody had a Metallica shirt all of a sudden, radio stations played Nothing else matters and The Unforgiven in a loop, even at live shows you would see people that had absolutely no business at a metal concert and the whole world seemed to have become fans of Metallica over night.
So i guess it's a fair question to someone who finds the black album to be his favorite, if he is a "real" fan of the band or just jumped on the hype train in '91.
I think the reason why the first Van Halen album is regarded so highly is because this was something we haven't heard before, it was something new and a guitar player that didn't sound like any body else.
Agreed ! The 1st album hit so many people right away that as a fan you can enjoy but still enjoy the way the band progressed. My favorite is "Fair Warning" but that first record was so great & still holds up.
yeah the memory of hearing VH1 when it first came out is what makes it my favorite
it gets everything right,production is spot on,it comes flying out of the speakers,and the sub atomic guitar sound,and the band sound,fresh,hungry and ready to kill
Maybe its because it IS their best album. In my opinion the never topped it. And by the way, Iâm NOT a Van Halen fan. To prove the point.
@@JoeDibiase386 I agree. I'm not a huge VH fan either but I think it's their best one.
Albums:
Roxy Music : Avalon
Kiss : Dinasty
BOC: Fire of unknown origin
David Bowie: letâs dance
Fleetwood Mac: rumors
Frank Zappa : joeâs garage
Songs:
Van Halen : jump
Extreme: more than words
Kansas: dust in the wind
Not a bad song or album among the ones you've listed (except maybe Dynasty, but I don't like Kiss to begin with).
Damn, bro...
Rumours?!?đł
Tough crowd.
My first and only BOC album I own... :) I REALLY hate "Jump", Most of Joe's Garage is great and so is - "You are What You Is"
Thanks again to. Martin/ Pete. You guys make. Friday AM in NJ đșđž. Great đ đŻ
I can speak to the Grateful Dead thing. Many of my friends got into them in the 80âs, probably because weâre in that age cohort. But it still blows me away how myopic manyâs perspective is today, 30 years later. I was not a huge dead head in the 80s and got into them because I joined a tribute band (handling the Bob role). I was absolutely blown away by their earlier to mid 70s stuff as well as the contributions from a character named Pigpen, who I classify into the Blind Owl Wilson and/or John Fahey school of blues knowledge. I dig later stuff, but I do not drift to late 80s/early 90s when I listen. First of all, the keyboard sound is very â80sâ and Bobâs guitar can barely be heard. Jerryâs once beautiful voice gets quite weak as well.
Iâm reminded of how my age group considers the Beatles as well. Itâs all post Revolver or so with very little consideration for the great stuff they did before. I admit, the later stuff is maybe more contemporary to our ears, but it shouldnât cancel out the pre-66 stuff.
Same. I played keyboards in a GD tributes for a few years, more like Keith than anyone else. It took me decades to warm up to the 80s, and I still can't do beyond 1990. And early Beatles is almost a different band, a real powerhouse.
Full disclosure: saw the Dead over 120 Ă.... thiers " Deadheads" today that have Never Seen Jerry... I Love that.. The " Dead " is still my most Listened to Band.. Timeless & Classic.
I am surprised that Pete didn't mention the band Whitesnake. There are basically two different eras of Whitesnake. The very bluesy era from the late 70's through the early 80's, and the Hard Rock/ Glam metal era that started in the late 80's. My favorite Whitesnake album is the 1987 self titled album, but I also love albums like Trouble,Ready An Willin, Saints And Sinners, and Love Hunter alot which is from their Bluesy era. There are some Whitesnake fans that most likely never listened to their Bluesy era because it was never popular in America. It is very different than their Hard Rock/Glam Metal era , but just as amazing in my opinion.
I do believe the "slick" version of Chicago was also adventurous and complex, yet in a way that was just the right amount of modern sensibility. But yes...in retrospect, the first few albums still hold up. Those sound "of a time." I'd also say that if you prefer any YES album after Going For The One, you aren't a real YES fan.
Yes Drama is a good example of Martins member argument. And it is my favorite Yes album
The Cars and Boston Debut are there Best.
This conversation is pointless, and can NEVER have a resolution or an absolute fact. Which, BTW, is a reason I LOVE this channel, and LOVE these rabbit hole videos with Pete and Martin.
We are(all) determining what makes a REAL fan...I freakin love it. Nice. Nice. VERY nice!
My mom knows I like Yes a lot and she seems to like them a decent amount. I was buying some CDs like Relayer and The Yes Album and she asked me why I wasn't getting "the one with the numbers". Really makes you realize how huge of a difference in sound those eras are and how the people that found them with 90125 often have no clue about the 70s stuff. I played her a bit Sound Chaser and she wasn't very fond of it, granted I had no clue what was happening when I first heard it as well. She's a very casual fan of the 80s stuff and I don't want to end up "ruining" that by talking down on that stuff even if I don't think it even compares to the earlier stuff or represents what Yes is really about
I love Yes too, but only the Jon Anderson era. That band is Yes for me...
A Canadian example of sounding like where they're from is The Tragically Hip. A huge band here in Canada, still played on the radio all the time and everybody here loves them but most of the world don't know who they are.
The Hip are Canada's biggest in Canada only band of all time. The Band, Rush, The Guess Who, BTO, April Wine, Bryan Adams etc. are all bigger globally but the Hip sold out coast to coast when they toured here as if they were on the same level.
@@zingpulse4138 For sure.
I'm with Pete -- Low Budget is my favorite Kinks album too. It's smack in the middle of their great five-album run that began with 1977's Sleepwalker and ends with 1983's State of Confusion. I have had many discussions with a rock-star friend of mine who argues that The Kinks' great stuff is their work from the late '60s into the mid-'70s, when they were doing a lot of complex, experimental, theatrical material. But as Pete says, I like what I like, and what I like is '77-'83 Kinks, of which Low Budget is a shining example.
Pete!....love Journey's debut AND Look into the Future and Next are solid too! I go back to those 3 more than Infinity - Escape, although Infinity is a classic. Big fan of Ansley Dunbar's and absolutely love Gregg Rolie's vocals, so guess that's why I gravitate to the first 3...so many of my friends dismiss them without giving them a chance. I will say that I like the Perry and Steve Smith era too up through Escape, just love the vibe and prog style of the first 3.
Those albums were really good. Definitely underrated, prefer them to the later stuff for sure.
@@grumqa Same here.
I've always though that people who have 'Trash' as their favourite Alice album, don't really like the essence of Alice Cooper.
I would think it's 'Flush the Fashion', his punk-style album. It's my favorite, but I like several of his other 70s albums.
I agree. I could even argue that those who say "Constrictor" or "Raise Yer Fist And Yell" are their favorites might not be Alice fans. In the sense of they are definitely more straight forward but far less imaginative. When the great thing about Alice is precisely the uniqueness of the whole concept. Nobody sounds like Alice Cooper. And I think the albums we're talking about could have been recorded by any other artist and it wouldn't make much difference.
@@joniturbe7535 that's a good point. other bands could have done these, and they still would have been pretty good
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The point for me is that while "Flush The Flashion" (or the whole so-called blackout era) may be so different from the rest of the catalog, Alice was still dangerous, puzzling and unique. I think almost all real Alice Cooper fans love these four albums.
@@joniturbe7535 I am a bit younger, growing up in the 70s, so I may not have an accurate picture of how huge he was back in the day. He was probably considered such a mainstream big-time star that most punk fans would not have gravitated toward his albums, even if the music was to their liking. But, I agree, always dangerous, puzzling and unique!
Man I can't believe what Martin said about Def Leppard. That was the first band I thought of when I saw this topic. I am truly THAT GUY who likes the first TWO and that's it. I can literally recall my senior year of high school when Pyromania came out I was really bummed. And you can only imagine my disgust at the ones after THAT. They went into the shit pile in my opinion after HIGH N DRY
High n Dry is by far the best but Pyromania is fantastic too. Jus skip the overplayed hits like Photograph and Rock of Ages and listen to the true gems like Coming Under Fire and Action not Words
Pyromania is okay but I never listen to it. I absolutely love the first two and if I have to choose my favorite is whichever one Iâm listening to at the time.
Let It Go is my favorite Def Leppard song !!
Great show as always guys!! Like someone said below, drama is also one of my favorite yes albums but I love all the early stuff, however lots of things were going on in my life at that time (19 yrs old) so the album really resonated with me at that time and has stuck with me through the years, so I imagine personal experiences can have a lot to do with your likes/dislikes even though you love the band
Great show Pete and Martin. Fun show today.
Good day Pete and Martin - interesting topic today! Thanks for the show.
Precisionness, extraness... this channel is expanding my vocabulary đ Seriously, though, thanks for the entertaining discussion, gents.
Thanks. Great show. I send u guys a lot of love from Brazil.
Great discussions, keep up the ytube. It does not go un-appreciated. Thanks Guys.
Popoff and Pardo are at it again and what an interesting topic. As someone who keeps listening to Opeth trying to expand my listening but only owns Damnation at this time- guilty as charged, Pete. An interesting and fun discussion which helped make the day better. An artist who falls into this is Todd Rundgren - either solo or in the band Utopia - as there are so many styles and types of music he makes and depending on what you like, you might not be a Todd Rundgren fan using the criteria here. It's typically has bee the albums of his that are not favorites that another Todd fan will question. Thanks again, gents. There ya go!
Great choice selecting Damnation by Opeth. It followed Opeth's heaviest period, so it definitely caught some people by surprise. One correction though, Damnation was released 5 months after Deliverance in April 2003.
Excellent show idea!! All in good fun.
April fools!đ
I havenât seen mention of Aerosmith.
My sister-in-law loves Steven Tyler and the whole âPumpâ and âGet a Gripâ era, but never heard of âToys In The Atticâ or âDraw The Line.â
Even now, she makes a face when I play those songs.
You like what you like, and don't like what you don't like, be it music, films or food.
Queen II comes to mind for meâŠ.another great discussion lads! You guys even do a great job at the weather forecast! Keep up the great work!
Good example, I really like Queen II and don't really like any other Queen.
@@russw3736 âŠIâm a big Queen fan but I certainly understand if you like Queen II or Queen I that you wouldnât like the rest of their catalogueâŠ.those records are more rockers and much less eclecticâŠ.I enjoy all their musicâŠ.enjoy your day!
An example of a true fan is someone who loves a band even when they put out a fan splitting album and they still buy it and give it a chance, obvious examples being
Queen - Hot Space
Kiss - The Elder
Judas Priest - Nostradamus.
Love these discussions guys, thanks. I sometimes think that 'Secret Messages' is my favourite ELO album.
I can see that. That ELO album was their MTV album to me. It was the very first ELO album I bought. It wasn't until I listened to others that I decided ELO had better albums. It was my full introduction to them making "Secret Messages" my favorite.
I like "Time" and "Discovery" so much that I feel guilty for liking them :)
@@AverageJoeDoh Out of the Blue was my first album of any kind where I liked EVERY song. I played Time incessantly on the bus in high school (mid-80s). I like Secret Messages but no where near the others. And I love several of the deep cuts like "Julie Don't Live Here" and "Latitude 88 North"...
Armchair Theater is pretty good as well but I would consider Balance of Power to be better than Sceret Messages.
Great episode! A lot to digest. I am homework listening...
I like melodic, catchy hard rock music so this is me with so many bands. When I saw the Celtic Frost video for Cherry Orchards on MTV back in the day, I was like â this song is awesome â and bought the album. Still like Cold Lake but nothing else by them. Also Load and Reload are unapologetically my favorite Metallica albums, although I do like songs of theirs from other albums also. Youthenasia is my favorite Megadeth album. Trash is the only Alice Cooper album I really enjoy, which I think is a better example than Martinâs. I also really only enjoy the debut Rush album from top to bottom. No, I swear Iâm not trolling here. đđ€Ł
I'm a big Yes fan but God forbid I tell any one that I listen to 90125 and Big Generator ,more than I listen to Fragile or Close To The Edge.
Metallica has a pre-1991 audience, a post-1991 audience, fans who like everything and people who never cared for it. Despite the black album being released 32 years ago, many fans from the very beginning have still not been able to accept the style changes of the group, but still consider themselves real fans
My second favourite Yes album is 'Drama' (after 'The Yes Album'). And I like Trevor Rabin just as much as Steve Howe. So guess I'm not a hardcore Yes fan, though I own 9 albums? Great video and discussion, really has me thinking...!
I got into Yes because of Trevor (GREAT Guitar player and singer) and the rest of the âYesWestâ lineup. It made me go and buy most of the stuff from the 70âs and I love most of that.
Great pick, Pete, with Damnation by Opeth. That was immediately what sprang to my mind when I heard what today's topic would be.
I got tagged along to a Europe gig in the 90s thinking they were 'glammy' pop rock and got a big surpise - hard, heavy metal in biker leathers with no hair spray at all!!
True. They glammed up for the MTV video years. I remember hearing their early John Norum stuff thinking they radically changed.
Similar here, picked up a double cd best of and was very pleasantly surprised, Europe are a hard rocking band!
Another Friday morning with Pete and Martin
Watching here from Southern Oklahoma and
it has been storming with rain, thunder and
lightning and today with high winds have a
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I've noticed that there are many times that the 1st album by a band may be my favorite. My thought is that it took more time and effort and needed to be great. If successful, the record company probably pushed the band to repeat. That's why there's such a thing called the "sophomore slump".
But sometimes the first album is a dud and the second is a vast improvement. Judas Priest and Van Morrison come to mind. Bands don't always find the optimal sound on the first try.
You two should do a whole show on bands that didnât breakout of their own territory, specifically US/U.K. bands that this applied to.
Great show guys as always.
Great topic, great show!
Iâm a big fan of Europe, I love Andorra!đâ€ïž
For many years Motörheadâs Another Perfect Day was the only Motorhead album I owned but I dug them from the first time I heard Ace of Spades. I was just so into Maiden, Judas Priest and the first 2 Ronnie James Dioâs Sabbath albums I did not buy the first 4 Motorhead albums until I had bought APD and then the 2nd Motorhead album I bought was Iron Fist which is my favorite Motorhead album. I know it is crazy but that is how it happens for me.
No, it's not crazy. Everyone has different tastes in music. I'm a big Motörhead fan but my favorite Motörhead records are not the first 4-5 albums. If I had to do a top 3 I think I would go with Rock n Roll, 1916 and Sacrifice.
Wait a minute pre April fools?
@@orlandomoshpit9718 Rock n Roll is the worst album but Just cuz you got the power is a great song (but itÂŽs not on the album).
@@jimekberg Worst in your opinion. I donât think Motorhead have a bad album, only albums that are better than other albums.
great show,....very good discussion
I just got this. Well played chaps
If Who Dunnit? is your favorite Genesis song, then your name is either Tony Banks or Phil Collins!
In my opinion there are a few more that came to mind for me:
-AC/DC: For those who came on board with Back in Black. I mean I am not shitting on that album because I like it and all, but those but those albums after Highway to Hell are not as good as the Bon years.
-Metallica: Black Album. This one I am guilty of. However, it opened the door for me to go back years later for the albums before it, and now the Black Album is like my fifth or sixth favorite.
-The Cars: Heartbeat City. Guilty on this one too. Lots of radio hits on here, but pales in comparison to the first two albums.
-Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms. Same as the Cars pick, except I got my intro to them with the live Alchemy album.
-Judas Priest: British Steel. Not denying the greatness of this album because it has some of my favorites but I like the earlier ones a bit more.
-ZZ Top: Eliminator. Again, not a bad album. Many people got into the band with this albums and the videos that came with it, but albums like âTres Hombresâ âDeguelloâ before it and ones after like âRythmeenâ I prefer.
Great show as usual! đ€đđ€
I remember we used take our cars out into the woods and party all night with great tunes I rember Child in TIME playing and I just gazed into the night skies it was Magic I wish I could go back to those days
I only listen to On Through the Night and High N Dry, and when a couple of folks have asked if I like Def Leppard, I answer âwell, I like the first two albums.â
My favorite Rush album is their first one. It`s not because I don`t like Neil Peart, I just think it rocks harder than anything they did after it.
It's a great album. I think it has some of Alex's best guitar work. I do like 2112, Moving Pictures and Hemispheres better.
Have you listened to the Clockwork Angels album? Youâd probably enjoy it if you like their debut album. It has some real heaviness to it. Headlong Flight might be their hardest rocking song!
Martin, I couldn't agree LESS! What you've done is eliminate the bands/artists that had long careers and grew/changed as their time period moved along. To wit, I present The Top Three (in no specific order): 1) Page formed Zeppelin purposefully with a mix of great musicianship and varied backgrounds/experience. He's noted for saying that "we could have done a Pentangle-type thing until I got Robert and heard Bonham". Also, Zeppelin's albums were statements of where they were at the moment. 2) The Fab Four. They went from Please Please Me to Abbey Road in six years. No agenda, just two of the best rock songwriters in history pushing each other and acting as b_______t detectors for each other. 3) Elton was the most versatile of all - started solo with backing musicians and a lyricist, then added a rhythm section, then added a guitarist, then put the word "Band" after his name while changing almost everybody and expanding with more musicians, then went solo with backing musicians again no ("Band"), changed lyricists, then changed everybody out again over time (with a couple of repeats, some coming and going and coming and going...) while going back to his original lyricist eventually while settling into a set of backing musicians. No one album or song from these artists/bands comes close to what they were "all about." The common threads are superb musicianship/songwriting and growing/changing.
Killers was my favorite Iron Maiden album. Guilty, I guess
My favorite Iron Maiden is the first one
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Mine too! Nothing against Bruce but Killers is just their best album start to finish(no bad songs) plus I like how dark it sounds. Their first 5 albums were all great. Somewhere in Time was good but started a downslide IMO but they are still putting out some good stuff.
Martin's comment on the advance single effect or one song maybe coloring people's view on a whole album, when that song is a outlier. Worth exploring more I think.
Great discussion đ
My favorite Rush album is the 1st one but many a person think it isn't Rush, because Neil wasn't in the band yet or it wasn't full on prog yet. I love all the 70's and 80's albums, even the newer stuff is pretty good. I just love that first one the most but I am a fan of the " REAL " Rush. Great show guys!
I can be a Black Sabbath fan and still say that "Mob Rules" is a great album.
My fav along with Vol. 4, the best of both worlds.
You better!
That's because Mob Rules is indeed a great album. All the Dio/BS albums are great, especially Heaven and Hell.
Amazing topic!
Love the Earthless shirt. Now there's an ear melting rock band.
Interesting topic guys, this is part of the life, some albums it's little strange, but all this great rock stars change mind , hobbies, what they think about world around them , so I love all my favorites bands albums !!!
Was introduced to Maiden with 7th Son and passed on them for years because of it. I was just more into early thrash metal, Sabbath and AC/DC. When I heard the first two albums with Di'anno it blew me away. I think the self titled and Killers are the best thing they ever done. They'd probably be one of my favorite bands if they kept Paul and made a few more albums in the same vein as the first two.
Paul's albums with Battlezone and Killers are really good too.
I adamantly agree about the debut. I'm not real big on Killers, but Adrian sounds impressive out of the starter gate. Many of the songs were written before their first album, like Purgatory and Wrathchild, and you can hear the unfortunate toll Paul's alcoholism was taking in the increasing incoherency of the vocals. He had a magnetism that Bruce lacks. It's not that Bruce isn't riveting; he is, but in a different way. Paul had a wild unpredictability about him that a small handful of uninhibited rock greats like Morrison, Lydon, and Axl exhibit. I don't think you would have loved him if he'd stuck around until Seventh Son and chances are he would have died, but he gave the world two exciting metal records at a time when the possibilities of the genre seemed endless.
@@mattwhite7995 I agree with about everything you said. Their debut is definitely my favorite between the two of them, which I find it kind of odd that it seems Killers gets more praise among the fans (so does the Bruce era so I guess it doesn't mean much) but their self-titled album absolutely crushes, song after song. Maybe it has the thinner production out of the two but with songwriting as good as that it doesn't matter to me. It's like a greatest hits album.
No doubt Paul wouldn't have lasted up to 7th Son, I just wish they would've banged out a couple more with him and I'd be content. He most definitely had that something that I don't see or hear from Bruce. Paul was a lot more unique, from his appearance to his vocals. I just read an article a couple weeks ago talking about how James Hetfield and Billy Gibbons are huge fans of the Paul era and the only Maiden that they listen too. That's not the first time I've heard that coming from people in the scene.
@@perpetualmotion357 I wouldn't write off the Bruce era. There are some undeniably great classics there. I even think there are some good songs on Blaze's "The X Factor" that take Maiden in a darker direction than they've been on since Killers. Aftermath and Fortunes of War seem much more legit as social commentary than, say, Fear Is the Key.
As someone whose favorite metal album is the debut, I will say Bruce doing Paul's stuff is not what I want to hear. I thought Running Free was one of the worst songs I'd ever heard because I was introduced to it via Live After Death. But with Paul, Clive, and Dennis, it's another story. Now it's one of my ten favorites, along with three other tracks on the same album. Pretty cool that Billy Gibbons loves that stuff!
As far as production goes: A. That vinyl costs an arm and a leg. I own a CD reissue and B. When did we decide that we all need Brian Eno's ears to love music? Who cares if the production is great? I don't need my Sex Pistols to sound like Moby.
Word Of Mouth is a great later Kinks album and as an American, I too love the later Kinks.
I love that album. I'm a huge huge Kinks fan from all era's except for the pre Village Green Kinks. I. like that era but not in love with it.
This was a really nice discussion. Funny thing is that Van Halen's debut is my favourite of them and Women and Children First is in the second spot.
And I now know I'm not a fan of Def Leppard apparently. But I love their first three albums.
Martin prefaced a comment that it would make a good show. The comment was that a track that may be a bit different can sometimes make people believe that it indicative of the entire album though in fact it wasn't. I would agree that would be a great future episode.
This is a great topic!
The first album that comes to my mind and for me is one of the clearest examples of this subjet is Rock & Roll Animal by Lou Reed.
Exactly!!! Great pick!
Another great show
One more thing I would like to add is David Bowie, some people love the hits but my love for Bowie is the early releases, same applies to Peter Gabriel when most of my friends love his pop hits and claim to have him as their favorite artist but never realized he sang for Genesis.
Hello from the UK đŹđ§. Interesting show this and concept. I'm a massive Hawkwind fan and for me it's impossible to choose any album or track as my favourite. I must have 40 odd albums and I pick anyone and just listen to it. In my humble opinion they have never made bad album to me they're all great. đ€đ€đ€
How nice! I don't listen to them, but I like your attitude. Great. I listen to 70s and 80s British bands. I'm a hardcore Jethro Tull fan. But I also like Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zepp etc..but I do not think all of their albums are good, or as good. Perhaps I should listen harder, or I should try Hawkwind...đ ( by the way, I will as I never have). Hello from Turkey. đâź
Back in the olden days I had a friend who was as big a Hawkwind fan as you could find, I hated them! I couldn't understand how anybody could like Hawkwind. Flash forward about 30 years and I'm at work and had discovered that online music site called Slacker, it worked like Pandora but you could find any song you could even think of on Slacker. One day I decided to listen to Hawkwind because I had heard the song " Hurry On Sundown " and was actually surprised that it was Hawkwind that did that song. I listened to them all day long that day and have to admit I like most every thing they did now, Weird how your music tastes change over the years.
Hi Pete and Martin, my favourite Thin Lizzy album is Thunder and Lightning. And I regard myself a Thin Lizzy fan. I listened to all TL albums and I must say: This is the one. the last one is the best one for me. Live and Dangerous is pretty good, too. Greetings
Great discussion guys! What a clever topic. It's like saying 'Rocka Rolla' is someone's favorite Judas Priest album.
It is my favourite Judas Priest album
Great topic my pick is UFO II there last space rock love that album
BRAVO!
If Piper at the Gates of Dawn is your favorite Pink Floyd album are you a Pink Floyd fan or are you a Syd Barrett fan only?
Honestly, I consider myself a Pink Floyd fan, but only like the Dark side, wish you were here Animals and the Wall.
I would love to hear you guys do a show on how you define a "fan".
I like both just as much. I get the old Kinks and Newer stuff too.
This is a highly interesting discussion, but personally I donÂŽt think that itÂŽs important at all if IÂŽm a true fan of a certain band or if IÂŽm not. I like what I like.
My favorite Queensryche is The Warning
Mine toođ
I'm a massive queensryche fan and the warning is easily my most played record by them good call
My favorite metal album
The Black Album
Dio - Angry Machines and Magica (Love them)
Bad Brains - Rise
Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
Maybe people just love the songs on these albums more than others? Another Perfect Day was the 2nd Motorhead album I ever heard. Full of killer songs: Dancing on your Grave, One Track Mind and Shine, to name a few.
If you only like Kiss with Bob Ezrin, then you should also like The Elder.
I am guilty when it comes to Chicago my favorite songs comes from the albums 16,17,18.19 but I do like some of the songs from the albums that come before them.
Great as always.
Martin is onto something with bands where you can't pick a favourite album. It would make a great topic for you guys to talk about. I agree totally about Van Halen being one. Free, Toto, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Peter Gabriel are like this for me.
Some of the artists/Bands where I like anything they released is David Bowie, SKOLD or where certain persons is involved ; Chris Goss, Martin Gore, John Paul Jones, Alain Johannes, Josh Homme, Alan Wilder, Midge Ure, Bozzio etc
Is it just me that Martins camera angle makes him look a bit like Max Headroom from the 80s.
If Hold Your Fire is your favorite Rush album you don't hate Rush, you hate yourself đ
Thanks for the compliment.
It's not no1 but its high on my list, but I like those 80's albums that most people have a downer on, ps I don't hate myself but thanks for your concern.
It's my favorite not because it's their best but because it was released during a great time in my life.
@@1oriss It's not even too different from what they did before. It's not even part of the topic.
I feel pretty good about myself and my other favorite is Presto.
Looks like "I'm that guy." The first Def Leppard album is my favorite.of theirs. High & Dry is a close second. Liked Pyromania at the time, but not so much now. Not a fan of anything after that. On Through The Night captured the sound/feel/spirit of the NWOBHM movement and is a classic!
I count myself in the â 1st 3 albums onlyâ camp of Def Leppard fandom as well.
On the song front the first thing I saw The Strawbs do was Part of the Union, a political singalong that your Mum and Dad liked. The next thing I saw them do was Lay Down and I was, oh ...
Damnation (2003) came after Deliverance (2002) even though they were recorded at the same time. Blackwater Park was released in 2001.
Martin doesnât know what heâs talking about at all regarding VH1. That album is loaded with wild, spontaneous jams. The bass and drums are the busiest on that album and the solos are probably some of Edâs wildest.
You can be a fan of a band no matter what album you like.
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True. But this exercise is interesting
Another example, at least for me, is the band Rush. My favorite albums are their first two; Rush (self-titled) and Fly By Night. These albums are drastically different from their big album sellers to come later. That being said, there is not a Rush album I dislike. In this case, I guess I'm a fan of the band but have odd (at least in most people's view) favorite choices. The albums I love are so great I can't help but also love the band and their other albums.
I agree. I'm like that on multiple bands. Bands evolve and if a person likes a particular "sound" that influences the album choice. Also many artists change their sound every album.
I feel the same about the first two albums, but after that I lose interest in Rush, but I really like the first two, my favorite Rush songs ever is from 2112, the song called ' Lessons' I love that freakin' song.
I'm sorry, I wrote that wrong I guess, I'm not very
keen on the first one but "Fly By Night" and "2112" are my favorites.
@@tubetea I fully understand... my introduction to Rush was 2112. I wasn't hooked initially but it grew on my.
I love Rush, my favorite band. My two favorites are albums that a lot of people hate, Hold Your Fire and Presto.
Reo speedwagon 1972 album is my favorite my Reo itâs so different than anything they did again this a great example of this topic
Low Budget is my favorite Kinks album, too. Also think that the versions on One for the Road also have the album a boost.
I like the Dio era of Sabbath and the Coverdale era of Deep Purple more than the more famous eras. I've been told I'm not a real fan of either band. Usually by people who are only into the hits of both bands. I consider myself more of a fan, simply because I've listened so much to both that I'm burnt out on the popular eras; possibly for life....
Stormbringer is a fantastic Purple album! I think that if Dio era Sabbath had made 2 or 3 more albums of the same calibre off the back of HaH and MR, there would be a very good case, even though the Ozzy era is obviously great too, for that era to be the definitive one of the band. But don't worry if people don't like your opinions on this and stick to your guns!
For me it's a case of Horses for Courses... That's the beauty of it... Musical tastes are purely subjective ! I also believe that timing is important.. ie.. when you discover a band.. not everyone joins a party from their outset... I was introduced to Purple with Machine Head and that hooked me in, so it's really important to me.. I'd been oblivious to the changes in personnel at the time as I loved most of Burn, still do. I always LIKED (and there's the difference) Stormbringer, but title track aside, they were changing direction.. I find that 1976/77 was a critical time for many greats... Camel, ELP, Genesis, Floyd, Dan, Supertramp, Yes, Sabbath, Purple, Zeppelin... etc. They were ALL changing direction and became more accessible/commercial, thus losing a huge chunk of serious prog or hard/heavy rock... We are who we are and we like what we like. đ€... A thought provoking post đ
Lol! Martinâs âdramaâ pronunciationâŠitâs purely Canadian. Donât change it!
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@@Chaz4543 Yes! And BOO-gie too!
Got a few more. 1) If you only like THE BEACH BOY'S' "Pet Sounds" (1966) or THE KINKS' "Village Green Preservation Society" (1968), you might be an indie rock/hipster chic fan and not a BEACH BOYS / KINKS fan; 2) if you only like KISS "Creatures of the Night" (1982), you might be a hard rock/metal fan and not a KISS fan; and 3) going into songs, if you only like CYNDI LAUPER'S rendition of "He's So Unusual" (1983) and wish it was longer (hand raised), you might be a 20s jazz/Tin Pan Alley/vaudeville fan and not a Cyndi Lauper fan.
Great topic. I guess I'm not a Boston fan as I've never liked much after the first album.