I only like "Appetite For Destruction" from GNR. The rest of their catalogue I don't particularly care for. I argue that they only got so big because of "Appetite." There are a few other stand out tracks from their catalogue I like, but no other album they made was as amazing as "Appetite."
Agreed. I think that if they had condensed the best from Use Your Illusion I & II they could have had another great album up there with Appetite - but they gave into excess and produced a lot of filler. Just my opinion.
I love both Use Your Illusions and the original stuff on Lies and for me, those records are what made Guns N' Roses such a great band instead of "just" another bunch of rockers. Of course Appetite is pure gold.
Bands Where We Only Like One of Their Albums (w/Martin Popoff) - Martin Popoff - The Beatles - White Album (1968) Talking Heads - Little Creatures (1985) City Boy - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1979) The Chameleons - Strange Times (1986) The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985) Honorable Mentions Howard Jones - Dream into Action (1985) ?!? Pretenders (1980) Pretenders II (1981) Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (EP) Prince - Purple Rain (1984) Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (1987) Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1989) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985) - Pete Pardo - Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation (1990) Blue Murder - Blue Murder (1989) FM - Black Noise (1978) Riverdogs - Riverdogs (1990) MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1969) Honorable Mentions Prince - Purple Rain (1984) The Cars - The Cars (1978) The Cars - Candy-O (1979) Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (1977) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
Seeing Lynch Mob, and George, for the first time next week in NH. Excited to see George, the legend, for the first time. Good to know which album I should listen to first (and maybe most).
Third choice is Montrose' first self titled release. I have Ronnie's whole catalog but again 90% of the time this is the one I grab for. Hot Sweet & Sticky ....
Anthrax - Fistful of metal Exodus - Bonded by blood Jewel - Spirit Meatloaf - Bat out of hell Love / Hate - Blackout in a red room - love the Friday funhouse shows….🤟
Thank you Martin for including bands like the cure and the chameleons on the show. I grew up listening to these bands and still love them even though now I’m almost exclusively hard rock and metal.
Oh, and I forgot: a big thank you to Martin for letting me know about this band I had never heard of, City Boy. Listening to The Day The Earth Caught Fire right now and it sounds really great! 👍
Great Topic, My Top 5 1. UB40 - Signing Off 2.Deep Purple - Machine Head 3.Ian Dury(& the Blockheads) - New Boots and Panties 4.The Clash - The Clash(debut) 5.The Angels - Face to face cheers
Some really nice picks, guys! I love the Chameleons, I have that album on vinyl, Blue Murder, again, on vinyl, I'm a big Cure fan, but not of any particular album in particular, although I really liked "Disintegration." With them it's more individual songs that I love, "Just Like Heaven," "Friday I'm In Love," "Love Song," "Fascination Street." Black Noise by FM is a prog masterpiece. Just as a note, Nash The Slash's real name was Jeff Plewman, and he was a classically trained violinist. He was older than the other guys in the band, and didn't look anything like a rock musician, and so he adopted that Invisible Man sort of persona, and that worked well for him. I went to college with his brother-in-law, who told me all of this, and that Jeff was also gay. That had nothing to do with his music, but it did come out after his death. He left FM to pursue a solo career, and he was replaced by Ben Mink, who would later go on to work quite a bit with kd Lang. Yeah, the Cars debut is pretty hard to beat. One album that I really love, above all their others, is the debut album from Killing Joke, which is just an incredible record. Later they made some really good ones, like "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" and "Pandemonium," but that debut was just so heavy and raw, and sounded nothing like anything else. I would also put Dire Straits debut in there too. They did some great stuff later, but that first one is still my favourite.
Second choice Love - Forever Changes . I really like their other releases but 90% of the time I listen to them which is frequently, I reach for Forever Changes. One of the few lps/cds I listen to from cover to cover.
The Dead Daisies: Holy Ground. They're not a band that I normally care much for but when you got a true badass legend like Glenn Hughes playing and singing on your whole album, you know it's going to sound amazing
That's funny, before Glenn joined the band they would have made my list too. I enjoyed Revolución, as I'm a big fan of Richard Fortus's guitar playing. But yes, after Hughes came into the picture, they made their second enjoyable record in my view.
Pete, I think for the Cure, you should check out Disintegration from 1989. That is the album that goth/doom bands from Europe site as a big influence on their sound. Bands like Type O Negative, Anathema, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, and even Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief. That one is a great one for me. I’m not a huge fan of the rest. A song here or there, but Disintegration is a masterwork.
Great record! But the Cure is neither dark, nor gloomy. Their music is too lively and happy to ever be considered gloom. They never wrote music that matched their lyrics.
@@benedictdonald4338 I respectfully disagree. I don’t think you’ve heard enough of their music. And it all depends on the album. I agree, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and Wish are upbeat and almost joyous, but Disintegration, Bloodflowers, those are pretty moody dark albums
I think that was the intent. Enjoyed that bit though-Martin gleefully ripping up his own credibility with many viewers, then Pete, ever the kind host, scrambling to repair it as much as he can in a few seconds.
I would add Billy Idol ‘s 1983 album “Rebel Yell” to my list of “only like one” albums. The “Rebel Yell” album has the hits “Eyes without a Face”, “Flesh for Fantasy”, “Catch My Fall” and the title track. In my opinion, except for “White Wedding”, Billy Idol hit his peak with this album.
I've always adored Talking Heads. Remain in Light is just perfect. It's an incredibly odd and creative 40 minute journey that is simultaneously impossibly groovy as well as strangely brooding. Amazing lyrics, performances, and production. Speaking in Tongues is just such a great collection of really quirky and oddly assembled pop songs that, despite their slightly off-kilter nature, manage to have great hooks, melodies, and textures. Plus, that closer is an all time great love song. Never felt myself feeling like I "had" to like them or anything, I just love em to bits. I could rant more about 4 other albums by them for hours, but I'll stop myself now.
@@manuelper You didn’t ask me, but his solo stuff is very hit and miss imo, but when it’s on, it’s really on. Still, I don’t think he ever went beyond 1984, in terms of greatness. That’s not just a David thing, I think they all peaked pre-85. David’s best solo stuff is collaborative, particularly with Eno, St Vincent, etc, but he’s got a few pretty good ones that aren’t collabs. Tom Tom Club’s first album is the best album any of them produced outside out Talking Heads (considerably, imo), but also they don’t have as many good non-TH albums as Byrne. Now, I have to check Jerry Harrison’s solo stuff, bc I’ll admit I don’t know it. ✌️
@@nikolademitri731 I think we agree. I actually love 'Rei Momo' quite a bit. A strange album indeed, an anglo playing straight traditional sub-genre latin music in English, but I quite adore that album. There's a lot of stuff of his like that, I either love it or don't care for it. Peace.
Popoff and Pardo are it again and this time talking about their singular sensations for certain bands. An excellent topic and some interesting choices by Martin and Pete. Martin, ever the contrarian starting off with The Beatles set a good tone for the episode. The mention of Prince's Purple Rain took the very first album that came to my mind. But some others, at least for me, are Cosmic Thing by the B-52s and Songs From The Rain by Hothouse Flowers. Thanks, gents, for this episode. There ya go!
Loving the post-punk shoutouts by Martin in this one. The Cure, Talking Heads and The Chameleons. Yes! And yes, Martin, Head on the Door is one of my favorite Cure albums as well though Pornography and Disintegration might edge it out.
I dropped some micro-dot in Colorado Springs before Christmas in 1989, and I listened to The Cure - Push and watched a wall breath. It was transcendent. Then Frank and I, who was tripping too, went delivering christmas trees. It was dark and there was snow on the ground, I followed him in my car, until all the trees were gone, then we drove around in my car, until a police car started following. I got nervous and we drove up into Cheyenne Mountain, lost the police car and watched the moon rise. 'The Head on The Door' brings it all back.
Me too. I love post-punk as a genre. For The Cure I especially love Seventeen Seconds. Great atmosphere all the way through. For the Chameleons I love Script of the Bridge more but I love all their albums. Second Skin gives me goosebumps all the time. :)
@@matma84 Yes sir. I watch Pete and the gang mainly for nostalgia reasons because I loved Hard Rock and Metal when I was in my teens, 20s and early 30s. Now it's all about post punk, goth, darkwave, shoegaze, synthwave, etc for me.
Speaking of MC5. Kick out the jams is a legendary album, deservedly so, I think after that album nothing was the same anymore. But I absolutely adore High Time. I would classify it as a perfect album. Back in the USA is a great record too, often overlooked, but High Time is my absolute favorite.
This is a fun and fascinating listen! I've been trying to think of an example, but I don't know if I can come up with one band or artist (that has released multiple albums, of course) where I truly like *only one* album, though there are some "two-album" (or close to it) bands for me. I'm surprised to hear that Martin is not a Talking Heads fan, as he is a big fan of many "post-punk" bands. Love them and the Cure!
Pete - Are you ever going to do an episode/show on Kate Bush? Recall you mentioning her once, regarding the difficulty in classifying her work. Would love to hear a ranking the albums (panel?!?!) or analysis of career. A little outside of your norms, but you often address unique artists. Keep up the good work, enjoy your channel and opinions even though we have different interests (maybe because of that).
Loved City Boy with their amped up prog + R&B sound... and lyrics and harmonies to rival 10cc! A brilliant band with an uneven trajectory... personally I love the early stuff ("Young Men Gone West" was the LP Matin pulled and said "Dinner at the Ritz") but I wasn't as enthralled with them once they got to 5-7-0-5. Personal thing, I guess. I just wondered why they never became huge, especially with that Mutt Lange production.
Technically that's their second album. Anyway, I'm probably in the minority but I absolutely LOVE the follow-up album (One Way Home). In my opinion, it's much better than the one with all the hits.
The self titled album by The Stone Roses is perfection, I wouldnt change anything about it and Oasis basically stole their sound and look but made it more accessible to a mainstream audience. But the 2nd album Second Coming was like they were asleep at the wheel, and dont even bother with the unreleased stuff.
The Beatles - it’s the song writing that’s timeless. Their influence is incalculable. To understand popular music you need to understand the Beatles. They don’t fall into the show’s theme for me personally but I don’t think Martin is being controversial. I’d pick Revolver as favourite and it does have a great cover, as does The Beatles - the plain white album with embossing, another first I think, and Abbey Road, one of the iconic album covers, possibly the best known cover ever? My choice for today is REM Automatic for the People.
I never understood why the beatles early music created so much fuss. It was nothing new. Just pop rock. They didn’t get brilliant and unique until around revolver and rubber soul.
@@MrSmitht04 Yes, I agree with you. All artists are influenced by what goes before, what they listen to and the Beatles were rooted in 50’s rocks roll and because of the massive success of their first US visit, it’s sometimes forgotten they paid their dues. There are many reasons why they became a phenomenon during that 62 - 64 Beatlemania period. Their early albums had covers and after A Hard Day’s Night - I do like the soundtrack and it’s their own material - they released Beatles for Sale which did have covers and pays recognition to influences including Buddy Holly. I think there is some evidence on Help but agree that Rubber Sole marks the big change and the start of their song writing sophistication and huge musical influence . Aside from AHDN it’s the earliest Beatles album in my collection of the digital remasters. Didn’t see the Let It Be doc as don’t have Disney but must get the 2021 special edition remix by Giles Martin and also has the Glyn Johns mix and the rehearsal stuff.
I agree with Pete about Wicked Sensation being the absolute best of Lynch Mob. Sacred Groove, which was a George solo album from the 90's, was really good too. It had Glenn Hughes singing on two awesome songs and Ray Gillen on another.
Pete did not mention the Brotherhood album. Oni Logan is the singer on that one. I think it's a very good album with memorable songs. Much better than Rebel which is a very forgettable CD.
Still listen to Sacred Groove. Great album! Too bad we never got a full album with the "journeymen" of hard rock: Lynch & Hughes.... that would've been great!
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk would be my pick. They were an 80's British pop band whose first three albums are loaded with synthesizers, but Spirit is completely different from their initial bubble gum. The album has no synthesizers at all. Instead, the band brought in over a dozen additional musicians playing various instruments. Recorded while they were grieving various lost loved ones, It's dark and moody. I'm not a big fan of the rest of their work, but Spirit of Eden is one of my all-time favorite albums.
Wow I didn't think anyone else knew The Riverdogs. They were the first band I thought of when I read the topic. I loved the album, but never bothered searching out the others
The Kinks: "Live The Road". Great album. I have a greatest hits CD which is also pretty cool. I have tried and tried and tried but I just can't seem to get into any other Kinks' album. I have the Uncut Kinks magazine that goes through each album. I always wish I could really understand this band more..
Look, get past the way Pete titled this episode, with my thing about the Beatles. My picks were not nearly like all these comments or that title. All these comments... everybody's just picking bands that sure, there's one album at the top, but no one's really like saying that album is like a talisman to them. Mine were I WORSHIP this album uncommonly, and then the rest of the catalogue, sort of don't know it well enough yet or even, I'm blinded so fully by the one I worship that I can't even see the others. I friggin' LOVE The Beatles. The White Album though... it's almost like Eric Wagner from Trouble said to me once, and I stuck it in my old Sabbath book... he said he idolized the Beatles so much he can hardly believe they were real people.
I think what I find strange Martin is that its the one that’s so talismanic to you 🤣 I think Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road are so much more cohesive and brilliant. The White Album has always seemed all over the place to me by comparison, and the album where the solo egos of the Beatles are beginning to fracture the band. But maybe that is what attracts you to it more than other records by them.
I tried going with same concept as Martin, albums I really love way more than the rest of band's catalog. It is not an easy exercise, but also I just satisfied myself with four albums that first came to my mind. The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker Audioslave - Audioslave Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
I'm not sure they've ever been discussed on SOT, but I love the first Suicidal Tendencies album. After that cross-over thrash/punk masterpiece, they went in a more metal direction, which should have been more my thing, but for the most part it didn't quite work, or sometimes just wasn't very good.
Might sound silly, but this is coming from a huge The cure AND Prince Fan... In a way they are very similar. Especially when you take The Head on the Door / Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me (The Cure) and Around the world in a day / Parade (Prince). Both are on many albums very eclectic with a wide variety of styles. The cure even venture into Funk sometimes. I'd say even "Close to me" is like a minimalist billie eilish version of funk. Prince on the other hand sometimes has a bit of a darkness and danger around him. PLUS: Prince has waaaay more absolutely great albums, than just Purple Rain. If you buy me a beer, I'll explain why from "Dirty Mind" to "Lovesexy" is a perfect 8-albums-run. :D
Deep Purple - Machine Head (I *like* their other albums, but love this one) Mercyful Fate - Melissa (like DP, I dig other MF, but it's a blowout - yes, even over Oath) Oasis - What's the Story (it's like a time machine to summer of 1996) Spacehog - Resident Alien (and it's great) They Might Be Giants - Flood White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
Head on the door set the foundation of the following masterpieces from The Cure (Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me, Disintegration, Wish). It's not a perfect album but it has one of the greatest songs ever: Push. A lush 2 minutes intro with awesome guitar work, amazing song. I wasn't attracted to Talking Heads either, my brother bought the 2 CDs greatest hits album and I was ok with several songs but it was until later when I was deep into King Crimson and Brian Eno when I decided to listen to Fear of Music and Remain in light. Amazing albums. Mind Blown. Eno, Fripp, Belew totally blend into the sound of the heads. These 2 albums are pure art rock, totally different beasts. American post punk. I don't know why many metalheads and hard rockers don't dig the Beatles, but it's ok, I can't stand Elvis and the Beach Boys, each their own. At least you're not like a metalhead ex gf I had who hated them with a passion. Ugh. The Beatles were not a musician's band even though Paul McCartney was a groundbreaking bass player, they're a songwriter's band. They don't sound old to me and never will. 🤷🏻♂️
Fantastic video topic! I completely agree with talking heads and they would be on my list as well My picks Cannibal corpse-violence unimagined Morbid angel-altars of madness Talking heads-remain in light Venom-black metal Diamond head-lightning to the nations Honorable mentions Tangerine dream-rubycon Suffocation-pierced from within Nuclear assault-game over The new order-movement Blur-modern life is rubbish
Cheers Pete and Martin. The Tubes debut. Love the first one the rest aren’t even close to 1975 masterpiece. Asia Angel City- Face to Face Pearl Jam- Ten Crack The Sky
I love The Tubes debut def a masterpiece but I also love the Todd Rundgren produced Remote Control...but the rest do leave me cold although I find something to like in each one...
Same...his collaboration with Jim Steinman was terrific on Bat Out of Hell, subsequent albums not so much (and Jim Steinman's solo album was totally forgettable, the only good thing about it was the Richard Corben cover (though not nearly as eye popping as Bat))...
Great episode. Love Martin, and I agree with most of his opinions, but I have to disagree with his opinion on The Beatles. I know people like what they like, but personally I think all The Beatles albums are great. I to got into all the punk, and metal also, but I never heard anything that was as good as The Beatles. I like The Talking Heads, but I loved The Cure. Bought Head On The Door the day it came out. Saw them in concert. Great show. MC5 Kick Out The Jams. Great album. Thanks guys.
I'm going to catch some flak but I gotta say it anyway. South of Heaven from Slayer. I find the songwriting here surprisingly matured and varied, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for anything they have done in the last 25 years.
I think most people can be divided into two camps: those who thought the debut, Hell Awaits, and South of Heaven have the best songwriting and atmosphere, versus those who prefer the more simple and aggressive approach of Reign in Blood and South of Heaven.
I don't listen to it much nowadays however I always thought that the first Audioslave album was good, I don't think that magic was ever recaptured on subsequent releases
Ready to get shot down in some of these. Love them allot, really don’t care for the others in the catalogue Rainbow Rising -Rainbow Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath Ten - Pearl Jam Too Fast For Love - Motley Crue Allied Forces - Triumph
Very good pick, I agree with that. Argus is such a great album but nothing else they did comes close to it. I thought of them as well before I saw your comment.
I love Argus, which is my favourite, but I really love the debut album a lot too. At the time, nobody sounded even remotely like them, with the double lead guitars. And they rock hard on that record. "Phoenix" is an incredible track.
City Boy! My friend was given a pile of demo albums from a local radio station and we listened to them and he kept only two. One he kept was City Boy- The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the other was Tonio K - Life in the Food Chain.
Definitely don’t really like Come Together, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, or like half of that medley. I Want You is also a bit of a slog. It’s a peaks and valleys album for me.
Mine would be Blind Melon’s, ‘Soup’, bc there’s no other band like this I can think of rn. I know that’s a contrarian pick, and I like the song No Rain, but I think the album ‘Soup’ is literally an unsung masterpiece, at times quirky, arty, mellow, rocking, but just full of beauty from front to back. Really sad that it ended there for them, I think they could’ve been massive.
Oh yeah FM's "Black Noise"! Before they started in, this LP came to my mind. Very accessible bt also excellent prog... 'Nash the Slash' on violin, RIP.
Black NOise is the obvious standout, but I like City of Fear & Surveillance as well - picked up all of them in the cutout bins for not very much back in the '80s
Pure magic in those grooves. In "Aldeberaan," when Cam Hawkins sings "They reach out to touch the sta-a-a-ars" I get goosebumps every single time. Every damn time, that just wrecks me. Just an incredible, amazing album that does every last thing I want a Prog album to do and more. 10 stars.
The Cars- I thought the first album was one of the greats, but the second record Candy-O was OK-ish and the rest had one or at most two tracks I liked. A good band with interesting sounds but they peaked early then 'faded' into pop stardom, and that didn't interest me.
Contrarily, Ive always thought of Candy-O as their peak…the first album is classic of course, but Candy-O is more adventurous and has better flow in my opinion.
A nice concept. In my case, I could not find any such bands. For each band I like there are at least two albums I like. Re. The Cure. I got into them last year, even though I knew about the band forever. It was hard work. I loved "The head on the door" right away, but "Kiss me kiss me kiss me" took much longer to sink in. It's the ultimate night-music. If you listen to them in the dark, in silence, then you start to appreciate all the layers and textures. But I don't think I want to listen to them when I am in a very good mood. Certainly not for everyone, and often not for me. But sometimes the mood is just right for The Cure.
A list that pops into my brain at the moment: Appetite For Destruction - Guns and Roses. Nevermind - Nirvana. Boston - Boston. Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest (I know...sacrilege). Blue Murder - Blue Murder. I am sure I will think of more later, but here is my brief list.
I consider the first Lynch Mob album a masterpiece in the genre. Although the rest of the discography (middle releases) we're ot that good. The rest blow out of the water everything Dokken has done since Back for the Attack.
Thanks for this! Never heard of F.M. before and man that first album is excellent. Echoes of both early and "Drama" era Yes. Wouldn't be surprised if they inspired Galahad either.
“Little Creatures” is a great album, but my favorite albums are still “Fear Of Music” and “Remain In Light”. I don’t get that Talking Heads were the band you were supposed to like, I genuinely liked them and they weren’t like anyone else. Lol
@@davidd.7719 same with me, in high school, they were a breath of fresh air, it beat all the hair metal stuff happing during that time, but I was never into metal, mainly, Prog, first wave of punk and post punk.
And Talking Heads were anything but a best of band. They were an album band. You form a close and individual relationship with each different recording. I dig True Stories but in a totally different way than 77. You can't really mix and match with TH studio tracks for a "best of" like you can with, say Steve Miller or Aerosmith. Stop Making Sense is the best way to hear the hits. I don't get Pete, he should never go the greatest hits route when investigating a band.
Guns ‘n’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction Nirvana- Nevermind Pearl Jam- Ten Dokken- Under Lock and Key Green Day- American Idiot Skid Row Quiet Riot- Metal Health Rick James- Street Songs
For me, the answer is definitely GNR, and obviously, that same album. I disagree personally on Nirvana -- I actually like In Utero a lot more than Nevermind, but hey, it's music, and you like what you like, and what you don't, well...you don't!
Yes, I don’t agree on Nirvana at all. I actually think In Utero is Nirvana’s best album and my favourite too. Bleach has also grown on me over the years. If I include Incesticide and MTV Unplugged, Nevermind is actually the album I play the least of their releases (partly because I overplayed it back in the day).
Wait....................you're saying you actually like Skid Row's debut MORE than Slave to the Grind?? Thought I was the only one on this planet who felt that way--glad I'm not alone! *breathes sigh of relief*
Martin, have you been able to check out "From the Lions Mouth" by The Sound? I think if you like that Chameleons album, you'd dig The Sound. "Jeopardy" is another great one by them, though punkier.
@@concatinate Oh yes, an EP; I have it on vinyl and as part of their second CD box set, which I don't reach for as much as the other stuff. But following your reminder I'm eager to go give it another listen.
My fourth choice and another band I own their whole catalog is Roxy Music - For your pleasure ... The amount of hours I have spent listening to this one is unbelievable. The rest of their catalog is mentionable but one or two good tracks For Your Pleasure is 100% perfect...
I have to disagree over Montrose - the debut is absolutely a 5/5 classic but I'd give "Paper Money" a 4/5, definitely worth buying. The final two have their moments but I'd put Montrose in the "two good albums" category.
@@jazzpunk I had tears of joy in my eyes the first time I heard "Space Station No. 5". I'd never heard the album but around 1979, tracks from it kept appearing in the "Sounds Heavy Metal Charts (Sounds was weekly music paper here in the UK). I ordered the Montrose debut from a local import record store, went and picked it up on a Saturday lunchtime when I was working, and rushed home with it in the evening. I was absolutely stunned by it.
Yep. Ten is amazing. Their second album had some decent songs, but after Versus, there is less and less of their music that I enjoy. It seems like my level of disinterest parallels Eddie Vedder taking more of a lead in their songwriting process.
My Top 5 “1 and I’m Done” Albums 1. “Carolina Dreams” - The Marshall Tucker Band 2. “London Calling” - The Clash 3. “Tago Mago” - Can 4. “Hotel California” - Eagles 5. “Entertainment!” - Gang of Four
@@tylerpatterson4787 Yeah...after Bat 2, though, the quality of his work kinda fell off a cliff. He released Bat 3 in 2006, and...yikes. Just not good. Everything else after that for the most part just continued the downhill slide (one exception to that -- 2010's 'Hang Cool Teddybear' is actually pretty good!), although granted, the guy wasn't getting any younger and was plagued by some serious health issues. But Bat 1 and Bat 2 will always remain classics, and actually, the four albums between those two Bat albums are actually pretty solid, especially Deadringer.
The Blue Murder album (which i believe is superb) has a Phil Spectorish 'wall of sound' vibe considering they were a 3 piece. It seems they chucked the kitchen sink at the material during the production and mixing stage.
Before I check this on Wikipedia, didn't their second album have some quite heavy riffs on it? I never owned it by I remember my cousin owning it and bringing to my attention way back then.
I couldn't get into any of their later stuff. Alphabet City was ok but Lexicon Of Love just truly stands out as of the best pop albums of the early 80's.
Black Noise is a desert-island disc for me. One of the all-time greatest prog albums ever made in my opinion. Some of mine: Running On Empty - Cannot stand Jackson Browne but I really love that whole album. Rust Never Sleeps - I do like a lot of scattered Neil Young songs, but no whole albums other than this one which I love.
Mötley Crüe, Shout at the Devil. It's a bit of a Judas Priest rip-off in a way but still a badass album. They never came close to making anything as good.
Great topic and episode. I’m going to say Metallica - Ride the Lightning is my pick. I like Kill Em All and Master but don’t love either and never listen to them anymore. And really don’t like anything after that.
I really love Living Colour's debut album Vivid but I can't get into any album after that one. I should also say I'm a massive Cure fan and have a good sized Cure collection of CDs, DVDs, shirts and bootlegs.
Lol I'm the opposite...I love all of Living Colours albums but thought they got stronger as they went along...Stain is heavy as shit...everyone should see them live...an immense and multi talented band of master musicians
I agree about Vivid...........................Time's Up had its moments but it was too disjointed, Stain is good, but I just was never able to get into it and I was VERY disappointed with Collideoscope which was too alt.-rock sounding for me--I like that genre of music, but the Colour is NOT an alt. rock band! (Overall too boring an album as well).
Beatle albums that I like Please Please Me With The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles (White Album) Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be
I'm normally in agreement with much of what Martin says but.....but.....Tom Waits!!! The man's a genius (IMHO. I know. We're all different). I love pretty much every album he's made. Pete, I actually prefer Ommadawn to Tubular Bells. I love Amarok too, which is one hour long piece but utterly inventive and bonkers. I have a soft spot for The Songs of Distant Earth too. There's some great music elsewhere in his catalogue but it's definitely patchy. His long tracks like Crises, Taurus II from Five Miles Out and Platinum pts 1-4 are all worth checking out. P.S. Love the Friday morning weather reports from the Funhouse.
Who the hell only likes one album by The Beatles? .. It reminds me of a far lefty liberal friend of mine who used to keep telling me that The Beatles were only a boy band, and they were no good .. lol .. trying too hard to be different is silly.
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I only like "Appetite For Destruction" from GNR. The rest of their catalogue I don't particularly care for. I argue that they only got so big because of "Appetite." There are a few other stand out tracks from their catalogue I like, but no other album they made was as amazing as "Appetite."
Agreed. I think that if they had condensed the best from Use Your Illusion I & II they could have had another great album up there with Appetite - but they gave into excess and produced a lot of filler. Just my opinion.
I love both Use Your Illusions and the original stuff on Lies and for me, those records are what made Guns N' Roses such a great band instead of "just" another bunch of rockers. Of course Appetite is pure gold.
I agree 100%
So much of it is because of the drumming. Steve Adler's drumming made such a big difference. I find Matt Sorum unendingly boring.
I concur. AFD was stripped down, raw, in your face, and sounded gnarly as hell. Everything after that was a bloated mess.
Bands Where We Only Like One of Their Albums (w/Martin Popoff)
- Martin Popoff -
The Beatles - White Album (1968)
Talking Heads - Little Creatures (1985)
City Boy - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1979)
The Chameleons - Strange Times (1986)
The Cure - The Head on the Door (1985)
Honorable Mentions
Howard Jones - Dream into Action (1985) ?!?
Pretenders (1980)
Pretenders II (1981)
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (EP)
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1989)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (1985)
- Pete Pardo -
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation (1990)
Blue Murder - Blue Murder (1989)
FM - Black Noise (1978)
Riverdogs - Riverdogs (1990)
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1969)
Honorable Mentions
Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
The Cars - The Cars (1978)
The Cars - Candy-O (1979)
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (1973)
Thank you guys for your opinion, discussion and picks.
All the damn time.
🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁
Life is better with music.
Seeing Lynch Mob, and George, for the first time next week in NH. Excited to see George, the legend, for the first time. Good to know which album I should listen to first (and maybe most).
Third choice is Montrose' first self titled release. I have Ronnie's whole catalog but again 90% of the time this is the one I grab for. Hot Sweet & Sticky ....
A legendary debut...every track on it jams.
I absolutely love these videos. Thanks Pete & Martin. You guys constantly surprise and delight.
Anthrax - Fistful of metal
Exodus - Bonded by blood
Jewel - Spirit
Meatloaf - Bat out of hell
Love / Hate - Blackout in a red room - love the Friday funhouse shows….🤟
That's all you like from Anthrax?
Not spreading the disease?
My favorite show you do Pete .Friday mornings in the fun house with you and Martin ! Love it dudes !
Thank you Martin for including bands like the cure and the chameleons on the show. I grew up listening to these bands and still love them even though now I’m almost exclusively hard rock and metal.
Oh, and I forgot: a big thank you to Martin for letting me know about this band I had never heard of, City Boy. Listening to The Day The Earth Caught Fire right now and it sounds really great! 👍
City Boy was great. 5705! Great song. Mike Slammer went onto Streets. Look em up.
My way into The Cure was "Desintegration", AMAZING dark album! I like their earlier stuff too, but this one is always the one I come back to! Cheers!
"Kiss me kiss me kiss me" is as dark, to my ears. Love that one as well as "Disintegration".
@@AudriusAlkauskasToo many pop tunes for my taste. Should have been a single album.
The Head on the Door is perfect!
@@scorpiorising3741 I'll take Desintegration, Faith, The Top & Pornography before!
Seventeen Seconds and Faith were the best two for me.
Great Topic, My Top 5
1. UB40 - Signing Off
2.Deep Purple - Machine Head
3.Ian Dury(& the Blockheads) - New Boots and Panties
4.The Clash - The Clash(debut)
5.The Angels - Face to face
cheers
Some really nice picks, guys! I love the Chameleons, I have that album on vinyl, Blue Murder, again, on vinyl, I'm a big Cure fan, but not of any particular album in particular, although I really liked "Disintegration." With them it's more individual songs that I love, "Just Like Heaven," "Friday I'm In Love," "Love Song," "Fascination Street." Black Noise by FM is a prog masterpiece. Just as a note, Nash The Slash's real name was Jeff Plewman, and he was a classically trained violinist. He was older than the other guys in the band, and didn't look anything like a rock musician, and so he adopted that Invisible Man sort of persona, and that worked well for him. I went to college with his brother-in-law, who told me all of this, and that Jeff was also gay. That had nothing to do with his music, but it did come out after his death. He left FM to pursue a solo career, and he was replaced by Ben Mink, who would later go on to work quite a bit with kd Lang. Yeah, the Cars debut is pretty hard to beat. One album that I really love, above all their others, is the debut album from Killing Joke, which is just an incredible record. Later they made some really good ones, like "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" and "Pandemonium," but that debut was just so heavy and raw, and sounded nothing like anything else. I would also put Dire Straits debut in there too. They did some great stuff later, but that first one is still my favourite.
Second choice Love - Forever Changes . I really like their other releases but 90% of the time I listen to them which is frequently, I reach for Forever Changes. One of the few lps/cds I listen to from cover to cover.
darn I bought that a year ago, put it on the shelf, never played it and forgot about it
"Retirement Bands" needs to be an episode.
By far my favourite videos are the ones with you two in, another great topic
Gotta love the Starz shirt, Martin. I have Free-For-All playing now in honor of Meatloaf
I spun Free for All as well in honor of Mr. Loaf!
The Dead Daisies: Holy Ground. They're not a band that I normally care much for but when you got a true badass legend like Glenn Hughes playing and singing on your whole album, you know it's going to sound amazing
That's funny, before Glenn joined the band they would have made my list too. I enjoyed Revolución, as I'm a big fan of Richard Fortus's guitar playing. But yes, after Hughes came into the picture, they made their second enjoyable record in my view.
When you have Castronovo on drums, it's win-win. Dude can play and sing like hell.
Pete, I think for the Cure, you should check out Disintegration from 1989. That is the album that goth/doom bands from Europe site as a big influence on their sound. Bands like Type O Negative, Anathema, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, and even Porcupine Tree and Pineapple Thief. That one is a great one for me. I’m not a huge fan of the rest. A song here or there, but Disintegration is a masterwork.
Great record! But the Cure is neither dark, nor gloomy. Their music is too lively and happy to ever be considered gloom. They never wrote music that matched their lyrics.
@@benedictdonald4338 I respectfully disagree. I don’t think you’ve heard enough of their music. And it all depends on the album. I agree, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and Wish are upbeat and almost joyous, but Disintegration, Bloodflowers, those are pretty moody dark albums
Agreed!
@@benedictdonald4338 seems like you never listened to their Faith and Pornography albums to say things like that.
Not gonna lie, I was surprised when Martin chose The Beatles as one of his picks for this show
I think that was the intent. Enjoyed that bit though-Martin gleefully ripping up his own credibility with many viewers, then Pete, ever the kind host, scrambling to repair it as much as he can in a few seconds.
He’s the owner of some very odd points of view. Hard to take him seriously.
@@benedictdonald4338 this is what's great about listening to Martin. He gives an interesting opinion that's fresh.
@@benedictdonald4338 his hundreds of critically aclaimed books would beg to differ.
@@vincenzonapoles4371”Critically acclaimed”?!?
I would add Billy Idol ‘s 1983 album “Rebel Yell” to my list of “only like one” albums.
The “Rebel Yell” album has the hits “Eyes without a Face”, “Flesh for Fantasy”, “Catch My Fall” and the title track. In my opinion, except for “White Wedding”, Billy Idol hit his peak with this album.
Whiplash Smile is great as is the debut imo
Agree. Great album, the rest of his stuff I could take it or leave
Cro-mags - Age of Quarrel comes to mind. I liked Best Wishes, but the first album is the only one that's truly legendary and essential.
I've always adored Talking Heads. Remain in Light is just perfect. It's an incredibly odd and creative 40 minute journey that is simultaneously impossibly groovy as well as strangely brooding. Amazing lyrics, performances, and production. Speaking in Tongues is just such a great collection of really quirky and oddly assembled pop songs that, despite their slightly off-kilter nature, manage to have great hooks, melodies, and textures. Plus, that closer is an all time great love song. Never felt myself feeling like I "had" to like them or anything, I just love em to bits. I could rant more about 4 other albums by them for hours, but I'll stop myself now.
Do you like David Byrne's solo material?
Since you like Remain In Light,have you heard Jerry Harrison;s The Red And The Black?
@@adamsmashups4839 I haven’t, I’ll definitely check that out! Thanks!
@@manuelper You didn’t ask me, but his solo stuff is very hit and miss imo, but when it’s on, it’s really on. Still, I don’t think he ever went beyond 1984, in terms of greatness. That’s not just a David thing, I think they all peaked pre-85.
David’s best solo stuff is collaborative, particularly with Eno, St Vincent, etc, but he’s got a few pretty good ones that aren’t collabs. Tom Tom Club’s first album is the best album any of them produced outside out Talking Heads (considerably, imo), but also they don’t have as many good non-TH albums as Byrne. Now, I have to check Jerry Harrison’s solo stuff, bc I’ll admit I don’t know it. ✌️
@@nikolademitri731 I think we agree. I actually love 'Rei Momo' quite a bit. A strange album indeed, an anglo playing straight traditional sub-genre latin music in English, but I quite adore that album. There's a lot of stuff of his like that, I either love it or don't care for it. Peace.
Popoff and Pardo are it again and this time talking about their singular sensations for certain bands. An excellent topic and some interesting choices by Martin and Pete. Martin, ever the contrarian starting off with The Beatles set a good tone for the episode. The mention of Prince's Purple Rain took the very first album that came to my mind. But some others, at least for me, are Cosmic Thing by the B-52s and Songs From The Rain by Hothouse Flowers. Thanks, gents, for this episode. There ya go!
Prince? For You (1978) - Diamonds And Pearls (1991), 12 GREAT albums in a row!
Loving the post-punk shoutouts by Martin in this one. The Cure, Talking Heads and The Chameleons. Yes! And yes, Martin, Head on the Door is one of my favorite Cure albums as well though Pornography and Disintegration might edge it out.
Script of The Bridge is a great album by the Chameleons.
I dropped some micro-dot in Colorado Springs before Christmas in 1989, and I listened to The Cure - Push and watched a wall breath. It was transcendent. Then Frank and I, who was tripping too, went delivering christmas trees. It was dark and there was snow on the ground, I followed him in my car, until all the trees were gone, then we drove around in my car, until a police car started following. I got nervous and we drove up into Cheyenne Mountain, lost the police car and watched the moon rise. 'The Head on The Door' brings it all back.
@@preving Indeed Incredible album!
Me too. I love post-punk as a genre. For The Cure I especially love Seventeen Seconds. Great atmosphere all the way through. For the Chameleons I love Script of the Bridge more but I love all their albums. Second Skin gives me goosebumps all the time. :)
@@matma84 Yes sir. I watch Pete and the gang mainly for nostalgia reasons because I loved Hard Rock and Metal when I was in my teens, 20s and early 30s. Now it's all about post punk, goth, darkwave, shoegaze, synthwave, etc for me.
Speaking of MC5. Kick out the jams is a legendary album, deservedly so, I think after that album nothing was the same anymore. But I absolutely adore High Time. I would classify it as a perfect album. Back in the USA is a great record too, often overlooked, but High Time is my absolute favorite.
My favourite MC5 stuff is the pre first album singles and Back in the USA. High Time is quite good too but I like Back in the USA more.
This is a fun and fascinating listen! I've been trying to think of an example, but I don't know if I can come up with one band or artist (that has released multiple albums, of course) where I truly like *only one* album, though there are some "two-album" (or close to it) bands for me. I'm surprised to hear that Martin is not a Talking Heads fan, as he is a big fan of many "post-punk" bands. Love them and the Cure!
Pete - Are you ever going to do an episode/show on Kate Bush? Recall you mentioning her once, regarding the difficulty in classifying her work. Would love to hear a ranking the albums (panel?!?!) or analysis of career. A little outside of your norms, but you often address unique artists. Keep up the good work, enjoy your channel and opinions even though we have different interests (maybe because of that).
I love all the City Boy records, and I have Martin to thank for turning me on to them.
Loved City Boy with their amped up prog + R&B sound... and lyrics and harmonies to rival 10cc! A brilliant band with an uneven trajectory... personally I love the early stuff ("Young Men Gone West" was the LP Matin pulled and said "Dinner at the Ritz") but I wasn't as enthralled with them once they got to 5-7-0-5. Personal thing, I guess. I just wondered why they never became huge, especially with that Mutt Lange production.
Agree. Just purchased all their vinyl on eBay and enjoy them all
The first album by the Hooters. All You Zombies, Day by Day, Where do the Children Go are great songs. Rest of their albums unmemorable to me.
Technically that's their second album. Anyway, I'm probably in the minority but I absolutely LOVE the follow-up album (One Way Home). In my opinion, it's much better than the one with all the hits.
@@EdHerzog1 That's a good one too, yes.
I love The Hooters! I actually really like all their 80s output, and the one album they did in the 90s
@@EdHerzog1 Satellite and Karla With A K are two of my favorite songs by them!
Personally;feel they had maybe.... 2 and a 1/2 albums with really, good material.... but part of my 1980's soundtrack. 👍's.
The self titled album by The Stone Roses is perfection, I wouldnt change anything about it and Oasis basically stole their sound and look but made it more accessible to a mainstream audience. But the 2nd album Second Coming was like they were asleep at the wheel, and dont even bother with the unreleased stuff.
I don’t want to sell my soul, he’s already in me… I WANNA BE ADORED!!!!
The Beatles - it’s the song writing that’s timeless. Their influence is incalculable. To understand popular music you need to understand the Beatles. They don’t fall into the show’s theme for me personally but I don’t think Martin is being controversial. I’d pick Revolver as favourite and it does have a great cover, as does The Beatles - the plain white album with embossing, another first I think, and Abbey Road, one of the iconic album covers, possibly the best known cover ever? My choice for today is REM Automatic for the People.
I never understood why the beatles early music created so much fuss. It was nothing new. Just pop rock. They didn’t get brilliant and unique until around revolver and rubber soul.
@@MrSmitht04 still great
@@mike04574 the early stuff is good. Nothing groundbreaking or new though. Sounded like stuff Buddy Holly had already done
@@MrSmitht04 Yes, I agree with you. All artists are influenced by what goes before, what they listen to and the Beatles were rooted in 50’s rocks roll and because of the massive success of their first US visit, it’s sometimes forgotten they paid their dues. There are many reasons why they became a phenomenon during that 62 - 64 Beatlemania period. Their early albums had covers and after A Hard Day’s Night - I do like the soundtrack and it’s their own material - they released Beatles for Sale which did have covers and pays recognition to influences including Buddy Holly. I think there is some evidence on Help but agree that Rubber Sole marks the big change and the start of their song writing sophistication and huge musical influence . Aside from AHDN it’s the earliest Beatles album in my collection of the digital remasters. Didn’t see the Let It Be doc as don’t have Disney but must get the 2021 special edition remix by Giles Martin and also has the Glyn Johns mix and the rehearsal stuff.
@@maddysmith8846 I guess I don’t understand the early Beatlemania. They were playing anything new or cutting edge at that point
I agree with Pete about Wicked Sensation being the absolute best of Lynch Mob. Sacred Groove, which was a George solo album from the 90's, was really good too. It had Glenn Hughes singing on two awesome songs and Ray Gillen on another.
I like the 2nd album as well (not as much as Wicked Sensation), but I would agree about everything in the last decade...lackluster and not memorable.
"No Bed Of Roses" is still a favorite song of mine.
Pete did not mention the Brotherhood album. Oni Logan is the singer on that one. I think it's a very good album with memorable songs. Much better than Rebel which is a very forgettable CD.
Still listen to Sacred Groove. Great album! Too bad we never got a full album with the "journeymen" of hard rock: Lynch & Hughes.... that would've been great!
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk would be my pick. They were an 80's British pop band whose first three albums are loaded with synthesizers, but Spirit is completely different from their initial bubble gum. The album has no synthesizers at all. Instead, the band brought in over a dozen additional musicians playing various instruments. Recorded while they were grieving various lost loved ones, It's dark and moody. I'm not a big fan of the rest of their work, but Spirit of Eden is one of my all-time favorite albums.
I like Laughing Stock best but love all the Talk Talk albums...also love Mark Hollis solo album...a beautiful piece of music
they were never bubble gum
Huge Chameleons fan here, EVERY thing they did was brilliant IMO, love every album. Spin those other LPS Martin!
Totally agreed, Strange Times is even my least favorite of the first three.
I bought Script of the Bridge when it came out (excellent) but never listened to anything else. I need to correct that.
Yeah, that one was a head scratcher for me from Martin.
As per The Cure; try Disintegration and Wish. Two great, dark, heavy and kind of proggy records
Love the cure
Stopped watching when Martin picked the Beatles straight off.
And “The White Album” too! Lol!
Here in Kailua-Kona Hawaii it's blue skies and 80 degrees, I may go to the beach tomorrow.
Wow I didn't think anyone else knew The Riverdogs. They were the first band I thought of when I read the topic. I loved the album, but never bothered searching out the others
Their first CD is in my car right now!
That first album has vivian's best guitar playing of his career theres one other album and an ep thst dont even come close to the dbut
The Kinks: "Live The Road". Great album. I have a greatest hits CD which is also pretty cool. I have tried and tried and tried but I just can't seem to get into any other Kinks' album. I have the Uncut Kinks magazine that goes through each album. I always wish I could really understand this band more..
Look, get past the way Pete titled this episode, with my thing about the Beatles.
My picks were not nearly like all these comments or that title.
All these comments... everybody's just picking bands that sure, there's one album at the top, but no one's really like saying that album is like a talisman to them.
Mine were I WORSHIP this album uncommonly, and then the rest of the catalogue, sort of don't know it well enough yet or even, I'm blinded so fully by the one I worship that I can't even see the others.
I friggin' LOVE The Beatles.
The White Album though... it's almost like Eric Wagner from Trouble said to me once, and I stuck it in my old Sabbath book... he said he idolized the Beatles so much he can hardly believe they were real people.
I think what I find strange Martin is that its the one that’s so talismanic to you 🤣 I think Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road are so much more cohesive and brilliant. The White Album has always seemed all over the place to me by comparison, and the album where the solo egos of the Beatles are beginning to fracture the band.
But maybe that is what attracts you to it more than other records by them.
I tried going with same concept as Martin, albums I really love way more than the rest of band's catalog. It is not an easy exercise, but also I just satisfied myself with four albums that first came to my mind.
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Audioslave - Audioslave
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
You don't like Frances The Mute?
I'm not sure they've ever been discussed on SOT, but I love the first Suicidal Tendencies album. After that cross-over thrash/punk masterpiece, they went in a more metal direction, which should have been more my thing, but for the most part it didn't quite work, or sometimes just wasn't very good.
FM-Black Noise! Great to hear this mentioned! Great album!
Might sound silly, but this is coming from a huge The cure AND Prince Fan... In a way they are very similar. Especially when you take The Head on the Door / Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me (The Cure) and Around the world in a day / Parade (Prince). Both are on many albums very eclectic with a wide variety of styles. The cure even venture into Funk sometimes. I'd say even "Close to me" is like a minimalist billie eilish version of funk. Prince on the other hand sometimes has a bit of a darkness and danger around him. PLUS: Prince has waaaay more absolutely great albums, than just Purple Rain. If you buy me a beer, I'll explain why from "Dirty Mind" to "Lovesexy" is a perfect 8-albums-run. :D
Deep Purple - Machine Head (I *like* their other albums, but love this one)
Mercyful Fate - Melissa (like DP, I dig other MF, but it's a blowout - yes, even over Oath)
Oasis - What's the Story (it's like a time machine to summer of 1996)
Spacehog - Resident Alien (and it's great)
They Might Be Giants - Flood
White Zombie - Astrocreep 2000
Head on the door set the foundation of the following masterpieces from The Cure (Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me, Disintegration, Wish). It's not a perfect album but it has one of the greatest songs ever: Push.
A lush 2 minutes intro with awesome guitar work, amazing song.
I wasn't attracted to Talking Heads either, my brother bought the 2 CDs greatest hits album and I was ok with several songs but it was until later when I was deep into King Crimson and Brian Eno when I decided to listen to Fear of Music and Remain in light. Amazing albums. Mind Blown. Eno, Fripp, Belew totally blend into the sound of the heads. These 2 albums are pure art rock, totally different beasts. American post punk.
I don't know why many metalheads and hard rockers don't dig the Beatles, but it's ok, I can't stand Elvis and the Beach Boys, each their own. At least you're not like a metalhead ex gf I had who hated them with a passion. Ugh.
The Beatles were not a musician's band even though Paul McCartney was a groundbreaking bass player, they're a songwriter's band. They don't sound old to me and never will. 🤷🏻♂️
I must disagree, they were all fantastic musicians they just didn't jerk around showing off their chops.
Fantastic video topic! I completely agree with talking heads and they would be on my list as well
My picks
Cannibal corpse-violence unimagined
Morbid angel-altars of madness
Talking heads-remain in light
Venom-black metal
Diamond head-lightning to the nations
Honorable mentions
Tangerine dream-rubycon
Suffocation-pierced from within
Nuclear assault-game over
The new order-movement
Blur-modern life is rubbish
Cheers Pete and Martin.
The Tubes debut. Love the first one the rest aren’t even close to 1975 masterpiece.
Asia
Angel City- Face to Face
Pearl Jam- Ten
Crack The Sky
Mate night attack and dark room(no secrets) are f???ing great albums by Angel city(the angels)
Oh and their live album liveline is one of the best live albums of all time
Hot razors in my heart!
I love The Tubes debut def a masterpiece but I also love the Todd Rundgren produced Remote Control...but the rest do leave me cold although I find something to like in each one...
Ben Mink was Nash The Slash's replacement in FM. 2 different people. Ben also played on Losing It from Rush's Signals album.
In honor of Meat Loaf, Bat Outta Hell is another album I want to pick the rest of his discography never cared for.
Dead Ringer is also good, I think its a little more ‘rock’ than Bat Out of Hell, if anything.
Same...his collaboration with Jim Steinman was terrific on Bat Out of Hell, subsequent albums not so much (and Jim Steinman's solo album was totally forgettable, the only good thing about it was the Richard Corben cover (though not nearly as eye popping as Bat))...
Martin, and Pete loved your honorable mentions. I've owned, or a least listened to all of those albums.
Great episode. Love Martin, and I agree with most of his opinions, but I have to disagree with his opinion on The Beatles. I know people like what they like, but personally I think all The Beatles albums are great. I to got into all the punk, and metal also, but I never heard anything that was as good as The Beatles. I like The Talking Heads, but I loved The Cure. Bought Head On The Door the day it came out. Saw them in concert. Great show. MC5 Kick Out The Jams. Great album. Thanks guys.
Love the Starz shirt, imo they are the most underrated band of the 70’s.
I'm going to catch some flak but I gotta say it anyway. South of Heaven from Slayer. I find the songwriting here surprisingly matured and varied, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for anything they have done in the last 25 years.
Good catch! It’s a classic mature album, stands the test of time very well!!!
I think most people can be divided into two camps: those who thought the debut, Hell Awaits, and South of Heaven have the best songwriting and atmosphere, versus those who prefer the more simple and aggressive approach of Reign in Blood and South of Heaven.
Great stuff gentlemen, thank you for the recommendations!!
I don't listen to it much nowadays however I always thought that the first Audioslave album was good, I don't think that magic was ever recaptured on subsequent releases
You are correct sir
Yeah I can see that. I liked some individual songs on the last two Audioslave albums, but they weren't as solid all the way through like the debut.
Ready to get shot down in some of these. Love them allot, really don’t care for the others in the catalogue
Rainbow Rising -Rainbow
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
Ten - Pearl Jam
Too Fast For Love - Motley Crue
Allied Forces - Triumph
Wishbone Ash Argus is in my all time top ten, but the rest of their output makes me go "meh".
Very good pick, I agree with that. Argus is such a great album but nothing else they did comes close to it. I thought of them as well before I saw your comment.
@@jimmycampbell78 They were the first band I saw live when I was 15. When they played the stuff from Argus the atmosphere absolutely crackled!
Take another listen to albums like ‘there’s the rub’ and ‘just testing’ many great songs on both of them
I love Argus, which is my favourite, but I really love the debut album a lot too. At the time, nobody sounded even remotely like them, with the double lead guitars. And they rock hard on that record. "Phoenix" is an incredible track.
Argus is great but I prefer Theres the Rub the best.
City Boy! My friend was given a pile of demo albums from a local radio station and we listened to them and he kept only two. One he kept was City Boy- The Day the Earth Caught Fire, the other was Tonio K - Life in the Food Chain.
Abbey road is one of the very best albums of all time.
I had great luck with “greatest hits” of America, Kansas and Foreigner, all bands a bit before “my time.”
Abbey Road is a Masterpiece...
💯PERCENT AGREE!!!!
Definitely don’t really like Come Together, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, or like half of that medley. I Want You is also a bit of a slog. It’s a peaks and valleys album for me.
Mine would be Blind Melon’s, ‘Soup’, bc there’s no other band like this I can think of rn. I know that’s a contrarian pick, and I like the song No Rain, but I think the album ‘Soup’ is literally an unsung masterpiece, at times quirky, arty, mellow, rocking, but just full of beauty from front to back. Really sad that it ended there for them, I think they could’ve been massive.
Oh yeah FM's "Black Noise"! Before they started in, this LP came to my mind. Very accessible bt also excellent prog... 'Nash the Slash' on violin, RIP.
Black NOise is the obvious standout, but I like City of Fear & Surveillance as well - picked up all of them in the cutout bins for not very much back in the '80s
Pure magic in those grooves. In "Aldeberaan," when Cam Hawkins sings "They reach out to touch the sta-a-a-ars" I get goosebumps every single time. Every damn time, that just wrecks me. Just an incredible, amazing album that does every last thing I want a Prog album to do and more. 10 stars.
Nash the Slash and Ben Mink were two separate people.
@@paulcalder2792 Who said they weren't?
@@michaelcottle6270 I understood Pete Pardo to say, that they were one and the same.
The Beatles: A Hard Day Night
Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys
Bon Jovi: Keep the Faith
Kiss: Psycho Circus
Nick Cave: No More Shall We Part
Wow.You love Keeper!👏😀🍻
The Cars- I thought the first album was one of the greats, but the second record Candy-O was OK-ish and the rest had one or at most two tracks I liked. A good band with interesting sounds but they peaked early then 'faded' into pop stardom, and that didn't interest me.
Contrarily, Ive always thought of Candy-O as their peak…the first album is classic of course, but Candy-O is more adventurous and has better flow in my opinion.
If I never hear another Beatles song
I would live happily ever after
A nice concept. In my case, I could not find any such bands. For each band I like there are at least two albums I like.
Re. The Cure. I got into them last year, even though I knew about the band forever. It was hard work. I loved "The head on the door" right away, but "Kiss me kiss me kiss me" took much longer to sink in. It's the ultimate night-music. If you listen to them in the dark, in silence, then you start to appreciate all the layers and textures. But I don't think I want to listen to them when I am in a very good mood. Certainly not for everyone, and often not for me. But sometimes the mood is just right for The Cure.
A list that pops into my brain at the moment:
Appetite For Destruction - Guns and Roses.
Nevermind - Nirvana.
Boston - Boston.
Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest (I know...sacrilege).
Blue Murder - Blue Murder. I am sure I will think of more later, but here is my brief list.
For Michael Jackson the only albums I really liked by him was Off The Wall and Thriller, his later albums became hit and miss.
Went to check out The Chameleons, and Martin is right, they are a real deal! This is part of why I'm watching these, always get some good album picks!
I consider the first Lynch Mob album a masterpiece in the genre. Although the rest of the discography (middle releases) we're ot that good. The rest blow out of the water everything Dokken has done since Back for the Attack.
Could not agree more with both points.....Badlands debut is killer as well....everything Dokken has released since Back For The Attach blows!
Thanks for this! Never heard of F.M. before and man that first album is excellent. Echoes of both early and "Drama" era Yes. Wouldn't be surprised if they inspired Galahad either.
“Little Creatures” is a great album, but my favorite albums are still “Fear Of Music” and “Remain In Light”. I don’t get that Talking Heads were the band you were supposed to like, I genuinely liked them and they weren’t like anyone else. Lol
I’ve loved Talking Heads ever since I was in high school in the mid 80’s. Your two favorite albums are also mine.
@@davidd.7719 same with me, in high school, they were a breath of fresh air, it beat all the hair metal stuff happing during that time, but I was never into metal, mainly, Prog, first wave of punk and post punk.
And Talking Heads were anything but a best of band. They were an album band. You form a close and individual relationship with each different recording. I dig True Stories but in a totally different way than 77. You can't really mix and match with TH studio tracks for a "best of" like you can with, say Steve Miller or Aerosmith. Stop Making Sense is the best way to hear the hits. I don't get Pete, he should never go the greatest hits route when investigating a band.
"Talking Heads have a new album.
It's called 'Fear of Music'"
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A great discussion , gentlemen . Thanks !
Love Chameleons, great choice, but the first album is amazing!!! Martin has too listen to the Cure’s Disintegration!!!
Chameleons are amazing
Seven hells Pete gave the Cars some love. Those first two albums are gold to me. Lets have some Clutch love in an upcoming episode. Please.
Yes, Clutch!
Guns ‘n’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Nirvana- Nevermind
Pearl Jam- Ten
Dokken- Under Lock and Key
Green Day- American Idiot
Skid Row
Quiet Riot- Metal Health
Rick James- Street Songs
For me, the answer is definitely GNR, and obviously, that same album. I disagree personally on Nirvana -- I actually like In Utero a lot more than Nevermind, but hey, it's music, and you like what you like, and what you don't, well...you don't!
Yes, I don’t agree on Nirvana at all. I actually think In Utero is Nirvana’s best album and my favourite too. Bleach has also grown on me over the years. If I include Incesticide and MTV Unplugged, Nevermind is actually the album I play the least of their releases (partly because I overplayed it back in the day).
Nailed it with GNR, but I prefer Bleach to Nevermind.
Wait....................you're saying you actually like Skid Row's debut MORE than Slave to the Grind?? Thought I was the only one on this planet who felt that way--glad I'm not alone! *breathes sigh of relief*
The Cure have been my favorite band for about the last forty years. I would definitely recommend exploring more of their music .
Yeah I agree
I agree. They both disqualified in their opinions about The Cure!!!
Martin, have you been able to check out "From the Lions Mouth" by The Sound? I think if you like that Chameleons album, you'd dig The Sound. "Jeopardy" is another great one by them, though punkier.
The Sound's "Shock of Daylight" (was it only an EP? Anyway) is even more Chameleons-like...
@@concatinate Oh yes, an EP; I have it on vinyl and as part of their second CD box set, which I don't reach for as much as the other stuff. But following your reminder I'm eager to go give it another listen.
@@matthewkieswetter4376 "Winter" is a lovely track of ringing, chiming guitar and subduded melancholy. Poignant in retrospect.
My fourth choice and another band I own their whole catalog is Roxy Music - For your pleasure ... The amount of hours I have spent listening to this one is unbelievable. The rest of their catalog is mentionable but one or two good tracks For Your Pleasure is 100% perfect...
That’s their best album love the cover too
Montrose. The debut is the only one I like.
Oz. Fire In the Brain is amazing.
I have to disagree over Montrose - the debut is absolutely a 5/5 classic but I'd give "Paper Money" a 4/5, definitely worth buying. The final two have their moments but I'd put Montrose in the "two good albums" category.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 In the day, a friend down the street had the debut. I went with Paper Money. Boy, was I mad! :-)
@@jazzpunk I had tears of joy in my eyes the first time I heard "Space Station No. 5". I'd never heard the album but around 1979, tracks from it kept appearing in the "Sounds Heavy Metal Charts (Sounds was weekly music paper here in the UK). I ordered the Montrose debut from a local import record store, went and picked it up on a Saturday lunchtime when I was working, and rushed home with it in the evening. I was absolutely stunned by it.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I'll have to revisit Paper Money.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 - there are some great live vids of that song here on YT.
Gerry Rafferty - "City to City"
Gary Wright - "The Dream Weaver"
Edgar Winter Group - "They Only Come Out at Night"
Big Country - "The Crossing"
Pearl Jam - Ten
Yep. Ten is amazing. Their second album had some decent songs, but after Versus, there is less and less of their music that I enjoy. It seems like my level of disinterest parallels Eddie Vedder taking more of a lead in their songwriting process.
My Top 5 “1 and I’m Done” Albums
1. “Carolina Dreams” - The Marshall Tucker Band
2. “London Calling” - The Clash
3. “Tago Mago” - Can
4. “Hotel California” - Eagles
5. “Entertainment!” - Gang of Four
Meat Loaf....Only liked Bat out of Hell. RIP big fella...
I mostly agree here, although there were a few interesting songs on BooH 2 (other than "I Would Do Anything...").
To think about it, he made 12 albums and his biggest albums are only the bat out of hell albums, one album change his life.
@@tylerpatterson4787 Yeah...after Bat 2, though, the quality of his work kinda fell off a cliff. He released Bat 3 in 2006, and...yikes. Just not good. Everything else after that for the most part just continued the downhill slide (one exception to that -- 2010's 'Hang Cool Teddybear' is actually pretty good!), although granted, the guy wasn't getting any younger and was plagued by some serious health issues. But Bat 1 and Bat 2 will always remain classics, and actually, the four albums between those two Bat albums are actually pretty solid, especially Deadringer.
The Blue Murder album (which i believe is superb) has a Phil Spectorish 'wall of sound' vibe considering they were a 3 piece. It seems they chucked the kitchen sink at the material during the production and mixing stage.
Loved their follow-up as well - Nothing but Trouble, but a much different recording, minus Tony & Carmine.
ABC - Lexicon Of Love. A new wave, pop music from the early 80's.
Before I check this on Wikipedia, didn't their second album have some quite heavy riffs on it? I never owned it by I remember my cousin owning it and bringing to my attention way back then.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 You're correct. Beauty Stab had more guitar. The production on Lexicon Of Love is fantastic.
I couldn't get into any of their later stuff. Alphabet City was ok but Lexicon Of Love just truly stands out as of the best pop albums of the early 80's.
@@jazzpunk I will make a point of going back and giving them a spin.
Black Noise is a desert-island disc for me. One of the all-time greatest prog albums ever made in my opinion. Some of mine: Running On Empty - Cannot stand Jackson Browne but I really love that whole album. Rust Never Sleeps - I do like a lot of scattered Neil Young songs, but no whole albums other than this one which I love.
I'd say Rust Never Sleeps and Live Rust are tied for Neil's best album of all time--he was hit and miss before those ones and has been ever since.
Mötley Crüe, Shout at the Devil. It's a bit of a Judas Priest rip-off in a way but still a badass album. They never came close to making anything as good.
Man.. I love Starz.. Great t-shirt
Great topic and episode. I’m going to say Metallica - Ride the Lightning is my pick. I like Kill Em All and Master but don’t love either and never listen to them anymore. And really don’t like anything after that.
I really love Living Colour's debut album Vivid but I can't get into any album after that one. I should also say I'm a massive Cure fan and have a good sized Cure collection of CDs, DVDs, shirts and bootlegs.
Lol I'm the opposite...I love all of Living Colours albums but thought they got stronger as they went along...Stain is heavy as shit...everyone should see them live...an immense and multi talented band of master musicians
I agree about Vivid...........................Time's Up had its moments but it was too disjointed, Stain is good, but I just was never able to get into it and I was VERY disappointed with Collideoscope which was too alt.-rock sounding for me--I like that genre of music, but the Colour is NOT an alt. rock band! (Overall too boring an album as well).
Beatle albums that I like
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (White Album)
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
I don't care much for Yellow Submarine... ;-)
RATT “ Out Of The Cellar”😀❤️
Loved "The Best of Bread" from 1973. But I never really got into any others. Then I moved into prog rock, especially Kansas, and stayed there.
The Real Thing by Faith No More. That album is epic (pun intended). The rest of their catalog is just....weird.
I agree, the real things stands out for me, the rest of their albums bar a few songs are not great at all.
I'm normally in agreement with much of what Martin says but.....but.....Tom Waits!!! The man's a genius (IMHO. I know. We're all different). I love pretty much every album he's made.
Pete, I actually prefer Ommadawn to Tubular Bells. I love Amarok too, which is one hour long piece but utterly inventive and bonkers. I have a soft spot for The Songs of Distant Earth too. There's some great music elsewhere in his catalogue but it's definitely patchy. His long tracks like Crises, Taurus II from Five Miles Out and Platinum pts 1-4 are all worth checking out.
P.S. Love the Friday morning weather reports from the Funhouse.
Who the hell only likes one album by The Beatles? .. It reminds me of a far lefty liberal friend of mine who used to keep telling me that The Beatles were only a boy band, and they were no good .. lol .. trying too hard to be different is silly.