Actually it is not just about music, they are also chatting about the weather!☝️ Looking forward to the weather in Toronto next Friday. Not sure if it stays that warm to be honest.
Yes! To me, it's not much different than 2112. It's got the long epics and some shorter heavy tunes. Idk man, I think it's brother sister with 2112. Both are great!
A great show Pete and Martin. It has to be said, in the '60s and '70s record companies gave these artists room to mature and evolve. So as an artist you were allowed a 2 to 3 album spread to create your 'big album'. And you had the chance to maintain the success with the follow-up. Unfortunately, those days are gone.
Pete and Martin episodes are like Sabbath "Heaven and Hell": polished, top of their game, great shit! Pete and Chris Alo episodes are like Born Again: heavy, raw, underrated and at times, hilarious (like the cover) . Both are fucking awesome!
Glad to see Martin mention Bowie's Scary Monsters. Great pick. I did have a laugh at the comment Let's Dance was Bowie, Nile Rodgers and a bunch of guys with bit parts. Some of the "other guys" were Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tony Thompson, Omar Hakim and Carlos Alomar. Sure, there we not mega names like Bowie and Rodgers, but they were a fantastic backing band.
It's interesting Pete noted the connection between Queen 1 , 2 and Sheer Heart Attack. I remember an interview with Freddie where he said they had the material for the first three albums already written when they recorded Queen 1.
My favorite album before the "big one," by *any* group or artist, is Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack." It's actually my favorite Queen album, period, and I have them all. I love listening to Pete and Martin, partially because their differences in musical taste compliment each other so well. Also, as a metal, prog, and punk fan who loves blues, jazz, and funk, they cover *almost* all of my wildly eclectic tastes! :-)
Same here 'Sheer hear attack' > 'A night...', and another example is imho 'Jazz' >>>>> 'The Game'... but this is almost unfair 'cause 'The Game' is 80% (or more) crap.
@@corleth84 As a fan of Queen's hard rock side, I do love "Jazz," but as a fan of their *funk* side too (and as a funk fan in general), I also love "The Game." "Dragon Attack" is a very good, funky song, and I love "Another One Bites the Dust," and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is an unexpected, but fun, tribute to Elvis-style rockabilly! "The Game" is admittedly all over the place, stylistically, but that doesn't bother me, because my musical tastes are *also* all over the place! :-)
@@christianman73 The ~20% of 'The Game' I consider in the vein of true Queen are precisely 'Crazy little thing...', which as you wrote is a tribute to Elvis, which is perfectly fine, and 'Save me' - but both these songs were released as singles in '79, prior to 1980's 'The game', and were probably thrown into the LP just to boost sales - that's where I draw the line 1980. I did continue to buy their outputs, but 'Hot space' was just too much. I hate disco, and don't like funk at all, which has the ugliest and most unimaginative use of the guitar.
@@corleth84 We'll agree to disagree on "The Game" and "Hot Space." :-) I definitely don't like the latter album *as much as* its predecessor, because I just don't think that most of the songs are nearly as good, but I do love funk. When it comes to music, period, I love a nasty, funky groove just as much as a rock or metal guitar solo with great dexterity. If the grooves of James Brown or the Ohio Pleyers are unimaginative, then I'll do "unimaginative" all day and night! :-)
Some great albums come to mind: Styx "Crystal Ball" before "The Grand Illusion," Pink Floyd's "Animals" before "The Wall," Emerson, Lake and Palmer "Trilogy" before "Brain Salad Surgery," Elton John "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" before "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," Led Zeppelin III before Led Zeppelin IV, Nazareth "Rampant" before "Hair of the Dog," Supertramp "Even in the Quietest Moments" before "Breakfast in America."
@@mr.jamesvincent3519 Yes, I totally agree. I was speaking from the perspective of the general public. With the exception of "Comfortably Numb," I was never a fan of The Wall.
Traffic wasn't huge because they were more of a band that musicians would get into. In my high school band, we did tunes from Dear Mr. Fantasy and John Barleycorn because our keyboard player could also play sax and flute.
Love Kate Bush. Even she describes The Dreaming as her 'bonkers' album. Hounds put everything she had learned over the previous 4 albums in to a superbly deep but also commercial package. I was ill as a kid when Wuthering Heights came out and spent 2 weeks listening to it on heavy rotation on Radio 1. I was hooked from then on.
It’s also the album where she used the Fairlight throughout. Not my fav [Lionheart] but it’s essential Kate. Steven Wilson did a You Tube show My favourite Album on The Dreaming about 4 months ago - worthwhile checking out if you haven’t seen it. Great news that Pete has listened to many requests and is arranging a ranking show!
Another interesting selection of albums. love the stories and background content of what was happening at the time of writing and recording of the albums.
Sheer Heart Attack is a perfect sample for this show ! Songs like Killer Queen and Leroy Brown are much in the vein of (the upcoming) Opera, rather than Queen II. Stone Cold Crazy WAS a much older song that was not (ready to be?) included in the first album (or the second for that matter). Moreover, SHA was quite of a commercial break for the band, probably due to Killer Queen, leading to the Opera breakthrough
Hell, Trower’s entire 70s catalogue is underrated these days. I see so many vast record collection videos with absolutely no Robin Trower. I don’t know how you can have the entire works of Hendrix without Bridge of Sighs even crossing your radar.
Thanks Pete, really pleased to hear about the planned Kate Bush ranking show, as a lifelong fan I'd love to see that. Martin got it spot on with The Dreaming, such wonderful album
Can't wait for the homework assignment episodes. Martin to Pete: A punk, post punk or hardcore album. Pete to Martin: A jazz fusion, yatch rock or blues rock album.
Martin and Pete could talk for hours about music, and I'd watch it all! Great stuff as always. With Drama, Jon and Rick were in at the start, but tensions boiled over again quickly. They split then Jeff and Trevor joined. I believe on a expanded version of Drama their is an early version of a song with some tracking vocals by Jon. Drama is one of my favorite Yes albums. I'm still miffed that they didn't do a single track when I saw them live on the 35th Anniversary Tour.
Great insights Pete and Martin. I would submit Supertramp - Indelibly Stamped and then the great Supertramp - Crime of the Century album. This album imho awakened the record industry and critics which allowed them to push their creativity and musicality with Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America, etc. Another example might be the initial Van der Graaf Generator - Aerosol Grey Machine before they imho realized their creative sound with the The Least We Can Do is Wave at Each Other... imho one of my favorite of their songs ... Darkness... such a powerful song that would usher in many other haunting melodies and vocals.
I think Rush's Permanent Waves is a nice, juicy example of this. It has some of the more "accessible" and easy listening qualities of Moving Pictures, but with some moodier and more lengthy tracks a la Hemispheres.
My oldest brother had "John Barleycorn". I have to admit I had no idea it had ever gone gold in sales. I think it says a lot about the time but also the high level of musicianship of the performers that it made to gold. Steve Winwood always stood out as a consummate musician to me, even if his choice of tunes was not always exactly my cup of tea. His later work was much more commercial and accessible.
Sheer Heart Attack is my all time favorite Queen album. I was a huge Mott the Hoople fan, and had to check them out after they were picked as the opening act on the Broadway shows. Now I’m Here completely sold me on this band.
Iron Maiden - Killers ( " Number Of The Beast " followed ) Rush - Caress Of Steel ( " 2112 " followed ) KISS - Dressed To Kill ( " Destroyer " followed, even, " Alive! " did great ) Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love ( " Shout At The Devil " followed ) Megadeth - Killing Is My Business ( " Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? " followed ) honorable mentions: Pantera - Power Metal ( " Cowboys From Hell " followed ) Faith No More - Introduce Yourself ( " The Real Thing " followed ) Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock N Roll ( " Stay Hungry " followed )
Kate Bush, Kate Bush. I've loved her and her music since she came on the scene in 1978. An extraordinary talent. 'The Dreaming' is a wonderful record but not exactly mainstream. She was giving full rein to her more outré tendencies but the music was still very listenable. As an aside, speaking as someone who had a life size poster of her in a leotard on his bedroom wall for most of his teenage years, she was at her most beautiful in 1982, a vision of loveliness.
1999 is good prelude for Purple Rain but here we don't mention siege ( Prince ) . Also if we lock commercial pop -funk we had "Off the Wall " from MJ to biggest seller -ever " Thriller ". Then from u2 " Unforgettable Fire " as prelude to " Joshua Three " . For me " Kiss Alive " is great prelude to Destroyer and Rock n roll Over .
Love the mention of Kate Bush here and look forward to seeing Pete's thoughts when the album review happens. I'd have to say here in the UK she was instantly famous due to the weirdness that was Wuthering Heights. At the time i think it's fair to say she was more known to the general public than Peter Gabriel. To the extent he was her guest on her Christmas tv show. I'd disagree though that she went more poppy on Hounds Of Love. Even on side 1 those are not typical pop songs.
Most people my age(63)love the black & white era albums more than the 3 poppier albums that followed(Agents, Spectres, Mirrors). It could be that if you're more into hard rock/metal youre more likely to like the B&W albums more.
I was introduced to BOC with ‘On your feet…’ and have always liked the first three albums. Treaties is my favourite. The three you mentioned have some great moments but are not great albums.
Have to disagree with Martin about the first 3 BOC albums being hard to love. That first album is one of my all time favorites. Dark and mysterious with plenty of variety. Just got the limited edition HD version and it sounds incredible. As much as I love the rest of their catalog, I don`t think they ever matched the first one.
"Drama" was such an underrated album. Great songs and punchy production. On release people were actually afraid to hear it because of the Buggles connection. In the shop I worked in at the time I just played "Into The Lens" and people were hooked. In contrast I was looking forward to 90125 because I had been following Trevor Rabin's solo career and had a fair idea where the direction of the album would lean. Both great, but different Yes albums.
I'll add a few neither of you thought of. U2: The Unforgettable Fire (the album before); The Joshua Tree (the mega album) INXS: Listen Like Thieves (the album before); KICK (the mega album) Michael Jackson: Off The Wall (the album before); Thriller (the mega album) Prince: 1999 (the album before); Purple Rain (the mega album)
Popoff and Pardo are at it again with Part 2 of a fun show. Martin, thanks for mentioning the podcasts from the 'homework' assignments. Been trying to listen to all the 5 song podcast episodes but the two you discuss intrigue me which is one of the reasons your comments are always a great listen [or, watch]. Thanks, Pete and Martin for another fun Friday. There ya go!
Highway to Hell - Back in Black, High N Dry - Pyromania, Pyromania - Hysteria, Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures, Drama - 90125, Killers - Number of the Beast
Great show Pete and Martin. imho another potential topic to consider would be personal insights and/or stories/accounts of how one musician may have been influenced by another artist ... how King Crimson musicians may have influenced or inspired later Progressive rock bands, etc. ... personal discussions and/or observations of one artist made during the other artist’s performance. imho this may be interesting to show the connectivity of these musicians and what they were possibly listening to that influenced or seeped into their work.
If you leave out assumptions and speculations about what one artist might have been influenced by I am totally with you. I am interested in influences artists have acknowledged.
@@MartinPopoff I have that concert on DVD, but it is the Vancouver show. (Filmed at the P.N.E. Grandstand, Vancouver, it says in the closing credits) I went to the one at CNE Stadium in Toronto. In Toronto Mick Ronson got up and did "Jean Genie" with the band. Earl Slick was freaking out because Ronson was twirling one of his expensive guitars around over his head! Some years ago I met an English fellow named Trevor, if I recall, who worked on the lighting for that tour. It was a terrific show. I had never seen Bowie live and his charisma onstage, and his vocals, were just amazing.
Great show guys. Here are a couple of albums that deserve a mention. The sweet - funny how sweet coco can be, to the follow up album sweet fanny adams. Pink floyd - obscured by clouds, to the follow up album the dark side of the moon. Paul simon - hearts and bones, to the follow up album graceland
Pete I know it's not this subject,but I'm listening to an album by anathema that you recommended a few years ago just came across it ,distant satillites ,it's a absolutely classic ,love it,love this show
I saw the Siren tour for Roxy Music at Massey Hall, and I always thought that was the one that came before "Avalon," or maybe just a bit before it. I was shocked to just learn how wrong I was!
Always thought Killer Queen , and some other Queen songs too were very Sweet influenced. I’ll go as far as saying there were some Sweet songs, that if you told somebody they were early Queen songs, it would sound plausible
Thanks for another fine show guys !!! Thanks Pete…Good call on Trower’s Twice Removed from yesterday… great record !! Gee Martin sorry but I have to disagree…I just love the first 2 BOC albums !!! Blue Oyster Cult first album is one I recommend to women who like up tempo music but not heavy metal. Songs flow well and you can sing along. Tyranny and Mutation is their masterpiece. It is great to hear after the first because it packs more punch but continues the theme. Secret Treaties breaks that flow and you can’t really sing along anymore. Still good though ! Agents of Fortune as a whole is weaker but contains 4 of their all time greatest songs Don’t Fest the Reaper. Amazing song !!!!! ETI My favorite BOC song !!! Revenge of Vera Gemini Foreboding & Cool😎 Morning Final. “Paper Mister”. Love It ❤️ And many more good albums and songs !!! Lucky to see them in ‘76….Great Band !!!!! Thanks for a fun discussion !!!
You are so right about the first two Robin Trower albums - they belong together. And the brilliant productiion by Matthew Fisher is often forgotten. How about UK-Uk before Danger Money?
Man, I love Kate Bush. What a talented woman. Obviously David Gilmour of Pink Floyd thought so too, and played on her albums. She's not only a beautiful singer, but a terrific dancer too!
I learn a lot from you, Pete. I didnt know that Robin Trower was in Procol Harum. I checked that band out knce because I saw someone saying that they were the first prog band, but I couldnt get into it.
I don‘t want to nitpick but still the Toronto weather report could have been a little more precise this time. I had to check for more details on weathernetwork.com just to be sure. But still a great episode! 😄
Martin....no Kate Bush autograph?? ;-) Pete, nice call on John Barleycorn. Martin, same to you with Bowie's Scary Monsters. Pink Floyd's Meddle prior to Dark Side (technically Obscured By Clouds was the album to come before Dark Side but, Obscured was a soundtrack that the band was commisioned to do so I'm not going to count it here). Fleetwood Mac's self-titled release from '75 prior to Rumours. An amazing album. AC/DC's Powerage before Highway to Hell. Most people consider Back In Black to be "the album" from AC/DC but I was in high school when HtH dropped and it was huge. Springsteen's Wild, Innocent, and E-Street Shuffle prior to Born to Run. U2's October prior to War. As the years go by I find myself preferring the former.
Bowie was not obscure in Australia at the time of 'Scary Monsters'. He was big here from 1972 and 'Ziggy Stardust' onward. Of course the story was different in North America and that is obviously what Martin is referring to.
Eight Miles High cover on Flesh and Blood is great, or at least I loved it because it was the first time I heard that song and that made me want to listen to the original from The Byrds. It has Same Old Scene which is an amazing and classic Roxy song. It has some duds like Oh Yeah and several others, but it has a few more good songs that forewarned the elegant Avalon. Avalon was like their Abbey Road. Way to go with a bang.
1) Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973) 2) Tower Of Power - Bump City (1972) 3) Santana - Self Titled (1969) 4) Magma - 1001 Degrees Centigrade (1971) 5) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (1969)
Traffic really peaked commercially with *Low Spark* - I'm sure *Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory* and *When the Eagle Flies* dropped off as far as sales - but those last 2 albums are just as good as *Low Spark* as far as I'm concerned.
Martin picking Kate Bush was cool. “The Dreaming” is my favorite from her (the ‘big one’ - “Hounds of Love” - is excellent, too.) Great to hear that there will be an upcoming ‘Ranking the Albums’ episode spotlighting her work. Roxy Music - “Flesh + Blood” is a great album, but agree about the cover songs; I don’t care for them. “Avalon” is great and very atmospheric. Strangely (or not), the s/t 1972 debut seems to get very little appreciation around here; it’s my favorite along with “Country Life.” David Bowie - I love both “Scary Monsters” and “Let’s Dance.” On the former, I strangely agree with Martin in regards to enjoying Side 2 even more than the already cool Side 1, but disagree about ‘Fashion’ - love that song. The latter album is comprised of great songs, commercially-tailored as they may have been.
That's why I love when Martin is on the Sea of Tranquility shows. You can tell he is big fan of British music from the late 70s and 80s which often gets overlooked by the others on here.
Yes, The Dreaming is a perfect choice for this show and can’t wait for the Kate Bush show. Did Roxy ever have anything but great albums (and yes, I like Manifesto!). I quite like Eight Miles High on F&B. I’d go with Avalon and Country Life, I can’t really separate them, both have different moods.
@@Tuzotonic I love quite a lot of the things that Pete talks about, but, indeed, Martin adds such an interesting element to these shows; he often brings up additional things that I love (but Pete doesn't.) So, with the two of them together, we get the best of many things.
1) Bon Jovi 7800° Fahrenheit before Slippery When Wet 2)Warrant D.R.F.S.R before Cherry Pie 3)Motley Crue Too Fast For Love before Shout at the Devil 4)Heart Passionworks Before Heart 5)Aerosmith Done with Mirrors before Permanent Vacation
Just love to hear you two guys chatting about music. Shows with Martin always excellent.
Definitely! Martin is the man!!!
He's so endearing.
@@johansoderberg6546 great team the both of them
Actually it is not just about music, they are also chatting about the weather!☝️
Looking forward to the weather in Toronto next Friday. Not sure if it stays that warm to be honest.
@@wernermoritz882 The weather bit for me
trumps the music sometimes.
I believe that Caress of Steel gets overlooked because it's followed by their masterpiece 2112. But I think it is an underrated gem in Rush's catalog.
Yes! To me, it's not much different than 2112. It's got the long epics and some shorter heavy tunes. Idk man, I think it's brother sister with 2112. Both are great!
Always been in my top 3 Rush, yes a gem when I discovered it.
@@taranguapo That’s a lovely way of thinking about it!
Totally agree! Caress of Steel is monstrously underrated.
Totally agree with you. Caress of Steel is a great album leading up to the fantastic 2112 album.
A great show Pete and Martin. It has to be said, in the '60s and '70s record companies gave these artists room to mature and evolve. So as an artist you were allowed a 2 to 3 album spread to create your 'big album'. And you had the chance to maintain the success with the follow-up. Unfortunately, those days are gone.
Hi Armando, great insights... looking forward to your SOT appearance soon. Best regards, Sal.
@@sdrandazzo Thank you Sal
I really like the way Pete explained the Drama to 90125 road with Yes. Summed it up pretty well.
Pete and Martin episodes are like Sabbath "Heaven and Hell": polished, top of their game, great shit! Pete and Chris Alo episodes are like Born Again: heavy, raw, underrated and at times, hilarious (like the cover) . Both are fucking awesome!
Excellent choices . It would be fun to see a third episode of this .
Glad to see Martin mention Bowie's Scary Monsters. Great pick. I did have a laugh at the comment Let's Dance was Bowie, Nile Rodgers and a bunch of guys with bit parts. Some of the "other guys" were Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tony Thompson, Omar Hakim and Carlos Alomar. Sure, there we not mega names like Bowie and Rodgers, but they were a fantastic backing band.
Would love to see you two do a show on "bait and switch albums" where the singles sounded nothing like the rest of the album.
Record label meddling basically- So many bands out there who didn't have a say in their lead singles
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It's interesting Pete noted the connection between Queen 1 , 2 and Sheer Heart Attack. I remember an interview with Freddie where he said they had the material for the first three albums already written when they recorded Queen 1.
Thanks this was a fun entertaining episode! You guys make my evenings! Please don't stop!
Always love the show at the funhouse with Martin.Between Martin and Pete it's just a great interesting show
My favorite album before the "big one," by *any* group or artist, is Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack." It's actually my favorite Queen album, period, and I have them all. I love listening to Pete and Martin, partially because their differences in musical taste compliment each other so well. Also, as a metal, prog, and punk fan who loves blues, jazz, and funk, they cover *almost* all of my wildly eclectic tastes! :-)
Wow, that is pretty cool!
Same here 'Sheer hear attack' > 'A night...', and another example is imho 'Jazz' >>>>> 'The Game'... but this is almost unfair 'cause 'The Game' is 80% (or more) crap.
@@corleth84 As a fan of Queen's hard rock side, I do love "Jazz," but as a fan of their *funk* side too (and as a funk fan in general), I also love "The Game." "Dragon Attack" is a very good, funky song, and I love "Another One Bites the Dust," and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is an unexpected, but fun, tribute to Elvis-style rockabilly! "The Game" is admittedly all over the place, stylistically, but that doesn't bother me, because my musical tastes are *also* all over the place! :-)
@@christianman73 The ~20% of 'The Game' I consider in the vein of true Queen are precisely 'Crazy little thing...', which as you wrote is a tribute to Elvis, which is perfectly fine, and 'Save me' - but both these songs were released as singles in '79, prior to 1980's 'The game', and were probably thrown into the LP just to boost sales - that's where I draw the line 1980. I did continue to buy their outputs, but 'Hot space' was just too much. I hate disco, and don't like funk at all, which has the ugliest and most unimaginative use of the guitar.
@@corleth84 We'll agree to disagree on "The Game" and "Hot Space." :-) I definitely don't like the latter album *as much as* its predecessor, because I just don't think that most of the songs are nearly as good, but I do love funk. When it comes to music, period, I love a nasty, funky groove just as much as a rock or metal guitar solo with great dexterity. If the grooves of James Brown or the Ohio Pleyers are unimaginative, then I'll do "unimaginative" all day and night! :-)
Blackout- Scorpions
Shake It Up- The Cars
Bad Reputation- Joan Jett and Blackhearts
Slide it In - Whitesnake
Departure- Journey
Excellent picks, and all I didn't think of!
Some great albums come to mind: Styx "Crystal Ball" before "The Grand Illusion," Pink Floyd's "Animals" before "The Wall," Emerson, Lake and Palmer "Trilogy" before "Brain Salad Surgery," Elton John "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" before "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," Led Zeppelin III before Led Zeppelin IV, Nazareth "Rampant" before "Hair of the Dog," Supertramp "Even in the Quietest Moments" before "Breakfast in America."
Animals, in my opinion, WAS the BIG ONE. The Wall sucks.
@@mr.jamesvincent3519 Yes, I totally agree. I was speaking from the perspective of the general public. With the exception of "Comfortably Numb," I was never a fan of The Wall.
Good list
@@Smartie1 thank you!
I damn near fell out of my chair hearing the name of Kate Bush mentioned on this channel. Love it! The Dreaming is brilliant!!!
Martin is full of surprises.
@@mahogany174 Wouldn’t have taken him for a Kate Bush fan.
Traffic wasn't huge because they were more of a band that musicians would get into. In my high school band, we did tunes from Dear Mr. Fantasy and John Barleycorn because our keyboard player could also play sax and flute.
Hi all from a Scot living in Sydney Australia
Really cool to watch and i hope for a part 3!!!
Great show again guy's. 👍👍
Love Kate Bush. Even she describes The Dreaming as her 'bonkers' album. Hounds put everything she had learned over the previous 4 albums in to a superbly deep but also commercial package. I was ill as a kid when Wuthering Heights came out and spent 2 weeks listening to it on heavy rotation on Radio 1. I was hooked from then on.
It’s also the album where she used the Fairlight throughout. Not my fav [Lionheart] but it’s essential Kate. Steven Wilson did a You Tube show My favourite Album on The Dreaming about 4 months ago - worthwhile checking out if you haven’t seen it. Great news that Pete has listened to many requests and is arranging a ranking show!
She's is a genius! For me easily the best female artist of all time...
Pete, give "Power Windows" by RUSH another listen. It does not disappoint, and remains my go to RUSH album.
Great great episode guys! Thanks!
Another interesting selection of albums. love the stories and background content of what was happening at the time of writing and recording of the albums.
Sheer Heart Attack is a perfect sample for this show ! Songs like Killer Queen and Leroy Brown are much in the vein of (the upcoming) Opera, rather than Queen II. Stone Cold Crazy WAS a much older song that was not (ready to be?) included in the first album (or the second for that matter). Moreover, SHA was quite of a commercial break for the band, probably due to Killer Queen, leading to the Opera breakthrough
I'm so glad that Pete picked Robin Trower. Twice Removed is such an underrated album.
Hell, Trower’s entire 70s catalogue is underrated these days. I see so many vast record collection videos with absolutely no Robin Trower. I don’t know how you can have the entire works of Hendrix without Bridge of Sighs even crossing your radar.
@@AndDeathForAll82 I agree! Thank goodness for me that I was commenting on Pete's pick!
Agree on Rush Pete, I walked away from Rush for a while and find discovering the later albums a real pleasure .
Thanks Pete, really pleased to hear about the planned Kate Bush ranking show, as a lifelong fan I'd love to see that. Martin got it spot on with The Dreaming, such wonderful album
Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd before DSotM
Caress of Steel (Rush) before 2112
The Rod Evans album before In Rock
The third Deep Purple album is fantastic and underrated.
Can't wait for the homework assignment episodes. Martin to Pete: A punk, post punk or hardcore album. Pete to Martin: A jazz fusion, yatch rock or blues rock album.
😄👍
Martin and Pete could talk for hours about music, and I'd watch it all! Great stuff as always.
With Drama, Jon and Rick were in at the start, but tensions boiled over again quickly. They split then Jeff and Trevor joined. I believe on a expanded version of Drama their is an early version of a song with some tracking vocals by Jon. Drama is one of my favorite Yes albums. I'm still miffed that they didn't do a single track when I saw them live on the 35th Anniversary Tour.
Great insights Pete and Martin. I would submit Supertramp - Indelibly Stamped and then the great Supertramp - Crime of the Century album. This album imho awakened the record industry and critics which allowed them to push their creativity and musicality with Even in the Quietest Moments, Breakfast in America, etc. Another example might be the initial Van der Graaf Generator - Aerosol Grey Machine before they imho realized their creative sound with the The Least We Can Do is Wave at Each Other... imho one of my favorite of their songs ... Darkness... such a powerful song that would usher in many other haunting melodies and vocals.
I think Rush's Permanent Waves is a nice, juicy example of this. It has some of the more "accessible" and easy listening qualities of Moving Pictures, but with some moodier and more lengthy tracks a la Hemispheres.
Great episode, love the BOC, Queen, Yes examples!
Great to hear your input and thoughts 😊
My oldest brother had "John Barleycorn". I have to admit I had no idea it had ever gone gold in sales. I think it says a lot about the time but also the high level of musicianship of the performers that it made to gold. Steve Winwood always stood out as a consummate musician to me, even if his choice of tunes was not always exactly my cup of tea. His later work was much more commercial and accessible.
I love their live albums Welcome to the Canteen and On The Road. I prefer Traffic to later Steve Winwood, but that was a big album.
Dimension Hatross - Voivod - it really shows the change of direction they were approaching from killing technology to Nothing Face
Great show as always. I would love one with you guys, plus Chris Alo talking about Tony Martin era Black Sabbath. Cheers!
Sheer Heart Attack is my all time favorite Queen album. I was a huge Mott the Hoople fan, and had to check them out after they were picked as the opening act on the Broadway shows. Now I’m Here completely sold me on this band.
Iron Maiden - Killers ( " Number Of The Beast " followed )
Rush - Caress Of Steel ( " 2112 " followed )
KISS - Dressed To Kill ( " Destroyer " followed, even, " Alive! " did great )
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love ( " Shout At The Devil " followed )
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business ( " Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? " followed )
honorable mentions:
Pantera - Power Metal ( " Cowboys From Hell " followed )
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself ( " The Real Thing " followed )
Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock N Roll ( " Stay Hungry " followed )
The Drama Tour was awesome. Saw them at Nassau Coliseum. Awesome Concert!
Kate Bush, Kate Bush. I've loved her and her music since she came on the scene in 1978. An extraordinary talent. 'The Dreaming' is a wonderful record but not exactly mainstream. She was giving full rein to her more outré tendencies but the music was still very listenable. As an aside, speaking as someone who had a life size poster of her in a leotard on his bedroom wall for most of his teenage years, she was at her most beautiful in 1982, a vision of loveliness.
"Drama" is my 3rd fav, Yes album. Good work Pete
1999 is good prelude for Purple Rain but here we don't mention siege ( Prince ) . Also if we lock commercial pop -funk we had "Off the Wall " from MJ to biggest seller -ever " Thriller ". Then from u2 " Unforgettable Fire " as prelude to " Joshua Three " . For me " Kiss Alive " is great prelude to Destroyer and Rock n roll Over .
Love the mention of Kate Bush here and look forward to seeing Pete's thoughts when the album review happens. I'd have to say here in the UK she was instantly famous due to the weirdness that was Wuthering Heights. At the time i think it's fair to say she was more known to the general public than Peter Gabriel. To the extent he was her guest on her Christmas tv show. I'd disagree though that she went more poppy on Hounds Of Love. Even on side 1 those are not typical pop songs.
People tend to call people pop because they have a few hits, running up that hill and the big sky arent really pop songs, more art rock
Most people my age(63)love the black & white era albums more than the 3 poppier albums that followed(Agents, Spectres, Mirrors). It could be that if you're more into hard rock/metal youre more likely to like the B&W albums more.
I was introduced to BOC with ‘On your feet…’ and have always liked the first three albums. Treaties is my favourite. The three you mentioned have some great moments but are not great albums.
Have to disagree with Martin about the first 3 BOC albums being hard to love. That first album is one of my all time favorites. Dark and mysterious with plenty of variety. Just got the limited edition HD version and it sounds incredible. As much as I love the rest of their catalog, I don`t think they ever matched the first one.
One of my favorite debuts! I have exactly the same thoughts about the completely ignored debut of Thin Lizzy!
Secret treaties one of the greatest albums ever, as pete says dont believe me just listen to it
90125, my favorite Yes album. Love all their other music but for me just love this album.
Cheers Martin. Pete. You guys fucking rock!
Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage
Iron Maiden - Killers
Alice Cooper - Easy Action
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Entombed - Clandestine
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Genesis - Foxtrot
Billy Squier "Tale of the Tape" (uncertified) is a great album followed by "Don't Say No" (3x platinum).
I jus st listened to it last night and even though i have only heard it once i thought it wos great
Looking forward to the upcoming Kate Bush album ranking. Great show as always, thank you
"Drama" was such an underrated album. Great songs and punchy production. On release people were actually afraid to hear it because of the Buggles connection. In the shop I worked in at the time I just played "Into The Lens" and people were hooked. In contrast I was looking forward to 90125 because I had been following Trevor Rabin's solo career and had a fair idea where the direction of the album would lean. Both great, but different Yes albums.
Love Drama and 90125….both really good albums
I'll add a few neither of you thought of.
U2: The Unforgettable Fire (the album before); The Joshua Tree (the mega album)
INXS: Listen Like Thieves (the album before); KICK (the mega album)
Michael Jackson: Off The Wall (the album before); Thriller (the mega album)
Prince: 1999 (the album before); Purple Rain (the mega album)
Popoff and Pardo are at it again with Part 2 of a fun show. Martin, thanks for mentioning the podcasts from the 'homework' assignments. Been trying to listen to all the 5 song podcast episodes but the two you discuss intrigue me which is one of the reasons your comments are always a great listen [or, watch]. Thanks, Pete and Martin for another fun Friday. There ya go!
Highway to Hell - Back in Black,
High N Dry - Pyromania,
Pyromania - Hysteria,
Permanent Waves - Moving Pictures,
Drama - 90125,
Killers - Number of the Beast
Lol @ Larry, Curly, Moe 😀😄😁
Martin is too awesome!
Great show Pete and Martin. imho another potential topic to consider would be personal insights and/or stories/accounts of how one musician may have been influenced by another artist ... how King Crimson musicians may have influenced or inspired later Progressive rock bands, etc. ... personal discussions and/or observations of one artist made during the other artist’s performance. imho this may be interesting to show the connectivity of these musicians and what they were possibly listening to that influenced or seeped into their work.
If you leave out assumptions and speculations about what one artist might have been influenced by I am totally with you. I am interested in influences artists have acknowledged.
Good old "i havent heard this band yet but i own their entire discography" Martin.
Those are called "Retirement Bands"...I have a few of those, as well.
@@jazzpunk haha
Yeah I always find that hilarious. Buying albums you don’t listen too? What’s that about?
@@mahogany174 Well, it happens, haha.
Aerosmith's Get Your Wings followed by Toys in the Attic.
I saw Bowie on The Serious Moonlight tour at the CNE. Still the second best concert I ever went to, just after Springsteen doing Born To Run in 1975.
You saw the one they FILMED, plus is out on CD.
@@MartinPopoff I have that concert on DVD, but it is the Vancouver show. (Filmed at the P.N.E. Grandstand, Vancouver, it says in the closing credits) I went to the one at CNE Stadium in Toronto. In Toronto Mick Ronson got up and did "Jean Genie" with the band. Earl Slick was freaking out because Ronson was twirling one of his expensive guitars around over his head! Some years ago I met an English fellow named Trevor, if I recall, who worked on the lighting for that tour. It was a terrific show. I had never seen Bowie live and his charisma onstage, and his vocals, were just amazing.
Another interesting show, Martin always an entertaining guest for me. Headgames and Foreigner 4 might have been good for this subject?
Rush Permanent waves followed by Moving pictures. And Benefit followed by Aqualung. 👍
Alice Cooper - Dada - came a couple years before Constrictor which changed his sound from strange horror rock to straight up Hair Metal/Hard Rock.
And also about Yes, 90215 is produced by Drama's singer Trevor Horn, and that's a big link between the two.
Great show guys.
Here are a couple of albums that deserve a mention.
The sweet - funny how sweet coco can be, to the follow up album sweet fanny adams.
Pink floyd - obscured by clouds, to the follow up album the dark side of the moon.
Paul simon - hearts and bones, to the follow up album graceland
Steve Winwood… never gets the credit he is due. Brilliant instrumentalist, otherworldly vocalist, innovative songwriter.
Great that Martin mentioned the amazing Kate Bush. John Barleycorn my fave from Traffic.
Drama is one of my favorite Yes records, "Machine Messiah" is amazing, really good record.
Drama is my favorite Yes album. Wore that out in college.
Pete I know it's not this subject,but I'm listening to an album by anathema that you recommended a few years ago just came across it ,distant satillites ,it's a absolutely classic ,love it,love this show
Awesome! It is a good one!
Love Robin Trower from the first Procol HArum solo on.......
Kerry Livgren wrote all the songs on Leftoverture (what a genius) w/ the exception of Magnum Opus, to which the whole band contributed.
I saw the Siren tour for Roxy Music at Massey Hall, and I always thought that was the one that came before "Avalon," or maybe just a bit before it. I was shocked to just learn how wrong I was!
Always thought Killer Queen , and some other Queen songs too were very Sweet influenced.
I’ll go as far as saying there were some Sweet songs, that if you told somebody they were early Queen songs, it would sound plausible
Larry Curly and Mo Martin's brilliant.
Love it when he says a song is annoying.
YES DRAMA IS MY FAVORITE YES ALBUM!
Would you consider doing a show about your favorite Hard and Heavy Yacht Rock songs? Thanks
I love the first two BOC albums! Not hard at all to love them.
Thanks for another fine show guys !!!
Thanks Pete…Good call on Trower’s Twice Removed from yesterday… great record !!
Gee Martin sorry but I have to disagree…I just love the first 2 BOC albums !!!
Blue Oyster Cult first album is one I recommend to women who like up tempo music but not heavy metal. Songs flow well and you can sing along. Tyranny and Mutation is their masterpiece. It is great to hear after the first because it packs more punch but continues the theme. Secret Treaties breaks that flow and you can’t really sing along anymore. Still good though !
Agents of Fortune as a whole is weaker but contains 4 of their all time greatest songs
Don’t Fest the Reaper. Amazing song !!!!!
ETI My favorite BOC song !!!
Revenge of Vera Gemini Foreboding & Cool😎
Morning Final. “Paper Mister”. Love It ❤️
And many more good albums and songs !!!
Lucky to see them in ‘76….Great Band !!!!!
Thanks for a fun discussion !!!
You are so right about the first two Robin Trower albums - they belong together. And the brilliant productiion by Matthew Fisher is often forgotten. How about UK-Uk before Danger Money?
Man, I love Kate Bush. What a talented woman. Obviously David Gilmour of Pink Floyd thought so too, and played on her albums. She's not only a beautiful singer, but a terrific dancer too!
Me too! Cheers from Finland 👍
I learn a lot from you, Pete. I didnt know that Robin Trower was in Procol Harum. I checked that band out knce because I saw someone saying that they were the first prog band, but I couldnt get into it.
You guys have been good with the weather updates, as of late - That's always a good thing. 😁😜
I don‘t want to nitpick but still the Toronto weather report could have been a little more precise this time. I had to check for more details on weathernetwork.com just to be sure. But still a great episode! 😄
@@wernermoritz882 Haha! I guess I will have to do more precise checking from now on, as well.
Martin....no Kate Bush autograph?? ;-) Pete, nice call on John Barleycorn. Martin, same to you with Bowie's Scary Monsters.
Pink Floyd's Meddle prior to Dark Side (technically Obscured By Clouds was the album to come before Dark Side but, Obscured was a soundtrack that the band was commisioned to do so I'm not going to count it here).
Fleetwood Mac's self-titled release from '75 prior to Rumours. An amazing album.
AC/DC's Powerage before Highway to Hell. Most people consider Back In Black to be "the album" from AC/DC but I was in high school when HtH dropped and it was huge.
Springsteen's Wild, Innocent, and E-Street Shuffle prior to Born to Run.
U2's October prior to War. As the years go by I find myself preferring the former.
Bowie was not obscure in Australia at the time of 'Scary Monsters'. He was big here from 1972 and 'Ziggy Stardust' onward. Of course the story was different in North America and that is obviously what Martin is referring to.
Eight Miles High cover on Flesh and Blood is great, or at least I loved it because it was the first time I heard that song and that made me want to listen to the original from The Byrds. It has Same Old Scene which is an amazing and classic Roxy song. It has some duds like Oh Yeah and several others, but it has a few more good songs that forewarned the elegant Avalon.
Avalon was like their Abbey Road.
Way to go with a bang.
I remember the fusion of Yes and Buggles everyone was up in arms, Yes fans embarrassed, there was nearly a riot!!
I remember the music press naming them as Yeggles.
1) Herbie Hancock - Sextant (1973)
2) Tower Of Power - Bump City (1972)
3) Santana - Self Titled (1969)
4) Magma - 1001 Degrees Centigrade (1971)
5) Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (1969)
Traffic really peaked commercially with *Low Spark* - I'm sure *Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory* and *When the Eagle Flies* dropped off as far as sales - but those last 2 albums are just as good as *Low Spark* as far as I'm concerned.
Ignition before Smash from the Offspring
Martin picking Kate Bush was cool. “The Dreaming” is my favorite from her (the ‘big one’ - “Hounds of Love” - is excellent, too.) Great to hear that there will be an upcoming ‘Ranking the Albums’ episode spotlighting her work.
Roxy Music - “Flesh + Blood” is a great album, but agree about the cover songs; I don’t care for them. “Avalon” is great and very atmospheric. Strangely (or not), the s/t 1972 debut seems to get very little appreciation around here; it’s my favorite along with “Country Life.”
David Bowie - I love both “Scary Monsters” and “Let’s Dance.” On the former, I strangely agree with Martin in regards to enjoying Side 2 even more than the already cool Side 1, but disagree about ‘Fashion’ - love that song. The latter album is comprised of great songs, commercially-tailored as they may have been.
The Ninth wave concept on side 2, on Hounds of love, for me, is one of best sides in music history. It blew my mind, how amazing and beautiful it is.
@@ukrocksounds3419 Absolutely agree! The dreamy atmosphere, the textures, Kate's vocals...gorgeous.
That's why I love when Martin is on the Sea of Tranquility shows. You can tell he is big fan of British music from the late 70s and 80s which often gets overlooked by the others on here.
Yes, The Dreaming is a perfect choice for this show and can’t wait for the Kate Bush show. Did Roxy ever have anything but great albums (and yes, I like Manifesto!). I quite like Eight Miles High on F&B. I’d go with Avalon and Country Life, I can’t really separate them, both have different moods.
@@Tuzotonic I love quite a lot of the things that Pete talks about, but, indeed, Martin adds such an interesting element to these shows; he often brings up additional things that I love (but Pete doesn't.) So, with the two of them together, we get the best of many things.
Def Leppard's High 'n' Dry before Pyromania.
Nirvana's Bleach before Nevermind
Billy Joel's Turnstiles before The Stranger
I recommend watching the first episode.
@@wernermoritz882 I never watched either episode, did I miss something?
@@markandersen793 😄 That‘s great!👍 I was trying to point out that some of your picks have been discussed already.
@@wernermoritz882 Of course, I should have known better, my picks were obvious.
I love the Roxy cover of Midnight Hour...Wilson Pickett with a twist.
Love when Martin is on with Pete, leave it to Martin to bring up an artist i haven't thought of or heard about in years , Kate Bush haha , Good one
1) Bon Jovi 7800° Fahrenheit before Slippery When Wet
2)Warrant D.R.F.S.R before Cherry Pie
3)Motley Crue Too Fast For Love before Shout at the Devil
4)Heart Passionworks Before Heart
5)Aerosmith Done with Mirrors before Permanent Vacation
Bin jovi great choice, although bon jovi are far from my favorite thats a great album
@@aidenswords5809 Bon Jovi's There first five albums was there best albums.
Solid weather intro, great work so far, guys!
Pardo and Popoff. Is there anything better with your coffee on a Friday morning??
Wishbone Ash Pilgrimage before Argus, the big one!
I'll have to add Toto's Turn Back before IV.
Are you going to do an "album after the big one" episode?