The cover songs on Megadeth's first three albums always seemed unnecessary. These Boots, I Ain't Superstitious and Anarchy in the UK are all odd choices for cover songs and do not fit well with the rest of the material on those albums.
Not only do they stick out like sore thumbs, but none of them are particularly good. Not to mention These Boots is even more insufferable on the remixed version of Killing is My Business with the bleeped out cuss words. Ugh! No good!
These Boots does fit on the original press imo, it's thrashy as shit and doesn't sound like a cover, the other two you mentioned do bring those albums to a halt though - that's when you go get a beer
Judas Priest - "Before the Dawn" from Hell Bent for Leather/Killing Machine. Doesn't quite fit the rest of the album, but damn it's SUCH a great song, so glad they included it!
When I taught English in South Korea, I once heard "Before the Dawn" playing at Haagen Dazs. My girlfriend said, "Yes, everybody knows this song. It was a hit a few years back."
a coworker told me once he might be the biggest kiss fan I'd ever met, when I asked if he had a favorite album or song, he said "Beth". that's when I knew he was not the biggest kiss fan I'd met.
Here in Melbourne, I remember a rock radio station announcing and then playing “Beth”, with a little introduction about it regarding what album it was on, who wrote it, etc. so anyway this imbecile calls the radio station and says that he is probably the world’s biggest Kiss fan, and he’s NEVER heard that song, nor ever heard OF that song. To say that I was that I was incredulous, enraged and highly amused at someone proclaiming themselves to be one of Kiss’ biggest fans then not knowing the song Beth even existed was beyond my level of comprehension 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Seamus from the Pink Floyd album Meddle which sounds like a song which would fit better on a earlier album like Ummagumma rather than the Meddle album, which is the album where the band found the sound that they had been looking for.
Also feels like either they needed to kill a minute or they’d promised to put Nick’s dog on a song for ages and had to finally pay up, the same way Tolkien had promised to put his daughter’s doll in a book, so we all have to suffer through Tom Goddamn Bombadil forever.
@@billymac72 On Obscured by Clouds they used for the first time the VCS 3 which they went on to use on Darkside so Obscured by Clouds is a forward looking album
@@davidsummer8631 That’s interesting. Yeah, I do believe it sounds like the precursor to Dark Side on many levels, and that’s got to be part of the reason. It’s just kind of all over the place, music wise, but I really like that one. I put it on over the more familiar stuff these days.
Don't they teach literature in the US or Canada? ;) I kid, I kid - but just for reference... "Very 'Umble" wasn't just going for the "British thing", Pete - it wasn't about the way the band spoke, and dropping the 'H' wasn't about wanting to come off as rough and not showing respectability. The band got their name from the character Uriah Heep, a main villain, in Dicken's David Copperfield. He refers to himself as "Very 'umble" frequently. So the band's name and the title are both Dickens references to the same character. And now you know!
Rainbow-Rainbow Eyes. Gorgeous beautiful song but so unlike the rest of the album especially on an album called "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll". Great topic!
Pete, "my 1966 brother from another mother," that Cetera song you were trying to think of is "Living in The Limelight" and you're right. Good analogy for Hideaway So, my name is Marc and I've been watching you're excellent channel for a couple of years now. All I can say is that we truly were cut from the same cloth. And while there are of course, some differences (eg, I have always liked Planet Caravan and appreciate how it breaks the heaviness...making the intro of Iron Man all the more effective --- and Rock And Roll Over was a major fave of mine originally, and I "always" liked it more than Destroyer) for the most part, it's pretty amazing how much there is where I not only agree but the same words have come out if my own mouth for years Anyway, love the channel very much. I'm in NJ, but my Dad worked in NYC in the 70s and I spent much time there. Nothing like "70s New York" *Finally, my choice for this particular program is without question, "LOVE SONG" from AC/DC's Aussie High Voltage.⚡ My Mount Rushmore: DAVID BOWIE, BLACK SABBATH, AC/DC and either 70s KISS or LED ZEPPELIN (esp for III through Presence) Rock on! SOT 4ever.
I also love Planet Caravan. I believe, just a personal theory, that it was the inspiration for Maiden's Strangeworld. They both are weird and dreamy tracks amidst mostly standard metal tracks. Both have interstellar themes as well.
Wow,Really?!?! I think its one of best songs on the album, When I first bought Sgt.Pepper as a kid I used to skip Within you Without you, Now its one my favorites!!! -My vote would go to When Im 64,-that song breaks the flow of the album and in my opinion its a Buzz kill.
@@erniefernandez1927 I chose it because "Sgt. Pepper" was an attempt to reinvent themselves under the guise of an imaginary band. Nothing else on that album feels like a direct continuation of their previous recordings except "Within You" which sounds, to my ears, like a "Revolver" leftover.
@Terrence Reardon and Friends Podcast Podcast you mean more than 1 track “per album”, obviously, but it’s an interesting point. I never really noticed that trend. But it’s obvious. Except, I guess, for Ummagumma. But that’s not fair. 😂
Pete, there were actually two atypical songs on that Chicago 8 album -- how about "Oh Thank You Great Spirit" ?! Trippy psychedelic Terry Kath song that ends with a raging guitar solo, and no horns!
One could argue that "Feelin' Stronger Every Day", from Chicago 6, was also in this category. Rick, thanks for reminding us all about "Spirit", which was Terry Kath's tribute to his old friend Jimi Hendrix - nothing short of brilliant.
@@polarbear2579 - For me, the opening track from Chicago 6, "Critic's Choice" would be the one that doesn't fit that album. Opening an album with a solo piano piece complaining about rock critics?
From David Bowies Ziggy Stardust, the track, It ain’t easy, should have been John Im only Dancing , Holy, Holy or anything else from this period but its still my favourite all time album!
Step Down from Motorhead's Bomber sticks out like a sore thumb. First ,Fast Eddie sings, and second it just has a completely different vibe. It seems like it belongs on some other album. It doesn't sound like a Motorhead song.
"Mother" on _Synchronicity_ by The Police. That song is absolutely unlistenable. It should have been replaced by "I Burn For You," which is the greatest Police song that most people have never heard before.
That reminds me of the track "Syncronicity II". While I've always loved that tune, I've always found it to be atypical of a Police tune. A lot more rocking than most of the tunes they did.
I was disappointed in The Police for putting "Mother" on the Synchronicity album. It's not a cool song at all. More like something a crazy person would sing to himself on a mental ward. I remember back in the early 80s I made a cassette of the album and replaced "Mother" with "Murder By Number" which is one of the coolest Police tracks.
@@kevinputry5655 I recently listened to "Synchronicity II" after not hearing it for years and found myself enjoying it much more than I did back in '83 when I was 25. Guess it finally grew on me. 😎🎶🎵
Tracks like "Beth" and "More Than Words" are bands choosing to dance with the devil. You make a lot of money in the short term, but sometimes you can get out from under them...sometimes you can't.
Planet Caravan makes the album work for me. It's enigmatic and moody like the debut, and essential contrast. A better choice would've been FX from Volume 4. A total waste of time. I also like the Deep Purple cut from Fireball. That Gillan playful humour has always been there.
Pete, I would love to see a whole episode of you and Martin talking about the weather. „Favorite weathers of the decade in Toronto“. That would be fire! 🔥
Well, if we are talking about 'Planet Caravan', it really sticks out on Pantera's 'Far Beyond Driven'. Not bad, but a really different vibe after all that brutal metal.
I saw Queen several times with Freddie and Paul. Live, I thought Crazy little thing called love, worked well live. The last 1/4 they took it home , RockN.
Here's a Couple Picks. Lucy Blues - Uriah Heep (Off, Very Eavy, Very Umble) FX - Black Sabbath (Off, Vol 4) Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin (Off, ZOSO) The Crunge - Led Zeppelin (Off, Houses of the Holy) Foreplay - Boston (Off, Boston) Mushmouth Shoutin' - ZZ Top (Off, Rio Grande Mud) The Clap - Yes (Off, The Yes Album) Take the Time - Dream Theater (Off, Images and Words) Serenade to a Cuckoo - Jethro Tull (Off, This Was) (More Coming)
I cannot agree to your opinion concerning the Clash's "police and thieves", which is a great reggae as well as an amazing political statement. "Happy" on Exile on Main St. always stood out as strange to me. "Crazy little thing called love" was the result of a bubble bath in Munich ...
obvious ones from the perspectives of our teenage ears when they came out: Ozzy - so tired - we all did a collective wtf with the strings and piano at ballady pace Ambrosia - how much I feel - although the band became known for this type of stuff later its presence on life in LA and compared to their straight up prog rock first 2 albums was definitely out of left field. The Police - mother - no explanation needed... TNT - Ordinary Lover - ok... Hmm. Tony scratching his eclectic 30s if not 20s itch. And last I'll throw in the Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - huh? A klaatu cover?? That works!
Floyd - Seamus (Meddle), Beatles - When I'm 64 (Sgt Pepper), Dire Straits - Les Boys (Makin Movies), Police - Mother (Synchronicity), Rainbow - Do You Close Your Eyes (Rising), Saxon - Party till U Puke (Rock The Nations), BOC - True Confessions (Agents of Fortune), VH - One Foot Out The Door (Fair Warning), Queen - Who Needs You (News of the World), Dead - France (Terrapin)
My pick would be “Anyone’s Daughter” from Deep Purples Fireball album. I will add that unlike Pete I love Bob Dylan. We all hear things differently right Pete?
"Music" from Witchfinder General's "Friends of Hell" is the one that immediatly popped in my head as soon as I read the video title. That song completely breaks the album for me, which otherwise would stand quite above the debut. I know you can just avoid songs pretty easily with digital media, but it still feels like a pretty dark spot in an otherwise brilliant album (and sure, "I Lost You" kinda sucks too but it's short and I can deal with it just like with Black Sabbath's ballads).
Pete talking about people (more specifically women) buying albums because of a particular hit single and getting a shock when they find it's not that representative, reminds me of the Foreigner album 'Agent Provocateur'. The mother of a boy I was at school with, who was probably in her 40s, bought that album because she liked the number 1 single, 'I Want to Know what Love is' but was not too keen to find that it was largely hard rock.
Actually there are just 4 rockers on AP. The rest is pretty poppy (That was yesterday, Growing up the hard way) or mellow (I wanna know..., Down on love, Two different Worlds, A love in Vain). Foreigner 4 is a rockier album. But the production on AP doesn't always favour Lou Gramm's singing.
Popoff and Pardo are it at again with a discussion of those songs that stick out like a (sore) thumb. Great stuff as always by Martin and Pete. Hoping to see a Part 2 of this topic as I’m sure there are plenty more to present. Some of mine have been mentioned by other commenters but I didn’t see the song Les Boys, the album closer for Making Movies by Dire Straits. That certainly deserves mention. Thanks, gents, for continuing to fascinate and.entertain us. Well done.
Great topic . For me , the poster child for this topic is on Dire Straits' Making Movies . Yes , the horrific Les Boys . Even still , it's their best album . Imagine if they would have put a song like Wild West End or Love Over Gold on that album instead . ELP's Benny the Bouncer sticks out for sure , but I actually kind of like it . His honky tonk solo is great on it . I've always been a fan of Keith's penchant for letting his fondness for honky tonk style piano , to leak into his playing . Later on he gave us Maple Leaf Rag and Barrelhouse Shake Down , and it shows up again in The Sheriff , and in other songs as well. One can almost picture him playing in a wild west saloon . Anyway , some excellent choices , and please let's have a part 2 ( and 3 ) . Thanks !!!
Very 'eavy...very 'umble...comes from the Charles Dickens character 'Uriah Heep' in his 1850 novel David Copperfield. Heep is notable for his cloying humility, unctuousness, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "'umbleness" hence the hand wringing image on the back of the album with the second part of the album name "very 'umble", (of course the first part of the album name "very 'eavy" is a play on the way the characters use of 'umble.
Glad you brought up The Nile Song by Floyd. I remember the first time I heard that song on the Relics compilation and I thought there was a mistake! Like maybe it was a mis-pressing or something and a song by some other band ended up there by mistake. I think the closest Floyd ever got to doing something like that again was Young Lust on The Wall or perhaps Not Now John on The Final Cut.
I always thought Uriah Heep's ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble title was a nod to Charles Dickens' style English, since they took their name from a Dickins character from the novel, David Copperfield
Motorcycle Mama on Neil Young's Comes a Time album, one of Neil's more commercial albums, an acoustic album for the most part, with a very tight and clear production, and then this song almost barges in with a big gnarly guitar to upset the mood.
Loved Voivod and started to listen to Pink Floyd because of the brilliant Astronomy Domine-cover back in the day. To this day one of my favorite Pink Floyd-songs! Love the channel btw!
If you guys don't know the album Hymns by Corey Glover from Living Colour you should really check it out. The whole album is very soul, r&b flavored except for the song Do You First, Then Do Myself which is super-heavy and almost thrash (we won't even get into the lyrics). It's a good song but definitely meets the criteria of Just Doesn't Fit.
Not bragging, but as a woman, I’m so glad that I like hard rock as well as ballads. You miss out on some great music if you choose only one genre. Then again, people love what they love.
The Heep title, was probably written that way because almost every depiction of Uriah Heep in the Diicken adaptions for film had Uriah Heep speaking that way when saying ‘very ‘umble sir.’ And yes, Mick speaks in that London accent too.
Suitcase Blues, last song on Triumph's album Just A Game, is very unlike the rest of the album. After all the guitar rock, this bluesy jazz song closes the album. I like it a lot, in fact it's one of my favourites. Saga always have these stylistic twists on their albums Money For Nothing is really tough, compared to the rest of Brothers In Arms, and compared to most of Dire Straits' discography. Only Solid Rock and Heavy Fuel are in the same vein.
Interesting topic (& conversation) ! Hooks In You is an absolutely stellar rocker - can't get over it after so many years ! Planet Caravan is pure bliss !! (and, as Martin stated, mellow but not "sweet") Crazy Little Thing ... surely an ingenious song (composition AND interpretation). A bit hard to swallow for fans of '70s Queen (like myself), but their following albums were full of hard(er)-to-swallow tracks ... The Nile Song is a great oddity in the Pink Floyd catalogue in general. A welcome oddity for my ears !
Any over-the-top gushy ballad on any metal 80's Lp! Also, Martin, Martin, Martin...I just can't put the brilliant music aficionado that you are with your love for Y&T. That band personifies why Grunge/neopunk/alt heavy rock had to happen :p
I think Benny The Bouncer is a fun song much like Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff and Are You Ready Eddy. You have to take it for what it is. It's ELP blowing off steam after giving you an onslaught of intricate prog rock.
"Sloop John B." from Beach Boys, Pet Sounds; "Changes" from Black Sabbath Vol. 4; "Time of the Season" from Zombies, Odessy and Oracle; "Brother Louie" from Stories, About Us; and the winner...."Revolution 9" from the Beatles White Album.
Les Boys from Makin Movies Fluff - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Living On An Island by Quo. That was when your Gran started liking Quo and she would say, "That Rick seems such a nice boy" Pete, when you mentioned Marillion I was thinking don't let it be After Me. Glad it was Hooks.
Black Sabbath - Changes, Deep Purple - Anyone's Daughter, the Osmond Bros. - Heavy Horses, Barry Manilow - OH My Lady, Rainbow - If You Don't Like Rock and Roll
Queen "Bring Back that Leroy Brown." Phenomenal song, and must have been very difficult to pull it off. They have other old-fashioned songs like this on other albums, and all are top notch.
I call them "campy" songs. "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous," "Good Old-Fashioned Loverboy," "Who Needs You," "Dreamer's Ball." They all fit with Queen because of Freddy's flamboyant lifestyle and they are perfectly written and performed. After all, they are named "Queen," right?
Great concept! looking forward to more! I knew Pete was picking Planet Caravan & Anyone's Daughter before the show even started!!! lol Martin always has interesting choices! loved this episode
REM " The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" from Automatic For The People, 1992. I loved that song! The exact opposite of the rest of the album. I loved the whole album.
The cover songs on Megadeth's first three albums always seemed unnecessary. These Boots, I Ain't Superstitious and Anarchy in the UK are all odd choices for cover songs and do not fit well with the rest of the material on those albums.
I agree. I am glad that they stopped doing covers after the So Far,So Good, So What album for the most part.
I was thinking about that a few days ago
Anarchy was also covered by Motley Crue, they did it well in my opinion
Not only do they stick out like sore thumbs, but none of them are particularly good. Not to mention These Boots is even more insufferable on the remixed version of Killing is My Business with the bleeped out cuss words. Ugh! No good!
These Boots does fit on the original press imo, it's thrashy as shit and doesn't sound like a cover, the other two you mentioned do bring those albums to a halt though - that's when you go get a beer
Judas Priest - "Before the Dawn" from Hell Bent for Leather/Killing Machine. Doesn't quite fit the rest of the album, but damn it's SUCH a great song, so glad they included it!
When I taught English in South Korea, I once heard "Before the Dawn" playing at Haagen Dazs. My girlfriend said, "Yes, everybody knows this song. It was a hit a few years back."
@@spicykimchi1 Wow that's awesome! You'll definitely never hear that on US or UK radio, or any kind of shop for that matter.
a coworker told me once he might be the biggest kiss fan I'd ever met, when I asked if he had a favorite album or song, he said "Beth". that's when I knew he was not the biggest kiss fan I'd met.
Here in Melbourne, I remember a rock radio station announcing and then playing “Beth”, with a little introduction about it regarding what album it was on, who wrote it, etc. so anyway this imbecile calls the radio station and says that he is probably the world’s biggest Kiss fan, and he’s NEVER heard that song, nor ever heard OF that song. To say that I was that I was incredulous, enraged and highly amused at someone proclaiming themselves to be one of Kiss’ biggest fans then not knowing the song Beth even existed was beyond my level of comprehension 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
The bass player on Valley Girl is Scott Thunes.
Is Chad Wackerman the drummer?
@@154Slappy Yes, he is.
Seamus from the Pink Floyd album Meddle which sounds like a song which would fit better on a earlier album like Ummagumma rather than the Meddle album, which is the album where the band found the sound that they had been looking for.
Also feels like either they needed to kill a minute or they’d promised to put Nick’s dog on a song for ages and had to finally pay up, the same way Tolkien had promised to put his daughter’s doll in a book, so we all have to suffer through Tom Goddamn Bombadil forever.
Doesn’t Obscured by Clouds feel like an entire album made up of such songs? I actually dig that one a lot, but no cohesion whatsoever.0
@@billymac72 On Obscured by Clouds they used for the first time the VCS 3 which they went on to use on Darkside so Obscured by Clouds is a forward looking album
@@davidsummer8631 That’s interesting. Yeah, I do believe it sounds like the precursor to Dark Side on many levels, and
that’s got to be part of the reason. It’s just kind of all over the place, music wise, but I really like that one. I put it on over the more familiar stuff these days.
@@billymac72 It was written for a film so the music has to service the narrative of the film.
Don't they teach literature in the US or Canada? ;) I kid, I kid - but just for reference...
"Very 'Umble" wasn't just going for the "British thing", Pete - it wasn't about the way the band spoke, and dropping the 'H' wasn't about wanting to come off as rough and not showing respectability. The band got their name from the character Uriah Heep, a main villain, in Dicken's David Copperfield. He refers to himself as "Very 'umble" frequently. So the band's name and the title are both Dickens references to the same character.
And now you know!
Mother by The Police is the first thing that pops in my head when it comes to this topic.
AC/DC "It's a Long Way to the Top if You Want to Rock and Roll." The bagpipes are a total departure for this group, but what a great song!
Love Martin's Y&T tee shirt.
Beth wasn’t the only oddity on Kiss Destroyer, Great Expectations is kind of a ballad as well
DESTROYER is not their best album by a long shot, a couple great songs and lots of filler
@@chrisknowlton9460 Alive!
No filler at all on that album.....not enough Ace though.
@@twikirobot6897 great expectations sweet pain and flaming youth are absolute filler
@@jimilove7773 which is not live at all lmfao 🤣
`Peppermint Twist` on SWEET Fanny Adams.....even tho` it was a number 1 single DownUnder....
the song doesn`t fit in a hard rock album....
Rainbow-Rainbow Eyes. Gorgeous beautiful song but so unlike the rest of the album especially on an album called "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll". Great topic!
Pete, "my 1966 brother from another mother," that Cetera song you were trying to think of is "Living in The Limelight" and you're right. Good analogy for Hideaway
So, my name is Marc and I've been watching you're excellent channel for a couple of years now. All I can say is that we truly were cut from the same cloth. And while there are of course, some differences (eg, I have always liked Planet Caravan and appreciate how it breaks the heaviness...making the intro of Iron Man all the more effective --- and Rock And Roll Over was a major fave of mine originally, and I "always" liked it more than Destroyer) for the most part, it's pretty amazing how much there is where I not only agree but the same words have come out if my own mouth for years
Anyway, love the channel very much. I'm in NJ, but my Dad worked in NYC in the 70s and I spent much time there. Nothing like "70s New York"
*Finally, my choice for this particular program is without question, "LOVE SONG" from AC/DC's Aussie High Voltage.⚡
My Mount Rushmore: DAVID BOWIE, BLACK SABBATH, AC/DC and either 70s KISS or LED ZEPPELIN (esp for III through Presence)
Rock on! SOT 4ever.
No, no, no, Police & Thieves is great! It makes that album even cooler! I loved hearing a diverse piece from The Clash on that album.
I also love Planet Caravan. I believe, just a personal theory, that it was the inspiration for Maiden's Strangeworld. They both are weird and dreamy tracks amidst mostly standard metal tracks. Both have interstellar themes as well.
I love PC. But I would have to agree.
@@jimgroff6880 You're a poet and don't even know it.
First one that came to mind is "Within You, Without You" on "Sgt. Pepper's."
That one and "Benefit..." I can do without to tell you the truth.
@@twikirobot6897 I dig the Harrison/India vibe...did not like it back in the day, though. :-)
To me it fits that album, especially since it opens side 2 so it's not so jarring, but Love You To doesn't fit Revolver much (I like it still)
Wow,Really?!?! I think its one of best songs on the album, When I first bought Sgt.Pepper as a kid I used to skip Within you Without you, Now its one my favorites!!! -My vote would go to When Im 64,-that song breaks the flow of the album and in my opinion its a Buzz kill.
@@erniefernandez1927 I chose it because "Sgt. Pepper" was an attempt to reinvent themselves under the guise of an imaginary band. Nothing else on that album feels like a direct continuation of their previous recordings except "Within You" which sounds, to my ears, like a "Revolver" leftover.
Hey Pete - that's not Waters singing the Nile Song, it's Gilmour. You can tell by the voice.
Definitely Gilmour.
@Terrence Reardon and Friends Podcast Podcast you mean more than 1 track “per album”, obviously, but it’s an interesting point. I never really noticed that trend. But it’s obvious. Except, I guess, for Ummagumma. But that’s not fair. 😂
It's Dave alright. Rog did the noises or a few stanzas up till the Wall.
How about Ten Inch Record from Aerosmith’s Toys in the Attic?
Completely agree! That's a weird novelty song.
The title of the song is Big Ten Inch. But yeah, that’s a great pick.
The live version on Rockin' The Joint is KILLER!
"My World" by Guns N' Roses really sticks out like a sore thumb on Use Your Illusion II.
Thank the stars it's one of the last songs.
so agree with this one. One of Three songs theyve never played live.
Agreed. That song is absolutely atrocious. Worst song they ever did in my opinion.
A rose between a bed of thorns.
Good choice.
On Queen"s Sheer heart attack "Bring Back Leroy Brown", which I like. Similar songs on "Night at the Opera", which I just loved.
Great show as always when Martin Popoff is in the place.
Your Own Special Way on Wind and Wuthering and Follow You, Follow Me on And Then There Were Three. The hit attempts, obviously.
What seemed like oddities then were harbingers of tragic disappointments to come
They stuck out like a sore thumb, you must forgive the band though as the rest of the songs were very much upto standard!
Pete, there were actually two atypical songs on that Chicago 8 album -- how about "Oh Thank You Great Spirit" ?! Trippy psychedelic Terry Kath song that ends with a raging guitar solo, and no horns!
One could argue that "Feelin' Stronger Every Day", from Chicago 6, was also in this category. Rick, thanks for reminding us all about "Spirit", which was Terry Kath's tribute to his old friend Jimi Hendrix - nothing short of brilliant.
@@polarbear2579 - For me, the opening track from Chicago 6, "Critic's Choice" would be the one that doesn't fit that album. Opening an album with a solo piano piece complaining about rock critics?
Kath & Cetera are killing it on the extended outro. Kath's homage to Hendrix...
Rainbow- Do you Close Your Eyes- from Rising
The dynamic duo does it again. Love these collaborative videos
From David Bowies Ziggy Stardust, the track, It ain’t easy, should have been John Im only Dancing , Holy, Holy or anything else from this period but its still my favourite all time album!
Agreed. Also "fill your heart" off Hunky Dory annoys me to no end😅
Changes on Black Sabbath Vol 4.
Kissin´ Time from Kiss debut fills this cathegory perfectly.
Also, the Love Theme from Kiss.
Step Down from Motorhead's Bomber sticks out like a sore thumb. First ,Fast Eddie sings, and second it just has a completely different vibe. It seems like it belongs on some other album. It doesn't sound like a Motorhead song.
27:25 Martin is the best! That made me bust out laughing too!
31:06, as well !!
@@TexasWildheartsFan LOL! YES! I love when he get's frustrated with these bands! He's funny/witty/sincere!
Glad others have sorted the 'very 'umble' for you. ;-) But, 3 days in and I've still got Benny the Bouncer running in my brain. Thanks for that.
Now I really want to hear KISS do "Beth It Up."
Still their best deep cut so far.
Has to be Mother's Lament the final track on the Cream's Disraeli Gears. 'Your baby has gone down the plughole'.
_"'Twas naught but an skellington covered with skin"_
Planet Caravan? Pete, you didn't drop enough acid. That song is perfect and it's perfect THERE.
Love that song!!! One of my favorites from Black Sabbath!!! -Great to hear on Acid!!!👍
"Mother" on _Synchronicity_ by The Police. That song is absolutely unlistenable. It should have been replaced by "I Burn For You," which is the greatest Police song that most people have never heard before.
That reminds me of the track "Syncronicity II". While I've always loved that tune, I've always found it to be atypical of a Police tune. A lot more rocking than most of the tunes they did.
I was disappointed in The Police for putting "Mother" on the Synchronicity album. It's not a cool song at all. More like something a crazy person would sing to himself on a mental ward. I remember back in the early 80s I made a cassette of the album and replaced "Mother" with "Murder By Number" which is one of the coolest Police tracks.
@@kevinputry5655 I recently listened to "Synchronicity II" after not hearing it for years and found myself enjoying it much more than I did back in '83 when I was 25. Guess it finally grew on me. 😎🎶🎵
I love Mother
@@JIF882 You really love it or is it like my actual mother where she's merely tolerated? Is that my muh tha on the phone?
“Not now John” from Pete’s favorite Pink Floyd album The Final Cut. A refreshing pace on this track from the rest of the songs.
Yes, definitely his favourite!
Tracks like "Beth" and "More Than Words" are bands choosing to dance with the devil. You make a lot of money in the short term, but sometimes you can get out from under them...sometimes you can't.
i purposely hated Extreme in hs and avoided them after that
Well Beth also had Do you love me and Great Expectations
Great episode as always. Great topic too. 👍
The Ballad of the Decomposing Man on Spectral Mornings or Red Flower of Taichi Blooms Everywhere
Great choices- both weird and cool songs!
I like Martin’s Maiden debut pick, “Sanctuary;” didn’t know it wasn’t on the UK release, and it’s clearly a lesser offering from Eddie and the boys.
Planet Caravan makes the album work for me. It's enigmatic and moody like the debut, and essential contrast. A better choice would've been FX from Volume 4. A total waste of time. I also like the Deep Purple cut from Fireball. That Gillan playful humour has always been there.
Pete, I would love to see a whole episode of you and Martin talking about the weather. „Favorite weathers of the decade in Toronto“. That would be fire! 🔥
I Think I'm Going Bald - Caress Of Steel.
😆😆🥳🤣🤣 used to love to play that for the old neighbor when I was a kid years ago
That's a good one.
Love that song....
Even though "Diver Down" from Van Halen is a weak mostly cover album (in my opinion) I think "Happy Trails" would be one to consider.
Also, Big Bad Bill, two tracks I skip.
Well, if we are talking about 'Planet Caravan', it really sticks out on Pantera's 'Far Beyond Driven'. Not bad, but a really different vibe after all that brutal metal.
Always felt they put that on to mellow things out and smoke a doob to that song to even out the previous brutality
So.................it basically sticks out like the massive screw jutting out of the skull on the album cover?
Before watching I’m guessing Pete picks Anyone’s Daughter from Fireball.
@@neuropete1 wouldn't call it "great"😂
I saw Queen several times with Freddie and Paul. Live, I thought Crazy little thing called love, worked well live. The last 1/4 they took it home , RockN.
Here's a Couple Picks.
Lucy Blues - Uriah Heep (Off, Very Eavy, Very Umble)
FX - Black Sabbath (Off, Vol 4)
Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin (Off, ZOSO)
The Crunge - Led Zeppelin (Off, Houses of the Holy)
Foreplay - Boston (Off, Boston)
Mushmouth Shoutin' - ZZ Top (Off, Rio Grande Mud)
The Clap - Yes (Off, The Yes Album)
Take the Time - Dream Theater (Off, Images and Words)
Serenade to a Cuckoo - Jethro Tull (Off, This Was)
(More Coming)
FX isn't really a 'song' though, just people hitting Iommi's guitar with various implements...
Lucy Blues, for sure
Hats off to Roy harper from Led Zep 3. Track aside excellent album.
Yes. The horror of that song is that it replaced Hey Hey What Can I Do.
But it's not a stylistic oddity is it ? It is totally in keeping with the acoustic guitar dominated ouvre of the album.
True Confessions by Blue Oyster Cult. Sounds like a forgotten theme song for the Golden Girls.
I cannot agree to your opinion concerning the Clash's "police and thieves", which is a great reggae as well as an amazing political statement.
"Happy" on Exile on Main St. always stood out as strange to me.
"Crazy little thing called love" was the result of a bubble bath in Munich ...
obvious ones from the perspectives of our teenage ears when they came out:
Ozzy - so tired - we all did a collective wtf with the strings and piano at ballady pace
Ambrosia - how much I feel - although the band became known for this type of stuff later its presence on life in LA and compared to their straight up prog rock first 2 albums was definitely out of left field.
The Police - mother - no explanation needed...
TNT - Ordinary Lover - ok... Hmm. Tony scratching his eclectic 30s if not 20s itch.
And last I'll throw in the Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - huh? A klaatu cover?? That works!
Floyd - Seamus (Meddle), Beatles - When I'm 64 (Sgt Pepper), Dire Straits - Les Boys (Makin Movies), Police - Mother (Synchronicity), Rainbow - Do You Close Your Eyes (Rising), Saxon - Party till U Puke (Rock The Nations), BOC - True Confessions (Agents of Fortune), VH - One Foot Out The Door (Fair Warning), Queen - Who Needs You (News of the World), Dead - France (Terrapin)
I forgot about Les Boys...yeah...to me, it spoils an otherwise perfect album
My pick would be “Anyone’s Daughter” from Deep Purples Fireball album. I will add that unlike Pete I love Bob Dylan. We all hear things differently right Pete?
Agree....that's a good one...I do like the song though.
@@jmacallar I like it also 👍
This also reminds me of Hot Dog from one of Zeppelin albums.
Place In Line sounds like Ian calling up Dylan once again on the first part.
@@pookiemartinez3909 Can never get enough Dylan influenced songs
"Music" from Witchfinder General's "Friends of Hell" is the one that immediatly popped in my head as soon as I read the video title. That song completely breaks the album for me, which otherwise would stand quite above the debut. I know you can just avoid songs pretty easily with digital media, but it still feels like a pretty dark spot in an otherwise brilliant album (and sure, "I Lost You" kinda sucks too but it's short and I can deal with it just like with Black Sabbath's ballads).
ELP liked to throw in one comical tune, remember Are You Ready Eddie, or Jeremy Bender?
Benny the Bouncer...
The Sheriff
I like their silly songs
Do really awful, career-killing albums at some point.
Blind Melon: Soup.
"Prodigal Son" - off of Killers, by Iron Maiden. (My favorite song on the album, as well.)
I freakin love Prodigal Son off of Killers.
Tracks that came to mind for me - the jazzy meanderings of DLR on the Diver Down album. BTW, 🖤 Martin's Y & T tee....representing!
BOC had many of those, that being said even their odd, poppy or "songs that don't fit" are for the most part perfect. same with Queen!
39 from A Night At The Opera. I like to play that for people who aren't big Queen fans to see if they can guess who it is.
Every BOC album was impossible to categorize with 5 song writers and so many more lyricists with different interests and backgrounds
@@glennjohnson172 Brian May's opus
What a fun show 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
My first thought for this was "Plexiglass Toilet" from the "Serpent is Rising" by Styx.
I always thought Great Expectations was like the cuckoo in the nest of Destroyer. It kind of works though.
It's whack, but it's like Kiss do a stage musical number. Good on them, tho.
I like "Great Expectations" a hell of a lot more than "Beth", but that's just me.
Pete talking about people (more specifically women) buying albums because of a particular hit single and getting a shock when they find it's not that representative, reminds me of the Foreigner album 'Agent Provocateur'. The mother of a boy I was at school with, who was probably in her 40s, bought that album because she liked the number 1 single, 'I Want to Know what Love is' but was not too keen to find that it was largely hard rock.
Actually there are just 4 rockers on AP. The rest is pretty poppy (That was yesterday, Growing up the hard way) or mellow (I wanna know..., Down on love, Two different Worlds, A love in Vain). Foreigner 4 is a rockier album. But the production on AP doesn't always favour Lou Gramm's singing.
Popoff and Pardo are it at again with a discussion of those songs that stick out like a (sore) thumb. Great stuff as always by Martin and Pete. Hoping to see a Part 2 of this topic as I’m sure there are plenty more to present. Some of mine have been mentioned by other commenters but I didn’t see the song Les Boys, the album closer for Making Movies by Dire Straits. That certainly deserves mention. Thanks, gents, for continuing to fascinate and.entertain us. Well done.
Great topic . For me , the poster child for this topic is on Dire Straits' Making Movies . Yes , the horrific Les Boys . Even still , it's their best album . Imagine if they would have put a song like Wild West End or Love Over Gold on that album instead . ELP's Benny the Bouncer sticks out for sure , but I actually kind of like it . His honky tonk solo is great on it . I've always been a fan of Keith's penchant for letting his fondness for honky tonk style piano , to leak into his playing . Later on he gave us Maple Leaf Rag and Barrelhouse Shake Down , and it shows up again in The Sheriff , and in other songs as well. One can almost picture him playing in a wild west saloon . Anyway , some excellent choices , and please let's have a part 2 ( and 3 ) . Thanks !!!
Very 'eavy...very 'umble...comes from the Charles Dickens character 'Uriah Heep' in his 1850 novel David Copperfield. Heep is notable for his cloying humility, unctuousness, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own "'umbleness" hence the hand wringing image on the back of the album with the second part of the album name "very 'umble", (of course the first part of the album name "very 'eavy" is a play on the way the characters use of 'umble.
Glad you brought up The Nile Song by Floyd. I remember the first time I heard that song on the Relics compilation and I thought there was a mistake! Like maybe it was a mis-pressing or something and a song by some other band ended up there by mistake. I think the closest Floyd ever got to doing something like that again was Young Lust on The Wall or perhaps Not Now John on The Final Cut.
Or Ibiza bar on the same album. They are very similar.
I always thought Uriah Heep's ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble title was a nod to Charles Dickens' style English, since they took their name from a Dickins character from the novel, David Copperfield
Yes it's a play on the catchphrase of the character Uriah Heep in the Charles Dickens novel. His common phrase in the story is "I'm so very 'umble".
Exactly! 👍🏻
There’s a book called The Big Note that tells you who played on each song on Zappa’s albums. Well researched in depth nuggets.
Motorcycle Mama on Neil Young's Comes a Time album, one of Neil's more commercial albums, an acoustic album for the most part, with a very tight and clear production, and then this song almost barges in with a big gnarly guitar to upset the mood.
I really like this type of discussion, i hope you'll do more of that.
Blur has based their whole career on out of place weird trax. God Bless Them.
ELP, 'Love Beach', the whole album is out of place.
Even the title is so wrong!
@@keithjones6023 Lol. It's horrible.
Blue Collar by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Really jazzy number amongst regular hard rock stuff on their first album. Great song with fantastic guitar.
Hooks In You would have been my first choice - as soon as you mentioned Season's End - I knew what was coming!
Loved Voivod and started to listen to Pink Floyd because of the brilliant Astronomy Domine-cover back in the day. To this day one of my favorite Pink Floyd-songs!
Love the channel btw!
I would suggest that Lonely Is the Word is the Bluesest song Black Sabbath ever did .. yea Dio not ozzy
If you guys don't know the album Hymns by Corey Glover from Living Colour you should really check it out. The whole album is very soul, r&b flavored except for the song Do You First, Then Do Myself which is super-heavy and almost thrash (we won't even get into the lyrics). It's a good song but definitely meets the criteria of Just Doesn't Fit.
Not bragging, but as a woman, I’m so glad that I like hard rock as well as ballads. You miss out on some great music if you choose only one genre. Then again, people love what they love.
The Heep title, was probably written that way because almost every depiction of Uriah Heep in the Diicken adaptions for film had Uriah Heep speaking that way when saying ‘very ‘umble sir.’
And yes, Mick speaks in that London accent too.
Love Rock 'N' Roll Doctor. Hated it until I saw them play it live in '78..
Great show, I do hope you're doing a part 2. Love some of theese "misfits" there's a lot of fun stuff placed on albums.
Suitcase Blues, last song on Triumph's album Just A Game, is very unlike the rest of the album. After all the guitar rock, this bluesy jazz song closes the album. I like it a lot, in fact it's one of my favourites.
Saga always have these stylistic twists on their albums
Money For Nothing is really tough, compared to the rest of Brothers In Arms, and compared to most of Dire Straits' discography. Only Solid Rock and Heavy Fuel are in the same vein.
I love Suitcase Blues but yeah it is a serious left turn at the end of Just A Game.
Interesting topic (& conversation) !
Hooks In You is an absolutely stellar rocker - can't get over it after so many years !
Planet Caravan is pure bliss !! (and, as Martin stated, mellow but not "sweet")
Crazy Little Thing ... surely an ingenious song (composition AND interpretation). A bit hard to swallow for fans of '70s Queen (like myself), but their following albums were full of hard(er)-to-swallow tracks ...
The Nile Song is a great oddity in the Pink Floyd catalogue in general. A welcome oddity for my ears !
Any over-the-top gushy ballad on any metal 80's Lp! Also, Martin, Martin, Martin...I just can't put the brilliant music aficionado that you are with your love for Y&T. That band personifies why Grunge/neopunk/alt heavy rock had to happen :p
I think Benny The Bouncer is a fun song much like Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff and Are You Ready Eddy. You have to take it for what it is. It's ELP blowing off steam after giving you an onslaught of intricate prog rock.
City Boy - La Guerra De Mondo from It’s Personal
Kiss - God Gave.... from Revenge
Mystery - Kameleon Man from One Among The Living
"Black Diamond is a little bit of a novelty song"?
Kissing Time maybe.
This is a great subject and I'm hoping for a part 2 on this!
"Sloop John B." from Beach Boys, Pet Sounds; "Changes" from Black Sabbath Vol. 4; "Time of the Season" from Zombies, Odessy and Oracle; "Brother Louie" from Stories, About Us; and the winner...."Revolution 9" from the Beatles White Album.
Former Bourgeois/Tagg singer Brent Bourgeois, did a good almost Tubes-like pop version of the Zombies classic.
Les Boys from Makin Movies
Fluff - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Living On An Island by Quo. That was when your Gran started liking Quo and she would say, "That Rick seems such a nice boy"
Pete, when you mentioned Marillion I was thinking don't let it be After Me. Glad it was Hooks.
As a Van Halen fanatic the first thing that came to mind for me is Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now).
Great topic! 😁🎸👍
Black Sabbath - Changes,
Deep Purple - Anyone's Daughter,
the Osmond Bros. - Heavy Horses,
Barry Manilow - OH My Lady,
Rainbow - If You Don't Like Rock and Roll
I only have two words - Rainbow Eyes - totally on a different planet to everything else on Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Talk about something out of the blue....the opening riff to back on the road by earth,wind and fire was pure hard rock riffing.
Queen "Bring Back that Leroy Brown." Phenomenal song, and must have been very difficult to pull it off. They have other old-fashioned songs like this on other albums, and all are top notch.
I call them "campy" songs. "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous," "Good Old-Fashioned Loverboy," "Who Needs You," "Dreamer's Ball." They all fit with Queen because of Freddy's flamboyant lifestyle and they are perfectly written and performed. After all, they are named "Queen," right?
Great concept! looking forward to more! I knew Pete was picking Planet Caravan & Anyone's Daughter before the show even started!!! lol
Martin always has interesting choices! loved this episode
I LOVE Anyone's Daughter! Your opinion on that one is shocking, Pete.
Ian Gillan sense of humor on full display.
REM " The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" from Automatic For The People, 1992. I loved that song! The exact opposite of the rest of the album. I loved the whole album.