Ranking the Studio Albums: Ted Nugent (w/Martin Popoff)
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- Join host Pete Pardo and special guest co-host Martin Popoff as they rank the studio catalog hard rock guitar legend Ted Nugent. #tednugent
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Having Martin on your channel is a breath of fresh air. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of him!
Same here. I like Martin, he is such a cool person and collector with very serious musical knowledge. I don't miss a video with him
Hope so
I’ve gotten to meet Ted 3 different times in my life. Once as a kid, once as a teen, and once as an adult. All 3 times he was super classy and polite. Love his guitar playing and the fact that he is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is an absolute joke.
maybe he should cut down on his racism and bigotry then
@@neilbower9052 He's not a racist
@@neilbower9052 Ted's not a racist.
Cool. He's always been my favorite. I live in Michigan and grew up loving his music. The first time I heard great Gonzo's late at night on WRIF Detroit I was hooked. Then my aunt had the scream dream album and the cover blew me away. Guitar arms!! Loved him forever. He is doing final tour this year. He will be missed. All the haters that dog him for being a gun owner and hunter can f off. Uncle Ted forever!!
@@deanomar1356He's just repeating what MSM wants him to believe. ✌
For me, although it's not a studio album, Double Gonzo is my favorite.
Uncle Ted, despite everything else is a key contributor to metal and hard rock. Can't deny the music catalogue.
Everything up to,and including Scream Dream, is 70’s gold!
Love from Canada,Martin!👍🎸❤️🇨🇦
I listen to four of his albums. My favorites are:
1) Ted Nugent
2) Tooth Fang and Claw
3) Cat Scratch Fever
4) Free For All
1. Ted Nugent [1975]
2. Cat Scratch Fever [1977]
3. Free For All [1976]
4. Scream Dream [1980]
5. State of Shock [1979]
6. Weekend Warriors [1978]
The End.
I was lucky enough to meet the Nuge in the early 80's when I was 12 or 13 at a Bear Archery shop. He helped me pick out a bow for my size and skill level. He really knew his shit and he didn't talk down to me because I was a dumb kid. Very cool guy. That said, his first album is still my favorite.
Thank u for saying that...He has always been a good dude...
Scream Dream has always been my favorite. And I have them all. It was the first album by him that I owned. I love his voice and I love the joking funny Nuge. Long live Scream Dream!!!
Ted & Meatloaf were great together!
I don't know the Nuge catalog very well at all, but I'm going to chime in with a giant RIP to one-time Nuge singer Brian Howe. Really enjoyed his Bad Company output.
Hart was a great vocalist. Sadly he was on a hiding to nothing replacing Rodgers in Bad Co.
First three all classics!
His first three albums are his best, the first in particular.
Love his playing.
Love the first three albums in that order. Amongst the very best Hard Rock albums of the 70's and it doesn't get any better than that. Derek St Holmes was the magic ingredient and outside of Scream Dream it fell away in the 80's after St Holmes left.
Great post again Pete. Absolutely no slight to any of your other guest contributors but Martin Popoff is by far my favorite and most engaging contributor. cueing up some Ted right now. Thank You!!
Oh, and great video. Thanks to Pete and Martin for entertaining us yet again!
Great episode guys - one of my faves to date. Thx!
Great video thanks again Pete for bringing some fun in these times
Thank you for ranking the studio albums of Ted Nugent.🎤🎸🎵🥁
Yes-Craveman is Ted's best later day album-very heavy and fierce with great production!
Spirit of the Wild is a criminally underrated album
Hell yes. Great playing and Derek st. Holmes involved. Fred bear is unmatched. And kiss my ass rules. I hope he brings that little back for his farewell tour this year God bless uncle Ted!!
This was really great thanks guys!
Ted's first album definitely #1!
Well done guys, love your honesty, spoke your damn minds. Keep up the free speech! Ted's early albums are the best for me, including the previous two before Ted going solo. I dig the Amboy Dukes stuff and the experimental stuff. Hibernation and Great White Buffalo my favourites. Can't beat Double Live Gonzo.
Aloha Pete and Martin thank you for doing Nugent albums his early stuff is still killer
Also Live It Up is one his songs that isn’t talked about that I love.
Right on...
16 - The Music Made Me Do It
15 - Shut Up And Jam
14 - Spirit Of The Wild
13 - Nugent (1982)
12 - If You Can't Lick 'Em....Lick 'Em
11 - Hunt Music
10 - Weekend Warriors
9 - Love Grenade
8 - Penetrator
7 - Craveman
6 - State Of Shock
5 - Scream Dream
4 - Free For All
3 - Little Miss Dangerous
2 - Cat Scratch Fever
1 - Ted Nugent (1975)
Please keep doing videos with Mr Popoff. He knows his stuff.
Somehow I talked my mom into getting me Double Live Gonzo when it first came out. I was eleven and absolutely blown away. That being said, I tried to keep up with Nugent post-Gonzo, but I found less and less to grab onto. Just like Pete said, between the juvenile lyrics and the weakly produced 80s albums, he lost me. Are there scattered songs here and there that are worth a listen? Of course. But for me, 75-79 Nugent is all I need to listen to.
Last 25 years ,say after Spirit of the Wild 95,CD .VERY,VERY,VERY Juvenile lyrics,can't even get thru a whole song, Ted thinks all his fans are 12 years old ,,,,,, I'll pass
#Peter Kier You’ve summed up my experience of Ted Nugent in a nutshell.
Peter Kier You’ve summed up my experience of Ted Nugent in a nutshell.
Same here. In fact, I had no idea he has 15 albums out. When I heard Wango Tango, I was completely turned off.
Double Live Gonzo beats all his studio work.
That's killer and yes I agree
His best
Well yeah, everyone agrees but its a live double with all the best songs on and not studio as being ranked here. Live Gonzo is epic 🎸🎸🎸
Hey Pete really enjoyed this episode a lot more than I thought I would. Please bring Martin Popoff back for more podcasts. Both of you have excellent rapport and mutual respect and it’s fun to listen to your back-and-forth banter. Fascinating to hear the comparisons to Foghat, Molly Hatchet, rush, etc as well as observations about the different eras like classic period, hair metal.
Does Pete do podcasts as well? Need to check them out.
@@wernermoritz882 more like webisodes on his Sea of Tranquility channel
Excellent show guys!!
Longtime fan. Seen Him 15 times over the years. Most recently last summer. He's still great. Here's My take #1. Double Live Gonzo ! One of the best albums in any category by anybody. I never leave live albums off My lists. Ted Nugent especially is way more important and better understood as a live rocker then anything.
#2. Free For All / Cat Scratch Fever. I can't pick. Both perfect albums. Both Ted Nugent at His best.
#3. Ted Nugent I would rate this as equal to the other 2. But the song Hey Baby causes it to Not be a perfect album. I want to hear Ted Nugent songs not Bad company. Its a low point for Me when He does it live. There's so much better to choose from.
#4. Scream Dream Another mind blowing smoking Nugent album. Could easily rate this in the top 3 as well. Only gets better with age. My first Nugent concert. And one of the loudest concerts I ever saw. Wild times !
#5. Intencities In Ten Cities again I DO rate live albums. And this is a killer one. Teds most brutal album. Teds most punk rock album. Snub nosed heavy metal garage rock played live. So many good memories go along with this one. when it was new.
First girlfriend , First car.
#6. Weekend Warriors This album confused Me when it was new. But like scream Dream its only gotten better with age. One of the coolest album covers by any band ever !
#7. Little Miss Dangerous Its true that this could be said to be a hair metal album. But for whatever reason I just love it. I love the sound and production. Very polished. Yet very loud and rockin. Love nearly every song. Another one I still love more each year. Saw Him live 3 times that tour. I assure You Nugent was on fire at the time.
#8 Tooth Fang & Claw I know technically not a true Nugent album. But then again it is. Very cool album cover and the hardest heaviest thing with the name Amboy Dukes on it for sure. I could be convinced to rate this a little higher on another day. Call Of The Wild is damn good too. As well as the other Amboy Dukes albums. But thats really another thing.
#9. Craveman One of his heaviest albums. And tons of damn good songs. Should have been a bigger hit for Him.
#10. Spirit Of The Wild another great album. The return of Derick St Holmes. Loads of great songs. The masterpiece that is Fred Bear alone makes this worth owning.
#11. Hammersmith live 79, Sweden Rocks live, Full Bluntal Nugity , UltraLive Ballistic Rock & Motor City Mayhem. All great live CDs well worth owning. Teds always best as a live animal.
#12. Love Grenade Another very heavy Nugent album. About 3-4 mind blowing songs and the rest might be filler. But still not bad.
#13 If You Can't Lick Em, Lick Em. 3 songs on this I really love. The rest is typical Nugent but just not as inspired as usual. Just filler I guess.
#14. Shut Up And Jam Another album with 3 songs that blow Me away and I love. But the rest seems like filler.
#15 State Of Shock badass album cover. And Paralyzed is a great song amongst His best ever. But I can't find much else to love about this one.
#16 The Music Made Me Do it Very short album. First 4 songs rule. I could rate this higher if He had kept that up. But the remakes and instro stuff. the blues. Not for Me. But did show the old maniac can still do it. If we could get Him to do a full 12 song album of stuff as good as the first 4 songs. It would be another classic.
#17 Hunt Music A very quiet mostly instrumental music. Very different side of Ted. I enjoy it. Its a obscure self released CD. A lot of his critics would be very surprised to hear this one.
#18. Nugent This one just hit Me wrong. I saw this tour. As always a great live show. I guess Tailgunner is like a weak Stranglehold. And thats about the best song. Every few Years I try to revisit it. But its just not for Me.
#19 Penetrator Kind of strange I rate the hair metal Little Miss Dangerous so High. But this as His worst ever? I don't know. I saw the tour. Great show. I love Tied Up In Love. But very little else can I get into at all.
2tough2die, your rankings r better than those guys. I agree gotta do live too, bout my only dissegreement with u & those guys is 1995 spirit of the wild this record rocks all the way. i think it wood be above alot that u guys didn't. I've seen him over a dozen times. Always great show. but good job.
Top 5
1. Ted Nugent
2. Free for All
3. Cat Scratch Fever
4. Scream Dream
5. Spirit of the Wild
Saw him in August last year and he still kicks ass!!
Lost interest in Nugent a long time ago but decided to give Craveman and Love Grenade a listen after watching this. Wow! Surprisingly good and so heavy.
Great show guys! State of shock & weekend warriors I have a soft spot for because in high school they were always playing in my car.Love free for all,cat scratch fever,& self titled as well.Ted was king back in my day!
Great show and really enjoy Martin on the video. My Top 5:
1. Ted Nugent classic album that is easily his best album.
2. Cat Scratch Fever
3. Free for All
4. State of Shock
5. Weekend Warriors
Love this bantering ! Awesome breakdown !
The Detroit Breakdown of the Motor City Madman !
By the way Blues Queen Koko Taylor does a cover of Hey Baby
th-cam.com/video/E60NefMmxYk/w-d-xo.html Koko !
16 - The Music Made Me Do It
15 - Shut Up And Jam
14 - State of Shock
13 - Nugent (1982)
12 - Craveman
11 - Ted Nugent
10 - Weekend Warriors
9 - Love Grenade
8 - If You Can’t Lick ‘Em…Lick ‘Em
7 - Penetrator
6 - Spirit of the Wild
5 - Detroit Muscle
4 - Little Miss Dangerous
3 - Scream Dream
2 - Cat Scratch Fever
1 - Free For All
Captain Popoff once mentioned a band named Quartz so I looked them up and was blown away. Thank you Captain!
Great episode! Ted rules.
Ted Nugent is the man!👍🏼🤘🏼
Uncle Ted's first 3 albums!! That's it!!
Great job, guys, i love the nuge...first three are definitely my top picks
Hi Pete , hi Martin, hi guys, hope ypu're all doing great today. Nugent was always one of my favorite guitar players. My favorite album from him is Cat Scratch Fever
Sweet Sally she's a friend of mine...
Double Live Gonzo is my fav.
Free for All, debut album, Cat Scratch Fever and Nugent.
I love all of Ted' Nugent's albums. Kudos to Amboy Dukes and Derek St.Holmes. Tooth, Fang and Claw, and the Debut album, Free For All, etc. Saw Ted live with Amoby Dukes and live with Derek St. Holmes.... can't choose a fav. Both. 🤟
Mr. Pardo, please include Martin on future best of rankings. His insights are very good. I LOVE YOUR CHANELL
Free for all was the first album I ever purchased at age 15. Needless to say it rocked.
Enjoyed this ranking. Martin was a wealth of knowledge and information. 1. Ted Nugent, 2. Cat Scratch Fever, 3. Free For All, 4. Weekend Warriors, 5. State Of Shock. Honorable mentions: Scream Dream and Penetrator. I was not always a big fan of Weekend Warriors or Scream Dream but I have listened to them a lot over the last year and they have blossomed for me. I was surprised neither of you mentioned my favorite song from Cat Scratch Fever - Death By Misadventure.
I'm with you Pete, "Free For All"...#1, "Ted Nugeent"...#2. GREAT guitar riffs classic songs, gotta luv "Just What The Doctor Ordered"!!!
Love listening to this
1) Ted Nugent
2) Cat Scratch Fever
3) Free-for-All
4) Weekend Warriors
5) Scream Dream
6) State of Shock
7) Craveman
8) Nugent
9) Love Grenade
10) Spirit of the Wild
11) Shutup & Jam
12) If You Can’t Lick’Em…Lick’Em
13) Penetrator
14) Little Miss Dangerous
15) The Music Made Me Do It
Loved Martin Popoff as your guest contributor. He really knows his stuff and his books are great. For me, anything after Double Live Gonzo, you can keep. Some scattered good songs here and there, but no thanks.
I was going to say the same! I love Martin's books, I have a bunch of them, including his Goldmine heavy metal record price guide. Don't always agree with his album ratings, but it's astounding how often we are similar!
Yeah Martin's books are the best!
One of the best ranking videos you've done. Great information given and I mostly agree with your rankings. My top 10. Number 1 for me though is State of Shock followed by Ted nugent, gonzo Live, free for all, scream dream, love granade, weekend warriors, craveman, penetrator and shut up and jam.
Tooth, Fang & Claw, Debut and Free For All. My top 3.
Meatloaf was superb on Free For All - That a fact!
One of my all time favorite bands. Top Ten.
1 Ted Nugent
2 Cat Scratch Fever
3 Free for All
4 State of Shock
5 Nugent {Yes I Like It)
6 Scream Dream
7 Weekend Warrior (Worst Production Ever)
8 Little Miss Dangerous
9 Penetrator
10 Craveman
I actually liked "Spirit of the Wild" a lot overall.
I would agree double live gonzo is awesome..especially remastered. My favorite instrumental nuge aong is homebound
Great stuff. Really enjoyed this. I don't have a few of his albums so this worked as a buying guide a bit too. I wouldn't argue with either list though. State Of Shock is my no. 1. If we're including live, then the 79 Hammersmith is my top Nuge. I always liked it more than Double Live Gonzo.
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Nugent 82 and Weekend Weekend Warriors are the first 2 albums I got. Still love both . As a child of the 80s I am a big fan of his 80s stuff.
I was at the concert in Nashville when Ted made us famous. To hear it on a record was too cool. My fav. is his first solo album.
1. Free For All
2. Cat Scratch Fever
3. Ted Nugent 1st album
4.Weekend Warriors( one of the best album covers of all time)
5. State Of Shock
6. Cravman
7.Screem Dream
Double Live Gonzo-One of the best live albums in rock history
Intensities in Ten City's -Great Ted riffs
Saw Ted during the Screem Dream Tour , Live tune from New Haven Coliseum New Haven Ct.on the Intensities In Ten City's album, Land of a Thousand Dances
I gave up after State of Shock but to me The Amboy Dukes albums especially "Survival of the Fittest, Call of the Wild, Tooth Fang and Claw" are some of his best imo.
You got right, he disappointed me long ago. Now he simply sucks, IN every way
Early T. N. is pretty good but after the first 3 or 4 albums lost interest.Some of those Amboy Dukes albums are certainly worth a listen.Especially Tooth and Survival of the fittest.
Free For All is the best. And that drummer... Amazing.
Saw him live at Darien Lake NY 84 it was awesome.
Nice to see State of Shock getting the acclaim it deserves. Criminally underrated. Agree with Pete Free For All just a hair over the debut.
I have loved Ted Nugent from the day his debut solo LP came out, and that first album is still my favorite of all his works. That being said, there isn't much I don't like by Ted Nugent. He is a massive guitar player, a tremendous performer, and his personality is a hoot! Love the guy!
His statements in the past years were ridiculous…clearly nobody I want to support even though he is a great guitar player.
Love his music .....nothing more, he rocks, I've gotta say for.me his debut. He's a killer guitar player too
Martin...
15. The Music Made Me Do It
14. Nugent
13. Spirit of the Wild
12. If You Can't Lick Em, Lick Em
11. Little Miss Dangerous
10. Penetrator
09. Shut Up and Jam
08. Weekend Warriors
07. Cat Scratch Fever
06. Ted Nugent
05. Love Grenade
04. Craveman
03. Free for All
02. Scream Dream
01. State of Shock
Pete...
15. Little Miss Dangerous
14. If You Can't Lick Em, Lick Em
13. The Music Made Me Do It
12. Spirit of the Wild
11. Shut Up and Jam
10. Penetrator
09. Love Grenade
08. Nugent
07. Craveman
06. Scream Dream
05. Weekend Warriors
04. State of Shock
03. Cat Scratch Fever
02. Ted Nugent
01. Free for All
I love all Ted Nugent music
My top list...
#1 State of Shock
#2 Weekend Warriors
#3 Free for All
#4 Ted Nugent
#5 Penetrator
Tooth Fang and Claw and Call of the Wild would be next since they truly are all Ted. Survival of the Fittest follows closely behind...Papa's Will one of my all time favorites.
That’s so funny the Ted Nugent free-for-all concert was my first concert also only I Grupp in Salem Oregon and I went to Portland with my older brother to see him November 19, 1976 and I now live in Spokane where he saw this show! I was right up against the stage barrier smashed together with every one else... great show especially for a 15 year old
I really liked little miss dangerous
Yeah, it's good record.
Same here love it actually - Painkiller is beyond good 👍
1.) Cat Scratch Fever
2.) Ted Nugent
3.) Free-For-All
4.) Weekend Warriors
5.) Scream Dream
6.) State of Shock
7.) Craveman
8.) Every other Ted Nugent studio album
I just have only the Best of but I remember when I was driving from Spokane to Lewiston Idaho with a rental Car in n the middle of the night I got lost and was depressed then the Radio played Stranglehold, and everything went well. In Germany you will never hear this kind of Music. I saw him live with Judas Priest (Defender to the faith) as warm up.
Weekend Warriors is killer- love the whole record. Craveman was a great album- real update to his sound.
Cat Scratch Fever and Weekend Warrior are my fav albums
martin you're such a good author, love reading doom let loose over and over and your album by album books
Doom Let Loose was a very good read - agreed.
I always will Love Ted's 1st two Albums. I went to many of his concerts in the Late 70s. Ted was larger than life in the late 70s. I quit listening to him in the 80s. I did like the Nugent Damn Yankees songs, Nice Mix of NightRanger, Ted, and Shaw.
Arguably St. Holmes was the best singer. Love/hate him Nugent has been consistent in his style and views. What a gtr player. That Byrdland howling and no gimmicks. He was the real deal in the late 70s and added fire to Damn Yankees. Prob only him and Angus Young who made high volume such a part of their act
that birdland does have a great tone, but by far the ugliest guitar in rock ,that an the telecaster
Ted was a yearly trek to the huge arena to lose just a little more of my hearing. I saw him every year from 1976 to 1984 ( sans 1983).
Brian Howe was only on Penetrator ... Dave Amato sang on Little Miss Dangerous.
Just for the record i love the ted/brian howe albums...and also i think the heep equatar album is soo good..but hey thats what we're here for , different stroakes for different folks..excellent show !!
As a musician, Ted Nugent is one heck of a guitar-shredder.
I grew up with Ted's music & love his playing as a guitarist, but if you have the first three albums in my order of favorites, "Free For All," "Ted Nugent," & "Cat Scratch Fever," you have all the Ted you'll ever need, though I have to admit, "Craveman" kicked, but honestly, I'd be hard pressed to remember most of the songs on that album unless I listening to it.
Oh, I loved Meat Loafs vocals on "Free For All." But I think some people just cannot get pass the fact that it is Meatloaf... I had no idea who he was in 1976 (I was 16), when I bought this album.
Seen Terribel Ted many times..my fav lp....Free For All.
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Ted is one of the best , underrated guitarists of our time. Someone should mention to him to hire some song writers.
He did need for a Sammy Hagar type guy to come along. Ted and Mitch Malloy with a good lyricist could have been cool.
The First album and Cat Scratch Fever are so much better than anything else he ever did it was like a different person made them.
My favorite albums were under The Amboy Dukes name. Everyone knows he was in total control of those, so they are really just Nugent albums. Survival of the Fittest, Tooth, Fang and Claw, Call of the Wild.
1. Intensities in Ten Cities...
It's just a great live album.
2. Scream Dream.
3. Ted Nugent.
4. State of Shock.
5. Weekend Warriors.
6. Free For All.
7. Cat Scratch Fever.
8. Double Live Gonzo..
I really like ALL Uncle Teds catalogue but #1 Weekend Warriors then Predator is my favs. Of course Double Live Gonzo is my third fav!
Bobby Chouinard And Alan St. Jon, on the Penetrator album, were actually both part of Billy Squier's backing band. Doug Lubahn played bass on the Doors' albums.
Wow! Left out Intensities. C'mon guys! That's probably my #2. Absolutely love it! #1 for me is Scream Dream. Amazing album, front to back. Also really like Nugent and Penetrator. Craveman and Shut Up And Jam are both great. Pretty damn good catalog overall. Musically, I'm a big fan.
Hope once this covid crap blows over we get the Nuge up here in Canada!
101 WRIF radio used to play Weekend Warriors every Friday at 6pm. I prefer Uncle Ted's live stuff, because so much of his studio stuff is hit or miss with me. So top 5 studio for me would be:
5. Cat Scratch Fever
4. Weekend Warriors
3. Free For All
2. Spirit Of The Wild
1. Ted Nugent
A couple of later albums Spirit of The Wild and Craveman were really good. I always like the Penetrator album as well.
Call me crazy, but spirit of the wild is my favorite album. Maybe cuz I'm I hunter, I'm not sure. But I thought the production was good, a tad poppy but good hooks, and some of the best solos he has done.
I thought his first album was the best as well as Weekend Warriors. I have not heard most of his 80’s albums so I can’t really speak on those. I’d like to get the 80-88 era at some point.