Pardo bites his tongue the entire time when Martin brings up his punk & grunge bands. I'm more in line musically with Popoff, but appreciate them both and appreciate how this channel is nonjudgmental & just a bunch of people who love music.
@@sotdude7 I love your channel & the variety of voices you include all of them. It's like a channel by and for music snobs who hate music snobs, which is perfect. Anyway, thanks a lot Pete, you have a couple of years on me & I got caught up in the whole punk & new wave thing around 83, but before that, in Jr. High I was a metal kids & you got me to appreciate a lot of that stuff again. Keep up with the great content and experimenting with different formats and shows.
1. Arc Angels 2. Shadow King 3. Blind Faith (Of Course) 4. H. S. A. S. 5. Them Crooked Vultures 6. Mad Season 7. Coverdale/Page 8. Derek and the Dominos (no brainer) 9. Cage the Gods (!!!!!) 10. BBM
@@erikberg5363 Agreed. I would put it at the top after Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominoes. There were rumors of a second Vultures album, but hasn't happened...yet.
Love this channel and love the wider range of bands that Martin loves. But, Pete really shines on the prog scene and I appreciate both perspectives a lot! Happy Birthday, Martin!!
Happy Birthday Martin Popoff!! So appreciate your love and passion of music!! I have many of your books. And the massive amount of detail is such a gift! Thank you Pete for your platform!!
Under the Sun - s/t Ad Infinitum - s/t Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure (although the preivous Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds solo albums were essentially Rockpile albums)
Great video and great pick from both of you. Thanks so much, Martin, for mentioning Rockpile. I know it's not metal or prog, but straight up rock and roll. I love that album and loved that band. They broke up decades ago and I'm still in mourning. : )
@@Intermentor Yeah, considering Josh is really the only consistent member of that band, Them Crooked Vultures always felt like an extension of QotSA but with more classic rock influence such as Cream and Led Zeppelin (and having John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin helps). I also like pretty much every QotSA album except for Villains which never quite hit me for whatever reason.
1. Minor threat - out of step 2. McDonald & Giles 3. Temple of The Dog 4. Oysterhead - The Grand Peking Order 5. Life, Sex, & Death - The Silent Majority Thanks for the great videos! Been a viewer for a while now.
Wow, how could I forget Temple of the Dog?! I was lucky enough to see them with Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains at Hollywood Palladium. One of the best concerts ever!
My favorite is Control Denied. Fantastic album and glad Pete mentioned it. Also a band that had only one album(a local band from Louisville, Ky) that was produced by Glen Danzig was Kinghorse.
Great video gentlemen! Here's mine... Floodgate - penalty Winter - Into darkness Disembowelment - Transcendence into the peripheral Dirty Americans - strange generation Ved buens ende - written in waters Nail bomb - point blank
Not hard rock music but one of the greatest one and done groups was Toy Matinee. Sadly Kevin Gilbert's untimely passing ended what could have been something huge. This album is full of great hooks and every song on their only album is really good.
Great show as always, one of my favourite one album bands was an UK band, kestrel, lots of mellotron. Came out I think 1975, sadly it missed the prog boat.
We had a few "one and done" albums in the NW back in the 70s and 80s and some quite good. For Hard Rock & Metal as a few we had Culprit's Guilty As Charged (only a comp track and an `84 demo tape besides before they split up), Lethal Dose, Gargoyle S/T, Glacier S/T EP, Crysys Hard As Rock, Bitter End Harsh Realities (they had a shelved 2nd album came out many years later), Ray Gunn LP, the Kidskin EP, The Heat EP, and the mighty Striker S/T debut from 1978. We also had the great Seattle power-pop Heats Have An Idea LP (they also had a couple singles and a post-breakup live album), Portland's Sequel with their debut LP (they had a shelved second album came out much later on too) and Bighorn and Shyanne's sole LPs.
Love it you picked out Quatermass - on a recommendation from my 2nd hand record store owner pal, thank you Malcolm, back in 93' this was one of the (many) Lp's from that period I bought. Loved it from the first play.
The one band that immediately comes to mind is Armageddon. Their self titled album from 1975 is truly amazing. Intense hard progressive rock loaded with great ideas. Sounding like no one else, and ahead of it`s time. Would have loved to seen another album. Sadly, Keith Relfs death prevented that. A classic.
You mentioned two things that reminded me of two other things...Beck, Bogert, and Appice reminded me of DBA (2001)--Derringer, Bogert, and Appice. Pretty good record. And HSAS reminded me of Abraxas Pool (1997)--a Santana 3 band reunion, which sounded very much like Santana of that era...which is to say absolutely fantastic. Schon, Rollie, and Shrieve are smokin' on this record.
Days late and a mountain of dollars short!! Happy birthweek to Mr. Martin Popoff!! Especially in the spirit of all things music that keep him behind the kit, and talking rock music with all the fire and fury of a guy just fresh out of college!!🍻🙌
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth was an absolutely amazing one off album by a Welsh trio released in 1980. Cesspool of Vermin - Beastial Necrophilia was an absolutely excellent Brutal Death Metal album that so far has received no follow up despite the insane demand for more by their many die hard fans. Their songs are really crushing and memorable. Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe released in 1977 by the original Alice Cooper backing band was the greatest 1970s Proto Metal ever recorded. Too bad they didn't continue releasing phenomenal albums they could have been bigger than Alice Cooper. Tyga Myra - Deliverance released in 1986 from Post NWOBHM Label Ebony Records. What an amazing album in the vein of Chateaux and Grim Reaper, but even better. I absolutely love Spiral Architect . Pete beat me to the punch, but I am really glad to hear them mentioned. The Sammy Hagar- Neal Schon - Kenny Aaron's ( formerly of the true godfathers of Thrash Metal band Dust , which also featured Marc Bell drummer for the Immortal band that invented the True Punk Rock genre the Ramones, and guitar God amazing Vocalist Richie Weiss who went on to produce KISS) has been a favorite for years also. Dark Star NWOBHM band also released only one album from 1981 , and it was amazing. Very hook oriented memorable songs, and a slight Prog edge. Great show, covered a wide range of bands. Power of Zeus was absolutely killer. Although I really liked the Oran U Tan album, I felt like the early Led Zeppelin influences bordered on tribute band territory
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks is the best one-off studio album of all-time without a doubt. They released some other compilations but no other studio albums. Thirty some minutes of raw anger and fury
Bullocks' will sound furious and completely relevant a hundred yrs. from now! Steve Jones just burns on this molten disc of piss and vinegar....the riffs are volcanic! Never to be topped - THIS is the greatest punk album to grace the planet!
The one that springs to mind first: the La's eponymous and only album from 1990! Even though the band's mastermind (Lee Mavers) says he hates it, it's still regarded by many of those who've listened, as an absolute classic pre-Britpop album. As you can imagine, the backstory to the creation of it is an equally fascinating and frustrating one. "There She Goes" is the one everybody recognizes.
Lee Mavers couldn't hold it together because of smack. Same with Shack, they struggle with narcotics but produce beautiful pop. 'H.M.S. Fable' is top-notch 1990s British pop, as are The Doves. Listen to 'Cedar Room' by The Doves. th-cam.com/video/GWJ0xr0Zv0Q/w-d-xo.html
@@guadalahonky4002 There's a really interesting video if you search for "history of the La's". I really like the Doves but hadn't heard of Shack, will check them out, thanks!
Happy belated birthday, Martin. I'm glad you gave grunge bands some love. Someone on this channel should. Mother Love Bone is where two of Pearl Jam's members came from. And Temple of the Dog was mainly a Pearl Jam project w/Chris Cornell guest singing. Or was Eddie Vedder the guest singer? I forget. I'm also familiar w/the Coverdale/Page album. I heard it last year and was surprised how much I liked it. I should buy it. I remember their collaboration being a big deal in the 90s but I wasn't a Led Zeppelin fan yet. I also remember the Plant/Page collaboration too. I know Pete is a David Coverdale fan and I like him too. But, I'll take Robert Plant over David Coverdale any day and I'm glad Plant and Page got together to do their two tours in the 90s. I've been watching the concerts on TH-cam and they're excellent, especially w/the Egyptian orchestra. And I'm w/you Martin on the Plant/Page albums. They had one album of new material and a greatest hits album if people want to get super technical about it😂😂
Happy Birthday! Two honorable mentions: Von Südenfed, which was a collaboration of The Fall's Mark E. Smith and Germay's experimental electronic outfit Mouse On Mars in 2007. FFS as well, who consisted of Scottish Indie rockers Franz Ferdinand and, of course, L.A.'s own Ron and Russell Mael, aka. as The Sparks, and released a fun album in 2015. Saw them live at Lollapalooza in Berlin that year, and they really worked well together, giving the crowd a good show. Damn, The La's from Liverpool, of course! Saw them live, too, rare opportunity, very short set. Legendary record.
Great show, guys! Some picks/comments: 1. Babylon "Babylon" (progressive rock group out of St. Petersburg, FL) 1978 eponymously titled release. They had a couple of live releases after this one, but this was their only studio release. Compared to early Genesis, but a bit darker/quirkier. Classic. 2. You mentioned Emerson, Lake and Powell, but another 'one off' was 3 (Emerson, Palmer and Berry). 3. Refugee, "Refugee". After Keith Emerson left The Nice to form ELP, Patrick Moraz took his place with bassist Lee Jackson and drummer Brian Davison, resulting in this truly great album. Moraz left after recording this to join Yes, but it makes me wonder what might have been if they had gone on to a second release. 4. England "Garden Shed". You've mentioned this on on other programs, Pete. A great progressive rock group and album led by keyboardist Robert Webb, who I believe went on to do soundtracks and such. Again, makes me wonder "what if?". Great call on Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe. I didn't think of that one initially, because there have been so many iterations/lineups of Yes/ex-Yes members! Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominoes - wow, two of the most iconic "single album" bands of all time, why didn't I immediately think of those!
Greetings from Switzerland and happy birthday to you Martin. Thanks as always for the excellent content: watching you makes my day! I chime in just to give two precisions to you Pete (sure you know that but have forgotten): ISLAND and MCCHURCH SOUNDROOM are from my country (we don't have so many good bands, then it's important to mention it!). All the best for you!
I already have Bodkin thanks to Pete and his forgotten favorites series. I started to check out a little of Quatermass and Spiral Architect so far both really good looks like I will be buying some more albums here soon. I could only find one song from Martin's pick The Ghost online it does have a late sixties sound to it but I like it. I will check out more of Pete and Martin's picks from this episode. I been really liking the episodes with Martin Popoff. Some really good topics lately and Martin seems like such a humble person with some good picks as well.
Love episodes like this. Great way to find new (to me) music! Thanks to you both. Would love to see a Top 10 favorite Canadian Bands episode........eh Here's some of my one and done faves 1. Arc Angels - s/t (one of my top 5 albums ever!! Love it that much. They did release a live album in 2009, but only had 1 studio album) 2. The Notting Hillbillies - ....Missing. Presumed Having a Good Time 3. The Shouting Matches - Grownass Man 4. Case/Lang/Veirs - s/t 5. Axis - It's a Circus World (Thanks Pete for the recommendation on this one back when you did 12 episodes of one and done)
Here are a few off the top of my head: Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism HSAS - Through the Fire Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence Weakling - Dead As Dreams Blind Faith - Blind Faith
My favourite may be Burning Tree with their eponymous debut/final (so far) LP from 1990. Marc Ford pre Black Crowes days. A great power trio playing blues/hard rock
HSAS - Trough the Fire Cobra - First Strike Red Dawn - Never Say Surrender Witness - S/T Atlantic - Power Jojo - S/T Katmandu - S/T GTR - S/T The City - Foundation Culprit - Guilty as Charged Greenway - Serious Business The Innocent - Livin' in the Street I-Ten - Taking a Cold Look
The self-titled album of The Awful Truth on Megaforce Records always comes to mind for me. It's a mixture of Prog Metal, some Psychedelia, with layered vocals à la King's-X. Weird and wonderful and one of my favorite all time albums. Some members started Galactic Cowboys after Awful Truth split up, but as much as enjoyed GC, I always loved TAW more.
Exactly. One of the greatest albums ever. Actually it was on Metal Blade. Shame that there's only 1 song featuring David Von Ohlerking released since The Awful Truth, that's The Crab by From Now On on Infected - 12 From Texas compilation. First 2 Galactic Cowboys album are excellent, but The Awful Truth is unparalleled, and that's due to David's songwriting.
@@foobman There's couple of tracks from the so called The Awful Truth-reunion on youtube. Not as good as the album renditions, Mary featuring Doug Pinnick and some others. Happy May Day. th-cam.com/video/m11OPXhmVmY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/vGM-vd4L3Yg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Martin for putting Green River on the list! I always forget, they are actually a one album band because the other two records are EP's. The godfathers of grunge!!!
Cool topic. Been thinking about this lately as other music people I watch have brought up similar topics recently. Here are my favorites (no order). 1. Vinterland (melodic black metal) 2. Foxboro Hot Tubs (garage rock revival/punk rock) 3. Sex Pistols (punk rock) 4. The Postal Service (indietronica/indie pop)
Rhapsody. Their sole self-titled album originally released in 1978 and later reissued on CD as Rhapsody (Sweden) - Strange vibrations in 2005, with two bonus tracks. An absolute hard rock gem in the vein of Deep Purple and Gillan - Lots of Hammond, soaring guitar work and powerful vocals. It died an instant and horrible death upon its release in 1978, right in the midst of the swedish punk boom. Totally worth checking out. I was blown away by it when I bought it fresh from the press in `78. Right up your alley I should think, Pete Pardo.
Nice job boys👍 Stumbled across Armageddon about 8 months ago on vinyl and it is keeps jumping on and off my Turntable.....amazing amazing album that just wows me every listen😳😳😳😳 Bobby Caldwell is one of the most underrated drummers of all-time! Also the cover and back are classic also with band sitting in the carnage and Bobby with a heater hanging out of his mouth😂
Dragonfly - Tales of the Dragonfly Chapter 1, one off album from 1985, great AOR/rock album. Shelter with First Stop, great call with Orion The Hunter. Also the great Jeff Buckley with Grace.
I love Jeff Buckley. One of the most underrated singers of all time. What a loss! Put on a great concert. People should check him out if never heard his amazing music.
Dang Martin,you omitted 1992's War Babies ,from Seattle,featuring the great Brad Sinsel(TKO)on vocals,.....a 10 in your reviews,....great one album band
So much to choose from. Here are a few in no particular order. 1. Demon Fuzz 1970 early prog/Jazz 2. Sintesis 1976 Latin Jazz Fusion 3. Dakila 1972 Latin Jazz Rock 4. The Message (From Books and Dreams) 1973 Krautrock 5. Pinnacle (Cyborg Assassin) 1974 early proto/metal 6. The Procession (Frontiera) 1972 Italian prog/rock 7. Charlee 1972 Canadian rock
Definitely loved the Orion the Hunter album in the 1980s, and RTZ as well… kind of scratched the Boston itch at the time when we were all waiting for another album from Tom Scholz
RTZ was great, also the Barry Goudreau/Engine Room solo stuff. The two Delp And Goudreau albums were interesting (Wiki only lists one album by them but I also have a cd single called Rockin' Away from 2007)...Goudreau & drummer Sib Hashian, plus 2 former members of RTZ, had a brief band called Ernie And The Automatics & an album called Low Expectations from 2009. Unfortunately that album title was pretty much dead on (kinda "rootsy" music, not very interesting - "The Good Times (Never Last)" was OK, plus the instrumentals "Hong Kong Shuffle" & "Fly In The Milk") although I think it was a hit...
1. Derek and the Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 2. GTR 3. Heaven and Hell- The Devil You Know 4. Coverdale Page 5. Blind Faith 6. Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe 7. Temple of the Dog
Dianno . Paul Dianno's first post Iron Maiden band that made one album which was in the 80s AOR Melodic Rock sound. Great album that's never been released on cd.
All the ones I have (that I can think of) are supergroup types. Beck, Bogart and Appice Derek and the Dominos Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe Blind Faith does Emerson, Lake and Powell count?
A one album band that I'd never heard of which I found on youtube recently are Grannie an English rock band their album was released in1969 and that was all she wrote, pretty decent stuff ,check them out.
West Bruce Laing I think did a couple so Jack Bruce had BLT and the Gary Moore thing so he covered the 60's - 70's - 80's and 90's with his power trio themes.
Nevermind the Bollocks is always and easily my number one. There are a bunch of early 70s heavy psych/proto metal bands like this, some were mentioned.. Primevil, Jerusalem, Cargo, Ursa Major, CA Quintet, Stonewall, Orang-Utan, many more. Some coming out way after the band's split - Death, Iron Claw, Simply Saucer. Weakling - Dead As Dreams. Epic one-off black/post-metal album. Mother Love Bone - Apple Mad Season - Above Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers Jeff Buckley - Grace Germs - GI Monks - Black Monk Time Debris' - Static Disposal
Listening to the Bodkin album now, pretty cool stuff, the Heep/Rooster/purple vibe is unmistakeable. As a one album wonder I would recommend Mainhorse, an early Patrick Moraz album, I believe only one album came out at the time with some kind of odds and sods collection 40 years later. It's quirky and jazzy and technical and reminds me of, without sounding much like, Gentle Giant. Worth a listen.
On RCA i 1973, a Canadian one off - Scrubbaloe Caine. Blues rock featuring ex Guess Who Jim Kale, future Loverboy Guitarist Paul Dean and 2nd Prism vocalist Henry Small wailing away.
Good one - weird thing is that I see two albums listed for them, both from '71: a s/t one & one called Round One that seems to have the exact same tunes, so it's the same record under a different name...I think I read that they started recording another album called Street Level that was never finished or released
asgard's only album in the realm of asgard is one of my favorites and i remember you talking about it in a forgotten favorites episode wish was how i found out about it
Mystic Healer! amazing US AOR band/project including Mark Mangold, Al Fritsch, Chuck Bonfante and the Kulick bros. They released a s/t album in 98 and disappeared. As always, great show, guys!🍺🤘
Happy birthday Martin! Really cool episode! Knew some of Pete's picks as he has spoken about them before but was interesting to see Martin's especially him being a fan of mother love bone. There are maybe a few that I slipped my mind but these are the ones that are the dearest to me. My picks Mad season-above (alternative rock/blues rock. This is so loungy yet diverse. I always listen to this when I wanna relax. The musicianship is stellar. R.i.p mark lanegan and Layne staley) Chthe'ilist-la dernier crepuscule (technical death metal. Highly recommended if you are fan of the band demilich. Though there is a strong demilich influence the band still stands out especially with the fantastic neoclassical tinged solos) Anders bjorler-antikythera (soundtrack/ambient. Brilliant one off album which is a unique experience. Dick lovgren of meshuggah on bass and per wiberg formerly of opeth and anekdoten on keyboards) Conquering dystopia-conquering dystopia (progressive thrash metal basically instrumental nevermore) Sunset in the 12th house-mozaic (progressive metal/post rock. Very interesting band that plays instrumental atmospheric rock music. Highly recommend if you like pink Floyd and some post rock bands like pelican) Disincarnate-dreams of the carrion kind (death metal. James Murphy's band who is one of the most underrated guitar players in metal history imo. The vocals are brilliant too. Classic old school death metal) Lusk-free Mars (psychedelic pop. Highly recommend if you are into the psych era of the beatles. It also has Danny Carey featuring on one track! Side project of the guitarist/bassist from failure, Greg edwards and Paul d'amour who played on tool-undertow) Mother love bone-mother love bone (grunge/hard rock. They strangely sound a lot like appetites of destruction era gnr) Sex pistols-never mind the bollocks (punk. Legendary album with one of my favorite guitar tones) Effloresce-coma ghosts (progressive metal. They sound a lot like a mix of dream theater and opeth with female vocals who also plays the flute. They sadly disbanded very recently after years of inactivity) Honorable mentions Sean malone-cortlandt Blotted science-the machinations of dementia Atlas-blå vardag Fuzzy duck-fuzzy duck Blind faith-blind faith
My number one would be Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale. One of my all time favourites. Its equal parts beautiful and heartbreaking, one of the very best doom albums, Aleah Stanbridge was a huge talent taken far too soon.
10. Rated X (JLT, Carmine, Franklin & Cochran) 9. California Breed 8. G-Force 7. BBM 6. Manitoba's Wild Kingdom 5. HSAS 4. Pride & Glory 3. Coverdale Page 2. VAI 1. The Scream Honorable Mentions: \ VERTU RTZ and Orion The Hunter, Contraband, Rebel Meets Rebel (Pantera with David Allan Coe) Damageplan
I'm glad that Mogul Thrash, Armageddon and Fuzzy Duck came up. I was particularly thinking of the latter two. If its recording and release wasn't so convoluted, I'd throw Josefus' "Dead Man"/"Get off my case" in there too. And also Luv Machine's "Turn's you on" which is Anglo/Caribbean hard rock from 1972 -ish. There's some great songs on it. The early days of Christian rock are littered with bands/artists that only ever made one album ! Most of them are so ropey, Rapunzel's witch would reject them, but two absolute pearlers that stand out head and shoulders above the rest are Joshua's "And God said....lead my people" which is not at all like you'd think from the title and one simply called "The Last Day" by a band of the same name, from the same year. It's an outstanding album, if you like that kind of thing, and features a jazz saxophonist on soprano and tenor saxes, called Don Lanphere, often playing harmonies with the two saxes. It's glorious.
The album that came immediately to mind for me was Handsome's self-titled. So overlooked. Tom Capone from Quicksand, Peter Mengede from Helmet, Jeremy Chaterlain from Iceburn, Pete Hines from Cro-Mags and Eddie Nappi from I don't know but he's too essential not to mention. Bigger than the sum of its parts and its parts are fucking awesome.
Another great topic! Some of my picks are fairly obscure, but the SOT viewers may want to seek them out: 1. Vendetta - s/t (Nikki Buzz -1982) 2. American Pearl - s/t (a solid 10 IMO) 3. The Gracious Few (Candlebox/Live collaboration) 4. Burning Tree - s/t (future Crowe Marc Ford) 5. California Breed - s/t 6. Huck Johns - Oh Yeah (Detroit born, also in Black Robot) 7. Detroit feat. Mitch Ryder (definitive version of the Velvet's 'Rock & Roll') 8. St. Paradise - s/t (Derek St. Holmes first post Nugent project) 9. The B'zz - Get Up (1982 - check out "Get Up, Get Angry" 10. OZZ - No Prisoners (1980 Chicago band - great hard rock guitar album)
The OZZ album is very good, very melodic & good vocals. I have the reissue/remaster...Marc Ford was also in the great band Magpie Salute (3 wonderful albums)
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe Mad Season - Above Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter Midvinter - At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon Havayoth - His Creation Reversed Dead Silent Slumber - Entombed in the Midnight Hour Dæmonarch - Hermeticum Carnage - Dark Recollection The Moaning - Blood from Stone The Everdawn - Poems Burn the Past Withered Beauty - Withered Beauty Prophanity - Stronger than Steel Piss Factory - Piss Factory
Bruce Dickinson's Skunkworks band and album. It was meant to be the first album from his new band Skunkworks, but his record label refused to release anything unless it was under the Bruce Dickinson name. For all intents and purposes, though, this was a new band with 3 new members joining Dickinson in an alternative rock band. They released the one album in February 1996, toured for it briefly and by the end of the year they were done; Dickinson scrapped the band and went back to Roy Z and The Tribe of Gypsies (and Adrian Smith) to help him with his next album.
My favorite one of these one album bands is Layla and other assorted love songs by Derek and the dominoes, yes I know double album but that still counts as one album, I mean this bell bottom blues, key to the highway, tell the truth, have you ever loved a woman and the irreplaceable classic Layla, the keyboard riff is amazing and Clapton, Duane, Bobby, Carl, and Jim just are amazing you can't go wrong, so yeah Derek and the dominoes
Happy Birthday Martin! My updated list: Cydonia- s/t (2001) really good power metal from Italy. Manic Eden(1994) T-Ride Heavy Bones Coverdale/Page Manitoba's Wild Kingdom Life, Sex & Death Damage Plan
Martin's picks:
Vai, Eater, California Breed, Pride & Glory, Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom, DMZ, The Ghost, Mother Love Bone, Green River, Sex Pistols
Pete's Picks:
1) HSAS (Through the Fire, 1984)
2)Spiral Architect-(A Sceptic’s Universe 2000)
3) Semiramis (Dedicato a Frazz 1973)
4) Coverdale Page (1993)
5) Quatermass (1970)
6) Orion the Hunter (1984)
7) Bodkin (1972)
8) Khan (Space Shanty 1972)
9) BBM (Around the Next Dream 1994)
10) Blackwater Park (Dirt Box-1972)
Dirt Box is an underrated classic. Rock Song is an absolute monster.
Thank you PETE for the lists. Much appreciated !👍💯
Damn...can't believe I forgot California Breed and Pride & Glory.
You mention Mikael Åkerfeldt and leave Storm Corrosion out?
@@csantana1971 these are our FAVORITES...I'm not big on Storm Corrosion, and I mentioned Blind Faith at the end in our honorable mentions.
Pardo bites his tongue the entire time when Martin brings up his punk & grunge bands. I'm more in line musically with Popoff, but appreciate them both and appreciate how this channel is nonjudgmental & just a bunch of people who love music.
I got no issue with it at all. It’s pretty cool that we both can talk about such varied stuff.
@@sotdude7 I love your channel & the variety of voices you include all of them. It's like a channel by and for music snobs who hate music snobs, which is perfect.
Anyway, thanks a lot Pete, you have a couple of years on me & I got caught up in the whole punk & new wave thing around 83, but before that, in Jr. High I was a metal kids & you got me to appreciate a lot of that stuff again. Keep up with the great content and experimenting with different formats and shows.
What's the difference between having an opinion (that doesn't match general consensus) and being judgemental?
1. Arc Angels
2. Shadow King
3. Blind Faith (Of Course)
4. H. S. A. S.
5. Them Crooked Vultures
6. Mad Season
7. Coverdale/Page
8. Derek and the Dominos (no brainer)
9. Cage the Gods (!!!!!)
10. BBM
Dang, I forgot about Them Crooked Vulture. Great album!
Shadow King good choice!
@@erikberg5363 Agreed. I would put it at the top after Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominoes. There were rumors of a second Vultures album, but hasn't happened...yet.
@@Rockerlady Yeah I heard that as well, a few years ago now.
Love this channel and love the wider range of bands that Martin loves. But, Pete really shines on the prog scene and I appreciate both perspectives a lot! Happy Birthday, Martin!!
Happy Birthday Martin Popoff!! So appreciate your love and passion of music!! I have many of your books. And the massive amount of detail is such a gift! Thank you Pete for your platform!!
Look forward to these Popoff/Pardo videos. Today I discovered Blackwater Park. Thanks guys.
Under the Sun - s/t
Ad Infinitum - s/t
Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure (although the preivous Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds solo albums were essentially Rockpile albums)
That Rockpile album is an all time favorite
Great video and great pick from both of you. Thanks so much, Martin, for mentioning Rockpile. I know it's not metal or prog, but straight up rock and roll. I love that album and loved that band. They broke up decades ago and I'm still in mourning. : )
I've always been a sucker for Them Crooked Vultures' one and only album. Temple of the Dog I also really like.
I have really tried hard to like TOTD, but I can‘t stand Chris Cornell‘s singing in his higher register on the record.
That Them Crooked Vultures album is really good. I will say it is as good as the best Queens of the Stone Album : Songs for the Deaf
@@Intermentor Yeah, considering Josh is really the only consistent member of that band, Them Crooked Vultures always felt like an extension of QotSA but with more classic rock influence such as Cream and Led Zeppelin (and having John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin helps). I also like pretty much every QotSA album except for Villains which never quite hit me for whatever reason.
That's surprising! Cornell can do no wrong when it comes to singing, in my less than humble opinion!
1. Minor threat - out of step
2. McDonald & Giles
3. Temple of The Dog
4. Oysterhead - The Grand Peking Order
5. Life, Sex, & Death - The Silent Majority
Thanks for the great videos! Been a viewer for a while now.
Mad Season and Temple of the Dog would also make my list. That Mother Lovebone album is great.
LOVE the Mother Love Bone Album..
Those are great picks, Temple of the dog was a tribute to Andy from Mother Love Bone which is a great pick too...
Martin has some good grunge picks while Pete has these 1970 prog bands that no one has ever heard.
Wow, how could I forget Temple of the Dog?! I was lucky enough to see them with Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains at Hollywood Palladium. One of the best concerts ever!
Love Mad Season, great album.
Spiral Architect -- YES! I'd put the Joey Taffolla Ultra Blue album in that category.
I love how Pete just looks zoned out when Martin talks about grunge bands.
Great video.So many releases mentioned.So many bands time forgot.Excellent,as usual.
My favorite is Control Denied. Fantastic album and glad Pete mentioned it. Also a band that had only one album(a local band from Louisville, Ky) that was produced by Glen Danzig was Kinghorse.
Great video gentlemen! Here's mine...
Floodgate - penalty
Winter - Into darkness
Disembowelment - Transcendence into the peripheral
Dirty Americans - strange generation
Ved buens ende - written in waters
Nail bomb - point blank
Not hard rock music but one of the greatest one and done groups was Toy Matinee. Sadly Kevin Gilbert's untimely passing ended what could have been something huge. This album is full of great hooks and every song on their only album is really good.
Someone else mentioned it, 3rd Matinee is a good record too. Not exactly the same at TM. The common piece is Patrick Leonard on keys
Kevin Gilbert should have been a STAR! Outstanding voice and great arranger of melody and hooks! Big factor in Sheryl Crow's early success!
HSAS - Through the Fire was the first album I thought of when I saw the theme for this video. Great call, Pete.
Great show as always, one of my favourite one album bands was an UK band, kestrel, lots of mellotron. Came out I think 1975, sadly it missed the prog boat.
I have that one, excellent album
Happy belated birthday, Martin!
Happy birthday Martin ... Great to watch you both as always .. good topic ...
Happy Birthday Martin. Look forward to you 2 every Friday. I'm enjoying your RUSH trilogy of books at the moment. Enjoy your day.
We had a few "one and done" albums in the NW back in the 70s and 80s and some quite good. For Hard Rock & Metal as a few we had Culprit's Guilty As Charged (only a comp track and an `84 demo tape besides before they split up), Lethal Dose, Gargoyle S/T, Glacier S/T EP, Crysys Hard As Rock, Bitter End Harsh Realities (they had a shelved 2nd album came out many years later), Ray Gunn LP, the Kidskin EP, The Heat EP, and the mighty Striker S/T debut from 1978. We also had the great Seattle power-pop Heats Have An Idea LP (they also had a couple singles and a post-breakup live album), Portland's Sequel with their debut LP (they had a shelved second album came out much later on too) and Bighorn and Shyanne's sole LPs.
I saw Pride and Glory twice and they were fantastic live! Still my favorite thing Zakk ever did and I love all of his music
I'd say "Book of Shadows" #1 with P&G #2 for me.
Got to see them once at Donnington, they were the first band on, but they were awesome. Zakk's best album imo.
Love it you picked out Quatermass - on a recommendation from my 2nd hand record store owner pal, thank you Malcolm, back in 93' this was one of the (many) Lp's from that period I bought. Loved it from the first play.
Awesome picks, guys! Rock on, fellas! 🤘 Also, Happy Birthday, Martin! I hope you enjoyed your special day! 🥳
The one band that immediately comes to mind is Armageddon. Their self titled album from 1975 is truly amazing. Intense hard progressive rock loaded with great ideas. Sounding like no one else, and ahead of it`s time. Would have loved to seen another album. Sadly, Keith Relfs death prevented that. A classic.
Ha beat me to it !!
I've had that album forever. Couldn't agree more. Phenomenal, every song.
You mentioned two things that reminded me of two other things...Beck, Bogert, and Appice reminded me of DBA (2001)--Derringer, Bogert, and Appice. Pretty good record. And HSAS reminded me of Abraxas Pool (1997)--a Santana 3 band reunion, which sounded very much like Santana of that era...which is to say absolutely fantastic. Schon, Rollie, and Shrieve are smokin' on this record.
Abraxas Pool is one of my top ten albums of all-time! Every track is great.
Days late and a mountain of dollars short!! Happy birthweek to Mr. Martin Popoff!! Especially in the spirit of all things music that keep him behind the kit, and talking rock music with all the fire and fury of a guy just fresh out of college!!🍻🙌
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth was an absolutely amazing one off album by a Welsh trio released in 1980. Cesspool of Vermin - Beastial Necrophilia was an absolutely excellent Brutal Death Metal album that so far has received no follow up despite the insane demand for more by their many die hard fans. Their songs are really crushing and memorable. Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe released in 1977 by the original Alice Cooper backing band was the greatest 1970s Proto Metal ever recorded. Too bad they didn't continue releasing phenomenal albums they could have been bigger than Alice Cooper. Tyga Myra - Deliverance released in 1986 from Post NWOBHM Label Ebony Records. What an amazing album in the vein of Chateaux and Grim Reaper, but even better. I absolutely love Spiral Architect . Pete beat me to the punch, but I am really glad to hear them mentioned. The Sammy Hagar- Neal Schon - Kenny Aaron's ( formerly of the true godfathers of Thrash Metal band Dust , which also featured Marc Bell drummer for the Immortal band that invented the True Punk Rock genre the Ramones, and guitar God amazing Vocalist Richie Weiss who went on to produce KISS) has been a favorite for years also. Dark Star NWOBHM band also released only one album from 1981 , and it was amazing. Very hook oriented memorable songs, and a slight Prog edge. Great show, covered a wide range of bands. Power of Zeus was absolutely killer. Although I really liked the Oran U Tan album, I felt like the early Led Zeppelin influences bordered on tribute band territory
Cool episode, Happy Belated Birthday Martin!
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks is the best one-off studio album of all-time without a doubt. They released some other compilations but no other studio albums. Thirty some minutes of raw anger and fury
No doubt - best one !
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Bullocks' will sound furious and completely relevant a hundred yrs. from now! Steve Jones just burns on this molten disc of piss and vinegar....the riffs are volcanic! Never to be topped - THIS is the greatest punk album to grace the planet!
@@treff9226 Bollocks....100% agree
The one that springs to mind first: the La's eponymous and only album from 1990! Even though the band's mastermind (Lee Mavers) says he hates it, it's still regarded by many of those who've listened, as an absolute classic pre-Britpop album. As you can imagine, the backstory to the creation of it is an equally fascinating and frustrating one.
"There She Goes" is the one everybody recognizes.
Lee Mavers couldn't hold it together because of smack. Same with Shack, they struggle with narcotics but produce beautiful pop. 'H.M.S. Fable' is top-notch 1990s British pop, as are The Doves. Listen to 'Cedar Room' by The Doves. th-cam.com/video/GWJ0xr0Zv0Q/w-d-xo.html
@@guadalahonky4002 There's a really interesting video if you search for "history of the La's". I really like the Doves but hadn't heard of Shack, will check them out, thanks!
Happy belated birthday, Martin. I'm glad you gave grunge bands some love. Someone on this channel should. Mother Love Bone is where two of Pearl Jam's members came from. And Temple of the Dog was mainly a Pearl Jam project w/Chris Cornell guest singing. Or was Eddie Vedder the guest singer? I forget.
I'm also familiar w/the Coverdale/Page album. I heard it last year and was surprised how much I liked it. I should buy it. I remember their collaboration being a big deal in the 90s but I wasn't a Led Zeppelin fan yet. I also remember the Plant/Page collaboration too. I know Pete is a David Coverdale fan and I like him too. But, I'll take Robert Plant over David Coverdale any day and I'm glad Plant and Page got together to do their two tours in the 90s. I've been watching the concerts on TH-cam and they're excellent, especially w/the Egyptian orchestra. And I'm w/you Martin on the Plant/Page albums. They had one album of new material and a greatest hits album if people want to get super technical about it😂😂
Happy Birthday! Two honorable mentions: Von Südenfed, which was a collaboration of The Fall's Mark E. Smith and Germay's experimental electronic outfit Mouse On Mars in 2007. FFS as well, who consisted of Scottish Indie rockers Franz Ferdinand and, of course, L.A.'s own Ron and Russell Mael, aka. as The Sparks, and released a fun album in 2015. Saw them live at Lollapalooza in Berlin that year, and they really worked well together, giving the crowd a good show. Damn, The La's from Liverpool, of course! Saw them live, too, rare opportunity, very short set. Legendary record.
Love the Fuzzy Duck & Armageddon mentions...how about Ursa Major (Dick Wagner)?
Happy Birthday Martin! Always enjoy hearing your opinions
Great show, guys! Some picks/comments:
1. Babylon "Babylon" (progressive rock group out of St. Petersburg, FL) 1978 eponymously titled release. They had a couple of live releases after this one, but this was their only studio release. Compared to early Genesis, but a bit darker/quirkier. Classic.
2. You mentioned Emerson, Lake and Powell, but another 'one off' was 3 (Emerson, Palmer and Berry).
3. Refugee, "Refugee". After Keith Emerson left The Nice to form ELP, Patrick Moraz took his place with bassist Lee Jackson and drummer Brian Davison, resulting in this truly great album. Moraz left after recording this to join Yes, but it makes me wonder what might have been if they had gone on to a second release.
4. England "Garden Shed". You've mentioned this on on other programs, Pete. A great progressive rock group and album led by keyboardist Robert Webb, who I believe went on to do soundtracks and such. Again, makes me wonder "what if?".
Great call on Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe. I didn't think of that one initially, because there have been so many iterations/lineups of Yes/ex-Yes members!
Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominoes - wow, two of the most iconic "single album" bands of all time, why didn't I immediately think of those!
Greetings from Switzerland and happy birthday to you Martin. Thanks as always for the excellent content: watching you makes my day! I chime in just to give two precisions to you Pete (sure you know that but have forgotten): ISLAND and MCCHURCH SOUNDROOM are from my country (we don't have so many good bands, then it's important to mention it!). All the best for you!
I already have Bodkin thanks to Pete and his forgotten favorites series. I started to check out a little of Quatermass and Spiral Architect so far both really good looks like I will be buying some more albums here soon. I could only find one song from Martin's pick The Ghost online it does have a late sixties sound to it but I like it. I will check out more of Pete and Martin's picks from this episode. I been really liking the episodes with Martin Popoff. Some really good topics lately and Martin seems like such a humble person with some good picks as well.
That DMZ album is a classic too! Long been a favorite in my collection here. Great Sonics and Wailers covers on it too.
Love episodes like this. Great way to find new (to me) music! Thanks to you both.
Would love to see a Top 10 favorite Canadian Bands episode........eh
Here's some of my one and done faves
1. Arc Angels - s/t (one of my top 5 albums ever!! Love it that much. They did release a live album in 2009, but only had 1 studio album)
2. The Notting Hillbillies - ....Missing. Presumed Having a Good Time
3. The Shouting Matches - Grownass Man
4. Case/Lang/Veirs - s/t
5. Axis - It's a Circus World (Thanks Pete for the recommendation on this one back when you did 12 episodes of one and done)
Here are a few off the top of my head:
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism
HSAS - Through the Fire
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Dali’s Dilemma was a good one.
My favourite may be Burning Tree with their eponymous debut/final (so far) LP from 1990. Marc Ford pre Black Crowes days. A great power trio playing blues/hard rock
HSAS - Trough the Fire
Cobra - First Strike
Red Dawn - Never Say Surrender
Witness - S/T
Atlantic - Power
Jojo - S/T
Katmandu - S/T
GTR - S/T
The City - Foundation
Culprit - Guilty as Charged
Greenway - Serious Business
The Innocent - Livin' in the Street
I-Ten - Taking a Cold Look
Mad Season- Above. Last grunge supergroup masterpiece. Crazy good album and perhaps my favorite album to come out of Seattle in the 90s.
Totally agree!
The self-titled album of The Awful Truth on Megaforce Records always comes to mind for me. It's a mixture of Prog Metal, some Psychedelia, with layered vocals à la King's-X. Weird and wonderful and one of my favorite all time albums. Some members started Galactic Cowboys after Awful Truth split up, but as much as enjoyed GC, I always loved TAW more.
Exactly. One of the greatest albums ever. Actually it was on Metal Blade. Shame that there's only 1 song featuring David Von Ohlerking released since The Awful Truth, that's The Crab by From Now On on Infected - 12 From Texas compilation. First 2 Galactic Cowboys album are excellent, but The Awful Truth is unparalleled, and that's due to David's songwriting.
@@henrihelander7331 I'll have to check out The Crab then.
@@foobman There's couple of tracks from the so called The Awful Truth-reunion on youtube. Not as good as the album renditions, Mary featuring Doug Pinnick and some others. Happy May Day. th-cam.com/video/m11OPXhmVmY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/vGM-vd4L3Yg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Martin for putting Green River on the list! I always forget, they are actually a one album band because the other two records are EP's. The godfathers of grunge!!!
still finding interesting topics credit to you both enjoy these videos looking forward to UK connection tomorrow
Cool topic. Been thinking about this lately as other music people I watch have brought up similar topics recently. Here are my favorites (no order).
1. Vinterland (melodic black metal)
2. Foxboro Hot Tubs (garage rock revival/punk rock)
3. Sex Pistols (punk rock)
4. The Postal Service (indietronica/indie pop)
Wow Pete! You mentioned Fuzzy Duck! Great record.
Rhapsody. Their sole self-titled album originally released in 1978 and later reissued on CD as Rhapsody (Sweden) - Strange vibrations in 2005, with two bonus tracks. An absolute hard rock gem in the vein of Deep Purple and Gillan - Lots of Hammond, soaring guitar work and powerful vocals. It died an instant and horrible death upon its release in 1978, right in the midst of the swedish punk boom.
Totally worth checking out. I was blown away by it when I bought it fresh from the press in `78.
Right up your alley I should think, Pete Pardo.
Nice job boys👍 Stumbled across Armageddon about 8 months ago on vinyl and it is keeps jumping on and off my Turntable.....amazing amazing album that just wows me every listen😳😳😳😳 Bobby Caldwell is one of the most underrated drummers of all-time! Also the cover and back are classic also with band sitting in the carnage and Bobby with a heater hanging out of his mouth😂
Dragonfly - Tales of the Dragonfly Chapter 1, one off album from 1985, great AOR/rock album. Shelter with First Stop, great call with Orion The Hunter. Also the great Jeff Buckley with Grace.
I love Jeff Buckley. One of the most underrated singers of all time. What a loss! Put on a great concert. People should check him out if never heard his amazing music.
Dang Martin,you omitted 1992's War Babies ,from Seattle,featuring the great Brad Sinsel(TKO)on vocals,.....a 10 in your reviews,....great one album band
Love that disk! I don’t think it sold much tho.
@@blaisebarshaw2534 a super album,..just great songs all the way through
Great discussion as always
I saw that Vai tour with Devin Townsend in NYC at a place called The Academy in 1993. Killer show and album.
Coverdale/Page’s Whisper a Prayer For The Dying is the classic from that album that nobody ever mentions. One of the best album closers ever.
Went on a site featuring one of my favourite punk bands, Chelsea.. Scrolling down, I came across a band Martin mentioned, Eater.
I never realized the Sex Pistols only did one album! Thanks for pointing that out. Their influence/fame obviously goes way beyond that.
So much to choose from. Here are a few in no particular order.
1. Demon Fuzz 1970 early prog/Jazz
2. Sintesis 1976 Latin Jazz Fusion
3. Dakila 1972 Latin Jazz Rock
4. The Message (From Books and Dreams) 1973 Krautrock
5. Pinnacle (Cyborg Assassin) 1974 early proto/metal
6. The Procession (Frontiera) 1972 Italian prog/rock
7. Charlee 1972 Canadian rock
Dakila was pretty cool, they're in my "70's Latin Rock (NO Santana)" playlist
Definitely loved the Orion the Hunter album in the 1980s, and RTZ as well… kind of scratched the Boston itch at the time when we were all waiting for another album from Tom Scholz
RTZ was great, also the Barry Goudreau/Engine Room solo stuff. The two Delp And Goudreau albums were interesting (Wiki only lists one album by them but I also have a cd single called Rockin' Away from 2007)...Goudreau & drummer Sib Hashian, plus 2 former members of RTZ, had a brief band called Ernie And The Automatics & an album called Low Expectations from 2009. Unfortunately that album title was pretty much dead on (kinda "rootsy" music, not very interesting - "The Good Times (Never Last)" was OK, plus the instrumentals "Hong Kong Shuffle" & "Fly In The Milk") although I think it was a hit...
1. Derek and the Dominos- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
2. GTR
3. Heaven and Hell- The Devil You Know
4. Coverdale Page
5. Blind Faith
6. Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe
7. Temple of the Dog
Dianno . Paul Dianno's first post Iron Maiden band that made one album which was in the 80s AOR Melodic Rock sound. Great album that's never been released on cd.
Toy Matinee. Excellent album that should’ve been a huge hit. Great hook-heavy songs. RIP Kevin Gilbert.
Easily #1 in this category.
All the ones I have (that I can think of) are supergroup types.
Beck, Bogart and Appice
Derek and the Dominos
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe
Blind Faith
does Emerson, Lake and Powell count?
Great show too I watch every Friday after work with my first adult beverage 🍺🍹
A one album band that I'd never heard of which I found on youtube recently are Grannie an English rock band their album was released in1969 and that was all she wrote, pretty decent stuff ,check them out.
Great album
had a copy of an lp from a band called Bux that had the song "Telephone Exchange" on it, a precursor to the band Angel.
West Bruce Laing I think did a couple so Jack Bruce had BLT and the Gary Moore thing so he covered the 60's - 70's - 80's and 90's with his power trio themes.
Nevermind the Bollocks is always and easily my number one.
There are a bunch of early 70s heavy psych/proto metal bands like this, some were mentioned..
Primevil, Jerusalem, Cargo, Ursa Major, CA Quintet, Stonewall, Orang-Utan, many more. Some coming out way after the band's split - Death, Iron Claw, Simply Saucer.
Weakling - Dead As Dreams. Epic one-off black/post-metal album.
Mother Love Bone - Apple
Mad Season - Above
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Germs - GI
Monks - Black Monk Time
Debris' - Static Disposal
Listening to the Bodkin album now, pretty cool stuff, the Heep/Rooster/purple vibe is unmistakeable. As a one album wonder I would recommend Mainhorse, an early Patrick Moraz album, I believe only one album came out at the time with some kind of odds and sods collection 40 years later. It's quirky and jazzy and technical and reminds me of, without sounding much like, Gentle Giant. Worth a listen.
Check out an album and band called Road with Noel Redding.
On RCA i 1973, a Canadian one off - Scrubbaloe Caine. Blues rock featuring ex Guess Who Jim Kale, future Loverboy Guitarist Paul Dean and 2nd Prism vocalist Henry Small wailing away.
Good one - weird thing is that I see two albums listed for them, both from '71: a s/t one & one called Round One that seems to have the exact same tunes, so it's the same record under a different name...I think I read that they started recording another album called Street Level that was never finished or released
asgard's only album in the realm of asgard is one of my favorites and i remember you talking about it in a forgotten favorites episode wish was how i found out about it
Gringo, Cargo, Manic Eden, My Solid Ground, Incredible Hog, Gandalf, Jeff Buckley, Katmandu, Nosferatu, Indian Summer, The Moving Sidewalks , Noir, Murphy Blend, Mad Season, Hughes Thrall, Highway Robbery, Stonewall, Jackal, McOil .... just some to mention.
Mystic Healer! amazing US AOR band/project including Mark Mangold, Al Fritsch, Chuck Bonfante and the Kulick bros. They released a s/t album in 98 and disappeared. As always, great show, guys!🍺🤘
I just checked that out. Not bad.
Always saw Mystic Healer as another Mangold solo project, but it is a strong album like everything else he is involved in.
Great. As always. Happy birthday, Martin. 👍🎉
Amazing you mentioned Semiramis! Super obscure but a whorthwhile band to check out!
Shrinebuilder (2009). Still play that album regularly. Awesome record.
Fantastic album. Would have loved to hear more music from them.
Happy birthday Martin!
Really cool episode! Knew some of Pete's picks as he has spoken about them before but was interesting to see Martin's especially him being a fan of mother love bone. There are maybe a few that I slipped my mind but these are the ones that are the dearest to me.
My picks
Mad season-above (alternative rock/blues rock. This is so loungy yet diverse. I always listen to this when I wanna relax. The musicianship is stellar. R.i.p mark lanegan and Layne staley)
Chthe'ilist-la dernier crepuscule (technical death metal. Highly recommended if you are fan of the band demilich. Though there is a strong demilich influence the band still stands out especially with the fantastic neoclassical tinged solos)
Anders bjorler-antikythera (soundtrack/ambient. Brilliant one off album which is a unique experience. Dick lovgren of meshuggah on bass and per wiberg formerly of opeth and anekdoten on keyboards)
Conquering dystopia-conquering dystopia (progressive thrash metal basically instrumental nevermore)
Sunset in the 12th house-mozaic (progressive metal/post rock. Very interesting band that plays instrumental atmospheric rock music. Highly recommend if you like pink Floyd and some post rock bands like pelican)
Disincarnate-dreams of the carrion kind (death metal. James Murphy's band who is one of the most underrated guitar players in metal history imo. The vocals are brilliant too. Classic old school death metal)
Lusk-free Mars (psychedelic pop. Highly recommend if you are into the psych era of the beatles. It also has Danny Carey featuring on one track! Side project of the guitarist/bassist from failure, Greg edwards and Paul d'amour who played on tool-undertow)
Mother love bone-mother love bone (grunge/hard rock. They strangely sound a lot like appetites of destruction era gnr)
Sex pistols-never mind the bollocks (punk. Legendary album with one of my favorite guitar tones)
Effloresce-coma ghosts (progressive metal. They sound a lot like a mix of dream theater and opeth with female vocals who also plays the flute. They sadly disbanded very recently after years of inactivity)
Honorable mentions
Sean malone-cortlandt
Blotted science-the machinations of dementia
Atlas-blå vardag
Fuzzy duck-fuzzy duck
Blind faith-blind faith
Martin and Pete ramble off about 40+ groups I’ve never heard of along with the history of the bands. Wow!😅
I used to think I knew a bit about music. Then I started watching this channel 😂😂😂😢
3 bangers
1. Bill Nelsons Red Noise--Sound On Sound
2.Army Of Anyone
3. Mongol Horde.
Just listened to Bodkin: great mix of Hammond- heavy, bluesy Purple, Sabbath with early Floyd. Makes you wonder what those young guys did since ‘72.
My number one would be Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale. One of my all time favourites. Its equal parts beautiful and heartbreaking, one of the very best doom albums, Aleah Stanbridge was a huge talent taken far too soon.
Great pick !!
Red Sea- Blood.
Released in the mid nineties. Half of the lesser noted band members from Badlands. Good stuff!
Greg Chaisson on bass and Jeff Martin on drums fyi
10. Rated X (JLT, Carmine, Franklin & Cochran)
9. California Breed
8. G-Force
7. BBM
6. Manitoba's Wild Kingdom
5. HSAS
4. Pride & Glory
3. Coverdale Page
2. VAI
1. The Scream
Honorable Mentions: \
VERTU
RTZ and Orion The Hunter,
Contraband,
Rebel Meets Rebel (Pantera with David Allan Coe) Damageplan
Ever heard of Cydonia? They came from Italy and came out in 2001.
I'm glad that Mogul Thrash, Armageddon and Fuzzy Duck came up. I was particularly thinking of the latter two. If its recording and release wasn't so convoluted, I'd throw Josefus' "Dead Man"/"Get off my case" in there too. And also Luv Machine's "Turn's you on" which is Anglo/Caribbean hard rock from 1972 -ish. There's some great songs on it.
The early days of Christian rock are littered with bands/artists that only ever made one album !
Most of them are so ropey, Rapunzel's witch would reject them, but two absolute pearlers that stand out head and shoulders above the rest are Joshua's "And God said....lead my people" which is not at all like you'd think from the title and one simply called "The Last Day" by a band of the same name, from the same year. It's an outstanding album, if you like that kind of thing, and features a jazz saxophonist on soprano and tenor saxes, called Don Lanphere, often playing harmonies with the two saxes. It's glorious.
The first that came to my mind is Armageddon from 1975, GREAT album w/ an all star lineup…Pugh, Relf, Caldwell, Cennamo.
The album that came immediately to mind for me was Handsome's self-titled. So overlooked. Tom Capone from Quicksand, Peter Mengede from Helmet, Jeremy Chaterlain from Iceburn, Pete Hines from Cro-Mags and Eddie Nappi from I don't know but he's too essential not to mention. Bigger than the sum of its parts and its parts are fucking awesome.
Friend and Lover. Great 60s hit Reach Out In The Darkness; excellent album to of “Sunshine Pop..”
Another great topic! Some of my picks are fairly obscure, but the SOT viewers may want to seek them out: 1. Vendetta - s/t (Nikki Buzz -1982)
2. American Pearl - s/t (a solid 10 IMO)
3. The Gracious Few (Candlebox/Live collaboration)
4. Burning Tree - s/t (future Crowe Marc Ford)
5. California Breed - s/t
6. Huck Johns - Oh Yeah (Detroit born, also in Black Robot)
7. Detroit feat. Mitch Ryder (definitive version of the Velvet's 'Rock & Roll')
8. St. Paradise - s/t (Derek St. Holmes first post Nugent project)
9. The B'zz - Get Up (1982 - check out "Get Up, Get Angry"
10. OZZ - No Prisoners (1980 Chicago band - great hard rock guitar album)
The OZZ album is very good, very melodic & good vocals. I have the reissue/remaster...Marc Ford was also in the great band Magpie Salute (3 wonderful albums)
Happy Birthday Martin!
For a Reason (1983) by Lifetones. Guitarist Charles Bullen's project after This Heat, and beyond brilliant.
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
Mad Season - Above
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Midvinter - At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon
Havayoth - His Creation Reversed
Dead Silent Slumber - Entombed in the Midnight Hour
Dæmonarch - Hermeticum
Carnage - Dark Recollection
The Moaning - Blood from Stone
The Everdawn - Poems Burn the Past
Withered Beauty - Withered Beauty
Prophanity - Stronger than Steel
Piss Factory - Piss Factory
Love that Mother Love Bone pick, Martin. They would have been so massive if Andrew had lived.
I love the grunge/punk pounding Pete has to take very week!
Bruce Dickinson's Skunkworks band and album. It was meant to be the first album from his new band Skunkworks, but his record label refused to release anything unless it was under the Bruce Dickinson name. For all intents and purposes, though, this was a new band with 3 new members joining Dickinson in an alternative rock band.
They released the one album in February 1996, toured for it briefly and by the end of the year they were done; Dickinson scrapped the band and went back to Roy Z and The Tribe of Gypsies (and Adrian Smith) to help him with his next album.
My favorite one of these one album bands is Layla and other assorted love songs by Derek and the dominoes, yes I know double album but that still counts as one album, I mean this bell bottom blues, key to the highway, tell the truth, have you ever loved a woman and the irreplaceable classic Layla, the keyboard riff is amazing and Clapton, Duane, Bobby, Carl, and Jim just are amazing you can't go wrong, so yeah Derek and the dominoes
Happy Birthday Martin!
My updated list:
Cydonia- s/t (2001) really good power metal from Italy.
Manic Eden(1994)
T-Ride
Heavy Bones
Coverdale/Page
Manitoba's Wild Kingdom
Life, Sex & Death
Damage Plan
Heavy Bones is excellent, and so is Cats In Boots; Kicked & Klawed (1989). The same singer.
My favorite one-off album is Emerson, Lake, and Powell, followed by Derek and the Dominoes and Blind Faith.