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Probably should have mentioned I'm On the Lamb, But I Ain't No Sheep (from debut album) is redone and retitled The Red and the Black on the second album Tyranny and Mutation. I always thought it was odd they did this, but, I still listen to BOC despite my growing music collection. Just like owning XMas DVDs (I watch Miracle on 34th Street every year) I play Blue Oyster Cult albums around Halloween, at the least, every year. You know, with the vampire songs and apparitions (I Love the Night from Spectres album), and of course, The Reaper and Godzilla, BOC fits night time play when trick or treaters may be approaching. Anyways, I always tune in to someone talking Blue Oyster Cult albums et cetera. Good work. Thanx for posting time well spent.

It's "on your feet or on your knees!"

Every one in Blue Oyster cult at that time can play guitar.

I know BOC gets linked to Sabbath, but to me the closest other band to them is Hawkwind. The Sci-Fi themes, the Moorcock connections. Both two of my favorite bands, never had a chance to see Hawkwind but saw BOC in 81 on the Fire of Unknown Origin tour and they were great.

I saw them all over Long Island as Soft White Underbelly back in the Day. They and The Good Rats were Killer. The best music I ever heard.

I've seen them live with Buck Dharma, one of the best live bands ever.

I have a ticket for the London show in May. My 5th time seeing them. Its not on the last day of May though

What about “Extra Terrestrial Live”? That had the best production of any of their live albums in my opinion, although some of the earlier performances might have been better.

History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of Man. Go go Godzilla.

Decent video, but a couple housekeeping items... Its not Spirit of THE Radio, its THE Spirit of Radio "Best Intro Ever leads into The Spirit of Radio, not Tom Sawyer Snakes and Ladders, really?? Its Snakes and Arrows Leaving out Power Windows and Hold your Fire🤔...lots of reactions to Time Stand Still and even The Big Money...ahem You said vocals for Neil, but knew you meant lyrics ✌️

Sheer Heart Attack, strangely enough, is not on the album Sheer Heart Attack. It’s on News of the World.

MK3 & MK4 D.P is my favourite period. Glenn Hughes’s onstage vocal excesses in ‘75 & ‘76 get a lot lingering hate through the decades. In the studio though Glenn reigned it in, and sung like ‘Bluebird’ throughout. A less is more,using the spaces player. Burn and Stormbringer have hit their 50th anniversary in 2024 but no boxset had been forthcoming in that regard. ‘Hold On’ & ‘Highball Shooter’ feature some rushed/throwaway lyrics. Love Jon Lord’s use of the Electric Piano and Synth on the Stormbringer album. David Coverdale sounds more assured on ‘ Stormbringer’ and even if Ritchie is disengaged in places,his playing is still excellent,incorporating some funky rhythms when called for. The Burn album and the impact of hearing David Coverdale’s vocals on the title track,is all the reason you need to understand why Deep Purple should have carried on.

I would redo this one and correct the mistakes.

❤❤❤Robert ❤❤❤

MK2.

Hush was a Joe South cover, and Kentucky Woman was a Neil Diamond cover.

So you also forgot a couple of things about Deep Purple Mk 3. Yes. David Coverdale was unknown. Ritchie Blackmore liked his voice. Reminded him of Paul Rogers of Free & later Bad Company. Glenn Hughes? Glenn was definitely NOT unknown. Very long-time member of the power trio Trapeze with Dave Holland on drums and Mel Galley on guitar. Glenn also sang lead vocals in Trapeze and wrote most of their songs. Trapeze were typically a hard rock/funk rock band. Glenn was a huge Stevie Wonder fan (which became immediately clearer on his first solo album Play Me Out). Glenn has one of the great voices of rock although I love David Coverdale's voice maybe a bit more for the dark depths it delved into when he became the Bluesy Balladeer. Glenn at first thought he would be the lead singer AND the bassist. (Glenn is also a multi-instrumentalist. Keys. Guitar. A few others I can't grab right now.) Ritchie liked him and wanted to lure him away from Trapeze. He told Glenn they needed a lead singer and a bassist. Would he be interested in jumping ship and joining Deep Purple? Glenn hedged a bit. Trapeze weren't super well-known here in America but they had a great following in the UK. Glenn figured he'd be both in Deep Purple too: bassist and lead singer. Ritchie preferred the band be a five piece so they were finding a full-time lead vocalist too. Ritchie was less enchanted with Deep Purple becoming a four piece rather than the five piece it always had been. Then Ritchie told Glenn a bit of a small fib: he said he'd talked to Paul Rogers (who Ritchie knew Glenn greatly admired) about becoming Puple's next lead singer. Due to Glenn's admiration for Paul? He agreed to join Deep Purple. Thinking Paul Rogers was going to be Purple's new lead singer. Ritchie left out one big important fact: He did ask Paul if he'd be interested and Paul said he was starting his own band Bad Company. So he was never going to sing for Deep Purple. Ritchie made it sound like he was. They hired David Coverdale (whose voice Ritchie preferred as it was a bit more masculine. ) as lead singer and Glenn actually became the co-lead singer. Except on the songs "Mistreated" from Burn and "Soldier of Fortune" from Stormbringer, both of which were sung by David Coverdale alone? All other songs David shares lead vocal duties with Glenn. (Glenn has the soaring higher pitched tenor vocals. Which are very obvious on the title track for Burn. David's vocals are more baritone with some tenor some bass.) Not unimportant facts if you're a long-time Deep Purple fan. Which I am. Also? When Ritchie Blackmore left and Tommy Bolin stepped into his shoes? Deep Purple suddenly had 3 lead vocalists. Tommy had played guitar for The James Gang on Bang and Miami. He took a couple lead vocals along the way with them, too. Then he played guitar on Billy Cobham's Spectrum jazz rock instrumental album. Oh. He started his musical journey playing guitar in Zephyr. After Tommy departed The James Gang but before joining Deep Purple? He recorded two solo albums: Teaser and then Private Eyes. (Most of Teaser was recorded with the biggest session players of the time. The majority of whom later became Toto. Jeff Porcaro on drums. Steve Porcaro on keyboards. David Foster keyboards. Jan Hammer keyboards. David Sanborn sax. Prairie Prince drums. Michael Walden drums. Phil Collins from Genesis on percussion. Glenn Hughes also sang some lead vocals on the last song on the album.) Deep Purple played Tommy's songs "Wild Dogs" and "Homeward Strut" from Teaser because Teaser was done in conjunction with Come Taste the Band. Tommy was already in Deep Purple and was unable to tour and support Teaser live. They also recorded "Wild Dogs" on their Last Concert in Japan live album. Tommy died of a drug overdose shortly after that album's release. Purple couldn't go on in the wake of Tommy's death. Nobody's hearts were into it after that. That's why they broke up. That time. Oh. Tommy's only studio release with Purple was Come Taste the Band. So you missed a few not entirely unimportant things.

Made in Europe and made in Japan. Both live lp's kick ass

May I suggest next you do a So you want to hear Uriah Heep. Most consider Zeppelin/Sabbath/Purple as the unholy trinity of hard rock/metal. But right underneath were Uriah Heep. Having lived in Europe from 74-80, Heep were just as popular there if not more so than those bands.

Mark Bolan was the singer/guitarist in T-Rex. Blackmore's replacement in Deep Purple was Tommy Bolin.

Nice review. A couple corrections. 1) Blackmore adlibed every solo live. He was just more fluent and technically better than one 2) it’s Tommy Bolin not Marc Bolin. Anywhere in the world except North America Purple is bigger than sabbath and many places greater then Zeppelin. It was once said that every household in Germany owned a Deep Purple album. In Japan they were as big as the Beatles.

Loved Deep Purple. They really got me into heavy metal along with Black Sabbath.

Deep Purple have sold twice as many records as Black Sabbath. The media ignore that fact, but it is a fact. Led Zeppelin have sold three times Purple's number, but they're on-par with The Beatles and Lady Gaga.

Jon Lord also was in the band as long as Ian Paice , and it was Tommy Bolin who replaced Ritchie. Marc Bolan from T.Rex was not living at that time.

As a teenager growing up in Canada during the seventies, I was introduced to RUSH by a new kid to my neighborhood! He played the live album, All the World’s a Stage! Told me that he had been to the concert! He then proceeded to show me how to air guitar and air drum to the album! That kid changed my life!

I was 17 in 71 when I saw them I think the ticket were less than $5 ? I saw every tour after that The 1977 show I had to mail in a M.O. and hope to get tickets I did 😆 Floor seats were around $12 Things have really changed

I’m an old 69 year old so cal man. I first saw V.H. In 1975 at “Cars of the Stars” show I was on my college paper and still have the pictures. They were the local band that made it

How can anyone match them… not musicly, not song worthyness, but creatively? Think of it… every song is different, even if played with the same notes. They are totally outstanding!

And Mick Taylor????

FWIW, the Warner Bors piece in La Villa Strangiato was called Power House. As it was a cartoon staple, it must have just "came out" It was out of copyright so they didn't NEED to do anything, but once it was brought to their attention, they made a one time "payment" out of respect for the author as he was still alive at the time. That's just who they were.

You said Neil did the vocals but he did the lyrics... I'm sure you know this, but it really stuck out...

Maybe you could do a Part 2 sometime, where you’d talk about post-1986 Queen… Pointing out the fact that even tho there are no live performances after this point, there are still the later albums and music videos. (My personal favorite Queen albums are actually from this later, “post-touring” time period.) I find a lot of reactors get very CONFUSED… because Queen fans all instruct them: “live performances ONLY!” …but then of course when they’re asked to react to any of the songs after 1986, they can’t find any live performances.😆 (EXCEPT - and this makes it even MORE confusing - there are Queen fans out there who are making and posting “Live Remixes” of studio songs from this later time period! They mean well, and it’s their right to do this, but some of them DON’T clearly label these as a “Fantasy Remix”; some even put the term “Official” on their titles.) The other thing that would be GREAT to mention, would be Freddie’s collaboration album Barcelona with Spanish operatic soprano Montserrat Caballé (and those live performances) since that was so groundbreaking and Freddie said that he actually considered it his greatest achievement.❤

This might come in HANDY for all those newbie reactors who “come in blind” w/o a clue and are seemingly unable to take a few minutes to do any research on their own!😁🙏 (Personally, I actually prefer “Bohemian Rhapsody” live, aside from the fact you miss out on Freddie’s five-part harmonies at the beginning… but otherwise, the strength of his live voice - esp on the rock section - is just unparalleled.)🖖

Really shocked and surprised that the song, “The Camera Eye” from Rush’s ‘Moving Pictures’ album didn’t get included in the list of “standouts”…

To me Geddy Lee is the most talented member of the band. Neil: best drummer ever. Alex: greatest guitar player ever. But Geddy: bear bass player ever, played keyboards, sang….. and live on stage did all at the same time. Geddy was Rush.

Interesting oversights: hold your fire and power windows. Great albums.

I believe the 60s, more than any other decade had more diversity and artistry within the rock pop medium. from the left over 50s like Ricky Nelson to the surf era. than the British invasion came along with Motown after which folk music had become big. From the folk scene it went into the psychedelic era. all the while bubblegum pop was hanging in there and had reflected those genres. Ricky Nelson, Beach Boys Byrds, Mamas and the Papas, Beatles, Monkees, BTW It was the Monkees that were first to record on a moog synthesizer. Yes it's true. by the late 60s bubblegum pop pretty much took ot over. even a cartoon had a number one hit record "Sugar Sugar" I vould go on and on. lol

He was such a complete and innovative musician that he set the bar He forced every electric guitar player to learn from him. It's important to study him because he set the boundaries as how far you can take the guitar. Every rock guitarist owes a great debt to Henrix in some way or another because ultimately it all goes back to him

One of my favourite bands for 5 decades…

Good video but a couple corrections I wanted to point out. Momentary Lapse of Reason was 1987, not 1985. 1985 was significant in Pink Floyd's history with the Roger Waters lawsuit. Also you showed the 1995 Pulse album cover when talking about Live 8 in 2005 which is the first time that all 4 members (Waters, Gilmour, Wright, and Mason) were on stage together since The Wall tour.

Baddest electric cat of them all..

I was baffled when I found out that the song "Incarsuration of a Flower Child " was released in 1999 and wasn't the song I heard on the radio 30+ years ago. The song I heard had a reoccurring baroque-like keyboard melody and a trippy 3 minute middle 8 guitar solo with few lyrics sung by I believe Roger. Unlike some of Floyd's songs from the mid-60s,this tune was more up beat. The OUTRO sounded like remnents from the COMMITTEE LP parts 1 and2 and this song,in its entirety was not on any Floyd commercial album. If my description of this song brings a possible title to anyone's mind,please share it with me

So if *you* want to react to Rush, you should know that "The Trees" referred to Canada as The "Maples" and the US as The "Oaks." Listen to it again with that perspective in mind and you might view it differently...

Best intro ever is to The Spirit Of Radio.

I always recommend having the lyrics to Rush songs available when reacting as it is very easy to get lost in the sauce and miss out on half the greatness. Also I will suggest to people that they listen to the studio version and the live version to gain a whole new level of appreciation for their musical mastery.

Where did you get those psychedelic mushrooms as a part of the background image? That has to be, without a doubt, some of the most impressive imagery that I have ever seen, before. Kudos!