Okay, I got to the end and Pete asked the question, what are MY favourites. Pretty easy, the new Damned one, #1, second is the Zep - All the Albums, All the Songs, third is the Clash, All the Albums, All the Songs (and incidentally, the Damned is written exactly the same way). Next is Who Invented Heavy Metal? And finally I'll go with The Big Book of Hair Metal - the layout by Voyageur/Qarto on that was immense. Thanks also to Craig for all that. Forget hoagies - beers all night on me at SeaFest in the summer (hint, hint).
Sounds like a plan, and I just might take you up on that in the summer 😁! This was a lot of fun for me to co-captain a “show and tell” for these books that I enjoy so much. And my collection will continue to grow ! 👍
SOT, I was fortunate to find the channel at 20k, now hit 70k! So well deserved. Mr PP, the pilot of the hardest working channel out there, with the most awesome SOT team who all bring it ..... love, love, love, love....🤟
So good to hear guys who know about music and educate us as we do each other. Hate reaction video channels crap watch a video why the music is more important so sad.
@@shaunfulton7261 are you saying he knows a lot about NWOBHM , or he doesn't know hardly anything about NWOBHM? Lemme was not part of NWOBHM, although Motorhead were a huge influence on bands such as Tank , Venom, Trojan, Atomkraft , pre Deverill Cox era Tygers of Pantang, the first UK band known as Samurai ( the band that contributed the tracks Die Or Deliver , and Knights in Painted Castles to 1980 Guardian Records Compilation Roksnax ) , Avenger, Raven, and Jaguar. The other UK band known as Samurai recorded 1984 , and 1986 LPs for the Ebony Label. Personally I consider the years 1979 through 1982 as the true NWOBHM time-line. Although it is technically a moment in time, and a geographical term . A lot of the bands that flourished between those years shared a lot of similarities in image and sound. By 1983 a lot of these bands either made it big overseas, broke up , developed more of their own personal musical direction, or as in the case of Jaguar got haircuts to look as well as sound like Duran Duran
This was such a fun show! I loved seeing the joy in Craig's face as he talked about all of his Martin Popoff books; you can tell he really enjoys them. It makes me want to check out a couple of books myself!
If anyone deserves a show dedicated to their craft, it is Martin. Thanks for this, so enjoyable. I will give special love to his blue oyster cult books. Fantastic, and the visual biography is stunning. Well done. Thanks and congrats to Martin.
Martin is a great member of the SOT family. I love Fridays at the Funhouse. He is also great on his own with The Contrarians, and History in Five Songs. His books look great. I'd like to have a lot more disposable income, 'cause I know which two I'd order first. Craig great comments. Thanks Pete, and thank you Martin.
Would love for Martin to write a book on Heart. I have his UFO books and they are excellent. Also have a compilation of classic rock artist interviews and it's also excellent. Can't go wrong with Martin's books!
My old copy of "the book"I bought back in 99 is dogeared with loose pages.Martin is one of the greatest writer/reviewers in all of rock and metal.🤘If I had the money,Id have more of them.
Great show! Popoff is the man. He is a Canadian treasure and we love him in the States as well:) ‘2 Minutes to Midnight: An Iron Maiden Day-By-Day’ is my favorite because I am a Maiden head and that was my first Popoff book.
I love Martin´s books, especially the ones focused on great bands that we all know and love, yet nobody seems to be interested in writing a book or two about them - except Martin. The Rainbow Story is one example. Another example would be Martin´s book on Whitesnake. That is what I appreciate the most about his work; the willingness to dig deep and come up with much needed material on groups and artists that seem somewhat under-represented and/or ignored in the book market. As for myself I just finished reading Martin´s book on Judas Priest, detailing the band´s output from 1986 and up until their latest album - Turbo Till Now. Another winner!
So- I cannot express how important Martin's 1997 Collector's Guide was to my life. My generation came of age with grunge (gag) and there were many great bands from the 70's and 80's that were not getting any airplay, specifically bands like UFO and Thin Lizzy. What Martin did was invaluable- and some of his reviews were absolutely hilarious, thinking of Hysteria and X Factor.
For me too, the 1997 Collector's Guide was my first Popoff book, bought the following spring. I ended up contacting Martin, and he put me on a Metal news mailing list he and Tim Henderson used to do, in conjunction with BW&BK. I've been in occasional email contact with Martin ever since. My favorite, however, would have to be Dio: Light Beyond the Black, because back in 2006 there just wasn't anything else in detail about the Dio band albums.
Martin, I bought your Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal 🤘 way back in the late 90’s I believe it was’98 and the majority of yours are also mine though I didn’t agree with you as far as punk and hardcore bands so I urge you to do another one on this Subgenre particularly The Misfits and Black Flag 🏴 Cuz it’s something I know you will now appreciate; at least for the talents of these guys who fronted the band, but especially when you really hear the musical styles of a lot more of the L.A. acts like the Dead Kennedys and X. For the record though I think Rush should’ve gotten the 9’s and 10’s that you’d given them as well: Voi Vod whom have more in common with Floyd than anything earlier like Killing Technology @‘86. Love every time you are on SOT Thanks 🙏🏻 again for doing what you’re doing Mr.Poppoff! Sincerely yours, DJP and greetings from Boston, Mass (Ex- PostMortem & Kilslug
Easy for me - all of his collections of album reviews (Riff Kills Man, The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 1:The 70s, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 2:The 80s, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 3:The 90s and The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 4: The 00s). Just love pulling these books off the shelf and leafing through, reading the 1000s of album reviews across multiple sub-genres of metal and hard rock. Must haves!!
I discovered Martin when I bought my fist book of his, The Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal. This book has introduced me to many fantastic bands. I now have the majority of his books, and thoroughly enjoy his writing style. I had the pleasure to meet him and subsequently work together with him on the Max Webster book, which was a fantastic experience. Martin is a great guy and I enjoy his ongoing work as well as helps work with Pete! Great stuff!
Great episode . My favourite Martin book is Run For Cover , the Derek Riggs art book . My first Martin book was Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal , loved his writing style with personal anecdotes .
Same as me Craig, The Original Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal was my First! and my #1 I have the 70's 80's and 90's, I need the 2000's other than that I have 26 of his books! my # 2 is Flaming Telepaths
Nice one SOT, Martin is truly a tour de force. And the principle element about Martin's work is that he truly loves, cares and is thoughtful about his topics and subjects.
Great show for those of us who are just starting their collection of Martin‘s books. Thus far I like the new Rush trilogy best, very well written with just the right amount of detail for the fans of the band. @Pete: Please do more shows with Craig whenever he is up to it. I really love when people are so enthusiastic and happy when talking about stuff they love and know. I could listen to him for hours, such a lovely person! 🙂
I'm more a 60s psych and garage and punk, indie guy but this channel is giving me a much more deeper appreciation of metal and prog...I'll be buying a couple of Martin's books when I can.
If you guys do have a festival, it would be great if Martin had a place to sell and sign his books. I think SOT viewers would really appreciate that. He could also do readings and discussions.
Martin's books is great. I have a lot of them. I wish he diving deep and write a April Wine book. That band has a long history(over 50 years)and should have been BIG. Thanks for a great show👍
Craig is cool - would be nice to see more of him. Listens and is very conversational. Terrific vid, a lovely tribute to someone who I think some viewers may take for granted - Martin is a massive name in rock and metal writing. That he makes so much time for the channel is truly a marvel. Plus he looks like David Cronenberg! ;)
I cant remember my first Popoff book, could have been the Collectors guide to HM of the 70's, and as Craig said those Collectors guide books (my personal favourites are the 70s and 80s)and the Southern Rock Review led me to buy stuff I maybe wouldnt have. It goes without saying really that all his books are great reads, though its great that he does books on lesser known bands - like his Sweet and Angel books - and I have to single out his Accept book, simply because he was gracious and generous to ask for fans to provide reminiscences and experiences about them (that he had also done with his Riot book) - mine starts on page 232. His general books are also great for referencing and getting some historical perspective - favourites being the Who created HM and the NWOBHM books. At first wasnt too sure about the Visual Biographies, but after getting the Uriah Heep and Nazareth books - as there was nothing much else about either out there - I had to also get the Lizzy, BOC and Yes, and have just preordered the Yes vol 2 - though although the text is from Time and a Word, that I also have, the whole thing feels much like those Jethro Tull 40th and 50th Anniversary boxsets where although you still get the original the additional stuff makes it really worthwhile - the pictures in the Yes Biography really take it up a level. I also have the UFO on preorder - didnt go for the Priest one as I have the Heavy Metal Painkillers book that Craig showed, as well as the Black Sabbaths. They are a bit too expensive for me to buy everything however they are definitely worth the cost for the ones that I have bought and will be buying. There are other great band and artist biogs out there, however you can always guarantee that a Martin Popoff book will be well worth the investment and will contain lots of info that you may not already have known - especially where he gets stories from those around the band, such as the producers and engineers. Lastly I would also have to mention his Flaming Telepaths - Imaginos extended and specified. Not necessarily one for the faint hearted as some of it can be a bit mind scrambling, however I have to commend the imagination and thought put into it as well as the fanstatic line drawings done by the man himself.
Great topic! My favs are the bands by albums/ songs: I have Rush, Queen & Led Zep. Absolutely love them! I also have Sabbath's Sabotage and the 2 Deep Purple Family year by year. I have to say that the friday at the fun house is my most anticipated SoT show: I love to discover new (old) bands and learn about them, and I feel that when Martin & Pete are together, that's when I learn the most! Cheers!
With the Rob Halford book - he mentioned something about possibly authoring a second book dealing with more the Priest band situation and being on tour, in the studio, funny stories regarding the characters you invariably find in such situations etc
I have over 30 Popoff books. Favorite are the Blue Oyster Cult books, and the who invented Heavy Metal was great. However, you cannot go wrong with any of his books.
My favorite part of Martins work is his love of the music and interest in focusing on both big well known bands and the smaller niche bands. Mercyful Fate, Max Webster, Angel , The Sweet, Voi Vod and etc etc are the draw for me; since few others would dedicate such time and energy on what many see as marginalized bands. Martin, Thanks for all the many hours I've spent with your voice reciting some obscure fact or clarifying some often miss reported story.
I thoroughly enjoy all of Martin's books I own, around a dozen or so. Great choice for calling out the Ronnie Montrose book. Being on the West Coast, got to see Ronnie on lots of one-off shows. Met him on several occasions and he was always such a nice guy that would make time for his fans. Great show guys!
I hope Martin Popoff saved me the Rebel Rouser: A Sweet User Manual book !! I really want this book. Do you think he still has this book? Thank you guys for ranking your favorite Top 10 Martin Popoff books. 🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁
My favorite is my only book of Martin's in my library. A copy of Southern Rock Review that I tracked down and bought after watching a SoT episode with Martin about southern rock but where he said it was out of print. WIsh I had waited for the reprint now available to have him sign it but love the book and even though it is not updated, I look at this all the time similar to how Craig talked about the heavy metal books as his number one choice. Many thanks to Craig and you, too, Pete, for this excellent discussion and presentation of Martin's works that you enjoy and to Martin as well for his ongoing participation with SoT. Really enjoy his History In 5 Songs podcasts and encourage anyone reading this who has not listened to any of those to seek them out for some entertaining thought and discussion in true Martin style. Thanks again. There ya go!
The Max Webster book is one I admire, and I salute Martin for his passion and resourcefulness in putting that one together. I gotta say, though, that it bummed me out a little. I was expecting some rollicking stories from a bunch of happy-go-lucky hoser geniuses, but instead everyone comes off somewhat embittered by the whole experience of being in that band. Oh well. There's still the music!
I just finished reading Anthem, the first in the Rush series. Fun read. And have now started Time and a Word. His Yes companion. I like that Martin puts out books in different formats. Very creative and innovative. Much like the music he writes about, his style shifts his focus shifts and his insight is powerful.
Great episode! I have about 20 of Martin's books - they are all excellent. His Deep Purple series are the absolute definitive overviews of that band. And his Collectors' Guide to Heavy Metal series are great for discovering so many other bands' music. Great rock writing!
a randomly borrowed Fade To Black from the library because i needed a book big enough to protect some documents i had printed off. didn't even realize it was a Popoff book until i got home. it's really great
Great job! Martin is the man, I think one thing people should realize about Martin's books is that he has shone a spotlight on many lesser known bands and most often a lot of those bands had their information published for the first and only time in some of Martin's books (like his vinyl price guide for example or his metal review guides)
Great idea and excellent show guys! I have a lot of Martin books and I love them all! (Whitesnake, Rainbow, UFO, BOC, Purple, The Clash, Sabbath, Riot, Thin Lizzy, The Heavy Metal series etc etc) My number one is Southern rock review. Thanks!
My first Popoff book was Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal. I enjoyed that a lot. Never imagined the author was so clean-shaven! Then I got both UFO books. I can't say they are high quality but I like them. Then I got that AC/DC hardcover album by album book. Again, not great writing in it but has nice pictures. I'd like to have that Nazareth coffee-table book and the Southern Rock Review. I wish Martin -or somebody! would write a book about the Fixx, Black Crowes, or Bad Company.
The first Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal and Southern Rock Review I have had for 20 years or more and both are well worn and have yellow highlights and notes in them. Just an indespensible pieces of info for this musical nerd. The Thin Lizzy books I highly recommend.
3rd time watching this one LOL... For me it's always been about the original and subsequent reissues of Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal, those really were our saving grace during the pre-internet dark ages. Sail Away 'Whitesnake', and agree with Craig those coffee table collections album-by-album style books like the Big Book Of Hair Metal and Iron Maiden 2 Minutes To Midnight are highly recommended :)
My favorites are 1. Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of Alltime 2. Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs O Alltime 3. Blue Oyster Cult-Secrets Revealed 3. Blue Oyster Cult-Agents Of Fortune 3. Blue Oyster Cult-Coffee table book 4. All the UFO books 5. All the Judas Priest books 6. All the Rainbow books 7. The Dio book 8. The NWOBHM books 9. The Thrash metal books 10. The Ronnie Montrose book So many more great books from my favorite author!!!
I love Martin's Blue Oyster Cult books, in particular Agents of Fortune (originally published as Secrets Revealed). A great dive into one of my favorite bands.
My favorites are the 4 Metal Collectors Guide series and the Ye Old Metal series... absolutely invaluable. Even though I disagreed with some of his opinions/reviews, I knew where he was coming from and appreciated his honest take, often times with a great sense of humor, which made it fun to read.
I have the first " Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal. " " Lights Out " "Maiden album by album " " Rush Anthem " all fantastic books. I really want the Uriah Heep book next. It's a really Big book, and really in depth.
Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal is the best music book ive read. Its written in a casual, honest, conversational style and its hilarious. Easily the funniest reviews ever.
This was a fun listen...hitting his site soon and grabbin a few of those highlighted. Hopefully that Damned book of his is hitting the rack soon...and would love it if he did an "Oh Canaduh!...The Canadian punk and new wave explosion 1977-85" If anyone can nail it ..it'd be him. That a rock chapter that needs expanding.
Don’t have time to listen to all this now, so I don’t know if these books will be mentioned. I will listen to the whole show because I am into reading. Had to search my Kindle to find the first Popoff book I read. It was called Who Invented Heavy Metal? Picture books about bands are fine but that’s the kind of thing I like, books that take a deep look into music. Lately I’ve bought a couple picture books by Martin, the one on Heep and on Hawkwind. Great books. Haven’t had time to read them since I’ve been reading up a lot on music, subjects I’m interested in that Martin didn’t write. If you do a thing on Rock books in general I have several I would love talking about.
I have a lot of his books. I enjoy most of them. My four favorite are his first two guides to heavy metal, the 70’s and 80’s, Black Sabbath: FAQ and his first Blue Oyster Cult book, Secrets Revealed. I believe he has books on his top 500 favorite heavy metal songs and his favorite heavy metal songs. My least favorite book is his one on Max Webster. I feel like some information is repeated too much, through interviews with various people. Some of his other books have that problem as well. But, overall, I really enjoy his books and think that he’s a great writer.
Never read any of Martin's books but the Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal Volume 1: The Seventies and Volume 2: The Eighties are the ones I'm interested in if I can still get 'em. I'm not much of a reader but stuff like that I will read.
Across 4 books ( Gettin' Tighter, A Castle Full of Rascals and both Royal Family volumes) Martin has written the definitive biography of Deep Purple from Shades up thru Rapture of the Deep. He should do a follow-up with the Ezrin - produced albums.
Great show! Martin is awesome! Looking forward to his Damned book. I would love to see him do a "react" video to this one. :) BTW, Craig always does a great job on the SOT co-pilot seat!
the rush hard cover trilogy, along with the thrash metal history trilogy are all incredible. those ones all have a fantastic flow. the only issue i've had with his writing is when he ventures into the descriptive side of the actual music-you can tell he doesn't really know time signatures, or much of the theory behind stuff (or he just has his terminology all wrong), but that's a moot point. i've ordered several of his books direct from him, and every one is a fun read. he's also pro as fuck when it comes to the business side. of the 10-15 books i've mail ordered, i've NEVER had so much as a single issue. don't hesitate to order his stuff.
My two favorite Martin books are his two collectors guides to heavy metal. Both the 70's and 80's versions. Unfortunately my dog pissed on both of them in the downstairs porcelain convenience in my little floor sitting book rack. The two CD's were unharmed in the attack. I would love to replace these as they were used all these years for reference and entertainment. So bummed they're out of print.
Okay, I got to the end and Pete asked the question, what are MY favourites. Pretty easy, the new Damned one, #1, second is the Zep - All the Albums, All the Songs, third is the Clash, All the Albums, All the Songs (and incidentally, the Damned is written exactly the same way). Next is Who Invented Heavy Metal? And finally I'll go with The Big Book of Hair Metal - the layout by Voyageur/Qarto on that was immense. Thanks also to Craig for all that. Forget hoagies - beers all night on me at SeaFest in the summer (hint, hint).
Sounds like a plan, and I just might take you up on that in the summer 😁! This was a lot of fun for me to co-captain a “show and tell” for these books that I enjoy so much. And my collection will continue to grow ! 👍
Would be fantastic with a book about NoMeansNo, although they may be too niche.
SOT, I was fortunate to find the channel at 20k, now hit 70k! So well deserved. Mr PP, the pilot of the hardest working channel out there, with the most awesome SOT team who all bring it ..... love, love, love, love....🤟
Thanks so much!!
And yes please keep growing and getting more subscribers than a certain Canadian RUclips channel not Martin Poppofs.
So good to hear guys who know about music and educate us as we do each other.
Hate reaction video channels crap watch a video why the music is more important so sad.
Martin has great taste and has a deep understanding and passion for Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Prog, Punk and Post Punk.
I totally agree.!! !!
He knows fuck-all about NWOBHM. He put Lemmy on the cover of one of his books.
@@shaunfulton7261 are you saying he knows a lot about NWOBHM , or he doesn't know hardly anything about NWOBHM? Lemme was not part of NWOBHM, although Motorhead were a huge influence on bands such as Tank , Venom, Trojan, Atomkraft , pre Deverill Cox era Tygers of Pantang, the first UK band known as Samurai ( the band that contributed the tracks Die Or Deliver , and Knights in Painted Castles to 1980 Guardian Records Compilation Roksnax ) , Avenger, Raven, and Jaguar. The other UK band known as Samurai recorded 1984 , and 1986 LPs for the Ebony Label. Personally I consider the years 1979 through 1982 as the true NWOBHM time-line. Although it is technically a moment in time, and a geographical term . A lot of the bands that flourished between those years shared a lot of similarities in image and sound. By 1983 a lot of these bands either made it big overseas, broke up , developed more of their own personal musical direction, or as in the case of Jaguar got haircuts to look as well as sound like Duran Duran
@@shaunfulton7261 Martin is a huge Punk Rock fan
Thanks so much for this, guys. VERY nice of you to do this. Gonna answers some questions in the comments.
The pleasure is all on this side of the table, Martin! 👍 Thanks for all that you do!
This was such a fun show! I loved seeing the joy in Craig's face as he talked about all of his Martin Popoff books; you can tell he really enjoys them. It makes me want to check out a couple of books myself!
If anyone deserves a show dedicated to their craft, it is Martin. Thanks for this, so enjoyable. I will give special love to his blue oyster cult books. Fantastic, and the visual biography is stunning. Well done. Thanks and congrats to Martin.
I love Martin. He is a Canadian national treasure.
Martin is a great member of the SOT family. I love Fridays at the Funhouse. He is also great on his own with The Contrarians, and History in Five Songs. His books look great. I'd like to have a lot more disposable income, 'cause I know which two I'd order first. Craig great comments. Thanks Pete, and thank you Martin.
Would love for Martin to write a book on Heart. I have his UFO books and they are excellent. Also have a compilation of classic rock artist interviews and it's also excellent. Can't go wrong with Martin's books!
I want to buy a UFO and Sweet book. Great idea for a Heart book !!🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁
My old copy of "the book"I bought back in 99 is dogeared with loose pages.Martin is one of the greatest writer/reviewers in all of rock and metal.🤘If I had the money,Id have more of them.
Great show! Popoff is the man. He is a Canadian treasure and we love him in the States as well:)
‘2 Minutes to Midnight: An Iron Maiden Day-By-Day’ is my favorite because I am a Maiden head and that was my first Popoff book.
The Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal is my favorite Martin Popoff book. I basically ate that thing.
Great job Craig. Pete you're always on point, many thanks.
Recently finished Sensitive to Light - the Rainbow story. Thoroughly enjoyable and informative read! Well done Martin ;)
Great book
I love Martin´s books, especially the ones focused on great bands that we all know and love, yet nobody seems to be interested in writing a book or two about them - except Martin. The Rainbow Story is one example. Another example would be Martin´s book on Whitesnake. That is what I appreciate the most about his work; the willingness to dig deep and come up with much needed material on groups and artists that seem somewhat under-represented and/or ignored in the book market. As for myself I just finished reading Martin´s book on Judas Priest, detailing the band´s output from 1986 and up until their latest album - Turbo Till Now. Another winner!
On my TBR
So- I cannot express how important Martin's 1997 Collector's Guide was to my life. My generation came of age with grunge (gag) and there were many great bands from the 70's and 80's that were not getting any airplay, specifically bands like UFO and Thin Lizzy. What Martin did was invaluable- and some of his reviews were absolutely hilarious, thinking of Hysteria and X Factor.
For me too, the 1997 Collector's Guide was my first Popoff book, bought the following spring. I ended up contacting Martin, and he put me on a Metal news mailing list he and Tim Henderson used to do, in conjunction with BW&BK. I've been in occasional email contact with Martin ever since. My favorite, however, would have to be Dio: Light Beyond the Black, because back in 2006 there just wasn't anything else in detail about the Dio band albums.
Love everything I have read from Martin but the guides and the albums/band songs writings are my favs!
Martin, I bought your Encyclopedia Of Heavy Metal 🤘 way back in the late 90’s I believe it was’98 and the majority of yours are also mine though I didn’t agree with you as far as punk and hardcore bands so I urge you to do another one on this Subgenre particularly The Misfits and Black Flag 🏴 Cuz it’s something I know you will now appreciate; at least for the talents of these guys who fronted the band, but especially when you really hear the musical styles of a lot more of the L.A. acts like the Dead Kennedys and X. For the record though I think Rush should’ve gotten the 9’s and 10’s that you’d given them as well: Voi Vod whom have more in common with Floyd than anything earlier like Killing Technology @‘86. Love every time you are on SOT Thanks 🙏🏻 again for doing what you’re doing Mr.Poppoff! Sincerely yours, DJP and greetings from Boston, Mass (Ex- PostMortem & Kilslug
Max Webster! I'd recommend "In the World of Giants" or "Paradise Skies" to the newcomer
Great job gents! I think Martin owes Craig more than a Hoagie. Has me convinced on the Alice Cooper book.
Hahaha, or maybe some Crown Royal 😂
Easy for me - all of his collections of album reviews (Riff Kills Man, The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 1:The 70s, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 2:The 80s, The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 3:The 90s and The Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal Vol 4: The 00s). Just love pulling these books off the shelf and leafing through, reading the 1000s of album reviews across multiple sub-genres of metal and hard rock. Must haves!!
Fine choices ! 🤘🤘 Totally agree with you !
I discovered Martin when I bought my fist book of his, The Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal. This book has introduced me to many fantastic bands. I now have the majority of his books, and thoroughly enjoy his writing style. I had the pleasure to meet him and subsequently work together with him on the Max Webster book, which was a fantastic experience. Martin is a great guy and I enjoy his ongoing work as well as helps work with Pete! Great stuff!
Great episode . My favourite Martin book is Run For Cover , the Derek Riggs art book . My first Martin book was Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal , loved his writing style with personal anecdotes .
Same as me Craig, The Original Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal was my First! and my #1 I have the 70's 80's and 90's, I need the 2000's
other than that I have 26 of his books! my # 2 is Flaming Telepaths
Those 5 are my go-to’s ! 👍
Nice one SOT, Martin is truly a tour de force. And the principle element about Martin's work is that he truly loves, cares and is thoughtful about his topics and subjects.
Great show for those of us who are just starting their collection of Martin‘s books. Thus far I like the new Rush trilogy best, very well written with just the right amount of detail for the fans of the band. @Pete: Please do more shows with Craig whenever he is up to it. I really love when people are so enthusiastic and happy when talking about stuff they love and know. I could listen to him for hours, such a lovely person! 🙂
I'm more a 60s psych and garage and punk, indie guy but this channel is giving me a much more deeper appreciation of metal and prog...I'll be buying a couple of Martin's books when I can.
A wonderful and uplifting overview of Martin’s learned and consistently good opus. And yes it would be good to have Martin’s views. Terrific show.
My fave thing about Martin is his willingness to be candid and counterintuitive. That takes courage.
Ive bought SO MANY Martin books over the past decade and more. All my favorite bands. Some he autographed when from his website.
If you guys do have a festival, it would be great if Martin had a place to sell and sign his books. I think SOT viewers would really appreciate that. He could also do readings and discussions.
Hey, if they do, I might have to travel back to NY for that!
Well, if it happens, that is certainly the plan if Martin can make it!
Martin's books is great. I have a lot of them. I wish he diving deep and write a April Wine book. That band has a long history(over 50 years)and should have been BIG. Thanks for a great show👍
Craig is cool - would be nice to see more of him. Listens and is very conversational.
Terrific vid, a lovely tribute to someone who I think some viewers may take for granted - Martin is a massive name in rock and metal writing. That he makes so much time for the channel is truly a marvel. Plus he looks like David Cronenberg! ;)
I cant remember my first Popoff book, could have been the Collectors guide to HM of the 70's, and as Craig said those Collectors guide books (my personal favourites are the 70s and 80s)and the Southern Rock Review led me to buy stuff I maybe wouldnt have.
It goes without saying really that all his books are great reads, though its great that he does books on lesser known bands - like his Sweet and Angel books - and I have to single out his Accept book, simply because he was gracious and generous to ask for fans to provide reminiscences and experiences about them (that he had also done with his Riot book) - mine starts on page 232.
His general books are also great for referencing and getting some historical perspective - favourites being the Who created HM and the NWOBHM books.
At first wasnt too sure about the Visual Biographies, but after getting the Uriah Heep and Nazareth books - as there was nothing much else about either out there - I had to also get the Lizzy, BOC and Yes, and have just preordered the Yes vol 2 - though although the text is from Time and a Word, that I also have, the whole thing feels much like those Jethro Tull 40th and 50th Anniversary boxsets where although you still get the original the additional stuff makes it really worthwhile - the pictures in the Yes Biography really take it up a level. I also have the UFO on preorder - didnt go for the Priest one as I have the Heavy Metal Painkillers book that Craig showed, as well as the Black Sabbaths. They are a bit too expensive for me to buy everything however they are definitely worth the cost for the ones that I have bought and will be buying.
There are other great band and artist biogs out there, however you can always guarantee that a Martin Popoff book will be well worth the investment and will contain lots of info that you may not already have known - especially where he gets stories from those around the band, such as the producers and engineers.
Lastly I would also have to mention his Flaming Telepaths - Imaginos extended and specified. Not necessarily one for the faint hearted as some of it can be a bit mind scrambling, however I have to commend the imagination and thought put into it as well as the fanstatic line drawings done by the man himself.
My daughter got 2 of Martin's book for Christmas. Satisfaction: 10 Albums That Changed My Life and one of The Rush books.
Great topic! My favs are the bands by albums/ songs: I have Rush, Queen & Led Zep. Absolutely love them! I also have Sabbath's Sabotage and the 2 Deep Purple Family year by year. I have to say that the friday at the fun house is my most anticipated SoT show: I love to discover new (old) bands and learn about them, and I feel that when Martin & Pete are together, that's when I learn the most! Cheers!
With the Rob Halford book - he mentioned something about possibly authoring a second book dealing with more the Priest band situation and being on tour, in the studio, funny stories regarding the characters you invariably find in such situations etc
Cheers Guys. And Cheers to Martin! Long time Rush fan circa 1980. I really enjoyed the Rush trilogy. Thanks.
I have over 30 Popoff books. Favorite are the Blue Oyster Cult books, and the who invented Heavy Metal was great. However, you cannot go wrong with any of his books.
My favorite part of Martins work is his love of the music and interest in focusing on both big well known bands and the smaller niche bands. Mercyful Fate, Max Webster, Angel , The Sweet, Voi Vod and etc etc are the draw for me; since few others would dedicate such time and energy on what many see as marginalized bands. Martin, Thanks for all the many hours I've spent with your voice reciting some obscure fact or clarifying some often miss reported story.
I thoroughly enjoy all of Martin's books I own, around a dozen or so. Great choice for calling out the Ronnie Montrose book. Being on the West Coast, got to see Ronnie on lots of one-off shows. Met him on several occasions and he was always such a nice guy that would make time for his fans. Great show guys!
I hope Martin Popoff saved me the Rebel Rouser: A Sweet User Manual book !! I really want this book. Do you think he still has this book?
Thank you guys for ranking your favorite Top 10 Martin Popoff books.
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My favorite is my only book of Martin's in my library. A copy of Southern Rock Review that I tracked down and bought after watching a SoT episode with Martin about southern rock but where he said it was out of print. WIsh I had waited for the reprint now available to have him sign it but love the book and even though it is not updated, I look at this all the time similar to how Craig talked about the heavy metal books as his number one choice. Many thanks to Craig and you, too, Pete, for this excellent discussion and presentation of Martin's works that you enjoy and to Martin as well for his ongoing participation with SoT. Really enjoy his History In 5 Songs podcasts and encourage anyone reading this who has not listened to any of those to seek them out for some entertaining thought and discussion in true Martin style. Thanks again. There ya go!
The Max Webster book is one I admire, and I salute Martin for his passion and resourcefulness in putting that one together. I gotta say, though, that it bummed me out a little. I was expecting some rollicking stories from a bunch of happy-go-lucky hoser geniuses, but instead everyone comes off somewhat embittered by the whole experience of being in that band. Oh well. There's still the music!
I just finished reading Anthem, the first in the Rush series. Fun read. And have now started Time and a Word. His Yes companion. I like that Martin puts out books in different formats. Very creative and innovative. Much like the music he writes about, his style shifts his focus shifts and his insight is powerful.
Great episode! I have about 20 of Martin's books - they are all excellent. His Deep Purple series are the absolute definitive overviews of that band. And his Collectors' Guide to Heavy Metal series are great for discovering so many other bands' music. Great rock writing!
a randomly borrowed Fade To Black from the library because i needed a book big enough to protect some documents i had printed off. didn't even realize it was a Popoff book until i got home. it's really great
Cool idea for a show! I love his Maiden and Rush album by album books.
Great job! Martin is the man, I think one thing people should realize about Martin's books is that he has shone a spotlight on many lesser known bands and most often a lot of those bands had their information published for the first and only time in some of Martin's books (like his vinyl price guide for example or his metal review guides)
What a really nice fella. Really enjoyed that, well done
Great video, glad one of you mentioned the Queen album by album book. I have read and re-read so many times.
Great idea and excellent show guys! I have a lot of Martin books and I love them all! (Whitesnake, Rainbow, UFO, BOC, Purple, The Clash, Sabbath, Riot, Thin Lizzy, The Heavy Metal series etc etc) My number one is Southern rock review. Thanks!
I felt exact the same way reading Martin's LZ book! My absolute favorite on this great unique band 👍
My first Popoff book was Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal. I enjoyed that a lot. Never imagined the author was so clean-shaven! Then I got both UFO books. I can't say they are high quality but I like them. Then I got that AC/DC hardcover album by album book. Again, not great writing in it but has nice pictures.
I'd like to have that Nazareth coffee-table book and the Southern Rock Review. I wish Martin -or somebody! would write a book about the Fixx, Black Crowes, or Bad Company.
Great episode! So, Martin: Is Castle Full Of Rascals for sure, 100%, absolutely, without question, no longer available?
"Yes: Time and a Word"
Martin did a great job.
And that's coming from a Yes die hard.
The first Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal and Southern Rock Review I have had for 20 years or more and both are well worn and have yellow highlights and notes in them. Just an indespensible pieces of info for this musical nerd.
The Thin Lizzy books I highly recommend.
Great show guys. Quick question Pete, did you know/work with Martin before he started being on SOT?
3rd time watching this one LOL... For me it's always been about the original and subsequent reissues of Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal, those really were our saving grace during the pre-internet dark ages. Sail Away 'Whitesnake', and agree with Craig those coffee table collections album-by-album style books like the Big Book Of Hair Metal and Iron Maiden 2 Minutes To Midnight are highly recommended :)
This is going to be a GREAT show!!!
It was NOT great.
My favorites are
1. Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums Of Alltime
2. Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs O Alltime
3. Blue Oyster Cult-Secrets Revealed
3. Blue Oyster Cult-Agents Of Fortune
3. Blue Oyster Cult-Coffee table book
4. All the UFO books
5. All the Judas Priest books
6. All the Rainbow books
7. The Dio book
8. The NWOBHM books
9. The Thrash metal books
10. The Ronnie Montrose book
So many more great books from my favorite author!!!
I love Martin's Blue Oyster Cult books, in particular Agents of Fortune (originally published as Secrets Revealed). A great dive into one of my favorite bands.
MARTIN IS FANTASTIC. BLESS THE LAD, BLESS YOU ALL TOO EH
I hope that one day Martin decides to reprint that "Fade To Black" book, because I'd really like to have a copy of that.
My favorites are the 4 Metal Collectors Guide series and the Ye Old Metal series... absolutely invaluable. Even though I disagreed with some of his opinions/reviews, I knew where he was coming from and appreciated his honest take, often times with a great sense of humor, which made it fun to read.
Congratulations on 70K
I have the first " Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal. " " Lights Out " "Maiden album by album " " Rush Anthem " all fantastic books. I really want the Uriah Heep book next. It's a really Big book, and really in depth.
His NWBHM book unearthed a dozen treasures that I'd not heard.
Collectors Guide To Heavy Metal is the best music book ive read. Its written in a casual, honest, conversational style and its hilarious. Easily the funniest reviews ever.
Martin’s Def Lep reviews for Hysteria and Adrenalize are classic ! 👍😂
This was a fun listen...hitting his site soon and grabbin a few of those highlighted.
Hopefully that Damned book of his is hitting the rack soon...and would love it if he did an "Oh Canaduh!...The Canadian punk and new wave explosion 1977-85" If anyone can nail it ..it'd be him. That a rock chapter that needs expanding.
Hi Craig pleased to meet you 😀.
Hello ! 🤘
good show , this is why this is my #2 music channel on you tube!
Don’t have time to listen to all this now, so I don’t know if these books will be mentioned. I will listen to the whole show because I am into reading. Had to search my Kindle to find the first Popoff book I read. It was called Who Invented Heavy Metal? Picture books about bands are fine but that’s the kind of thing I like, books that take a deep look into music. Lately I’ve bought a couple picture books by Martin, the one on Heep and on Hawkwind. Great books. Haven’t had time to read them since I’ve been reading up a lot on music, subjects I’m interested in that Martin didn’t write. If you do a thing on Rock books in general I have several I would love talking about.
It takes a Canadian to write a book about southern rock, zipper catches skin and flush the fashion are also my favorite Alice Cooper releases
You sold me. I'm getting that Hair Metal book!
I have a lot of his books. I enjoy most of them. My four favorite are his first two guides to heavy metal, the 70’s and 80’s, Black Sabbath: FAQ and his first Blue Oyster Cult book, Secrets Revealed. I believe he has books on his top 500 favorite heavy metal songs and his favorite heavy metal songs. My least favorite book is his one on Max Webster. I feel like some information is repeated too much, through interviews with various people. Some of his other books have that problem as well. But, overall, I really enjoy his books and think that he’s a great writer.
Never read any of Martin's books but the Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal Volume 1: The Seventies and Volume 2: The Eighties are the ones I'm interested in if I can still get 'em. I'm not much of a reader but stuff like that I will read.
Great show, fun with something different topic!
Great Job Martin Love your books !!!
Martin’s Album By Album series are great on Iron Maiden, Rush, Pink Floyd, Queen and AC/DC.
My favs are all the RUSH books. The Mercyful Fate book. The Hair Metal book. Fade to Black book.
Across 4 books ( Gettin' Tighter, A Castle Full of Rascals and both Royal Family volumes) Martin has written the definitive biography of Deep Purple from Shades up thru Rapture of the Deep. He should do a follow-up with the Ezrin - produced albums.
Pete I don't have any of Martin's books so to make life easy for me could you list the top 10's here to give me a starting point. Thanks!
Great show! Martin is awesome! Looking forward to his Damned book.
I would love to see him do a "react" video to this one. :)
BTW, Craig always does a great job on the SOT co-pilot seat!
my favorite is about BOC
I have two Popoff's books; Rock The Nation (Ronnie Montrose) and Motor City Madhouse (Ted Nugent). They are just great.
Martin Popoff is a gem!!!
I have the Rush books from Martin and love all of them.👍
i too love me some “hair metal”
I am blind! So I was wondering? Or any of these books read by Martin on any audio platform?
I'm eyeballing the Queen book and Who Invented Heavy Metal. Eyeballing them hard. Martin is an inspiration to me to get back into writing!
The Queen album by album book is great ; insightful comments from everyone involved!
Hi Guys. Great show However, I am not much of a reader although the episode was interesting and very informative.
I think I got to start doing some collecting...
Got the ush trilogy, I've been thinking of the Uriah Heep one but am hoping Martin will do a Uriah Heep trilogy in the Rush format.
I love Popoffs books about Thin Lizzy
Hey Pete how can you get the Riot book I love that band
The only book ny Martin i bought is his book on Sweet. Would like to pick up his other books.
the rush hard cover trilogy, along with the thrash metal history trilogy are all incredible. those ones all have a fantastic flow. the only issue i've had with his writing is when he ventures into the descriptive side of the actual music-you can tell he doesn't really know time signatures, or much of the theory behind stuff (or he just has his terminology all wrong), but that's a moot point. i've ordered several of his books direct from him, and every one is a fun read. he's also pro as fuck when it comes to the business side. of the 10-15 books i've mail ordered, i've NEVER had so much as a single issue. don't hesitate to order his stuff.
Love the Whitesnake one
My two favorite Martin books are his two collectors guides to heavy metal. Both the 70's and 80's versions. Unfortunately my dog pissed on both of them in the downstairs porcelain convenience in my little floor sitting book rack. The two CD's were unharmed in the attack. I would love to replace these as they were used all these years for reference and entertainment. So bummed they're out of print.
It’s a shame the dog wasn’t a fan 🤣