1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,900 Welcome to the first episode of 2024. 2 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:12,760 It is episode 371 of Signals from Mars with me, Victor M. Ruiz, welcoming you to the new 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:23,060 year with an episode discussing our favorite albums to be released last year in 2023. 4 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:25,880 You guys know the drill, all the voting, all that stuff. 5 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:31,680 We'll talk about it next! 6 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:05,520 Kind of cool that this episode is 371 because that way it's easy to keep track of what episode 7 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:07,000 is what during the year. 8 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,320 So hey, it's the first, it's 371, the second of the year, 372, and I'm sure I'll forget 9 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:14,680 by next week. 10 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,280 But at the moment it seems like a cool concept. 11 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:23,320 Anyway, yeah, I said at the beginning, you know, like all you guys know, right, because 12 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:28,280 hopefully there are new listeners, there are new people being turned on to the show. 13 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:33,600 And I need to explain this process every time, which I have no problem doing. 14 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:40,640 But what we do is we vote for, in this case, our 10 favorite albums to have come out in 15 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:42,980 2023. 16 00:01:42,980 --> 00:01:48,880 Each album gets points based on where it is located on your list. 17 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,480 So if it's number one, it gets 10 points. 18 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,360 If it's number two, it gets nine, all the way down to 10, which gets one point. 19 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:04,240 And we do this to help spread the love of music that's come out in 2023. 20 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:12,880 So many people just give up and say, yeah, I'm just going to keep listening to this Zeppelin 21 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,240 album over and over and over again. 22 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,680 Me? 23 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,240 Kind of sick of listening to the same stuff over and over again. 24 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,320 Yeah, look, I love Zeppelin. 25 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,880 I'll go back and listen to them once a year, probably. 26 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,320 Or if a song pops in my mind here or there, I'll listen to it. 27 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:37,880 But I don't actively search it most of the time because I've been listening to it for 28 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,320 46 years. 29 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,360 The same songs for 46 years. 30 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,800 So I don't know, man, I like listening to new things. 31 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,000 I like turning people on to new bands and not even that. 32 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,280 Maybe you aren't cognizant of a band that you love who's released an album. 33 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,520 You know, there's so much information out there. 34 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,120 There's too much information overload. 35 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:10,280 So you're not aware of a band like Docken, for example, who released an album this year. 36 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:11,960 Overkill who released an album. 37 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,620 Metallica, obviously, a lot of people know that they released an album this year. 38 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:18,840 So that's what I try to do here. 39 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,600 I try to spread the love of just music in general, some stuff you're going to like, 40 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:30,300 some stuff you're not going to like, but just listen to what what we're discussing. 41 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:34,980 And if something appeals to you, appeals to you based on what we're discussing, then go 42 00:03:34,980 --> 00:03:36,440 check the band out. 43 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,760 You've got all these streaming platforms or you can sample something beforehand. 44 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,280 And you know, if you're part of the crowd that says, I don't use streaming services. 45 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:45,280 All right. 46 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,320 You got YouTube. 47 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Check out a video. 48 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,160 Check out a video by the band. 49 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,760 If it turns you on enough, support them. 50 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:58,200 Pick up their album, you know, or even if you if you like using the digital formats 51 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,200 to purchase stuff, do it that way. 52 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,280 Whatever whatever works for you. 53 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,040 I do want to thank you guys for checking this episode out. 54 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,440 I say this all the time. 55 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,040 There's a million other things that you can be checking out right now, but I appreciate 56 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:17,880 that you're here with me right now listening to this episode. 57 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,600 Please go to signals from Mars dot com. 58 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:28,040 Check out the follow section where you can subscribe to the show, whether that's the 59 00:04:28,040 --> 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host, Victor. 71 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:50,240 And joining me are Jeremy Welton in the UK and in Kentucky and like the flash there at 72 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:51,240 Ferguson. 73 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,240 How are you gentlemen? 74 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,240 Rocking and rolling. 75 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,240 Yeah, yeah, doing well. 76 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:58,240 Thanks. 77 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:59,240 Cool. 78 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,840 So this is the last show of the year. 79 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:09,200 And as we've made a tradition, the last show is people voting on their favorites for the 80 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,160 year. 81 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:20,280 And we're going to do things a little differently today because, well, we got a kind of a low 82 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,800 voter turnout here. 83 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,800 And we've only got a few albums where things kind of overlapped. 84 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:32,160 And if you followed any of these shows, you know that the albums that make it towards 85 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,440 the top of these lists are the ones that multiple people vote on. 86 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,880 So we're going to do things a little different. 87 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:45,720 We are going to talk about the top seven albums that were voted on because those were the 88 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,160 ones that coincided with other people's votes. 89 00:06:51,160 --> 00:07:04,040 And we are going to have Ed and Jeremy discuss their top 10 picks of the year as well. 90 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:11,520 So and at some point during the show, Brad mentioned that he would be joining us. 91 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,800 So we'll see how that all pans out. 92 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:23,000 Before jumping on into the entire episode, just remember that you can keep up with the 93 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,800 show at signalsfromr.com. 94 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,360 Check out the QR code there. 95 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:29,360 You can use it. 96 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:36,240 I promise you we are not stealing your banking information or anything off of your phone. 97 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,200 It will take you to signalsfromr.com. 98 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:48,360 Join us on Patreon to appear on screen throughout 2024. 99 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:53,320 And if you want some quick links to everything regarding the show, social media and all that 100 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,520 good stuff, you could also go to the link tree. 101 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,560 And yeah, this is great. 102 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,200 I have to reset this every single episode. 103 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:12,000 But let me see here real quickly. 104 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,720 Let's just why didn't that work? 105 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Excellent. 106 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,880 Anyway, and this is all out of order. 107 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:23,880 All right. 108 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,400 Well, as the door said, we'll take it as it comes. 109 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:33,440 So anyway, the T-shirt got signals from Mars T-shirt. 110 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,280 We've got sales from Mars hoodie. 111 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:42,640 Yes, I'm wearing one today. 112 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,920 We've got the signals from Mars windbreaker jacket. 113 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,760 We also have the signals from Mars bomber jacket. 114 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,240 Oh, yeah. 115 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,920 After popular demand. 116 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,480 We've got the baseball cap. 117 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:06,720 For the winter, we've got you covered with the beanie. 118 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,360 And for Brad Dolla and all of his shenanigans, he loves the bucket hats. 119 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,000 So a bucket hat as Brad would wear. 120 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,320 There you go. 121 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,320 See that? 122 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:18,320 A Brad hat. 123 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,280 Oh, I got to rename it. 124 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:22,040 Brad hat and Brad hat. 125 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:23,320 There you go. 126 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:39,120 So anyway, we're going to start things off with the seventh most voted album here. 127 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,800 This one came out, I guess, towards the end of the year. 128 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:52,960 And it's a band that's been around for a while and not going to lie to you guys. 129 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,960 Doesn't surprise me. 130 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,920 But that is what it is. 131 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:01,280 Multiple people voted for it at seven. 132 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:06,320 It is Raven with all hell's breaking loose. 133 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,440 Nice. 134 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:14,920 So Jeremy, was that on your list by any chance? 135 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,600 Yeah, it was on my list. 136 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:18,600 Definitely. 137 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:19,600 Okay. 138 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,440 Anything you can say about the album? 139 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:26,520 Yeah, I mean, the thing is, you know what you're going to get with Raven, don't you? 140 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,960 They play very similar sort of stuff from album to album. 141 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,440 They always remind me of the British Anvil. 142 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:40,360 Everything's done a little bit with a tongue in cheek, but we like that because music should 143 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,720 be fun and they sort of make it fun. 144 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,440 They sort of made their own genre, athletic rock, rather than sort of general heavy metal 145 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,440 like hard rock. 146 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,720 They play everything really fast, even though they're getting on a bit now in years. 147 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,320 And I thought this was a really good album. 148 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:58,320 It was well produced. 149 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,160 You know, as I say, you know what you're going to get is have the usual sort of riffs that 150 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,800 you're expecting, the songs you're expecting. 151 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,120 It was a really decent album and you play it loud, you're going to enjoy it. 152 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,480 Great band. 153 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:12,480 Cool. 154 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:17,120 Ed, you seem to be agreeing to a lot of this. 155 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,120 I do. 156 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,120 Yeah. 157 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,120 Okay. 158 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:25,200 And you said it sounds like Raven, you know, so you're not getting anything terribly new. 159 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,800 But you know, they're such a classic band and a part of our metal history. 160 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:35,080 I feel really proud of them for how well of a record they've made. 161 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,920 And I've kept it in my playlist all year. 162 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,760 So it's not a record that I could probably listen to the whole thing. 163 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,800 Of course, it's just, you know, there's such a gluttony in music. 164 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,040 I feel like I say that about everything now. 165 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,640 You know, it's hard to listen to a whole album worth of stuff of anything. 166 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:59,000 But like I said, it's been a good jam every time, you know, iTunes puts it in my shuffle. 167 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Yeah, I think we've become maladjusted with the advent of the playlist where we can kind 168 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,360 of pick and choose what kind of stands out to us. 169 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,400 And we don't necessarily have to take in an entire album. 170 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:24,600 There are some of these albums that I went back and listened to. 171 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,880 And some were better than what I remembered them. 172 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,680 And others were not as good as what I remembered them. 173 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:32,520 Where similar what you're saying, Ed. 174 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,000 That happens a lot. 175 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Yeah. 176 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,360 You think, okay, well, yeah, so there's three good songs off of this. 177 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:41,360 The other ones. 178 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:42,360 All right. 179 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,520 So it's kind of like the C version of this other song of theirs. 180 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:52,040 So let me just, you know, add these other two, which are cool to the playlist and just, 181 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:57,680 all right, okay album, but maybe not as strong as what I originally thought. 182 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:02,600 Whatever they're doing now is worlds better than the records that they were producing 183 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,640 kind of mid to late 80s. 184 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:05,640 Right. 185 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,600 I'm kind of forgetting the name of those records all of a sudden. 186 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,120 But you know which ones I'm talking about. 187 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,640 You know, after the all for one live record, whatever they, two or three records after 188 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,160 that, they, yeah, this stuff is much better. 189 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,160 Yeah. 190 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,360 A lot more thrashy. 191 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:28,720 Like kind of like the Raven, you know, that influenced bands like Metallica in the beginning. 192 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,240 They're kind of back to that sound to me. 193 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:32,240 Yeah. 194 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:33,600 They got the mojo back really. 195 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800 I think there's, they're really sort of playing for what they want to do now. 196 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,040 And rather than thinking they've got to do something commercial or, you know, I guess 197 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,840 again, the production can help. 198 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:44,840 That's right. 199 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,360 All those bands are getting pressured to do that in the eighties. 200 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,400 If you wanted any kind of success, they were being made to do that stuff. 201 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,400 Weren't they? 202 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Yeah. 203 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,440 It's nice that some of these bands aren't caring anymore because they can do it on their 204 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:01,320 computer and put it on the internet themselves now if they want to. 205 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,860 Yeah. 206 00:14:02,860 --> 00:14:10,520 And I think that's the perfect point where they, they, they're not going to sell a whole 207 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:11,520 ton of albums. 208 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:16,840 They've got a diehard following that's going to pick up pretty much everything that they're 209 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,600 going to release. 210 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:25,560 And at the same time, with, as you mentioned, Ed, with the advent of being able to make 211 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:31,200 a lot of stuff at home and trade files and they're drummers and producer. 212 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,800 So I'm sure all of that helps. 213 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:43,000 And you know, I'm sure that as you're saying, Ed, you know, they, they kind of started to 214 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 steer away. 215 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,400 They kind of tried to go that commercial route that the labels wanted them to go. 216 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,400 And now they don't have to do that. 217 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,920 And there's still labels that are interested in them, but they're interested in Raven for 218 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:02,520 being Raven, not, you know, Raven for trying to be Motley Crue per se. 219 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:09,800 Yeah, good for Raven to make a, the seventh position. 220 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,160 They deserve it. 221 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:12,160 Cool. 222 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:22,480 So moving on to number six, a band that I personally know, Angela's of Patrida with 223 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,480 aftermath. 224 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,560 Yeah. 225 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:31,720 I think that this album to me is kind of a return to form for the band, not to say that 226 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,520 the self-titled album that they released previously was bad. 227 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:41,840 I just think that that album was, was heavy. 228 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,400 It's probably their heaviest album top to bottom, but I think it was missing some of 229 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:52,640 the key ingredients that they brought back for this album, mainly some of the melodies, 230 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:58,360 some of the change of paces with some of the songs where everything doesn't have to be 231 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,160 just full bore. 232 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:07,640 There's, there's a little more variety on this album, which I thought that they were 233 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:15,960 kind of finding their stride on, on, on the album before the self-titled album. 234 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:23,960 And I think that there was kind of a backlash here, here in Spain, because people didn't 235 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:30,560 interpret what they were doing in the same fashion. 236 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:35,080 I think that because they were experimenting with a lot of different things that people 237 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:41,680 weren't maybe appreciating some of the stuff and wanted a more heavy album. 238 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,200 So they delivered that. 239 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:49,800 But now it seems like they've come back to really experiment with certain things again. 240 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:54,200 And I think it kind of came out pretty well. 241 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,240 Ed, this was on your list as well. 242 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,800 What do you think of this album? 243 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,560 I agree with what you just said. 244 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:08,520 It's interesting to hear you say that about the self-titled record, because that's the 245 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,160 first album I heard by them. 246 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:14,060 They're a newer band for me that I'm just getting into. 247 00:17:14,060 --> 00:17:17,080 And I loved every track on that record. 248 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:23,760 So to hear you say that kind of makes me excited to dig into their older records some more. 249 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,120 I've got them all. 250 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:30,140 Because I spent so much of the year trying to listen to the new stuff so I can do this 251 00:17:30,140 --> 00:17:35,480 show with you, I don't get into those as quickly. 252 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:41,120 And this record, I agree, it seems to have a little more variety, a little more melody. 253 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:45,640 Man, that song they did with Jamie Josta, Snob. 254 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,400 What a good thrash that one was. 255 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,920 I also liked Jurnica. 256 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:52,920 You know how to say that? 257 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:53,920 Jurnica. 258 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:54,920 Jurnica. 259 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:59,080 Of course, Cold, the single, that's a good track. 260 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:03,320 So far, everything I've heard on this record, I have not heard a bad song by this band pretty 261 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:05,640 much, nor a bad guitar solo. 262 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:11,360 The only thing that I wish is that they had a little more of the heavy jug sound, because 263 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,440 I just love that. 264 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:19,960 As much as I love thrash, I always like the bands that have more of that Metallica anthrax 265 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,900 bottom end to it, because that just makes it heavier. 266 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:28,940 So when I want to listen to thrash, that's what I'm looking for, bands like that. 267 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:32,780 This music is produced great. 268 00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:36,840 But yeah, I wish it was just a little bit heavier, but man, I still can't complain. 269 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,720 It's great stuff. 270 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:44,320 Any thrash metalhead that hasn't heard this band needs to just go buy it. 271 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,240 You'll be happy you did. 272 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,200 Very cool. 273 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,200 Let's see here. 274 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,400 Brad Doll is joining us. 275 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,840 Hey, Brad. 276 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,600 After the show tonight. 277 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:08,640 And Brad, we've decided that I need to update and change the name of this item. 278 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:14,160 From a signals from Mars bucket hat to a signals from Mars Brad hat. 279 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:18,080 Oh, that'd be good on you. 280 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,880 Yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to get one of those. 281 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:21,880 Yeah. 282 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:22,880 Yeah. 283 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:23,880 I'm all about the bucket hat. 284 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:24,880 So bring it. 285 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,640 Something great for 2024. 286 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,260 Look at that on the fly. 287 00:19:31,260 --> 00:19:32,260 Look at what it says. 288 00:19:32,260 --> 00:19:33,260 Oh, wow. 289 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:34,260 There you go. 290 00:19:34,260 --> 00:19:35,260 Very nice. 291 00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:38,760 Perfect. 292 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:45,560 I should have the cap named after me though. 293 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,480 Because I'm going to buy the cap as well. 294 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,000 I love it. 295 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,600 Where's your mustache, Brad? 296 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,840 I left it in my other jeans. 297 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,280 That's your son? 298 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,480 Yeah, that's my son. 299 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,560 And the son was there with a mustache. 300 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:20,200 Yeah, this is I'm actually at his house right now because I'm back in Utah. 301 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,760 All right, cool. 302 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:29,720 So at number six, I'm glad that Brad has joined us because I believe this is on his list. 303 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:30,720 Not sure. 304 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,560 Is it Jeremy's list perhaps as well? 305 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,680 Let me see here. 306 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,400 Where's Jeremy's list? 307 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,440 It's on Jeremy's list. 308 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,240 No it is not, but I'm sure that Jeremy has listened to this album. 309 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:56,920 A lot of people have mentioned how this band that is best known for their hair metal slash 310 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:05,600 glam rock ways maybe transition more into a prog rock type band, especially with our 311 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,320 last few releases. 312 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:17,680 And at number five is an album called Seven. 313 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:18,680 By Weir. 314 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,960 Yeah, that's a good album. 315 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,240 So Brad, what stands out to you about this album? 316 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:34,180 When I first got it, I thought, yeah, this sounds more like a Kip Winger solo album rather 317 00:21:34,180 --> 00:21:36,040 than a Winger album. 318 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,800 And after hearing the interviews with him and hearing that he pretty much was pretty 319 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,480 heavy handed in this, was able to really focus on it. 320 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,360 I see why. 321 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:49,240 But the songs are just great. 322 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:57,080 I mean, it's not like I said, it's not like a typical Winger album, but it sounds really 323 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,080 good. 324 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,080 The songs are really good. 325 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,240 The performances are really good. 326 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,040 I love that they got all the whole Winger crew on this album. 327 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,880 So Paul Taylor, who's now back in the band, he played on it. 328 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:16,920 And actually he played his first guitar lead on a Winger album anyway on this album. 329 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:17,920 It's good stuff. 330 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:24,680 So and yeah, I hear what you're saying about the prog thing, but I wouldn't say really. 331 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,480 I mean, I think it's all heavily about the songs. 332 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,960 Good album. 333 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:37,840 So yeah, if you don't check this out, then you're not really a rock fan. 334 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:38,840 That's what I'm gonna say. 335 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,280 Okay, I better listen to it. 336 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,280 You better. 337 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,280 Yeah, Ed. 338 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,840 Yeah, it's not gonna thrash, but it's a really good album. 339 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:48,840 Yeah. 340 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,240 Yeah, let me know what you think. 341 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,320 I thought it was a quite a good album when it was released. 342 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,920 I mean, it just shows you how many great albums are released during the year, because if they 343 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,160 don't make your top 10, it doesn't mean to say that they're not a good album. 344 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,960 And yeah, it's a very listable album. 345 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,280 It's good rock, you know, rocking tracks on. 346 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,080 So yeah, it's good. 347 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:11,320 Yeah, my first list that I made, and I just went through the albums that I liked out of 348 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,880 last year, I had, I think 58 albums. 349 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,600 And I was like, holy crap, how am I gonna pair down 58 albums to 10? 350 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:25,680 And so I, you know, I did like a first cut, got it down to 18, and then kind of went down 351 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,360 from there. 352 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:33,240 And as Victor can testify, I had three number 10s that ended up did not making the list 353 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,680 because I think I had two number sevens. 354 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,640 So yeah, it was it was a very difficult thing to make a top 10 out of this really good music 355 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,280 this year. 356 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,200 Yeah, definitely. 357 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:51,320 I mean, I had, I think I had like 20, 25 albums. 358 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:56,280 And then in the end, earlier today, I just sat there and thought, okay, which of these 359 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,320 albums am I going to listen to? 360 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:04,040 Or what songs off of these albums am I going to listen to consistently in the next few 361 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,200 years? 362 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:11,440 So that's where, where my mind went with my voting. 363 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,100 My criteria was how, what did I listen to the most? 364 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:17,080 Which of these albums that I listened to the most? 365 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,080 Right. 366 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,560 As you know, I'm always listening to new music for yard metal. 367 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,820 And it's I can't just keep listening to the same album over and over because I keep getting 368 00:24:24,820 --> 00:24:27,760 new music and I have to listen to that. 369 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,040 And all of my top 10 albums, I probably listened to at least five times each. 370 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,040 Wow. 371 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,000 Top five a lot more than that. 372 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000 So okay. 373 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,960 Okay, Brad, since this, oh, go ahead, Ed, I'm sorry. 374 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:42,960 Brad. 375 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:50,040 So I've, you know, I've never spent one cent on Winger, but I'm kind of interested in Kip 376 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,040 Winger. 377 00:24:51,040 --> 00:25:00,280 He's a interesting fellow and he was interviewed for that documentary they did on Hulu or something 378 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,280 about that. 379 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,280 Yeah. 380 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,280 Do you know what I'm talking about? 381 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,280 Yeah. 382 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,120 I haven't seen it though, but I know what you're talking about. 383 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:15,720 And that's where I learned that he also has this classical music career, which I love 384 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,720 that too. 385 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,200 And I'm very interested to hear. 386 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,520 And he's apparently composed a lot of classical music, right? 387 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,520 Yeah, he's got a new one. 388 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:30,520 He's got a new one coming out this next year, a classical album with the, I think the Nashville 389 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,520 Philharmonic or something like that, but I haven't listened to any of that. 390 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:36,800 So can you tell that that affected the newer music that he's doing? 391 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:41,720 And maybe might even be why some people are giving that, or hearing some of the prog things. 392 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,680 I'm interested to hear the record actually. 393 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,320 I am going to listen to it. 394 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,320 Yeah. 395 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,200 I think it's still pretty much a rock album. 396 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:53,000 I don't know that the classical stuff really drifted into that. 397 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,800 I don't know how he can't, you know, pull influence from other stuff that he's writing 398 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,720 into what he's writing. 399 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,920 Like the songwriting, I would think. 400 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:02,920 Yeah. 401 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:03,920 Yeah. 402 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,880 I need to listen to one of his classical albums, but that's a hard listen for me sometimes, 403 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,040 but who knows? 404 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,040 Maybe I'll really like it. 405 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,040 That's right. 406 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,040 Yeah. 407 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,400 Well, he seems like an interesting fellow. 408 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,760 He'd be a cool guy to sit down and have a beer with. 409 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,760 Let's do it. 410 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,760 Yeah, we should. 411 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:26,120 He lives closer to you than me. 412 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,040 But I'd come out for that. 413 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:34,400 Yeah, interestingly enough, Brad, I've heard people say exactly what Ed just said, that 414 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:42,120 his classical music is creeping into what he's done on this album. 415 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:43,560 Yeah. 416 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:49,240 And well, for starters, he's got three guitarists throughout the album. 417 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,240 Wow. 418 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,240 Yep. 419 00:26:51,240 --> 00:27:03,320 And then also from some behind the scenes stuff that I've been told, I won't divulge 420 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,320 my source, decibel geek. 421 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:10,000 Yeah, I was going to say it had to be somebody in Nashville. 422 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Yeah. 423 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,280 Members didn't really care for the album because of that. 424 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,280 Interesting. 425 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:24,240 It kind of felt that it was more of a Kip solo album than it was a full band release. 426 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:30,360 Yeah, that's what it does certainly sound like that. 427 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:37,200 But I mean, Reb obviously has, I mean, he wrote a lot of the previous couple of Winger 428 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,200 albums. 429 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,760 He wrote the music for them because Kip was busy with his other stuff. 430 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,560 And so they're more rocking. 431 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,800 But Reb obviously has more outlets for his music now. 432 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,600 I mean, probably not writing anymore for Whitesnake, but he certainly wrote a lot on that last 433 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,760 Whitesnake album. 434 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,960 And you know, with Black Swan. 435 00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:57,960 Yeah. 436 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,960 He's on Black Swan, isn't he? 437 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:00,960 Yeah. 438 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,960 Yeah. 439 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,040 So, you know. 440 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:11,400 Brad, real quickly, can you run down your top 10? 441 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:12,400 Do you remember? 442 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,800 Do you want me to run it down for you? 443 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,800 Yeah, you run it down. 444 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,960 I left all my massive list at home. 445 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,040 So, okay. 446 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:29,140 So here's the good list because like Brad said, he sends to me multiple times. 447 00:28:29,140 --> 00:28:31,920 So at 10, it is tempt by tempt. 448 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:32,920 Yeah. 449 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,640 I got to say one quick thing about that because it's probably not going to make any of this 450 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:42,320 list is that if you're a Def Leppard fan, this is the album you've been waiting for. 451 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,040 You've been waiting for 30 years to hear because that Def Leppard won't do. 452 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,320 You should check this out. 453 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:52,560 If you're a Def Leppard guy, you're going to love this album, especially Hysteria era. 454 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,920 But in these guys, I mean, I don't know if you remember when Mark interviewed the singer 455 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,440 for this band quite a while ago. 456 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,720 I mean, they were in their young 20s at that time. 457 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:06,000 Who knows how old they are now, but they're just kids by art, by my standards, they're 458 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,360 kids and they're rocking. 459 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,640 I mean, guitars, the songs are really good. 460 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,920 The playing is really good. 461 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,040 The production's great. 462 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,080 So yeah, if you like that kind of thing, get this album. 463 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,080 It's self-titled. 464 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,080 Go on. 465 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,800 What are they called again? 466 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:20,800 Tempt. 467 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,040 T-E-M-P-T. And that's the title of the album as well. 468 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,560 I had to get them. 469 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,240 Yeah, they're New York guys. 470 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,640 They're in New York City. 471 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:32,640 I'll check that out. 472 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,640 Yeah, check that out. 473 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,640 Let me know what you think. 474 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,800 Okay. 475 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:44,320 At nine, you've got Stereotypical by Roxanne and Metal Dan, I'm sure, Jammed Out 20. 476 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:50,320 Yeah, that's a shout out to Metal Dan because he got me to listen to these guys and this 477 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,320 album. 478 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:57,640 I mean, there's a lot of Queen influence in the instrumentation, especially the guitars, 479 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,080 and it's just a solid rock album. 480 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:06,600 There's a really cool song with Doug Pinnock singing duet with him while alternating parts. 481 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,160 They got a video for it too, which I think is called Only A Phone Call Away. 482 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,320 It's a great, I mean, lyrically, it's a great song. 483 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,960 And yeah, everybody needs to know, we're only a phone call away, all right? 484 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:20,960 Okay. 485 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:21,960 I'm here for all you guys. 486 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,800 I mean, that's anybody watching this right now. 487 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800 I'm only a phone call away. 488 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,800 Give me a call. 489 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,520 That's a great album. 490 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,880 Brad missing his poison control days. 491 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,200 Yeah, I do miss them. 492 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:42,240 Let's see at number eight, King's Crown with Closer To The Faith or Closer To The Truth. 493 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,240 Excuse me. 494 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,960 Yeah, I have Jeremy to blame for this one because he he hit me to it. 495 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,760 And I've listened to this several times and it's solid stuff. 496 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,760 And I was trying to figure out without looking where these guys are from. 497 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,760 And I thought maybe this is a UK band because there's some of these UK bands who are going 498 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,600 for more classic rock type sound, but they're not UK band. 499 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,600 They're Swedish. 500 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:09,480 So and they don't sound like a Swedish band to me, but they're really, really good. 501 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,920 I mean, it's just your classic rock kind of stuff. 502 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,560 Big guitars, Hammond, Oregon and great singing. 503 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,000 Yeah, the singer is great. 504 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,320 So a really good solid album. 505 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:21,800 Okay. 506 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,880 At seven, Rock City Music Co. with Rock City Music Co. 507 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:30,520 Yeah, I just stumbled across these guys from one of their videos popped up on my YouTube 508 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:31,520 feed. 509 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,360 This is the cover of Bob Seger's Ramblin Man. 510 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,760 And I was like, these guys are kicking the crap out of this. 511 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,120 And so I checked out the album. 512 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:40,520 I don't know if it's a full album or not. 513 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,520 It seems pretty short. 514 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,520 And it's just solid. 515 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,800 Just I mean, there's nothing new here, boys and girls. 516 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,280 But maybe it is new because there's not people rocking like this right now. 517 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,880 But you go back to the 70s and give everybody a Red Bull. 518 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,320 And that's what you're going to get right here. 519 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,880 Guitars and great singing. 520 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:05,680 And just yeah, yeah, it's the funnest, the funnest album out there right now. 521 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,500 Okay. 522 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:13,760 Number six, a band from Poland that you saw live Riverside with ID Entity. 523 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,600 Yeah, this is a great album. 524 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,600 This is a great band. 525 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,160 They've always been kind of they're very much in the porcupine tree land. 526 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,360 I mean, they're really close to what those guys are doing, but they kind of got their 527 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,000 own spin on it. 528 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,960 I saw these guys last year in a club in Salt Lake, and it was they were just mind blowing. 529 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,760 The singer plays bass, unbelievable bass playing bass tone. 530 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,480 Of course, that speaks to me. 531 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,480 But they were just good, man. 532 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,480 It was fun. 533 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,800 It was a I mean, the keyboard player was kind of the guy to watch in the whole thing. 534 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,400 And I mean, how many bands can say that? 535 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,400 Because most bands, the keyboard player is absolutely nothing to watch. 536 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,000 It's like, we should have just rolled tapes for that. 537 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,360 But yeah, these guys are really, really good. 538 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,400 And I like I'm glad they're picking up steam. 539 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,640 They've been around for a long time now. 540 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,600 So yeah, get Yeah, check that out. 541 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,280 If you're if you even slightly like porcupine tree, check these guys out. 542 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:13,880 That's a great album. 543 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,400 Okay. 544 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,280 At number five, Jericho by Last in Line. 545 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,400 Yeah, I know, Victor, you got your problems with these guys. 546 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:26,840 But I don't know that that's purely musical or something else. 547 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,520 But I really like this album. 548 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,920 I know you said you kind of felt when you first listened to it anyway, it didn't quite 549 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,160 scratch it for you. 550 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,600 Their second album, I thought was just OK, not quite up to par with the first album. 551 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,800 But I'm kind of liking this one actually more than the other two. 552 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,720 So there you go. 553 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:56,760 Here's here's here's my rebuttal to that. 554 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,760 Yes, I got to hear these songs live, though. 555 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,080 I'm hoping they're going to be doing some shows next year. 556 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,520 So it seems like their paths and mine hardly ever crossed. 557 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:14,320 OK, I'm going to skip over number four because that's something that we'll talk about later. 558 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,840 I actually picked one that made the top list. 559 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,040 OK, go number three. 560 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,480 Yeah, it's partly your fault, Brad. 561 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,800 Number three is the Winger album, which we just discussed. 562 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,920 Number two, it has it has a note. 563 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,720 Should I read the entire note out, Brad? 564 00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:33,720 Go on. 565 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:34,720 Read it. 566 00:34:34,720 --> 00:34:35,720 Yeah, go ahead. 567 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:39,120 It is UDO Touchdown. 568 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,720 And he adds, Jeremy is wrong about this one. 569 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:43,720 So wrong. 570 00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:45,920 Oh, my gosh, you're so wrong. 571 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,560 Yeah, I'm about to go. 572 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:49,560 Johan here. 573 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,040 No, tell me why. 574 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,120 Well, I'll tell you why, OK, because when I heard your review of it before I even heard 575 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,600 the album, I was like, oh, well, that's too bad that it's just kind of a so so album. 576 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,680 I put it on to pick out some songs to play on your argument. 577 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,880 I'm like, OK, yeah, that first one was really good. 578 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,400 Second, wow, that was really good. 579 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,400 Third one. 580 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:08,400 Wow, that was really good. 581 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,400 Fourth one. 582 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,400 That was really good. 583 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,760 What the hell is Jeremy talking about? 584 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,160 These are all really good songs. 585 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:20,320 The only song I really kind of was like on was the last one, Touchdown, the title track. 586 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,120 I still don't know why these guys. 587 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,880 I mean, they're all well, mostly German. 588 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,240 There's a Russian in there somewhere. 589 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:31,480 Why they're why they've got an American football theme on this album. 590 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:32,480 Why? 591 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,320 That makes no sense at all. 592 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,320 Sure. 593 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:37,320 Yeah. 594 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,320 Selling the band to America. 595 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,040 No, that's the thing. 596 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:42,960 They're not popular in America. 597 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,920 But that's not at all. 598 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,000 They can't even get arrested unless they're playing Princess of the Dawn and Balls to 599 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 the Wall. 600 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,920 That's the only way they're going to get a gig here. 601 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:53,920 Right. 602 00:35:53,920 --> 00:36:00,720 But they're figuring that if they do a football themed album and anthem, that somehow they're 603 00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:05,080 going to get played in some podunk town, you know. 604 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,880 So that's that's it. 605 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:14,000 And is Udo's son, I know he's German, but has he spent maybe more time in the States 606 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,360 than he has in Germany? 607 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,360 I don't know. 608 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,360 No, no, he hasn't. 609 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:19,960 No, he's he's German. 610 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:20,960 He's a good dude. 611 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:21,960 And I like him a lot. 612 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:22,960 Yeah. 613 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,600 Check out the interview with Udo and Sven on the Yard Metal YouTube page. 614 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,360 Check out the interview where I talked to both those guys. 615 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,380 Those guys are so damn cool. 616 00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:34,380 So nice. 617 00:36:34,380 --> 00:36:38,160 And just it was it was fun chatting with them. 618 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,280 Yeah. 619 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,540 So yeah, if you're if you're a metal guy, if you're a rock guy and this is an album 620 00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:47,920 that you don't even have to work hard to listen to because they're not again, they're not 621 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,780 doing anything new here, kids. 622 00:36:49,780 --> 00:36:51,600 It's just metal by numbers. 623 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,160 And they're doing it really, really well. 624 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,160 It sounds great. 625 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,120 The playing is great. 626 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,120 And Udo is Udo's Udo. 627 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,120 There you go. 628 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,120 Jeremy, go ahead. 629 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,120 What were you going to say? 630 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,680 I was just going to say the only problem that I have with it is not that the songs aren't 631 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:07,960 particularly great. 632 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:12,240 It's the fact that they've released so many albums that they are starting to sound the 633 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,240 same. 634 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,760 That's the only problem I have with it. 635 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:20,240 You know, you could you could buy one of his albums or the band's album, you know, in the 636 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:23,400 past five or six albums and just have one of them. 637 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,040 You know, this is what I'm saying. 638 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,440 They're very, very similar. 639 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,800 And he tries to force a lot of songs onto each album as well, which gives me the impression 640 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,960 that, you know, they're just it's not it's not that they don't sound great. 641 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,760 You know, you can listen to any single album on its own and you can enjoy it. 642 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,280 I can understand why you enjoy it. 643 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,280 It's great stuff. 644 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:46,160 But in fact, I'm thinking that except to get him very like that as well, very similar because 645 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,960 they keep releasing album after album after album and they start to sound very, very much 646 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:51,960 the same. 647 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,000 That's the only thing I've got a problem with it. 648 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:01,960 It's not, you know, I think that's a fair argument, although I, you know, unlike except 649 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,640 in their their albums sounds so much the same. 650 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,240 I think they're using the same producer on every album. 651 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:07,780 So yeah, they do run together. 652 00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:09,760 It's not like all of a sudden this album sounds different. 653 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,080 I'm going to tell you right now, touchdown, I think sounds a little different. 654 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,640 Well, it's actually sounds a bit different, a bit different than previously. 655 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,600 So give it give it another listen next time you're in the car. 656 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,000 Next time you're in the car and you want to piss your wife off or that's usually what 657 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,520 pisses Shelley off is if she has a Udo quotient, it's like she'll only do like one song an 658 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,840 hour and a thing. 659 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,560 Cool and your number one is Magnus Carlson's. 660 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,600 Matt's Carlson. 661 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,600 Matt's Carlson. 662 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:44,600 Okay. 663 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:45,600 Yes. 664 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,600 That's my number one. 665 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,920 And I'm sure that and the only reason it's my number one is because I've listened to 666 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,600 this album so much. 667 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:52,600 I just love it. 668 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:56,760 It's a great rock album, but it's not just all rock and the songs are written really 669 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:02,040 well and even though it's got the was it big yellow cab or whatever cover that I'm not 670 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,280 a real fan of that song. 671 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:09,840 It's done quite well and I'm not a lyric guy, but his lyrics are just fantastic. 672 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:16,200 But it's just it is a great, great rock album and it doesn't sound like anything else that 673 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,240 anybody else is doing right now. 674 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,560 I think it does have its own flair to it. 675 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:28,000 So yeah, that's your assignment America, Europe, Asia down under the whole thing is listen 676 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,000 to this album. 677 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000 Give it one spin. 678 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,840 Let me know what you think. 679 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,800 What's that one called again? 680 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,400 It's called mood elevator. 681 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,400 Right. 682 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:38,400 Okay. 683 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:39,400 Yeah. 684 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,880 I don't have the scoop on what he's what he's going out with that. 685 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,600 There's a song on their mood elevator, but I think it's about elevating your mood. 686 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:52,720 Yeah, it's a real positive album, which that always makes me happy too. 687 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:53,720 Yeah. 688 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:54,720 Okay. 689 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,880 And he's Swedish. 690 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,040 So there you go. 691 00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,040 Check. 692 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,740 He's a he's a guitar player from 220 volt. 693 00:40:01,740 --> 00:40:02,740 Super good dude. 694 00:40:02,740 --> 00:40:06,560 I'm gonna find an interview with him also on my on the yard metal YouTube page. 695 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:07,560 Great guy. 696 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:08,560 Excellent. 697 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:09,560 All right. 698 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:19,800 So let's move on here with the list at number four band from my home state of New Jersey. 699 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:29,600 It is overkill with the album scorched. 700 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,920 And did you get a chance to listen to this album? 701 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:37,560 Yeah I've listened to it even today. 702 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,640 But it's I've had a hard time getting into this one. 703 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:48,120 I think maybe metal Dan was making that point to you know it sounds for production wise 704 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,320 it sounds just as great as the other ones. 705 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:58,640 But I think the songs to start grabbing me as much as the last few records. 706 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:04,080 And there's one song on there called Bag of Bones that iTunes keeps playing over and over 707 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,720 again and I'm kind of sick of that because it's got a funny riff to it. 708 00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:13,600 But it's like you know it's good overkill. 709 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:14,960 I don't really know what to say about it. 710 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,440 I don't know why I'm not liking it as much as the others. 711 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:22,520 But I'm guessing it's just the songs aren't having the hooks that I'm you know that grab 712 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:23,520 me. 713 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,240 But you know everybody's different. 714 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:30,480 Everyone else might like this one better than the ones prior to it. 715 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,160 Right Jeremy you're nodding your head. 716 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,720 I absolutely totally agree with that. 717 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:40,480 We must have listened to it with the same ears because I find I'm thinking exactly the 718 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,480 same. 719 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,040 I tried it three or four times. 720 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,920 I don't know what it is about it that I don't it doesn't hit me. 721 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,920 It doesn't I don't feel it like I felt some of the previous ones. 722 00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,600 And you know I'll listen to one or two tracks and I think yeah they're OK. 723 00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:57,600 They're good. 724 00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,200 The production's fine on it. 725 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:00,200 It sounds like overkill. 726 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,440 There's no you know there's no difference. 727 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,080 But yeah I think it must be the songs. 728 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,540 The songs are not hitting me. 729 00:42:06,540 --> 00:42:13,080 One thing that does capture my attention are some of his guitar solos. 730 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:19,480 Like in the videos that you posted Victor his guitar solos are pretty amazing. 731 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:20,700 Right. 732 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:24,640 So I think that may be one reason why I do keep listening to the songs because I'm listening 733 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,560 to him play. 734 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:36,360 Well just so you guys know this album didn't make my top 10 and it's the first overkill 735 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:43,520 album to not make my top 10 because I'm of the same opinion of the two of you guys. 736 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:51,400 It's got two or three OK songs on it but it just isn't as strong as the last few. 737 00:42:51,400 --> 00:43:01,120 I think they really hit their stride with trying to think of the album that had the 738 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,680 green and the black on it. 739 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:09,520 But I think from that album onward really they kind of reinvented themselves and kind 740 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:10,520 of hit a new stride. 741 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:16,440 And this album just kind of doesn't have the songs that these last four or five albums 742 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:17,920 have had. 743 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,400 So I agree with you guys. 744 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,440 Yeah this might make my top 10 either. 745 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:30,360 I actually thought it was an OK album but obviously some people liked it because it 746 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,360 made our list. 747 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,800 So yeah a few people did vote for it. 748 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,800 Those people need to be here. 749 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:42,000 We're here to talk about that one. 750 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,000 Yeah. 751 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,680 Tell us where we're on. 752 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:52,080 He's going to blast us later isn't he? 753 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,080 Quite possible. 754 00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:00,320 Ed do you want to run down your top 10 real quick here? 755 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:01,320 You want me to read that? 756 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,080 Do you have them in front of you? 757 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,040 I do. 758 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:11,120 So a new one for me that I've really enjoyed and I think I'm saying it right. 759 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,120 Earn? 760 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:13,120 You are in me? 761 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,840 I've never heard anybody speak the band's name so I could be making it up. 762 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:25,000 Oh I've fumbled over that when I'm reading off the new releases. 763 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,120 So yeah I believe it's Earn. 764 00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,720 So they're kind of like if you look them up on Wikipedia or something they'll be called 765 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:34,240 a sludge metal band. 766 00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:37,880 I didn't get that impression listening to this record but I can hear that. 767 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:43,600 They're very eclectic mix of styles which is one of the reasons why I like it. 768 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:50,080 My favorite bands as time goes on as the years go by are bands that are doing some you know 769 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,880 mixing genres together. 770 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:58,240 Kind of like what thrash metal did but these bands are doing it on a whole other level 771 00:44:58,240 --> 00:44:59,400 you know including thrash. 772 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,760 So this band here they're heavy, they're sludgy. 773 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:11,040 I mean it's heavy metal though it's that heavy where you'll be I'll be driving down the road 774 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:17,600 banging my head to their riffs and they keep changing the songs up in ways that keep you 775 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,160 interested and every song I've heard has been like that. 776 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,800 Very good stuff. 777 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:23,800 Okay. 778 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:24,800 Dyeth? 779 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,520 Did I say that one right? 780 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:28,520 Yeah. 781 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:33,360 Yeah that was great. 782 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:40,160 That's the one with Ellison in there playing bass. 783 00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:45,440 I don't know what they're going to continue to do in the future but that record by itself 784 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:46,440 was really good. 785 00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:52,520 It's got a lot of good heavy groovy stuff kind of like a it's kind of it's not total 786 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:57,900 thrash metal but it's kind of you know it's heavier than just heavy metal. 787 00:45:57,900 --> 00:46:03,400 It's got some thrash and death metal influences. 788 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,760 Another new one for me was the Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors. 789 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,240 That is a very interesting record. 790 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,240 Yes it is. 791 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:19,660 Yeah and it sounds beautiful and it sounds heavy at the same time. 792 00:46:19,660 --> 00:46:26,240 Another eclectic bit of music I guess you could say to where you know there'll be a 793 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:31,280 kind of it'll kind of be a mellow track and he's got a beautiful voicing and some beautiful 794 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:37,960 melodies and they kind of layer it with different sounds and then it turns into something very 795 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:44,720 heavy you know kind of post hardcore post metal with some hardcore vocals you know. 796 00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:49,440 So the songs always kind of build to a point I guess you could say and they leave you satisfied 797 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,800 when you're done hearing it. 798 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:59,680 That band name kind of sounds like one of the enema calls I've had. 799 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,400 I didn't think to describe it that way but yeah interesting. 800 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:09,240 Enforce put out another good record you know it sounds just like the other two the way 801 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:13,280 it's produced you know they're like doing the same thing every time but it's still it's 802 00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,200 still a good jam. 803 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:20,720 You know Cannibal Corpse came out with a new record and you know I'm not like disappointed 804 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:25,160 in the album but I'm disappointed that I'm not liking it more. 805 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:34,080 I was so excited to hear this one but this you know it's still death metal but it's more 806 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:41,520 on the slower heavier sludger side and it still has you know a lot of fast you know 807 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:47,640 death metal beats but when you compare it to some of their earlier records like the 808 00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,240 one before at Violence Unimagined I liked a lot better. 809 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:55,120 We talked about Angelus. 810 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:56,720 Is Evile on the list? 811 00:47:56,720 --> 00:48:01,560 Yeah Evile is on your list. 812 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,400 Am I the only one that picked them? 813 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,360 They're not on the top they're not in the top 10? 814 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,360 No they're not in the top 10. 815 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:13,560 Man that album there is amazing and it's funny because they apparently just pulled a Metallica 816 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,800 and did like a black album thing. 817 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:21,680 You know they're a thrash metal band with this record yeah they slowed it down they're 818 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:27,080 doing heavier jugger songs that are more like Metallica when they did the black album. 819 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,080 Right. 820 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:34,640 I'll tell you what if Metallica's black album had sounded like this I would have still been 821 00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:43,460 a Metallica fan because this album man whoever produced it did a wonderful job. 822 00:48:43,460 --> 00:48:49,920 It sounds big and heavy but it's still kind of like in your face in the speakers. 823 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:55,000 When you listen to the black album it's got that huge booming stadium sound but you kind 824 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,340 of feel like you're somewhere in the stadium. 825 00:48:57,340 --> 00:49:01,840 With this one it's got that same big sound but it's a little more in your face. 826 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,160 I like his vocals a lot better than listening to James sing. 827 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,400 How do you spell the name of this band though? 828 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:08,560 I gotta check this out. 829 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,160 What did you say? 830 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,480 How do you spell the name of the band? 831 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,480 I want to check this out. 832 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:13,480 E-B-I-L-E. 833 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:20,240 Oh I think I heard one of these on Victor's Patreon. 834 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:24,120 Yeah I posted a couple videos off of this album. 835 00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,120 So that was great. 836 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:29,000 Which by the way, Patreon, Victor's Patreon, only two dollars a month and you get to hear 837 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:34,720 all this new music every day sends out new music. 838 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:43,000 And the last two, Dying Fetus, loving that record, it's just a good old classic throwdown 839 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,100 death metal, you know kind of on the thrashy side. 840 00:49:46,100 --> 00:49:50,760 Not overproduced but still big heavy throwdown sound. 841 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:56,120 If you like that just good old classic as heavy as you can get death metal without it 842 00:49:56,120 --> 00:50:01,760 being just a thousand miles an hour the whole time, you'll like that. 843 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:07,200 And then number one for me was the Cattle Decapitation. 844 00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,120 And I think that was on a lot of people's number ones in the extreme metal reviews that 845 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,120 I've seen. 846 00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:20,080 You know it's produced great, it's got and actually this is kind of new for me too and 847 00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,800 I'm going to start going into their back catalog because I hear they've got other records that 848 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:25,960 are as good as this one. 849 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,480 But you know this is an eclectic mix of extreme metal styles. 850 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:38,840 It's you know black metal flavored death metal I guess you could say. 851 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,720 They keep you know changing the beats and the tones and the vocals go back and forth 852 00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:46,160 between death and black metal and that kind of thing. 853 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,480 And then they'll have some breakdowns you know that have you kind of moshing around 854 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,240 the living room. 855 00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:55,760 So it's number one on my list. 856 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,920 So I think that covers all ten for me. 857 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:06,200 Yeah I'm trying to see here if there's anything else that you had on here that you didn't 858 00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:07,200 mention. 859 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:08,200 Metal oculips? 860 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,200 Did I have that on there? 861 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,280 Yeah yeah yeah Death Clock is the other one. 862 00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,120 I didn't expect to like that one so much but every time I'm hearing a tune off of that 863 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,920 one even today it's a good jam. 864 00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:19,920 That metal oculips. 865 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:26,800 Yeah I think I might even buy that vinyl if I keep enjoying that as much as I have. 866 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:27,800 Very cool. 867 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:29,360 Great. 868 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:41,480 So back to the the list here the overall votes and coming in at number three a band that 869 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:46,160 Ed just mentioned a few different times. 870 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:53,880 It is Metallica with 72 seasons. 871 00:51:53,880 --> 00:52:03,280 Jeremy this one was high on your list give us your run down on this one. 872 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:08,560 Yeah I was really looking forward to hearing this after the last couple of albums and I 873 00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,680 thought it was I thought it was slightly better overall. 874 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,840 I thought they got their mojo back a little bit on this one. 875 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,840 You've got to play it loud. 876 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,440 They got you know a fair selection of tracks on there. 877 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,800 I thought they kept them fairly tight as well rather than you know having too many songs 878 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:29,680 that went on and on which they've done on previous albums which helps. 879 00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:34,280 There's nothing particularly new on it you know they're probably playing what they've 880 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:38,240 played you know over the last three or four albums. 881 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:42,520 You know they're rehashing some of the riffs and you know they got into that groove that 882 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:47,360 style that they've been doing on previous stuff but I thought overall it was great you 883 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:51,760 know there was some catchy stuff on there but there's some stuff that a bit of a deeper 884 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:57,800 listen and it was very typical Metallica and it was really well produced nicely finished 885 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,680 with the vinyls you know the vinyl stuff was excellent that they came out with but you 886 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:07,560 know you'd expect that from a top band and it was it was up there for me as one of the 887 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:11,560 one of the better albums of the year. 888 00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,920 Excellent anyone else want to mention something about this album? 889 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,760 It's the first Metallica album I've ever bought. 890 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:21,760 Is it? 891 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:22,760 Okay. 892 00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:29,080 Yeah and I agree I think it's I think it's an enjoyable listen. 893 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:34,400 Yeah every time one of these songs comes up on Yard Melk's and playing a few of them I'm 894 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,480 like yeah this is pretty good. 895 00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,240 That's Metallica nice. 896 00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:41,800 So yeah good album. 897 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:45,400 Ed anything to say about 72 Seasons? 898 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:51,640 About the same as I told you earlier in the year I like the songs that you put videos 899 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:56,580 of like the first three tracks they released they were kind of thrashy after listening 900 00:53:56,580 --> 00:54:01,320 to the album you know when it was released I've not been able to enjoy it much. 901 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:08,040 I'm still listening to it you know seeing what might catch me and what doesn't but it's 902 00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:15,200 kind of like the overkill it's just the songs aren't catching me as well this time as I 903 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,080 think I enjoyed Hardwired quite a bit better. 904 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:23,440 I know you didn't like that one as much but yeah for me it's the opposite I like Hardwired 905 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,480 a lot better. 906 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:28,800 I still prefer Death Magnetic over both of them. 907 00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,120 Well I do too that yeah for sure. 908 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:37,840 Yeah you know I really like this album when it came out and this is one of these that 909 00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:46,840 after listening to the other stuff that ended up being on my top 10 it just didn't make 910 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,800 my top 10. 911 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,760 Like you said Ed I think the first three songs they released are probably the strongest off 912 00:54:53,760 --> 00:55:00,720 of the album and there's maybe two others that I kind of like but the rest is I don't 913 00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:07,740 know I was listening to this album the other day and my first thought was they've become 914 00:55:07,740 --> 00:55:08,740 Motorhead. 915 00:55:08,740 --> 00:55:15,160 Yeah you know the album kind of you know and that's not a bad thing you know the album 916 00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:21,720 is steady it's consistent but it also really doesn't have anything outside of those like 917 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:26,880 five songs that really jumps out at me to say oh yeah okay I can listen to this one 918 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,240 over and over again. 919 00:55:29,240 --> 00:55:36,920 You know they're cool riffs cool parts the songs but just something there that you know 920 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:42,720 I want something more and that's not to say again that there isn't stuff off of this or 921 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:45,200 hardwired that I enjoy. 922 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:50,760 I have a playlist that I kind of put together that actually has songs off of the last three 923 00:55:50,760 --> 00:56:00,280 albums off of Death Magnetic, Hardwired and 72 Seasons and I think combining what I feel 924 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,920 is the best off of those three you get a good mix of songs. 925 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:13,400 I think a lot of these songs you know the ones that are kind of you know mid it's you 926 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:20,280 know there'll be riffs that sound good at first and get kind of bored like I feel like 927 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:26,240 the song starts off it sounds great and then James starts singing and because they're long 928 00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:31,520 songs it's like okay we're about to spend a whole bunch of time listening to him you 929 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:39,120 know sing over the same riff for a while and then I just get bored and I'm sorry I love 930 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:45,760 Kirk I respect the guy big time but I just I never get excited for the guitar solo that's 931 00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:53,600 coming up because it's usually just a wah-wah shreddy thing that just I don't know it's 932 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:58,000 just not like listening to what Dave Mustaine puts together you know when it comes to guitar 933 00:56:58,000 --> 00:56:59,720 solos and yeah. 934 00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:05,120 So there's not much there to keep me in the song you know and the song kind of stays that 935 00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:09,600 tempo to the end you know there's not you know something to get excited about towards 936 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,480 the end you know. 937 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:18,520 And that's another good point because I think with Death Magnetic he kind of had to prove 938 00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:25,380 that they were wrong to not have any solos on St. Anger so he kind of went out of his 939 00:57:25,380 --> 00:57:32,080 way to do really good solos on Death Magnetic but I think everything's been kind of vanilla 940 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:37,840 since then they've like you're saying it's just a solo with some wah and hearing him 941 00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:44,640 on their podcasts say oh well I'm not gonna play this solo note for note anymore I'm just 942 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:50,800 gonna play whatever comes to mind every night and I'm thinking well that solo kind of was 943 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:56,640 boring so that doesn't surprise me you know and I'm hoping that whatever he supplants 944 00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:05,920 it with is better than the snooze fest that ended up on the album. 945 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,840 And yet this album is number what on our list? 946 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:09,840 Three. 947 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,600 Number three. 948 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:18,600 But I mean here's the thing and this is something that I read somebody say years ago Metallica 949 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:26,680 could literally put out an actual turd and I think they didn't they do that with St. 950 00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:27,680 Anger? 951 00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:29,360 Well they did it with Lulu. 952 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,080 Oh yeah I would say Lulu is more. 953 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,880 I would say there were a few turds on that. 954 00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:35,880 Yeah. 955 00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,160 Lulu was a whole pile of crap. 956 00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:43,680 But again how many millions did that sell? 957 00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:48,000 Yeah I don't think anyone had heard it. 958 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,720 Yeah well true but that's my point. 959 00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:58,920 I think that just given the sheer magnitude of this band and how many people love this 960 00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:03,520 band people are still gonna vote for them. 961 00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:07,920 People are still gonna give this album a shot in anything that they release a shot. 962 00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,160 So I have a question for you guys. 963 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:16,600 So since you guys are big Metallica fans do you think that kind of makes it more difficult 964 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,600 for a new album to impress you? 965 00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:20,880 Yeah. 966 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:24,400 Whereas for me who's not a big Metallica fan I can listen to this album and go yeah this 967 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:25,800 is pretty good this is fun. 968 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:26,800 I like it. 969 00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:36,200 That happens in general because I think the Slayer album that I like the most is World 970 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:43,600 Painted Red and it's one of their latter albums where I think a lot of people a lot of die 971 00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:50,800 hards don't like the album you know they pan it and will only focus on their early part 972 00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:51,800 of their career. 973 00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:52,800 Why do I like that album? 974 00:59:52,800 --> 01:00:00,040 Well because I don't have preconceived notions from the first few albums and I think that's 975 01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,800 kind of the same with this. 976 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,080 You've really not been into Metallica before. 977 01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,460 This is the first one that kind of grabbed you. 978 01:00:07,460 --> 01:00:12,160 So you know you're more lenient with what's on there as a result. 979 01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:22,840 Now if it was a Blue Oyster Cult album and it's nowhere near as good as Secret Treaties 980 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:29,520 then then all of a sudden you're crapping on the album or you're kind of talking about 981 01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,760 the album the same way that we're talking about this album. 982 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,760 Yeah that's a fair point. 983 01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:37,760 Yeah. 984 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:42,440 They've only got one album that I'm kind of rag on but we won't go into that now. 985 01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:48,360 I was going to say something about all of this stuff but I was going to say you know 986 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:53,480 Jeremy if you hadn't listened to all those other Udo albums you'd like this new one better. 987 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:54,480 See that? 988 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:58,720 It's the same kind of thing. 989 01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,680 Jeremy do you want to run down your list? 990 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:09,400 Yeah so I had Elegant Weapons number 10, Horns for a Halo which obviously Richie Falkner's 991 01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,840 first attempt at a solo album and I thought it was a good one. 992 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,960 I thought it was you know I wouldn't say it was a classic album but I really liked a lot 993 01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:16,960 of the songs on it. 994 01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:21,000 We know that Ronnie Romero was singing on it but I thought he did a pretty good job 995 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,400 on it really considering you know it's a bit heavier than some of the stuff that he 996 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:26,540 does so yeah that was good. 997 01:01:26,540 --> 01:01:31,600 Number nine was Mammoth WVH with number two. 998 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:32,600 Thought that was really good. 999 01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,920 Thought that was very classy sounding. 1000 01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:36,760 Whether I'll play it a lot I don't know. 1001 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:41,800 You know I've played it a few times this year but whether you know this is a good test isn't 1002 01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:46,360 it because you have to go years ahead to look back on stuff and think would you still rate 1003 01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,960 them in the same way. 1004 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:53,320 Number eight was The Answer, the Northern Irish band which I followed through their 1005 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:54,320 whole career. 1006 01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:58,320 I thought they had a bit of a dip in the last few albums particularly I think it was the 1007 01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,080 last one called Solis which was quite poor. 1008 01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,800 This one I thought was a bit more of a return to form so I think I was comparing it to that 1009 01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:11,440 one called The Sundowners and I liked it you know there's some good songs on that. 1010 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,440 Number seven was Buck Cherry, volume 10. 1011 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,480 A band I've come to really really like. 1012 01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,120 I like a lot of their stuff. 1013 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,720 Very good rock and roll band. 1014 01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:26,400 And you know maybe some fans would say well they're going to compare this album to that 1015 01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:31,400 album but I took it for what it was and really liked it. 1016 01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:34,640 Number six we already talked about which was The Raven album. 1017 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,640 And then number five I put LA Guns with Black Diamonds. 1018 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:46,680 This is a band that the Victor actually got me into. 1019 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:51,200 Sorry I was just reading a small comment there which I've taken on board. 1020 01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:54,920 So yeah Victor got me into LA Guns because I'd never really followed them very much or 1021 01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:59,080 I probably did hear them and never really got into them properly. 1022 01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,800 But I have got into them and I really like this album. 1023 01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:02,880 I think it's good. 1024 01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:07,440 They show a lot of quality in their songwriting and they're a little bit different to some 1025 01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:09,640 of the you know the mainstream stuff that comes out. 1026 01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:15,240 I can't say it's their best album that I've heard by them but you know it was a good listen. 1027 01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:21,480 We're going to skip number four and then so number three is the Alcatraz album Take No 1028 01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:22,480 Prisoners. 1029 01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:24,840 There's a couple of reasons to like this. 1030 01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:33,720 I mean I obviously like the vocals on it which is Doogie White doing the vocals and I love 1031 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:35,520 Joe Stump's guitar playing. 1032 01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:39,040 I just think that they write on this particular album. 1033 01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:44,400 I think it's probably the best Alcatraz album since the early days. 1034 01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:45,400 And really great songs. 1035 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:46,720 Looking forward to seeing them next year. 1036 01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,320 They're playing with Raven, Girl School and Air Race all in one show. 1037 01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:54,080 So that's really good. 1038 01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:57,240 And that's the one actually that I've played the most this year. 1039 01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:01,480 So maybe that should have been my number one but we'll get to my number one after and we'll 1040 01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,280 talk about it and it was probably better. 1041 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,240 And then number two is Port Metallica. 1042 01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:09,240 And I missed off that list a few others. 1043 01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,880 Just give a couple of very very quick mentions to a few others. 1044 01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,280 I did rate the Evil album that Ed mentioned. 1045 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,480 I also rated the Anthem album Crimson and Jet Black. 1046 01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:20,880 I really like that. 1047 01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:22,160 Quite like the Alice Cooper album. 1048 01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:25,120 It's very typical Alice stuff. 1049 01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,760 Very much like the Night Demon album Outsider. 1050 01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:29,760 Your Eye Heap. 1051 01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:30,760 It's a great album. 1052 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:31,760 Yeah. 1053 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:35,880 And that's about it really. 1054 01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:42,080 Yeah, that was the Night Demon was one of Brad's several number tens. 1055 01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:43,800 So yeah, it was. 1056 01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,680 I wanted so badly to get it in there because it's such a really good album. 1057 01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:53,360 You know, anybody listening to this, if Jeremy says listen to something, listen to it. 1058 01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:57,280 He's never wrong except for when it comes to Udo. 1059 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:02,240 Other than that, Jeremy's totally on point, man. 1060 01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,240 He's got great ears. 1061 01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:07,080 Those albums were on my list that didn't quite make the top 10 just because I didn't listen 1062 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,000 to him enough. 1063 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:10,440 But they're all stellar. 1064 01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:13,800 So can't go wrong with any of Jeremy's recommendations. 1065 01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:17,840 There's also one other, but I'm going to leave that to the very very passing comment right 1066 01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,480 at the end before we say goodbye. 1067 01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:20,960 So leave that one. 1068 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:22,480 There's one more. 1069 01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:23,480 Okay. 1070 01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:34,040 So at number two, Jeremy and I share our number one for the year. 1071 01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:39,840 And it is Rival Sons with Dark Fighter. 1072 01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:47,240 Jeremy, you were going to say something about this album before I said don't talk about 1073 01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:48,240 it. 1074 01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,920 So did you just miss number two out though? 1075 01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,200 I thought it was Metallica number three and then... 1076 01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:55,440 Metallica's three. 1077 01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:57,160 Number two is Rival Sons. 1078 01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:58,640 Oh, two is Rival Sons. 1079 01:05:58,640 --> 01:05:59,640 Okay. 1080 01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:00,640 So it's two. 1081 01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:01,640 It was our number one. 1082 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:02,640 It was our number one. 1083 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:03,640 Right. 1084 01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:04,640 You threw me. 1085 01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:05,640 Okay. 1086 01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:06,640 Fine. 1087 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:07,640 Overall, it is number two. 1088 01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:08,640 Yeah. 1089 01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:09,640 Yeah. 1090 01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:13,000 I think this is equivalent to Led Zeppelin IV, this album. 1091 01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:18,800 I think if this was released instead of Led Zeppelin IV at the same time, we'd be talking 1092 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,360 about this as a classic album. 1093 01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,960 It is almost perfect. 1094 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,120 It's their best album. 1095 01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:31,360 I think there's only eight tracks on it and maybe they could have swapped one track off 1096 01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:33,760 the second album that came just after it. 1097 01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:37,720 I think they ruined it by having these two albums come out in the same year. 1098 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:38,720 They shouldn't have done that. 1099 01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:45,080 They should maybe even have made it a nine, 10 track album. 1100 01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:47,720 But it's just a great thing. 1101 01:06:47,720 --> 01:06:54,680 I mean, it just shows the quality of the musicianship, the songwriting. 1102 01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:57,320 They're a sellout here in the UK now. 1103 01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:01,920 It's hard to get a ticket in time to go and see them because they're such a good band. 1104 01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:03,560 They are the new Led Zeppelin. 1105 01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:06,960 They are the new Bad Company. 1106 01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:10,640 We all have to sort of follow other bands. 1107 01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:14,760 The very last track on the album, which I think is that one called, is that Lightbringer, 1108 01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:15,760 that one? 1109 01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:23,120 It might be the title because they swap around the title tracks of the albums, I think, don't 1110 01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:24,120 they? 1111 01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,360 I can't remember what it's called now, the very last song on side two. 1112 01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:28,640 It's a very long one. 1113 01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,760 It's their Stairway to Heaven. 1114 01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,200 It's just an unbelievable listen. 1115 01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:35,760 It's so brooding. 1116 01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:36,760 It builds. 1117 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:41,400 It has very heavy parts. 1118 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:44,920 It's an incredible track. 1119 01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:46,240 I think Vitz is going to find it. 1120 01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:47,240 One second. 1121 01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,480 Yeah, it would be nice if I could hear. 1122 01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:54,920 I should have brought my copy down with me. 1123 01:07:54,920 --> 01:08:00,440 It's quite a long track. 1124 01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:07,760 Last track is, this might be out of order for me, is Dark Side? 1125 01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,920 Dark Side, that's it. 1126 01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:15,640 Yeah, because I think they've got a song, Dark Fighter, on the Lightbringer album. 1127 01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:16,640 Yes, correct. 1128 01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,360 Yeah, okay, so Dark Side. 1129 01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:20,680 There's other great songs on there. 1130 01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:22,440 Mirrors is a fantastic song. 1131 01:08:22,440 --> 01:08:24,320 There's the one, is it the Horses? 1132 01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:25,320 Is it Horses Breath? 1133 01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:26,320 Horses Breath, yes. 1134 01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,320 Horses Breath is a great song. 1135 01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,760 I mean, there's not much you can say about it. 1136 01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:31,760 You've just got to listen to it. 1137 01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:35,120 It's a very, very varied album as well. 1138 01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:39,120 Very light lead Zeppelin 4, where you're going to listen to different tracks, some folky 1139 01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,200 ones, some heavy ones. 1140 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,600 What do you think, Victor? 1141 01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:45,600 I agree. 1142 01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,280 I agree with everything that you've said. 1143 01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:57,360 I mean, this album just captivated me from the first time that I listened to it, as much 1144 01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:04,360 like the Winterfall album, or Witherfall. 1145 01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:05,360 Witherfall. 1146 01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:06,360 Yeah, Witherfall. 1147 01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:10,160 I'm mixing Game of Thrones again. 1148 01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,600 But yeah, it was much the same where I heard it. 1149 01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:14,800 And I was like, wow, this is good. 1150 01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:15,800 It sounds tight. 1151 01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:21,960 It sounds, you know, and I think I get why they released two different albums, because 1152 01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:31,640 I think Dark Fighter is more of a 70s rock album, where the other album, damn it, I can't 1153 01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,360 see the title now. 1154 01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:34,840 The other one is Lightbringer. 1155 01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:38,240 Yeah, Lightbringer is more of a 60s album. 1156 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:45,760 It really has a lot of 60s elements to it, like the song Mercy, the song Redemption as 1157 01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:46,760 well. 1158 01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:53,840 They're very 60s. 1159 01:09:53,840 --> 01:10:00,280 There's more of a pop element to those songs, in my opinion. 1160 01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:06,200 Not to say that it's full on pop, but it's more of like the Who as opposed to, or like 1161 01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:14,760 the Razzberries as opposed to Zeppelin and Bad Company is what I'm trying to get at. 1162 01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:15,760 It has everything. 1163 01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:16,760 It has everything. 1164 01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:22,680 And it's, you know, we talked about this last week, how we're kind of sick of hearing all 1165 01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,280 the same Zeppelin songs all the time. 1166 01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:32,720 Well, this is like the perfect thing to supplant that, where it's something in the vein, which 1167 01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:36,400 is really, really good. 1168 01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,360 And I mean, they're not the only band doing this kind of stuff. 1169 01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:44,840 You mentioned the Answer before, but that album by the Answer is nowhere near as good 1170 01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,680 as this, not all the way through. 1171 01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:54,320 And any band that I can make up, Blackberry Smoke, or what did I say, Black Cherry Smoke 1172 01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:58,040 the One Time. 1173 01:10:58,040 --> 01:10:59,040 So yeah. 1174 01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,040 Yeah. 1175 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:04,960 I mean, it's a mix of Jay Buchanan on vocals and Scott Holliday is a fantastic guitarist. 1176 01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:06,440 I mean, he's the new Jimmy Page. 1177 01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:11,440 He's kind of like a Jimmy Page, the Edge kind of guitar player. 1178 01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:15,480 You got those little bits into his playing that it's only him. 1179 01:11:15,480 --> 01:11:20,800 And when you've got those like little unique sounds, you create a new thing. 1180 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:21,800 Yeah. 1181 01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:22,800 Yep. 1182 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:26,000 I agree with you. 1183 01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:35,160 So if you want to check out my top 10, that's actually going to be the Patreon podcast that 1184 01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:36,360 I'm going to do this weekend. 1185 01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,520 That gives me some material for that. 1186 01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:43,360 So I can expand upon that and some of the others that I checked out. 1187 01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,480 So another reason to check out Patreon. 1188 01:11:45,480 --> 01:11:47,440 All right. 1189 01:11:47,440 --> 01:11:49,400 So our number one. 1190 01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:55,360 Again, I thought that this album was really good when I first listened to it. 1191 01:11:55,360 --> 01:12:02,600 The first person that came to mind was Dee Snider because I think a lot of his last two 1192 01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:08,580 solo albums sound a lot like this album, in my opinion. 1193 01:12:08,580 --> 01:12:11,020 This got the most votes overall. 1194 01:12:11,020 --> 01:12:18,000 It was voted by more people than any other album. 1195 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:23,720 So it is Alive by Robin McCauley. 1196 01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:32,840 I don't even know what that is. 1197 01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:33,840 Explain it to me. 1198 01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,200 Go ahead, Jeremy, explain it. 1199 01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:37,200 Yeah. 1200 01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:42,600 So Robin McCauley, you know, the lead vocalist has been in the Michael Schenker group recently. 1201 01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:47,200 I saw him live actually a few months back, front in the band. 1202 01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:51,440 He's done a few solo albums and this is his latest solo. 1203 01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:57,240 It's a really fantastic mix of classic hard rock sounding, very melodic. 1204 01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:01,320 But he's written some really good songs and he performs them very well. 1205 01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:03,240 And it's just a great album. 1206 01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:08,840 We liked it from the off and I think we all still like it, who bought it or are playing 1207 01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:09,840 it. 1208 01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,020 And yeah, I really enjoy it. 1209 01:13:12,020 --> 01:13:13,200 I think he's a good vocalist. 1210 01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:17,320 I think he's one of the best ones that Michael Schenker's ever had. 1211 01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,480 And he's not a young man. 1212 01:13:19,480 --> 01:13:24,560 He's getting on a bit and yet he can still produce a really good album like this. 1213 01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,240 Yeah. 1214 01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:34,880 And the songs, which is where I draw a lot of similarities to the Dee Snider albums. 1215 01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:39,680 I mean, look, it's not Jamie Josta writing them or producing them, but the songs are 1216 01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:42,560 heavier than what I expected them to be. 1217 01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:46,640 They're heavier than the stuff he's done with Schenker over the years and the stuff that 1218 01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:51,600 he's known for doing in Black Swan and all of that stuff. 1219 01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:58,800 So this to me was an album that I thought, just another Frontiers album, not going to 1220 01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:00,520 be that great. 1221 01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:03,560 And then I listed and I'm like, shit, this is good. 1222 01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:08,960 This is better than a lot better than what I had expected. 1223 01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:14,320 So it also passes the Ed test, Ed was saying, it's hard to listen to an album all the way 1224 01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,920 through at the beginning of this conversation. 1225 01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,920 But this is an album you can play all the way through. 1226 01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:20,920 You'll enjoy it. 1227 01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:27,080 You just play it from one track to the next and keep it going. 1228 01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:28,080 There you go. 1229 01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:32,720 Brad, want to mention anything about this album? 1230 01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:37,200 No, it made my top 10. 1231 01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:39,000 And yeah, it's a solid album. 1232 01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:40,760 It's very, very enjoyable. 1233 01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:47,520 And Robin, I don't know how I think he sounds vocally better now than he did back in the 1234 01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:50,120 old Michael Schenker days, back in the 80s. 1235 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:52,600 I think he sounds just fantastic. 1236 01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:58,600 He's really taking good care of his voice and he's just a real likable dude too. 1237 01:14:58,600 --> 01:15:04,200 So it's good to see good people making good albums and having some success. 1238 01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:05,960 You just wonder how much longer he can keep doing. 1239 01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:10,880 I think he just turned 70. 1240 01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:11,880 He looked good live. 1241 01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:16,080 He still looks fresh and enjoying himself. 1242 01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:23,080 When you see Glenn Hughes out there, he's a similar age and they all look great. 1243 01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:26,560 We don't all age the same. 1244 01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:30,820 So yeah, it's a good album. 1245 01:15:30,820 --> 01:15:36,440 So if you haven't listened to it, you should definitely listen to this one. 1246 01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:42,480 You know, real quickly there, Brad, you just mentioned something real interesting about 1247 01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:49,880 albums not aging the same or what not or bands not aging. 1248 01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:51,160 Just a real quick point. 1249 01:15:51,160 --> 01:16:02,840 Just remember, Kansas, the greatest American rock band of all time. 1250 01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:08,640 Yeah, I really screwed up because I meant to open up my portion of the show by saying, 1251 01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:13,760 if you guys already talked about the new Kansas album, but there isn't one. 1252 01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:18,800 And I messed it up too, because instead of mentioning the Macaulay album, I was actually 1253 01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:23,480 going to mention Kansas' first album. 1254 01:16:23,480 --> 01:16:26,960 The greatest album cover ever right there. 1255 01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:27,960 We all know. 1256 01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:33,200 Yeah, this is a mural from the Capitol, isn't it? 1257 01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:34,200 The Capitol, I believe. 1258 01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:35,200 Yes. 1259 01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:36,200 The Capitol. 1260 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:37,200 Topical. 1261 01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:45,000 I actually saw a documentary on those guys that was actually quite interesting and fascinating. 1262 01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:50,360 But yeah, their music, their last album, which everybody raved about, I bought it. 1263 01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:56,520 And I don't know, there's some good parts to it, but it's a bit of a snooze fest for 1264 01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:57,520 me. 1265 01:16:57,520 --> 01:16:58,520 I don't know. 1266 01:16:58,520 --> 01:16:59,800 Not as good as this one? 1267 01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:06,560 No, that album right there, that'll go down in history as the greatest American rock band 1268 01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:07,560 album. 1269 01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:08,560 Oh, man. 1270 01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:09,560 All right. 1271 01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:10,560 So anyway, I'm going to go ahead and get started. 1272 01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:22,480 If only Blues Saraceno played on there, that would have put it way over the top. 1273 01:17:22,480 --> 01:17:23,480 Yeah. 1274 01:17:23,480 --> 01:17:27,520 We will hopefully be revisiting that shortly. 1275 01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:28,520 We'll see. 1276 01:17:28,520 --> 01:17:29,520 Oh, please, please. 1277 01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,720 What's he up to nowadays anyway? 1278 01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:34,640 Come on, Blues, where are you? 1279 01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:35,640 He's a producer. 1280 01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:36,640 He's playing. 1281 01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:40,920 He's a producer. 1282 01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:42,640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1283 01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,640 He's played on album. 1284 01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:50,880 Ziggy Marley and like some other like pop stuff as well. 1285 01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,680 He's not what you would expect. 1286 01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,040 All right. 1287 01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:57,240 Hey, look, there's Edgar. 1288 01:17:57,240 --> 01:17:58,720 Edgar Winteson. 1289 01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:00,360 Can we start over? 1290 01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,280 Yes, we can. 1291 01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,080 Now that you're here, we've been waiting for you, Edgar. 1292 01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,520 Where have you been? 1293 01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:14,800 So real quickly before closing out the show at seven, we had Raven with. 1294 01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,320 Let me get back to the graphics here. 1295 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:21,440 Yeah, that's a good album, by the way, the Raven one at seven. 1296 01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:24,760 Raven with all hell's breaking loose. 1297 01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,680 Love that great bass stuff on there. 1298 01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:31,960 Six, Angela, Patrida with Aftermath. 1299 01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:38,000 Five, an album called Seven by Winger. 1300 01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:46,320 Four, Scorched by Overkill. 1301 01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:52,080 Three is 72 Seasons by Metallica. 1302 01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:56,960 Two is Dark Fighter by Rival Sons. 1303 01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:05,840 And number one, Robin Macaulay with Alive. 1304 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:11,120 So I do want to thank everyone that joined us tonight. 1305 01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:14,880 I do want to thank Sean and now Edgar, who is in the chat. 1306 01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:22,360 I do want to thank Ed, Jeremy and Brad for being here tonight as well. 1307 01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:23,600 Hey, it works. 1308 01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:27,840 You finally got it to work, Brad, after persisting. 1309 01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:29,200 I thought it only worked in Utah. 1310 01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:30,200 I mean, in Idaho. 1311 01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:31,520 Now it works in Utah. 1312 01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:32,520 See that? 1313 01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:33,520 Yeah. 1314 01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:39,960 So and real quickly, I do want to just run down my patrons since it is the last show 1315 01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:42,240 of the year. 1316 01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,520 We have Chris from Despo Geek. 1317 01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:46,560 We have Tony Espin. 1318 01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:51,040 We have Anthony Mackey, who has a show with the Middle Ages tonight. 1319 01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:54,520 We have Johan up in Sweden. 1320 01:19:54,520 --> 01:19:57,360 He's wrapping presents. 1321 01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:00,360 We have Jose in Connecticut. 1322 01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:02,720 We have Gabriel in Rue. 1323 01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,480 Gabriel in Rue, as Gabriel in New Jersey. 1324 01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:10,520 We have Mike Jones, who is also in New Jersey. 1325 01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:14,600 We have Steve Hoker, who is also in New Jersey. 1326 01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:18,340 And right next door to New Jersey is Steven Saylor in Pennsylvania. 1327 01:20:18,340 --> 01:20:23,680 So I do want to thank all my patrons for all of their support this year. 1328 01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,800 It means a lot to me. 1329 01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:35,920 And the one thing that I like to pride myself on is giving people a voice, allowing people 1330 01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,760 to vote, allowing people to appear here. 1331 01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:45,640 There are other shows that maybe have bigger followings and tout that kind of stuff, the 1332 01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,260 little other shows in the process. 1333 01:20:48,260 --> 01:20:57,560 But at least I do give a shout out to my patrons and not just the same old same old that retweet 1334 01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:01,200 stuff on the Internet for what it is worth. 1335 01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,440 Edgar, you need to join us. 1336 01:21:04,440 --> 01:21:07,120 Throwing down the gauntlet 2024. 1337 01:21:07,120 --> 01:21:11,040 Come on, hang out with us. 1338 01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:15,800 Edgar, if you join this, you would know who Robin Macaulay is. 1339 01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:17,800 So that's true. 1340 01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:20,160 Here you go. 1341 01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:23,160 Anyway, thank you guys. 1342 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:24,680 Season's greetings. 1343 01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:25,680 Happy New Year. 1344 01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:31,220 We'll be back at some point in in January. 1345 01:21:31,220 --> 01:21:37,840 And I will continue to put out shows on Patreon in the meantime and post stuff on Patreon 1346 01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:39,200 as well. 1347 01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:44,060 And there is some exciting stuff in the works. 1348 01:21:44,060 --> 01:21:45,440 Hopefully will come to fruition. 1349 01:21:45,440 --> 01:21:47,500 We shall see. 1350 01:21:47,500 --> 01:21:49,500 So that is all, folks. 1351 01:21:49,500 --> 01:21:54,840 Thank you so much for joining us tonight and we will see you next time right here on Signals 1352 01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:56,640 from Mars. 1353 01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:22,160 See you, folks.