RANT- Overlooked Albums by Bands You Love
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For me it has to be Iron Maiden"s Somewhere in Time. It almost never features in the top 5 of fans' favourites. But I maintain it's their absolute zenith. Still sounds reflective, futuristic, and explores the old carpe diem theme. Cover art is stunning too.
Absolutely agreed. I actually fell in love with Maiden via Powerslave and Somewhere in TIme, and I used to stare at the incomparable SiT album cover and try and find new hidden stuff in it for hours.
@@Ihatecensorship1 Agreed. Lots of interesting things on the cover. It's probably somewhat inspired by Blade Runner. Yet, in a strange way we are now living in that envisioned future: smartphones, artificial intelligence, drones and surveillance.
Somewhere In Time is the album that introduced me to Maiden. Never looked back.
It’s my favorite maiden album and I started with Killers.
@@iainholmes2735 and the evil Chinese government and our crooked alphabet channel news media CNN, MSNBC etc etc.
Some albums for me that I overlooked for a long time that I have gotten into big time these past few years are.
Black Sabbath - The Headless Cross
Accept- Russian Roulette
Van Halen- Van Halen 2
Viper- Theatre Of Fate
Viper- Soldiers Of Sunrise
Shaman- Ritual
Angra- Angels Cry
Iron Maiden- A Matter Of Life And Death
Exodus- Bonded By Blood
Kiss- Unmasked
Dio- Strange Highways
Judas Priest- Point Of Entry
Rainbow- Down To Earth
Alcatrazz- Disturbing The Peace
Scorpions- Tokyo Tapes
W.A.S.P.- The Headless Children
Sanctuary- The Year The Sun Died
Frehley's Comet- self titled debut album
John Katsoudas Russian roulette was my first thought. Killer riffs
@@Apeironus55 absolutely!! Songs like Another Second To Be, Monsterman, TV Wars, and Aiming High have phenomenal guitar riffs. It has become one of my favorite Accept albums these past few years. I even love the first album by U.D.O. Animal House big time that was supposed to have been the next Accept album after Russian Roulette before the band fired Udo Dirkschneider. They gave him all the songs that ended up on his album , and they started from scratch and ended up with Eat The Heat album which does have some great songs.
"I couldn't even make Grilled Cheese at 14" - Chris Alo hahaha
Yeah that cracked me up too! Chris always funny on these.
Man Chris is funny
Here's a suggestion for a cool rant: albums everybody hates, but I happen to love!
I like it.
Is this your plug for "The Spaghetti Incident?" again?
@@TheIndependentLens Argh, hell no!
That's a good one. I have a few that I wouldn't say *everybody* hates, but certainly the type of crowd lurking here would hate.
"Calling All Stations" by Genesis. I don't LOVE it, but I like it more than 95% of the population do. If it hadn't been called Genesis, it would have done better, I think.
Journey :Arrival, Revelation, Eclipse
UFO : Walk on water
“Another Perfect Day” rules. Great choice.
Yes - luv that album.
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds, Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy, ZZ Top’s First Album
Couldn’t agree more, especially with the ZZ Top pick
Obscured is 1 of my fave albums by Floyd..More is awesome as well!!
It's high time,Cymbaline 🍻✌️🍻✌️
@@79lerxst Easily their most underrated album, with half a dozen songs that casual Floyd fans would love if they ever heard them.
@@camwelch9948 They have a (beardless) innocence on that album that makes it charming and scorching at the same time.
Point of entry is my favourite Judas Priest album since 1981
Another Perfect Day is one of my favorite Motorhead albums. Also has my favorite cover.
I have many Motorhead albums and have seen them several times, but I've yet to ever hear that particular album. I'll have to get it sometime as I know it's got a good reputation.
Another Perfect Day was the first Motorhead album I bought, and is my favourite album of theirs.
Extreme-III Sides overlooked by a lot of people
Hell Awaits...overshadowed by Reign in Blood for years to me, now is probably the Slayer album I listen to the most.
Aerosmith = Night in the Ruts...Maybe there most " Rockin " Album
oh ya that was one i never owned but not that long ago i listened to it on you tube and ya that is a very rocking album.I think i probably didnt give it much attention because joe only plays on half of it.Come taste the band by deep purple is another.I didnt bother with it beacause no blackmore, but man does tommy bolin rip on that album.
Absolutely! NITR is one of their very best.
Its No Surprise others Feel the same about NITR / RITN its my personal favorite when it comes to Aerosmith in fact its the Last Great Record they Made IMO
Led Zeppelin “In Through The Out Door”. I was a radio DJ at the time (when you had to put albums on turntables). Bombarded by music and it was just another Zeppelin album.
Jethro Tull “Heavy Horses”.
Allman Brothers “Enlightened Rogues”.
Uriah Heep - High & Mighty
Rainbow - Down to Earth
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
1. Dead Again - Type O Negative
2. Still Climbing - Cinderella
3. Born Again - Black Sabbath
4. By Your Side - The Black Crowes
5. The entire Free discography
Still Climbing, good album
Still Climbing is my favorite album from Cinderella. Blood from stone/Still climbing the best duo of all time for me. Great choice!
Still Climbing and born again are great ones
My first Crowes album. Not my favorite, but really good and fun.
Nothing Type O is ever overlooked for me. But yeah. This album doesn't get the love it deserves.
The Who: "Who by Numbers"... Thanks Pete for all you do! 👍😊
I have been listening to the who by numbers lately. Good album
i only recently discovered this channel and specifically this Rant series. I've binged watched all of them. this group is great and love the discussions.
Motorhead = Inferno
AC/DC = 74 Jailbreak
Fleetwood Mac = Tusk
Paul Mcartney = Run Devil Run
Led Zeppelin = Presence
ZZ - Top = Tejas
Grateful Dead = In the Dark
Pink Floyd = Music from the Film "More"
The Doors = The Soft Parade
*Tusk* is a great album. The terrible cover probably didn't help it.
ZZ Top- Deguello. Some of Billy Gibbons tastiest licks.
Deguello is a great album!
Agreed, Fool for your stockings is a personal favorite.
I didn’t find that one until much later in life.
Agreed about Slayer - Divine Intervention. It's overshadowed by Seasons, I think, but is more like a louder, faster, angrier younger brother.
Also agree with Blue Oyster Cult - Mirrors and Heaven Forbid, but I would also include Revolution by Night and everything after.
Again, also agree about Judas Priest - Point of Entry. It's one of my favourites from the band, with a great, dynamic sound.
King Crimson - Islands. The sophisticated, classical-minded incarnation of the band following the acid-laden Lizard. Steven Wilson's mix really opened this album up to me.
Pilot - Two's a Crowd. Just David Paton and Ian Bairnson now, with hired guns filling the other roles. It's a much softer album, which says a lot since it's a poppy-sounding band in general. Still, there are some fantastic, classic Pilot songs, like Evil Eye, Get Up and Go, The Other Side, Library Door, and Big Screen Kill.
Great topic. Four albums immediately come to mind:
1. Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love (Surrounded by two behemoths, this one didn't stand a chance at the time. Bought all three JHE albums simultaneously.)
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (I think this one should be obvious. My second fav Zeppelin album, now.)
3. Genesis - Nursery Cryme (Now possibly my fav Genesis album.)
4. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut (I've already left comments about this in previous videos, as this happened very recently.)
Each of these discs, after the first listen or two, sat around collecting dust for at least a few years (in the cases of Pink Floyd and Genesis, those sat for over a decade.) Cherish all of them, now.
I definitely agree with ur Zeppelin & Floyd picks, Awesome albums! Imo the most overlooked album of all time is the "X-Factor" by Iron Maiden, it's my 2nd favorite Maiden album after "Somewhere in Time"!
Axis is my fav and imo the best Hendrix record
The Final Cut is the only one of those records I would call overlooked. Every fan of the other three artists that I know cites those records as classics.
@@thewal1ofsleep Listening to Pete's introduction in the video, I don't think the original intent was to highlight albums that were overlooked, consensus-wise--it was albums that you overlooked, personally, whether they were classics or not. That's the way I heard it. I suspect the title confused many people here, and some may not have watched the introduction before typing their comments.
@@knightvisioniixv fair enough
Come Taste The Band, absolutely.
THIS WAS by Jethro Tull. A masterpiece , but so unlike Anderson's later work that it isn't even recognized as Tull.
Not really by a "band", but certainly artists that I love. "The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast" by Roger Glover & Friends. So, so great and overlooked.
Love Dio’s work on that soundtrack.
My first Genesis album was 'Duke'. I grew up with everything after that, but never had a desire to hear the early years. Just a few years ago I listened to the Peter Gabriel era Genesis albums and loved them. More so than the 80s. I two years ago went to see the vintage Genesis tribute show 'The Musical Box'. It was great!
I also never liked YES until a few years ago. I a few years ago went to see the ARW (Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman) concert and loved it.
Saigon Kick - Water
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Going Blank Again
White Lion - Mane Attraction
Anything Box - Peace
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Anthrax - Stomp 442
Meliah Rage - Solitary Solitude
Def Leppard - Slang
Motorhead - Overnight Sensation
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
A lot of Love/Hate albums.
A lot of LA Guns albums.
A lot of Local H albums.
A lot of WASP albums.
But I list these as more that others didn't check them out because I loved them.
Led Zeppelin: In Through The Out Door W.A.S.P. The Headless Children Deep Purple: The House Of Blue Light Blue Öyster Cult: Mirrors Black Sabbath: Cross Purposes
In through the out door is really underrated
The Headless Children is great
I absolutely love Cross Purposes, so underrated
Headless children is great
Yes Travis ! Mirrors all the way. great album
Pink Floyd - Animals
start playing it on the radio, we’ve all heard dark side, wish you were here, and the wall a billion times
Sheep was on the radio (in the UK) on Sunday night this week. I had forgotten how great it was and I was inspired to listen to the album again. Totally agree it gets overlooked due to its two predecessors and one successor.
Absolutely. 👍
I love the fact that Johnny Fever was playing Dogs when Mr Carlson came in the booth on WKRP in Cincinnati.
Two of my favorite overlooked albums are “Other Voices” and “Full Circle” by The Doors it wasn’t the same without Jim, yes, but I still enjoy those two albums
Great show!
You don’t really have The Doors without Jim.
As a longtime Doors fan, I wasn't really expecting to like those albums. Actually, that's an understatement. For decades, I didn't *even listen* to them, and I'll be the first to say, now, that I was wrong! Those two albums without Jim have some very, very good songs, and the musicianship is great, which makes sense, because The Doors were a great band!
completely agree about Ram It Down - it was my introduction to Judas Priest and I loved it straight away. That album made me go back and buy all their albums from Unleashed In The East onward.
Host by Paradise Lost. They did that Depeche Mode style really well
Available Light from Presto is one of the most underrated Rush songs.
Always thought Back to the Egg by Wings was overlooked.
Good choice. I think I had McCartney burn-out at the time, but it's a really strong album that I overlooked too.
Meh to this day on this album. McCartney lost it when McColluch and Joe English left.
@@andyparton3755 if I could recommend you go back and listen to 4 songs, Old Siam Sir, Baby's Request, Getting Closer, and Arrow Through Me.
@@bahbaroni9955 Heard.
Yes! I remember posting this somewhere before but Back to the Egg is my favourite Wings/McCartney album.
_Mirrors_ by BOC. Not what I wanted at the time, but looking back, it was pretty good.
The Vigil is their Stairway To Heaven
I love that album.
I literally went 30 years without giving it a re-listen. My bad.
BÖC's prime is before my time but I grew up on them. I liked Mirrors when I was younger but it's had the opposite effect on me when I've tried to listen to it more recently. The Vigil is still one of my favorite songs by them, but some of those earworms on there just don't do it for me these days.
Hopefully I'll warm up to it again at some point.
It's funny too, in my opinion The Vigil is their strongest progiest song on that album but Pete never mentions it. I figured he'd love that song!
"Come Taste The Band" is one of my *favorite* Deep Purple albums, but then again, I love '70s funk and R & B! Glenn Hughes definitely brought that sound and vibe to DP. My *top* album by the band is still "In Rock" though! My big "overlooked" album is "Symbol of Salvation," by Armored Saint. I didn't really give it a serious listen in the '90s, and that was my loss. 30 years later, it's one of the greatest albums I've ever heard! A true metal classic!
Led Zeppelin - Presence .. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans .. Genesis - Wind & Wuthering .. The Allman Brothers Band - Win, Lose or Draw .. Neil Young - On the Beach .. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - American Dream .. Linda Ronstadt - Don't Cry Now .. Steve Forbert - Alive on Arrival .. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son .. Squeeze - Sweets from a Stranger .. Great topic, guys!
I never really bothered with Low by Testament but I listened to it the other week and I was like WOAH!
Yeah it's killer! And dedicated to the late great Criss Oliva.
One of my favorites from them
Low is a killer album!
Low was my introduction to Testament. Still one of my favourite from them.
Hello everyone. Excited about this episode 🤘🤘🤘 KISS "Unmasked"
I love Unmasked
Yep! I completely ignored Unmasked as a kid…but now I think it’s full of really well crafted and catchy KISS tunes!
BTW 1981 was my first year seeing Priest, I saw Iron Maiden open for them at Asbury Park Convention Hall. I still have tha playbill
These Hudson Valley Squares videos are my new favorite thing. Keep it up please!
Great topic as always! Some of my favourite overlooked albums:
King Crimson - Lizard (even dismissed by Fripp for a long time - the Sketches of Spain of rock music)
ZZ Top - Tejas (great country boogie rock with no weak tracks on the album - El Diablo!!!)
Soft Machine - Softs (much trippier than anything since Third, great riff based jazz rock)
Rush - Snakes and Arrows (also my favourite tour by Rush - these songs worked great live)
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (as important to psychedelia as Piper or Sgt. Pepper)
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy (best produced Ozzy era album - has aged like fine wine so many great tracks)
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide (great indie psych pop album with killer writing and guitar work)
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (another killer album without a weak track - great diversity of songs/instrumentation)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (the indie rock album for those who hate indie rock - Beefheart-esque in sound and experimentation)
Love King Crimson. Lizard was undoubtedly the best! Just bought Steve Wilson's version, awesome!
Lou Reed - Ecstasy, Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel and Brutal Youth, and David Bowie - Lodger and The Next Day. Love all these albums now though.
Lodger is on of my favorite Bowie albums.
Aerosmith-Rock in a Hard Place
"Night in the Ruts"
@@ghastlybat107 I liked Night in the Ruts right off the bat when I bought it. Rock in a Hard Place I really began to appreciate within the last five years. Funny enough, the only time I ever saw Aerosmith was on the Rock in a ....tour without Perry and Whitford.
@@kevinm5957 I saw them on the same tour, in Cleveland. If I remember correctly Mothers Finest opened. Great times
RIAHP and night in the ruts are my two favorite Aerosmith records, saw them in 1983 nassau coliseum
Absolutely! One of their finest albums, as good if not better than any of their seventies classics. It is even hard to notice that Joe and Brad were no longer in the band!
Jeff Buckley: Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk
Grace gets all the credit in the world. This gets a mere fraction of the attention. It boggles my mind to this day, as I think some of the tracks on here are among the best alternative and rock and roll ever laid to tape. Rick Beato has made an episode about the song Vancouver from this posthumous double album.
I just recently started getting into Tim Buckleys work...Very Interesting...Jeff's work is Next..
I didnt even know he had a 2nd album till recently !!!! - ive had grace for years - ill have to get it
I like the sketches track, “Sky is a landfill” more than any track on grace.
@@marvinbattlejr.9365 im goin to have a listen listen - ive never heard it - thanx for the mention
Grilled cheese/. Lmao. Add that to MR ALOs greatest hits package. Love it
Yeah that was good lol
Bands I missed in my youth - Barclay James Harvest, Jethro Tull, Horslips and City Boy.
Of those the albums I have recently gone back to more often are Time Honoured Ghosts (BJH) and Tull's Stand Up. When I started buying Purple I had to choose between Burn or Come Taste the Band - the cover lead me to Burn and I didnt get Come Taste until a lot later and even then didnt play it much, but on getting the CD remaster play it quite a lot now. I also now find I quite like to listen to Genesis' Trick of the Tail above the others.
Like Ryan said as you grow up you only had enough money to buy one of ten or twenty albums and as he and Steve said you then get to a point where you just lose track or get into something else so you stop buying. Two bands that I wished I'd bought when they first came out but left it until I was in my 30's but are now in my top ten favourites are Barclay James Harvest and Jethro Tull - had never got any of either of theirs apart from the odd song recorded off the radio until 1992 when I first bought BJH Live and then Tull's Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses (though I had recorded Tull live at MSG from 78 and played it to death, and yes I have bought the DVD/CD that came out a few years ago). I have since bought all of theirs as well as the upgraded remasters.
And recently - about 15 years ago, I first heard Horslips and City Boy - same thing , now have them all and regularly listen.
Thank you guys for your RANT- Overlooked Albums by Bands you Love.🎤🎸🎵🥁
Run with the pack song is an absolute favorite of mine. BAD co. Tremendous
Never get’s enough respect ✊🏻 Honey Child and Sweet Lil’ Sister rocks plus Fade Away is a great moody trippy ballad
"I wanted to get into all these bands but I didn't have a lot of money" : that was life in the '90s lol Damn were CDs outrageously overpriced back then...
FYE still thinks it's the '90s with how they price their CD's and DVD's, it's shameful. Overpricing has pushed all of us more and more to online buying, which is convenient but I still love looking through the shelves for things and finding those gems you never thought you would come across or needed.
@@adamfink3437 FYE is out of business!
For me, it was Saxon. Not just one album, but all of them from the 90's and early 2000's. Just lost track of them, then heard their last few albums and was blown away. Turns out all those albums are great and now I'm going back and getting them all.
Same here, by the late '80s they'd lost me...
Testament - Low
Overkill - I Hear Black & W.F.O.
Black Sabbath - all the albums with Tony Martin except "Forbidden"
Motley Crue - self-titled 1994 album
AC/DC - Flick of the Switch
Motley crue 94 is a great album.
Headless Cross is a top 5 Sabbath album and I will argue that to the grave!
Metallica - Load... was not into it in the 90s bcs you know they had 'sold out'. However, now I can say that it's a very strong album. Not their best for sure, but it still has its moments.
Ain't My Bitch, 2 X 4, Wasting My Hate, Until it Sleeps, The House that Jack Built....all great songs.
@@robertshort5935 I'd also add King Nothing to that list 🤘
@@LuchaLibertaria - And Mama Said.
I never got into Metallica when they took on a more rock/alt. metal sound. To me they never took the AJFA direction far enough, they could've done more with it.
Yeah I like it, too. But I feel it shouldn't be part of the discography of a band called 'Metallica'.
UFO’s ‘Making Contact’ (1983). Never gets much attention, but a cracking album with some great tracks on there
Much respect for Alo's pick - Motorhead's: Another Perfect Day....🖤 Robo's playing. Ryan landed on a GREAT album - BOC's :Heaven Forbid....probably their heaviest album! Pete - Good choice in PRIEST'S:Point Of Entry....lighter in tone than previous albums,but mostly solid. Great Hudson Valley Squares show guys!!!🤘
Any album that features gems like Heading Out To The Highway, Solar Angels, Desert Plains and Turning Circles is a killer album by any definition.
Love this new topic. One album that instantly springs to mind for me is The X Factor. Always had the mindset of "it's Blaze so it's no good", but then I supported him earlier this year, and he did a set entirely made up of X Factor and Virtual XI songs. Went back and realised that the album is actually pretty damn good (at least to me anyway, and just try and forget how bad a fit Blaze was for the band 🤣) Much darker obviously but it took me on a pretty cool journey when I listened. Got another idea aswell: Overlooked bands you wish you listened to earlier 🤘
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown
Sodom - Better Off Dead
Destruction - Cracked Brain
Malevolent Creation - Stillborn
Rainbow - Down To Earth
Motörhead - Another Perfect Day
Better Off Dead is one of my favorite Sodom Albums.
Hi Pete. I asked you a question on an old Q&A episode that seemed to resonate with you. It might work here for a future episode: "Name some highly anticipated albums that disappointed you the most upon release. Have the opinions on these albums changed over time?"
Cool-will add it to the queue!
Primus: Antipop (Been a Primus fan my whole life so for me to get into this years later was pretty bizarre...it fit right into what I was listening to at the time, funk influenced alternative metal...now it's one of my favorite albums in their whole catalog)
Melvins: Bullhead (I highly enjoy this one more than some of their others that I used to be crazier about, once those riffs and drums come swirling in I'm hooked)
Tom Waits: Mule Variations (I was a huge Tom Waits fan as a kid and for some reason I just did not get around to this one until later in my life. Everything on it is essential. Filipino Box Spring Hog is one of my favorite songs of all time, as well as Chocolate Jesus.)
I was thinking of Listing Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl..... Also Agree that it took me some time to get into Mule Variations.
I recall an interview with Jon Lord who said that Taste was not really a Deep Purple LP, but it was a great Bolin/Hughes album .. Jon was such a classy guy
I bought Pictures at an Exhibition when it was released on the HELP label. Key thing was that it sold for £1.49 when normal albums went for £2.49 minimum. It was ELP’s Christmas present to their fans.
Judas priest Sin after sin, Iron maiden virtual xi, AC/DC Blow up your video, Aynsley Lister's entire catalog and nearly all of Blaze Bayley's solo stuff.
That first Blaze solo album is awesome.
American Stars 'N Bars -Neil Young, Point of Entry -Judas Priest, Animals -Pink Floyd, Amnesiac -Radiohead, Grace Under Pressure as well as Vapor Trails -Rush. I don't listen to Grateful Dead studio albums but Anthem of the Sun and Blues for Allah (grilled cheese a staple in GD parking lots!)
Niel Youngs = Silver & Gold..Also overlooked.
Nice to see Blue Öyster Cult mentioned twice! From what I understand the reason they haven't released much between 2001 and 2020 is the lack of commerical success from Heaven Forbid and The Curse of the Hidden Mirror which are pretty good records. They figured there is no use in wasting all energy, time and money to get very little back.
By now the internet has exploded and their new album The Symbol Remains seems to be going rather well. Great to see!
For those who are new to the band - Blue Öyster Cult is NOT like AC/DC. Their production values, songwriting and playing are somewhat different from album to album. If you search for a certain style of songs you might not find them right away but probably will if you keep searching. They maybe not as varied as say Frank Zappa but the band has quite good variation compared to most bands and artists.
Fun with five people leading the show!
Love Prime Evil, its the album they should have after Possessed (or even At War...). Also Venom Inc live is bloody brilliant!
Kiss -- Dynasty, Unmasked, The Elder. Not overlooked by me but many.
Totally agree, great albums. Different but great.
I think that any album that Doogie White sings on is vastly underrated
Hi, Pete, this is my first time commenting because a coworker forgot to sign-out before they left. I don't think they'll mind. I started watching your show early this year and have you to thank for turning me on to the first 3 Journey albums and getting me deeper in UFO and Rainbow. I think it's really cool you covered Nektar, Camel and Focus. My hope is that you will rank the albums of the Fixx soon. They are one of my favorite bands. My impression is you don't care about lyrics very much since you prefer heavy metal to grunge, McCartney to Lennon and Division Bell to The Final Cut etc. That is hard for me to understand but I accept it. I have a harder time accepting how low you rank Jimmy Page on your list of favorite guitarists despite loving Zeppelin! And Angus Young didn't even make an honorable mention on a list of over a hundred! Oh well. Glad you finally listened to Blackstar. I couldn't believe it when you ranked Bowie's albums without hearing Reality, The Next Day or Blackstar. By the way I love seeing Martin Popoff on your show. I've ready many of his books. Can I look forward to seeing your Fixx episode soon?
One that comes to my mind is Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play", which followed immediately after 1972"s "Thick as a Brick" in 1973. I could not accept that sudden change in sound at the time, but many years later, I find it quite listenable and even inspired in places. It may have been indicative of a more commercial sound which I think Tull was heading towards in the next few albums after, though not completely "pop" by any means. The next Tull that I really liked was "Songs From the Wood" where a perfect balance of Ian Anderson's lyrics, concepts, and playing morph well with his band's musicianship to produce an acceptable alternative "pop-rock" album that though melodic, was original enough to elevate it above the prosaic run of melodic rock bands.
I still can't get into those two Tull albums, guess they'll remain 'overlooked' by me...
My list
1 - Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
2 - Pantera - Power Metal
3 - Judas Priest - Turbo
5 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
6 - Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
This is a fun topic can't wait for part 2 🤘🏻
My Arms, Your Hearse is EXCELLENT! Love that Opeth album 🤘
This was an awesome show. Very interesting. Come and taste the band is a great choice. Many people do not know this excellent Purple album well, maybe because Blackmore is not part of the lineup I agree too with Going for the one
Great Album, when Tommy was “on” he was great just on fire, a great replacement but sadly wasn’t around long enough ( clean wise ) if only Glenn & Bolin weren’t so deep into their habits I think they were bad for each other ( at that time, tour wise) imagine how many great Albums if they had kept their heads, Come Taste The Band sounds very much like a best of early Whitesnake Album but with a touch of funk from Glenn and a little California feel from Tommy. 🤘🏻
Great stuff, love the concept of this talk, please do another episode. Thanks
always love listening to you guys..i'm even older than steve and i still have my eight tracks...but i also notice all the bands you guys mention...scorpions, rush, purple, motorhead, etc...i started with all these bands from their very first albums, so it's interesting to hear someone got introduced to them on blackout or presto or agents of fortune or something else like that....it brings me back to bleecker bob's in new york and other import stores like that....i remember getting lonesome crow and in trance and fly me to the rainbow and just burning up my record player.... same thing with the first three blue oyster cult albums...tyranny and mutation is still the best...and when the first motorhead came out, it was like when the first sabbath album came out, which i also bought when it first came out...the privilige of being old...thank you again for doing these...brings back memories...peace always guys...rocky
Totally agree about come taste the band. I remember buying it really just to keep my collection going and probably listening to it once and of course on one listen all you can think about is that there's no Ritchie. But years later I guess you grow up and realise it's a great lp. I think appreciating that album helped me really accept Steve Morse later.
Good episode and topic. Wow Slayer’s Divine Intervention was one of the first albums that came to mind. I love that album! I think the band has only included 1 or 2 songs on a regular basis in their set lists. What a shame I never got to hear live; Killing Fields, Self titled
Track, 213, SS-3, Fictional Reality...so good!
Overnight Sensation is also a hugely overlooked, but amazing, Motorhead album!
Funny...Presto is the album I dove in deep with Rush.
Good ol' Bad Co. ...I agree that Running With the Pack is as good as the second album, perhaps not the debut.
Pictures at an Exhibition is a E.L.P. classic! ....so glad people discover it.
Going for the One? NOT over-looked. Now if Tormato was the pick, we'd be onto something here.
If I can make a recommendation to Steve it would be to buy or get a better microphone or get ear buds with a microphone. Often, it is unfortunately very difficult to hear him. Sometimes, I need to increase the volume and turn it down again after we move to the next guest. Otherwise, a very nice discussion.
Love Steve! Chris wants to talk about ECW wrestling in the 90s 😂 Love you guys!! Chris saying he could barely make a grilled cheese at 14 and Schenker is killing it on guitar. Classic!
Hey Pete and co., this show has become one of my favorites on RUclips. I always love your selections. My selections would be;
Megadeth - United Abominations, heavily overlooked by myself at the time and by a lot of fans still.
Death - Spiritual Healing, everyone talks about the other records but this one is my favorite.
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust, didn’t get around to this until after I heard the first four records but this has probably become my favorite (an unpopular opinion) but the vocals are INTENSE.
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross; I didn’t pay much attention to this era of the band at all until a few years ago. It doesn’t really come close to Ozzy or Dio era stuff but it’s still VERY solid.
Thanks, we love doing this!
Good point on "Divine." Lost in the "Seasons" undertow. Bought it, listened a few times, the cassette is in the basement, maybe I dig it out.
Motorhead "Another Perfect Day" is my favourite album from my favourite band...highly underrated album..Their best songwriting.
Strange how it was disliked so much at the time, remember it well I didn't like it much either having loved the very dirty sounding Iron Fist. I think fans weren't expecting this kind of 'clean' sound on a Motorhead album, plus slower songs. Weird. I believe their next studio album Orgasmatron was received much better, despite sounding terrible to my ears, songs as well as production.
If all we had was Alo at 12:32 watching this show is 100% worthwhile. You guys have made me LOVE Mondays!
He throws in a zinger or two EVERY episode doesn't he!
@@seaoftranquilityprog now I am gonna go watch the monsters den show. I don’t even like monsters but I am curious. Cheers!
It’s nice to see Rush’s “Presto” get some praise. This is my favorite Rush album, and it has what might be Neil Peart’s greatest set of lyrics.
I don’t get the hate for Presto. I love it.
All the “hate” is there because it sucks.
@@CJINW Brilliant take there
This topic needs a sequel.
For me first choice is Jazz by Queen. I mean, yeah, Fat Bottomed Girls, but Never really grabbed me. Then years later I saw Shaun of the Dead and how it used Dont Stop Me Now. Dug it back out and it clicked for me not my fave, but it’s place in the Pantheon is much higher now.
“Couldn’t even make grilled cheese at 14”. What a great line!🤣
Going For The One is one of my favorite Yes albums. Drama is another album I really like.
Dio - Magica
Judas Priest - Jugulator
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Iron Maiden - X-Factor
Killers - Menace to Society (It answers the question nobody wanted to know. What would Pantera sound like with Paul Dianno singing?)
Kreator - Cause For Conflict
Crumbsuckers - Beast on my Back
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis vs The Earth
Testament - Demonic
*Going for the One* is awesome - one of the Top 3 Yes albums to me.
Kansas--- Monolith and Freaks of Nature
Supertramp--Brother Where You Bound
Dire Straits-- On Every Street and Communiqué
Styx-- Paradise Theater and Crystal Ball
The Deep Purple and Mötorhead selections are especially great because they feature great guitar players that are unique to those bands.
The first six tracks on 'Point of Entry' are as great as anything in the Priest catalog. 'Divine Intervention' is a great SLAYER album and they would have been fine if they kept putting out albums of that quality.
My personal selection for RUSH is 'Power Windows'. I think it's a continuation/end of the classic albums that started with them at '2112'.
A couple of selections I've seen in the comments here that I'm on board with are ZZ Top 'Tejas' and Van Halen 'Diver Down'.
Born again-sabbath,flick of the switch-ac/dc,down for the count-Y&T,point of entry-judas priest,the house of blue light-deep purple..
My overlooked choice would be the Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow albums. In recent years I’ve come to appreciate them much more than when I originally bought them. Also I never overlooked “Come Taste the Band “ it was magical when I bought it as a kid and every time I hear it now the magic returns. Something about that record can’t put my finger on it. I guess that’s the definition of magic something that can’t be explained. That’s Tommy Bolin in a nutshell.
hey captain ur picks good im just now listening but i love run with the pack
@@bengalgangster Cheers my friend. Run with the Pack is fantastic also check out the album after Burning Sky it’s just as good.
@@captainbeyond7469 yep love the album the title track i didnt think of is a great opener coulda made petes opener show i will give it a listen been awhile
@@bengalgangster I agree killer opening title track. Maybe if Pete does a part II opener show we can offer it up.
Mine is Vulgar Display Of Power from Pantera. Don’t dislike it, but it’s like So Far So Good So What from Megadeth...it got sandwiched between two great albums.
Outside of the first 3 tracks and This Love...not a whole lot of tracks “hit a chord” with me. But, when I/you revisit it, you appreciate how good it is.
For me I am guilty of overlooking the Uriah Heep albums with Bernie Shaw on vocals. The albums, especially from Sea of Light onwards are actually good.
For me it is, “Diver Down,” from Van Halen. I actually love a lot of the songs on the album. I love, “Where Have All The Good Times Gone!”, “Hang Em’ High”, “(Oh) Pretty Woman”, “Dancing In The Street”’ and, “The Full Bug.” Songs like, “Big Bad Bill (Is A Sweet William Now)” and, “Secrets,” aren’t my favorite tracks. But I feel like, “Happy Trails,” is the greatest album closer ever! It’s so stupid and it makes me laugh every time I hear it. This could be a Top Five Van Halen Album for me. For Some reason David Lee Roth made Van Halen sound really good even when they took their music from Hard Rock to Pop. He made it work. Thats why I don’t really enjoy the Sammy era as much because I feel he didn’t make it work as much as David did. But I like, “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.” It is way heavier then the rest of the Sammy albums.
YES!!! A diver down fan!!! I also REALLY like that album. Probably a top 3 album of theirs for me
Yup. Listened to the entire Diver Down album very loud the day I heard Eddie passed. Did 2 shots of whiskey in his honor too.
I agree, Diver Down gets alot of flack because of all the covers but it's a fun album to listen to. The Full Bug is a great song.
Frank Coyne it’s a GREAT song. It’s vastly underrated. Probably my favorite song off that album
This was an awesome episode Pete!! All your 3 picks is favorites of mine 😁
Metallica Load, Smashing Pumpkins Adore, Megadeth So Far, So Good, So What?, Bruce Springsteen The River, and Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
My top 10 go to albums that are somewhat overlooked
Rush - RUSH
AEROSMITH- Aerosmith
Sweet - give us a wink
Zeppelin - presence
Ac/Dc - flick of the switch
J. Giels - sanctuary
Skynyrd - GIMME BACK MY BULLETS
Kansas - audiovisions
Steve Miller - ANTHOLOGY
Van Halen - diver down
Tommy Shaw's 1987 album "Ambition"... the label and radio dropped the ball on this one. Excellent production and performance and by far the best songwriting in Tommy's solo career thanks to collaboration with Englishman Terry Thomas, who got a second chance as a producer /songwriter after his band Charlie disbanded a few years earlier.
Both records are in my all time top ten 'Ambition' and 'Charlie' (1983)
I've got the 'Ambition' T-shirt
Top 3 of mine: Utopia, Adventures In Utopia. 2nd, Tim Curry, Simplicity. 3rd, Days of the New, Green Tree Album.