Signals From Mars – Episode 371 – 2023

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Welcome to the first episode of 2024.

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It is episode 371 of Signals from Mars with me, Victor M. Ruiz, welcoming you to the new

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year with an episode discussing our favorite albums to be released last year in 2023.

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You guys know the drill, all the voting, all that stuff.

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We’ll talk about it next!

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Kind of cool that this episode is 371 because that way it’s easy to keep track of what episode

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is what during the year.

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So hey, it’s the first, it’s 371, the second of the year, 372, and I’m sure I’ll forget

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by next week.

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But at the moment it seems like a cool concept.

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Anyway, yeah, I said at the beginning, you know, like all you guys know, right, because

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hopefully there are new listeners, there are new people being turned on to the show.

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And I need to explain this process every time, which I have no problem doing.

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But what we do is we vote for, in this case, our 10 favorite albums to have come out in

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2023.

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Each album gets points based on where it is located on your list.

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So if it’s number one, it gets 10 points.

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If it’s number two, it gets nine, all the way down to 10, which gets one point.

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And we do this to help spread the love of music that’s come out in 2023.

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So many people just give up and say, yeah, I’m just going to keep listening to this Zeppelin

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album over and over and over again.

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Me?

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Kind of sick of listening to the same stuff over and over again.

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Yeah, look, I love Zeppelin.

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I’ll go back and listen to them once a year, probably.

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Or if a song pops in my mind here or there, I’ll listen to it.

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But I don’t actively search it most of the time because I’ve been listening to it for

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46 years.

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The same songs for 46 years.

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So I don’t know, man, I like listening to new things.

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I like turning people on to new bands and not even that.

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Maybe you aren’t cognizant of a band that you love who’s released an album.

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You know, there’s so much information out there.

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There’s too much information overload.

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So you’re not aware of a band like Docken, for example, who released an album this year.

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Overkill who released an album.

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Metallica, obviously, a lot of people know that they released an album this year.

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So that’s what I try to do here.

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I try to spread the love of just music in general, some stuff you’re going to like,

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some stuff you’re not going to like, but just listen to what what we’re discussing.

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And if something appeals to you, appeals to you based on what we’re discussing, then go

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check the band out.

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You’ve got all these streaming platforms or you can sample something beforehand.

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And you know, if you’re part of the crowd that says, I don’t use streaming services.

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All right.

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You got YouTube.

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Check out a video.

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Check out a video by the band.

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If it turns you on enough, support them.

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Pick up their album, you know, or even if you if you like using the digital formats

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to purchase stuff, do it that way.

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Whatever whatever works for you.

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I do want to thank you guys for checking this episode out.

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I say this all the time.

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There’s a million other things that you can be checking out right now, but I appreciate

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that you’re here with me right now listening to this episode.

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Welcome all to the December 22nd, 2023 edition of signals from Mars.

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I’m your host, Victor.

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And joining me are Jeremy Welton in the UK and in Kentucky and like the flash there at

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Ferguson.

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How are you gentlemen?

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Rocking and rolling.

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Yeah, yeah, doing well.

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Thanks.

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Cool.

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So this is the last show of the year.

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And as we’ve made a tradition, the last show is people voting on their favorites for the

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year.

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And we’re going to do things a little differently today because, well, we got a kind of a low

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voter turnout here.

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And we’ve only got a few albums where things kind of overlapped.

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And if you followed any of these shows, you know that the albums that make it towards

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the top of these lists are the ones that multiple people vote on.

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So we’re going to do things a little different.

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We are going to talk about the top seven albums that were voted on because those were the

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ones that coincided with other people’s votes.

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And we are going to have Ed and Jeremy discuss their top 10 picks of the year as well.

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So and at some point during the show, Brad mentioned that he would be joining us.

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So we’ll see how that all pans out.

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And yeah, this is great.

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I have to reset this every single episode.

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But let me see here real quickly.

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Let’s just why didn’t that work?

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Excellent.

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Anyway, and this is all out of order.

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All right.

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Well, as the door said, we’ll take it as it comes.

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So anyway, the T-shirt got signals from Mars T-shirt.

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We’ve got sales from Mars hoodie.

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Yes, I’m wearing one today.

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We’ve got the signals from Mars windbreaker jacket.

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We also have the signals from Mars bomber jacket.

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Oh, yeah.

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After popular demand.

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We’ve got the baseball cap.

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For the winter, we’ve got you covered with the beanie.

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And for Brad Dolla and all of his shenanigans, he loves the bucket hats.

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So a bucket hat as Brad would wear.

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There you go.

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See that?

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A Brad hat.

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Oh, I got to rename it.

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Brad hat and Brad hat.

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There you go.

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So anyway, we’re going to start things off with the seventh most voted album here.

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This one came out, I guess, towards the end of the year.

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And it’s a band that’s been around for a while and not going to lie to you guys.

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Doesn’t surprise me.

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But that is what it is.

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Multiple people voted for it at seven.

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It is Raven with all hell’s breaking loose.

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Nice.

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So Jeremy, was that on your list by any chance?

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Yeah, it was on my list.

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Definitely.

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Okay.

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Anything you can say about the album?

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Yeah, I mean, the thing is, you know what you’re going to get with Raven, don’t you?

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They play very similar sort of stuff from album to album.

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They always remind me of the British Anvil.

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Everything’s done a little bit with a tongue in cheek, but we like that because music should

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be fun and they sort of make it fun.

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They sort of made their own genre, athletic rock, rather than sort of general heavy metal

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like hard rock.

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They play everything really fast, even though they’re getting on a bit now in years.

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And I thought this was a really good album.

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It was well produced.

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You know, as I say, you know what you’re going to get is have the usual sort of riffs that

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you’re expecting, the songs you’re expecting.

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It was a really decent album and you play it loud, you’re going to enjoy it.

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Great band.

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Cool.

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Ed, you seem to be agreeing to a lot of this.

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I do.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And you said it sounds like Raven, you know, so you’re not getting anything terribly new.

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But you know, they’re such a classic band and a part of our metal history.

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I feel really proud of them for how well of a record they’ve made.

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And I’ve kept it in my playlist all year.

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So it’s not a record that I could probably listen to the whole thing.

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Of course, it’s just, you know, there’s such a gluttony in music.

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I feel like I say that about everything now.

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You know, it’s hard to listen to a whole album worth of stuff of anything.

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But like I said, it’s been a good jam every time, you know, iTunes puts it in my shuffle.

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Yeah, I think we’ve become maladjusted with the advent of the playlist where we can kind

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of pick and choose what kind of stands out to us.

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And we don’t necessarily have to take in an entire album.

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There are some of these albums that I went back and listened to.

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And some were better than what I remembered them.

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And others were not as good as what I remembered them.

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Where similar what you’re saying, Ed.

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That happens a lot.

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Yeah.

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You think, okay, well, yeah, so there’s three good songs off of this.

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The other ones.

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All right.

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So it’s kind of like the C version of this other song of theirs.

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So let me just, you know, add these other two, which are cool to the playlist and just,

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all right, okay album, but maybe not as strong as what I originally thought.

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Whatever they’re doing now is worlds better than the records that they were producing

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kind of mid to late 80s.

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I’m kind of forgetting the name of those records all of a sudden.

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But you know which ones I’m talking about.

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You know, after the all for one live record, whatever they, two or three records after

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that, they, yeah, this stuff is much better.

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Yeah.

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A lot more thrashy.

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Like kind of like the Raven, you know, that influenced bands like Metallica in the beginning.

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They’re kind of back to that sound to me.

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They got the mojo back really.

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I think there’s, they’re really sort of playing for what they want to do now.

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And rather than thinking they’ve got to do something commercial or, you know, I guess

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again, the production can help.

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That’s right.

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All those bands are getting pressured to do that in the eighties.

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If you wanted any kind of success, they were being made to do that stuff.

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Weren’t they?

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Yeah.

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It’s nice that some of these bands aren’t caring anymore because they can do it on their

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computer and put it on the internet themselves now if they want to.

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Yeah.

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And I think that’s the perfect point where they, they, they’re not going to sell a whole

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ton of albums.

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They’ve got a diehard following that’s going to pick up pretty much everything that they’re

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going to release.

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And at the same time, with, as you mentioned, Ed, with the advent of being able to make

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a lot of stuff at home and trade files and they’re drummers and producer.

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So I’m sure all of that helps.

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And you know, I’m sure that as you’re saying, Ed, you know, they, they kind of started to

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steer away.

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They kind of tried to go that commercial route that the labels wanted them to go.

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And now they don’t have to do that.

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And there’s still labels that are interested in them, but they’re interested in Raven for

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being Raven, not, you know, Raven for trying to be Motley Crue per se.

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Yeah, good for Raven to make a, the seventh position.

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They deserve it.

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Cool.

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So moving on to number six, a band that I personally know, Angela’s of Patrida with

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aftermath.

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Yeah.

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I think that this album to me is kind of a return to form for the band, not to say that

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the self-titled album that they released previously was bad.

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I just think that that album was, was heavy.

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It’s probably their heaviest album top to bottom, but I think it was missing some of

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the key ingredients that they brought back for this album, mainly some of the melodies,

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some of the change of paces with some of the songs where everything doesn’t have to be

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just full bore.

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There’s, there’s a little more variety on this album, which I thought that they were

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kind of finding their stride on, on, on the album before the self-titled album.

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And I think that there was kind of a backlash here, here in Spain, because people didn’t

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interpret what they were doing in the same fashion.

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I think that because they were experimenting with a lot of different things that people

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weren’t maybe appreciating some of the stuff and wanted a more heavy album.

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So they delivered that.

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But now it seems like they’ve come back to really experiment with certain things again.

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And I think it kind of came out pretty well.

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Ed, this was on your list as well.

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What do you think of this album?

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I agree with what you just said.

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It’s interesting to hear you say that about the self-titled record, because that’s the

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first album I heard by them.

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They’re a newer band for me that I’m just getting into.

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And I loved every track on that record.

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So to hear you say that kind of makes me excited to dig into their older records some more.

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I’ve got them all.

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Because I spent so much of the year trying to listen to the new stuff so I can do this

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show with you, I don’t get into those as quickly.

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And this record, I agree, it seems to have a little more variety, a little more melody.

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Man, that song they did with Jamie Josta, Snob.

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What a good thrash that one was.

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I also liked Jurnica.

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You know how to say that?

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Jurnica.

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Jurnica.

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Of course, Cold, the single, that’s a good track.

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So far, everything I’ve heard on this record, I have not heard a bad song by this band pretty

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much, nor a bad guitar solo.

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The only thing that I wish is that they had a little more of the heavy jug sound, because

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I just love that.

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As much as I love thrash, I always like the bands that have more of that Metallica anthrax

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bottom end to it, because that just makes it heavier.

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So when I want to listen to thrash, that’s what I’m looking for, bands like that.

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This music is produced great.

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But yeah, I wish it was just a little bit heavier, but man, I still can’t complain.

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It’s great stuff.

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Any thrash metalhead that hasn’t heard this band needs to just go buy it.

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You’ll be happy you did.

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Very cool.

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Let’s see here.

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Brad Doll is joining us.

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Hey, Brad.

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After the show tonight.

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And Brad, we’ve decided that I need to update and change the name of this item.

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From a signals from Mars bucket hat to a signals from Mars Brad hat.

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Oh, that’d be good on you.

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Yeah, I’m definitely gonna have to get one of those.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I’m all about the bucket hat.

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So bring it.

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Something great for 2024.

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Look at that on the fly.

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Look at what it says.

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Oh, wow.

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There you go.

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Very nice.

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Perfect.

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I should have the cap named after me though.

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Because I’m going to buy the cap as well.

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I love it.

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Where’s your mustache, Brad?

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I left it in my other jeans.

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That’s your son?

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Yeah, that’s my son.

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And the son was there with a mustache.

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Yeah, this is I’m actually at his house right now because I’m back in Utah.

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All right, cool.

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So at number six, I’m glad that Brad has joined us because I believe this is on his list.

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Not sure.

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Is it Jeremy’s list perhaps as well?

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Let me see here.

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Where’s Jeremy’s list?

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It’s on Jeremy’s list.

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No it is not, but I’m sure that Jeremy has listened to this album.

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A lot of people have mentioned how this band that is best known for their hair metal slash

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glam rock ways maybe transition more into a prog rock type band, especially with our

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last few releases.

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And at number five is an album called Seven.

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By Weir.

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Yeah, that’s a good album.

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So Brad, what stands out to you about this album?

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When I first got it, I thought, yeah, this sounds more like a Kip Winger solo album rather

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than a Winger album.

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And after hearing the interviews with him and hearing that he pretty much was pretty

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heavy handed in this, was able to really focus on it.

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I see why.

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But the songs are just great.

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I mean, it’s not like I said, it’s not like a typical Winger album, but it sounds really

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good.

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The songs are really good.

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The performances are really good.

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I love that they got all the whole Winger crew on this album.

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So Paul Taylor, who’s now back in the band, he played on it.

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And actually he played his first guitar lead on a Winger album anyway on this album.

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It’s good stuff.

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So and yeah, I hear what you’re saying about the prog thing, but I wouldn’t say really.

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I mean, I think it’s all heavily about the songs.

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Good album.

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So yeah, if you don’t check this out, then you’re not really a rock fan.

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That’s what I’m gonna say.

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Okay, I better listen to it.

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You better.

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Yeah, Ed.

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Yeah, it’s not gonna thrash, but it’s a really good album.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, let me know what you think.

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I thought it was a quite a good album when it was released.

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I mean, it just shows you how many great albums are released during the year, because if they

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don’t make your top 10, it doesn’t mean to say that they’re not a good album.

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And yeah, it’s a very listable album.

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It’s good rock, you know, rocking tracks on.

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So yeah, it’s good.

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Yeah, my first list that I made, and I just went through the albums that I liked out of

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last year, I had, I think 58 albums.

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And I was like, holy crap, how am I gonna pair down 58 albums to 10?

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And so I, you know, I did like a first cut, got it down to 18, and then kind of went down

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from there.

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And as Victor can testify, I had three number 10s that ended up did not making the list

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because I think I had two number sevens.

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So yeah, it was it was a very difficult thing to make a top 10 out of this really good music

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this year.

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Yeah, definitely.

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I mean, I had, I think I had like 20, 25 albums.

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And then in the end, earlier today, I just sat there and thought, okay, which of these

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albums am I going to listen to?

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Or what songs off of these albums am I going to listen to consistently in the next few

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years?

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So that’s where, where my mind went with my voting.

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My criteria was how, what did I listen to the most?

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Which of these albums that I listened to the most?

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Right.

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As you know, I’m always listening to new music for yard metal.

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And it’s I can’t just keep listening to the same album over and over because I keep getting

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new music and I have to listen to that.

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And all of my top 10 albums, I probably listened to at least five times each.

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Wow.

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Top five a lot more than that.

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So okay.

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Okay, Brad, since this, oh, go ahead, Ed, I’m sorry.

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Brad.

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So I’ve, you know, I’ve never spent one cent on Winger, but I’m kind of interested in Kip

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Winger.

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He’s a interesting fellow and he was interviewed for that documentary they did on Hulu or something

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about that.

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Yeah.

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Do you know what I’m talking about?

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Yeah.

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I haven’t seen it though, but I know what you’re talking about.

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And that’s where I learned that he also has this classical music career, which I love

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that too.

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And I’m very interested to hear.

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And he’s apparently composed a lot of classical music, right?

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Yeah, he’s got a new one.

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He’s got a new one coming out this next year, a classical album with the, I think the Nashville

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Philharmonic or something like that, but I haven’t listened to any of that.

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So can you tell that that affected the newer music that he’s doing?

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And maybe might even be why some people are giving that, or hearing some of the prog things.

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I’m interested to hear the record actually.

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I am going to listen to it.

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Yeah.

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I think it’s still pretty much a rock album.

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I don’t know that the classical stuff really drifted into that.

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I don’t know how he can’t, you know, pull influence from other stuff that he’s writing

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into what he’s writing.

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Like the songwriting, I would think.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I need to listen to one of his classical albums, but that’s a hard listen for me sometimes,

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but who knows?

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Maybe I’ll really like it.

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That’s right.

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Yeah.

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Well, he seems like an interesting fellow.

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He’d be a cool guy to sit down and have a beer with.

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Let’s do it.

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Yeah, we should.

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He lives closer to you than me.

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But I’d come out for that.

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Yeah, interestingly enough, Brad, I’ve heard people say exactly what Ed just said, that

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his classical music is creeping into what he’s done on this album.

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Yeah.

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And well, for starters, he’s got three guitarists throughout the album.

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Wow.

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Yep.

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And then also from some behind the scenes stuff that I’ve been told, I won’t divulge

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my source, decibel geek.

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Yeah, I was going to say it had to be somebody in Nashville.

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Yeah.

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Members didn’t really care for the album because of that.

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Interesting.

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It kind of felt that it was more of a Kip solo album than it was a full band release.

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Yeah, that’s what it does certainly sound like that.

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But I mean, Reb obviously has, I mean, he wrote a lot of the previous couple of Winger

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albums.

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He wrote the music for them because Kip was busy with his other stuff.

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And so they’re more rocking.

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But Reb obviously has more outlets for his music now.

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I mean, probably not writing anymore for Whitesnake, but he certainly wrote a lot on that last

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Whitesnake album.

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And you know, with Black Swan.

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Yeah.

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He’s on Black Swan, isn’t he?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, you know.

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Brad, real quickly, can you run down your top 10?

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Do you remember?

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Do you want me to run it down for you?

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Yeah, you run it down.

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I left all my massive list at home.

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So, okay.

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So here’s the good list because like Brad said, he sends to me multiple times.

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So at 10, it is tempt by tempt.

448
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Yeah.

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I got to say one quick thing about that because it’s probably not going to make any of this

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list is that if you’re a Def Leppard fan, this is the album you’ve been waiting for.

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You’ve been waiting for 30 years to hear because that Def Leppard won’t do.

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You should check this out.

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If you’re a Def Leppard guy, you’re going to love this album, especially Hysteria era.

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But in these guys, I mean, I don’t know if you remember when Mark interviewed the singer

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for this band quite a while ago.

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I mean, they were in their young 20s at that time.

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Who knows how old they are now, but they’re just kids by art, by my standards, they’re

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kids and they’re rocking.

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I mean, guitars, the songs are really good.

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The playing is really good.

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The production’s great.

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So yeah, if you like that kind of thing, get this album.

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It’s self-titled.

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Go on.

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What are they called again?

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Tempt.

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T-E-M-P-T. And that’s the title of the album as well.

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I had to get them.

469
00:29:27,560 –> 00:29:29,240
Yeah, they’re New York guys.

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They’re in New York City.

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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.