@@zjapp Probably uploaded in advance and scheduled to publish at a later time. Maybe patreons get a link to the unpublished video in advance; some folks do that
"In through the out door" was Led Zeppelin's last album, but after physical graffiti, the band was dying. Page was hooked on heroin and into some dark philosophy, Bonham was drinking himself to death, and Robert Plant lost his son.
I think Dr Dre's The Chronic comes with that descending jewelcase crack in the upper lefthand corner. Every copy I've ever owned/seen has had the exact same crack.
I don't get why car manufacterers are not puting CD players on cars, Its certainly not a matter of cost. They are just following the trend of Apple of eliminating useful things for the sake of change.
I'm a massive RHCP and John lover, but its very hard for me to listen to that album or even see photos of john from that era, so happy he is still around
The last three untitled tracks are my favorites from him period. It was the last three songs recorded before his first exit from the Chili's. #13 recorded a week before his friend from his days at the guitar institute pre-1988, Robert Hayes, died in a car accident in Alabama, which was the final nail in the coffin regarding his status in the band and as motivation/validation for being a junkie, since he'd only used sporadically since June of '91. "Running Away Into You" was recorded a month after he quit and it sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the majority of songs primarily recorded under the influence of shrooms, weed, and white wine.
My favourite album is From Mars To Sirius by Gojira. Each song tells a story and the album as a whole does as well. Many times i have gotten emotional listening to that album.
So I was introduced to you by my almost 18 year old son a year or two back, as he is a big fan. Love your stuff! I decided to make a little Spotify playlist for him based on your answers. So far I’ve been able to find everything but the South Park. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙃
my favourite album I discovered recently is "Ummon" by french rock band SLIFT. An interesting mixture of space, psychedelic, stoner, doom and progressive kinda sounds. It's mixed wonderfully, very pleasant to listen to and I simply love the musicianship. It's just a 3 piece band and they sound MASSIVE. Also it's one of these albums that sound exactly like their cover art
The fact that you mentioned PUP had me tickling my own friggle!! One of my top 5 favs forever, such good people too, prob the Canadian thing haha. Was supposed to see them in Phx, AZ right as covid took over so I cried for a cpl weeks straight. "The Dream Is Over" is a ripper indeed but "Morbid Stuff" really grabs my feels.
When I was younger my faves were Consolers of the Lonely- Raconteurs Brothers-Black Keys Forgiven -lonely boys Cage the elephant self titled I and love and you- Avett Bros Blunderbuss- jack White Naked Bros Band self titled
Albums mentioned in the video: Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty Stravinsky - Simon Ratle Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers Southeastern - Jason Isbell The Dream is Over - Pup South Park the Movie Soundtrack Eletric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Graceland - Paul Simon Continuum - John Mayer Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses Niandra Delades and Usually Just a T-Shirt - John Frusciante Document - R.E.M Punk in Drublic - NOFX Presence - Led Zepellin Matt Mays and The Torpedo Chemical City - Sam Robert´s Band Live at the Quik - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Ampuchecture - The Mars Volta Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan The Beatles - The Beatles 2001 - Dr. Dre The Collection - Robert Johnson Classics - Ratatat Sky Blue Sky - Wilco Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young Bring me Your Love - City and Colour The Real Folk Blues - Howlin' Wolf Budos Band II - The Budos Band
Best frisbee? Definitely chumbawumba. As long as you have the shotti ready to send it to it's eternity once it's in the sky, it's, at best, useful as a target.
I would love to see you make a video about some local bands from your town. Maybe talk about some of your personal favourites or cool show experiences?
I do enjoy Graceland driving across South Africa about once a year. It's a weird combination of the American music I grew up on and the pop music of my country which was always around in the background. I use my old man's Toyota 4x4 for the trip, and it's from like, 2007 or something - no bluetooth or aux in. Got one of those bluetooth to radio-frequency things powered from the cigarette lighter outlet and it works an absolute treat.
Still love NOFX to this day! 🤘🏻 when you talk about an album you wish you could hear for the first time punk drublic is it for me. I still remember how excited I was hearing bob for the first time. It totally blew me away.
Sky blue sky rocks Sammy G. Enjoy the relisten. The SRV album you mentioned took me back to listening to SRV with my Dad and big brother. Thanks for your videos. I very much appreciate what you do.
i still buy cds (mainly for my car as well)…i like the artwork, etc…i don’t need a medal or anything, but i also get some pleasure in supporting the artists
Sammy, bro, my heart filled with joy when you mentioned Frusciante but that album has nothing to do with despair and addiction. It's all about surrealism inspired by Marcel Duchamp and John said it himself that besides Running Away Into You all of the tracks were recorded while high on weed. Only weed, Untitled 12 being the last one recorded is closer to confusion, John said it himself it's "the thoughts of a person whose head is about to explode". Smile From The Streets You Hold is on another level
Nice to see another person with a sizable CD collection. I believe mine's about the same. I'm actually in the process of re-buying a bunch of CDs again because I went through a foolish faze when a friend introduced me to indie rock. Only wanted to listen to metal and indie rock at that point, so all my mainstream classic rock, hard rock, and alternative albums had to go. What a fool I was.
I remember once listening (back in Italy) on the radio, a band called "the contribution" 'a supergroup collective' and the album was called 'which way world'. I have struggled to find myself one of those 1000 copies of the cd. but today, I still love it. and I do not normally listen to country/folk music.
If there is a way to see the number of downloads over time, we can measure samuraiguitarist's reach. Pretty sure the obscure Canadian bands will be good test cases.
2:00 I knew the answer to this instantly: Fugazi by Marillion. Three killer tracks right off the bat, followed by 4 cluttered semi-suites that seem to go nowhere. If the album were an EP of 3-4 tracks, i.e. Assassing, Punch and Judy, Jigsaw and maybe She Chameleon (saved by the gothic aesthetic and the sweet keys solo), it would be an almost flawless listen from start to finish.
Bro I have a huge collection of CDs too! Probably spent around $20K on everything, mostly metal, rock, and alternative stuff but without it Idk where I would be in life. Thanks for sharing what got you into music it's always fun hearing different stories and finding new artists from listening :)
If you haven't checked them out, The Durutti Column is an older band, out of Manchester, with some brilliant and emotive guitar. I have been doing a deep dive in their music lately. My brain really digs what they have done.
I like cd's too. Listen to them in my car. I like having a physical copy with liner notes and pictures. Presence is one of my favorite zepplin albums. I like crankin it up when I'm working out. All along the watchtower is one of my favorite songs.
I'm grateful that I have basically unlimited access to virtually all recorded music commercially available growing up. But I can't help but think that, I'm trivialising a lot of them. I know hundreds and hundreds of bands, and thousands and thousands of albums, but I have a strong connection to only a fraction. Whereas, someone like Sammy, may have not garnered that much at my age now(19). But for the few that he had, he definitely has a connection, and could give a 2000 word essay about it. And the most I could say about 90% of the albums and bands I've listened to is , "cool album, cool band", even though I've exhausted their discography. The connections with other people around music itself is different. Exchanging CD mixes and exchanging playlists aren't the same, even though inherently they are. The physicality of a CD trumps a virtual set of codes of a Spotify playlist. Or recommendations: say you're hanging out with friends, and they start talking about this album that you've never heard of, and after you got home, you keep thinking about that album that your friends are talking about. 20 years ago, you have to either borrow a CD of it, or buy it. Either way, it takes effort, and the listening experience will be much more satisfying. Now, you can just type it in YT's search bar, and there it is, all in it's 126kbps glory. And the listening experience is gone. Because you've trivialised it. Of course it doesn't happen all the time, but it happens often. A friends recommendation alone can alleviate that trivialisation. Then again, you don't get that many these days do you. I have a handful of bands and albums that are near and dear, and again, I'll love them to death, but, I think it will only stay that many. A handful. Thanks for this insightful, and introspective video Sammy.
Couldn’t agree more about stadium Arcadium! A good double album, but one disc would have been a classic! I’m also with you on Graceland and Continuum both! I’ve topped your 500 with 600, but you’ve topped me by having them on shelves and not in boxes in that room nobody ever goes into 😂
I tried taking Stadium Arcadium and removing songs off of it until I got 14 but I couldn’t. Too many good songs would be lost. Hey, Turn It Again, Wet Sand, She’s Only 18, She Looks To Me, C’mon Girl... Curious how u would do it!
That was a great video, and I enjoyed that immensely. I find discussing album collections interesting - not only does it tell about a persons musical taste (and its development), but in my head I wonder "what would the answer be for me?" But now for something completely different: "The music you love - jeopardy edition" (Find the question to the following answer): "Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon" Thanks for the video, keep'em coming!
I've always called the White Album the hit and miss album tbh. As much as I love it, it really does switch between "I'll listen to this song I guess cause it's on" and "this might be one of the best Beatles songs ever recorded" very quickly and frequently
Very interesting to think about my own answers to these questions. Just for fun, I'm going to go back and watch again and post them here 1:07 Back In Black 1:58 Judas Priest Juggulator. I enjoy roughly half of those songs. And they're the only Priest tunes that I like. For whatever reason, I just can't get into Priest. 2:31 Alter Bridge The Last Hero 3:30 Hmm. None 4:20 (Got a minute?) The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe 5:32 Pet Sounds kinda but I knew what to expect so not really 6:06 Really, bro? 6:18 CREED Weathered. Prior to that, I didn't like anything that wasn't The Beach Boys. Mark Tremonti inspired me to start playing. He still influences my thought process. I still compare myself to him even though he's a metal guy and I'm a Blues Rock guy. I could go on forever but I'll stop here. Seriously, Mark Fucking Tremonti, everybody. The man didn't win the Guitar World Guitarist Of The Decade award for nothing. 6:44 Joe Satriani's entire catalog because I discovered him while I was going through the most difficult month of my military career. I say month but, it lasted about 6 lifetimes. 7:26 I own an original 1963 or 1964 pressing of The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe on vinyl. I also own their 1974 Live In Concert double vinyl which is only significant in that Carl Wilson's guitar tone coupled with a picture of him inside the gatefold looking cool as fuck was what made me want to learn guitar. 7:55 My dad gave me The Beach Boys Spirit Of America on vinyl. It was a double vinyl and I only had one disc which had sides 1 & 4 on it 8:30 Not counting duplicates? Maybe 30? 8:58 Either Pet Sounds or Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) I still enjoy both albums but they're very difficult to listen to. And then pretty much everything after PS is crap. 9:15 Every Beach Boys album before Pet Sounds. *Seriously,* they had other albums in their career. I'm not kidding. You can buy them. Also, the first 3 CREED records. Especially Weathered. 10:00 Most fans would say Powerage. My argument is that so many people choose it that it can't be underrated. I'm going to go with Flick Of The Switch and Fly On The Wall. The only two albums produced by Angus and Malcolm. Great songs. All killer, no filler. True to form. However, there are some really stand out tracks on each of these records and I'm here to tell you that you're not a real fan of you don't love these albums. 11:01 Almost Alter Bridge ABIII but I still don't love it. True to form, producer/mixer Michael "Elvis" Baskette just completely shit the fucking bed on this one. It's the worst sounding thing any of those guys have done in their careers. Excessive overuse of too much compression, muddy as fuck, bass guitar is nonexistent, and Myles' guitars are all but buried under Mark's. I was the only person in line when it came out, I listened to it once, decided that I didn't get it, and put it away. It's only been the last year and a half that I've listened to some of it on Spotify and realized there's some pretty solid work in there. But I still can't listen to the entire thing in one go. I don't think I'll ever be able to just because of Elvis' shitty production and mixing 12:18 Little Deuce Coupe I'm a gear head 12:37 AC⚡DC mixed with a little bit of Black Label Society 13:17 CREED Human Clay has Higher but it also has Wrong Way which I just can't stand No wait...Weathered has My Sacrifice but also Lullaby 13:35 Back In Black 13:45 Little Deuce Coupe. I've had 4 copies and currently own 2 14:06 ABIII 16:07 Blow Up Your Video 16:15 Many will disagree but Alter Bridge One Day Remains It was the first thing Mark did outside of CREED and it came at a time in my life when I was really beginning to discover not only what lead guitar is but also what I do and do not enjoy. Mark's playing just sounded so free. I never knew but he was really heavily restricted by the mould of CREED so I had no idea what he was really capable of. The first time I heard that record, I had to keep checking for guest appearances. 16:53 ABIII 17:43 Little Deuce Coupe. As a gear head, there was about 15 years where that album was my only connection to the automotive world 18:38 Black Label Society has the only two breakup songs you'll ever need Stillborn and Spoke In The Wheel That was fun. Even though literally nobody asked me
@@eloC311 I grew up in the garage with my dad. Out of everything he played, The Beach Boys Stuck We moved to a new house and got expanded basic cable in 1999 and then a couple years later, I was flipping channels and saw this guy playing electric guitar standing in waist deep water. I was maybe 13 and had no idea about music videos. All I knew was that this guy was going to get electrocuted which would be awesome to watch. It was Mark Tremonti in the video for My Sacrifice and it turned out to be a really cool song. I checked out more of their music and loved it. Then came Alter Bridge, AC⚡DC, early GnR, SRV, Satriani, PanterA, BLS, HELLYEAH, THC, etc etc etc Musically speaking, CREED changed my life
It's interesting to me because I also like the Beach Boys, but have very different opinions on their discography. For me, their best phase STARTS with Pet Sounds and ends around Surf's Up (although I must admit I only got into them less than two years ago and still have many of their albums left to check out). But to each his own. We can agree that they made some great music!
One of my cds that I’ve been resonating a lot with lately is Alter Bridge One Day Remains specifically the Songs Burn it Down, One Day Remains, Down To My Last, and The End Is Here
Live at the Quick is probably good in CD form but it's even better on DVD. It's an experience. The first time Victor Wooten ever broke my brain was him taking on Amazing Grace. "you can do WHAT on a bass??"
Love to see Chemical City getting some love. I remember Bridge to Nowhere being in the radio every day when I first moved to Alberta from BC at 9 years old and I associate it with a lot of formative memories. With a Bullet is a great song too.
Considering Jeff Lynne is my biggest musical hero it would be amazing to sit there and try to help write music with. Him and Tom Petty did wonderful things together, and I feel so fortunate to have gotten a chance to see them both in concert.
In the question about the emotional connection I knew exactly which one Sammy G was gonna pick, quite a sad story, makes me feel grateful for my friends even though I may not have many.
There's a very credible theory that the Robert Johnson songs were considerably sped up. For example, when slowed down the vibrato in vocals and guitar are impressive but not physically impossible.
Wow! I would have picked Southeastern. It was the soundtrack of my kicking a long time opiate addiction and leaving my hometown and long term relationship for the mountains. I absorbed that album onto my DNA.
Sammy G, I'm fascinated by the fact that the only box set you seem to have there is Coltrane's Fearless Leader, i.e. his sessions for Prestige, generally acknowledged as his least well-known and least acclaimed music as leader.
That South Park movie soundtrack was my jam all through the 9th grade. And NOFX is my favorite band. I can totally see how they got you to pick up a guitar and play.
Oh, buddy. My first girlfriend and her mom took me to see the Graceland show. It was even better than you'd imagine -- the only song from the album he didn't do was the one with Clifton Chenier. That was because he had all the other musicians with him. And he gave each of them a good twenty minutes to do their own thing -- Ladysmith Black Mombazo and the whole lot of them. Then he sat down on a stool with an acoustic and did all my favorite Simon and Garfunkle songs. (He MURDERED The Boxer.) I've had a couple of decent live music experiences. This was right up there.
I still buy discs and vinyl. Did Californication with STP opening. Grand evening. Dire Straits....debut. Knopfler is just right there. First Lp. The Beatles-Rock and Music / the silver gateleaf. Buy most of my discs across the merchandise table. The Machine Shop of Flint, MI is just up the street. Breakup Lp- Motorhead, pick one.
Favorite Break up album. Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan. Favorite album. Ether Pink Floyd’s the wall or In the Airplane over the sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
this is a very nice wholesome an interesting video, i have a couple of cd's, but it would be a dream to have as many as you have!!! i miss the days where having a cd was such a special item, i would listen to mine on my discman and get lost, now i just look it up in spotify and everywhere else so its a bit less special!!!
I have a similar excuse to continue to grow my CD collection. I mostly listen to music in my 2009 Toyota Matrix. I even imported this car when I moved to the states few years ago so that I can keep this excuse alive.
UPDATE RE: WILCO SKY BLUE SKY, better than I remember but still not really hooking me in. www.patreon.com/samuraiguitarist
This was uploaded today. How did you comment three days ago?
definitely expected Impossible Germany to be your jam o_o personally it was the track that got me into the band and Nels Cline
Hi!!!!
Zjapp patreon
@@zjapp Probably uploaded in advance and scheduled to publish at a later time. Maybe patreons get a link to the unpublished video in advance; some folks do that
We need to get on this man's Patreon so he can afford Spotify and an aux cable
According to the era in which most of these albums were produced, it has better be a gold-plated Monster Cable.
No way! He's already invested so much in his CD collection, he needs to get the most value out of it!
Nah, CD's are cool
lol he's going to need this when he upgrades that 2010 Corolla. Hardly any cars have CD players anymore.
spotify's collection is too scarce, CDs are the way to go.
Didn't expect you talking about Nickelback's entire discography for the entire video, but hey, you do you, Sammy G
As someone who reads comments before watching the video, I'm hoping this is a joke.
@@nateo7045 exact same man x)
@@nateo7045, that's the punishment of reading comments before watching the video. :D
EMBRACE THE UNCERTAINTYYYYY
what are you smoking m8 he didnt talk about Nickelback AT ALL
@@rumblefish74, he clearly did. You can read it in the description, as well!
Saying "sounds like it was recorded 100 years" ago, when it's only been 85, is a sick burn.
That’s like telling someone that released their album this year that their album sounds like it was released in 2006 lol
I pay for Spotify Premium, but I'll still buy a CD if the album is good enough to warrant it.
I only buy the CD if isn't on Spotify and I want to listen to it, such as Bandcamp releases.
Me to
CD quality is also better than the highest spotify premium goes to
"In through the out door" was Led Zeppelin's last album, but after physical graffiti, the band was dying. Page was hooked on heroin and into some dark philosophy, Bonham was drinking himself to death, and Robert Plant lost his son.
But what a grand exit In Through The Out Door was.
I think Dr Dre's The Chronic comes with that descending jewelcase crack in the upper lefthand corner. Every copy I've ever owned/seen has had the exact same crack.
The day a car doesn’t come with a CD player is the day I install one or just buy an older car
They already rule those out. Buy older cars.
Yep
I don't get why car manufacterers are not puting CD players on cars, Its certainly not a matter of cost. They are just following the trend of Apple of eliminating useful things for the sake of change.
@@Neufertful really as long as they still have aux ports I can plug my personal CD player in
But yeah they should just keep them in
@@jonahhumfleet472 Lexus is still puting them in newer models
Niandra LaDes is the album that has the most emotional impact on me. Untitled 2 has kept me up at night.
I'm a massive RHCP and John lover, but its very hard for me to listen to that album or even see photos of john from that era, so happy he is still around
The last three untitled tracks are my favorites from him period. It was the last three songs recorded before his first exit from the Chili's. #13 recorded a week before his friend from his days at the guitar institute pre-1988, Robert Hayes, died in a car accident in Alabama, which was the final nail in the coffin regarding his status in the band and as motivation/validation for being a junkie, since he'd only used sporadically since June of '91. "Running Away Into You" was recorded a month after he quit and it sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the majority of songs primarily recorded under the influence of shrooms, weed, and white wine.
My answer exactly! Was hoping to find someone else with this answer!
@Aiden Frederick only a couple of songs
Led Zeppelin's last studio album was "In Through the Out Door", but "Coda" was their last album which included their last unused material
Sammy G: The best song on here is “Achilles Last Stand.”
“Nobody’s Fault But Mine”: Hold my beer.
It's a good album!
My favourite album is From Mars To Sirius by Gojira. Each song tells a story and the album as a whole does as well. Many times i have gotten emotional listening to that album.
So I was introduced to you by my almost 18 year old son a year or two back, as he is a big fan. Love your stuff! I decided to make a little Spotify playlist for him based on your answers. So far I’ve been able to find everything but the South Park. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙃
my favourite album I discovered recently is "Ummon" by french rock band SLIFT. An interesting mixture of space, psychedelic, stoner, doom and progressive kinda sounds. It's mixed wonderfully, very pleasant to listen to and I simply love the musicianship. It's just a 3 piece band and they sound MASSIVE. Also it's one of these albums that sound exactly like their cover art
Totally agree! Great band and sound.
You just got me into a very good thing
@@tenthirtyone1 glad to hear that, enjoy the music!!
Damn, awesome album, Thanks man!
Love seeing PUP here. One of the best live shows I’ve ever seen.
That PUP album is so goddamn good
A bop for sure
I think the dream is over has bigger hits but morbid stuff is more consistently good
Pup!!!!
Music makes me so happy and really saved my life.
The fact that you mentioned PUP had me tickling my own friggle!! One of my top 5 favs forever, such good people too, prob the Canadian thing haha. Was supposed to see them in Phx, AZ right as covid took over so I cried for a cpl weeks straight. "The Dream Is Over" is a ripper indeed but "Morbid Stuff" really grabs my feels.
such a good band, I literally freaked out when he pulled out that cd, just the opposite of what I thought he'd like.
I started my Album collection this March/April. And I ain’t stopping soon...
I started my record collection 1 year ago
CD collection 2 months ago
When I was younger my faves were
Consolers of the Lonely- Raconteurs
Brothers-Black Keys
Forgiven -lonely boys
Cage the elephant self titled
I and love and you- Avett Bros
Blunderbuss- jack White
Naked Bros Band self titled
Albums mentioned in the video:
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Stravinsky - Simon Ratle
Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Southeastern - Jason Isbell
The Dream is Over - Pup
South Park the Movie Soundtrack
Eletric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Graceland - Paul Simon
Continuum - John Mayer
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses
Niandra Delades and Usually Just a T-Shirt - John Frusciante
Document - R.E.M
Punk in Drublic - NOFX
Presence - Led Zepellin
Matt Mays and The Torpedo
Chemical City - Sam Robert´s Band
Live at the Quik - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Ampuchecture - The Mars Volta
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Beatles - The Beatles
2001 - Dr. Dre
The Collection - Robert Johnson
Classics - Ratatat
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
Bring me Your Love - City and Colour
The Real Folk Blues - Howlin' Wolf
Budos Band II - The Budos Band
Best CD as frisbee? Best aerodynamics etc.
Discovery - Daft Punk
Stadium arcadium
Best frisbee?
Definitely chumbawumba.
As long as you have the shotti ready to send it to it's eternity once it's in the sky, it's, at best, useful as a target.
pup is so sick, cool to see someone talking abt them
Great video. I'm gonna dig into some of these. That Paul Simon one sounds like it would be right up my alley.
I have never seen your channel before but when I saw you pull fully completely out my respect for you sky rocketed! The hip is amazing
I would love to see you make a video about some local bands from your town. Maybe talk about some of your personal favourites or cool show experiences?
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I love this video so much! Thank you for showing us some good albums :)
I do enjoy Graceland driving across South Africa about once a year. It's a weird combination of the American music I grew up on and the pop music of my country which was always around in the background. I use my old man's Toyota 4x4 for the trip, and it's from like, 2007 or something - no bluetooth or aux in. Got one of those bluetooth to radio-frequency things powered from the cigarette lighter outlet and it works an absolute treat.
RUST NEVER SLEEPS, what a phenomenal shout.
Pocahontas, Thrasher, Hey Hey My My… oh and Powderfinger is one of my favourite songs of all time
Sammy: "This Robert Johnson album sounds like it was recorded 100 years ago"
Me: "But... it was"
oh, so you got the joke, then?
I have electric Ladyland on vinyl, such an amazing record 🤘🤘
good stuff it's great hearing you go through your music and what you listen to that makes you happy
The white album description has to be the best description of it I've ever heard
Still love NOFX to this day! 🤘🏻 when you talk about an album you wish you could hear for the first time punk drublic is it for me. I still remember how excited I was hearing bob for the first time. It totally blew me away.
Sky blue sky rocks Sammy G. Enjoy the relisten. The SRV album you mentioned took me back to listening to SRV with my Dad and big brother. Thanks for your videos. I very much appreciate what you do.
i still buy cds (mainly for my car as well)…i like the artwork, etc…i don’t need a medal or anything, but i also get some pleasure in supporting the artists
Sammy, bro, my heart filled with joy when you mentioned Frusciante but that album has nothing to do with despair and addiction. It's all about surrealism inspired by Marcel Duchamp and John said it himself that besides Running Away Into You all of the tracks were recorded while high on weed. Only weed, Untitled 12 being the last one recorded is closer to confusion, John said it himself it's "the thoughts of a person whose head is about to explode". Smile From The Streets You Hold is on another level
Some new stuff to check out, thanks :-) I'm a bit surprised JJ Cale never popped up though.
This makes me wish I kept all the CDs I had when I was a teenager!
Anything by The Tragically Hip is amazing.
There's no music like Canadian music
Nice to see another person with a sizable CD collection. I believe mine's about the same. I'm actually in the process of re-buying a bunch of CDs again because I went through a foolish faze when a friend introduced me to indie rock. Only wanted to listen to metal and indie rock at that point, so all my mainstream classic rock, hard rock, and alternative albums had to go. What a fool I was.
Liked this one. One of my favourites so far.
Heck yeah Guns N’ Roses appetite. One of the bands that brought me to love rock n roll
I started collecting cds couple of months ago i just love having copy on my shelf
Woah! REM Document was also the first album I heard that made me realise what music could be, I also had a copy of it on tape when I was 10
I remember once listening (back in Italy) on the radio, a band called "the contribution" 'a supergroup collective' and the album was called 'which way world'. I have struggled to find myself one of those 1000 copies of the cd. but today, I still love it. and I do not normally listen to country/folk music.
The Dream is Over is a solid choice for 2010s albums
If there is a way to see the number of downloads over time, we can measure samuraiguitarist's reach.
Pretty sure the obscure Canadian bands will be good test cases.
I started smiling when he whipped out the pup album
I can recommend Wess Meets West. I think you'd enjoy their style.
It’s great seeing Full Moon Fever get some love!
Sky Blue Sky is fantastic! Wilco are all time greats. Saw them live a few months ago and it really hit me how many great songs they have.
Damn! Did NOT expect to see NOFX in there! Hell yeah
2:00 I knew the answer to this instantly: Fugazi by Marillion. Three killer tracks right off the bat, followed by 4 cluttered semi-suites that seem to go nowhere. If the album were an EP of 3-4 tracks, i.e. Assassing, Punch and Judy, Jigsaw and maybe She Chameleon (saved by the gothic aesthetic and the sweet keys solo), it would be an almost flawless listen from start to finish.
Bro I have a huge collection of CDs too! Probably spent around $20K on everything, mostly metal, rock, and alternative stuff but without it Idk where I would be in life.
Thanks for sharing what got you into music it's always fun hearing different stories and finding new artists from listening :)
Can I recommend the band Deer Tick? They are a great example of a band currently putting out music that deserve some more attention.
If you haven't checked them out, The Durutti Column is an older band, out of Manchester, with some brilliant and emotive guitar. I have been doing a deep dive in their music lately. My brain really digs what they have done.
I grew up listening to EDM,Pop,Metal and Rock Music 🎶🎶
SRV all day long. Great episode. Thank you.
I like cd's too. Listen to them in my car. I like having a physical copy with liner notes and pictures. Presence is one of my favorite zepplin albums. I like crankin it up when I'm working out. All along the watchtower is one of my favorite songs.
I'm grateful that I have basically unlimited access to virtually all recorded music commercially available growing up. But I can't help but think that, I'm trivialising a lot of them. I know hundreds and hundreds of bands, and thousands and thousands of albums, but I have a strong connection to only a fraction.
Whereas, someone like Sammy, may have not garnered that much at my age now(19). But for the few that he had, he definitely has a connection, and could give a 2000 word essay about it. And the most I could say about 90% of the albums and bands I've listened to is , "cool album, cool band", even though I've exhausted their discography.
The connections with other people around music itself is different. Exchanging CD mixes and exchanging playlists aren't the same, even though inherently they are. The physicality of a CD trumps a virtual set of codes of a Spotify playlist. Or recommendations: say you're hanging out with friends, and they start talking about this album that you've never heard of, and after you got home, you keep thinking about that album that your friends are talking about. 20 years ago, you have to either borrow a CD of it, or buy it. Either way, it takes effort, and the listening experience will be much more satisfying. Now, you can just type it in YT's search bar, and there it is, all in it's 126kbps glory. And the listening experience is gone. Because you've trivialised it.
Of course it doesn't happen all the time, but it happens often. A friends recommendation alone can alleviate that trivialisation. Then again, you don't get that many these days do you.
I have a handful of bands and albums that are near and dear, and again, I'll love them to death, but, I think it will only stay that many. A handful.
Thanks for this insightful, and introspective video Sammy.
Couldn’t agree more about stadium Arcadium! A good double album, but one disc would have been a classic!
I’m also with you on Graceland and Continuum both!
I’ve topped your 500 with 600, but you’ve topped me by having them on shelves and not in boxes in that room nobody ever goes into 😂
I tried taking Stadium Arcadium and removing songs off of it until I got 14 but I couldn’t. Too many good songs would be lost. Hey, Turn It Again, Wet Sand, She’s Only 18, She Looks To Me, C’mon Girl... Curious how u would do it!
Great vid. Nice change of pace.
That was a great video, and I enjoyed that immensely.
I find discussing album collections interesting - not only does it tell about a persons musical taste (and its development), but in my head I wonder "what would the answer be for me?"
But now for something completely different:
"The music you love - jeopardy edition" (Find the question to the following answer):
"Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon"
Thanks for the video, keep'em coming!
Yesss, It’s great to see Sam roberts band getting some love
I've always called the White Album the hit and miss album tbh. As much as I love it, it really does switch between "I'll listen to this song I guess cause it's on" and "this might be one of the best Beatles songs ever recorded" very quickly and frequently
Very interesting to think about my own answers to these questions.
Just for fun, I'm going to go back and watch again and post them here
1:07
Back In Black
1:58
Judas Priest Juggulator. I enjoy roughly half of those songs. And they're the only Priest tunes that I like. For whatever reason, I just can't get into Priest.
2:31
Alter Bridge The Last Hero
3:30
Hmm. None
4:20 (Got a minute?)
The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe
5:32
Pet Sounds kinda but I knew what to expect so not really
6:06
Really, bro?
6:18
CREED Weathered. Prior to that, I didn't like anything that wasn't The Beach Boys. Mark Tremonti inspired me to start playing. He still influences my thought process. I still compare myself to him even though he's a metal guy and I'm a Blues Rock guy. I could go on forever but I'll stop here. Seriously, Mark Fucking Tremonti, everybody. The man didn't win the Guitar World Guitarist Of The Decade award for nothing.
6:44
Joe Satriani's entire catalog because I discovered him while I was going through the most difficult month of my military career.
I say month but, it lasted about 6 lifetimes.
7:26
I own an original 1963 or 1964 pressing of The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe on vinyl. I also own their 1974 Live In Concert double vinyl which is only significant in that Carl Wilson's guitar tone coupled with a picture of him inside the gatefold looking cool as fuck was what made me want to learn guitar.
7:55
My dad gave me The Beach Boys Spirit Of America on vinyl. It was a double vinyl and I only had one disc which had sides 1 & 4 on it
8:30
Not counting duplicates? Maybe 30?
8:58
Either Pet Sounds or Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) I still enjoy both albums but they're very difficult to listen to. And then pretty much everything after PS is crap.
9:15
Every Beach Boys album before Pet Sounds. *Seriously,* they had other albums in their career. I'm not kidding. You can buy them.
Also, the first 3 CREED records. Especially Weathered.
10:00
Most fans would say Powerage. My argument is that so many people choose it that it can't be underrated.
I'm going to go with Flick Of The Switch and Fly On The Wall.
The only two albums produced by Angus and Malcolm. Great songs. All killer, no filler. True to form. However, there are some really stand out tracks on each of these records and I'm here to tell you that you're not a real fan of you don't love these albums.
11:01
Almost Alter Bridge ABIII but I still don't love it.
True to form, producer/mixer Michael "Elvis" Baskette just completely shit the fucking bed on this one. It's the worst sounding thing any of those guys have done in their careers.
Excessive overuse of too much compression, muddy as fuck, bass guitar is nonexistent, and Myles' guitars are all but buried under Mark's.
I was the only person in line when it came out, I listened to it once, decided that I didn't get it, and put it away. It's only been the last year and a half that I've listened to some of it on Spotify and realized there's some pretty solid work in there. But I still can't listen to the entire thing in one go. I don't think I'll ever be able to just because of Elvis' shitty production and mixing
12:18
Little Deuce Coupe
I'm a gear head
12:37
AC⚡DC mixed with a little bit of Black Label Society
13:17
CREED Human Clay has Higher but it also has Wrong Way which I just can't stand
No wait...Weathered has My Sacrifice but also Lullaby
13:35
Back In Black
13:45
Little Deuce Coupe. I've had 4 copies and currently own 2
14:06
ABIII
16:07
Blow Up Your Video
16:15
Many will disagree but Alter Bridge One Day Remains
It was the first thing Mark did outside of CREED and it came at a time in my life when I was really beginning to discover not only what lead guitar is but also what I do and do not enjoy. Mark's playing just sounded so free. I never knew but he was really heavily restricted by the mould of CREED so I had no idea what he was really capable of. The first time I heard that record, I had to keep checking for guest appearances.
16:53
ABIII
17:43
Little Deuce Coupe. As a gear head, there was about 15 years where that album was my only connection to the automotive world
18:38
Black Label Society has the only two breakup songs you'll ever need
Stillborn and Spoke In The Wheel
That was fun. Even though literally nobody asked me
Your love for the Beach Boys AND Creed is both perplexing and heart-warming. But I'll admit that my answers stayed close to home as well 🤙
@@eloC311 I grew up in the garage with my dad. Out of everything he played, The Beach Boys Stuck
We moved to a new house and got expanded basic cable in 1999 and then a couple years later, I was flipping channels and saw this guy playing electric guitar standing in waist deep water. I was maybe 13 and had no idea about music videos. All I knew was that this guy was going to get electrocuted which would be awesome to watch.
It was Mark Tremonti in the video for My Sacrifice and it turned out to be a really cool song. I checked out more of their music and loved it.
Then came Alter Bridge, AC⚡DC, early GnR, SRV, Satriani, PanterA, BLS, HELLYEAH, THC, etc etc etc
Musically speaking, CREED changed my life
It's interesting to me because I also like the Beach Boys, but have very different opinions on their discography. For me, their best phase STARTS with Pet Sounds and ends around Surf's Up (although I must admit I only got into them less than two years ago and still have many of their albums left to check out). But to each his own. We can agree that they made some great music!
Glad to see some alt country love with the Isbell!
One of my cds that I’ve been resonating a lot with lately is Alter Bridge One Day Remains specifically the Songs Burn it Down, One Day Remains, Down To My Last, and The End Is Here
See the boat you were on the lake with, when you listened to Rust Never Sleeps, was it white, with a big red beacon, a flag and a man on the rail?
Chronic 2001 was the first rap CD I ever bought, and the reason I put a system (most components bought at Walmart) in my car in high school
Ι really think that you will totally dig the modern Opeth Albums.From Heritage all the way to now. Also add Damnation
Live at the Quick is probably good in CD form but it's even better on DVD. It's an experience. The first time Victor Wooten ever broke my brain was him taking on Amazing Grace. "you can do WHAT on a bass??"
Love to see Chemical City getting some love. I remember Bridge to Nowhere being in the radio every day when I first moved to Alberta from BC at 9 years old and I associate it with a lot of formative memories. With a Bullet is a great song too.
Considering Jeff Lynne is my biggest musical hero it would be amazing to sit there and try to help write music with. Him and Tom Petty did wonderful things together, and I feel so fortunate to have gotten a chance to see them both in concert.
In the question about the emotional connection I knew exactly which one Sammy G was gonna pick, quite a sad story, makes me feel grateful for my friends even though I may not have many.
There's a very credible theory that the Robert Johnson songs were considerably sped up. For example, when slowed down the vibrato in vocals and guitar are impressive but not physically impossible.
I thought that my music taste was just so weird that nobody would have too, but just in the first five albums, I knew I was completely wrong!
Wow! I would have picked Southeastern. It was the soundtrack of my kicking a long time opiate addiction and leaving my hometown and long term relationship for the mountains. I absorbed that album onto my DNA.
Lots of albums to check out. Thanks, Sammy G!
That PUP album is awesome great choice!
I'M SO HAPPY YOU ENJOY PUP
Sammy G, I'm fascinated by the fact that the only box set you seem to have there is Coltrane's Fearless Leader, i.e. his sessions for Prestige, generally acknowledged as his least well-known and least acclaimed music as leader.
I don't think I've ever heard a more true comment about ratatat and making their songs as ringtones
That South Park movie soundtrack was my jam all through the 9th grade. And NOFX is my favorite band. I can totally see how they got you to pick up a guitar and play.
the video i watched with the most amount of pauses ....
as i opened a new tab to check out the albums he picked out, to have a listen !
South Park Movie was one of my favorite moviegoing experiences ever, as well. Super hilarious movie and the whole theater was rolling
PUP is such a good choice. Love that record
Oh, buddy. My first girlfriend and her mom took me to see the Graceland show. It was even better than you'd imagine -- the only song from the album he didn't do was the one with Clifton Chenier. That was because he had all the other musicians with him. And he gave each of them a good twenty minutes to do their own thing -- Ladysmith Black Mombazo and the whole lot of them. Then he sat down on a stool with an acoustic and did all my favorite Simon and Garfunkle songs. (He MURDERED The Boxer.) I've had a couple of decent live music experiences. This was right up there.
punk in drublic was the first thing I ever bought at a record store
It’s nice seeing this. The art of the album has been lost in todays music.
I still buy discs and vinyl.
Did Californication with STP opening. Grand evening.
Dire Straits....debut. Knopfler is just right there.
First Lp. The Beatles-Rock and Music / the silver gateleaf.
Buy most of my discs across the merchandise table. The Machine Shop of Flint, MI is just up the street.
Breakup Lp- Motorhead, pick one.
Southeastern is my #1 favorite album of all time
Favorite Break up album.
Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan.
Favorite album.
Ether Pink Floyd’s the wall or In the Airplane over the sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
this is a very nice wholesome an interesting video, i have a couple of cd's, but it would be a dream to have as many as you have!!! i miss the days where having a cd was such a special item, i would listen to mine on my discman and get lost, now i just look it up in spotify and everywhere else so its a bit less special!!!
I have a similar excuse to continue to grow my CD collection. I mostly listen to music in my 2009 Toyota Matrix. I even imported this car when I moved to the states few years ago so that I can keep this excuse alive.
part 2 please❤
5:30 Finally, the new John Mayer album came out today, I haven't been this excited about an album in ages...stayed up listening to it last night 😍🙀😭
Jason Isbell's Southeastern is definitely one of my favorite albums! I totally agree with your assessment.