Welcome one and all to episode 412 of Signals
from Mars. I'm your host, Victor, and we're back.
After what, a month away? Not on purpose. We'll
get to that in a second. There are a lot of repeating
themes for this episode. Did I say that we had
a good turnout of votes, that a lot of people
voted? joke and ikeed yes uh yeah because you
will hear me say uh a lot of people voted over
and over again uh anyway yeah it's cool turnout
uh 1989 uh good year for music every year is
a good year for music to be honest at least that's
my opinion uh if you don't feel that way i feel
sorry for you But anyway, yeah, so 80 albums
were voted on. I do say during the episode 81,
that is incorrect. Someone submitted Bad Brains
as Brains Quickness or I wrote it down incorrectly.
So I had separated the votes as Bad Brains Quickness
and Brains Quickness. And then after the show,
when I was running down the list to the patrons,
Off air, I realized my mistake. Now, it didn't
really affect the outcome of what's discussed
during the episode. It ends up moving from number
70 -something to number 50 -something with the
combination of the votes for both albums. So,
hey, I can admit when I make a mistake. I don't
think I'll have an issue with my dessert being
withheld as a result of messing that up. I don't
think anyone is going to be shaking their fists
or pointing their fingers at me. And if so, I'm
human, damn it. Anyway, quick shout out to the
patrons. Let's see. Hey, we lost one. Look at
that. So we have the current batch of patrons.
We have Sean Richman. We have Chris from Dust
Bowl Geek. We have Tony Espin, Anthony Mackey,
Ed Ferguson, Johan Edestrom. We have Metal Dan.
We have Chris Vaglio from the Song Swap Showdown.
We have the Metal Dentist, Gabriel Ruiz. We have
from Yarg Metal. Proudly sporting his T -shirt
during the episode, if you watch the YouTube
version. It is Mr. Brad Dahl, Dr. Poison himself.
We have Mike Jones. We have Jeremy Weltman. We
have Steve Hoker. And we have Steven Saylor.
Thank you, all of you guys, for your support.
We lost Pascal, looks like. I guess this was
not for him. And that sucks, but is what it is.
I can't hold a gun to anyone's head to have them
jump on over to Patreon. If you enjoy the show
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to get my other podcast, that is cool. That is
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you can provide, even if it's just sharing this
online. If you can tell from my voice. I've been
battling a bunch of nasty different things. We've
also had family issues with guests and different
people that were scheduled to do shows. We're
going to be playing catch up in May with regards
to that. So no biggie. I don't know that anyone
has missed out or missed us. If you have, I appreciate
it. Either way, we're back with this 1989 episode,
some technical difficulties, but I think we get
things sorted out to the point where it is entertaining
nonetheless. Let's see where your favorites of
89 end up on the list. Thanks for listening.
Here we go. Welcome one and all to this episode
of Signal from Mars. I'm your host, Victor. And
joining me tonight is, on the west coast of the
U .S., Metal Dan, Johan in Sweden, and Jeremy
in the U .K. We are finally back with another
live episode. We are live with our 1989... episode
a long time in the making the voting was great
for this and i project this to be a a fun episode
i think you guys will enjoy it quite a bit and
um a lot of voting took place as i said 81 albums
were voted on which is a new record for a um
a year end or a year episode. And we're going
to stick to the top 15 here. When this, when
the podcast format does come out of this episode,
I will post within the show notes, all 81 albums,
but we'll go 15 through 11 real quickly here.
And I've got a few. surprises in store because
what usually happens is as i'm going through
these lists i have metal dan i have brad who
are quick to the draw and as i'm describing albums
they automatically start to read off the same
wikipedia page that i'm reading and figuring
out what the album is beforehand so We're going
to be doing something different for 10 through
1, which hopefully will add to the entertainment
factor. I worked on this and I've had it in my
mind for a few weeks and I hope you guys think
it's cool as well. Anyway. Victor, can I just
interrupt? Sure. We have some people in the messenger
chat that are looking for a way in. Ed and Brad.
There seems to be some kind of problem, but I
just want to let you know. Tell them, Victor.
Oh, go to the week before on the Friday, last
Friday, and the link is there. Yeah, I'll paste
it in the group now as well. See comment earlier
before we joined that I almost said the same
thing to Victor and he paused and said, I said,
I do. I do support for a living. As somebody
said, project management, that's what I do. I
would like to be retired like Brad. So would
I. I can tell Johan while we're waiting that
I have the Hives tickets for later in the year.
Mm -hmm. Goal achieved. Never done. Really great
band, especially live. They're better live than
on record, my opinion. I'm looking forward to
it. A lot of energy. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's
something that we'll talk about in the coming
weeks, possible shows for the summer, because
there's a lot of options for us actually here
in Europe as well as while we're in the States.
It'd be interesting. Joining us is Mr. Ed. Mr.
Ed. Can you hear me? We can hear you, Ed. Mr.
Ed's good. Everybody calls me Mr. Ed because
of that show with the horse. Yeah. It's been
my whole life. I didn't want to call you that.
You know what I'm talking about, Johan, Jeremy,
Mr. Ed? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm American. My childhood,
yeah. It was a horse called Mr. Ed. Very, very
good looking horse though. Very good looking
horse. Here we go. Excellent. I'm waiting to
see if Brad joins in because Brad has a knack
for joining us right as the recording usually
starts. So the editing becomes always fun on
my end. Come on, Brad. If you're going to join
us, let's go. I'll be right back. Victor has
been challenged this whole time of getting things
synced up in the behind the scenes of what's
going on is what I've seen so far. Yes, it is.
It is always fun. And it's sometimes with these
episodes with so many people. Luckily, there
is a plug -in that kind of levels everything
out for us. Brad is playing the part of Brad.
Like I said, he likes for me to have challenging
edits. So welcome to the show, Brad. Hey, thanks,
guys. Glad to be here. What's going on with Patreon?
What do you mean what's going on with Patreon?
It went down for a few minutes. I still can't
get it to load. Luckily, I had it bookmarked
or loaded already. Yeah, there you go. I posted
the link last week. All right. There's Brian.
Hey, Edgar. You're right. I'm late. Actually,
I've been here for about 20 minutes, so not really
late. In any event, all right. So let's kick
this off. We're going to start out. At 15 here,
go 15 through 11, and then we'll jump on into
the top 10 with all the surprises on many different
levels. But anyway, this is a great dichotomy
out of the 81 albums. There's a lot of different
types of hard rock and metal mixed in here. So
I think everyone will be pleased. I don't know
that everyone will be pleased with the positioning
of things, but yeah, it should be good. Anyway,
kicking things off at 15 is the 1989 release
from Exodus, Fabulous Disaster. At 14, an album
that a lot of people voted on. It is Disney After
Dark, D .A .D. with No Fuel for the Pilgrims.
Man, that is an amazing, I think it's my favorite.
Absolutely. Is it? What, your favorite album?
Of theirs, I think. Oh, of theirs, okay. Okay.
All right. D -A -D. No fuel for the pilgrims.
Actually, this is my number one. I've not heard
of this. What? Yeah. What's the band name? D
-A -D. I think that's the hard part for them.
They were called Disneyland After Dark originally,
and Disneyland, of course, sued them for that.
So when you do searches D -A -D, you have to
use a hyphen, D -A. Stuff like that. And they
can be difficult to search. In the U .S., they're
not popular at all. It's difficult to search
for. I can't get merchandise from them here.
They're in Sweden or Norway, whatever. Denmark.
Sorry. That area. Yeah. But amazing band. No
disrespect. Interesting. I'll have to listen
to it later. Especially if Johan thinks it's
number one. Yeah, because it's... Especially
for the name. When that album came out, it was
very fresh. It felt so fresh. A Danish band that
sounded kind of like ACDC. The songs were very
melodic. I don't know. It felt so fresh. Absolutely
my number one that year. So if you haven't heard
that album, please check it out. It's great.
From Top to Bottom, Jihad, and all those songs.
They're huge in Europe. They do massive festivals.
In the U .S., they can't even get any attention.
And they're on the Monsters of Rock Cruise this
year. Cool. Next year. And the bass player only
has two strings. Oh, they're good. Jesper Binzer.
Yeah. Okay, cool. Edgar Winterson mentioned Nuclear
Salt, Handle With Care. That is on the list of
81 albums. I'll say that. So, okay. Let's move
on here. At 13, King's X with Gretchen Goes to
Nebraska. Number 12, Kiss. with Hot in the Shade.
And at 11, Alice Cooper with Trash. All right.
So let's get ready for the top 10 here. Number
10. Any guess as to what that is? I'll play it
again. Yep. Presto. Number 10. No, it is not
eccentric. It is what? Did you, was the drums?
Yeah. That was the room. That's the second song
from Headless Cross. It is Black Sabbath, Headless
Cross, Johan got Devil and Daughter. Man, Johan,
we need a prize for you. That was awesome. April
17th, my brother's birthday. 1989, recorded between
August and November of 88, recorded in several
studios, Soundmill, Leeds, West, Yorkshire, England,
Woodcray Studios, Berkshire, England, Amazon
Studios, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Album
is 40 Minutes, 13 Seconds. Label was IRS, just
recently reissued all those IRS albums. And the
producers were Tony Iommi and Cozy Pal. The singles
were Headless Cross, Devil and Daughter, which
Johan just guessed, and Call of the Wild. And
interestingly enough, the cover for Everywhere
But the UK has color, and the UK cover was black
and white. Hmm. Any explanation for that? I just
saw, let's see, alternate cover. Nothing that
I can see going over the notes real quickly here.
Because we only got color television in about
2021. Anyone want to say anything about this
album? I bought it when it came out, and it's
a great album. Great sounding. Not every song
is great, but perhaps four of them is really
good. So I really can recommend that album. But
I guess that everyone has heard it. So great
one. It's a great lineup. Yeah. That's for sure.
Yeah, Cozy was a good addition. I'm not sure
musically what he brought to, you know, as far
as writing, what he brought to the album. But
I think Johan nailed it. I mean, it's got four
or five good, strong songs, and then the others
are just kind of okay. But overall, I think it's
a fantastic album. I think it was, is this the
first one that Tony Martin really was the singer?
Yeah. Eternal Idol. I guess he redid Ray Gill
and stuff. Yeah. He just came in and redid the
vocals. This one, he was there. This one, I think
he wrote the lyrics. Yeah. It actually says that
I owe me Tony Martin and cozy pal wrote everything.
And then Jeff Nichols co -wrote all but two of
the tracks. Cool. Yeah. I, I mean, they got a
lot of crap from people that I know when this
album came out. I remember sitting in class and
these guys sitting in front of me were talking
about the video and they were mocking Tony Martin
saying that he sang with a lisp. And I was like,
what are you talking about? He didn't sing with
a lisp. You guys are. Anyway, they they didn't
like Tony Martin at all. And I don't think that's
a new thing. I think there's plenty of people
out there that don't like Tony Martin. But, you
know. I don't know what's not to like. He sounds
great on this album. Agree. I think everybody
sounds great on the album. Especially the drums
from Cozy. Yeah, well, you would hope if Cozy's
in the production, when one of the production
chairs, that he'd get the drum sounding the way
he wanted. So I love Cozy, pal. He's one of my
all -time favorite drummers. One of the guys
that I could just sit there and watch, you know.
I don't care about what else is going on on stage.
He's just, he's, he's awesome. Yeah. Anyone else?
Headless cross. All right. Let's move on to the
next one. Number nine. Wow. Any guesses on that
one? They're playing in San Diego at the end
of the month. What was that, Ed? Dan's going.
Oh. Yeah, they're playing in San Diego at the
end of the month, and the band is called Testament.
This band? Oh, you're right. At number nine?
Uh -huh. Who did you say, Dan? Testament. Testament.
At number nine. Testament, practice what you
preach. You can tell by the production of it,
even if you didn't recognize the song. You can
tell. Man, I saw them on this tour at the Country
Club in Reseda back in the day. I had an argument
with my, she's my wife now, then she was just
my friend. She didn't go with me. I had to go
on my own. She got mad at me for acting. badly
and so I fucked up that date and but here we
are so that's testament on that tour I've seen
them many times and like I said they're in San
Diego at the end of the month but they're not
playing LA for some reason and I should go you
should go Ed so 89 was a weird year for me Music
-wise, I told you in the past, my parents put
me into a treatment center when I was 19, and
it was April of 89. And I didn't follow all their
plans, so they didn't let me come back home.
So I was kind of living anywhere I could. So
I wasn't collecting music. And a lot of things
that came out this year, I may not have heard
until later. Although I do remember friends of
mine having this cassette when it came out. And
I think that's the way I heard it the most. But
it's got some good songs like Practice What You
Preach. I think that the production got better,
even though it's still not excellent. It was
at least better than the last two. It wasn't
a record that I got to sink into a whole lot,
and I didn't have any money to go to shows and
things like that. It's not as good to me as The
New Order, and especially the original, The Legacy.
But it was still a really good effort, and I'm
sure it's got songs that they probably play to
this day in concert, I'm sure. Yeah, when I talked
to Chuck Billy, that was one of the things he
mentioned was that how they hated the production
of the first two albums. So I'm sure they went
out of their way with this one. It was produced
by Alex Perialis. This did come out on Megaforce
Atlantic, 46 minutes, 6 seconds. Came out on
August 8th, 1989. Was recorded between February
and March of 89 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley,
California. And the singles off of this are Practice
What You Preach, the title track, Greenhouse
Effect, and The Ballad. So anyone else? The Ballad
got overplayed. I think that kind of wore me
out on this record because MTV was playing, I
remember now. That ballad, yeah. Right. Yeah,
it didn't need that. They were going up against
Metallica, and that wasn't... Okay, Metallica
then later on did a ballad, but it wasn't needed.
No. Right. Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, the title
track to me is my favorite song off of this.
It's hard, too, to handle Chuck Billy's voice
in a ballad. I think his vocals are perfect for
thrash metal, but when I hear him in that ballad,
it just gets old really fast. I mean, it depends
because I think Return to Serenity, which is
also a ballad, I think he's able to pull it off
more there because I think that's maybe a little
bit more akin to like a fade to black. Yeah,
it might depend on the style of this tune. That's
right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good point.
All right, so at number nine, Testament, with
practice what you preach. Let's jump on to the
next one here. Number eight. I got it. Anybody
else? Let's hear it then. That's great white.
Yep, Mr. Bone. I got to hear them play that the
other day, Sunday. I knew that with this album
that I needed to make it very short because Dan
was going to get this if I went anything more
than like a second or two. So yes, this is Great
White, Twice Shy, April 12th, 1989. recorded
at total access in redondo beach california 49
minutes 24 seconds came out on capital produced
by alan niven and michael lardy and these singles
were once bitten twice shy with slow ride being
the b -side the angel song with runaway being
the b and house of broken love with bitches and
other women as the uh b -side to that Dan, go
ahead. Yeah, that's one of the good days of when
you had to chase singles that would come out
and they'd have unique B -sides and songs that
I think they just came up with in the studio.
And those were good times. Simply Bands did that
back then. So a lot of cool, different, unique
songs. Absolutely huge album at the time. Great
White went out with Tesla and Kix on that tour.
So you can go wrong. Irvine Meadows packed highlight
of the of the summer. It was it was great. They
were they were hitting it all. They weren't as
bluesy yet, I don't think. It was a great time.
Brad, anything to add on to that? Yeah, there's
I got to say, like I said, I saw them Sunday.
They played Mr. Bone. And I think they're sounding
better now than they have in the last probably
15 years. So good for them. And yeah, this is
a good album. I think this is the, you know,
1989, I got my first CD player. And I think this
is the second CD I got. Okay. Cool. All right,
let's... Move on here. So far, we've gone from
Black Sabbath to Testament to Great White, like
I mentioned at the top of the show. This is going
to vary quite a bit from band to band as we move
up the list here. Number seven. Faith no more.
Johan got it. All right. So released on June
20th, 1989. Recorded between December 88 and
January 89 at Studio D in Sausalito, California.
The CD and cassette version were 54 -58 long,
while the LP was 43 -22. came out on Slash Reprise
Albums, or Records, and the producer was Mike
Wallace and Faith No More. Singles were From
Out of Nowhere, Epic, Falling to Pieces, which
is that intro there, Surprise You're Dead, and
Edge of the World. Johan, what do you have to
say about this album? First, I have to say that
the first time I heard it was probably 1990 or
1991, because I'm in Europe. So it was kind of
like that. Great album. Also very fresh. It felt
new. And I did see them at Roskilde Festival
in 1992 on this tour. Amazing. this album and
the next one is masterpieces both of them I think
I don't know what you think but I think that's
two very different and I don't know if it was
groundbreaking or not but it was to me it was
kind of melodic and a little bit rap and heavy
and And what do you say? The band had an image
that were fun and new, very new. Yep. That's
it for me. So I say the reason this album became
as popular as it is. It's because of the Metallica
effect. And what happens when you open for a
major big tour and the major headliner, Metallica,
fully embraces the band and tells everybody the
time to listen to the album, give it a chance.
And so they went out on tour with Metallica and
they went over great. And that's the reason why
we all listened to this album and then we all
said, yeah, you're right. This is really cool.
I think without that happening, I don't know
if it gets as popular as it does. I don't know
if I ever listened to it. I might have never
given it a chance. Some friends were kind of
talking about it, but it was different. So that's
why Faith No More, I think, exploded like they
did with that album. Yeah. Because the first
single, From Out of Nowhere, it's saying here
that it came out in the UK on October 30th, 89.
And then Epic came out in January of 90. They
re -released that because I remember hearing
From Out of Nowhere. Could have been a college
radio or may have been like once or twice on
MTV. And that song got like no play at all. it
wasn't until Epic came out that it started getting
massive play on the radio. And I mean, Epic and,
and falling to pieces were huge on, on us radio.
So, I mean, for a lot of people, it changed the
landscape of things. So to answer what you said,
Johan, I mean, it introduced Mike Patton to so
many people became a huge influence. to a lot
of people. I always felt that they kind of did
a lot of things of what Anthrax was doing with
imagery at one point in time with the shorts
and the colors and stuff like that. But they
did, I mean, their music was completely different
because they were mixing aspects of, as you said,
rap and melodies and funk and full -on metal
as well. I mean, going back to the track from
Out of Nowhere, the melodies in that, I mean,
just listen to that. And when you get to the
crescendo in that song towards the end where
he starts saying, one minute here, one minute
there, don't know if I'll ever die or whatever
the exact lyric is, or cry or die, I forget.
Anyway, but that melody gets stuck in your head.
heard that song covered by, I don't know how
many different bands, Halloween covered that,
for example, that track. So it goes to show that
they influenced newer bands and older bands that
were around. I mean, they were, I mentioned King's
X before. I think they were kind of like King's
X in the sense that once people got to know who
they were, they were kind of a musician's band.
You know, a lot of bands started talking about
them. So definitely laid the groundwork for a
lot of what came out after that. So anyone else
faith no more before we move on? All right. Let's
see. You guys have been able to guess all of
them so far. Number six. Yeah, I got it. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. I think it's Bangtango. I could be
wrong. Wait, wait, wait. No way. That's what
Guns N' Roses? That's wrong. Okay. Johan said
Guns N' Roses. Can I hear it again? That's what
it sounded like, but that's two years late. Number
six. Wow. I don't have it. I don't want to have
silence. No. Johan was not that far from it,
though. LA Guns. It's LA Guns. Jeremy said it.
Guns. LA Guns, cocked and loaded. So the album
was released. Let's see if this loads for me.
All right. Released in August, August 22nd of
1989. Recorded from April to June of 89 at one
-on -one in North Hollywood, California and Music
Grinder, Hollywood, California and Conway, Hollywood,
California. 54 minutes, 24 seconds. Released
on Vertigo. Was released on Mercury in the U
.S., if I'm not mistaken. Producers are Dwayne
Barron, John Perdell, and Tom Worman. The singles
off of this are Rip and Tear, Never Enough, and
The Ballad of Jane. This is their biggest charting
success. I will still remember that I gave Melanie
Strecco a 90 -minute cassette, a Maxell 90 -minute
cassette. And on one side, she recorded the first
LA Guns album for me. And on the second side,
she recorded this album for me. This is a lot
more polished than the first one. And the big
hit off of this is Ballad of Jane. I remember
going back into this before revisiting a lot
of these albums and thinking, yeah, I'm not going
to pick an album with one of these wonky ballads
that I don't care for. And going back and listening
to it and thinking, fuck, I really like this
song. I really like this other song. I really
like this other song. Thinking about how. You
know, Tracy Gunn's playing on this. It's so heavily
influenced by Randy Rhoads playing and thinking
about, OK, taking away that one ballad that I
don't really care for. This isn't a bad album
after all. So it is our number six. Anyone else
want to mention something about it? They. Jeremy.
Jeremy. No, not really. I'm not a massive fan
of it, to be honest. So I'll leave you guys to
speak about it. They worked and worked. They
did supports for Maiden. They supported everybody.
They went out. And then Ballad of Jane comes
along and it's a hit. This is the time of when
ballads do a lot. Probably White Testament maybe
did what they did. And it launched them into
headlining. So they headlined the local Irvine
Meadows. And here they were, 15 ,000 seats. They
finally got all the way up there, and I think
they went back down after that. But, you know.
Yes, they did. Yeah, you know, great album. And
I think the infighting did not help, because
after this, I think fame got to them maybe. I
wasn't there, but it seems like Tracy and all
of them, then they started having problems. Yeah.
Probably money, credits. When did Tracy leave
the band? uh, way later because it was Hollywood
vampires after this. And then the whole band
broke apart. And then after that, they put out,
um, damn it. I, I forget the name of the, the,
the fourth album. Uh, but that album was like
pieced together. Some of the, some of the tracks
have a drum machine on it. Some of it has, You
know, then after that, actually, Phil Lewis left.
Yeah. Then they kind of got back together again,
and then Tracy left. And, you know, it was a
whole big thing. And it's funny because the two
British fellows that you turned me on to, Brad,
their podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mojo and Hunzee.
Yeah. I had to stop listening to that show because
some of their opinions are just like way out
there. They hate a lot of American hard rock
and metal, but they were saying that Hollywood
Vampires is by far their best album. And I'm
like... Everybody's got opinions. You know what's
funny is their show this week, they both accidentally
picked the same album and it's that Faith No
More album that we talked about. Is it? What
are the odds? Yeah. Well, they, they also, the,
the, the, my, my tipping point was them, uh,
was them crapping all over Metallica's injustice
for all. So I was like, all right, I'm done.
They called it boredom for all or something like
that. So I'm like, all right, I'm done. Goodbye.
I have a quick question for Johan. Johan, LA
Guns, did they make any noise over there in Sweden?
No. Not really. Sorry. Doesn't sound like they
made much noise in Manchester. No. I mean, I
think that they're here, again, based on the
popularity of what, you know, a lot of the American
voters voted for. Yeah. All right. Cool. Let's
move on to the next one. Number five. I know
that was super long, Dan. You don't know what
it is? I do know what it is, and I can't get
it. Oh, okay, good. Is that Tesla? I think it's
Tesla. Tesla. Final answer. Yeah. It is the great
radio controversy. That is the, the intro to
a lady luck. I was going to do a hang tough because
the bass intro is so similar to a lot of other
songs. Uh, but then I said, Oh wait, there's
this one real quick backwards guitar thing at
the beginning of this other song. So let's do
that. But anyway, this was released February
1st, 1989, uh, was recorded in 88. Recorded at
Bearsville in Woodstock, New York, where Rush
recorded some albums as well and a bunch of other
people. The length is 59 minutes and 18 seconds.
Came out on Geffen. Produced by Steve Thompson
and Michael Barbiero. Singles are Heaven's Trail,
No Way Out, Hang Tough, Love Song, and The Way
It Is. Biggest song off of this is Love Song.
It is the one song that I have always skipped
on this album because once again, a sappy ballad,
which is just plugged in the middle of a really
good rock album. I played the ever living shit
out of this album back in the day to the point
where I. Had to stop listening to Tesla because
I listened to it too much. But going back and
listening to it, I like the majority of this
album. I mean, out of 13 tracks, I would say
there's probably 11 songs that I really, really
like off of this. I mean, even on Wikipedia,
they're roped into glam metal, which I don't
think they were a glam band at all. The look
wasn't there. And the playing was definitely
heavier than a lot of, like we're going to the
LA Guns, for example. We went from LA Guns to
this. This is a lot heavier than that LA Guns
album. They're more of a 70s hard rock band than
they are a Sunset Strip band. They're more 70s
YNT, in my opinion, than they are. poison for
example so um great radio controversy who wants
to talk about this one yeah it's a really good
album i like it i like early tesla i think it's
really good i'm actually quite surprised looking
through the track listing they don't play a lot
more of those songs live or they don't seem to
um because you like you say picture you know
you could probably pick six seven eight of those
songs and They'd all be good live tracks. But,
yeah, I really like early Tesla. Really good
band. I like this album. It's really good. Yeah,
as dumb as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
here in America, Tesla should deserve it for
their catalog. As you say, there's so many great
songs off this album, and they have a catalog,
so they can't play them all off this one. But
we all played this album over and over back when
this came out. They went on tour, like I said,
with Great White and Kix and huge. Johan, Tesla
make any noise in Sweden? No, again, sorry. Actually,
no, I don't think they ever play Sweden Rock.
They play, every band played there, but no, Tesla.
I remember them from MTV. The US version, but
I don't, not for me. Okay. I think this is a
great album. I think it may be, you know, looking
back as I listened to it with the other albums,
it's a little slickly produced. I think those
songs could benefit from a little bit harder,
harder edge on the sound, but they're great songs.
And other than like Victor said, love song. I'd
be okay if I never heard that song again. Ever.
Was the song that I was asked to play when auditioning
for a cover band? Oh, no. And I said, are you
fucking kidding me? I hate this song. I said,
okay, I'll do it. Yeah, there you go. You're
a pro. I played it, but no. Seriously, we can't
pick anything else. Well, we could do this or
Signs. I'm like, ah, do I want – That's equally
as bad. Do I want to put a 45 to my head or a
38? That's what you're asking me. The thing is
today, you just mentioned cover songs, is they
have albums of cover songs, and I think they
do cover it pretty well. So they're staying active
by doing that. My biggest – issue with their
covers or if you're going to cover deep purple
for example do we need another cover of space
trucking seriously i mean is is is there anything
else i mean you look at they also did if i'm
not mistaken like a popular steve miller song
and it's like nobody's gonna listen to this over
the fucking original Or if you're going to do
it, do something different with it. Just my opinion.
Yeah. I'm surprised. I like their cover of Space.
Maybe where you lived, Victor, they played Space
Trucking all the time, but I never heard it all.
On the radio? The Deep Purple song? The original?
Yeah, the original. Every single day. new york
metropolitan area you got you got space trucking
you got um my woman of tokyo you got uh hush
you got uh smoke on the water that of course
is universal overplayed but no those songs didn't
make it on the west coast as much No, he's right.
You know, and Dan, you'd like this. We used to
sing My Woman from Tokyo. We used to sing My
Woman from Ontario. Ontario, California, not
Canada. Yeah, Ontario. No, not Canada. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Inland Empire. That's awesome. Cool.
Good for you. Good on you. Yeah, but again, since
this was a song we didn't hear very much, I was
okay with him covering it. Yeah, Deep Purple
just didn't rule the airwaves. What if Johan
said it? Sorry? I bet Johan has heard a little
Deep Purple in Sweden. Yeah, you ever hear Deep
Purple in Sweden? Nope. Yeah. Sure did. All right.
Number four, and I almost gave this away before
the show. Number four. I got it. That's Wasp.
Yes! Oh, yeah. Fuck. This is a fun game. Oh,
man, Johan. It is Wasp. Mean man. Headless children.
We went from headless cross to headless children.
Look at how we've advanced. So anyway, this album
came out in April of 89. Clock's in at 48 minutes
and 32 seconds on Capitol Records. Produced by
Blackie Lawless. Singles are Mean Man. The Real
Me, which is almost what I said when we started
the show. And then Forever Free. All right. Who
wants to talk about Headless Children? Yeah,
they put out a lot of singles. Same thing. I
have some of their hard -to -find B -sides. They
were massive at the time on this album. And they're
playing the UK this year. Yeah. Europe. Yeah,
yeah, with. And Armored Saints, I think, joining
them for a couple. That's right, yeah. And Jeremy
should go. Yeah, I might try and go. I actually
listened to this album today and I really enjoyed
it. I don't think I've listened to this one as
much as some of the others because the other
ones have got more of their hit singles on, the
ones that really made it. I enjoyed it. I thought
it was good. I think once you turn up Wasp nice
and loud, they're a good band. They really get
you. I thought it was good. Yeah, in Sweden,
the Wasp are still... Not huge, but they go here
every second year. They play small towns and
they sell out. They played here in 98, perhaps,
and I got the honor to hang out with the whole
band for a whole day. Wasp are... They have...
In Sweden, Wasp are very famous because they
were on a... big big television show in 1984
when they released their debut album and they
toured here and the shocking of the stage performance
were so spectacular so the Swedish state TV made
a big thing about it so they have to thank the
Swedish TV for being so big here in Sweden and
they still are so they can go here and Play solo
shows, even though it's clubs, but it's good
for them. Even though it's a lot of backing tracks
nowadays. Yes. Thank you. Brad, anything on this?
No, I got nothing here. Sorry. Okay. Backing
tracks be damned. They sound good live probably
because they have it. If they need it, it's near
the end probably. So why not go and do it? I've
seen him twice now recently. So this is good,
I guess, at Blackies. I mean he has a reputation
of being difficult and a jerk for some people.
But whatever. He's a legend. He's pissed off
some people, but, yeah, he made his own path.
Chris Holmes doesn't like him, you know, whatever.
Money. I think that Blackie was kind of a gentleman.
Chris Holmes was crazy. He still is. That man.
I remember him very well. It was very hard to
be a sober person around him and to try to, no,
don't go there, don't go there, don't go there,
don't do that. Big guy. He was a two -year -old.
Yeah, he was like 6 '7", I think. That was a
good and very fun Saturday. I, it's gotta be
difficult to be in a band with people. And if
the other guy's crazy, how do you deal with that
day in day out? And then back in those days was
on a bus, you know, you didn't fly in and fly
out. You were stuck with each other. Yeah. So
bad shit's going to happen. Bad vibes are going
to happen, I guess. Yeah. If, if you guys listened
to a recent episode of a decibel geek where they're,
um, talking about the Rockin' Pot Expo. Courtney
Cronin is talking about, I think, the Monsters
of Rock Cruise, where Chris Holmes was on it.
And she tells a pretty interesting story about
him. I'll have to check that out. Actually, I
thought it was fairly humorous. It was hilarious.
Thanks for that tip. I'll check it out. There
you go. i have a chris holmes i mean i was that
day i was working as a chef and as a you know
i tried to take care of them uh that stains here
in sweden and chris holmes put on a robber's
mask and he ran out on the parking lot and chased
normal citizens here in my of Sweden just for
fun. And that's the truth. And that's a very
special thing to do for a grown -up man. Now,
do you think he would remember that he did that
today? No. No? No, because, you know, here in
Sweden we have a quite, we had a strict policy
against marijuana. And the band Wasp didn't have
that same policy. So it was in the 90s here.
It was, as I said, a strange day and a very fun
day. Nothing bad happened, but that memory lives
on forever. Great story. Great story, Johan.
Ed, any Wasp stories? No, I love their first
two records to this day, still love to listen
to them. But by this time, I wasn't paying attention.
And, you know, in the last few years with iTunes,
now that I can go back and listen to everything
easily, I put their entire catalog in my library.
And I just not really heard anything that. interests
me that much and it's kind of depressing because
i want to like it but i don't know i guess it's
just over the years i just you know like my more
extreme metal a bit too much sometimes and if
when it comes to listening to stuff more in that
vein that heavy metal vein it's uh you know stuff
that kind of connects with my earlier memories
i guess but i don't know it's just I love the
band, and I want to like it more than I do, but
it's just kind of a casual listen to me besides
their first two records. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Let's
move on here to number three. Number three. Modern
Rebirth. Monster Crew. It's – oh. Whoa. Johan
got it. Number three. I think this to me was
a surprise. At number three, it is Dr. Feelgood,
released August 28, 1989, recorded between 88
and 89 at Little Mountain. Sound Studios in Vancouver.
Length is 45 minutes, 7 seconds on Elektra. Was
produced by Bob Rock. Singles are Dr. Feelgood,
Kickstart My Heart, Without You, Don't Go Away
Mad, Just Go Away, and Same Old Situation. Who
wants to talk about this? Yeah, it's an absolutely
brilliant album. I love it, Victor. I know that
you're not so keen on it, but I think it's great.
I play it quite a lot. It's probably one of my
favourite Motley Crue albums. I think it's got
my favourite Motley Crue song on the album, Kickstart
My Heart. I love it. I love Dr. Feelgood, the
title track. I just think it's a real good time.
of songs, you know, by a band that doesn't give
a shit and they just play it and they play it
really well on this. I think it's really well
produced. It's really, there's got a lot of commerciality
on it, which I like as well. You know, it's got
that sort of 80s commerciality, but I think it's
really stood the test of time. It's a great album.
Proper rock and roll album. Johan, how about
you? Jeremy said it all so well. So great. So
many good songs on it. I mean, everybody knows
the story. They almost came back from the grave
and did this excellent record. So what Jeremy
said, it's a great album and it still is today,
production -wise and song -wise. Brad? All I
know is that I feel like there's not a day that
goes by that I don't hear the beginning of Kickstart
My Heart. It's like everywhere in sports. You
can't avoid it. I've heard it enough. Yeah, I
got nothing to say here. I'm glad Jeremy likes
it. How about that? It's not metal. We need something
that Ed can really get his teeth into here. He's
gone now. He's coming back. It's offended by
my crew. It's not in my top 10, but I know that
I listened to it when it came out. I think it's
a 50 -50 album on the songs. I like the earlier
days. It was. better than some of the other stuff
they have in their catalog. I can listen to some
of it now. And I saw them on the tour. But yeah,
I'm a fan of it. Cool. All right. Okay, so I
like this album when it came out. My biggest
peeve with this album is arguing with people
as to this being their best album. Oh, wow. And
the band saying this is their best album. And
it's Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue. There's, in
my opinion, and this is just my opinion, there's
no way that this is better than Too Fast for
Love and Shout at the Devil. Or even Theater
of Pain. The singles off of this outside of Kickstart
My Heart, which I can listen to, I can't listen
to any of the other songs. Wow. They're probably
the band that I've seen most live in my lifetime.
And hearing Don't Go Away Mad and Same Old Situation
every fucking time. Drives me crazy. And hearing
that on the radio, and that's the thing, U .S.
radio, you hear all of those songs, at least
New York metropolitan area, all of those songs
got played every single day on the radio. Every
day. Where I'm thinking to myself, are you serious?
You're not playing anything off of any of the,
well, no, excuse me. Add smoking in the boys'
room to that list as to what they would play.
On the radio. So I think that this is an album
much. This is their Van Hagar album to me in
the sense that I liked it when it came out. And
as time went by, I lost interest in this album
for them to say that it's their best album, I
think, is a joke. Yes, it's their biggest selling
album. Yes, I get it. I get it that this is the
album that will heat their pools. for a few decades
to come um but the deep tracks slice of your
pie rattlesnake shake nikki sweet she goes down
time for change to me none of those songs are
strong i mean i get it the singles are these
what's that even the titles sound cheesy just
listen to you go through yeah and this is the
album To me, Motley Crue became an imitation
of themselves. This is where for the longest
time they said, oh, no, don't compare us to all
these L .A. strip bands, to all these glam bands.
We were here before them. Oh, yeah, but we're
going to put out an album just like them because
that's what's selling right now. And I will say
that everything that came out after this, In
my opinion, it's probably better than this. And
I know that's not a popular opinion. But there
are songs on their subsequent albums that to
me are better than this. Anyway. Rant over. But
we don't have that same radio climate that you
have in the US. Speaking only for me, but it
was a bit more exclusive than it was perhaps
for you in the New York, New Jersey area. You
didn't hear those songs on the radio. Never.
Every day. To this day, you hear them every day.
Yeah. So a different thing. All right. So I think
for a lot of people, at least for me, when I
started tallying this, I thought that that was
possibly going to be our number one. Just due
to popularity. I will say that the top three
albums got voted on a lot more than every other
album. Two and three are only separated by two
points. And one and two are separated by one
point. Whoa. No way. Up until the last. You know,
I really had a hard time ranking these albums
for this year. You know, there wasn't a clear
number one for me. And maybe that kind of shows
in the voting as well. It wasn't like this one's
definitely number one. I mean, all the past years
in the 80s that we've done, I've had like really
strong first four or five albums and then kind
of, you know, had to figure it out for the rest
of it. But this year, yeah, I had no clear thought
on any of them. None of them really stood out.
So I'm curious to hear number two and three,
or two and one, excuse me, because that was three,
right? Yeah, that was three. For me, I would
say that there were some clear -cut favorites.
But anyway, all right. So number two. Number
two. I got it. I got it. I got it. You got it?
Yeah, it's Skid Row. It is indeed Skid Row. I
heard a bunch of those songs last week, too.
Released January 24th, 1989. Recorded in 88.
Recorded at Royal Recorders, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Length of the album is 39 minutes, 28 seconds.
Released on Atlantic. Produced by Michael Wagner.
And singles are Youth Gone Wild, 18 and Life,
and I Remember You. Johan, just so you know,
all of these songs. are on US radio. And this
is a band from my home state of New Jersey, outside
of Sebastian Bach, who is from Ontario, Canada.
And I did not get into Skid Row probably up until
the last five or six years because they were
on the radio, on every local radio station so
much that I couldn't stand them. Because it was
the same songs over and over and over again.
And it was funny, when I finally listened to
this album, I started realizing that Eddie Trunk
had played every single one of the songs off
of this album on his radio show at one point
or another. So I had already heard the album.
So anyway, Brad, you got to see Sebastian Bach
at M3 last week. Is he still able to pull these
songs off? Yeah, I've heard other reviews from
people that just watch videos on YouTube and
people are saying, oh, he didn't sound very good.
And I've seen plenty of bad sounding videos of
him, but I thought he did really well. He came
across really well. It's kind of interesting
for him being a headliner for that night. Because
in years past when he's played the festival,
he's been really early in the day. But people
showed up for him. I mean, and people loved what
he was doing. What was really cool is he played
not just all Skid Row songs. He started off with
a couple of songs off his new album, which was
good. And he played one American Metalhead. He
played that, which is I really like that album.
So he sounded really good. Skid Row is kind of
a band that I just never really just hit me with
their music. But Friday night, the songs kind
of resonated with me. I don't know. Maybe it's
just he has a really good band. That helps. And
he comes across very, very likable on stage,
which is not what you would expect. Shelly liked
him. Shelly, you know, normally she'd be like
after three songs, let's get out of here. But
she, we, we stayed till the end and, and yeah,
so there you go. Somebody brand new being thrown
into the mix. I mean, I'm sure she's heard some
of those, the songs that you mentioned, but yeah,
she, he was, he was good. Okay. I got, I got
to say he was, he was good. So there you go.
There you go. Skid row boys. Anyone else on Skid
Row? Five -time platinum selling in the U .S.,
which means it was huge. It went over on the
West Coast as well, too, on all the radio and
all the songs. And sonically, as we've spoken
about other bands, this one I think is mixed
really well. So it plays really well. It plays
really well loud. It's a perfect balance. The
bass, the drums, the guitar. They nailed it.
At the time, that's all you listen to. And it
was a little bit different at the time coming
out. You're getting away from Poison and the
lighter stuff. And they were a little bit heavier.
Of course, Metallica comes along and kills that.
But still, and I think they teamed up with Pantera
not too long after this. So, yeah, we wore the
album out to where you can't play it anymore.
You don't need to hear 18 and Life ever again.
Never, and just stop. So that's what happens
is you listen to it too much. Yeah, it's the
ballad thing. It's like enough. But pretty much
all of these albums have the ballad, right? True.
Yeah, Testament, Great White, LA Guns, Tesla.
I'm not sure about the Wasp album, but Motley
Crue had several, and this had several. Yeah,
it was mandatory during those years. Yeah. Yeah,
the record company is probably leaning on it.
Yeah, because they made them for me. I like balance.
You're the guy. I like a good, solid power balance
from the late 80s, early 90s. There you go. What's
your favorite food to cook while listening to
a ballad? Oh, it's always some selfish. Mussels,
spaghetti vongole. Oh, vongole. A la vongole,
yeah. I think at this point, Johan likes to move
it from the kitchen to maybe the bedroom. That
is true. Oh, man. All right. There's another
show right there, Victor. What's your go -to
song in the bedroom? There you go. Top ten. Top
ten bedroom songs. Could be a topic for the future.
Let's talk about that Slayer bone again. I'm
sorry. Sometimes you've got to hit your Slayer
bone. Wait, wait, wait. Where'd that go? Tickle
my Slayer bone. I love having my Slayer bone
tickled. Rock and roll. That's it. All right.
So let's recap this real quick. At 10, Black
Sabbath, the Headless Cross. At 9, Testament
with Practice What You Preach. At 8, Great White
with Twice Bitten. At seven, Faith No More with
The Real Thing. At six, L .A. Guns Cocked and
Loaded. At five, Tessel with The Great Radio
Controversy. At four, Wasp with The Headless
Children. At three, Motley Crue with Dr. Feelgood.
At two, Skid Row with their self -titled debut
album. Any guesses as to... What number one is,
or you guys just want me to go with the... I
think I know. Well, I can say what it is. I know.
Sodom. Great agent orange. Jeremy? The cult.
Metal Dan? It's not Lizzie Borden. I don't know
what the number one is, but it's not mine. Brad?
It's not Badlands. I'm looking at my list here,
and I don't. It's not Leatherwolf. I don't know.
That's a West Coast thing. Not Leatherwolf. Ed,
any guesses? It's not except. Sepultura? No.
Yes. Yes. There you go. It's not. Could I get
that lucky tonight? It's not Dirty Looks. All
right. All right. So, Johan, it should be Rush,
right? It's not Rush. Presto. It's not that great
a sound. Number one. Oh, wait. Where's the sound?
Number one. Oh, you got to be shitting me. All
right. Hold on. Let me fix this. Comment if you
know it, Victor. It's Steve Stevens. Atomic Playboy.
Atomic Playboys. No, it is not. I bet Dan has
some. Oh, why is this just working? Hold on,
hold on. Yeah, I do. I knew it. I wish I could
have seen more. Nothing like technical difficulties
on the air. It's not Annihilator, which is almost
a perfect album. It's not, oh, Blue Murder. It's
not Badlands. It's got to be the Celts. Udo.
Number one. Oh, come on. That's it? Are you going
to give us? That's all I'm going to give you
guys. I've been hearing this in my head. Is that
Badlands? Badlands. Badlands. Yeah. Badlands.
Must be. You sure that's Badlands? Yes. That's
the final answer. But that's what I'm going with.
That's one of the widest album covers of that
year. That's the cult. Besides Pump by Aerosmith.
It's not that. Seeing if Edgar Winterson had
a guess or not. What did he have? I am pleased
to say because I'm very happy with This result,
the number one album, as voted by you guys, at
one point, Skid Row's self -titled debut is the
self -titled debut by... Who? Whoa. Yes! Yes!
Released May 11th. Released tomorrow. In 1989,
recorded October 88 through January 89, recorded
at one -on -one studios, Los Angeles and the
record plant in New York City. Thankfully, it
is listed as blues rock and hard rock, and no
one decided to throw glam metal in there. 49
minutes, 33 seconds. Label was Titanium Atlantic.
Producers, Paul O 'Neill. And Badlands, the single
was, as you guys heard there, Eric Singer with
Dreams in the Dark with the B -side being Hard
Driver. The Edgar Winters song. Dan, Badlands.
All I could – when I think of Badlands, it's
controversy as it's not available and it's banned
now. Something happened. Something happened.
We unfortunately had a lead singer who willfully
infected people with AIDS. And as part of the
settlement is that these albums can not be re
-released. Rock Candy or somebody along those
lines was going to re -release it. And when it
was about to be re -released, it was pulled from
the shelves because of... A court order because
settlement with the families was that neither
of these two albums could be re -released. I
am ignorant to the situation and really – I don't
know. Don't judge. I don't know. And I have the
original. I listened to it. It wouldn't be my
number one. It's good. It sounds great. It's
not all that. Yeah, I'm with you on this, Dan.
I mean, when the album came out, I was like,
yeah, this is pretty cool, but it's kind of...
I like the second album better, but that's me.
But I still think this is just a great, great
album performance -wise. I mean, Jakey Lee was
just tearing it up. Say what you want about Ray
and his escapades. He was an incredible vocalist.
I mean, really, really just unbelievable how
good he was. So, and I got to say the bass playing
on these Badlands albums is just fantastic. I
mean, it's good old, good old just jamming out
and not just following the guitar player. And
Greg Chaison or whatever his name is. Chaison.
Yep. Chaison. Yeah, he does a great job. It's
a good sounding album. But it didn't fit into
any of the niche of this year either. I mean,
there was not a single band doing what these
guys were doing. These guys absolutely did not
chase what was going on at the time. No ballad
that would fit into any of these other albums.
So I got to give them credit for that. They did
their own thing, probably paid a price commercially
for it. I don't know that they ever really headlined
any decent shows or anything like that. But I
never got to see them. Dan, you ever get to see
them? If I did, I don't recall it. It's not in
my memory. Wow. Okay. Yeah. I would have loved
to have seen them. But anyway, I think it's a
great album. I was, I got to say it was number
two on my list. So there you go. Anyone else?
Badlands? Oh, and if you want to hear it, if
you don't, can't buy it, can't stream it, you
can hear it on yardmetal .com. So I have a question.
Go ahead. So I didn't hear this album until probably
the last 10 to 20 years. If I even did hear some
of it, I don't know how I did because, as you
said, it's not available to buy or stream. But
this is more like a bluesy hard rock band, correct?
Yes, correct. And so what were Jake's solos like
on this album compared to what he did in Ozzy?
His tone is just incredibly raw, just like guitar
plugged straight into the amp and just burning.
I mean, he's just blistering. In fact, everybody,
the drums, Eric Singer's playing drums on this
one. Yeah, everything is just, these guys are
just rocking and just playing. It's kind of like
good old humble pie kind of thing where the guys
are just really putting their soul into every
note of the song. Are his solos more like a bluesy
rock -based solo and less shredding, I would
think, with the music? Yeah, but they're still
shredding. Yeah, tone -wise, it's nothing like
what he did with Austin. But, I mean, you're
crossing, like, Jake's fiery solos with, and
I don't want to say a Stevie Ray Vaughan sound
because it isn't as clean as Stevie. But there's
still a lot of like fire and oomph to it. This
was my number one. I have no problem admitting
it. I absolutely love this album. I like the
second album more, but I think this is a masterpiece
because you listen to Jake soloing with Eric's
playing and with Greg Chason's bass playing behind
it. They're going in completely different directions,
and it all works. Like, Greg Chason isn't doubling
Jake. Greg Chason playing walking bass, he's
doing a lot of different, like, complicated patterns.
And he's got his own bass tone, too. Johan, you
got this album? No, I haven't. I only have heard...
one or two songs of it. So I can't really comment
on that. Yeah. Yeah. As a, yeah, as a bass player,
you'd have to, you'd have to love this stuff.
The guy's great tone and a great playing. And
it's just, yeah. I'm kind of, I'm kind of now
making, I want to make this my number one, Victor.
Too late. Too late. We all made it number one.
There you go. Your number two is still factored
in there. Yeah. And you got number one without
really any commercial success. I don't know how
much this sold. Probably didn't go platinum,
did it? I think it went gold. I think the album
did go gold. Yeah. Yeah. So for an album to not
sell much, not be available now to the world,
other than on Yard Metal, and it made number
one with our group. That's pretty impressive.
No, I agree with that. And that's why, to me,
I was happy that this ended up as number one.
Because I wasn't expecting it at all, even though
I had personally voted it number one. I said,
there's no way. Like I said, I thought Motley
Crue's Dr. Feelgood, because of its popularity,
was going to be a runaway number one. I said,
there's no way. And as I'm tallying things up,
I'm like, shit, a lot of the top 10 is a lot
of things that I voted for. So for the first
time, there's a lot of stuff in here that I really
enjoy. I mean, honestly, outside of three albums
that didn't make my top ten, the rest are kind
of in there. Yeah, I'm kind of amazed that the
Kiss album ranked up there with the – I mean,
I thought Ace's album was actually a lot better
than the Kiss album. I agree with that as well.
I think to me, Trouble Walking is Ace's strongest
solo album. That's exactly what I was going to
say. Hot in the Shade is hot in the shit. I mean,
it's one of their worst albums, but it just shows
the popularity of the brand and the logo. I mean,
the album is just a bunch of demos. It's, you
know, it's got. a ton of ghost players and drum
machines on it. And they recorded in the same
studio that appetite for destruction was recorded
in just to see if they could get their own appetite
out of there. I mean, it's just the whole ridiculousness
of them chasing fads and trying to be popular.
So, yeah. Hey, I got to throw one out there for
Dan. Dan, did Lord Tracy meet your top 10? I
love Lord Tracy. I still listen to them today.
They didn't make my top ten. But let me tell
you, Lords of Babylon, they toured with Ace and
they broke in the U .S. because of that, in my
opinion. And they have live album on streaming
and I listen to it. I still want to see them
now. I saw them back then, and I want to see
them today. They still hold up, and I miss them.
The singer is amazing. The bass player is amazing.
What a band. Let's go to Texas because that's
where they play, and I'm probably going to have
to get on a plane when they finally do it again
because they've done it like two years ago, I
want to say. They put a show together, and it's
like, I got to go. One of these times, I got
to make the effort. I'll meet you there. Johan,
you ever heard of Lord Tracy? No. That's a fun
album. Never heard of him. Jeremy, Lord Tracy,
for those that don't know, features Terry Glaze,
the original lead singer of Pantera. Yeah, so
that's the – I have that album in my collection.
Yeah, and Phil does it better. But, yeah, that's
how he broke it. Screw that. Lord Tracy, he's
got a great thing in that band. There's enough
albums. I wish they made more. That album, that
Lord, not that. Yes. Lord Tracy is on the list.
People voted for that album. That's a perfect
album. I missed it, Brad. I missed it. I screwed
up. That's all right. So I'm going to challenge
everybody here who hasn't listened to this album,
Deaf Gods of Babylon. Listen to it. I mean, it
covers a lot of territory there. They kind of
remind me of what some an old Swedish band would
do. They kind of trying to spread the music around
to touch all different kinds of areas rather
than just every song is kind of the same. But
it's all good. It's it's a really, really good,
solid album. Deaf Gods of Babylon, Lord Tracy.
They're a tight playing band. But they like to
screw around and play, kind of like what Metallica
does, and they don't take themselves so seriously.
Not at all. And that background squeal thing,
that ooh -ah thing, I can't do it, is, yeah,
damn, it's so good. I've listened to it over
and over, and I haven't really gotten tired of
it, that live thing. Okay. There you go. There
you go. Edgar, if you're still there, listen
to that album, Deaf Gods of Babylon. I could
listen to it. I would geek out with you on that
album. That's amazing. We'd have a good time
talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love
that album. Okay. Why did we hijack this, didn't
we? Number one, I fucked up. That guy, Nick,
missed kicks that one year. Yeah. See that? You're
kicking yourself about that, huh? Yeah. All right,
cool. So I do want to thank everyone who voted
for this 1989 special. Like I said, great turnout.
Great turnout of the list. A lot of good music
came out this year. The full list will be posted
up on signalsfrommars .com when the podcast audio
version is released so you guys can see where
your picks ended up. A lot of great music. But
there you go, Brad trying to do his D .O. with
the lasers. In any event, again, thank you guys
for listening. Thank you guys for watching live,
those of you that have. And thank you, Metal
Dan, Johan, Ed, Jeremy, and Brad for being here
tonight. And Edgar Winterson in the chat. We
will see you guys next time right here on Signals
from Mars. See you, folks.