This is song is a perfect example of everything that was perfect about 80's hard rock/"glam" rock. A catchy AF riff, a sing along chorus, a shredding but tasteful solo....and all preformed by musicians who embraced the role of "rock star". Why is the music business struggling in the U.S.? Because we don't have rock stars here any more.
The recording industry decided they could have easily manageable beta male types to make boring music. What a lot of people don't realize all these rock bands from the '80s and I loved growing up in the 80s. These were tough men these guys work their asses off went through poverty fighting all kinds of stuff and when they made it big they made it big the recording industry may have taken him for granted sometimes the first time but not the second time these guys were not easily managed by a bunch of recording losers
Thanks to the new generation of musically clueless, greed driven, music industry cooperation penguins, force feeding us talentless flash in the pan fakes for so many friggin years now...
@@Brand73 Everyone is not breaking motley crue’s records in 88-89 underrated... just a few years earlier and these guys actually would have been just as big as the big bands. World class musicians that could play just as good live. Unfortunately grunge ended it, plus the guitar player Marc left a tour so he could be present for the birth of his daughter. So they replaced him with some guy that could do the covers but didnt deliver beyond just trying to play Marc’s parts. And it seems like Terry is still upset at Marc for prioritizing family over fame.
Most of the bands people refer to as '80s bands started in the '70s, but no doubt '70s and '80s were both great for rock music.. the first reply or says we wrote,, who is we???
This song still kicks ass in 2019. It is the first song I listen to when I log onto my computer. 54 years old and I am still a head banger, metal head, whatever term you want to use
Music such as this was the heart-beat of American youth in the 80's and early 90's. We get to revisit our youth and regain the same feelings of living in a supreme time in music history. Thank you for keeping this music alive and well. We don't choose to let it go.
I'm so blessed to have been in my teen's and twenties during the 80's. You're so right that today's genaration has no idea what the world of so called music has drifted away from. Keep on rocking babe.
WHO KNEW IN "89" THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE END OF A DECADE OF THE BEST BANDS, & HAVING FUN. CAN HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? MAN I HOPE SO BEFORE I GET TO OLD. "85" GREAT TIMES......................
Jesus H. Christ Mark was an incredible guitarist.What a killer riff.These are the kind of songs that lead to speeding tickets when cruising down the interstate...\m/.
One of the catchiest tunes of the eighties, and one of my favorites, dam what a time to be young and into Rock and Roll just listen to that guitar solo and the melody, just all around bad ass.
Such a great, underrated band. Guitar player is awesome. Great licks and super clean. They would have been a lot bigger had they came out 5 years earlier.
I'm 53. Rainbow Rising and Highway To Hell where my first records when I was 10, the 80s where the best era for good foot stomping hip swinging slow poke rock. That is a great fucking tune
This stuff needs to return... and i'm not talking the Darkness or Steel Panther to exaggerate it and turn it into a joke... this shit was great music to party to!!!
Just saw XYZ saturday night and they are still great!!! New young guitarist is really good! Really enjoyed the show! Terry Ilous, you still got it my man!
Just heard this song on D’s House of Hair for the first time. You all deserved WAY more recognition !! Amazing! Reminds me of back in the day, when I was married to Felix Hanemann the bass player for Zebra. The live music scene was so incredible. The world has no idea what they are missing!!
Still Have All Album CD's,Some Cassettes,T-Shirt & Hat Too.Worth Buying. Awesome Good Old Days & WONDERFUL Memories. Epic Powerful Voices & Masterpiece Songs Forever Guyz. Appreciate It. 🙂😎😍🙄✌🤘👍👏👊👌❤🔊🎧🔥💯🔁👋.Anyone Still Playing This In 2023?.
I had a friend give me the cassette XYZ.I wore it out!🤟 You missed them because of the late 80's early 90's onslaught of grunge I guess. They have a great sound!👍
WAAOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! EXTRAORDINARY BAND !!!!!!!!!!! THE SINGER, THE GUITARS, THE DRUMS, THE BASS, THE SONGS, EVERY DETAIL PERFECT!!!!!!! MY FAVORITE BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Terry, just watched your show at Diesels Concert Lounge in New Baltimore , MI. What great memories from the late 70's and 80's. Probably the greatest era for rock music. Miss it dearly. What a time to be a young rocker.
We need you guy's and music like it?? This music was fun and uplifting and the 80's had a wide variety as well ?? Glad I grew up with it!!!! The masses need to hear the music??? Their is a market for it?? Country is rock at this time?? Think about it people??
I agree Racine , being influenced by a band doens´t mean they´re copying anyone , they´re just making a legacy live on . XYZ is a great band with excellent musicians , the real clones are today´s "artists" with the same lyrics and the same auto tune
Still enjoy tyhis oner, 55 now and can remember the week this hit the air.. Thank you Terry ILOUS, Keep it real and rocking. From the home of KSHE-95 Saint Louis Best Rock station since 1967 and been listening since "75"
Mike McCready from Pearl Jam and Jerry Cantrell come to mind, but then again they were Glam Metal guitarists first. I don't buy the whole "it just exploded out of nowhere from Seattle". Mother Love Bone was as glam as Poison and So was ALince in Chains. Grunge was totally a set up movement. Every big label had a one of the first big 3 or 4 grunge bands and they released Ten and Nevermind the same year and started promoting the shit out of them without sales being anygood. Of course after a year of promotion both off and on MTV the kids will say its cool and thats what happened. Not sure why it was decided to do drop the glam metal so abruptly. Same thing happened with Gangster Rap along the same time.
So glad you did.Changed my life too. And after all this time holds up and sounds better then ever.Such a bad ass band and the guitar skills are dope to understate the obvious.
One of the BEST songs cranked up with the car windows all the way down driving in the summertime. This has always been one of my all time fave songs by any band
Here is is 2021 this song stills is one of the best hard rock songs. XYZ Great band never got the fame they deserved .Mark Diglios is such a killer guitarist sadly not many people know of him.
Rock N Roll will live forever. I play it all the time. I don't care who's around. This is real music with real musicians who actually play instruments. Great lyrics, great vocals, great musicianship.This is real music and not that junk you hear in the stations.
30years later and this still ROCKS
ROCK That NEVER STOP's...! HARD ROCK RULE's
Heavy RIFFED Melodic Hard ROCK and ROLL......ta'GO....!!
❤🎉😂
Thanksgiving Weekend 2023 Added this AGAIN to another playlist in my garage gym , ROCK ON !!!
2024, who's still rocking XYZ!?!?!?
Yesss!
Right here 4th of July '24 '80's American Metal
We wrote that song in 5 minutes never thought it would change my life
TERRY ILOUS Your the man Terry, get XYZ to Minnesota please!!
TERRY ILOUS
Thanks for making really cool music
Cheers, from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Keep it up!!!!!!!
You guys are the freakin best, you created a banger! Rock on all the way from New Zealand.
but great!!
I need a time machine to go back to the days musicians actually CARED about the music !!! Will never stop listening !
Guitar tone is incredible.
60 and still love the 80's HAIR METAL!!!
Same here
64 here.
This is song is a perfect example of everything that was perfect about 80's hard rock/"glam" rock. A catchy AF riff, a sing along chorus, a shredding but tasteful solo....and all preformed by musicians who embraced the role of "rock star". Why is the music business struggling in the U.S.? Because we don't have rock stars here any more.
Bingo! Shit is still huge in South America, Europe, Asia. Talking into a mic with samples is the in thing now.
🥲❤️🌏
The recording industry decided they could have easily manageable beta male types to make boring music. What a lot of people don't realize all these rock bands from the '80s and I loved growing up in the 80s. These were tough men these guys work their asses off went through poverty fighting all kinds of stuff and when they made it big they made it big the recording industry may have taken him for granted sometimes the first time but not the second time these guys were not easily managed by a bunch of recording losers
@@WhatsCookingTime Nu metal was created, to have child friendly highly commercial rock music and "rock stars" like Fred Durst
Thanks to the new generation of musically clueless, greed driven, music industry cooperation penguins, force feeding us talentless flash in the pan fakes for so many friggin years now...
Such a hugely underrated 1980s metal song, like intense, with a totally addictive chorus.
THE RHYTHM OF THIS SONG COULD GO ON FOR AN HOUR AND I WOULDN'T GET TIRED OF IT. VERY CATCHY!!!
Extremely underrated band.
Not even....the meaning of underrated doesnt describe these guys.
XYZ are highly underrated. This album and Hungry are phenomenal!
everyone is underrated
....some may be "over-rated"...?
@@Brand73 Everyone is not breaking motley crue’s records in 88-89 underrated... just a few years earlier and these guys actually would have been just as big as the big bands. World class musicians that could play just as good live. Unfortunately grunge ended it, plus the guitar player Marc left a tour so he could be present for the birth of his daughter. So they replaced him with some guy that could do the covers but didnt deliver beyond just trying to play Marc’s parts. And it seems like Terry is still upset at Marc for prioritizing family over fame.
Under rated? No way everyone knew who these guys were tons of air play
You Nailed It!
Man these were the good old days with these jams. These songs never get old.🎸🎤
Seventies hard rock was legendary, eighties Metal was awesome. Great times to be a metal head.
Who’s here with me in 2020....
Never gets old
Forever!
I will be in the 80s until I die.
Till death do us part
me
This was the best era in hard rock music. The professionalism and image was outstanding. Best song writing and melodies from this era as well.
Most of the bands people refer to as '80s bands started in the '70s, but no doubt '70s and '80s were both great for rock music.. the first reply or says we wrote,, who is we???
80's chicks ruled! There is no doubt.
Yeah... but that blow dried frizzy look was ridiculous.
Oh ya we did .. i'm a 80's girl 100%..i still am and i'm still hot..i wish I could build a time machine and go back..and never leave.. take care
Yeah!!!
Damn right they did!!!!
80 chicks just gave up the pussy! I guess that might of been a problem .. Right?
This song still kicks ass in 2019. It is the first song I listen to when I log onto my computer. 54 years old and I am still a head banger, metal head, whatever term you want to use
Almost 60 here and yes, 80's Hair Metal was the best era for rock imo.
Same I'm 54 too and still rock it
You are not alone brother! 49 and still crankin it LOUD!
Someone with great taste in music anyway. I too was 17 when Seventeen ruled the airwaves.
Whenever i listen to this, so does the whole fuckin neighborhood!
Music such as this was the heart-beat of American youth in the 80's and early 90's. We get to revisit our youth and regain the same feelings of living in a supreme time in music history. Thank you for keeping this music alive and well. We don't choose to let it go.
Thank you guys for all your nice and funny comments
Terry ilous
Thank you, man. I turned a few chicks panties inside out with this song back in the day!
Thank you ! Now build a time machine and get us back where we belong !!!
No sir.....thank you! The 80's rocked and still do because of bands like XYZ! Great music, great sound and great vocals
When my stepbrother moved here from Arizona in 1989 he had this on cassette in a 71 firebird. I "borrowed" it.
Thanks for the memories. You guys kicked ass. I got laid to y'alls shit more than I can remember 🤪
Consistently, one of my leading examples of what guitar should be. One of the best riffs ever. Major props.
Ahhh the parties back in those days, these kids have no idea how the 80's were.
I'm so blessed to have been in my teen's and twenties during the 80's. You're so right that today's genaration has no idea what the world of so called music has drifted away from. Keep on rocking babe.
Every party comes to an end.
Now it's hangover time. 😀
It was such a fun decade. I go back every once in a while.
I was there...
What was different apart from the music.
Miss the days of the big guitar riff..and rippin solos...great tune..
Trent Oleksuik How cool XYZ was always a great band!
Incredible guitar tone
The best days ever
Ahhhh Trent buddy!!! Me too! Funny seeing you comment on the same stuff I do! Cheers!
@@laurenkosanovich6159 funny how that goes eh! Miss ya Lauren, hope things are good!
One of the best opening riffs to send chills down your spine!
Nice.. Barclay...
80s easily the best decade of musicians .... Metal rules 🤘🎸
WHO KNEW IN "89" THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE END OF A DECADE OF THE BEST BANDS, & HAVING FUN.
CAN HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? MAN I HOPE SO BEFORE I GET TO OLD. "85" GREAT TIMES......................
One of rock/metal's most criminally underrated bands
Incredible song 😊
Every time I hear this I have to grab my guitar and jam that opening riff.... this song still kicks ass in 2023... 😉
Still pounding XYZ 2021.
Grew up with this cassette & still blasting it in 2020! When I'm feeling down it's either XYZ or Dokken to pull me back up!
Awesome song.
I just heard this song on Hair Metal Nation on XM Sirius Radio.
One of my all-time favorite riffs!
One of the best songs and music of all times 😍
Jesus H. Christ Mark was an incredible guitarist.What a killer riff.These are the kind of songs that lead to speeding tickets when cruising down the interstate...\m/.
Been there done that
My 5 year grandson asked me what band did I rock out to when I was growing up. I played this song for him and now you have a fan for life 🤘😁🤘
Awesome song. Love that Red Charvel guitar. So fitting for the time. They still rock today.
Please take me back to the '80's. The best times ever!!!!
One of the catchiest tunes of the eighties, and one of my favorites, dam what a time to be young and into Rock and Roll just listen to that guitar solo and the melody, just all around bad ass.
This song is total kick it in the ass guitar rock. The solo riff is so clean, just badass music.
absolutely
Such a great, underrated band. Guitar player is awesome. Great licks and super clean. They would have been a lot bigger had they came out 5 years earlier.
Exactly, they came too late
They were a copycat band with a big label hoping to cash in on the trend of pretty boy hair metal. Unfortunately, it didn't work for either party.
A copycat of whom, exactly?
I'm 53. Rainbow Rising and Highway To Hell where my first records when I was 10, the 80s where the best era for good foot stomping hip swinging slow poke rock. That is a great fucking tune
This stuff needs to return... and i'm not talking the Darkness or Steel Panther to exaggerate it and turn it into a joke... this shit was great music to party to!!!
Dan Maginnis I used to think that I do not like it anymore,but there is just something about this kind of music that makes you feel good.
Srdjan Bošnjak Its because it's pop music, its pop disguised as hard rock
I wish pop sounded like this lol
Dan Maginnis Same here
Check out Pretty Wild, Lipstixx N Bullets, Santa Cruz, De La Cruz, Miss Behaviour, and most importantly Wig Wam.
Love this band and this song it's one of my favs
& What Keeps Me Loving You! Great hair ballad!
Christa Linsteadt hello
Inside out ;) what do you think? Beauty.
thanks
Smells like teen spirit was right around the corner killing off the best decade of fun ever!!
Killer voice...killer guitar....🤘🤘🤘
WHEN THIS ALBUM CAME OUT ..I BOUGHT IT RIGHT UP...OUTSTANDING TUNES👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
XYZ rock'n it the way it should be rocked!!! INSIDE OUT...DO IT AGAIN!!!! \m/
This whole album is killer.
It is indeed. I think I'll go listen to it now.
Awesome band saw them live in Akron Ohio before the first album was ever realeased great fuckin show and loud as fuck
Just saw XYZ saturday night and they are still great!!! New young guitarist is really good! Really enjoyed the show! Terry Ilous, you still got it my man!
Just heard this song on D’s House of Hair for the first time. You all deserved WAY more recognition !! Amazing!
Reminds me of back in the day, when I was married to Felix Hanemann the bass player for Zebra.
The live music scene was so incredible. The world has no idea what they are missing!!
As a true music fan, as soon as you mentioned Felix Hanemann, I knew you had good taste! Both XYZ and Zebra were rock central when I was younger.
Best solo from an exit 123..1.213. .....❤❤❤❤❤😂🎉❤❤🎉😂🎉😢😮😮😮😅😊
Still Have All Album CD's,Some Cassettes,T-Shirt & Hat Too.Worth Buying. Awesome Good Old Days & WONDERFUL Memories. Epic Powerful Voices & Masterpiece Songs Forever Guyz. Appreciate It. 🙂😎😍🙄✌🤘👍👏👊👌❤🔊🎧🔥💯🔁👋.Anyone Still Playing This In 2023?.
Dee Sniders House of Hair brought me here in 2021.
Went through Wikipedia, and found that this group has quite a history. Lovely music with great talents coming together. This song is pretty cool, too.
I have never heard of this band. I’m a product of the 80’s. How did I miss these guys, this is real good!
Lol
I had a friend give me the cassette XYZ.I wore it out!🤟
You missed them because of the late 80's early 90's onslaught of grunge I guess.
They have a great sound!👍
I believe don dokken produced this album if I’m not mistaken
WAAOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! EXTRAORDINARY BAND !!!!!!!!!!! THE SINGER, THE GUITARS, THE DRUMS, THE BASS, THE SONGS, EVERY DETAIL PERFECT!!!!!!!
MY FAVORITE BAND EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
I do miss the 80z
A great song, so many good 80s hair bands were very underrated.
Man I sure do miss the 80's !!!!! Love the guitar tone - probably why those Mike Moran Pre-amps are no where to be found !!!!
Terry, just watched your show at Diesels Concert Lounge in New Baltimore , MI. What great memories from the late 70's and 80's. Probably the greatest era for rock music. Miss it dearly. What a time to be a young rocker.
were have you been,,if you have never hear XYZ,,damn it
You can tell that Don Dokken produced their album. AWESOME!!
Thanks Terry for this amazing tune. Steve 👍
Big part of my partying nights when this came out and them Saturday nights watching Headbangers Ball
I used to work with Mark in Albuquerque, New Mexico selling windows and doors!
He was a really cool guy!🤘🤘🤘
Awesome guitar riffs. I used to turn that up at 3:05 as loud as I could in my old Pontiac. Really miss those days
Those were the best years. Ever !! Nothing can come close. Salute to hair metal.
We need you guy's and music like it?? This music was fun and uplifting and the 80's had a wide variety as well ?? Glad I grew up with it!!!! The masses need to hear the music??? Their is a market for it?? Country is rock at this time?? Think about it people??
Can't believe it's 2023 and I've only just discovered this awesome band🤟 Thanks TH-cam
This band was so underrated is not even funny , Marc Diglio is an excellent guitar player
Trying to be a Led Zeppelin clone is not being underrated. They deserved no respect for trying to copy LZ.
I totally agree with you on that Phoenix, this was one excellent band. They are not cloning anyone, they are XYZ!!!
I agree Racine , being influenced by a band doens´t mean they´re copying anyone , they´re just making a legacy live on . XYZ is a great band with excellent musicians , the real clones are today´s "artists" with the same lyrics and the same auto tune
Phoenix Van Wyden Well put Phoenix, I couldn't agree more:)
christschool You're insulting both bands for stating that they're trying to copy Zeppelin. They are two different genres.
I gotta jam this more often.
This one has it all. The riff, the lyrics, and hot babes 🤘
3.07 chills , superb guitar player. Superb riff running through the whole song 🤘🏻
These guys were and are still so good. Great melody and smoking guitar work throughout this entire lp. After the Rain is such a beautiful song.
Hey fun fact! My grandpa (Tom,Mcmahon) was the Manager of the band! And his cousin was the drummer!
Zach Cowin VERY AWESOME ZACH , KEEP ROCKIN 😈❤💋
Zach Cowin really dude? Awesome! Greetings from Colombia!
Nice! \m/
THATS WHY THEY FAILED!
awesome man, salute to your grandpa 👍
Still enjoy tyhis oner, 55 now and can remember the week this hit the air.. Thank you Terry ILOUS, Keep it real and rocking. From the home of KSHE-95 Saint Louis Best Rock station since 1967 and been listening since "75"
One of my favorite songs I have been playing guitar since I was in high school and I'm 57 now still get that Rush
No fucking grunge guitarist ever played this well......they cant handle it.
Jerry Cantrell?
That's the FREAKING TRUTH again Irish Psycho.....lol.......tell it like it is brother !!!!!!!!! the 80's were the BEST !!!!!
Mike McCready from Pearl Jam and Jerry Cantrell come to mind, but then again they were Glam Metal guitarists first. I don't buy the whole "it just exploded out of nowhere from Seattle". Mother Love Bone was as glam as Poison and So was ALince in Chains. Grunge was totally a set up movement. Every big label had a one of the first big 3 or 4 grunge bands and they released Ten and Nevermind the same year and started promoting the shit out of them without sales being anygood. Of course after a year of promotion both off and on MTV the kids will say its cool and thats what happened. Not sure why it was decided to do drop the glam metal so abruptly. Same thing happened with Gangster Rap along the same time.
MOST FPLKS DONT HAVE A CLUE
FOLKS OOPPSSS
So glad you did.Changed my life too.
And after all this time holds up and sounds better then ever.Such a bad ass band and the guitar skills are dope to understate the obvious.
this song...And That Summer changed my life forever. SO THANKYOU 💋
One of the BEST songs cranked up with the car windows all the way down driving in the summertime. This has always been one of my all time fave songs by any band
When rock & roll ruled! Great song!
When the guitar vocalist and rhythm synchronize.Perfection.
When that guitar starts you know you're in for a good time
You guys, your music changed many peoples lives 💛😊
I miss the 80’s...metal cranked to ten blowin the speakers::::babes in daisy dukes...drinking til dawn...not a care in the world...best of times
Here is is 2021 this song stills is one of the best hard rock songs. XYZ Great band never got the fame they deserved .Mark Diglios is such a killer guitarist sadly not many people know of him.
Rock N Roll will live forever. I play it all the time. I don't care who's around. This is real music with real musicians who actually play instruments. Great lyrics, great vocals, great musicianship.This is real music and not that junk you hear in the stations.
I been listening to this band
Very under-rated! Total 80's at it's best, right here!
Awesome tune, great guitar tone & playing, and one bad-ass Charvel guitar!
looks like a San Dimas
I believe you are correct sir! :)
It is a San Dimas. All Charvels are awesome!! I have 5!
Bad ass song, I graduated in 89
Loved this album and the one that followed. They were absolutely brilliant. Steve 🎸👍
My toyota highlander transforms into a testarossa when I jam this song.
That's funny
Thanks Terry
Just a incredible song man ! Love the memories it brings ! Bad ass band ! Thanks brothers
Great memories and flashbacks....to a MUCH better time in this country. Thank you!
This song doesnt get the love it deserves at all
We need more music like this
Best Decade EVER
As good today as it was back in the day..ROCK ON..
Brings back old buzzes.....Its too bad we all have to get old