Ranking the Studio Albums: Joe Walsh
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2020
- Join host Pete Pardo as he ranks the solo studio albums from beloved guitarist/vocalist Joe Walsh. #joewalsh
If you'd like to donate to the channel, our ko-fi page can be found here:
ko-fi.com/pete...
The four first Joe Walsh's albums are superb but Barnstorm has a mystical quality.
Listen to the Barnstorm album the most. I’ll tell the world and Birdcall morning are magical. Such a unique, talented, soulful singer and guitarist. Style, personality, heart, and honesty.
Agree. Barnstorm is an often overlooked classic.
Love that album so much... Especially Comin' Down. Very mysterious and hypnotic.
Favorite Joe Walsh album, the live album "You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind", another live album that should have been a double album.
Joe has been a hero of mine since I was 14. Learned the electric guitar by learning his songs. I actually liked "You Bought It, You Name It" a lot, and "The Confessor" is one of my all-time favorites. Kinda funny how the song "15 Years" came out 35 years ago, and he's still plugging away.
love Joe Walsh Barnstorm album and The Smoker You Drink , The Player You Get
The smoker you get I got in Quad still have it on vinyl
Listening to "Song for Emma" from So What tears me up. A heartbreaking testament to Joe's young daughter who was tragically killed in a car crash while Joe and his family lived in Colorado during the '70s. And that's just one song from Joe's amazing solo career. Stevie Nicks once called Joe Walsh the greatest love of her life.
Well said, Darrell. It is deeply devastating.
I always cry during that one, especially when he whispers, I love you. Kills me everytime.
The Smoker you drink is a masterpiece!
I’ve always had a lot of time for Joe Walsh. I went to see The Eagles three or four years ago and while they were supremely professional and incredibly faithful to the records, they seemed absolutely cold as individuals. With one exception - Joe Walsh. When he said something on stage, the warmth of his personality raised the temperature several degrees in an instant. He is just so damn likeable.
His 1st 4 records are pure gold
vinyl
i agree!!!!
The song "The Confessor" is an under appreciated gem. Dark, heavy and long tune. Sounds like it was done 10 years too late.
DBTdad Love that song.
Absolutely!!! Love that song!!
very good song
Love that song; one of Joe’s best. Gorgeous acoustic guitar intro and all out headbanging on the electric at the end.
My juices get flowing everytime i hear Life's Been Good love that song!
Got Any Gum is an album that has never been given much love but I have always liked it! At The Station is an amazing rocker most people don’t know about from “But Seriously Folks”
The version of Turn To Stone on the Barnstorm album is the best version IMO, heavy, raw (unlike later over produced versions).
And even though this is the list of 'studio' albums, the live album 'You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind' is worth a special mention.
Yes
Joe Walsh has one of the best "Best Of" albums ever.
Joe Walsh!! American Treasure!! Love all his stuff!! Got any gum!😉🥳🕊️
Enjoyed this video; looking forward to your ranking of the James Gang albums.
David B. He did rank them previously
Joe Walsh for president 2020. Joe has always been one of my very very favorite guitar players
1. Smoker you drink player you get
2. Funk 49 album
3. The Long Run album
4. I just love everything he does
I saw him live in concert after he got thrown out of the Eagles. Add a small movie theater near Denver. It was one of the best concerts I ever saw in my life. He is a mesmerizingly an amazing guitar player pretty good songwriter amusing and fun vocalist not a bad keyboard player and boy can he tell jokes when he's drunk and doesn't have the Eagles tormenting him
I don't know the names of many of his albums when I was a kid I have the smoker you drink the player you get and I listen to it over and over again with the first Blue Oyster Cult album cities on Flame I just love Joe Walsh I never saw anybody play guitar like Joe Walsh nobody not Steve Howe not Jimmy Page certainly not Pete Townsend I have never seen anybody tickle the guitar strings The Way Joe Walsh does and he laughs and makes the funniest faces when he does it he just really loves to play guitar I don't think he thinks of it as anything but his life's Joy
I have seen Joe play in my home town not far from Kent State when he was with the James Gang. Loved his guitar playing ever sense. Joe Vitalie from Youngstown Ohio is still Joes fave drummer. Have to tell ya Pete that the James Gang are one of of all time favorite l bands. Looking fowrard to your pics on this one..
Love Walsh always coming up with clever lines... great rippin guitar player too and got the Eagles rockin. Pleasant surprise to see these ranked. #PetePardoNation#PetePardoArmy #BigMeatPete#SplashYourSeaOfTranquilityAllOverMyFace #BigPP#PeteyThePlatypus #OfficerPP
You bought it, you name it has 3 GEMS back to back to back. ILBT’s is freaking HILARIOUS, Space Age Whiz Kids is a very unique and cool sounding song, and Love Letters is just a fun, groovy little tune
'So what' is my favourable album.Brilliant from start to finish.
The Confesser is a top 5 song for me. Also like Rosewood Bitters from that record.
Pete, I was so surprised when you ran through the 'So What' track list you failed to mention my favourite track.....'Country Fair'...it has truly epic guitar! The top two are superb though and only two I own, both on vinyl an CD....Also have the great live album too.
@@DaleRC75 Glad to hear you agree on that John..off to play it again now, it's killer ! ...
@@keithshapland903 It really didn't seem like Pete knew much about Joe Walsh's solo career. I noticed that it looked like he was ranking his albums based on positions on the Billboard chart. And Pete said that "Life of Illusion" was a "hard rocker"! Really? 🙂
@@LaStarza61 Maybe not..I only know the first few albums up to the Live one, and as said below it should have been a double.
I love ILBT from you bought it you name it
I saw Joe Walsh for free! He was the special guest for Hall And Oats at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J. on Earth Day! Cool surprise guest! And Hall And Oats were great as well! Both were great and it was all free!
The Smoker you drink is my #1, hard to beat "Dreams" & also Kenny Passarelli vocals on "Happy ways" 👍👍
God, do I love Dreams & Days Gone By !!
@@craigfazekas3923 I dig Days gone by as well, the whole Lp is a classic! Bigtime jazz feel no doubt.
@@beckblowbyblow You know how some musical experiences/interludes in life just stick with you ? In the Philly/Delaware Valley area in the mid 80s & early 90s, WYSP used to feature 6 complete albums on Sunday nights; it started at 9 or 10pm & was called The Sunday Night Six Pack. I very distinctly remember listening to The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get one Sunday night as I was closing up the gas station I used to work at back then. Why do I remember that ? Good question ! Supertramp's Crime Of The Century was also featured that night. Both Dreams & If Everyone Was Listening by The Tramp stick out in my mind from when I was young on that chilly autumn night....
Weird, Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty while getting on the NJ Turnpike to go to Lake George/Hague, NY in August of 1990.
Why do our minds randomly sample life experiences, (even meaningless ones, like I mention here...)in combination with music, and have us retain them over our lifetimes ?
Hey, Pete ! A subject for a potential future video ?....
In fact, beckblowbyblow, I have one of these types if memories that relate to the Blow By Blow album. Here goes:
In 1990, I paired up with a girl from the above trip to Hague, NY...on Lake George. This long distance relationship fired up in August & continued through to the end of the year. She & her friends hailed from Albany. She went to college at the University @ Buffalo. We took Amtrak together from Philly up to Buffalo where I stayed with her for 8 days.
Buffalo in late Oct.-early November was UNSEASONABLY WARM, BIG TIME. My next to last day there, the bottom drops out, like a high of 30 degrees, down from the mid-70 degree mark just the day before. I get sick. REALLY sick (it developed into strep throat eventually due to not seeing a doctor sooner....)
So here I am, sick as a dog, with Amy & her long, beautiful hair, putting me on a public light rail line train which will take me to the Amtrak in Buffalo & headin' home after a great, memorable time..... No money for said light rail line- had to jump the fare. Luckily, the used an honor system for public rails back then- they still might..... For the last time ever, I kissed her goodbye with all I have in the world right then. An Amtrak ticket to Philly, a bottle of water, a PB&J sandwich she made me & my Sony Walkman. No money whatsoever.
Opting to get a local radio flavor vs. CDs, I search around the dial. And come across the astounding track, "Cause We've Ended As Lovers". A Syracuse based college radio station was in the middle of playing Jeff Beck's masterpiece album in it's entirety.
Everyone should be able to hear "Scatterbrain" while looking out of a window of a passenger train that is going over 100mph in their lifetime !!
And little did I know then, but "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" was all too appropriate. At that underground train station in Buffalo, at the corner of Main Street & Depew Street was the last time I'd ever see her or her pretty face or beautiful, wavy blonde hair.
But on that train listening to El Becko ? As bad as I felt physically, it was washed away for the next 20 minutes, in heaven, really- I was.
Remembrances like those ? We will all, collectively, take them to our final resting places. The power of music, in a nutshell.
Believe me when I say that I am very happily married. I have SERIOUS health issues, but my wife is truly there for me.
As for Amy ? We tried back then to maintain, but the distance assured it was not going to work. I can only hope life has treated her well. Genuinely.
Addendum to my Buffalo experience: As for the obnoxious Buffalo Bills fans I met & partied with back then... (Obnoxious ? Not even speaking about football....when they learned I was from the Philly area ? Here we go: the Bills are better than the Eagles. Jim Kelly is better than Randall Cunningham. Keith Byers is a joke, get a real running back like Thurman Thomas, blah,blah....
We joked a bit, had fun. But as over-the-top as they were about anything Buffalo Bills, it put a distaste for the team in my mouth.
They got theirs, alright. That very next Super Big Game, their beloved Jim Kelly & the Bills were indeed there, vs. the NY Football Giants.
Bills fans would like to forget the name Scott Norwood- the guy who missed the field goal that would have won the Bills the Super Big Game.
And yes, their beloved Bills appeared in the next 3 consecutive championship games as well. And lost every one of them, too !
Four consecutive failures in THE BIG GAME !!
Now normally, I'm not a curmudgeon when it comes to other people's passion, joy & raison d'être....
But to this day, I'll make an exception with Buffalo Bills fans !!👊🤓
I saw Joe for the SMOKER tour.. He was great as expected. Kenny P. and Joe V. signed my copy of Smoker which was too cool. Vitale - super talented musician.
Analog Man produced by Jeff Lynne. When Walsh was asked about his collaboration with co-producer Jeff Lynne, he said "Jeff and I met socially, and at one point he said, "Why don't you bring your tracks over sometime and we'll have a listen." That led to some comments and ideas that he had. Gradually, we worked on some stuff and checked out some of his stuff too. It ended up that he really helped me finish it up and ended up producing. He really put his stamp on my music and took it in a direction I never would have gone, and I'm really grateful to him.
Thanks Pete! One of my favorite guitar players along with Morse, Trower, Hendrix, Howe & Hackett. Saw Joe last year at the Veteran's Aid show in Tacoma, Wash. Joe and his band sounded just great! Your JW order matches mine pretty much. So What doesn't get enough credit. Thanks for including that at number two. The Smoker You Get is my top as well. Cheers Pete.
But Seriously Folks was one of my first albums so it has a special place for me.
Theme From Boat Weirdos is so beautiful....
I can't think of another artist or band who had better album covers than Joe ! I've not heard any of the post 70's albums apart from Analogue Man but the 70s albums are unbeatable. I wish Joe hadn't joined the Eagles: He didn't need them and they didn't need him. It brought an end to that wonderful run of solo albums, but given his lifestyle, I doubt he'd have sustained that creative streak. I'm glad that he's still with us. Thanks Pete...
Joe Walsh fan from way back! Just sampled all 11 and The Winner Is: “The Confessor”!!!!! It’s so intense I almost considered changing my religious views! It’s on a completely higher plane than the rest!
I agree with that top 4. What a player. That band with Passerelli and Vitale was superb.Useless fact. Joe gave Jimmy Page a 58 Les Paul back about 1970 which became Page's #1 gtr
DANG!!!
woulda loved to do this one with ya! :p \m/ BIG JOE!!!
And spent his childhood in C-bus 👍
Hi from Brazil Pete. Joe is a great musician and have a spetacular carer. Waiting for your review of James Gang.
'Funk 49' & 'Walk Away' will always sizzle.
Have you watched this video? Back when bands could Rock & play LIVE. ;-)
th-cam.com/video/l_4iQDYDVNo/w-d-xo.html
I saw Joe open the show for Tom Petty during Petty's last tour. Joe sounded great! He did one Eagles song, only a couple of his solo songs and a bunch of James Gang. He played slower than he did on the originals, to great effect. He must have had the Eagles sound man with him. Great sound. I can not complement Petty for his performance that night.
The second side of SMOKER is sublime.
I love Joe, the first half of his solo career is superb. Barnstorm is my favourite of his and one of my favourites ever, I love how they combined so many influences, styles and instruments into it. From folk-acoustic stuff like Birdcall Morning and Comin' Down to the haunting Giant Behemoth with flutes and Morse Code to straight up rock like Turn to Stone and Mother Says. Wonderful album. Always wonder what could have been had he not fallen gone so far off the rails and the 70s and 80s wore on. Never recaptured what he had.
So What, has always been my top Joe Walsh album. I’ve owned it nearly 50 years, love it.
I’ll tell the world about you, from Barnstorm is an absolute killer love song. Great guitarist as you all know.
If Ringo Starr and Stevie Nicks can be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame twice, as members of bands and as solo acts, Joe should be also.
I was just looking into getting some Joe Walsh, this will help :)
My son just bought me a record player. The first album I bought was The Confessor. Goddamn, that is an outstanding album that nobody notices. The first half is prog rock, unique Joe. The second half (side B) is serious rock. The Confessor (the single), is outstanding. Rosewood Bitters and Good Man Down is just a chefs kiss to serious rock.
love 'smoker you drink'...great album...also love his work in james gang, but...i would have to say my favorite james gang album is 'bang' with tommy bolin...two of my all time favorite songs..'standing in the rain' and 'alexis'....be well and thanx for everything pete... peace...
First album I got was So What.Every song on that album is great. First show I ever saw, Joe Walsh at Blossom Music Center. 1981. (had to look at the ticket stub,not a blur.)🤪 George Perry on bass Russ Kunkle and Joe Vitale on drums. Spot on!
Blossom is awesome! One of the best in America. I'm in the Youngstown area and grew up going there all through the eighties and nineties. Ah the memories!..Be safe take care...😊👍😊
I always lost my car there!
@@markwalker8589 No doubt! They always parked us near Steel Corners road at the main entrance but we ALWAYS lost the car! Good times. Thanks for bringing back the memories! I saw so many great shows there. My relatives were on the board there and we always had primo seats. That's all over now though. Thanks again. Happy Easter.🐰😁
I got the all night laundry mat blues , washing everything I own but my shoes. Got ring around the collar and so much sweat, a dollar in the dryer and it ain't dry yet. So if you own clothes you gotta pay your dues, I got the all night laundry mat blues, yes I do.
Joe has always been a great guitar player, but I think he is also a very witty guy who has always had sharp and humorous observations on this American society and lifestyles...
I thought I knew about music this channel is gold
Tromendous guitarist man. Love his tone and songwriting. Some albums are less interesting than others but there are also some really strong ones that really mix elements from blues, rock, hard rock etc.
Hey Pete Just a top five
1. Barnstorm 2. The Smoker You Drink... 3. So What (except the radio friendly version of Turn To Stone) 4. But Seriously Folks 5.Confessor
I would have thought the song ILBTs from "You bought it..." would have at least got a comment or smirk? I guess not everyone likes them.
Great song, hilarious! And no mention!!! Maybe he’s just too serious or too woke!
Well , I like em and here is yer smirk .Nudge nudge wink wink.
In 1973, a former neighbor in Sparks, Nevada knew Joe in High School. The neighbor showed me his yearbook and there was a picture of them two in the yearbook.
Where's "Yer Album?" It was James Gang's debut LP (look it up) and it was a gem. Released during a time when James Gang was the opening act for bands like the Who and Zeppelin. The guitar sound is incredible and there are some breathtaking moments on this release. Singles from this LP included "I Don't Have the Time" and "Funk 48." Curiously, the album seems to have vanished --- can't find it on line. Urge you to try a little fact finding here, I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.
I have 'But Seriously Folks...' and 'There Goes The Neighborhood' on vinyl. How about 1987 'Got Any Gum?' album. Thanks for the information about his time as a James Gang member and albums I 'm now looking foward to listening.
Confessor and I dug his appearances on The Drew Carey Show.
Saw him at world series of rock ,Cleveland stadium with reo skinned and beach boys we love him here
He's really good at picking titles for albums.
My favourite is the Live album You Cant Argue With A Sick Mind
I can relate to "Life's Been Good" because I was just out of college and not ready for what life offered. Hell no. I later told people hedonism sucks.
I've never been into the Eagles, but I dig Joe's solo stuff.
Is it me or does the video seems choppy?
Yep...a little bit.
might have been the Wi-Fi connection at Pete's house sometimes you know you
James Gang incredible! THE GREAT JOE WALSH
I would enjoy seeing your ranking of the Jimi Hendrix Experience albums. There's only 3 studio releases so you could knock that one out fairly quickly!
Lucky Guy from Analog Man should have got some props. One of my favorite Joe tune of all
Turn to Stone from Barnstorm hit me immediately on its release in 1972, I had no James Gang LPs by then but I knew a few tracks. I still find this album the best work of his whole career.
1. Barnstorm
2. The Smoker You Drink
3. But Seriously Folks
4. So What (The Best Song is Turn to Stone which anyway is better on Barnstorm...)
5. The Confessor
6. Ordinary Average Guy
7. You Bought it You Name it
8. There Goes the Neighborhood
9. Analog Man
10. Songs for a Dying Planet
11. Got Any Gum
All in all, his albums except for the top 4 I listed are pretty inconsistent. I just have them because, well, you never know - every once in a while he comes up with some weird pretties.
Remark - His live album You Can't Argue With a Sick Mind has an all-star cast but is about the lamest live recording one can imagine. Maybe it is just because of the line up that was not as tight as a band would have been?
Totally agree with your Top 3. 'Barnstorm' is a quiet masterpiece. One of the best albums of its era.
Maybe I missed it, but So What also included County Fair. County Fair was not one that I really had noticed at the time. However, it is now, in my opinion, just behind the best, the original Turn to Stone. Anyone know of a live version of County Fair?
Analog Man is my favorite
Joe plays on Steve Winwood's Back In the High Life Again album & co-wrote 2 songs on it.
he sure did to kill her songs too split decision and freedom overspill is just great..don't forget and lukather dualed out on Don Henley's dirty laundry too
Kinda obvious which one I would pick as no. 1
best live cd ever you can t argue with a sick mind.
analog man should be higher can't complain so what is my personal favorite thanks bud, love the show.
Once again...we agree on the order.
I had to check this one first
"Rivers Of The Hidden Funk" is an absolute gem off the 'Neighborhood' album!
Love your #1. Very “deep 70s” sounding, in the best possible way. So many styles covered. “Dreams” and “Days Gone By” are personal favs but they’re all good imo.
that's a good idea, I'm playing So What right now !! (man, some weird memories ...)
I recall the first interview I saw with Joe, late '70's. Couldn't figure out just how sober/stoned he was, and yet hilarious at the same time... but also thinking dude, you're not going to make it past the '80's. He did, he does, and with style- lot of respect for those who survived. Anyway, agree with your ranking except would put "But Seriously Folks..." at #1. May have already been said, but it's been called the best album the Eagles never made. Joe shines, front and center. One of my favorite late '70's releases... the production, range of material and mood sums up the best of those times. Uh oh- here comes a flock...
Favorite song ... long version of "Turn to Stone" from his live album You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind
Love Joe Walsh. Songs for a dying planet has a great heavy song called Coyote Love and some humorous guitar heavy tracks. Revisit that album Pete I think you might find it quite good.
Really dig the Joe Walsh discography . Such a gifted guitarist with an oddball sense of humour.He is very entertaining live My faves are
1 - So What
2 - Smoker you drink
3 - But Seriously folks
4 - Barnstorm
5 - The Confessor
Barnstorm is my favorite though I'd love to know why he made it so acoustic. And on Smoker You Drink he gave up several songs to the other guys in the band though I like that record too.
The best of : 1969 - 1974 is a very good compilation
Your 1-6 picks are exactly mine. I’ve never investigated Joe’s stuff after The Confessor.
How about a Springsteen show of some sort?
Wouldn't it be interretisting to made a Top Ten of Graham Bonnet?
One of the funnier NASCAR related campaigns was a UPS series of commercials where musicians reworked their songs to convince driver Dale Jarrett to Race The Truck. Joe Walsh was one of these, and in my opinion the funniest. He spoofed Life's Been Good.
That big brown truck does 185,
I wanna see Dale get in and drive,
It's like a race car with room in the back,
I wanna see it out on the track!
The Confessor definitely in my top 5 songs of all time, your thought on "Rosewood Bitters" you didn't mention it when you ranked the Confessor album.
But Seriously Folks is my #1 but if I never hear Life’s Been Good again, I’ll be fine! At the Station is an absolute monster track!
Great. As usual.. have You done Johnny Winter?
I bought "Analog Man" purely because it was produce by ELO's Jeff Lynne. I knew it would be good for that reason alone. "The Confessor" is a masterpiece.
Best move the Eagles ever made was getting Joe Walsh in the band. Walsh and Felder were a great guitar duo.
My Top 5 Joe Walsh albums
1. The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
2. So What
3. But Seriously Folks...
4. Barnstorm
5. The Confessor
Can't argue with a sick mind #1.
Pete thanks another great ranking. How about Traffic.
I.L.B.T.s I always loved his sinse of humor in his lyrics and this song he went off the chart.
But seriously has always been my fav.Saw him at the Oaldale in Ct solo,and also with Ringos first allstar band brilliant guitarist.Funny enough his eagles stuff I can take or leave through no fault of his .
Pete 🙏👍 for your vids. You being in my room everyday makes you family and my day. MY WIFE: ( coming down stairs ) You watching Pete again? CB: Yes sireee🤗
Living room I meant 😂
Never got very popular in Europe. I have two James Gang albums and will sure get some of his personal stuff.
I cant pick a fav from Joe....So What and The Confessor...prob my favs...but I love Joe...he is a nut....
My ranking::
1) So What
2) The Smoker You Drink...
3) But Seriously Folks
4) Barnstorm
5) There Goes the Neighborhood
Couple of things on this one. "Mother Says" on Barnstorm is a great track and got radio play in Philly. "Rivers (Of the Hidden Funk)" is on There Goes the Neighborhood and is probably one of my favorite songs of all time. That got a lot of radio play in Philly and was supposed to be on The Long Run but Lords Henley and Frey nixed it!
I know Pete doesnt include live albums but Joe's masterpiece is 'Cant Argue With A Sick Mind'
SO WHAT
BUT SERIOUSLY FOLKS
STEVIE NICKS/ her only true Love. Joe WALSH/ ton of tragedy losing his three yr old daughter/ divorce/ booze/ drugs etc. Tremendous talent but I only own 3 albums/ would not be fair to rank.
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You was written for Joe & his daughter
GREAT VIDEO BROTHER
sorry don't have his albums but like his music. i like that song life's been good, life of illusion. rocky mountain way.