ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Turn Up the Radio" by Autograph
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- They got in on the ground floor of hair metal and then got left behind? Why couldn't Autograph turn up the radio a second time?
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Autograph are like a fictional band from a sitcom episode where the sitcom family's teenager and their best friend are trying to get tickets to their show but can't because they don't have the money so they create this money making scheme to raise money like a car wash or a yard sale. However, one thing leads to another and they are back to square one but then the band shows up and, realizing how dedicated they are, gives them front row tickets. Then the episode ends with the teens rocking out to the band's music, which sounds like stuff you would find on a royalty free rock music put to words, at the concert.
That sounds oddly specific and completely relatable.
It's called GTA vice City
@@SENATORPAIN1I’d rather go see a Love Fist concert than an Autograph concert lmao
one of those plots that you definitely saw more than once, but can't tell exactly where :D
I cannot comprehend how insanely accurate this is. You're hilarious.
Few years ago I found a 45 of this song at a 2nd hand store. No price tag on it, the cashier looked at it and just said "Yaknow what....you can just have it!"
Sounds like he was trying to rip you off.
@@troodon1096 Ha ha!
@@troodon1096.
"I got this record for free, and I _still_ want a refund!"
"No price tag? I gUeSS iTs fReE"
There's a boss fight in a game called Alpha Protocol with a Russian mobster who is obsessed with American 80s Culture, he keeps quoting Scarface, and the fight takes place in a disco hall and this song is blasting the whole time. He also keeps running off to do cocaine to regain energy, and you can make the fight easier by bribing someone to spike his cocaine with laundry detergent, which just slows him down a bit.
They picked the perfect song.
That’s amazing
😂😂
I still just love the fact that there was an 80s band called “Silver Condor”.
Underrated game, could've been a classic if it wasnt a broken buggy mess
Oh god the memories. I love this bugged out, barely functional mess of a game with a firey passion.
The drummer from Autograph met Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees in rehab and is partially responsible for Mark's sobriety towards the end of Mark's life. I think that's pretty awesome.
He helped somebody but himself died from drug related homicide
@@soulbrother5435 Palpatine ironic
Irony is pretty ironic sometimes@@bootmii98
@@KatarnCrusaderHave you ever heard of the tale of Darth Plageuis the wise?
Sing backwards and weep is a brilliant book, i recommended it in audio book format to hear the late and should have been great Mr Lanegan himself, beautifully haunting to hear his voice post mortem.
from the paper mate sponsorship, the background as session musicians and ad-jingle writers, and the very ad friendly song that co-opts a coke catchphrase, this band really embodies the commercialism of the 80s pretty succinctly
I hadn’t gotten to the Coca-Cola part of the video yet and was thinking cocaine had a jingle. Which would’ve been even more 80’s if that was the case.
I don't think you can underestimate the impact Vice City had on the lasting impact of this song.
Knew I heard this somewhere…
VRock is Top 3 GTA Radio Station. I would say it's VRock from Vice City, Radio X from San Andreas, and West Coast Classics from GTA V.
I'd replace West Coast Classics on that list with KDST in San Andreas, but otherwise agreed.
@@philly_sports1558 RadioX introduced me to so many good bands
Exactly. I know it because of vice city. So it puts me in Vice City
We LOVE our 80s hair metal here in Trinidad and Tobago, I am honestly shocked this only peaked at #29. I was born in 1998 and I have heard this song on the radio SO many times.
I was a teenager in the 80s and am also all surprised it peaked at #29.
This song sounds era defining
Well damn, now I know where I want to go on vacation
Wait for real? That's hilarious. Keep on rocking, T&T. Sometimes its fun to read about the less scary implications of American cultural dominance.
No shit? That's freaking awesome!
Also, when Lynch was shown shouting "Hey Louie!" did anyone else expect a Scatman John-style posthumous Armstrong collab?
I feel like Autograph is the exact band that Limozeen was parodying
i'm integrating this into my belief system now, they're really such a Limozeen ass band 😂
Only Todd would randomly upload a One Hit Wonderland in the middle of the night and then completely disappear into the Shadows
He lives in California, so it's only 7 PM there.
It's not the middle of the night if you sleep during the day. Then it's the afternoon!
What a shadowy figure...
It is dark in California
@@joshuarichmond2688 litterly been pitch black for over an hour 🤣
“We were THIS close to a song being called ‘Rockin’ the Rockity Rock Rock’.”
That’s the name of my debut single now, no one else gets it.
To be fair, this was not a "hair metal" or 80's thing. Off the top of my head, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, Rock Around the Clock. Jailhouse Rock. I'm not even to 1960 yet.
Reminds me of 'when loving lovers love'
Don't you mean "Rockin' the Rockity Räk Roque"🤔? 🪨🪨🪨🪨🙃
Only if it's a country ballad.
@@NatalieValentina6 Rockin’ the Rockity Rock Cock
"a hair band covering Louie Louie is like sampling Rick Astley now"
WELL ,TELL THAT TO YUNG GRAVY, TODD
Absolute shade lmfao
In his Top 10 worst songs of 2022 video, he did briefly acknowledge Yung Gravy's sampling of Rick Astley, saying it was actually one of the better instances of sampling that year compared to the really bad ones we did get, especially with David Guetta and Bebe Rexha when they sampled Eiffle 65's "Blue" for "I'm Good."
That says things about how terrible was 2022 for sampling
The most damning shot at Autograph is definitely having a Christian band's rework of their only hit used for the "cover plays while credits roll" song
Led Zeppelin -> Def Leppard
Photograph -> Autograph
The circle of life.
Yeah, except Joe Elliott never pretended it was anything but completely intentional. He was always open about it being a nod to Zeppelin. He was also about 17 when he came up with the name. These guys were fully adult industry professionals.
My god that snide comment about Kirk Cameron might be the low key funniest thing he's ever said in a review.
Came looking for this comment! 16:09
As someone whose parents were teens of the 80s, I have a soft spot for 70s and 80s rock bands. I will admit, it was only quite recently that I found out this song wasn't from Def Leppard
I know it's probably been said but I just want to take a moment to appreciate Todd and his work over the years. Bro has grown so much in throughout the years and he's just way too good at his craft.
So thanks Todd.
Side note, I used to blast this song so hard back in the day. It's simple but I did turn my radio up every time I heard it.
I turned it up in my car when it came up on Amazon Music the other day
Bro?
@R W short for brother, an exceedingly common way to address someone in a friendly manner
@@burgermind802 ohhh same thing as how girls use "like" every other word. got it thanks
@@trossk there is not a single way in which vocative “bro” is the same as discourse marker “like”, probably, other than that they’re both words, bro
Look at this Autograph!
Every time I do it makes me laugh.
🤣🤣👽
Watching old Todd episodes when a new one pops up in my recommendations. That's magic, baby.
It's 10 PM and I have the sudden urge to buy Paper-Mate™️ mechanical pencils.
The official pencil of rock ‘n’ roll
It's wild how much this sounds like a Journey song when you perform it on piano with no other instruments :D
I will always associate this song with my childhood in the 2000’s because of its inclusion on the soundtrack to Vice City. Loved rocking out to this one along with Madhouse, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Bark at the Moon and all the other classics on Vrock. There was another Autograph song on the Vice City Stories soundtrack but that one was considerably less memorable
The other one was All I got to take. A decent song, nut quite Turn up the radio but different.
For years I used to think this was a Def Leppard song. Could imagine my shock when I learned it was not, in fact, Def Leppard at all. It just sounded so much like them that I didn't think it could possibly be someone else. But it is a good song, so I didn't think much of it. Fascinating to learn more about it like this.
I thought it was KISS...
It's remarkable that I've been following Todd for ten years almost (this year!), I can *still* think of one-hit wonders I'd love for him to cover someday (Bitter Sweet Symphony, Crush, All the Young Dudes), and he STILL comes up with subjects I've never heard of and never would've thought of. I love it. Keep being awesome, Todd.
The Spin Doctors and "Two Princes" would be an interesting OHW. The song that made it into every 90s teen comedy and then fell off the face of the earth.
@@thirteenfury he did a Train Wreckords on the Spin Doctors' second album!
@@thirteenfury I saw the Spin Doctors play in a NYC bar in June 1989 before they got famous, and their setlist was basically their first album. Like with many other bands, a sign that "coming up with decent new material for the follow-up" would be a problem.
@@thirteenfury Not only has he done them on Trainwreckords, they're a two hit wonder. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong?" And I actually still hear "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" on the radio sometimes.
The verve are ridiculously far from a one hit wonder.
My teachers in high school used to make fun of me for liking this song. They're like out of all the 80s songs you like. This is the one you pick and I was like yeah 🤟🤟🤣
Its a great song, I agree. But i always have to do a corny dance move when i sing "day time,💁 night time,💁anytime"🤷 i kinda shrug and shake my head like I really mean it. Lol like im in kids bop.
Well, if nothing else, liking what you like despite what people say you should like is the cornerstone sentiment of Rock.🤟
teachers crush dreams and destroy childhoods.
I always love how Todd always brings up Nirvana when he talks about 80s rock, especially hair metal. It's compulsory.
Its also kinda impossible not to.
Even as a self-described hair metal junkie, Autograph was never a band I really sought to dive deeper into than this song. Steve Lynch is quite exceptional, but that was the main thing the band had going for them. I'm glad I'm not the only one that compares them to Pyromania era Def Leppard.
Another thing of note about them is that after they broke up, the drummer Keni Richards played in a short lived "supergroup" called Dirty White Boy with David Bowie guitarist Earl Slick and David Glen Eisley who would go on to sing "Sweet Victory" on Spongebob. On an unfortunate note though, he, bassist Randy Rand and keyboardist Steven Isham have all passed away in 2017, 2022 and 2008 respectively.
My dad said he saw these guys open for Van Halen , but the crowd just booed them the entier time.
LOL
@@jadedheartsz Maybe people were just sensing they were posers
@@jadedheartsz Maybe not today hahaha
As a child of the 80s, I'm so into this episode.
Cool vid, but just wanted to note how much Steve Plunkett has achieved since the band: 7 years as chief staff writer/producer with All Nations Music, produced many albums and had over 200 songs released by artists including The Go-Gos, Kenny Rogers, Vixen and Edgar Winter, producer of Graham Nash, Jon Secada, En Vogue, Marc Anthony, Cyndi Lauper and Loretta Lynn, produced music for over 40 movies, General Manager of Meteor 17, a West Hollywood based media convergence company, designing and executing music and strategies for artists and companies, etc, etc.
In a "poser band"? Maybe, but holy crap what a resume. Amazing guy and one of the nicest people in the business.
Steve we all know you wrote this.
@@Nico-xf2rb Hehehe, nope it be me, not Steve. Wish he would respond, that would be cool!
Publishing is reportedly the big money in music, so with over 200 songs written for big artists I'd imagine he doesn't lose too much sleep over Autograph's obscurity.
I love how many songs exist about listening to the radio that are so dated now. Imagine if there were a bunch of 2010s songs about watching Vines to find new music or a bunch of 2020s songs about recording music in their room.
I have such a hard time thinking of what music from this decade or the previous one anyone will ever have nostalgia for.
Well, this is a unique moment for me. You're covering a one-hit wonder song that still gets regular airplay on the hard rock stations that I listen to.
yeah todd is insinuating the song sucks when it was a bigger hit than most other 80's metal bands had. He's off base with this one.
Does anything else from them get airplay? One hit wonder fits.
@@zaiusbaltar7091 he said he like the song though. he just thought that the band themselves were bad
That station is even softer than the one in my city if that's the case.
Hair Nation!🤘
4:30 and you could make a case that Quiet Riot’s more well known for being founded by Randy Rhodes. Who left the group to become a guitar god on Ozzy’s first two (and best) solo albums before tragically dying in a plane crash in 1982
Not at all. People know them for metal health and cum on feel the noize. Those hits were huge and are still staples of 80’s metal.
Nah, that was mostly learned after the fact. Metal Health and Come on Feel the Noise were both major hits people heard and liked before realizing Ozzy’s guitarist that died used to be in the group.
I freakin' love this song.
Not one usually for hair metal or radio hits, but THIS one, yes.
1984 was the year I finally sobered up. Been 39 years w/o. Best move ever. Last band I saw drunk was The Cure at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Wish I remembered it.
This song kicks ass! Definitely one to blast in the car
Growing up, I feel like this was overplayed and inescapable because *so many* radio stations used it for some of their bumpers and that dropped in the mid-90’s or so
I don’t know about you, but we are well into 2023 and I am breathlessly anticipating the inevitable Trainwreckords on Man of the Woods
You got it next year!
@@chartate1017 Would you believe this isn’t the first time I’ve been informed of this well after I watched it? 😂 I know you mean well, but either way, I was way ahead of you. No offence
I wish I could get an autograph from autograph so all the members of autograph could autograph my autograph album
Todd hit upon something toward the end: throughout the 80s you'd see a good number of corporate arena-rock types give themselves a hair-metal makeover to stay relevant. Autograph were only unique in that they did so *before* hair metal really became a huge trend. A lot of the other cases of this (e.g. Bad English) came about after Slippery When Wet.
EDIT: Even outside of arena rock in particular, you can point to Nelson as a band being marketed as hair metal even though they really weren't sonically. That kind of thing happened a lot too!
That last bit is what happened to Enuff Z'nuff. They were a very solid power pop band with some legit alternative rock cred, but when they released their first album (which was the only successful one) the record company overplayed their glam rock image and marketed them as a hair metal band. It basically killed any real momentum the band could have had.
Well, Bad English was a Supergroup; that's why they got popular. The band's members were singer John Waite (who had a huge hit in the '80's called "Missing You"), bassist Ricky Phillips (who was in the band The Babys and is currently playing with Styx), and three members of Journey (Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon, and Deen Castronovo).
@@brycedownpitchCan Bad English and John Waite create a double one hit wonders episode? You have a solo artist that joined a supergroup and both scored one massuve single
The name Autograph feels like Mr. Big, in which it's terrible on its face but makes perfect sense when the band is full of guys who had experience being overlooked members of other bands. If I were one of those guys it feels like a name I'd find funny to name my own band.
Todd did a video about Mr. Big's "To Be With You", and their story is very similar to this one. A bunch of session musicians with an awful name, but one pretty good guitarist. Autograph signaled the beginning of hair metal's mainstream relevance; Mr. Big signaled its end.
I can't be the only viewer who immediately thought "That's the Stuff" sounded like a sitcom theme (or the theme to some 80's rom-com that probably would have the same name) and felt a bit validated when Todd made the comment.
I know how much you love covering obscure British acts and these are all considered one hit wonders in the states (not in the UK) and they all have really fascinating backstories to explore are:
Talk Talk - It’s My Life
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
XTC - Dear God
The La’s - There She Goes
The Lightning Seeds - Pure
Mumm-Ra - She’s Got You High
All would make for great videos
I think the La's are considered a one hit wonder in the UK, pretty much.
So actually a good candidate all round.
Mumm-Ra....did that even do top 40 in the UK? I'd consider them a no hit nothing!
Talk Talk (who I love), that would be interesting as you're dead right, in the Us it's one and done, but absolutely not in the UK. They're considered pretty seminal here.
@@boomhaueruk yes you’re absolutely right about The La’s being a one bit wonder in the UK to, BUT the bands story is so fascinating that it would make for a great video & it’s a shock hardly anyone knows it more.
Mumm-Ra yes you are right about them also, but I’d argue they are a one hit wonder as that song has become so famous purely for it being used in the end credits of 500 Days of Summer plus they really own that fact (I’ve seen em live and they reference it a lot haha)
Plus yeah Talk Talk no argument there, also another band with a brilliant backstory
I don't think Talk Talk counts as a one-hit wonder in the US either, because they have a sizable enough cult following here as the fathers of post-rock.
How the fuck are Talk Talk obscure? "in the States" oh.
The Kirk Cameron impression killed me
Their drummer Keni Richards was murdered in 2017. Apparently, it's still unsolved
This... weirdly makes me feel worse about the pencil thing. Like, it's neither connected nor proportional, but _damn,_ poor dude's legacy includes a dumb joke about him not being able to read.
The music video produced in the eighties has robots and lasers and guys with big hair playing guitar, I'm not sure what else I was expecting.
“My girlfriend’s boyfriend, isn’t me” is another great to know there’s
I was SO waiting for him to mention this one. Now I'm a sad panda.
This was the first metal song I ever heard as a kid. Thank you SO MUCH for covering it, it brings my dad and I great memories
I think I speak for a lot of people who grew up in the 80's when I say we mainly know Autograph from the cover of their second album "That's the stuff". Not the music, just the cover.
Hajime Sorayama is a master
That was the one with the Sorayama cover, right? The sexy robot?
@@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts Yep
I actually was surprised I recognized it! I assumed it belonged to a bigger band
Was that a Sorayama?
To be honest, "Name" is an amazing band name.
I was born in 92 and I love 80s hair metal for reasons that escape me. Love this song, love that Todd gave us the story of Autograph.
It’s pop with guitar solos. What’s the reason NOT to like it
I do still remember hearing this song everywhere back in the day when it came out and thinking for some reason this band was gonna be the next big thing
Quickest I've ever been on one of these, but this has been my jam since Vice City!
And after the video, thank you for that, I think I heard Lindsay was on Nebula but I'd forgotten.
Autograph always seemed like a Disney interpretation of a metal band.
Fun fact: the band Brand X that you see on Neil’s list of bands he engineered was a jazz fusion band started by Phil Collins who also played drums on their first couple records
i love the middle of the night upload lmao, truly a man of the shadows and dark.
@@gtt8428 Bro is down bad lmao, I'm not a girl, and the PFP i'm assuming you're thursting over is Tommy Wiseau, director of The Room, one of the worst films ever.
@@gtt8428 What joke? also I am fun at parties, all the boys love me.
@@gtt8428 WTF are you talking about bro, idk about "black beatles" or whatever, and Never Gonna give you up is an 80's song from a fairly unremembered british guy, so I highly doubt that the Rick Roll was a fucking Psy-op or whatever you're inferring.
@@gtt8428 Ok schitzo
BIG HUGE UPS for plugging Lindsey Ellis’ video essay. It’s good to finally see her coming back and doing what she’s still so good at doing. You guys both ROCK!!! lol 🤘🏽😂
Not only did I forget about this song's existence after the last time I played GTA: Vice City (it's been years), I also thought for a while this was one of the songs by the band written in the game.
Obsessed with a band called Starbenders right now. Woman fronted glam metal. I truly think modern production makes glam rock sound way better.
Nothing gets me more than “celebrity doing mundane thing” meme. Jogging buddies with David Lee Roth nearly made me choke on my drink
I totally always thought this song was by Def Leppard
I could see that. That song has a Mutt Lange vibe to it.
I... genuinely didn't know until watching this video that mechanical pencils existed in the '80s. Somehow they always struck me as a "1990s onward" type of thing.
The Recommending Ones & Zeros apologizes for the devastating and overwhelming distress that must have happened while waiting on our blessing.
This is like the one song on V Rock in GTA Vice City where I actually change the station.
It's been 10+ years now. How's Todd still finding One Hit Wonders I recognize?
Guess there’s still water inside that well
There’s so many of them though.
You can make a travel country guidebook on Eurodance alone.
As long as he hasn't done Daniel Powter's 'Bad Day' yet we'll always know there's more possibilities out there.
Most years have more one hit wonders than he does wonderlands in a year; there's little danger of running out. Even excluding the dozens that are "had a perfectly normal career in a different English-speaking country" that would be boring video.
Todd, thanks for this video, and great channel. I have a very specific memory about this song as my teenage years unfolded in the 1980s during the era of heavy metal. I would have been 13 or 14 years old in grade 8. Our “junior high” school hosted around 3 school dances per year, and back then often would get a cover band to come to our small Canadian logging town to play, but sometimes they would have a DJ (or a “rock video” VJ) instead. Well, this one dance had something slightly different: it was a couple of DJs - using cassette tapes believe it or not - but on the stage was a “robot” band. It was basically a giant prop consisting of a light show and “robot band members” each with a different instrument up on the gymnasium stage. The ”robot band members” where made out of what I recall to be ventilation ducting with some motors to make their heads and arms move. Lights for eyes, etc… The “robot band members” would move around a bit in a repeating fashion accompanied by a light show. That was it, but what I specifically remember was the first song the DJs played to kick it all off: Turn Up the Radio by Autograph.
As a person that lived through this, they were basically seen as a steel panther. Manufactured, overly cartoony, etc.
"How many gay cheetahs had to die to make that jacket?"
Nothing better than that Konstantin Brayko boss fight.
Side note: It was supposed to be "The Final Countdown" for that boss fight, but they couldn't get the rights. I like "Turn Up the Radio" better for that scene, though.
And now Alpha Protocol was delisted thanks to the rights expiring for this song. 😔
I wish this song was talked about more than it is thank you for giving it hopefully a more bigger audience.
You outright making a disgust noise at the poster of the front man ended me. It's those little jokes like that that make your videos so fun to watch.
“Look at this photograph, everytime it makes me laugh”
Now suddenly makes alot of sense
A bit of anecdotal hair-metal history from a guy that still has his patch jacket somewhere: There were several factions of hair metal: One was full on glam acts like Poison and White Lion, which you had to pretend to like because girls did. Latter day Sweet, maybe? There was also Glam with more of an edge, something like Iron Maiden or W.A.S.P., full spandex and makeup and theatricality, but channelling more of an Alice Cooper vibe. Okay to admit to liking for guys. Then you had more t-shirt and jeans, exemplified bands ike Tesla, KIller Dwarves, and of course, AC / DC. These of course were often a gateway into METAL: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer...
There was a lot of mix-and-match of course. Motley Crue wore as much makeup as Poison, but they got a pass. JBJ and Kip Winger were actually pretty good musically, but every girl you ever met had wanked to at east one of them, so there was a lot of resentment there.
I had a point I was leading up to, but I forgot where I was going with it. Maybe I'll edit this later if it comes back to me.
I did especially enjoy this episode, though😁🤘
This band just keeps reminding me of other stuff too much to have their own identity-even trying to search their music, Google kept autocorrecting the name to Whitesnake, Def Leppard, and even Aerosmith at one point.
I remember this song when I was 14 years old, I have always loved metal.
Roth called'em a T Shirt band but back in the day we called'em parking lot band's.
Which meant if a band like them was opening for the band on the ticket you had extra time in the parking lot to pre game for the show.
Send Her to Me is an obvious rip-off of Night Ranger's Sing Me Away. They could have easily been sued for that.
I've heard this song plenty of times on the radio, thought it was alright but never actually bothered to look up the band. I had no idea who sung it until this video. Now I get why.
Legit thought you were going to say you never bother to actually turn it up
@@cognitivedissonance8406 shit that would've been good
Man, that running with the devil solo is so fucking good.
Hell yeah
I am by no means a lover of glam metal but hearing this song during the Brayko boss fight in Alpha Protocol sold the shit outta it for me
Its a shame they didn't get recognized, TH-cam recommended me their Loud and Clear album just recently, and it has some incredible songs I think, specifically "Everytime I Dream".
I remember my dad introducing me to this band and their first album when I was a kid. Honestly do kinda have a soft spot for this song; it's glorious '80s cheese
Another excellent episode! I'm not a Glam Metal guy but I've liked this song since it came on out. Pittsburgh had a Top Five at Five (PM) based on the most call-in requests. This song stayed on the list for 2 months
Loving the visual of David Lee Roth jogging through the park on sunny mornings.
Remember playing GTA: Vice on Playstation 2, being around 13 and starting the "Demolition Man" mission again for the 26th time in a row. Remember having a Will Ferrel-moment and yelling "Shut the fuck up!" in Finnish, when this song kept on repeating in the game's radio channel. For years I had to automatically change the channel, the second this song came up, or just turn it off completely.
this song smells like old terrible coffee, damp office carpets and sweat caused by the AC being broken
I'm so pumped to see this. It's bedtime on Sunday and maaaan I just got lifted by this. Bring it on Todd. Hit it.
Hair Metal was and is very VERY AMERICAN, that's it's appeal. It's about totally going out having a great time and maybe hooking up with someone. And I personally Loved the "That's the Stuff" album cover as a kid. Autograph are proof that if the stars align , just once ,you can make a great piece of art or Fluff that lives forever.
hair metal is a derogatory term and just because the bands of the era weren't all suicidal angst ridden drug addicts ( with the exception of motley crue - drug addicts, alcoholic murderers who couldn't sing or play ) like grunge bands were they weren't taken seriously. Steel Panther doesn't help the cause either.
Factoid: Joe Cerisano also did lead vocals for the (not really a) Blue Oyster Cult album "Imaginos" on the track, "The Siege And Investiture Of The Unnecessarily Long Song Title", in a kind of pseudo Ronnie James Dio stylee.
Sign in Please is genuinely one of my very favorite albums, and I encourage those of y'all that might be intrigued by Autograph's sound or just have a fondness for early 80's hard rock to check it out! They got compared a lot to Def Leppard here, and the album does scratch a lot of similar itches to Pyromania, another all-time favorite of mine (Sign in Please is basically the poppier, generally more upbeat counterpart, just one infectious arena rocker after the next - some highlights include "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me," "Friday," and "All I'm Gonna Take," the last of which was featured in GTA: Vice City Stories). This type of synthesizer-heavy, harmony-stuffed rock music is like crack for my ears, and if you share that opinion, give it a whirl!
Have you heard about the Scandinavian 'Melodic Rock' scene? It's been a thing since '09 and they do updated versions of this 80s AOR sound. Very catchy, very sugary, and sometimes surprisingly heavy.
Some highlights from that scene include Work of Art, The Nightflight Orchestra and Wildness.
@@icanusernamebetterthanyou3853 I have actually! A couple months ago I went through a little phase where I was digging through some obscure AOR-dedicated TH-cam channels and I stumbled across some melodic rock material. I remember one song in particular, "Cynthia" by Miss Behaviour, leaving an incredibly strong impression. Highly recommend checking that out.
With many episodes of One Hit Wonderland, I don't recognise the name of the song or the band from the title alone but immediately say "Oh, I do know this song!" as soon as I hear it. I had the same reaction to Autograph before slowly realising as the episode went on that... I don't think I've ever heard this song before? I just recognised the ripped off Def Leppard sound and subconsciously assumed I knew Turn Up the Radio.
I'm an Autograph superfan! Seen them a bunch of times, own all their albums, keep in touch with Steve Lynch who lives in the Seattle area and teaches guitar. Check out 'Hammerhead' from their second album to get a real feel for his guitar playing. Steve Isham (keyboardist), Kenny Richards (drums) and Randy Rand (bassist) all passed away. Randy was a really chill dude. Last got to talk to him at a Casino in Corning, California in 2021. I think Simon Daniels does a great job on vocals for the band now. Steve Plunkett is still living off 7th Heaven royalties.
todd has no respect for the genre, i couldn't watch this whole video. Turn was one of the biggest hits from any 80's bands and i still listen to it every time it comes on sirius XM ( which is pretty much every hour )
I remember this song being used in the game Alpha Protocol. Good times.
I've been waiting so long for the OHW where you have to use an ApologetiX cover for your end credits
The respect oozing out of this episode illuminated me. You're amazing.
Calling them a Tee shirt band is a next level insult
Never seen another glam metal musician with Steve's specific hair color. Dude legit looked like Harpo Marx.
Finding out Neil Kernan produced Queensryche's Rage for Order 10000% explains why that album sounds like it does tbh.
He also worked on the second album by XYZ -"Hungry"
Who remembers this song from Alpha Protocol?
Oh hell yeah, that game was so good and so underrated.
Brayko!
Thanks GTA Vice City to brought out this awesome track for a new generation.😎🌆
By The way, if you are thinking of make another Glam Metal one hit wonderland I suggest you do Edge Of A Broken Heart by Vixen. Such an underrated band. 🦊
Honestly this is my favorite of your shows.
When I first heard this song, I honestly thought it was a Def Lepperd song! The quality production and the same fist-pumping rock anthem that everyone was doing