Ranking the Studio Albums: Y&T
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- Join Pete Pardo as he ranks the studio albums of US hard rock/metal veterans Y&T.
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Y&T probably the most underrated band ever
Close...Savatage is.
@@stevesnvegas9040 We can agree to disagree
@@kevingartland723 I know, it's all in good fun.
Steve's N Vegas agreed
@@stevesnvegas9040 Tbh I have never met any Heavy Metal fan who would rate Savatage poorly in my life. I think you mean in terms of popularity.
Criminally Underrated Band
Thank you for Ranking the Studio Albums:Y&T. I love this band!!đ€đžđ”đ„
Love "Lipstick and Leather", I don't care if its cliche. Y&T are so underrated. Thanks, keep on rockin'.
It's a good Rock cliche tho Lisa! = )
I still love the Yesterday and Today albums. Leonard Haze is a beast and has a killer left foot, an amazing single bass drum player. I still think that those albums have "heft"(the Pete Pard of standard of production: "heft" lol) I agree.
1- Black Tiger
2- In Rock We Trust
3- Mean Streak
4- Earthshaker
5- Ten
6- Facemelter
7- Down For The Count
8- Endangered Species
9- Contagious
10- Musically Incorrect
@Ellison Lowrimore Thanks Ellison đđ€
Saw the "In Rock We Trust " tour....opening for Rush I believe ?
No matter how great their catalogue, and Earthshaker really is a GEM - must have for every serious rock / metal fan - the true genius of Dave and co can only really be experienced in a live performance!
Totally agree... I dont miss them when they roll in...saw them over 15 times....one of the best was a standing ovation for like 9 minutes after I believe in you in Chicago area. Brought dave to tears....
@@tttarms1970 I was in tears too after hearing I believe in you at the end of Y&T concert. Phenomenal
I have run into Dave Meneketti a couple times at a Grocery store here in Santa Clara ( CA ) a couple times over the years. He couldn't have been more cool, or down to Earth :)
Did you notice what was in his cart? I would have noticed !
Please say Hi for him to us from Canada? Thanks! Y & T are amazing musicians!
That's always great to hear! When I worked for a Music Magazine in the 80's I met Def Leppard and Queensryche when they toured together! This was in 1988 during their "Hysteria" and "Operation Mindcrime" albums. Def Lep & Q were both GREAT performers and great people! Both bands spent a LOT of time in the backstage area meeting their fans and it was very exciting for everyone. I have photo's from that time that are priceless to me. DL Guitarist Steve Clark was shy & quiet but posed smiling for an awesome pic with a young teenaged fan. Every time I look at it I think she couldn't possibly look any happier! Good times.
Great, great ranking! Y&T is a fantastic band wich I have followed for over 35 years. I never gave up on them and bought their 90:s albums at release! They have always released music with lots of quality, and never dissapointed me.
CRIMINALLY underrated group... have loved them for years. #PetePardoArmy #PetePardoNation #BigMeatPete #SplashYourSeaOfTranquilityAllOverMyFace
I just wanted to thank you for all the great and positive content you put out. Watching your video reminds me of hanging out and talking music with my friends.
It is a fantastic opportunity to watch all listen to music and other people's option. I really enjoy watching this channel.
Best Damn Channel on CZcams Peroid!!! đ» Cheers Pete!
Great show Pete, one of my favorite bands of all time,and one of the only classic bands that comes to the UK every year and play out of their skins every time.Last year they had no support and played for 2 1/2 hours,amazing night.
One of my favorite bands. Dave Meniketti has to be the most underrated guitarist & vocalist of all time. Black Tiger, Mean Streak & Earth Shaker are drop dead classics. This band should have been huge. I still listen to them on a regular basis. They still tour every year.
Been waiting for this. Love Y&T so much, 1) Meanstreak 2) Earthshaker 3) Black Tiger 4) In rock we trust 5) Debut 6) Contagious 7) Struck down 8)Down for the count 9) Facemelter. They dominated the hair metal era too, Lipstick and Leather an anthem. Facemelter quite descent for 2010. PS. Lockdown pt 2 coming..
My wife and me saw them on February 29th. Dave still sings and plays guitar as good as ever. The rest of the band is really good and they do justice to the original songs.
I'll Cry For You is probably one of my favorite instrumentals from that time/genre.
Great band that I listen to a lot still today!
1,2,3 can change any day: Earthshaker/Black Tiger/Mean Streak
4. Struck Down
5. In rock we trust
6. Yesterday & Today
7. Ten
8. Musically Incorrect
9. Down for the count
10. Contagious
11. Endangered Species
12. Facemelter
Love your channel. I am so glad there is a channel like this that doesn't have a loud mouth complaining about lineup changes.
The absolute number one is "Earhtshaker". The album is one of my all-time favorite albums. That record rocks from start to finnish, it's hard rock classic!!!
Absolutely love this band, especially "that" holy trilogy of albums between 1981-1983. Meniketti's such a great vocalist and guitar player. Super overlooked band, one of my favorites in hard rock and heavy metal. I always heard similarities between them and Night Ranger as well.
1. Mean Streak
2. Earthshaker
3. Black Tiger
4. Contagious
5. In Rock We Trust
Such an underrated band. Always hoped they would get bigger. They couldnât be put in a musical category and I think that hurt them as far as sales. Their 80âs live you tube videos really show the quality of Menikettiâs voice and guitar. Sadly, Dave Meniketti is the only classic member alive.
1 Mean Streak(Mean Streak song is a stone cold classic)
2 Earthshaker
3 In Rock We Trust
4 Black Tiger
5 Yesterday and Today (debut)
6 Contagious
Well, here in the Bay Area, ( and I don't agree with this mindset, myself... ) what seemed to hurt Y&T's career was A&M releasing "Summertime Girls" which kinda wrecked their momentum as a Melodic Hard Rock band after the highly-successful Meanstreak record, and made them seem that they were getting "soft" and Commercial. Kinda like what happened to Billy Squier with the whole "Rock Me Tonite" Video fiasco that basically tanked Billy's great music career.
1970borntorun I guess that was meant to be part of the meaning of my post was that even the record company wasnât sure who to market them to.
@@kevinm5957 Yeah, that's definitely the case I'm sure. As was the case for many Rock bands in the mid-80s.
@@1970borntorun And that stupid new "mascot" they trotted out.
@@1970borntorun Watching that Rock Me Tonite video today makes me feel embarrassed for Billy Squire. You can't watch it with a straight face.
Hello Pete , was always going to be earthshaker, remember hearing when it first came out and absolutely loving how not american it sounded if that makes sense. Saw them a million times in u.k especially 1982 at Reading festival and Newcastle Mayfair, also have several yesterday and today live recordings from the us on cassette. Keep up the rankings because it keeps me sane during pandemic, even if I rarely agree with your choices. Subjective of course.
Saw them supporting AC/DC at Hammersmith in 82. Phenomenal. In a later interview Dave cited these as his favourite gigs so happy I was there at the right time. Three of that line-up sadly no longer with us.
Another favorite band of mine...I'd say my top 5 would be
1. Yesterday And Today - s/t
2. Black Tiger
3. Earthshaker
4. Meanstreak
5. Struck Down
Iâm a huge Y&T fan, my friend turned me on to them in the 80âs and have loved them ever since. I absolutely love the Ten album, itâs a classic from star to finish with Ten Lovers being the top song of the album. Down for the count was mid 80âs was a fun album. Summertime Girls was a fun song, All American Boy is also like Summertime Girls, a fun commercial song. I never got too into Endangered Species to much. In Rock We Trust was a great album, Donât Stop Running, Lipstick and Leather is cool. Musically Incorrect, like Endangered Species, I didnât listen to it much.
Contagious is AWESOME, loved this album, Contagious, Girl Crazy, City, and I loved Rhythm or Not, a very cool, kinda dirty, misogynistic song.
The first two albums, I never really got into these two albums. Black Tiger was a great album, Meanstreak, awesome album. I would disagree with your number one pick but I agree Earthshaker is an awesome album.
All in All your picks were great, love Y&T. Most underrated rock band from the west coast, being from NY originally I can understand when a local band hits it big on the east coast, like another favorite band of mine Blue Ăyster Cult, very big on the east not so much on the west coast.
I like your rankings, keep up the good work.
\m/ Stay Metal \m/
Dave Menikettiâs solo album from 1998 âOn the Blue Sideâ really showcases his prowess on the guitar and is loaded with heavy blues/metal tunes that IMHO rivals anything he did with Y&T. The tone used by him on this album is epic,,,,,,,,
You know why 'ya gotta keep on running'?
Because it's contagerous, it's contagious!!!
Saw Y&T 1985, Vegas they opened Twisted sister & blew them away!
Can't wait to watch this when I get home from work. Love this band and back in 82 one of the first bands I loved when I was growing up discovering music other than Kiss. Criminally under rated group. Still think Forever is one of the best rock songs ever
one of the best gig's ever Y&T marquee london 1982
Just happened to be noodling on my guitar whilst watching this....at 18:15, Pete sings the Meanstreak riff in the right key....perfect pitch! Haha!
Awesome band!
without question one of my favorite bands. The first album is a masterclass on hard rock drumming, courtesy of Leonard Haze.
have seen the band numerous times and they never fail to deliver the goods. Dave is one of my favorite six-stringers
The two unearthed volumes are pretty darn rockin.
1.Black Tiger
2.Mean Streak
3.Earthshaker
4.In rock we trust
5.Yesterday& Today
Face melter is in my top five. Best production of all the albums.
As a longtime Bay Area guy, I go way back listening to Y&T and seeing them live. I've never understood why they never really broke through huge. Dave Meniketti's talents deserved better. My Top Five:
1. Mean Streak
2. Earthshaker
3. Black Tiger
4. In Rock We Trust
5. Contagious
Great show Pete, and thank you for including also the "older" and the "newer" albums. Just need to get those first albums of Yesterday and Today, never heard them. I had the great pleasure of seeing Y&T's show here in Sweden in October last year, and I must say that we were amazed about the quality of Dave Meniketti's voice, he really had the full power intact which is more than we can say about other ageing artists. And his handling of the guitar was absolutely flawless... very, very impressive. He also seemed to be very happy about his companions in the band, you could feel that he enjoyed playing and singing together with them all.
Hopefully their band-harmony can bring them to write some new music, I'd love to see a new album.
Y&T is one of my favourite bands ever
Love dave meniketti wonderful singer and guitarist
1. In Rock We Trust
2. Earthshaker
3. Black Tiger
4. Mean Streak
5. Ten
6. Musically Incorrect
7. Endangered Species
8. Contagious
9. Facemelter
10. Down For the Count
Great analysis on the 2 mid-90's albums. I always thought "Fly Away" was Dave Meniketti finding his inner Robin Trower. And they're still a fantastic live band.
Eartshaker my nr 1. One of the first hard rock albums I bought back in the early 80s.
New to the channel. Born in 82 and I love anything and everything by bands that i classify as sunset strip rock n roll bands. Anything from WASP, L.A. guns, warrant, whitesnake, poison you name it. I'm glad I found your channel. Even though we have different tastes I am coming to you for good 70s recommendations. Cheers to my friend pete
One of the best live bands I've had the pleasure of seeing. Wonderful band.
1. Earthshaker
2. Black Tiger
3. Meanstreak
4. Contagious
5. Down For The Count
6. Ten
7. In Rock We Trust
8. Endangered Spieces
9. Facemelter
10. Musically Incorrect
11. Yesterday & Today
12. Struck Down.
Was waiting for you to do this one. Glad you finally did it.
Very coincidental review as I picked up Mean Streak and In Rock We Trust today on LP to add to the others. Love Black Tiger.
Always been my fave band along with BOC. I adore "in rock we trust" the most. Earthshaker and meanstreak are up there as masterpiece albums too. Black tiger is really underated too.
OH YES! LOVE THIS. Y&T ONE OF MY FAVORITES. UNDER RATED.
TEN
MEAN STREAK
EARTHQUAKER
YESTERDAY AND TODAY
BLACK TIGER
IN ROCK WE TRUST
CONTAGIOUS!
DOWN FOR THE COUNT
2 ALBUMS WITH RARE B SIDE UNRELEASED TRACKS!
FACE MELTER!
I'VE TRAVELED TO CA OVER THE YEARS WHEN THEY PLAY ALL OVER LA AND
ORANGE COUNTY SO I CAN SEE THEM MORE THAN ONCE. ITS' WORTH EVERY PENNY.
DAVE IS ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS TO TALK TO NO ROCK STAR ATTITUDE.
In Rock We Trust was my first intro to them. Probably my fav studio album by them.
I love that you cover so many genres! There's a ton of stuff I like that you don't cover...but there's a ton of stuff you have introduced me to. Thanks, Pete..keep up the good work!!
1. Mean streak
2. Black tiger
3. In rock we trust
4. Earthshaker
5. Down for the count
6. Struck down
7. Ten
8. Contagious
9. Yesterday and today
10. Endangered species
11. Musically in correct
12. Facemelter
'In Rock We Trust' was one of my early metal albums. I discovered their previous stuff after that album. Love Black Tiger!
Love your Vacations Pete; they actually benefit us! Thank you and thank you for Y+T!
Fave Y&T Albums
#1 Contagious
#2 Down For the Count
#3 Ten
#4 Black Tiger
#5 MeanStreak
Fav Y&T songs
#1 Contagious (From Contagious obviously)
#2 Fight For Your Life (From Contagious)
#3 In the Name of Rock N Roll ( From Down For The count)
#4 Meanstreak (From Meanstreak)
#5 On With the Show (From Facemelter)
Pete, thanks for this show and helping bring back a movie memory. About the time you mentioned the song Summertime Girls, I had to take a break from the show for other matters so I played that song to keep show in mind. It sounded like part of a song from the 80s Val Kilmer movie titled Real Genius. Always found his role in that movie entertaining. After doing a bit of research, found out it was that song. I see the SoT archives have a top ten sings of Y&T so will be watching that after getting through your content of the last few days. Thanks again, Pete. Your show remains must-see content.
Top 3
1. Earthshaker
2. Black Tiger
3. Meanstreak.
Earthshaker was the first one I ever heard and is still top of the list.
1) Earthshaker
2) Mean Streak
3) Black Tiger
4) Struck Down
5) Yesterday and Today
6) In Rock We Trust
7) Contagious
8) Down for the Count
9) Musically Incorrect
10) Endangered Species
11) Ten
12) Facemelter
I love Y&T, I Discovered them about the same time I discovered Tygers of Pan Tang back in the early 80's. They were really cool to jam to with your buddies and friends back in the 80s.
I was introduced to this band by a friend in 1984 who gave me "In Rock We Trust" on cassette to listen too and I never looked back. This was my favorite album and Masters and Slaves my favorite song from this album.
I love their Unearthed albums.
Saw Y&T last night in Reno, Nv.
Criminally underrated band, especially live.
Dave is ageless, voice sounded great and heâs such a great bluesy lead player.
Check âem out if they play near you.
In Rock We Trust is my number one album. Great band. Always listened to them back in the day.
Yes Pete, I love this band! Thanks brother!
Writer, Singer and Guitarist.........one of the best, if not the best musician overall.......Dave Meniketti and Y+T.....totally underrated! Facemelter and Ten are really good albums and better than their MTV albums (84/85) or their mid 90ies albums. Also their 70ies albums, have some good songs but they find their style and peak in the early 80ies with the 3 greatest Y+T albums.
I saw them last, late 2019 and I have to say, great line up, strong than ever and still a passion that a lot of bands dont have live. And this for over 40 Years.
Dave your the man!
Y&T, definitely one of the great unsung bands of the 80's. Radio pretty much ignore them despite having great songs and top notch Live shows.
Back in the Day, I was playing some poker with friends from work and one(T.M.) said he was going to hire them to play and we dared him and he did - at a skating ring in South San Francisco in 81. He was working a beer keg and handing out free beers to friends :)
Gotta say, fan since 1984, In Rock We Trust is awesome, and possibly underrated generally speaking...
One of my favorite bands so underrated
My list would be:
1. Black tiger
2. Earthshaker
3.mean streak
4. Musically incorrect
5. Endangered species
6. In rock we trust
7. Facemelter
8. Ten
9. Contagious
10. Down for the count
Great to see Musically Incorrect and Endangered Species on your killer, on point, list! These two, under the radar, albums just have not been heard by many Y&T fans.....WE MUST FIX THIS! Facemelter was kind of disappointing for me-I was so amped up for it-the big comeback....it lacks fire. Yeah, vastly underrated band, Meniketti was a MONSTER on guitar and behind the mic!
THANK YOU SO MUCH PETE PARDO FOR YOUR EXCELLENT RANKING AND ASSESSMENT of Y & T's studio albums! You inspired me to write a little paragraph here 3 hours ago about the work of this great band. Now I want to go back to search out those Y & T albums that are missing from my collection. I need to find them and BUY THEM ALL! I really enjoyed listening to this segment! It takes me back!
Mean Streak in no 1 for me, followed by Black Tiger then Earthshaker.
My top 10
1. Black Tiger
2. Earthshaker
3. Meanstreak
4. Musically Incorrect
5. In Rock We Trust
6. Endangered Species
7. Facemelter
8. Contagious
9. Struck Down
10. Ten
As I've already said in one of the previous videos, Y&T's Earthshaker is, together with Riot's Fire Down Under, the best heavy metal album I know.
A routine great video Pete. You cover all the great underrated bands. I thought they were well ranked, and enjoyed the video as usual.
Earthshaker is clearly Y&T's best release.
You are so right!!!
The songs are just fantastic & it's their most focused effort...Why "Rescue Me" wasn't a big power ballad hit, I don't know?!
1-Earthshaker
2-Black Tiger
3-Contagious
4-Meanstreak
5-In Rock We Trust
6-Down For The Count
Maybe, but Meanstreak is the bands most sonic album. Itâs better produced and Daveâs vocals are at peak.
@@speedyfinalmile this is a fun topic to discuss. more rock fans should discuss Y&T all day/every day. IMO, the Contagious album is very, very underrated and it blows away from of the "filler" the band released previous to that album.
Got to chat with Dave and his wife on the monsters of rock cruise-one of the nicest most humble dudes ever! Still has all the vox and chops live-hasn't lost a beat!
Thanks Pete, Iâve seen this band many times. An East Bay band.
1 Black Tiger
2 Earthshaker
3 Mean Streak
4 Yesterday and Today
5 In Rock We Trust
6 Down for the Count
7 Ten
8 Contagious
9 Musically Incorrect
10 Facemelter
Adore this band. Earthshaker, Black Tiger, Mean Steak, Down for the count, In rock we trust and Ten are simply brilliant. Whenever I need a pick me up, Anytime at all is always a go to, melodic but kick ass.
Great ranking Pete. You are spot on with the order. Very underrated band. I found them by accident thanks to Columbia House cassette club (yes I'm old) when they shipped Ten to me by mistake. I got hooked and love the many eras of the band.
Good list, 1-2-3 in any order you just can't go wrong. Love this band, saw them twice in 82 and 83
Saw them in Cardiff in 83, got on the stage with them and was swiftly removed lol. Great band.
Black Tiger, Meanstreak, Earthshaker, Contagious, In Rock my top 5
Glad to see some love for Y&T
One of my favorite bands of all time. Mean Streak, was when I got into them the title song was all needed to hear and I was hooked, they got two albums out of just songs of rarities that you got to get fantastic stuff can't believe that never made it to album.
Love it when you do the 80s bands.
Ranking the 10 Y&T Albums (excluding the first two Yesterday & Tomorrow albums):
1. Ten
2. Contagious
3. Black Tiger
4. Earthshaker
5. Endangered Species
6. Down For The Count
7. In Rock We Trust
8. Facemelter
9. Mean Streak
10. Musically Incorrect
Love these guys, my top 3 1 - In Rock We Trust 2- Black Tiger 3- Mean Streak... My number 1 is the first time I saw them in concert and it has just stuck with me ever since. Nice Job Pete!!! keep up the fantastic work.
Agree Earthshaker and Meanstreak are mandatory in any collection!
Glad to see this one. I was lucky enough to go to an album signing right after Black Tiger came out and had that and Earthshaker signed by the entire band at Tower Records in Mt. View, CA. Amazing only Dave is with us from original band. They got way too radio friendly on some of those later albums seeming to search for that commercial hit. Dave has those perfect rock vocals. Very underrated.
My friend tried to get me into Y&T . He gave me a couple of miscellaneous cd mixes of their music . I kind of ignored them cause we have extreme different taste in music . He got me to go to the Y&T show with him a few years back and they are not at all the hair metal band I was expecting . Know I listen to the cd's he made for me regularly
Great show again Pete. Ranking the albums of Cinderella would be a good show đ
That would take 10 minutes since they only have 4 albums
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@@seancsehil7081 Pete's ranked plenty of bands with four albums, and less.
Great band, Cinderella, and Tom Keifer stuff is STELLAR! Cinderella, along with Ratt, Tesla, Dokken, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Love/Hate, Mr. Big, Warrior Soul, and Saigon Kick (to name just a few) were unfairly lumped in with shit hair metal bands who cared more about eyeliner and mascara than riffs and musicianship! Would absolutely love to see Cinderella reunite-all their albums are packed with great tuneage. take care.
@@treffbennett6534 Cinderella's first album is Glam Metal, their later albums are Blues/Hard Rock. There's no music genre as hair metal,, that term was invented in the 90s to ridicule 80s Hard Rock Bands, thats why you have all these 80s bands lumped in that made up genre.
1 Earthshaker
2 Black Tiger
3 Mean streak
4 In Rock We Trust
5 Contagious
great ranking Pete keep that way
I haven't heard their way-early albums or their two 90s albums...so I can't make a real list. But I have to admit that Ten is one of my favorites along with Mean Streak and Black Tiger. And if I had to make a top ten list of favorite hair metal songs, Summertime Girls would be on that list.
And, yes. Facemelter is okay...not great though.
I do also love the Open Fire live album.
I last saw Y&T about five years ago at a bar in Kansas City. Dave sang and played just as good ever, and the band played for over two hours. Dave is an absolute ironman.
I saw Y & T live 3 times and also met dave and phil, they are great and cool guys to talk and one of the best live bands so the best albums are the live ones, i myself love the albums 10 from 1990, musically incorrect from 1995 and black tiger from the early eighties, i saw them twice at sweden rock festival, a band that is invited twice to sweden rock festival in less than 10 years is not an underrated band but a great band, thanks pete for ranking this great live band.
Brilliant band, saw them on the Mean streak tour.
Great show Pete.. With you on the top 3đ
One of my all-time fav bands.
I thought Contagious and Ten were damn well written albums for their time they should have been huge a hell of a lot better than most of the stuff at that time they just happen to play a lot better than most. People liked flash more in those days.
Also record companies had the control. And forced them into their silly outfits and gimmicks
I haven't heard enough of Contagious, but I own the Ten c.d. and you're absolutely right! That was a great Rock album, and as Pete Pardo said, if that record had come out in 1986 or 87 it probably would have blown people away. "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark" from Ten is an excellent Rock Ballad. Beautiful song!
My first exposure to Y&T was when I was a kid i had this giant concert poster from Germany that advertised an Ozzy live show and at the top it said that Y&T where opening.
oooh great! I am looking forward to seeing the Birth Control ranking and the Appice's interview part 2! Thanks Pete, you are awesome!
Iâm a big fan of 70âs hard rock/HM âŠâŠY&T,Saxon,Quiet Riot,Riot,Whitesnake Magnum,Accept,Krokus,Gillan,TriumphâŠ.I had no idea these bands had earlier albums from the 70âs or even Van HalenâŠ.thank god for the internet