Albums That Revitalized a Bands Career (w/Martin Popoff)
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Join Pete Pardo & Martin Popoff for a discussion of albums that gave new life to a bands career, in some cases with long lasting effects, others not so much.
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COME ON PEOPLE! 90125 COMPLETELY SAVED YES
I agree totally, that tour was my first concert.
Eh, Going For The One is about as far as I’ll go.
For Deep Purple, I think "Perfect Strangers" is a better choice.
As I said in my comment, I love Burn, but Perfect Strangers is THE comeback.
I remember when “Perfect Strangers” came out it’s definitely the comeback
Excellent choice, man.... Perfect sounds like 1972 all over again!... Incredible stuff there, especially Wasted Sunsets like wow.... I still really like House Of Blue Light, I don't know why the fans are so down on it(Mitzi Dupree, Spanish Archer, etc)... What are your thoughts on it?...Take Care, Ghostrider Rick .
I was disappointed when it came out. It just wasn't as good as anything that came before. That being said, I did listen to it last week for the first time in ages. I liked it. I will listen to it again. It's still not as good as Perfect Strangers but it's still good.
I disagree. I’d definitely say In Rock is the album that revitalized Deep Purple, not Perfect. Perfect Strangers was a good comeback, but did it last that long after? Deep Purple weren’t that big until Ian joined and they dropped In Rock, which subsequently lead to a stack of legendary albums from the most popular era of the band.
Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
Totally.
First thing that came to mind.
First one that came to mind for me was Yes's "90125"
Agreed 👍
Maybe in the public eye, but Drama is a much stronger album than 90125 imo.
@@TheUltraSaiyanGoku only prog fans bought Drama. 90125 was a lifeboat album and Owner Of A Lonley Heart went number 1(their only song to do that) and became their biggest selling album to date.
The problem with that is that Drama was a great album. Big Generator sucked. Drama didn't.
@@toddfoster828 I mentioned 90125.
Johnny Cash - American Recordings. He had become nearly forgotten during the entire decade the '80's, even to the point of being dropped by his record label. Then he got hooked up with Rick Rubin, and in addition to introducing Cash to a whole new generation, the album they made reminded the rest of us just how freakin' cool Johnny Cash is.
Among the American Recordings, I especially love the Tom Petty produced "Unchained." Aside from the San Quentin and Folsom Prison live albums, that has to be one of his best.
Agree. Hard to think of an artist who had two major revitalization albums like Johnny Cash (both American Recordings and Folsom Prison)
Great choice - We used to joke about Johnny Cash when I was a kid, but he suddenly became awesome again around 1990.
Well said.
Johnny Cash sounds so good on those recordings. I think i have three of the discs and they're all great. I mean Johnny Cash covering Depeche Mode but its a triumph. Love Pete's channel but the guitar solo isn't isn't essential in great music.
I get your disdain for Wind of Change (Scorpions), but it means a lot to me. I took 4 years of German in high school and went to Germany in 1985. I saw the wall. When it came down in 1989 it was one of the most important days for freedom. I felt it. I can only imagine what it meant to the Scorpions and the rest of Germany. That song captures that emotion perfectly.
I lived through that era and when the wall was in the process of being pulled down has to be one of the most powerful moments in my life. My family have a life long friend who escaped to the West when he was a young man when the wall was being constructed, leaving his German family behind. He became a success in Bridgend, Wales, of all places and always hated the GDR. Despite all of this I'm in agreement with Martin; Wind of Change is cringeworthy. It's not really The Scorpions fault, I just don't think that rock music has the ability to express that moment in a satisfying way. We needed jazz or classical to express the scale.
It's a nice song imho. Sentimental, perhaps, but reminds me of an amazing time when we saw the tv pictures of people starting to come through the wall. I liked Crazy World a lot, especially 'Send me an Angel'. For me, both front and back cover art is great: a door in a grey world, opening to a world of colour, sweetness and life.
Enjoyed this edition. Great idea. Looking forward to more editions
What? This guy criticized Wind of Change in this video? That's totally idiotic. Its one of the best ballads of all time
@@angryagain3801 they’re the typical snobs
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Definitely......and it was great.
Hell yesssssss. Incredible comeback LP. TT is so awesome.
@@ScottyKirk1 Interestingly, I and my son saw Purple a few months before the virus hit. I was never a MASSIVE fan (Had their "Made in Japan", Machine Head", "Greatest hits", "Bluelight album" and of course "Perfect Strangers" and the live album of that tour -okay, I guess I was a fairly serious fan). But I had made the grave error of put off seeing them for years hoping that Ritchie would tour with them..then I heard this was the LAST tour.. Consequently, then, I saw them live....and now....I understood why so many people love these guys as much as Zeppelin. Since that show I've bought several live Purple CD's and the performances are awesome. If they come around again....I"m going AGAIN.
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 2nd best comeback for DP was Burn for sure. I really enjoyed the M3 and M4 eras, and there's a boatload of vintage live material released in the past 15 years from those eras.
@@ScottyKirk1 Thanks for the input and response. Admittedly, I haven't delved too much into the M3 or M4 time period...but I'm getting quite curious about them.....as I have heard much favorable comments...
Just put it on and pressed the like button straight away. Pardo and Popoff, dream team are here.
Yeah I really love them together, probably my favorite duo of 2021 so far
Wonderful listening
Couldn't agree more.
there knowledge of music is top notch
Rush was on the verge of being dropped from Mercury/Anthem labels after the dismal failure of Caress of Steel ...Despite the fact that they were asked to do a more commercial offering than CoS , went for broke and recorded 2112 ... The success of 2112 kinda saved their careers...Despite the fact that it was totally uncommercial ..
apparently the record company heard 2112 and said "what the hell is this?"
Same can be said about Dream Theater. They were really down the tubes after the commercial AND artistic failure of Falling Into Infinity. Metropolis pt 2 was a "make it or break it" album for them and luckily it payed off. It saved their career and paved way for everything they have produced after that.
Good insight. I bought "Caress Of Steel" as a birthday present my older brother in 1975 and remember laughing at the song title "I Think I'm Going Bald" (My brother was losing his hair.) Then "2112" came out and it was practically a masterpiece. Enough though it wasn't a huge commercial success, it defined the Rush fan.
I always thought this famous bit of Rush lore was highly dubious.
I'm aware that Geddy, Alex,, and Neil have all said this many times, but if you think about it, it doesn't really withstand close scrutiny.
For one thing, the idea that the record company would have no idea what they were uo to in the studio untill they completed the album makes no sense. Record companies are aware of what their artists are recording.
Also, they released "Temples of Syrinx" as a single. That's a record company decision, not a band decision. Doesn't sound like something a record company concerned about side long epics would do.
Furthermore, side 2 plays very much like a Fly By Night Part 2, with all short, straight forward rockers (with the exception of Twilight Zone, which was the other single from the album and conceived of as something with the potential to be a popular novelty song), which is precisely what the record company supposedly wanted. So it seems to me that at most it was a compromise rather than the total "Fuck you I won't do what you told me!" move it's romantically described as.
@@b.g.5869 Well, back then record companies allowed bands a lot more leeway when it came to freedom of experimentation....Back then they would often record,tour,record ,tour some more ,often taking years to become successful...Bands like Rush,Styx,Kansas ,etc made lots of albums,and toured relentlessly ,mostly as opening acts before getting top billing...Rush did not get a top billing tour until Hemispheres in 1978....
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Yes - 90125
Stones - Steel Wheels
King Crimson - Discipline
Pink Floyd - A momentary lapse..
Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell
Nice choice with Steel Wheels!... Terrific Stones album that I think holds up with some of their best work... Mixed(see Mick's) Emotions is very exciting, Terrifying is like wow!, just luv It... What are your thoughts on Bridges To Babylon?... Some fans think it's pretty good, I've never spun it.... Take Care, Ghostrider Rick
Permanent Vacation is by far the winner here. The asterisk is that they collaborated with Run DMC the year before and had a big hit with the remake of "Walk This Way."
Should be more pop inclusions
@@richardpeiser4359 If you had asked me, I would say Babylon is a lot better than Wheels. And Undercover and Voodoo are better than Babylon.
@@richardpeiser4359 Bridges to Babylon is good and so is Voodoo Lounge in my opinion. Others may disagree I suppose.
I have a few of these:
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Iron Maiden - X Factor and Brave New World
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution
ELP - Emerson, Lake and Powell
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Genesis - And Then There Were Three (to some extent)
Queen - The Works
I definitely wouldn’t say X Factor for Iron Maiden, X Factor and Virtual XI were the lowest points in Iron Maiden’s career
Death Magnetic? Now that's weird
Totally agree about the Works.Queen were no where in 1984. For Genesis I would say self titled 1983 revitalised them even more after abacab, commercially at least .
@Javier Chiossi Death Magnetic is Metallica’s return to form, their return to thrash metal.
A Different Kind Of Truth sucks hard. It's as bad as VHIII. Terrible drum sounds and all around bad songs make that album not even listenable for me. What a disappointment.
My Ten:
*1)* Pink Floyd: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
*2)* The Kinks: Low Budget
*3)* The Rolling Stones: Some Girls
*4)* The Sweet: Level Head (Love is Like Oxygen)
*5)* Lynyrd Skynyrd: 1991 (back from the dead)
*6)* Styx: The Grand Illusion
*7)* Yes: 90125
*8)* Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive
*9)* REO Speedwagon: High Infidelity
*10)* April Wine: The Nature of the Beast
Schoolboys In Disgrace, Sleepwalker & Misfits were all very good albums prior to Low Budget.
@@wayneelliott7011 - That might be so. But Low Budget gave The Kinks some new life in a three album run (with hit singles & a live album).
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 Realise that Low Budget was a resurgence in "Popularity" for The Kinks and is a Good Album. I base everything on Great Music well ahead of Popularity and find the three Prior Albums Very Good.
@@wayneelliott7011 - Okay. But my list deals with bands that has a resurgence after that album. Was Lynyrd Skynyrd's *"1991"* a good album?? No. Far from it. But it gave Lynyrd Skynyrd a new lease on life. Plus the based open their arms & accepted Ronnie's brother Johnny to step in as lead vocalist. You can say the same thing about Aerosmith's *"Permanent Vacation".* Was it their best album?? Probably not since I personally don't care for the Geffen years or beyond of Aerosmith. Same thing can be said about Boston's *"Third Stage".* Good album. Nope. Gave this version of Boston life for a career to turn itself into a glorified tribute band.
That's how I ranked my list. What came before & afterwords.
Marillion - Brave
Rush - Counterparts
Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Whitesnake - Slide it In
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Counterparts was not commercially successful though. Radio play began to diminish after Roll The Bones
Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners (1982) was a very strong album including the original versions of "Here I Go Again" and "Crying in the Rain".
Counterparts? No.
@@hanksta34 Yeah, neither was Brave. Marillion never really had a big comeback album (imo). They hit the US charts in the mid eighties but never did a repeat of that.
George Harrison - Cloud Nine (1987)
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy (1989)
The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels (1989); it was a strong comeback album to them and they returned to live performances. Their best album since Tattoo You (1981).
Cloud Nine..great pick.. definitely got George out there👍🏽
@@timothyorie7021 George was all over at that point with this and The Wilburys. Was real Cool !
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell (1980)
Deep Purple in Rock (1970) and Perfect Strangers (1984)
Fleetwood Mac (1975) and Tango in the Night (1987)
Kiss - Creatures of the Night (1982)
The Moody Blues - The Other Side of Life (1986)
The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels (1989)
Scorpions - Crazy World (1990)
Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2000)
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution (2005)
Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)
Did DP have a career to revitalize before In Rock?
The Sabbath, and Purple picks, would be my top 2 choices.
Crazy World ! Awesome release !
Roy Orbison. His comeback was sweet, great and very short. "You Got It" was played on Swedish radio every day for almost a year after he died.
Roy came back around the time he was in the Traveling Willburies, which restarted a lot of other careers.
One of my biggest mistakes was NOT seeing him when he toured near us.....ugh.
Comeback with a single hit song is another good idea for a video.
KISS- Creatures in the night
Metallica- Death Magnetic
Megadeth- Endgame
Judas Priest- Painkiller
Testament- The formation of damnation
I have to buy these CDs !
i would actually disagree and say Lick it Up for KISS, Creatures was an attempt to get back to a heavier sound but it didn't work and was a failure commercially both for concert attendance and record sales, it wasn't until Lick it Up that things got back on track. Despite how people reflect on the music of creatures now or how people personally feel about it.
How could I forget Painkiller...
100% on Death Magnetic. Good one.
Brave New World - Iron Maiden
😂O was going to type this one in and then I saw your comment.
Great comeback album
Exactly my feelings. Both commercially and critically I can't think of an album that has so totally changed the course of a band's later career. They were playing theatres in this country in the late 90's and BNW almost instantly stuck them back into Arenas and headlining festivals as well as getting the sort of critc and fan reaction that they hadn't received since SSOASS and haven't really lost since.
NO DOUBT!
Decent album but, yes, it revitalized their career.
I'll just like to say that this collaboration show with Martin is what I look forward to all week. Such great shows. Sending my congrats all the way from England
Kiss deserves a spot on here. Depending how you qualify it Creatures brought them back creatively. lick it up got them back in the game and on the radio and Anamalize brought them back commercially to be along side the bigger hard rock bands at the time.
Deguello is a favorite of mine, one of my perfect albums.
David Bowie - Outside. A great come back after a diet of 15 years.
Neil Young - Freedom.
Lou Reed - New York.
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
Elvis, YES! Can you suck more than a decade of bad film scores, just to come back as good as the Memphis album?
I feel like so many people came back to Neil Young after Harvest Moon too.
@@HeavyMetal-jy4vj I have heard that Neil Young hated his deal with Geffen Records ,and purposely made non commercial albums just to get out of the deal..Geffen actually sued him..Freedom was first record Neil made after re-signing with Capital Records...It was a great push into the 90's ..
Steve Winwood *Back in the High Life*
Yes, and what a great record too!
No, it was the incredible Arc of A Diver in 1980 that took Steve back into the spotlight!
@@DeadSeaGenesis great album!
Great pick
great pick . i was in my teens and had no idea who this guy with a great voice was
The first album I thought of when I saw this topic was Yes "90125". The return of Jon Anderson and Tony Kaye. Trevor Rabin's first appearance with the band. Owner of a Lonely Heart has to be their biggest hit ever. Probably introduced Yes to a new generation of fans. Changes, Leave It, It Can Happen also on that record. That album was HUGE. Another record that came to mind was "Freedom at Point Zero" by Jefferson Starship. New vocalist Mickey Thomas joined the band, giving them a different sound. Every tune on the record is good, IMO. "Jane" was their first hit single in a few years.
Good pick eith 90125. I still remember the first time I heard the new single announced on KWHL radio - I thought both Jon Anderson and Yes were long gone.
I can't agree more when it comes to 90125....for that reason I always liken Rabin to a heart defibrillator.
1. Blood of the Nations - Accept
2. Brave New World - Iron Maiden
3. The Headless Children - WASP
4. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
5. Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
👍Damn Good choices
Good on you. Great choices.
Great choice with WASP!
Headless Children is the high point for WASP IMO. Their most progressive album and Frankie Banali's drumming really stood out as well.
@@kitoyobeni1 I still prefer the debut myself. But there's no doubt that THC revitalized the band after "Inside the Electric Circus"; an album which pretty much killed their US career.
The Golden Earring were considering to split in 1982 before they came with their album 'Cut'. It's because of 'The Twilight zone' (written by George Kooiman) became a mega hit, the band decided to go on. The rest is history
Geared more towards artistic rather than commercial: Some Girls by Stones, Heaven and Hell by Sabbath, Freedom then especially Ragged Glory by Neil Young, Seven Turns by Allman Bros. Rush put out 3 meh than very good Counterparts then 1 meh then their most underrated: Vapor Trails. Thanks Martin & Pete!
I absolutely love Counterparts! The most underrated in my book. I’ll go back to vapor trails and revisit.
@@1visionn By a whisker I prefer Counterparts. Many fans and eventually the band felt the original VT sounded like crap. There's a remix version which I guess I prefer overall but to me some tracks or at least instruments on tracks I prefer the original. Enjoy!
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Saxon - Killing Ground
Accept - Blood of the Nations
Accept is a great call
I'd say for Saxon it's Solid Ball Of Rock
Glad to see the shoutout to Accept! One of my favorite bands of all time. "Blood of the Nations" is an absolute masterpiece and really saved the band, considering a lot of folks weren't holding out much hope after learning that Udo wasn't going to return.
Great call on Accept. That album came screaming out of nowhere in 2010 and has since become my favorite album by them.
Great concept Pete. The first ones I though of were Lick It Up by Kiss and 2112 by Rush
Too bad Kiss canned Vinnie Vincent after Lick It Up. Man had the juice.
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Genesis - Duke
ZZ Top - Deguello
Peter Gabriel - 3rd album (Melt)
Heart - Self Titled
1- J.Giles Band- Freeze Frame
2- BOC- Fire of Unknown Origin
3- The Who- Who Are You
4- Queen- The Game
5- Deep Purple- Perfect Strangers
Love Stinks is a far superior Album to Freeze Frame. Prior to that Sanctuary was so-so but Monkey Island is a superb Album. Who Are You is a lot worse than Who By Numbers (which was an average Album).
@@wayneelliott7011 Who by Numbers is my favorite Who record. IMO a masterpiece.
@@captainbeyond7469 That makes your choice of Who Are You even more puzzling. Sounds like we both agree Who By Numbers is a better Album.
IQ - Ever. Getting Pete Nicholls back on vocals put this English prog band on an unstoppable run of great albums: Ever, Subterranea, Seventh House, Dark Matter, Frequency, Road of Bones and now Resistance ! WOW
Yep, I was thinking the same! Let's also not forget about the remaking of Seven Stories into Eight (Seven Stories into '98)!
Aw man, 100% From AYSC to EVER is an unbelievale "Leap" (of faith) And my favourite IQ album.
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Cheap Trick - Lap of Luxury
Heart - Heart (1985)
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin
Good call on the BÖC. That was a monster record.
Good Grief, I forgot Eliminator. That is the all time mother of kick start albums. In the U.K it was coupled with their appearance on a show called The Tube where many people saw them for the first time and they kicked ass. It's on RUclips.
2112 is the first one that came to mind.
Gary Moore "Still Got the Blues"
AC/DC "The Razors Edge"
(Jefferson) Starship
"Knee Deep in the Hoopla"
Slade "The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome" ( Hit singles "Run Runaway" and "My Oh My")
Nazareth "2XS" ( "Dream On" hit single in European charts)
I believe the Slade album you are referring is "Keep Your Hands off My Power Supply"...
@@kiplambert64 Same album , "The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome" here in Europe 1983, re-released in 1984 as "Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply" in North America with slightly different tracklist.
Accept - Blood of the Nations
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Neil Young - Freedom
Santana - Supernatural
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
Dire Straits made a huge splash with their debut, then tanked with the followup, Communiqué. A lot of people thought they might be finished. But they came back strong critically and commercially with Making Movies, and kept getting bigger from there.
Guitar Shop is a great album! Bozzio is a genius
I saw that tour, in Toronto. “Night of the Guitar”. Jeff Beck, SRV, Jeff Healey. The encore was everyone onstage for “Going Down”
@@Ontariosound Saw the tour in Philly but no encore Jam that night and I was looking for it thanks to Rolling Stone magazine saying it would be a highlight. Not in Philly !
DEEP PURPLE - "Perfect Strangers" !!
Lick it Up- Kiss
Back in Black- AC/DC
Paradise Theatre- Styx
Slide it In - Whitesnake
Blackout- Scorpions
inmyhouse11 Back in Black haha
Greetings from Sweden. Another great Friday evening kick off 🍻🤠🍻
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy. Paul Simon - Graceland. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation. Beastie Boys - I'll Communication. Santana - Supernatural. ACDC - The Razors Edge. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger. Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes. Johnny Paycheck - 11 Months, 29 Days. Johnny Cash - American Recordings. Bob Seger - Night Moves. The Kinks - Lola.
As more of a pop fan than a metal fan, 1974's "Hollies" (incl. The Air That I Breathe) saw Allan Clarke's return after the Michael Rikfors "Romany" experiment.
I’ve been listening to The Hollies quite a bit over recent years, really good group.
@@patrickcrowther9195 The 1974 Hollies, Moving Finger, and Distant Light don't have a bad song on them.
The second 45 rpm I bought was “ All I need is the Air that I breath. Some may think , it’s corny , in 1974, I played it after school ( age 12) over & over. Although, I started to get into “ heavier” stuff, I still love that song . Eric Clapton, said years ago those first few notes blows away most songs. ( obviously, I’m paraphrasing). 👍💯
Seven turns Allman Brothers..... the albums that follow this just got better..... revitalized The Allman Brothers career and brought them back to the legendary status they deserved..... later when Derek Trucks joined they just could not be beat
Need a little of that "Bad Rain"
@Ronald Smith
True, Seven Turns is a great song.
Winds of Change is a beautiful song guys... Klaus sings his ass off...
They couldn't have timed it much better. Only way they could've sold more-get The Hoff to sing background vocals on it.
@@dusty3913 I'm with the hosts, give me polar nights, blackout, etc.
Styx - The Mission is a recent one for me. I had given up on hearing a new album from them let alone one of such quality. Sold well I believe and got people talking about them again and received top reviews.
Motley Crue : Dr. Feelgood
Deep Purple : Perfect Strangers
Ozzy : Blizzard of OZ
Judas Priest : Angel of Retribution
Iron Maiden : Brave New World
Meatloaf : Bat out of Hell 2
Lynyrd Skynyrd : 1991
Allman Brothers Band : Seven Turns
Rolling Stones : Steel Wheels
Whitesnake : Whitesnake (1987)
Quiet Riot : Metal Health
Angel of Retribution was definitely a big revitalization, since Rob had been out of the band and then came back and they made a classic sounding Priest album. A few other good picks in your list too.
That self-titled Heart album was very poppy and mainstream compared to their earlier work, and in retrospect I know Ann and Nancy didn't like the way the record companies changed their sound and image, but boy did it put them back on the map, with so many hits. If I remember correctly, "These Dreams" was their first number one single, and -- who woulda thunk it -- the song featured Nancy, and not Ann on lead vocals.
"Cultosaurus Erectus" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Queensryche" with Todd La Torre
"No Rest for the Wicked" - Ozzy
"Perpendicular" - Deep Purple
"Gravity's Rainbow" - Pat Benatar
"Erase the Slate" - Dokken
"A Momentary Lapse of Reason" - Pink Floyd
Love this channel, re-learn something every day. I gave up on Tull and never gave Crest of a Knave a chance. Listened to it today for the first time, great stuff.
Never Say Die is such a polarizing album. I personally think it's musical perfection.
love these friday shows with Martin
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell, the greatest album ever recorded!!
I loved it back in the day Jeff but Dio's lyrics were pure Spinal Tap and always were. Nevertheless, a good contender for the list.
@@welshtoro3256 You are vastly underestimating Dio's lyrics. On the surface there's a lot of dragons and magic and such but the true meaning of almost all of his songs is buried far below the surface.
@@warpig4942 WORD!
Especially if you listen it back to back with never say die.
HEAVEN and HELL 1980. Black SABBATH
I 100% agree with Martin about Heart’s “Passionworks”. I’ve been listening to it in my car for the past few months. It’s a phenomenal album, every song is pure gold! “How Can I Refuse” is one of my favorite Heart singles. “Passionworks” is a sadly overlooked gem.
totally agree, love that CD
Queensryche. That self titled akbum with Todd made them relevant again. That was a huge comeback considering all the lackluster stuff they had been putting out since pretty much Promised Land. But that final album was the last straw aka "Dedicated To Chaos" I think I liked 2 tracks and I can't even remember them. So in a way when Martin mentioned those Alice Cooper metal albums that he dropped all in a row it reminds me of what Queensryche has done. All of those albums with Todd have been awesome!
My pick is "Hammered" by Motorhead. I think with the song "The Game" included on this album being the wrestler Triple H's theme really brought Lemmy and the guys more into the spotlight. I also think this album and the following albums are really heavy and consistent, at least compared to the '90s albums.
Walk A Crooked Mile...... 🤘👊
Got to see Black and Blue tour at the War Memorial in Rochester in Oct '80. Awesome.
Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
Marillion - Marbles
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Heart - Heart (though clearly not their best)
Journey - Infinity
Ace Frehley - Frehley’s Comet
Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
God bless Martin.. love his history knowledge.
As always, I know that there will be a quality discussion when Pete and Martin are together. Great material!
Pete & Martin have been killing it with some great episode topics for a while now. I would like to see an episode of 70's acts that either successfully or unsuccessfully moved into the 80's.
While i am still watching this, here are my 5, off the top of my head
Molly Hatchet - Devil's Canyon
Saxon - Solid Ball of Rock
Deep Purple - Purpendicular
Accept - Blood of the Nations
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Dead on with Savatage...holy shit Fight for the Rock was awful!
Fleetwood Mac (1975)?
Or Tango or The Dance
@@stephenbrown4211 they've had a few comebacks.
I didn’t know that ZZTop story-interesting. When I found this video I was thinking “Eliminator” for sure!
Strongly agree about `Passionworks`. Great album!
Flaming Lips "Soft Bulletin" - after the departure of the great Ronald Jones, who was at war with Steven Drozd and his raging heroin addiction, the band was desperately trying to find a new identity. The experimentation of "Zaireeka" had many wondering if the band had lost its collective marbles (4 cds designed to be played simultaneously on 4 'boom boxes'), the band codified its new direction on the marvelous "Soft Bulletin" album, a masterpiece of psychedelia and indie rock.
The soft bulletin is a masterpiece.
Great topic gentlemen 💯💯
Ultravox - Vienna
KISS - Creatures of the Night
Anthrax - Worship Music
Vienna killed a great band!
The John Foxx era was the true Ultravox! era.
I love both eras. Vienna and Rage in Eden are great records.
After Foxx quit, Ultravox was all but done. Midge Ure coming in with that Thing Lizzy money kept them afloat until they made records again.
Creatures of the Night was a commercial bust.
I know a lot of people don’t like it (I actually dig it quite a bit) but the first album I thought of when I saw the title was Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation
Great album. Just listened to it while vacationing on the beach at Waikiki.
Good call with Alice Cooper.... although I prefer the albums "Flush", "Special Forces", "Zipper" and "DaDa" in comparison to his "Big hair, Big snare" phase in the later 80s..... it was great to see him get healthy. He looked horrible during the "Special Forces" days..... but the album was GREAT.
I agree, think the song material just wasn't there on those late '80s metal albums they seemed rushed to me whereas the earlier 'blackout' years (or Alice's alternative rock period, one might call it) actually had a ton of solid and overall extremely good and well-crafted songs.
"Zipper..." is my favorite Alice album.
I’m going to disagree! Constrictor and Raise Your Fist and Yell were great albums in their on way. Teenage Frankenstein and Life and Death of the Party were great songs. I think these albums got the younger crowd to know who Alice is. Poison was great also!
@@ellisonlowrimore7751 Cool:) I like those albums too. I've heard some of his latest album "Detroit Stories" and I love that he's still rockin'!
Those "black out" records were my gateway to alice cooper. They were all in the bargain bin and were all i could afford. When everyone else was listening to Motley Crue, I was jamming to no baloney homosapiens!
My first teenage concert with my friends and no parents😁, Aerosmith & Dokken. 1987.
Grateful Dead 1987 album In The Dark created new Touch of Greyhead fans and resparked their trippy career.
Yeah. That's a good call!
Santana - Supernatural (personally not a big fan, but everybody was talking about it)
Uriah Heep - Abominog
Aerosmith - Permament Vacation
Another band I will mention is the Black Crowes with Lions, going back to their better sound (and success) of the Amorica album (which is still my personal favorite from them), after floundering around a bit with 3 Snakes and By Your Side. Lion's even had a couple radio songs with Soul Singing and Lickin', great album top to bottom!
Amorica is my favorite as well. Interesting to hear the original versions on Tall, but Amorica is such a nice, loose and warm album IMO. I really liked Lions as well, which bore the influence of their tour with Jimmy Page. I still hold out hope for the band to reunite. I like the solo projects, but like Oasis, they are much better together IMO.
Helloween - Master Of The Rings
Asia - Aqua
Uriah Heep - Abominog
Alice Cooper - Constrictor
Praying Mantis - Predator In Disguise/A Cry For The New World
Aqua is such a great album. Underrated
Helloween was dead when Andi came along!
@@ronniejames3681 I mean say what you will about the Deris era (hell I feel like almost everything after and including Rabbit Don’t Come Easy blends together way too much) but it did return Helloween to their popularity after Chameleon
@@themoviejudge557 That's true!
What!? Heart (1985) is one of the best albums ever made in my opinion.
Agreed I am a huge Heart fan I love all 3 eras of the band but the 80's era Passionworks Heart Bad Animals and Brigade are top notch with the exception of Private Audition they haven't had a bad album
I agree with what you say about Aerosmith BUT I also think that their re-take on Walk this Way with Run DMC brought them back into serious business. They were all over the TV with that song AND it made them look cool to a whole different public. I know that here in Europe, Aersomith became hugely famous because of their collaboration with Run DMC and their video on MTV, and before that they weren't big at all in Europe. And that was before Permanent Vacation... Rock on! Great show!
Overkill- Ironbound. After a two album dip in form on the two previous albums (still decent), Overkill unleashed the beast that is Ron Lipnicki, who injected a thrash fury on Ironbound.
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
Yes - 90125
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Hey EC... Good call on Long Distance, excellent album... Funny, but I always preferred The Present over it, I think it's an even better album..... I have never heard Keys To The Kingdom... Have you? and What are your thoughts on it? .. Take Care, Ghostrider Rick
Neil Young had a difficult 1980s, what with releasing rockabilly albums, electronic albums, country albums and shit albums (take a bow, ‘Landing on Water’). Then he pulled the proverbial finger out and made a really good record in ‘Freedom’, which contained the song that kickstarted his career all over again, ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’.
Have you checked out his latest live release? It's 2 discs from that time period, just before releasing Ragged Glory.
Black Sabbath's "Heaven & Hell". Hands down. I agree with Pete's & Martin's other picks, as well.
Two major non-Rock rebirths:
1. Marvin Gaye's "Midnight Love" (w/"Sexual Healing")
2. Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
Good call on the Tina Turner. I forgot about that and that is a big one. In some ways we can say that is the biggest one.
@@welshtoro3256 it was a HUGE comeback at 45. I aged 14 was like Who is this lady ? Great album. You are talking about Private dancer right ??
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Clapton - Sunset Boulevard
Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Neil Young - Freedom
I would agree solidly with the "Permanent Vacation" entry...but when I saw them on the "Done with Mirrors" tour, I thought it was a great album and the magic started to come back. "Permanent" got them back into the charts with the newer "mainstream" audience and definitely launched them into a whole new genre....
Zappa never needed nor really revitalized. I can see how Sheik Yerbouti got more attention and how it was him back in control of the releases but I don’t think he ever slipped or lost an edge with the few albums prior.
Yes and 90125 not their best album but gave them success in the 80’s.
I love Heart's self-titled. Sounds great. To each his own. My taste and Martin's could not be more different across the board.
Me too. First Heart album I remember hearing as a kid.
1 Jethro Tull Crest Of A Knave 2 Rush 2112 3 Kate Bush Hounds Of Love Although The Album Before The Dreaming Is My Favorite Album Of All Time But It Didn't Sell Very Well Because Of The Experimental Nature Of The Album I Still Love Hounds Of Love Though
I love both The Dreaming and Hounds of Love. But The Dreaming a bit more.
I think Kate had reached a path of artistic maturity with Hounds of Love that put her outside the mainstream pop/rock way of doing things. A record would take as long as required and no touring. It semi-kicked started her but that was no longer important.
Iron Maiden's 'Brave New World'? It marked the return of Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith. Also Metallica's 'Death Magnetic' because they returned to their thrash roots after changing their sound on 'Load,' 'Reload,' and 'St. Anger.'
@Martin Popoff Either way, 'Brave New World' sold more copies than the Blaze Bayley albums.
Brothers and Sisters by the Allmans. Only a couple of years later, but two terrible accidents later. Without Duane and Berry, they release one of the truly great albums of the 70s
Surprised 'Abominog' wasn't on Martin's list with all the love he gives to that album. It is a great album and a great comeback after several sub-par albums prior to it.
The Strat sounds on Deguello are killer
Deguello is ZZ's best freaking album, there I said it(now I have to duck as tomatoes are being thrown at me!).... Top to bottom, right?... Cheap Sunglasses excites me like no other song to this very day, what a whale of a rocker!.... Take Care, Ghostrider Rick
@@richardpeiser4359 Well...if I had to choose one album, I'd have to go with Deguello. It's a 5 star album!!
The first albums I thought of was Yes - 90125 and Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
I’ll add Kinks - Low Budget (resurrected after a few fallow years), Neil Young - Freedom (same thing a decade later), Crimson - Discipline (an unlikely success), John Fogerty - Centerfield (it had been a decade), BOC - Fire of Unknown Origin (it had been a few years since they had a gold album or radio hit).
Discipline an epic album
Haha, Martin really has a thing about power ballads doesn't he?
He doesn't even like Child in Time! That boggles my mind. He's still awesome though
AC/DC: The Razor's Edge should really be on this!
Was totally assuming it would be one of Popoff’s choices.
@@bradss1000 but then AC/DC didn't exactly need a whole lot of revitalizing. Not compared to some bands they talk about. They had a couple albums that sold poorly by THEIR standards, but with Who Made Who and even Blow Up Your Video, it was on the up and up, sales wise-etc. They always remained a huge live draw.
I keep hearing this is a helluva AC/DC album....I"m going to have to check it out......
First one I thought of was Permanent Vacation.
Me too.
Me three.
Perfect strangers - DP
90125 - Yes
U2- Achtung Baby
Iron Maiden- Brave New World
Metallica- Death Magnetic
Aerosmith- Permanent Vacation
Journey- Revelation
Meat Loaf- Bat Out Of Hell II
Duran Duran- The Wedding Album
Best Billy guitar tones ever on Deguello.....before the whole MTV thing turned his tone to mush.
Honorable mention to The Symbol Remains?...... We shall see.....got my tix for the April 16th show!
1. Black Sabbath- Heaven and hell
2. King Crimson- Discipline
3. Dream theater- Scenes from a memory
4. Queensryche- Self titled
5. Genesis- A trick of the tail
6. Iron maiden- Brave new world
7. Deep purple- Perfect strangers
8. Rush- Counterparts
9. John Lennon- Double fantasy
10. Metallica- Death magnetic