Forgotten Favorites, May 2024: Day 20
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- Join Pete Pardo throughout the month of May as each day he picks an obscure or little known album from his collection that might be unknown or forgotten by many, but a favorite of his.
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Cool choice Mr. Pete. I met Steve Morse once and he was so nice and a very polite guy. He did a great job in Deep purple as well for the record. My pick of forgotten favs is Dream Evil the Book of Heavy Metal from 2004. Frankly I think these guys should have been bigger. All their albums are good I tend to listen to this one the most. Cheers. MS
DIXIE Dregs/night of the living dregs -7️⃣9️⃣. Have not spun in a while, I will today. Thx again Pete for your time. I will be watching your review tonight from the EGG concert / venue last night with Silence is GOLDEN 👍💯
Excellent pick Gary!
Camel - The Single Factor - released in 1982, is the ninth studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. The album was essentially a contractual obligation album, created under pressure from Decca Records to produce a hit single, and the "made-to-order" nature of its composition resulted in a selection of songs described as "odd" on the band's official website. Unlike previous Camel albums, The Single Factor consists exclusively of shorter compositions around 3 to 5 minutes in length.
Guitarist Andrew Latimer was the only original member remaining, although original keyboardist Peter Bardens returned for a guest appearance on 'Sasquatch'. According to the liner notes, original drummer Andy Ward, who had appeared in all previous Camel albums, was now absent "following a serious injury to his hand". In reality the injury was self-inflicted, and years later it was revealed that he was forced to retire due to mental health problems.
The album was reissued on 8 September 2009 by Esoteric Recordings with a bonus version of "You Are the One"
Anthony Phillips, an original member of Genesis, is featured on the album, playing guitar, organ and synthesizer. According to Phillips, a song "with big Genesis-sounding, slightly choral keyboard phrases with super soaring guitar over it" was also recorded for the album, but the band decided to leave it off "because it didn't have 'the Single Factor'."
Nice to see this here. This album doesn't get much love. I certainly wouldn't call it their best, but it's still very enjoyable to me.
Glad you had a good time at the DD show
I fell a little bit behind
Try to play some catch up here I was in deracho and tornados that hit Houston was not fun Thursday whatsoever. Right there where it all took place Cypress Texas delivery.
Day 18
Jude Cole view from 3rd Street
Day 19 that great one-off Armageddon album
Today day 20
Into the folk scene
1966 the great self-titled Tom Rush album. Many people forget about time through the years that are folk fans unfortunately. He's still out there doing his thing.
Hi Kev. I would say you did get behind……. Lol. Never heard of these choices before.
@@melaniethurber5117 ya
Houston Texas was a bad place to be Thursday
Hey, Trucker, that Armageddon album is fantastic. As good or better than any other hard rock from the 70`s.
@@jeffreyrobinson9120 it is Jeff👍🏽🤠
Pete: You can’t go wrong with the D’Dregs…
Cruise Control is an awesome instrumental track on Unsung Heroes…also
I have Industry Standard and Bring’m Back Alive in my Collection and saw them once!
Good Stuff!
Day 20: Art in America ‘83
Detroit AOR/Proggy Band
One of the Band Members plays the Harp…
They remind me of Lake/Prism
Circling back to Eric Gales. His first alum, I believe he was16, was then the Gales brothers.
Eye of the Storm. Great hard charging Lues rock. Love his brother Eugene’s vocals too.
This was a big favorite album for quite a while . Nothing fancy just good songs and great kicknass solos from Eric
Hi Pete. I do not have an opinion on The Dixie Dregs. Here is my pick for today.
Jerusalem - Jerusalem - (1972) - Produced by Ian Gillan - It does sound like Deep Purple but without the Keyboards on some tracks. Guitar tone is more metallic Than Blackmore's guitar tone IMO. Very good music IMO.
Today I go with a really obscure but great UK band - Skeleton Crew - The complete works from 1991. Here we have musicians from Manfred Manns Earthband, Nashville Teens, Foghat & Mungo Jerry playing some kind of heavy blues, rock, boogie and folk. Great leadguitar from Ian Campbell who also played some gigs with Thin Lizzy and very good lead vocals from Paul King, ex Mungo Jerry. They was a great live act but not exist anymore.
Thank you, Pete, for your pick.
All the damn time.
My Day #20 Pick:
Curved Air- Air Cut
🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁
Life is better with music
Hi Dianne. Excellent pick. I’ve seen members pick this band and write about them. Since I’ve been a member but I’ve never given them a listen.
Great pick Dianne.
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Thank you, Christopher.
Take Care.
@@melaniethurber5117
Hi Melanie.
Give them a listen.
I think you will like them.
Take Care.
@@diannecarpenter7718 You're welcome Dianne. You as well.
My pick today will be Paris s/t album. Bob Welch is in this band but it’s nothing like ‘Ebony Eyes’. This rocks with lots of effects on every thing!
Hi resistor. Never heard of your pick.
Nice resistor Bob Welch is awesome and underrated!
Thanks Melanie!
My first concert! This surprised me because it rocks so hard.
Day #20 Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars (1977)
Practically an unknown recording that is worth uncovering. Levon Helm on vocals and drums was the only American member of The Band with the other members from Canada. This is his first solo record outside of his work with that group.
This album is full of great musicians with Mac Rebennack (Dr John), and Paul Butterfield (harmonica extraordinaire) leading the way. The rhythm section is from Booker T and the MG’s. With lots of horns it reminds you of the old STAX sound from Memphis combined with a rock solid blues base.
Highlights include “Washer Woman”, “You Got Me”, “Sing Sing Sing(Let’s Make a Better World)” and “Havana Moon” written by Chuck Berry.
But really the entire record is fantastic !! Just put it on and relax for half an hour with some down home funky blues. It’s a real sleeper of an album with no hits…just a solid groove. And with the soulful voice of Levon Helm it’s a pure joy !!
I love it when Pete talks about The Dixie Dregs. I like the album that he mentioned today. And I can’t help but repeat my story of this band that some of you have heard me talk about before.
Back in 1978 I had tickets to see the great guitarist John McLaughlin of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame. When I got there I was told that John was sick and couldn’t perform that night. The promoter said to hang out and The Dixie Dregs were coming to fill in. Since this was in Atlanta I was sure that he meant what he said. Sure enough The Dregs showed up and gave a blistering show for us !!
And I returned the next night and saw John McLaughlin…wow !! That was a great couple of days in my concert going life to be sure !!👍
Hi Richard. I don’t know your pick. But your article is interesting and I know those musicians that you’ve mentioned. Good to see you write something today.
@@melaniethurber5117Thanks Melanie ! I am trying to get back in my writing groove because I will have nothing to say with next months topic.
Great pick richard i had it on vinyl great record as are most of his.
@@dennisstratton6508Thanks Dennis !
@@richardbooth6063 your welcome richard he was my fave voice in the Band
Great pick Pete, this was the first Dixie Dregs album I got have enjoyed their music ever since
Hi Mordrid. Great to read a comment from you.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Mel, had a lot on this month so decided to give it a miss. Any idea what next month it yet
@@mordrid11man15 yes I do know what Pete is having for next month. The first 15 days he’s doing 2004 albums that are 20years old and the second part of the month which is the last part he’s doing 2014 albums which are 10 years old.
For day 20 I'm going with a band out of Cleveland, Damnation of Adam Blessing (hard rock/psychedelic). They released 3 albums on United Artist between 1969-1971. The self-titled first album is my personal favorite. Love their versions of Last Train to Clarksville and Morning Dew. In 1973 they changed their name to Glory and released one additional album. In 2000 Akarama released a 3 cd box set containing the initial 3 albums.
12. Hellion - The Black Book (1990)
13. Blaze - Silicon Messiah
14. Nuclear Power Trio - A Clear and Present Rager
15. Chastain - The Voice of the Cult
16. Jon Oliva's Pain - Festival
17. Satan - Into the Future/Suspended Sentence
18. Sword - Sweet Dreams
19. Capricorn - Capricorn
20. Diamond Head - The Coffin Train
21. Gun - Gunsight
22. Universe - Universe
23. Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend
24. Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble
25. Lucifer - Lucifer 1
26. Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral
27. Al Atkins - Demon Deceiver Plus
28. Cranium - Speed Metal Sentence
29. Galactic Empire - Galactic Empire
30. Omen - Battle Cry
31. Sortilege - Sortilege
Today I want to bring attention to one of the most unique bands I've ever heard and that is Orphaned Land from Israel. They formed in 1991 and initially played straightforward death metal but after their first album they decided to encorporate more melodic elements to their sound. They are considered to be the first Oriental Metal band. They are extremely popular throughout the Middle East and North Africa but are almost completely unknown outside of that region. They sing a lot about organized religion but more from the point of view of a non-believer. They are described as playing progressive folk metal with melodic death & death doom elements. If you want to try something really different, try taking this for a spin.
1. Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
2. Magellan - Hundred Year Flood
3. Icehouse - Man Of Colours
4. Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, & David Freiberg - Baron Von Tollbooth & The
Chrome Nun
5. Asia - Aura
6. GTR - GTR
7. Universe - Universe
8. Kevin Gilbert - Thud
9. Genesis - Calling All Stations
10. Canamii - Concept
11. Orion The Hunter - Orion The
Hunter
12. Journey - Dream, After Dream
13. Tribute - New Views
14. Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling
15. Shooting Star - Shooting Star
16. Saraya - Saraya
17. Under The Sun - Under The Sun
18. Balance - Balance
19. Mother Love Bone - Shine
20. The Call - Modern Romans
This is another band that should’ve been huge! The Walls Came Down is the best known song off of this second album from the band, but every song is decent.
Today for me it's a 1977 solo album by the singer/guitarist from Barclay James Harvest, John Lees. It's called 'A Major Fancy' and never gets mentioned much, even by fans of BJH. It's pretty good in its own right.
1. Ajalon - ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’ (1996)
2. Arc Angel - ‘Arc Angel’ (1983)
3. Area Code 615 - ‘Trip in the Country’ (1970)
4. Autumn - ‘Oceanworld’ (1999)
5. Bachdenkel - ‘Сталинград’ [‘Stalingrad’] (1977)
6. Colin Bass - ‘An Outcast of the Islands’ (1998)
7. Buckingham Nicks - ‘Buckingham Nicks’ (1973)
8. Cromwell - ‘Burning Banners’ (1997)
9. Druid - ‘Toward the Sun’ (1975)
10. England - ‘Garden Shed’ (1977)
11. The Foundation - ‘Departure’ (1984)
12. Freudiana - ‘Freudiana’ (1990)
13. Hands - ‘Hands’ (1977)
14. Huis - ‘Despite Guardian Angels’ (2014)
15. Iluvatar - ‘A Story Two Days Wide’ (1999)
16. Jimi Jamison’s Survivor - ‘Empires’ (1999)
17. Janison Edge - ‘The Services of Mary Goode’ (1998)
18. Keats - ‘Keats’ (1984)
19. L.E.O. - ‘Alpacas Orgling’ (2006)
20. John Lees - ‘A Major Fancy’ (1977)
#20. Black Oak Arkansas- High On The Hog 1973. Always likes these guys. Jim Dandy and more on this one.
Great pick Jeffery my personal favorite of these guys. Swimming in Quicksand and Madman are great tunes besides Jim Dandy.
@dennisstratton6508 yes indeed. Love the entire album!
Hi Jeffrey. I’ve heard of this band but don’t know this album.
Great pick Jeffrey.
#20. Mount Rushmore - "High On Mount Rushmore" (1968)
The raw, hard rock, heavy psych, sludgy, bluesy San Francisco quartet's debut album. They opened for everyone from the Doors to Santana and played everywhere from the Fillmore, Avalon Ballroom, Whisky A-Go Go, the Kaleidoscope and all the little bars in between. This contains seven bulldozing tracks, opening with one of the earliest and best covers of Hendrix's "Stone Free." The ten minute "Looking Back" is a mind bending trip and the 7+ minute medley "Fannie Mae / Dope Song" is a favorite. Their second and last LP "Mount Rushmore '69" was rushed and criticized as "hodge podge and a much lighter affair" (I thought it was very good). They disbanded soon after.
Hi Gadget. Don’t know your choice as usual. Interesting article
Gadget you came up with another good one i googled the song toe fat it was a pretty heavy instrumental.
@@melaniethurber5117Thanks Mel. Hope you're having an awesome Monday morning!
@@dennisstratton6508 Thanks Dennis. Toe Jam is from their "69" album -- "High On Mount Rushmore" is their better album, the one I picked for today. I think you'll like "High On" a lot!
Hi Gadget. Just listened to their Bobby Womack cover version of 'She's So Good To Me''. What a groove these guys have. Cool stuff.
Warrior, Fighting for the Earth
Hey Pete. Great call with Night Of The Living Dregs. Fantastic album by a fantastic band! 👍
My pick for today, Kick Axe, Welcome to the club.
Today: It’s True!-self-titled. Self-published album from the Nebraska indie rock band (they’ve published an album on streaming/itunes called There There Now that has some of the same songs in different recordings, but they sound like demos to me). I saw them at the Maha Festival in Omaha in, I think 2010 (Spoon and the Faint were the main acts), and picked up this album there (it has a cover image of a man riding in either a skeletal pterosaur hang-glider or a plesiosaur submersible, I'm not quite sure, but good luck trying to find a copy online with a non-descript name like that). “Honestly” is the highlight for me; at just under seven minutes, it goes from a minimalist, near-acapella opening before gliding into a series of glisteningly beautiful verses/choruses, minimalist instrumental passages, and vocalized harmonies/whispered lyrics before surging midway through into an extended instrumental passage that becomes harsher as it continues, distorted and discordant by the end, until finally breaking off, leaving us with just an acapella refrain to lead us out (on There There Now it’s glacially slow and given an unnecessary 78-rpm scratched record effect and stomp-stomp-snap out straight out of old blues field recordings, and again feels more like a demo than the version on their released album).
Excellent pick Pete. Love this record! Just saw the Dregs in Nashville. Great show!
Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert 1979
The debut solo album from the former Box Tops/ Big star singer who sadly passed away from a heart attack in 2010 at only 59 years old, a mixed bag of covers and originals well worth investigating.
Hi Andrew. Excellent pick and article. I’ll have to check out this album but I know Chilton from the Box Tops.
Excellent pick Andrew.
Savatage - Sirens (1983)
I'd love to pick "Hall of the Mountain King," but I don't think anyone's has forgotten about it. Still shocked that that album isn't gold though. Anyway, "Sirens" is still one of the greatest USPM debuts in history. The title track alone is an all-time classic. Jon Oliva's muderous screams, punctuated by brother Criss' amazing guitar theatrics, served as templates, not just or USPM, but speed and thrash as well. "Holocaust" and "Living for the Night" are two other bangers from this 80s classic.
I Believe is one of my favorite metal songs, all time! Excellent, trailblazing debut album.🎸
Camt say even good things about this pick my friend. Not a dud on this album and what a way to kick off your career with that Sirens riff!
Brilliant record, possibly not quite obscure or forgotten enough for me to have thought about putting it on my own list though...
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Good to be back after the break. Today I'm picking the debut album by US band Target. Noted by many AOR fans as the band contained one Jimi Jamison on vocals before he became a member of short lived euro style hard rockers Cobra and then probably his best lived gig with Survivor in the latter half of their career. Target was unlike anything else he has done being more a southern rock/Bad Company hybrid. In fact Jimi sounds uncannily like the great Paul Rodgers at times here. Beginning with a couple of Classic Bad Company style rockers Love That Just Won't Quit and Bad Boys sets out the band's modus operandi straight from the start. Just A Little Too Much, Can't Fake It, You Need A Woman, Working Song and closer Are You Ready are all great hard rock songs in that Bad Company/Point Blank/Skynyrd etc style with uniformly great vocal performances from Jamison singing in a throatier and blusier style than wouid be the case later. Two excellent blues ballads are here as well, Let Me Live and especially Let Me Down Easy, which would certainly not have sounded out of place on any of the early Bad Company albums or classic southern rock records. These give Jimi a chance to sing in his most soulful style. That just leaves a hard rocking cover of Wilson Picket's 99 and a Half, which IMHO is as good as the Crowes' cover of Hard To Handle. Target wouid go on to release one more excellent album, Captured, which tipped the balance more towards southern rock before disbanding in a wave of commercial indifference. However, their story didn't end there as enough material was recorded for a 3rd album that was released just a few years ago entitled In Range, which is also worth seeking out. 3 fine soulful blues based hard rocking albums from the band, but in my view the debut just pips the other two.
Great choice Jerry love that first Target album need to hear the others
@@logancollins7097 Thanks Logan. Others are definitely worth hearing if you like the debut, but not quite as strong INHO.
Hi Jerry, welcome back from your action packed weekend! Nice pick, I have these as a Jimi fan/completist, but have always felt they were only raised above average by his great vocals, so it's a very long time since I listened to either of them. I'm a bit like that with JLT's Fandango, only one really good album, his voice being the best thing about the others...
Not sure if you go back to read the days you missed, but just FYI, my 2 weekend picks were the debut album by NEVER THE BRIDE and Strike Back by STEELER (the German one with Axel Rudi Pell)
@@iainhead9898 Hi Iain, I do really like these Target albums, I do think the songs are pretty strong myself. I wouid certainly agree though that Jimi's vocals raise the material further. Something that has come into my possession that you may already have Iain is a book by auther Frederic P Slama called the AOR bible with forwards/endorsements from Jeff Scott Soto and Jeff Paris amongst others. It's not a review book as such, the auther selects his 400 favourite AOR records and then further sub genre(ises) them and lists comparable bands and artists. All the album covers are of course shown in all their glory. Very interesting.
@@jerryattwooll4864 I posted the other day that Target "out-Survivored Survivor"...😎
Passport / "Iguacu "1978. Jazz fusion band led by Klaus Doldinger.
They have a lot of great 70s albums but this one made an impression .
I am quite envious you got to see the Dregs again the other day Pete, and your choice NOTLD is a complete cooker!
Magic Touch - Stanley Jordan (1985)
First studio album by virtuoso guitar performer Stanley Jordan. Similar to Michael Hedges in technique with a hammer-on pull-off 2 handed tapping, Stanley is able to layer chords and melody simultaneously. This album was released by Blue Note records, produced by Al Di Meola, and had a few well composed originals but what it is most known for are the outstanding and unique covers of Eleanor Rigby (Beatles), Freddie Freeloader (Miles Davis), Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk), and Angel (Jimi Hendrix) to name a few. Peter Erskine and Omar Hakim play drums with Al D playing cymbals as a show of respect! When I first heard his playing I was floored and I still am!
Cheers!
Day 19: Trios - Rob Wasserman (1994)
Day 18: All Kooked Out - Stanton Moore (1998)
Day 17: Dreams - Dreams (1970)
Day 16: Blue Room - Ana & Milton Popovic (2015)
Day 15: Sunrise - Robben Ford (1999)
Day 14: Shack-man - Medeski, Martin and Wood (1996)
Day 13: Child's Play - Cornell Dupree (1993)
Day 12: Trippin' - Jean-Paul Bourelly (1992)
Day 11: Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa (1981)
Day 10: Spot the Pidgeon - Genesis (1977)
Day 9: Blows Against The Empire - Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship (1970)
Day 8: Paradise and Lunch - Ry Cooder (1974)
Day 7: High Compression - James Cotton (1984)
Day 6: El Rayo-X -David Lindely (1981)
Day 5: Deja Vu - Fareed Haque (1997)
Day 4: Everybody's Gettin' Some - Junior Wells (1995)
Day 3: Tom Scott - Desire (1982)
Day 2: Lee Oskar - Lee Oskar (1976)
Day 1: T J Kirk - T J Kirk (1995)
Hi Glen. Never heard of your pick but your article is interesting
Oh thank you Melanie!!
My today's pick is not really obscure, but anyway. It is "Angel Witch" (1980) by Angel Witch. Really great NWOBHM album, even though I don't really like heavier genres than hard rock. Great songs ang I'm glad to see an instrumental here!
1. Harold Budd - " The Pavilion of Dreams" (1978)
2. Fraternity - "Livestock" (1971)
3. la Düsseldorf - "Viva" (1978)
4. Geordie - "Hope You Like It" (1973)
5. Sandy Stewart - "Cat Dancer" (1984)
6. Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds - "Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds" (1992)
7. Highway Robbery - "For Love or Money" (1972)
8. The Easybeats - "Vigil" (1968)
9. Powerhouse - "Powerhouse" (1986)
10. The Necks - "Piano Bass Drums" (1998)
11. Kollektiv - "Kollektiv" (1973)
12. Starship - "Knee Deep in the Hoopla" (1985)
13. Missing Persons - "Spring Session M" (1982)
14. Shotgun ltd - "Shotgun ltd" (1971)
15. Neu - "Neu '75" (1975)
16. Home - "The Alchemist" (1973)
17. Madura - "Madura" (1971)
18. Gin Lady - "Call the Nation" (2015)
19. Phil Rudd - "Head Job" (2014)
20. Angel Witch - "Angel Witch" (1980)
Thanks
Day 20: Hunger- Strictly From Hunger. A psychedelic rock, garage rock band that was formed in Portland, Oregon. They would soon pack up and move to L.A. California. They released one album, which they were not completely happy with, but pressured by their manager and the record label, it was released as was. In 1969 the band would rework and reissued the album the way it was intended to be. The band broke up soon after. It's a shame they didn't get the chance to continue on. Good album, I enjoy listening to it quite often.
Hi Howard. Interesting pick and article
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you, Melanie.
Another awesome band pick with the Dixie Dregs
Thanks Pete.🎵🎶🎼🎸🎸🎻🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
Saw this band live a few times,puts on a fantastic show. Stoner rock,blues rock, hard and heavy for most of their songs. Album cover is pretty neat. My favorite song is "Ship of Gold" for today it's the 1998 Columbia Records release,the 3rd for this band. My May 20th pick is "The Elephant Riders" by Clutch.
Today's pick is Rottrevore-Iniquitous. This Death Metal outfit from Pennsylvania delivers one of the classic metal releases from the early 90's. Low tuned driving metal with powerful gutteral vocals. Brutal and rotten to the core, Iniquitous from Rottrevore is pure evil. Essential.
Hi yoke. Interesting article. Don’t know your choice though.
@@melaniethurber5117 Hi Mel, pretty unknown Metal band.
Day 20: Beth Hart’s amazing 1999 album sophomore album Screamin’ For My Supper. One of the best voices ever.
My pick for today is The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Bikini Red (1987). Ferocious English band with an interest in American Pop culture and an impressive rhythm section . A trashy raw blend of Rockabilly, Punk and Rhythm and Blues. This album contains raucous, brutal tracks like opener 'Sweet Water Pools' The Clash-like 'I Can Speak American' 'Big Brother Muscle' and highlight, the brilliantly titled 'Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge'. The hilarious 'I Wanna Be A Flinstone' was a novelty hit back then. They drew the attention of David Bowie and he regarded them as one of the best English bands of that period.
Hi Danny. Interesting pick and article
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie.
Great band!
@@gwts1171 Thanks Brian.
Hey Danny -- just listened to your pick...magnificent! I'd never heard of them before, what a great trio. Cool vibe and tone. I had to replay "Big Brother Muscle" and "Lie Detector." Terrific stuff!
Day 20: Chris Aaron Band - Freedom 5 Miles (1999)
Day 19: A.B. Skhy - A.B. Skhy (1969)
Day 18: Blindside Blues Band - Blindsided (1994)
Day 17: Paw - Death To Traitors (1995)
Day 16: Harvey Mandel - Baby Batter (1971)
Day 15: Gábor Szabó - Magical Connection (1970)
Day 14: Truly - Fast Stories...from Kid Coma (1995)
Day 13: Sugar - Copper Blue (1992)
Day 12: Hummingbird - We Can't Go On Meeting Like This (1976)
Day 11: The Damnation Of Adam Blessing - The Second Damnation (1970)
Day 10: Five Horse Johnson - Double Down (1997)
Day 9: Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001)
Day 8: Howard Tate - Howard Tate (1972)
Day 7: Moodists - Thirsty's Calling (1984)
Day 6: American Standard - Better Than Fiction (2002)
Day 5: Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert (1993)
Day 4: Blackjack - Blackjack (1979)
Day 3: Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai (1972)
Day 2: Majesty Crush - Love 15 (1993)
Day 1: Bark Psychosis - Hex (1994)
Men - Tomorrow's Hits
Ok an Italian masterpiece of jazz rock fusion. Agora and Agora 2 (confusingly their debut) from 1976. It actualy was on Atlantic!
Enjoy!
Some great guitars from Renato Gasparini - I like it! Agora 2 is their first studio record - I believe their actual debut is the live album 'Live in Montreux' from '75 (also really good)...There's also a Mexican prog metal band under the same name (early 2000's)
My #20 choice is the 1973 album Voice by Capability Brown.
Day 20 pick is Live At Pachyderm Studio 1998 released in 1999 on the Pine Creek Entertainment label. This fine american indianfamily band from the Nakota nation is Indigenous consisting of Mato Nanji on guitar and vocals sister Wanbdi on drums and vocals brother Pte on bass and vocals And cousin Horse on percussion. Recorded live in the studio top tracks were Holdin Out. Blues From The Sky. Water. And a great version of Red House. In their time they released 11 cds splitting up in 2006. Mato Nanji has since gone solo.
Wow - I actually have this! Great album.
@@gwts1171 thanks gwts. This cd cooks from start to finish. Mato is another guitar slinger nobody talks about.
Hi Dennis. Interesting article but I don’t know anything about your pick
@@melaniethurber5117 thanks Melanie. Their hay day was from 1998 to about 2002 maybe matos drumming sister and cousin conga playing horse left the band it was starting to be a mato nanji band not so much Indigenous anymore so the last year of the band was 2006. Mato went solo.
@@dennisstratton6508 You’re welcome Dennis and thanks for the info.
Eric Burdon Band - Sun Secrets (1974)
Burdon with a crack band cover a handful of classic Animals tracks, done in a heavy hard rock format. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is one of the standouts.
Great pick Monte. I really like "Letter From the County Farm."
Hi Monte. Awesome pick and article
Good pick monte erics new band did a great version of Its My Life.
@@gadgettheratboy9051 me too. It's got a kinda of blues/psyche vibe going on. Killer track
Nice pick Monte.
my pick today is
legs diamond
"s/t"
this album is the debut album and was released in 1977
this is a hard rock band that is named after 1920s bootlegger legs diamond
allmusic gave this album 4 stars as i did
Kerrang magazine in 1989 had this as the #33greatest heavy metal album of alltime
cheers
Love those first 2 Legs albums, shame they largely blew it with Firepower, but I do like some of their later ones too.
Think I’m going with their second release later in the month!
@@iainhead9898 cool, i need to hear the albums after the 1st 2
@@resistor27 been awhile i need to revisit it
Excellent pick! Love that album
My 12th favorite forgotten release is These Trails - These Trails (1973).
Full List:
31) Parabellum - Sacrilegio (7 Inch) (1987)
30) The Dehumanizers - End Of Time (1987) & A.M.Q.A. - Mutant Cats From Hell (1988)
29) The Call - Reconciled (1986)
28) The Stars Of Heaven - Sacred Heart Hotel (1986)
27) Katmandu - Katmandu (1990)
26) I Love You - I Love You (1991)
25) Hexx - Under The Spell (1986)
24) Wild - Wild 1 (1988)
23) Under Neath What? - What Is It (1989)
22) Rock City Angels - Young Man's Blues (1988)
21) Danny Spanos - Passion In The Dark EP (1983)
20) Burning Tree - Burning Tree (1990)
19) Danny Toan - First Serve (1977)
18) Morticia - Mortal Fear (1987)
17) Laos - We Want It (1990)
16) Maggie's Dream - Maggie's Dream (1990)
15) DBC - Dead Brain Cells (1987)
14) Wrath - Nothing To Fear (1987)
13) XYZ - XYZ (1989)
12) These Trails - These Trails (1973)
Hi Brian. Just listened to These Trails. Awesome music. Love the female vocals. She sounds like a combination of Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell to me. I´v looked at your full list. I´m very intrigued. There´s not one name that rings a bell for me, but i´ll definitely check some of them out.
Dr. John-Desitively Bonnaroo (1974)
Not an unknown artist, but the album was quite a flop, especially following his greatest success In the Right Place. This also has Allen Toussaint producing and The Meters backing him up, but for some reason, it didn't catch a fire, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it doesn't quite possess the same hit potential
or maybe they just chose wrong songs as the singles; "Quitters Never Win", "What Comes Around" and "Mos' Scocious" would've been the most obvious ones imo. In any case, I love the record, and it's one of Dr. John's best, a nice gumbo of New Orleans R&B/funk.
Hoola Bandoola Band-Vem kan man lita på? (1972)
Chocolate Milk-Action Speaks Louder than Words (1975)
Judee Sill-S/T (1971)
Professor Longhair-Crawfish Fiesta (1980)
Doug Sahm-Texas Tornado (1973)
Earl King & Roomful of Blues-Glazed (1986)
Tasavallan Presidentti-S/T (aka Tasavallan Presidentti II, 1971)
The Modern Lovers-S/T (1976; recorded 1971-72)
Allen Toussaint-Southern Nights (1975)
Jellyfish-Spilt Milk (1993)
Wigwam-Fairyport (1971)
Bobby Womack-Safety Zone (1975)
Gil Evans-Out of the Cool (1961)
Babe Ruth-First Base (1972)
Canned Heat-Future Blues (1970)
The Posies-Amazing Disgrace (1996)
Little Richard-The Rill Thing (1970)
Sir Douglas Quintet-Mendocino (1969)
Captain Beefheart-Safe as Milk (1967)
Day 20: Boxer - Bloodletting (1979) // Recorded a few years earlier but released in 1979. With Mike Patto, Ollie Halsall, Keith Ellis and Tony Newman // th-cam.com/video/nRdxO3V9gM4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Boxer-Topic
#1 Cargo - S/T
#2 Head Over Heels - S/T
#3 JPT Scare Band - Sleeping Sickness
#4 Stranger - S/T
#5 Heavy Load - Death or Glory
#6 Stories- About Us
#7 Santers - Shot Down in Flames
#8 Charlie- No Second Chance
#9 Axe - Offering
#10 Blakwater Park- Dirt Box
#11 Rock City Machine Co - S/T
#12 Sword - Metalized
#13 Trooper - Knock Em Dead Kid
#14 Shooting Star - Hang On For Your Life
#15 Fist - Fleet Street
#16 Steve Walsh- Schemer Dreamer
#17 The Rods - Wild Dogs
#18 Quartz- S/T
#19 Touch- S/T
#20 Lethal - Programmed
Hi Logan, have this one on CD! Sort of early Queensryche-ish sounding. Solid pick!
Hi Logan. Never heard of this pick before.
@@iainhead9898they liked the Ryche for sure Iain! Prog Metal out of Kentucky!
@@melaniethurber5117These guys are a progressive metal group Mel
great Pick!
Alda Reserve was a good band.👍🏻🤗
Alphabetical-order pick #18 (all from the 70's, and no prog/fusion), the 'R' pick - another five-fer this time:
Racing Cars/Downtown Tonight, Weekend Rendezvous & Bring On The Night - superb three-album run from 1976-78 for this Welsh rock band. Some funky elements added to gritty vocals & nice mix of ballads/rockers. I always kinda associate them with Streetwalkers. Related bands: Ancient Grease & Wild Turkey (Tull's Glenn Cornick), Graham Bond, Gentle Giant
Rainbow Canyon/Rollin' In The Rockies - 1974. The only other album I've seen by them is an Anthology (might be a boot). Jimmy Fox from James Gang produced. Tight rock with shades of Southern flavor, good vocal harmonies (all 5 members sang). The band was named for a large Colorado ranch that housed a recording studio (Elton John would later record there). Related bands The Charade, the O'Jays & 70's psyche band Mushroom
Ratchell - s/t from 1972 (the followup II from 1972 is good too). Related bands Steppenwolf, T.I.M.E., 60's band The Hard Times, Vinyl Kings. This is the project of former Steppenwolf member Larry Byrom. Many draw comparisons to CSN crossed with Carlos Santana - indeed some great guitar work here plus nice vocal harmonies & a good/tight rhythm section. A definite keeper!
Reg King - s/t 1971. Only one other album I know of & that's a much later/archival release called Looking For A Dream with tracks recorded between 1968-71. He was a member of the wonderful British 60's band The Action. Members of Mighty Baby/Blossom Toes guest on this one, also Martin Stone of Savoy Brown & Mick Taylor/Brian Auger guest on one track. Really good singer, this is great 70's rock mixed with blue-eyed soul
Richard Torrance/Belle Of The Ball & Eureka - 1975/74 (his 1978 Double Take is also very good) - somewhat rare North Dakota rocker. Ties to Cottonwood, Eureka, Canned Heat, The Raik's Progress (Sewer Rat Love Chant-1967). Jazzy, funky, lots of other influences (Southern, folk, power pop, country). Great songs, I love the overall vibe of this music!
Other notables (there are MANY!): Rabbit, Rainbird, Raisin' Kane (superb Southern Rock band), Ramatam, Randle Chowning Band, Randy Pie, Rasputin's Stash, The Rationals, Raw Material, Raymond Froggatt, The Records (great power pop), Red Dirt, Redeye, Red House, Redwing, Reggie Knighton, Relatively Clean Rivers, Renee Geyer, Renya, Rex Smith, Rhinoceros, The Rhythm Dukes, Rich Mountain Tower, Richard Lloyd, Richard Supa, Richard Twice, Rio Grande, Road Map, Road Master, Robert Savage, Rock Island, Rock Workshop, The Rockets, Rockfilter, Rockicks, Rockin' Horse, Rococo, Rodan, Rog & Pip, Ross (2 wonderful mid 70's albums), Rough Diamond, The Rowan Bros, Roy Young, The Royals, The Rubber Memory, Rubicon, Ruby, Ruby Starr, Rumplestiltskin, Runner, Russell Morris
Great post Wolf. Most of these I don't know, but know about or heard a little something from way back then. Racing Cars was excellent during their short life. Got to check out Ratchell, anything with Larry has to be good. I really like Randy Pie, Raw Material, Red Dirt was superb,...you're right, there are many~! Got to see Ross open for Sensational Alex Harvey Band in late '75. Is Ruby ex-Procol Harum bassist David Knight's band? They released a very good LP in 1974.
@@gadgettheratboy9051 Yes, Ruby is with David Knights of PH. I have their Red Crystal Fantasies (1974). Their drummer played in the very good 60's band Grapefruit & proggy band Fynn McCool (s/t 1970 which is excellent). Another member played with Beggars Opera and String Driven Thing.
There is another 70's band called Ruby with Tom Fogerty (John's brother) - their 1978 Rock & Roll Madness is pretty good, as well as the collection Precious Gems. I don't have their 1977 s/t debut (but Gems contains most of those tracks). Their guitarist Randy Oda had an early 70's band called Oda with a really solid 1971 s/t record - one of my 'O' picks on Day 17:
"Oda - s/t also from 1971, good bluesy rock (for Zep/Purple fans), this was originally self-released in very small qunatities. Maybe a bit Spinal Tap-like but the cover was all black (with the band's name in red plus the word 'LOUD'/the record label name). Randy Oda's guitar really stands out. Crank it up! Ties to 70's band CCR (Tom Fogerty played in Orta's other band Ruby). The band would reform in the 80's (1983's The Power Of Love)..."
Today’s pick is GHOST NOTES by ERIC GALES (September, 2013) Pete spoke of the first album released by Eric Gales in 2013. This is his 2nd released later in that year. I got to hang with Eric and his wife LaDonna (especially LaDonna) at one of his live performances in Binghamton N.Y. sometime after this album was released. It was an outdoor show at one of my best friend’s house who is successful in real estate. He built a stage for the event in his back yard, plopped a comfy couch in front of the stage that I was privileged to share with LaDonna. She’s part of his band now. I can attest to the fact that she adores Eric and has a terrific sense of humor.
Now…On to GHOST NOTES. Here’s what you get to hear on this totally instrumental recording.
Pickin’ ‘N Grinnin’: A fun composition that’s sounds just like what the song title implies, a fast picking groove song that I can easily picture Eric playing with that self-satisfied grin on his face.
“Just funk”: The background playing is again just what the title implies with a funky hip shaking background. Up front, it’s all Eric doing a wild Jimi Hendrix sounding lead guitar all the way through.
“Cast Away”: If you like when Joe Satriani plays one of his slower paced compositions with a great heartfelt, soulful lead guitar, then you’ll enjoy this song.
“Grandaddy Blues” Once again, this song title aptly describes exactly what you’re going to hear. An old fashioned acoustic blues number that Robert Johnson might have written in 1937.
“Caution”: This is a hard rock number with some occasional mid-eastern flavoring. There is some very strong soloing that drifts in and out of hard and soft. (Mostly hard and fast)
“A Few More Miles”: A solid electric blues number ala Eric Clapton at his bluesy best.
“Ghost Notes”: This is not a spooky sounding song. Instead, I’d call this jazz/rock very similar to what Jeff Beck recorded on his albums “Blow by Blow’ or “Wired”.
“Way Down”: Want to get completely blown away today? Here’s what you want to listen to. Man-O- Man, this hard/blues rock composition deserves repeated listening. Let’s say 3 or 4 times in a row. Brace yourself for one of the best instrumental guitar solo based songs ever recorded.
“Misunderstood” & “New Beginnings” are to me, more fusion style songs ala Jeff Beck.
“EG Shuffle”: No surprise here judging by the song title. A fast paced shuffling tune with great hard rock guitar soloing.
“Amazing Grace”: Yes, this is that traditional song that you hear in church all the time. If only Eric was there to perform it every week I’d be there every Sunday!
Hi Andy. Marvelous pick and article. I like Eric Gales.
Hi Andy, I only own one Eric Gales album, The Eric Gales Band from way back in 1991, which I bought in a Paris market for 10 francs (about $1.50 at the time). I think that was his debut, so just wondered why you called this his first one? Or am I missing something? Great friend to have, by the way!!
Hang on, just re-read your piece, first album of that year, OK, I get it now, got the olds a la Mr Pardo...
@@iainhead9898 Pete mentioned Eric Gales first album released in the year 2013 titled Pinnick Gales & Pridgen. Ghost Notes is the second album released by Eric in 2013. Yes, Mr. Gales release many albums before 2013. sorry about the confusion Iain.
@@iainhead9898 Well Iain. They were great friends to have during that show and one other which was about eight and nine years ago. I haven't seen them since. With all the folks that Eric & LaDonna have met in the meantime, I would be a forgotten memory by now. (Sigh)
Great pick Andy. Very cool write-up as well.
Black'n blue first album
More Southern Rock...Very popular around here, but not well known other parts of the country. Released 3 albums. Pick one they're all unknown by most. 1978 " Born To Play"..1978 soundtrack "The Hitter"..& the self titled debut "Garfeel Ruff" by Garfeel Ruff. Have and love all three!!!❤❤❤
12. Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex (1981)
Considered by some at the time as Gang of Four's "baby sister" band, Au Pairs, formed in Birmingham in 1978, may have been influenced by them like many bands at the time, but they were equally inspired by The Slits' wildly innovative spin on dub reggae, and Two-Tone ska band The Selecter, and the sharp lyrics of Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex and Patti Smith. By the time of their 1981 album debut, their barbed, feminist songs had far more impact than anything G04 were doing by then. Beyond the dance-floor banger "It's Obvious" and dryly funny "Come Again," the album is consistently great and holds up among the best of the time. Lesley Woods' rich, deadpan vocals deserved to tap into the kind of fan devotion that Siouxsie Sioux achieved, but alas after just one more album the following year, they were gone, and forgotten by many.
14. Wipers - Youth Of America (1981)
15. Bob Andy - The Music Inside Me (1976)
16. The Pretty Things - Parachute (1970)
17. Horace Andy - Dance Hall Style (1982)
18. Opposition - Breaking The Silence (1981)
19. George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (1971)
20. Easterhouse - Contenders (1986)
21. Amon Düül - Yeti (1970)
22. Art - Supernatural Fairy Tales (1967
23. The Ruts - The Crack (1979)
24. Guru Guru - Känguru (1972)
25. King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura (1984)
26. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking Of The Titanic (1975)
27. Stray - Stray (1970)
28. Wayne Jarrett - Bubble Up (Showcase Vol. 1) (1982)
29. The Woodentops - Giant (1986)
30. Spirits Of The Dead - Rumours Of A Presence (2013)
31. Hidden Masters - Of This & Other Worlds (2013)
The Enid in the region of the summer stars 1976,symphonic prog rock,like 70s genesis but more classical although very heavy in places
20) Desolation Angels - Desolation Angels (1986)
Desolation Angels was a Metal band from London formed in 1981. Their self-titled debut was released in 1986. Creepy, spooky, eerie, spectral, doomy traditional Metal from the tail end of the NWOBHM, Desolation Angels used darkly melodic material and an genuinely obscure feel to propel their generally epic songs to lofty heights. "Spirit Of The Deep" and "Angry Rain" conjure mystic Metal; the hard-charging "Death Machine" is equally as good.
The album's production leaves something to be desired, but the songwriting, playing, and unbridled honesty of the performance puts it over the top, into minor classic status. This record is truly one of the era's lost gems.
Favorite Tracks:
"Spirit Of The Deep"
"Death Machine"
"Valhalla"
"Unsung Hero"
"Angry Rain"
1) Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom
2) Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
3) Detroit w/Mitch Ryder - Detroit
4) The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
5) Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
6) The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
7) Iron City Houserockers - Have A Good Time But Get Out Alive
8) Granicus - S/T
9) 'Performance' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
10) The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow
11) Black Cat Bones - Barbed Wire Sandwich
12) The Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
13) MC5 - High Time
14) Burning Tree - S/T
15) The Obsessed - S/T
16) Crow - Crow Music
17) The Monks - Black Monk Time
18) The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics
19) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire
20) Desolation Angels - S/T
Hi Chris. Never heard of your pick. Interesting article
Hi Chris, this is a name I definitely remember from somewhere but I've never listened to it for some reason. I've already added it to my catch-up list
@@iainhead9898 Hey Iain.I believe that Desolation Angels was the title of a novel and of course it's also the title of a 1979 album by Bad Company. I'm not sure which source this band took the name from.
Hi Chris, I thought that was the name of a Bad Company album did not realise there was a band of the same name
@@mordrid11man15 Hey Mordrid. I have the CD, but when you type the band's name into TH-cam the Bad Company album is what comes up unless you specify that you want the band.
20. Tindersticks : self-titled (1993)
Today I'm going to Norway with The Carburetors and their 2015 album "Laughing In The Face Of Death". I would describe them as a kick-ass.hsrd rock band.
Day 20. The Chocolate Watchband - This Is My Voice The band returns with most of the original members aboard. This would be their last record and it brings their Frisco ballroom sound updated with a 21st century production. Great updated sounds here with some choice covers (Zappa, Dylan, Seeds, Music Machine) and some originals. If you like early Airplane, Moby Grape you might like this one too.
1. Brownsville Station - Yeah!
2. Hampton Grease Band - S/T
3. Red Bud Thunder - American Rock & Roll
4. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil
5. Lamb - Sign Of Change
6. The Mauds - Soldier On
7. The Shadows of Knight - Raw 'n' Live at The Cellar, 1966
8. Albert Ayler - Spirits
9. J. B. Hutto and the Hawks - Hawk Squat
10. New Order - S/T
11. The Seeds - Raw & Alive: The Seeds in Concert at Merlin's Music Box
12. Mason Proffit - Wanted
13. Mighty Joe Young - Chicken Heads
14. The Fourth Way - Werwolf
15. Tweed Funk - Love Is
16. Pure Food and Drug Act - Choice Cuts
17. The Blues Project - Projections
18. Truth and Janey - Erupts
19. The Prayer Chain - Mercury
20. The Chocolate Watchband - This Is My Voice
Im a fan of the band i have the complete recordings and live at cavestomp but none of the reunion cds. Do they still have Dave Aguilar on vocal?
@@dennisstratton6508 Dave is on all the reunion stuff.
@@Brother_MarkG thank you mark.
The Ramones End of the Century. Yes the Phil Spector produced album.
Mr. Pardo, please include The Gates Of Slumber's "Conqueror" and Black Pyramid's first album (would also be great if you'd review their latest one).
More Fun in the New World -X. Alphabetical. Ray Manzarek-produced 1983 release wasn't obscure to critics or hometown of LA but mostly was/is to general populace. Hints of various types of music with punk being main inspiration. Drunk in my Past not so punk and probably my fave song here.
Excellent pick!
#12 Christ agony, Daemoonseth act II (1994) A black metal band from poland. Similar to The scandinavian greats. The band brings great energy as it starts off with a moody little acoustic song! then goes into the 13minute epic "urtica diaoica cultha" which is a total barn burner. The whole album is. The band brought forth their best effort on this release!
Live It Up (1982) by David Johansen
David Johansen is a multifaceted artist whose appeal spans music, acting, and style; he should be even more famous than he is. First finding recognition as the lead singer of the New York Dolls in the early 1970s, Johansen became an icon of any number of scenes (glam, proto-punk, LGBT music), with an influence far outpacing quantifiable measures such as record sales or radio spins. His lusty, snarling vocals and charismatic, flamboyant, almost Jagger-level stage presence defined the band's sound and left a lasting impact on wide swaths of later alternative music.
As a solo artist, Johansen displayed his versatility, exploring genres such as blues, jazz, disco, and pop while also continuing to explore the sounds associated with the New York Dolls; this adaptability and broad musical talent, as well as a keen understanding of the power of artifice, led to a creation of a popular alter ego, Buster Poindexter, a fabricated lounge-singer persona blending humor and sophistication on songs such as "Are You Lonely for Me Baby” and “All Night Party.”
A major highlight of the Johansen solo catalog, in my opinion, is his 1982 live recording Live It Up, documenting a Boston club show. With a very fine band including future E Street Band keyboardist Charles Giordano and Graham Parker collaborator Huw Gower on guitar, Johansen rips through a diverse and well-chosen set: there is a high-energy medley of Animals covers; a spirited run-through of the Foundations’ “Build Me Up Buttercup;” several tunes from Johansen’s post-Dolls solo albums; and a rousing concluding version of “Personality Crisis,” arguably the signature song of his former band. It is, all in all, a top-tier live rock album.
Choice cuts: “We've Gotta Get Out of This Place/Don't Bring Me Down/It's My Life,” “Bohemian Love Pad”
Prior selections -
Advaitic Songs (2012) by Om
Album - Generic Flipper (1982) by Flipper
Atomic Soul (2005) by Russell Allen
Blondie Chaplin (1977) by Blondie Chaplin
Calenture (1987) by the Triffids
Different Gear, Still Speeding (2011) by Beady Eye
Dreaming with Alice (1972) by Mark Fry
Fire and Gasoline (1989) by Steve Jones
Half Fiction (1997) by Discount
Hunted (2016) by Khemmis
IRM (2009) by Charlotte Gainsbourg
Michael Hutchence (1999) by Michael Hutchence
Original Soundtracks 1 (1995) by Passengers [U2 and Brian Eno]
Phil Seymour (1980) by Phil Seymour
Rhymes of Lunacy (1993) by Memento Mori
Run Thick in the Night (2010) by U.S. Christmas
Seeking New Gods (2021) by Gruff Rhys
Turn Ons (2010) by the Hotrats
The Untouchable (1974) by Alvin Stardust
Very cool pick David. I saw David Johansen and his band on the tour where Live It Up was recorded. I can also remember them appearing on The Uncle Floyd Show (a cable access program in the New York/New Jersey area) to promote the record at the time. I still love this record.
@christophercoles4401 So awesome you saw this tour in person! 😎
@@davidholmes6119 Yes. He was an amazing live performer. I only wish I'd been old enough to see those New York Dolls shows at the Mercer Arts Center. They must've been off-the-hook!
My # 20 pick is an album released on November 3, 1992 and recorded in January-August 1992 at
Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver and produced by Bob Rock I'm talking about the fifth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, Keep the Faith.After the huge one-two punch of 'Slippery When Wet' and 'New Jersey,' fans expected another rousing set of anthem-sized songs from Bon Jovi. But they grew up in the four years between albums, and 'Keep the Faith' is a more straightforward rock 'n' roll album with little of the pop sheen that graced their big hits. It's a mature turning point from which there was no turning back.
Charts
Australian Albums (ARIA)[23] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[24] 2
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[25] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[26] 3
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[27] 1
French Albums (SNEP)[28] 21
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[29] 2
Greek Albums (IFPI)[30] 69
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[31] 3
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[32] 3
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[33] 15
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[34] 7
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[35] 10
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[36] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[37] 3
UK Albums (OCC)[38] 1
US Billboard 200[39] 5
Year-end charts
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Chart (1992) Position
French Albums (SNEP)[40] 49
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[41] 96
Chart (1993) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[42] 10
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[43] 3
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM) [44] 39
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[45] 9
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[46] 2
Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[47] 30
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[48] 1
US Billboard 200[49] 49
Chart (1994) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[50] 83
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[51] 69
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[52] 57
Decade-end charts
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Chart (1990-1999) Position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[53] 5
Certifications
Argentina (CAPIF)[54] 2× Platinum 120,000^
Australia (ARIA)[55] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[56] 2× Platinum 100,000*
Belgium (BEA)[54] Platinum 50,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[54] Gold 100,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[57] 5× Platinum 500,000^
Chile[54] Gold 15,000[58]
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[54] Platinum 80,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[59] Gold 37,022[59]
France (SNEP)[60] Gold 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[54] 2× Platinum 1,000,000^
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[54] Gold 10,000*
Indonesia[54] Platinum 50,000[61]
Ireland (IRMA)[54] Platinum 15,000^
Italy (FIMI)[54] Gold 50,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[54] 4× Platinum 800,000^
Malaysia[54] Platinum 25,000[61]
Mexico (AMPROFON)[62] Gold 100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[63] Platinum 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[64] Gold 7,500^
Norway (IFPI Norway)[54] Platinum 50,000*
Philippines (PARI)[54] 4× Platinum 120,000[61]
Portugal (AFP)[54] Platinum 40,000^
Singapore (RIAS)[54] 2× Platinum 30,000[61]
South Korea (KMCA)[54] 4× Platinum 60,000[61]
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[65] Platinum 100,000^
Sweden (GLF)[66] Platinum 100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[67] 3× Platinum 150,000^
Taiwan (RIT)[54] Platinum 50,000[68]
Thailand[54] Platinum 50,000[61]
Turkey (Mü-Yap)[54] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[69] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[70] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^
Summaries
Asia - 1,000,000[71]
Worldwide - 8,000,000[7
Singles from Keep the Faith
"Keep the Faith"
Released: October 7, 1992
"Bed of Roses"
Released: January 11, 1993
"In These Arms"
Released: May 3, 1993
"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
Released: July 26, 1993
"I Believe"
Released: September 20, 1993
"Dry County"
Released: March 7, 1994
No offence, and I accept it's a free choice for everyone, but I'm not quite sure how this comes under the obscure/forgotten favourites heading? Don't Get me wrong, it's a really good album, but forgotten? Hmm....
I don't see alot of people talking about it. Plus when I dj all I gear is can u play livin on a prayer or Wanted dead or alive I dont see alot of people talk about Bed of Roses or In these arms as much
My pick for day 20 for forgotten albums is the career of "Heavy Pettin" a hard rock and heavy band from Glasgow Scotland they have few albums,but they fade it ending the 80's.
Hi Daniel. Interesting pick but never heard of them before.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie.I remember this band I did have their albums or at least something,they didn't last very long,they did a album in the 2000's but compilation.Take care Melanie.✌
Hi folks, back to AOR again for me today, and probably the best American AOR band ever to come from... Scotland!? Actually, basically, one of the best to come from anywhere, and this is an album that I believe should be mentioned in the same hallowed tones as Escape, Foreigner 4, Survivor's Vital Signs and the first Night Ranger album. It's that good...
STRANGEWAYS "Native Sons" (RCA 1987)
After releasing a solid debut album in 1985 with homegrown singer Tony Liddell, the band - formed around Glaswegian brothers Ian and Dave Stewart (guitars and bass respectively) with Jim Drummond on drums and David "Munch" Moore on keyboards- pulled a masterstroke in recruiting American singer Terry Brock for this, their 2nd album, still deemed by many to be the greatest British AOR album ever recorded. That's a discussion for another day, but as a Brit (and fellow Scot) and an AOR fan to boot, it's hard to deny its a contender for that title. 10 faultless tracks, with a great production by John Punter (Procul Harum, Nazareth, Slade etc), and there's not a duffer amongst them.
Dance With Somebody kicks things off- luckily, not a whiff of Whitney H anywhere, just a kicking drum and guitar intro to an epic melodic rock singalong, before Only A Fool softens things up a little, albeit with a dreamy, fluffy chorus and a great solo...
So Far Away is a stunning ballad with a stunning vocal from Brock that Steve Perry would have been proud of in his heyday, and they follow this up by just casually throwing in Where Do We Go From Here? which is the tempo and the rockiness again before hitting you with a chorus so good you'll have to play it twice more to convince yourself you didn't imagine it... And then, oh lordy, you get hit with Goodnight LA, a 5 minute monster of a power ballad- emphasis on the word power - that will bring a tear to your eye... and, on the vinyl original, that's just side A!!! Side B, briefly, just carries on from there...
Or, to be more exact, side B lights the blue touch paper, as the next four tracks - Empty Streets, Stand Up & Shout, Shake The Seven and Never Gonna Lose It - all ramp up the tempo and the guitar without losing an ounce of melody, quality or catchiness, and then album closer, Face To Face, eases off the gas a little as your cool down track...
The album was received very well by the specialist media, but RCA, typically, didn't really know how to market this type of music in the UK and the US wing of the label failed to push them Stateside, and so it was a predictable case if the right band in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They did follow up with the almost as good- but not quite - Walk In The Fire, but it's definitely still worthy of your time. Sadly, that fared much the same, Brick bailed and the band carried on as, essentially a 3 piece if the Dtewart brothers and Drummond, but they chose to move away from their AOR roots on their next album And The Horse... and this only resulted in them sadly alienating most of their fanbase.
So, to sum up, if you have even a trace of AOR blood in your veins but have never come across Strangeways, do yourself a massive favour and listen to this album. To fail to do so would make you mad enough to be locked away in a high security institution like, well... Strangeways!
Hey Iain interesting choice as always my friend will have to investigate!
@@logancollins7097 You certainly will! Hope you like it as much as I do
VERY strong band - I actually have trouble picking their 'best'. Native Sons is certainly up there, also: 1994's And The Horse, the 1998 Recordings, Gravitational Pull from 2000, 2010's Perfect World (maybe my fave album), Age Of Reason from 2011 along with the live Where Do We Go From Here?
Hey Iain. I just had my blood drawn a few weeks ago and uh-oh, I don't see any AOR listed on any of the panels. I hope that doesn't mean that I have to get transfusions now.
Hi Iain, I remember Derek Oliver completely 'losing it' over this album, and saying it was possibly the greatest album of all time. I can remember the first time I heard
Where Do We Go From Here on the radio and was sure it was a Journey song with which I was unfamiliar. Needless to say I purchased this gem at the first opportunity.
My day 20 forgotten favorite is Bloque - Bloque.
1. The Watch - Vacuum
2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
3. Ayreon - The Human Equation
4. Magenta - Seven
5. Happy the Man - The Muse Awakens
6. Pochakaite Malko - Laya
7. The Tangent - The World That We Drive Through
8. Glass Hammer - Shadowlands
9. Il Rovescio Della Medaglia - Contaminazione
10. Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles
11. Metamorfosi - Paradiso
12. Superior - Ultima Ratio
13. Mostly Autumn - Dressed in Voices
14. Stars in Battledress - In Droplet Form
15. Mezquita - Recuerdos de mi Terra
16. Logos - L’enigma della vita
17. Taal - Skymind
18. Stranafonia - Il nuovo rinascimento
19. Absolute Zero - Crashing Icons
20. Bloque - Bloque
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart
Pretty good, but my favorite post Peter Tork leaving, is Instant Replay. After Nesmith left, it went down hill. Present, Changes, and DJBH do have bright spots.
Mama's Pride - self-titled
Great one that's on my list too
KSHE 95
Also Uptown & Lowdown and Guard Your Heart - but the s/t is their best
Day 20
Lillian Axe - Love + War (1989) Glam Metal
Day 19 Bloodrock - Bloodrock 2 (1970)
Day 18 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
Day 17 The Watch - Vacuum (2004)
Day 16 Shooting Star - Hang On For Your Life (1981)
Day 15 Bubblemath - Such Fine Particles of the Universe (2001)
Day 14 Ursa Major - Ursa Major (1972)
Day 13 Fanny Adams - Fanny Adams (1971)
Day 12 Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces (1985)
Day 11 White Witch - A Spiritual Greeting (1974)
Day 10 Silver Apples - Silver Apples (1968)
Day 9: Salty Dog - Every Dog Has Its Day (1990)
Day 8 The Chocolate Watch Band - No Way Out (1967)
Day 7 Peach - Giving Birth to a Stone
Day 6 The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy and His Friends (1967)
Day 5 Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink (1970)
Day 4 Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs (1984)
Day 3 Toad - Toad (1971)
Day 2 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (1967)
Day 1 Fuzzy Duck - Fuzzy Duck (1971)
Hi Debbie. Never heard of this band before but awesome list
hey heard them a little back in the day , dont really have a opinion of them💜💜
@@bengalgangster Hey bengal! I think I saw them perform in bars when I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 🎶💜💜
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you, Melanie.
@@weirddebbiem1619 Your welcome Debbie
Here’s one Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost released 1975 on Capitol Records. This is amazing heavy rock. Burnin Whiskey is a stone cold classic song. Ruby is amazing on lead vocals
Great pick! A friend gave me his new copy because he didn't like her voice. My favorites are Fork In the Road and You Need a Chain.
I don't own a physical copy of this, but would like to - I first came across Ruby via Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy to the rescue, y'all!
Excellent choice!
@@iainhead9898 it is available in CD format finally
Good stuff!
Day 20
My pick for today is:
The McCoys
“Hang on Sloopy”
1965 debut album
The McCoys were a rock group formed in Union City Indiana USA in 1962 to 1969. They were best known for their 1965 hit single “ Hang on Sloopy”. Originally the band was named Rick and the Raiders. They changed their name to The McCoys from the B side of the Ventures hit record “Walk Don’t Run” and titled themselves The McCoys. The lead guitarist and singer Richard Zehringer (later known as Rick Derringer). Their other hits included “Fever” and a cover of Ritchie Valens “Come On Let’s Go”. The McCoys were being Labeled as a bubblegum pop act. These are some songs off this album which is a debut album. “Meet the McCoys”, “Hang on Sloopy”,”Fever”,”I Don’t Mind”.
1 Nico “The Marble Index”(1968)
2 Electric Prunes “Underground”(1967)
3 Shakey Jake Harris “Good Times”(1960)
4 Detroit Blues Band “Can’t get You off My Mind”(1995)
5 Arc Angels “S/T”(1992)
6 Wednesday “Last Kiss”(1974)
7 Mashmakan “S/T”(1970)
8 The Cyrkle “Neon”(1967)
9 Luther Allison “Bad News is Coming”(1972)
10 Daniel Castro “No Surrender”(1999)
11 Hubert Sumlin “About Them Shoes”(2005)
12 Gary Clark Jr. “The Story of Sonny Boy Slim”(2015)
13 Blues Cousins “I Was Born In Georgia”(2018)
14 JT Coldfire “Crazy Sun”(2008)
15 Carl Perkins “Whole lotta Shaking”(1958)
16 Pee Wee Crayton “Things I Used to Do”(1971)
17 Lowell Fulson “Back Home Blues”(1991)
18 Los Bravos “Black to Black”(1966)
19 12 Bar Blues Band “The Blues has Got Me”(2003)
20 The McCoys “Hang on Sloopy”(1965)
Hi Melanie. Excellent pick aswell as your pick yesterday. I listened to these guys and they're great musicians. Tracks like 'Tell Nobody The Trouble I'm In' and 'Everyday I Have The blues' are absolute favourites.
@@dannyhoeykens thanks Danny. I was wondering how you liked yesterday’s pick.
Hi Melanie, I remember Rick Derringer coming from these guys but I only really know that one song
Great pick Melanie ! The remains of The McCoys joined with Johnny Winter to form the “And” group. The first album in 1970 was recorded live in the studio on a single day. The record featured the original “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo that Derringer had a big hit with in 1973. I got to see Rick on guitar with The Edgar Winter Group in 1974. When I was up high in the arena I looked down and yelled “Hey Rick” as loud as I could. He looked up and waved back. That was a great moment in my concert going days !😊
Heard the song, watched the video, now I’ve gotta check out the album!
Day 20: Antimatter - Leaving Eden (2007)
Great pick. It`s a fantastic album.
@@jeffreyrobinson9120 It really is a great album. I'm always surprised at how many prog fans, especially Anathema fans, doesn't know Antimatter.
0:19 pick #20
Two Nice Girls ... Like A Version
Some of you don't like cover songs. But this acoustic female country rock band does the Speed Racer theme song.
They do a Sonic Youth cover.
They do a medley/mash-up of Donna Summer and Bad Company called I Feel (Like Makin') Love.
All right. If you want an original song, I've got a real original for you from 1989/90.
--- TRIGGER WARNING ONE ---
This is a real country song of heartbreak and woe. Be prepared.
--- TRIGGER WARNING TWO ---
If you are a bit of a Karen, non-progressive sort, you might get offended.
Even if you are, you may love it anyway.
This is sung in the key of female. Maybe that might have merited a third trigger warning for some of you.
The first line of the refrain is the title of the song. Here we go....
I spent my last ten dollars on birth control
and beer.
My life was so much simpler when I was sober
And queer
But the love of a strong hairy man has turned my head I fear
And made me spend my last ten bucks on birth control and beer
Now, are you ready for Pride Month in a couple of weeks?
You picked an album I own, Pete, you screwed up.
Nice pick.
Today`s pick: Yoke Shire - "Masque Of Shadows" This band from Boston led by multi- instrumentalist brothers, Craig and Brian Herlihy, strive to faithfully recreate the sound of 70`s era prog and hard rock. As the liner notes state: "No sampling, sequencing or drum machines were used on this recording". All the instruments played by the brothers - and it`s a long list - are vintage and analog. On this album from 1999, several styles can be heard: hard rock, psych, folk, Latin, blues, middle eastern, most of the time coming together smoothly. Influences range from Santana and Jethro Tull to Pink Floyd.
Hi Jeffrey. Interesting pick and article. Even if they are from Boston I don’t know this band.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie. I`m not surprised. Even though they`ve been around over 25 years, not many people know them.
Didn't Steve Morse leave Deep Purple because he had wrist issues or something like that? If so,how can he tour with the Dixie Dregs?
so what is your rating?
The Third Eye - Awakening... (1969)
Good one, nice proggy psyche (some of it's a little 'out there') with some great Hammond organ & Purple/Hendrix influences mixed with 60's Soul. Their version of "All Along The Watchtower" is cool. I also have Searching ("Awakening" is epic) & 1970's Brother. If push-came-to-shove I'd probably pick their 1970 Brother as their best...There's also a 70's pretty good Dutch fusion group by the same name (s/t 1976 & Connexion 1977)
Dixie Dregs have their moments but too all over the place and turgid for my liking.