Signals From Mars – Episode 412 – 1989

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Welcome one and all to episode 412 of Signals

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from Mars. I’m your host, Victor, and we’re back.

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After what, a month away? Not on purpose. We’ll

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get to that in a second. There are a lot of repeating

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themes for this episode. Did I say that we had

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a good turnout of votes, that a lot of people

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voted? joke and ikeed yes uh yeah because you

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will hear me say uh a lot of people voted over

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and over again uh anyway yeah it’s cool turnout

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uh 1989 uh good year for music every year is

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a good year for music to be honest at least that’s

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my opinion uh if you don’t feel that way i feel

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sorry for you But anyway, yeah, so 80 albums

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were voted on. I do say during the episode 81,

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that is incorrect. Someone submitted Bad Brains

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as Brains Quickness or I wrote it down incorrectly.

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So I had separated the votes as Bad Brains Quickness

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and Brains Quickness. And then after the show,

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when I was running down the list to the patrons,

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Off air, I realized my mistake. Now, it didn’t

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really affect the outcome of what’s discussed

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during the episode. It ends up moving from number

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70 -something to number 50 -something with the

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combination of the votes for both albums. So,

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hey, I can admit when I make a mistake. I don’t

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think I’ll have an issue with my dessert being

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withheld as a result of messing that up. I don’t

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think anyone is going to be shaking their fists

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or pointing their fingers at me. And if so, I’m

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human, damn it. Anyway, quick shout out to the

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patrons. Let’s see. Hey, we lost one. Look at

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that. So we have the current batch of patrons.

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We have Sean Richman. We have Chris from Dust

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Bowl Geek. We have Tony Espin, Anthony Mackey,

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Ed Ferguson, Johan Edestrom. We have Metal Dan.

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We have Chris Vaglio from the Song Swap Showdown.

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We have the Metal Dentist, Gabriel Ruiz. We have

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from Yarg Metal. Proudly sporting his T -shirt

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during the episode, if you watch the YouTube

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version. It is Mr. Brad Dahl, Dr. Poison himself.

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We have Mike Jones. We have Jeremy Weltman. We

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have Steve Hoker. And we have Steven Saylor.

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Thank you, all of you guys, for your support.

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We lost Pascal, looks like. I guess this was

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not for him. And that sucks, but is what it is.

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I can’t hold a gun to anyone’s head to have them

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jump on over to Patreon. If you enjoy the show

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enough and want to contribute two bucks a month

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to get my other podcast, that is cool. That is

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fine. I appreciate it. I appreciate all the support

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you can provide, even if it’s just sharing this

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online. If you can tell from my voice. I’ve been

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battling a bunch of nasty different things. We’ve

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also had family issues with guests and different

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people that were scheduled to do shows. We’re

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going to be playing catch up in May with regards

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to that. So no biggie. I don’t know that anyone

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has missed out or missed us. If you have, I appreciate

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it. Either way, we’re back with this 1989 episode,

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some technical difficulties, but I think we get

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things sorted out to the point where it is entertaining

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nonetheless. Let’s see where your favorites of

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89 end up on the list. Thanks for listening.

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Here we go. Welcome one and all to this episode

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of Signal from Mars. I’m your host, Victor. And

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joining me tonight is, on the west coast of the

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U .S., Metal Dan, Johan in Sweden, and Jeremy

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in the U .K. We are finally back with another

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live episode. We are live with our 1989… episode

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a long time in the making the voting was great

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for this and i project this to be a a fun episode

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i think you guys will enjoy it quite a bit and

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um a lot of voting took place as i said 81 albums

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were voted on which is a new record for a um

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a year end or a year episode. And we’re going

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to stick to the top 15 here. When this, when

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the podcast format does come out of this episode,

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I will post within the show notes, all 81 albums,

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but we’ll go 15 through 11 real quickly here.

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And I’ve got a few. surprises in store because

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what usually happens is as i’m going through

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these lists i have metal dan i have brad who

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are quick to the draw and as i’m describing albums

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they automatically start to read off the same

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wikipedia page that i’m reading and figuring

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out what the album is beforehand so We’re going

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to be doing something different for 10 through

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1, which hopefully will add to the entertainment

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factor. I worked on this and I’ve had it in my

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mind for a few weeks and I hope you guys think

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it’s cool as well. Anyway. Victor, can I just

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interrupt? Sure. We have some people in the messenger

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chat that are looking for a way in. Ed and Brad.

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There seems to be some kind of problem, but I

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just want to let you know. Tell them, Victor.

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Oh, go to the week before on the Friday, last

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Friday, and the link is there. Yeah, I’ll paste

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it in the group now as well. See comment earlier

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before we joined that I almost said the same

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thing to Victor and he paused and said, I said,

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I do. I do support for a living. As somebody

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said, project management, that’s what I do. I

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would like to be retired like Brad. So would

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I. I can tell Johan while we’re waiting that

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I have the Hives tickets for later in the year.

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Mm -hmm. Goal achieved. Never done. Really great

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band, especially live. They’re better live than

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on record, my opinion. I’m looking forward to

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it. A lot of energy. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that’s

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something that we’ll talk about in the coming

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weeks, possible shows for the summer, because

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there’s a lot of options for us actually here

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in Europe as well as while we’re in the States.

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It’d be interesting. Joining us is Mr. Ed. Mr.

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Ed. Can you hear me? We can hear you, Ed. Mr.

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Ed’s good. Everybody calls me Mr. Ed because

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of that show with the horse. Yeah. It’s been

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my whole life. I didn’t want to call you that.

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You know what I’m talking about, Johan, Jeremy,

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Mr. Ed? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I’m American. My childhood,

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yeah. It was a horse called Mr. Ed. Very, very

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good looking horse though. Very good looking

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horse. Here we go. Excellent. I’m waiting to

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see if Brad joins in because Brad has a knack

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for joining us right as the recording usually

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starts. So the editing becomes always fun on

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my end. Come on, Brad. If you’re going to join

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us, let’s go. I’ll be right back. Victor has

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been challenged this whole time of getting things

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synced up in the behind the scenes of what’s

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going on is what I’ve seen so far. Yes, it is.

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It is always fun. And it’s sometimes with these

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episodes with so many people. Luckily, there

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is a plug -in that kind of levels everything

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out for us. Brad is playing the part of Brad.

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Like I said, he likes for me to have challenging

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edits. So welcome to the show, Brad. Hey, thanks,

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guys. Glad to be here. What’s going on with Patreon?

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What do you mean what’s going on with Patreon?

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It went down for a few minutes. I still can’t

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get it to load. Luckily, I had it bookmarked

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or loaded already. Yeah, there you go. I posted

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the link last week. All right. There’s Brian.

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Hey, Edgar. You’re right. I’m late. Actually,

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I’ve been here for about 20 minutes, so not really

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late. In any event, all right. So let’s kick

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this off. We’re going to start out. At 15 here,

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go 15 through 11, and then we’ll jump on into

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the top 10 with all the surprises on many different

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levels. But anyway, this is a great dichotomy

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out of the 81 albums. There’s a lot of different

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types of hard rock and metal mixed in here. So

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I think everyone will be pleased. I don’t know

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that everyone will be pleased with the positioning

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of things, but yeah, it should be good. Anyway,

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kicking things off at 15 is the 1989 release

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from Exodus, Fabulous Disaster. At 14, an album

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that a lot of people voted on. It is Disney After

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Dark, D .A .D. with No Fuel for the Pilgrims.

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Man, that is an amazing, I think it’s my favorite.

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Absolutely. Is it? What, your favorite album?

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Of theirs, I think. Oh, of theirs, okay. Okay.

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All right. D -A -D. No fuel for the pilgrims.

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Actually, this is my number one. I’ve not heard

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of this. What? Yeah. What’s the band name? D

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-A -D. I think that’s the hard part for them.

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They were called Disneyland After Dark originally,

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and Disneyland, of course, sued them for that.

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So when you do searches D -A -D, you have to

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use a hyphen, D -A. Stuff like that. And they

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can be difficult to search. In the U .S., they’re

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not popular at all. It’s difficult to search

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for. I can’t get merchandise from them here.

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They’re in Sweden or Norway, whatever. Denmark.

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Sorry. That area. Yeah. But amazing band. No

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disrespect. Interesting. I’ll have to listen

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to it later. Especially if Johan thinks it’s

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number one. Yeah, because it’s… Especially

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for the name. When that album came out, it was

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very fresh. It felt so fresh. A Danish band that

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sounded kind of like ACDC. The songs were very

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melodic. I don’t know. It felt so fresh. Absolutely

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my number one that year. So if you haven’t heard

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that album, please check it out. It’s great.

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From Top to Bottom, Jihad, and all those songs.

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They’re huge in Europe. They do massive festivals.

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In the U .S., they can’t even get any attention.

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And they’re on the Monsters of Rock Cruise this

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year. Cool. Next year. And the bass player only

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has two strings. Oh, they’re good. Jesper Binzer.

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Yeah. Okay, cool. Edgar Winterson mentioned Nuclear

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Salt, Handle With Care. That is on the list of

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81 albums. I’ll say that. So, okay. Let’s move

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on here. At 13, King’s X with Gretchen Goes to

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Nebraska. Number 12, Kiss. with Hot in the Shade.

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And at 11, Alice Cooper with Trash. All right.

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So let’s get ready for the top 10 here. Number

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10. Any guess as to what that is? I’ll play it

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again. Yep. Presto. Number 10. No, it is not

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eccentric. It is what? Did you, was the drums?

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Yeah. That was the room. That’s the second song

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from Headless Cross. It is Black Sabbath, Headless

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Cross, Johan got Devil and Daughter. Man, Johan,

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we need a prize for you. That was awesome. April

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17th, my brother’s birthday. 1989, recorded between

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August and November of 88, recorded in several

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studios, Soundmill, Leeds, West, Yorkshire, England,

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Woodcray Studios, Berkshire, England, Amazon

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Studios, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Album

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is 40 Minutes, 13 Seconds. Label was IRS, just

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recently reissued all those IRS albums. And the

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producers were Tony Iommi and Cozy Pal. The singles

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were Headless Cross, Devil and Daughter, which

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Johan just guessed, and Call of the Wild. And

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interestingly enough, the cover for Everywhere

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But the UK has color, and the UK cover was black

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and white. Hmm. Any explanation for that? I just

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saw, let’s see, alternate cover. Nothing that

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I can see going over the notes real quickly here.

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Because we only got color television in about

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2021. Anyone want to say anything about this

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album? I bought it when it came out, and it’s

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a great album. Great sounding. Not every song

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is great, but perhaps four of them is really

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good. So I really can recommend that album. But

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I guess that everyone has heard it. So great

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one. It’s a great lineup. Yeah. That’s for sure.

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Yeah, Cozy was a good addition. I’m not sure

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musically what he brought to, you know, as far

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as writing, what he brought to the album. But

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I think Johan nailed it. I mean, it’s got four

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or five good, strong songs, and then the others

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are just kind of okay. But overall, I think it’s

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a fantastic album. I think it was, is this the

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first one that Tony Martin really was the singer?

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Yeah. Eternal Idol. I guess he redid Ray Gill

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and stuff. Yeah. He just came in and redid the

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vocals. This one, he was there. This one, I think

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he wrote the lyrics. Yeah. It actually says that

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I owe me Tony Martin and cozy pal wrote everything.

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And then Jeff Nichols co -wrote all but two of

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the tracks. Cool. Yeah. I, I mean, they got a

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lot of crap from people that I know when this

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album came out. I remember sitting in class and

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these guys sitting in front of me were talking

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about the video and they were mocking Tony Martin

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saying that he sang with a lisp. And I was like,

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what are you talking about? He didn’t sing with

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a lisp. You guys are. Anyway, they they didn’t

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like Tony Martin at all. And I don’t think that’s

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a new thing. I think there’s plenty of people

00:20:22.039 –> 00:20:24.299
out there that don’t like Tony Martin. But, you

00:20:24.299 –> 00:20:28.339
know. I don’t know what’s not to like. He sounds

00:20:28.339 –> 00:20:32.900
great on this album. Agree. I think everybody

00:20:32.900 –> 00:20:35.640
sounds great on the album. Especially the drums

00:20:35.640 –> 00:20:39.279
from Cozy. Yeah, well, you would hope if Cozy’s

00:20:39.279 –> 00:20:42.240
in the production, when one of the production

00:20:42.240 –> 00:20:44.519
chairs, that he’d get the drum sounding the way

00:20:44.519 –> 00:20:47.960
he wanted. So I love Cozy, pal. He’s one of my

00:20:47.960 –> 00:20:50.740
all -time favorite drummers. One of the guys

00:20:50.740 –> 00:20:53.220
that I could just sit there and watch, you know.

00:20:55.079 –> 00:20:57.319
I don’t care about what else is going on on stage.

00:20:57.559 –> 00:21:02.220
He’s just, he’s, he’s awesome. Yeah. Anyone else?

00:21:02.220 –> 00:21:09.799
Headless cross. All right. Let’s move on to the

00:21:09.799 –> 00:21:20.839
next one. Number nine. Wow. Any guesses on that

00:21:20.839 –> 00:21:23.859
one? They’re playing in San Diego at the end

00:21:23.859 –> 00:21:27.599
of the month. What was that, Ed? Dan’s going.

00:21:28.960 –> 00:21:32.579
Oh. Yeah, they’re playing in San Diego at the

00:21:32.579 –> 00:21:35.440
end of the month, and the band is called Testament.

00:21:35.779 –> 00:21:38.460
This band? Oh, you’re right. At number nine?

00:21:38.640 –> 00:21:43.200
Uh -huh. Who did you say, Dan? Testament. Testament.

00:21:46.299 –> 00:21:51.160
At number nine. Testament, practice what you

00:21:51.160 –> 00:21:56.720
preach. You can tell by the production of it,

00:21:56.759 –> 00:22:00.119
even if you didn’t recognize the song. You can

00:22:00.119 –> 00:22:04.680
tell. Man, I saw them on this tour at the Country

00:22:04.680 –> 00:22:09.559
Club in Reseda back in the day. I had an argument

00:22:09.559 –> 00:22:12.380
with my, she’s my wife now, then she was just

00:22:12.380 –> 00:22:15.000
my friend. She didn’t go with me. I had to go

00:22:15.000 –> 00:22:18.799
on my own. She got mad at me for acting. badly

00:22:18.799 –> 00:22:24.380
and so I fucked up that date and but here we

00:22:24.380 –> 00:22:27.660
are so that’s testament on that tour I’ve seen

00:22:27.660 –> 00:22:29.720
them many times and like I said they’re in San

00:22:29.720 –> 00:22:31.839
Diego at the end of the month but they’re not

00:22:31.839 –> 00:22:36.460
playing LA for some reason and I should go you

00:22:36.460 –> 00:22:47.849
should go Ed so 89 was a weird year for me Music

00:22:47.849 –> 00:22:52.369
-wise, I told you in the past, my parents put

00:22:52.369 –> 00:22:56.109
me into a treatment center when I was 19, and

00:22:56.109 –> 00:23:01.670
it was April of 89. And I didn’t follow all their

00:23:01.670 –> 00:23:03.569
plans, so they didn’t let me come back home.

00:23:03.690 –> 00:23:06.809
So I was kind of living anywhere I could. So

00:23:06.809 –> 00:23:11.470
I wasn’t collecting music. And a lot of things

00:23:11.470 –> 00:23:15.230
that came out this year, I may not have heard

00:23:15.230 –> 00:23:19.220
until later. Although I do remember friends of

00:23:19.220 –> 00:23:23.460
mine having this cassette when it came out. And

00:23:23.460 –> 00:23:27.420
I think that’s the way I heard it the most. But

00:23:27.420 –> 00:23:31.140
it’s got some good songs like Practice What You

00:23:31.140 –> 00:23:35.619
Preach. I think that the production got better,

00:23:35.680 –> 00:23:39.759
even though it’s still not excellent. It was

00:23:39.759 –> 00:23:45.190
at least better than the last two. It wasn’t

00:23:45.190 –> 00:23:47.670
a record that I got to sink into a whole lot,

00:23:47.789 –> 00:23:49.589
and I didn’t have any money to go to shows and

00:23:49.589 –> 00:23:58.930
things like that. It’s not as good to me as The

00:23:58.930 –> 00:24:02.829
New Order, and especially the original, The Legacy.

00:24:03.410 –> 00:24:06.710
But it was still a really good effort, and I’m

00:24:06.710 –> 00:24:09.269
sure it’s got songs that they probably play to

00:24:09.269 –> 00:24:17.230
this day in concert, I’m sure. Yeah, when I talked

00:24:17.230 –> 00:24:19.150
to Chuck Billy, that was one of the things he

00:24:19.150 –> 00:24:21.890
mentioned was that how they hated the production

00:24:21.890 –> 00:24:25.450
of the first two albums. So I’m sure they went

00:24:25.450 –> 00:24:28.849
out of their way with this one. It was produced

00:24:28.849 –> 00:24:33.549
by Alex Perialis. This did come out on Megaforce

00:24:33.549 –> 00:24:37.680
Atlantic, 46 minutes, 6 seconds. Came out on

00:24:37.680 –> 00:24:41.819
August 8th, 1989. Was recorded between February

00:24:41.819 –> 00:24:44.559
and March of 89 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley,

00:24:44.759 –> 00:24:50.900
California. And the singles off of this are Practice

00:24:50.900 –> 00:24:53.019
What You Preach, the title track, Greenhouse

00:24:53.019 –> 00:24:58.099
Effect, and The Ballad. So anyone else? The Ballad

00:24:58.099 –> 00:25:01.359
got overplayed. I think that kind of wore me

00:25:01.359 –> 00:25:04.619
out on this record because MTV was playing, I

00:25:04.619 –> 00:25:10.000
remember now. That ballad, yeah. Right. Yeah,

00:25:10.079 –> 00:25:12.119
it didn’t need that. They were going up against

00:25:12.119 –> 00:25:14.700
Metallica, and that wasn’t… Okay, Metallica

00:25:14.700 –> 00:25:16.720
then later on did a ballad, but it wasn’t needed.

00:25:17.759 –> 00:25:24.819
No. Right. Yeah, no, I agree. I mean, the title

00:25:24.819 –> 00:25:26.799
track to me is my favorite song off of this.

00:25:26.900 –> 00:25:30.579
It’s hard, too, to handle Chuck Billy’s voice

00:25:30.579 –> 00:25:34.470
in a ballad. I think his vocals are perfect for

00:25:34.470 –> 00:25:36.609
thrash metal, but when I hear him in that ballad,

00:25:36.670 –> 00:25:40.910
it just gets old really fast. I mean, it depends

00:25:40.910 –> 00:25:43.650
because I think Return to Serenity, which is

00:25:43.650 –> 00:25:46.670
also a ballad, I think he’s able to pull it off

00:25:46.670 –> 00:25:50.089
more there because I think that’s maybe a little

00:25:50.089 –> 00:25:53.349
bit more akin to like a fade to black. Yeah,

00:25:53.369 –> 00:25:55.730
it might depend on the style of this tune. That’s

00:25:55.730 –> 00:25:58.369
right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s a good point.

00:26:01.869 –> 00:26:04.069
All right, so at number nine, Testament, with

00:26:04.069 –> 00:26:11.569
practice what you preach. Let’s jump on to the

00:26:11.569 –> 00:26:21.930
next one here. Number eight. I got it. Anybody

00:26:21.930 –> 00:26:23.789
else? Let’s hear it then. That’s great white.

00:26:24.470 –> 00:26:32.720
Yep, Mr. Bone. I got to hear them play that the

00:26:32.720 –> 00:26:39.259
other day, Sunday. I knew that with this album

00:26:39.259 –> 00:26:43.160
that I needed to make it very short because Dan

00:26:43.160 –> 00:26:48.539
was going to get this if I went anything more

00:26:48.539 –> 00:26:52.819
than like a second or two. So yes, this is Great

00:26:52.819 –> 00:26:58.079
White, Twice Shy, April 12th, 1989. recorded

00:26:58.079 –> 00:27:02.339
at total access in redondo beach california 49

00:27:02.339 –> 00:27:06.140
minutes 24 seconds came out on capital produced

00:27:06.140 –> 00:27:10.259
by alan niven and michael lardy and these singles

00:27:10.259 –> 00:27:15.019
were once bitten twice shy with slow ride being

00:27:15.019 –> 00:27:17.660
the b -side the angel song with runaway being

00:27:17.660 –> 00:27:21.259
the b and house of broken love with bitches and

00:27:21.259 –> 00:27:28.809
other women as the uh b -side to that Dan, go

00:27:28.809 –> 00:27:31.349
ahead. Yeah, that’s one of the good days of when

00:27:31.349 –> 00:27:34.150
you had to chase singles that would come out

00:27:34.150 –> 00:27:36.990
and they’d have unique B -sides and songs that

00:27:36.990 –> 00:27:39.730
I think they just came up with in the studio.

00:27:40.369 –> 00:27:43.769
And those were good times. Simply Bands did that

00:27:43.769 –> 00:27:46.410
back then. So a lot of cool, different, unique

00:27:46.410 –> 00:27:49.930
songs. Absolutely huge album at the time. Great

00:27:49.930 –> 00:27:52.849
White went out with Tesla and Kix on that tour.

00:27:54.599 –> 00:27:57.779
So you can go wrong. Irvine Meadows packed highlight

00:27:57.779 –> 00:28:01.140
of the of the summer. It was it was great. They

00:28:01.140 –> 00:28:03.599
were they were hitting it all. They weren’t as

00:28:03.599 –> 00:28:07.180
bluesy yet, I don’t think. It was a great time.

00:28:12.140 –> 00:28:17.819
Brad, anything to add on to that? Yeah, there’s

00:28:17.819 –> 00:28:20.500
I got to say, like I said, I saw them Sunday.

00:28:21.019 –> 00:28:26.180
They played Mr. Bone. And I think they’re sounding

00:28:26.180 –> 00:28:28.160
better now than they have in the last probably

00:28:28.160 –> 00:28:33.559
15 years. So good for them. And yeah, this is

00:28:33.559 –> 00:28:36.359
a good album. I think this is the, you know,

00:28:36.359 –> 00:28:40.640
1989, I got my first CD player. And I think this

00:28:40.640 –> 00:28:50.900
is the second CD I got. Okay. Cool. All right,

00:28:50.900 –> 00:28:55.710
let’s… Move on here. So far, we’ve gone from

00:28:55.710 –> 00:28:57.910
Black Sabbath to Testament to Great White, like

00:28:57.910 –> 00:29:01.170
I mentioned at the top of the show. This is going

00:29:01.170 –> 00:29:05.609
to vary quite a bit from band to band as we move

00:29:05.609 –> 00:29:17.750
up the list here. Number seven. Faith no more.

00:29:20.190 –> 00:29:29.039
Johan got it. All right. So released on June

00:29:29.039 –> 00:29:36.519
20th, 1989. Recorded between December 88 and

00:29:36.519 –> 00:29:40.900
January 89 at Studio D in Sausalito, California.

00:29:41.599 –> 00:29:48.200
The CD and cassette version were 54 -58 long,

00:29:48.359 –> 00:29:54.009
while the LP was 43 -22. came out on Slash Reprise

00:29:54.009 –> 00:29:59.549
Albums, or Records, and the producer was Mike

00:29:59.549 –> 00:30:04.130
Wallace and Faith No More. Singles were From

00:30:04.130 –> 00:30:08.569
Out of Nowhere, Epic, Falling to Pieces, which

00:30:08.569 –> 00:30:14.390
is that intro there, Surprise You’re Dead, and

00:30:14.390 –> 00:30:18.650
Edge of the World. Johan, what do you have to

00:30:18.650 –> 00:30:21.509
say about this album? First, I have to say that

00:30:21.509 –> 00:30:28.089
the first time I heard it was probably 1990 or

00:30:28.089 –> 00:30:33.609
1991, because I’m in Europe. So it was kind of

00:30:33.609 –> 00:30:39.750
like that. Great album. Also very fresh. It felt

00:30:39.750 –> 00:30:43.329
new. And I did see them at Roskilde Festival

00:30:43.329 –> 00:30:50.279
in 1992 on this tour. Amazing. this album and

00:30:50.279 –> 00:30:54.880
the next one is masterpieces both of them I think

00:30:54.880 –> 00:30:57.680
I don’t know what you think but I think that’s

00:30:57.680 –> 00:31:04.819
two very different and I don’t know if it was

00:31:04.819 –> 00:31:09.799
groundbreaking or not but it was to me it was

00:31:09.799 –> 00:31:16.259
kind of melodic and a little bit rap and heavy

00:31:16.259 –> 00:31:26.480
and And what do you say? The band had an image

00:31:26.480 –> 00:31:36.980
that were fun and new, very new. Yep. That’s

00:31:36.980 –> 00:31:43.099
it for me. So I say the reason this album became

00:31:43.099 –> 00:31:46.430
as popular as it is. It’s because of the Metallica

00:31:46.430 –> 00:31:50.349
effect. And what happens when you open for a

00:31:50.349 –> 00:31:55.150
major big tour and the major headliner, Metallica,

00:31:55.150 –> 00:31:59.009
fully embraces the band and tells everybody the

00:31:59.009 –> 00:32:01.529
time to listen to the album, give it a chance.

00:32:01.950 –> 00:32:05.470
And so they went out on tour with Metallica and

00:32:05.470 –> 00:32:10.789
they went over great. And that’s the reason why

00:32:10.789 –> 00:32:12.210
we all listened to this album and then we all

00:32:12.210 –> 00:32:13.849
said, yeah, you’re right. This is really cool.

00:32:14.269 –> 00:32:17.329
I think without that happening, I don’t know

00:32:17.329 –> 00:32:19.309
if it gets as popular as it does. I don’t know

00:32:19.309 –> 00:32:21.490
if I ever listened to it. I might have never

00:32:21.490 –> 00:32:26.089
given it a chance. Some friends were kind of

00:32:26.089 –> 00:32:31.170
talking about it, but it was different. So that’s

00:32:31.170 –> 00:32:33.490
why Faith No More, I think, exploded like they

00:32:33.490 –> 00:32:39.569
did with that album. Yeah. Because the first

00:32:39.569 –> 00:32:41.710
single, From Out of Nowhere, it’s saying here

00:32:41.710 –> 00:32:46.309
that it came out in the UK on October 30th, 89.

00:32:48.029 –> 00:32:53.589
And then Epic came out in January of 90. They

00:32:53.589 –> 00:32:56.609
re -released that because I remember hearing

00:32:56.609 –> 00:32:59.650
From Out of Nowhere. Could have been a college

00:32:59.650 –> 00:33:02.369
radio or may have been like once or twice on

00:33:02.369 –> 00:33:07.970
MTV. And that song got like no play at all. it

00:33:07.970 –> 00:33:11.069
wasn’t until Epic came out that it started getting

00:33:11.069 –> 00:33:16.309
massive play on the radio. And I mean, Epic and,

00:33:16.329 –> 00:33:20.710
and falling to pieces were huge on, on us radio.

00:33:22.809 –> 00:33:28.390
So, I mean, for a lot of people, it changed the

00:33:28.390 –> 00:33:30.690
landscape of things. So to answer what you said,

00:33:30.769 –> 00:33:33.309
Johan, I mean, it introduced Mike Patton to so

00:33:33.309 –> 00:33:37.019
many people became a huge influence. to a lot

00:33:37.019 –> 00:33:43.819
of people. I always felt that they kind of did

00:33:43.819 –> 00:33:47.200
a lot of things of what Anthrax was doing with

00:33:47.200 –> 00:33:49.920
imagery at one point in time with the shorts

00:33:49.920 –> 00:33:52.839
and the colors and stuff like that. But they

00:33:52.839 –> 00:33:54.839
did, I mean, their music was completely different

00:33:54.839 –> 00:33:57.559
because they were mixing aspects of, as you said,

00:33:57.599 –> 00:34:05.220
rap and melodies and funk and full -on metal

00:34:05.220 –> 00:34:09.719
as well. I mean, going back to the track from

00:34:09.719 –> 00:34:12.260
Out of Nowhere, the melodies in that, I mean,

00:34:12.260 –> 00:34:16.860
just listen to that. And when you get to the

00:34:16.860 –> 00:34:19.099
crescendo in that song towards the end where

00:34:19.099 –> 00:34:21.780
he starts saying, one minute here, one minute

00:34:21.780 –> 00:34:25.780
there, don’t know if I’ll ever die or whatever

00:34:25.780 –> 00:34:29.519
the exact lyric is, or cry or die, I forget.

00:34:29.579 –> 00:34:34.000
Anyway, but that melody gets stuck in your head.

00:34:36.280 –> 00:34:39.239
heard that song covered by, I don’t know how

00:34:39.239 –> 00:34:41.179
many different bands, Halloween covered that,

00:34:41.199 –> 00:34:47.300
for example, that track. So it goes to show that

00:34:47.300 –> 00:34:51.139
they influenced newer bands and older bands that

00:34:51.139 –> 00:34:54.239
were around. I mean, they were, I mentioned King’s

00:34:54.239 –> 00:34:57.099
X before. I think they were kind of like King’s

00:34:57.099 –> 00:35:00.579
X in the sense that once people got to know who

00:35:00.579 –> 00:35:03.980
they were, they were kind of a musician’s band.

00:35:05.039 –> 00:35:08.159
You know, a lot of bands started talking about

00:35:08.159 –> 00:35:12.460
them. So definitely laid the groundwork for a

00:35:12.460 –> 00:35:17.920
lot of what came out after that. So anyone else

00:35:17.920 –> 00:35:25.059
faith no more before we move on? All right. Let’s

00:35:25.059 –> 00:35:28.260
see. You guys have been able to guess all of

00:35:28.260 –> 00:35:37.639
them so far. Number six. Yeah, I got it. Yeah,

00:35:37.659 –> 00:35:43.199
yeah, yeah. I think it’s Bangtango. I could be

00:35:43.199 –> 00:35:50.320
wrong. Wait, wait, wait. No way. That’s what

00:35:50.320 –> 00:35:56.019
Guns N’ Roses? That’s wrong. Okay. Johan said

00:35:56.019 –> 00:36:02.619
Guns N’ Roses. Can I hear it again? That’s what

00:36:02.619 –> 00:36:05.739
it sounded like, but that’s two years late. Number

00:36:05.739 –> 00:36:16.780
six. Wow. I don’t have it. I don’t want to have

00:36:16.780 –> 00:36:23.300
silence. No. Johan was not that far from it,

00:36:23.320 –> 00:36:30.360
though. LA Guns. It’s LA Guns. Jeremy said it.

00:36:30.699 –> 00:36:37.719
Guns. LA Guns, cocked and loaded. So the album

00:36:37.719 –> 00:36:44.659
was released. Let’s see if this loads for me.

00:36:44.719 –> 00:36:48.079
All right. Released in August, August 22nd of

00:36:48.079 –> 00:36:52.019
1989. Recorded from April to June of 89 at one

00:36:52.019 –> 00:36:55.400
-on -one in North Hollywood, California and Music

00:36:55.400 –> 00:36:59.380
Grinder, Hollywood, California and Conway, Hollywood,

00:36:59.500 –> 00:37:05.679
California. 54 minutes, 24 seconds. Released

00:37:05.679 –> 00:37:08.599
on Vertigo. Was released on Mercury in the U

00:37:08.599 –> 00:37:11.699
.S., if I’m not mistaken. Producers are Dwayne

00:37:11.699 –> 00:37:21.239
Barron, John Perdell, and Tom Worman. The singles

00:37:21.239 –> 00:37:24.920
off of this are Rip and Tear, Never Enough, and

00:37:24.920 –> 00:37:29.079
The Ballad of Jane. This is their biggest charting

00:37:29.079 –> 00:37:36.349
success. I will still remember that I gave Melanie

00:37:36.349 –> 00:37:41.349
Strecco a 90 -minute cassette, a Maxell 90 -minute

00:37:41.349 –> 00:37:44.809
cassette. And on one side, she recorded the first

00:37:44.809 –> 00:37:47.050
LA Guns album for me. And on the second side,

00:37:47.150 –> 00:37:50.030
she recorded this album for me. This is a lot

00:37:50.030 –> 00:37:54.969
more polished than the first one. And the big

00:37:54.969 –> 00:38:00.070
hit off of this is Ballad of Jane. I remember

00:38:00.070 –> 00:38:02.750
going back into this before revisiting a lot

00:38:02.750 –> 00:38:06.530
of these albums and thinking, yeah, I’m not going

00:38:06.530 –> 00:38:09.989
to pick an album with one of these wonky ballads

00:38:09.989 –> 00:38:13.750
that I don’t care for. And going back and listening

00:38:13.750 –> 00:38:17.110
to it and thinking, fuck, I really like this

00:38:17.110 –> 00:38:19.789
song. I really like this other song. I really

00:38:19.789 –> 00:38:25.110
like this other song. Thinking about how. You

00:38:25.110 –> 00:38:27.630
know, Tracy Gunn’s playing on this. It’s so heavily

00:38:27.630 –> 00:38:31.389
influenced by Randy Rhoads playing and thinking

00:38:31.389 –> 00:38:34.610
about, OK, taking away that one ballad that I

00:38:34.610 –> 00:38:37.610
don’t really care for. This isn’t a bad album

00:38:37.610 –> 00:38:42.710
after all. So it is our number six. Anyone else

00:38:42.710 –> 00:38:47.670
want to mention something about it? They. Jeremy.

00:38:48.889 –> 00:38:52.800
Jeremy. No, not really. I’m not a massive fan

00:38:52.800 –> 00:38:55.179
of it, to be honest. So I’ll leave you guys to

00:38:55.179 –> 00:38:58.219
speak about it. They worked and worked. They

00:38:58.219 –> 00:39:01.579
did supports for Maiden. They supported everybody.

00:39:01.619 –> 00:39:04.860
They went out. And then Ballad of Jane comes

00:39:04.860 –> 00:39:08.079
along and it’s a hit. This is the time of when

00:39:08.079 –> 00:39:10.780
ballads do a lot. Probably White Testament maybe

00:39:10.780 –> 00:39:13.719
did what they did. And it launched them into

00:39:13.719 –> 00:39:17.340
headlining. So they headlined the local Irvine

00:39:17.340 –> 00:39:21.550
Meadows. And here they were, 15 ,000 seats. They

00:39:21.550 –> 00:39:24.110
finally got all the way up there, and I think

00:39:24.110 –> 00:39:26.570
they went back down after that. But, you know.

00:39:26.909 –> 00:39:30.909
Yes, they did. Yeah, you know, great album. And

00:39:30.909 –> 00:39:33.789
I think the infighting did not help, because

00:39:33.789 –> 00:39:36.710
after this, I think fame got to them maybe. I

00:39:36.710 –> 00:39:39.769
wasn’t there, but it seems like Tracy and all

00:39:39.769 –> 00:39:42.789
of them, then they started having problems. Yeah.

00:39:42.809 –> 00:39:47.170
Probably money, credits. When did Tracy leave

00:39:47.170 –> 00:39:51.840
the band? uh, way later because it was Hollywood

00:39:51.840 –> 00:39:55.119
vampires after this. And then the whole band

00:39:55.119 –> 00:40:00.460
broke apart. And then after that, they put out,

00:40:00.719 –> 00:40:06.519
um, damn it. I, I forget the name of the, the,

00:40:06.539 –> 00:40:09.760
the fourth album. Uh, but that album was like

00:40:09.760 –> 00:40:11.920
pieced together. Some of the, some of the tracks

00:40:11.920 –> 00:40:17.139
have a drum machine on it. Some of it has, You

00:40:17.139 –> 00:40:22.519
know, then after that, actually, Phil Lewis left.

00:40:22.639 –> 00:40:27.559
Yeah. Then they kind of got back together again,

00:40:27.619 –> 00:40:30.519
and then Tracy left. And, you know, it was a

00:40:30.519 –> 00:40:38.239
whole big thing. And it’s funny because the two

00:40:38.239 –> 00:40:41.300
British fellows that you turned me on to, Brad,

00:40:41.519 –> 00:40:47.789
their podcast. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mojo and Hunzee.

00:40:47.889 –> 00:40:51.690
Yeah. I had to stop listening to that show because

00:40:51.690 –> 00:40:54.869
some of their opinions are just like way out

00:40:54.869 –> 00:40:57.789
there. They hate a lot of American hard rock

00:40:57.789 –> 00:41:00.409
and metal, but they were saying that Hollywood

00:41:00.409 –> 00:41:03.050
Vampires is by far their best album. And I’m

00:41:03.050 –> 00:41:07.570
like… Everybody’s got opinions. You know what’s

00:41:07.570 –> 00:41:10.829
funny is their show this week, they both accidentally

00:41:10.829 –> 00:41:13.349
picked the same album and it’s that Faith No

00:41:13.349 –> 00:41:15.199
More album that we talked about. Is it? What

00:41:15.199 –> 00:41:18.539
are the odds? Yeah. Well, they, they also, the,

00:41:18.639 –> 00:41:21.219
the, the, my, my tipping point was them, uh,

00:41:21.400 –> 00:41:24.440
was them crapping all over Metallica’s injustice

00:41:24.440 –> 00:41:27.159
for all. So I was like, all right, I’m done.

00:41:28.719 –> 00:41:31.900
They called it boredom for all or something like

00:41:31.900 –> 00:41:34.900
that. So I’m like, all right, I’m done. Goodbye.

00:41:36.900 –> 00:41:42.000
I have a quick question for Johan. Johan, LA

00:41:42.000 –> 00:41:44.059
Guns, did they make any noise over there in Sweden?

00:41:45.300 –> 00:41:51.940
No. Not really. Sorry. Doesn’t sound like they

00:41:51.940 –> 00:41:57.019
made much noise in Manchester. No. I mean, I

00:41:57.019 –> 00:41:59.420
think that they’re here, again, based on the

00:41:59.420 –> 00:42:02.320
popularity of what, you know, a lot of the American

00:42:02.320 –> 00:42:09.909
voters voted for. Yeah. All right. Cool. Let’s

00:42:09.909 –> 00:42:18.610
move on to the next one. Number five. I know

00:42:18.610 –> 00:42:22.670
that was super long, Dan. You don’t know what

00:42:22.670 –> 00:42:24.329
it is? I do know what it is, and I can’t get

00:42:24.329 –> 00:42:32.190
it. Oh, okay, good. Is that Tesla? I think it’s

00:42:32.190 –> 00:42:41.079
Tesla. Tesla. Final answer. Yeah. It is the great

00:42:41.079 –> 00:42:44.099
radio controversy. That is the, the intro to

00:42:44.099 –> 00:42:47.760
a lady luck. I was going to do a hang tough because

00:42:47.760 –> 00:42:50.880
the bass intro is so similar to a lot of other

00:42:50.880 –> 00:42:54.460
songs. Uh, but then I said, Oh wait, there’s

00:42:54.460 –> 00:42:58.039
this one real quick backwards guitar thing at

00:42:58.039 –> 00:42:59.760
the beginning of this other song. So let’s do

00:42:59.760 –> 00:43:02.400
that. But anyway, this was released February

00:43:02.400 –> 00:43:07.900
1st, 1989, uh, was recorded in 88. Recorded at

00:43:07.900 –> 00:43:11.940
Bearsville in Woodstock, New York, where Rush

00:43:11.940 –> 00:43:14.239
recorded some albums as well and a bunch of other

00:43:14.239 –> 00:43:18.619
people. The length is 59 minutes and 18 seconds.

00:43:18.800 –> 00:43:23.039
Came out on Geffen. Produced by Steve Thompson

00:43:23.039 –> 00:43:28.599
and Michael Barbiero. Singles are Heaven’s Trail,

00:43:28.780 –> 00:43:34.420
No Way Out, Hang Tough, Love Song, and The Way

00:43:34.420 –> 00:43:41.059
It Is. Biggest song off of this is Love Song.

00:43:41.960 –> 00:43:46.199
It is the one song that I have always skipped

00:43:46.199 –> 00:43:50.280
on this album because once again, a sappy ballad,

00:43:50.280 –> 00:43:53.420
which is just plugged in the middle of a really

00:43:53.420 –> 00:43:59.239
good rock album. I played the ever living shit

00:43:59.239 –> 00:44:03.440
out of this album back in the day to the point

00:44:03.440 –> 00:44:06.199
where I. Had to stop listening to Tesla because

00:44:06.199 –> 00:44:09.719
I listened to it too much. But going back and

00:44:09.719 –> 00:44:12.739
listening to it, I like the majority of this

00:44:12.739 –> 00:44:15.199
album. I mean, out of 13 tracks, I would say

00:44:15.199 –> 00:44:20.079
there’s probably 11 songs that I really, really

00:44:20.079 –> 00:44:26.219
like off of this. I mean, even on Wikipedia,

00:44:26.739 –> 00:44:31.260
they’re roped into glam metal, which I don’t

00:44:31.260 –> 00:44:34.130
think they were a glam band at all. The look

00:44:34.130 –> 00:44:37.610
wasn’t there. And the playing was definitely

00:44:37.610 –> 00:44:41.769
heavier than a lot of, like we’re going to the

00:44:41.769 –> 00:44:44.349
LA Guns, for example. We went from LA Guns to

00:44:44.349 –> 00:44:47.809
this. This is a lot heavier than that LA Guns

00:44:47.809 –> 00:44:53.730
album. They’re more of a 70s hard rock band than

00:44:53.730 –> 00:44:58.030
they are a Sunset Strip band. They’re more 70s

00:44:58.030 –> 00:45:03.280
YNT, in my opinion, than they are. poison for

00:45:03.280 –> 00:45:09.440
example so um great radio controversy who wants

00:45:09.440 –> 00:45:12.260
to talk about this one yeah it’s a really good

00:45:12.260 –> 00:45:14.860
album i like it i like early tesla i think it’s

00:45:14.860 –> 00:45:17.000
really good i’m actually quite surprised looking

00:45:17.000 –> 00:45:18.980
through the track listing they don’t play a lot

00:45:18.980 –> 00:45:21.659
more of those songs live or they don’t seem to

00:45:21.659 –> 00:45:25.019
um because you like you say picture you know

00:45:25.019 –> 00:45:27.340
you could probably pick six seven eight of those

00:45:27.340 –> 00:45:31.010
songs and They’d all be good live tracks. But,

00:45:31.070 –> 00:45:33.690
yeah, I really like early Tesla. Really good

00:45:33.690 –> 00:45:40.289
band. I like this album. It’s really good. Yeah,

00:45:40.369 –> 00:45:42.449
as dumb as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is

00:45:42.449 –> 00:45:46.010
here in America, Tesla should deserve it for

00:45:46.010 –> 00:45:48.329
their catalog. As you say, there’s so many great

00:45:48.329 –> 00:45:50.570
songs off this album, and they have a catalog,

00:45:50.610 –> 00:45:52.349
so they can’t play them all off this one. But

00:45:52.349 –> 00:45:56.610
we all played this album over and over back when

00:45:56.610 –> 00:45:58.969
this came out. They went on tour, like I said,

00:45:59.010 –> 00:46:07.769
with Great White and Kix and huge. Johan, Tesla

00:46:07.769 –> 00:46:12.829
make any noise in Sweden? No, again, sorry. Actually,

00:46:12.829 –> 00:46:16.170
no, I don’t think they ever play Sweden Rock.

00:46:18.030 –> 00:46:21.650
They play, every band played there, but no, Tesla.

00:46:22.610 –> 00:46:29.199
I remember them from MTV. The US version, but

00:46:29.199 –> 00:46:37.440
I don’t, not for me. Okay. I think this is a

00:46:37.440 –> 00:46:39.420
great album. I think it may be, you know, looking

00:46:39.420 –> 00:46:42.119
back as I listened to it with the other albums,

00:46:42.239 –> 00:46:46.199
it’s a little slickly produced. I think those

00:46:46.199 –> 00:46:48.280
songs could benefit from a little bit harder,

00:46:48.380 –> 00:46:53.260
harder edge on the sound, but they’re great songs.

00:46:53.440 –> 00:46:57.219
And other than like Victor said, love song. I’d

00:46:57.219 –> 00:47:02.380
be okay if I never heard that song again. Ever.

00:47:02.719 –> 00:47:07.400
Was the song that I was asked to play when auditioning

00:47:07.400 –> 00:47:10.960
for a cover band? Oh, no. And I said, are you

00:47:10.960 –> 00:47:15.239
fucking kidding me? I hate this song. I said,

00:47:15.260 –> 00:47:18.440
okay, I’ll do it. Yeah, there you go. You’re

00:47:18.440 –> 00:47:24.940
a pro. I played it, but no. Seriously, we can’t

00:47:24.940 –> 00:47:27.099
pick anything else. Well, we could do this or

00:47:27.099 –> 00:47:31.619
Signs. I’m like, ah, do I want – That’s equally

00:47:31.619 –> 00:47:35.019
as bad. Do I want to put a 45 to my head or a

00:47:35.019 –> 00:47:39.099
38? That’s what you’re asking me. The thing is

00:47:39.099 –> 00:47:40.920
today, you just mentioned cover songs, is they

00:47:40.920 –> 00:47:43.639
have albums of cover songs, and I think they

00:47:43.639 –> 00:47:47.059
do cover it pretty well. So they’re staying active

00:47:47.059 –> 00:47:53.030
by doing that. My biggest – issue with their

00:47:53.030 –> 00:47:56.409
covers or if you’re going to cover deep purple

00:47:56.409 –> 00:47:58.969
for example do we need another cover of space

00:47:58.969 –> 00:48:03.429
trucking seriously i mean is is is there anything

00:48:03.429 –> 00:48:08.130
else i mean you look at they also did if i’m

00:48:08.130 –> 00:48:10.710
not mistaken like a popular steve miller song

00:48:10.710 –> 00:48:14.449
and it’s like nobody’s gonna listen to this over

00:48:14.449 –> 00:48:20.449
the fucking original Or if you’re going to do

00:48:20.449 –> 00:48:23.050
it, do something different with it. Just my opinion.

00:48:23.809 –> 00:48:29.550
Yeah. I’m surprised. I like their cover of Space.

00:48:29.730 –> 00:48:32.369
Maybe where you lived, Victor, they played Space

00:48:32.369 –> 00:48:35.170
Trucking all the time, but I never heard it all.

00:48:36.090 –> 00:48:41.849
On the radio? The Deep Purple song? The original?

00:48:42.550 –> 00:48:47.360
Yeah, the original. Every single day. new york

00:48:47.360 –> 00:48:52.360
metropolitan area you got you got space trucking

00:48:52.360 –> 00:49:00.559
you got um my woman of tokyo you got uh hush

00:49:00.559 –> 00:49:05.579
you got uh smoke on the water that of course

00:49:05.579 –> 00:49:08.719
is universal overplayed but no those songs didn’t

00:49:08.719 –> 00:49:12.900
make it on the west coast as much No, he’s right.

00:49:13.059 –> 00:49:15.500
You know, and Dan, you’d like this. We used to

00:49:15.500 –> 00:49:18.579
sing My Woman from Tokyo. We used to sing My

00:49:18.579 –> 00:49:23.559
Woman from Ontario. Ontario, California, not

00:49:23.559 –> 00:49:27.840
Canada. Yeah, Ontario. No, not Canada. Yeah.

00:49:28.239 –> 00:49:32.639
Yeah. Yeah. Inland Empire. That’s awesome. Cool.

00:49:32.900 –> 00:49:39.440
Good for you. Good on you. Yeah, but again, since

00:49:39.440 –> 00:49:42.900
this was a song we didn’t hear very much, I was

00:49:42.900 –> 00:49:45.559
okay with him covering it. Yeah, Deep Purple

00:49:45.559 –> 00:49:47.699
just didn’t rule the airwaves. What if Johan

00:49:47.699 –> 00:49:54.480
said it? Sorry? I bet Johan has heard a little

00:49:54.480 –> 00:49:57.480
Deep Purple in Sweden. Yeah, you ever hear Deep

00:49:57.480 –> 00:50:07.300
Purple in Sweden? Nope. Yeah. Sure did. All right.

00:50:08.900 –> 00:50:12.699
Number four, and I almost gave this away before

00:50:12.699 –> 00:50:25.420
the show. Number four. I got it. That’s Wasp.

00:50:25.659 –> 00:50:35.309
Yes! Oh, yeah. Fuck. This is a fun game. Oh,

00:50:35.309 –> 00:50:40.909
man, Johan. It is Wasp. Mean man. Headless children.

00:50:41.150 –> 00:50:43.469
We went from headless cross to headless children.

00:50:43.610 –> 00:50:50.230
Look at how we’ve advanced. So anyway, this album

00:50:50.230 –> 00:50:54.190
came out in April of 89. Clock’s in at 48 minutes

00:50:54.190 –> 00:50:57.750
and 32 seconds on Capitol Records. Produced by

00:50:57.750 –> 00:51:02.590
Blackie Lawless. Singles are Mean Man. The Real

00:51:02.590 –> 00:51:06.829
Me, which is almost what I said when we started

00:51:06.829 –> 00:51:12.949
the show. And then Forever Free. All right. Who

00:51:12.949 –> 00:51:21.809
wants to talk about Headless Children? Yeah,

00:51:21.829 –> 00:51:23.469
they put out a lot of singles. Same thing. I

00:51:23.469 –> 00:51:29.170
have some of their hard -to -find B -sides. They

00:51:29.170 –> 00:51:33.469
were massive at the time on this album. And they’re

00:51:33.469 –> 00:51:37.750
playing the UK this year. Yeah. Europe. Yeah,

00:51:37.829 –> 00:51:39.929
yeah, with. And Armored Saints, I think, joining

00:51:39.929 –> 00:51:43.710
them for a couple. That’s right, yeah. And Jeremy

00:51:43.710 –> 00:51:48.869
should go. Yeah, I might try and go. I actually

00:51:48.869 –> 00:51:51.210
listened to this album today and I really enjoyed

00:51:51.210 –> 00:51:53.829
it. I don’t think I’ve listened to this one as

00:51:53.829 –> 00:51:55.809
much as some of the others because the other

00:51:55.809 –> 00:51:58.269
ones have got more of their hit singles on, the

00:51:58.269 –> 00:52:02.150
ones that really made it. I enjoyed it. I thought

00:52:02.150 –> 00:52:04.889
it was good. I think once you turn up Wasp nice

00:52:04.889 –> 00:52:07.050
and loud, they’re a good band. They really get

00:52:07.050 –> 00:52:13.349
you. I thought it was good. Yeah, in Sweden,

00:52:13.489 –> 00:52:17.889
the Wasp are still… Not huge, but they go here

00:52:17.889 –> 00:52:21.610
every second year. They play small towns and

00:52:21.610 –> 00:52:27.909
they sell out. They played here in 98, perhaps,

00:52:28.010 –> 00:52:30.610
and I got the honor to hang out with the whole

00:52:30.610 –> 00:52:37.829
band for a whole day. Wasp are… They have…

00:52:37.829 –> 00:52:41.329
In Sweden, Wasp are very famous because they

00:52:41.329 –> 00:52:45.369
were on a… big big television show in 1984

00:52:45.369 –> 00:52:49.090
when they released their debut album and they

00:52:49.090 –> 00:52:53.969
toured here and the shocking of the stage performance

00:52:53.969 –> 00:52:59.969
were so spectacular so the Swedish state TV made

00:52:59.969 –> 00:53:03.750
a big thing about it so they have to thank the

00:53:03.750 –> 00:53:06.369
Swedish TV for being so big here in Sweden and

00:53:06.369 –> 00:53:11.400
they still are so they can go here and Play solo

00:53:11.400 –> 00:53:15.440
shows, even though it’s clubs, but it’s good

00:53:15.440 –> 00:53:19.760
for them. Even though it’s a lot of backing tracks

00:53:19.760 –> 00:53:29.800
nowadays. Yes. Thank you. Brad, anything on this?

00:53:29.840 –> 00:53:34.190
No, I got nothing here. Sorry. Okay. Backing

00:53:34.190 –> 00:53:37.269
tracks be damned. They sound good live probably

00:53:37.269 –> 00:53:40.429
because they have it. If they need it, it’s near

00:53:40.429 –> 00:53:46.250
the end probably. So why not go and do it? I’ve

00:53:46.250 –> 00:53:49.530
seen him twice now recently. So this is good,

00:53:49.570 –> 00:53:52.449
I guess, at Blackies. I mean he has a reputation

00:53:52.449 –> 00:53:57.030
of being difficult and a jerk for some people.

00:53:57.289 –> 00:54:02.719
But whatever. He’s a legend. He’s pissed off

00:54:02.719 –> 00:54:06.519
some people, but, yeah, he made his own path.

00:54:07.480 –> 00:54:09.760
Chris Holmes doesn’t like him, you know, whatever.

00:54:11.519 –> 00:54:16.480
Money. I think that Blackie was kind of a gentleman.

00:54:16.840 –> 00:54:27.199
Chris Holmes was crazy. He still is. That man.

00:54:28.840 –> 00:54:32.199
I remember him very well. It was very hard to

00:54:32.199 –> 00:54:37.159
be a sober person around him and to try to, no,

00:54:37.260 –> 00:54:39.940
don’t go there, don’t go there, don’t go there,

00:54:39.960 –> 00:54:44.440
don’t do that. Big guy. He was a two -year -old.

00:54:47.099 –> 00:54:50.820
Yeah, he was like 6 ‘7″, I think. That was a

00:54:50.820 –> 00:54:55.929
good and very fun Saturday. I, it’s gotta be

00:54:55.929 –> 00:54:58.349
difficult to be in a band with people. And if

00:54:58.349 –> 00:55:00.829
the other guy’s crazy, how do you deal with that

00:55:00.829 –> 00:55:03.769
day in day out? And then back in those days was

00:55:03.769 –> 00:55:06.309
on a bus, you know, you didn’t fly in and fly

00:55:06.309 –> 00:55:10.329
out. You were stuck with each other. Yeah. So

00:55:10.329 –> 00:55:13.070
bad shit’s going to happen. Bad vibes are going

00:55:13.070 –> 00:55:18.210
to happen, I guess. Yeah. If, if you guys listened

00:55:18.210 –> 00:55:22.710
to a recent episode of a decibel geek where they’re,

00:55:22.710 –> 00:55:26.280
um, talking about the Rockin’ Pot Expo. Courtney

00:55:26.280 –> 00:55:29.219
Cronin is talking about, I think, the Monsters

00:55:29.219 –> 00:55:32.139
of Rock Cruise, where Chris Holmes was on it.

00:55:32.619 –> 00:55:37.159
And she tells a pretty interesting story about

00:55:37.159 –> 00:55:41.739
him. I’ll have to check that out. Actually, I

00:55:41.739 –> 00:55:44.219
thought it was fairly humorous. It was hilarious.

00:55:45.579 –> 00:55:50.000
Thanks for that tip. I’ll check it out. There

00:55:50.000 –> 00:55:54.719
you go. i have a chris holmes i mean i was that

00:55:54.719 –> 00:55:58.239
day i was working as a chef and as a you know

00:55:58.239 –> 00:56:03.679
i tried to take care of them uh that stains here

00:56:03.679 –> 00:56:08.699
in sweden and chris holmes put on a robber’s

00:56:08.699 –> 00:56:13.559
mask and he ran out on the parking lot and chased

00:56:13.559 –> 00:56:20.369
normal citizens here in my of Sweden just for

00:56:20.369 –> 00:56:24.369
fun. And that’s the truth. And that’s a very

00:56:24.369 –> 00:56:31.650
special thing to do for a grown -up man. Now,

00:56:31.650 –> 00:56:35.630
do you think he would remember that he did that

00:56:35.630 –> 00:56:41.369
today? No. No? No, because, you know, here in

00:56:41.369 –> 00:56:44.989
Sweden we have a quite, we had a strict policy

00:56:44.989 –> 00:56:50.900
against marijuana. And the band Wasp didn’t have

00:56:50.900 –> 00:56:57.619
that same policy. So it was in the 90s here.

00:56:58.280 –> 00:57:03.000
It was, as I said, a strange day and a very fun

00:57:03.000 –> 00:57:07.219
day. Nothing bad happened, but that memory lives

00:57:07.219 –> 00:57:12.039
on forever. Great story. Great story, Johan.

00:57:14.119 –> 00:57:19.809
Ed, any Wasp stories? No, I love their first

00:57:19.809 –> 00:57:22.329
two records to this day, still love to listen

00:57:22.329 –> 00:57:26.469
to them. But by this time, I wasn’t paying attention.

00:57:27.070 –> 00:57:29.610
And, you know, in the last few years with iTunes,

00:57:29.769 –> 00:57:31.769
now that I can go back and listen to everything

00:57:31.769 –> 00:57:37.170
easily, I put their entire catalog in my library.

00:57:37.789 –> 00:57:43.449
And I just not really heard anything that. interests

00:57:43.449 –> 00:57:46.329
me that much and it’s kind of depressing because

00:57:46.329 –> 00:57:49.989
i want to like it but i don’t know i guess it’s

00:57:49.989 –> 00:57:53.329
just over the years i just you know like my more

00:57:53.329 –> 00:57:56.949
extreme metal a bit too much sometimes and if

00:57:56.949 –> 00:57:59.250
when it comes to listening to stuff more in that

00:57:59.250 –> 00:58:04.010
vein that heavy metal vein it’s uh you know stuff

00:58:04.010 –> 00:58:07.750
that kind of connects with my earlier memories

00:58:07.750 –> 00:58:12.889
i guess but i don’t know it’s just I love the

00:58:12.889 –> 00:58:16.329
band, and I want to like it more than I do, but

00:58:16.329 –> 00:58:19.210
it’s just kind of a casual listen to me besides

00:58:19.210 –> 00:58:26.190
their first two records. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Let’s

00:58:26.190 –> 00:58:36.570
move on here to number three. Number three. Modern

00:58:36.570 –> 00:58:49.639
Rebirth. Monster Crew. It’s – oh. Whoa. Johan

00:58:49.639 –> 00:58:55.480
got it. Number three. I think this to me was

00:58:55.480 –> 00:59:02.980
a surprise. At number three, it is Dr. Feelgood,

00:59:03.119 –> 00:59:08.360
released August 28, 1989, recorded between 88

00:59:08.360 –> 00:59:13.000
and 89 at Little Mountain. Sound Studios in Vancouver.

00:59:14.380 –> 00:59:21.679
Length is 45 minutes, 7 seconds on Elektra. Was

00:59:21.679 –> 00:59:26.699
produced by Bob Rock. Singles are Dr. Feelgood,

00:59:26.860 –> 00:59:30.139
Kickstart My Heart, Without You, Don’t Go Away

00:59:30.139 –> 00:59:36.280
Mad, Just Go Away, and Same Old Situation. Who

00:59:36.280 –> 00:59:39.190
wants to talk about this? Yeah, it’s an absolutely

00:59:39.190 –> 00:59:41.570
brilliant album. I love it, Victor. I know that

00:59:41.570 –> 00:59:45.389
you’re not so keen on it, but I think it’s great.

00:59:45.469 –> 00:59:48.570
I play it quite a lot. It’s probably one of my

00:59:48.570 –> 00:59:51.250
favourite Motley Crue albums. I think it’s got

00:59:51.250 –> 00:59:54.429
my favourite Motley Crue song on the album, Kickstart

00:59:54.429 –> 00:59:58.489
My Heart. I love it. I love Dr. Feelgood, the

00:59:58.489 –> 01:00:02.289
title track. I just think it’s a real good time.

01:00:03.609 –> 01:00:06.090
of songs, you know, by a band that doesn’t give

01:00:06.090 –> 01:00:09.130
a shit and they just play it and they play it

01:00:09.130 –> 01:00:10.630
really well on this. I think it’s really well

01:00:10.630 –> 01:00:15.949
produced. It’s really, there’s got a lot of commerciality

01:00:15.949 –> 01:00:18.230
on it, which I like as well. You know, it’s got

01:00:18.230 –> 01:00:21.010
that sort of 80s commerciality, but I think it’s

01:00:21.010 –> 01:00:24.250
really stood the test of time. It’s a great album.

01:00:25.050 –> 01:00:31.289
Proper rock and roll album. Johan, how about

01:00:31.289 –> 01:00:39.539
you? Jeremy said it all so well. So great. So

01:00:39.539 –> 01:00:45.699
many good songs on it. I mean, everybody knows

01:00:45.699 –> 01:00:47.860
the story. They almost came back from the grave

01:00:47.860 –> 01:00:52.539
and did this excellent record. So what Jeremy

01:00:52.539 –> 01:00:57.039
said, it’s a great album and it still is today,

01:00:57.199 –> 01:01:07.829
production -wise and song -wise. Brad? All I

01:01:07.829 –> 01:01:10.210
know is that I feel like there’s not a day that

01:01:10.210 –> 01:01:13.309
goes by that I don’t hear the beginning of Kickstart

01:01:13.309 –> 01:01:17.510
My Heart. It’s like everywhere in sports. You

01:01:17.510 –> 01:01:23.489
can’t avoid it. I’ve heard it enough. Yeah, I

01:01:23.489 –> 01:01:27.150
got nothing to say here. I’m glad Jeremy likes

01:01:27.150 –> 01:01:31.079
it. How about that? It’s not metal. We need something

01:01:31.079 –> 01:01:36.019
that Ed can really get his teeth into here. He’s

01:01:36.019 –> 01:01:38.360
gone now. He’s coming back. It’s offended by

01:01:38.360 –> 01:01:46.139
my crew. It’s not in my top 10, but I know that

01:01:46.139 –> 01:01:48.500
I listened to it when it came out. I think it’s

01:01:48.500 –> 01:01:52.159
a 50 -50 album on the songs. I like the earlier

01:01:52.159 –> 01:01:55.719
days. It was. better than some of the other stuff

01:01:55.719 –> 01:01:58.639
they have in their catalog. I can listen to some

01:01:58.639 –> 01:02:05.099
of it now. And I saw them on the tour. But yeah,

01:02:05.179 –> 01:02:16.780
I’m a fan of it. Cool. All right. Okay, so I

01:02:16.780 –> 01:02:24.820
like this album when it came out. My biggest

01:02:24.820 –> 01:02:28.119
peeve with this album is arguing with people

01:02:28.119 –> 01:02:33.139
as to this being their best album. Oh, wow. And

01:02:33.139 –> 01:02:37.239
the band saying this is their best album. And

01:02:37.239 –> 01:02:42.880
it’s Dr. Feelgood by Motley Crue. There’s, in

01:02:42.880 –> 01:02:48.239
my opinion, and this is just my opinion, there’s

01:02:48.239 –> 01:02:50.920
no way that this is better than Too Fast for

01:02:50.920 –> 01:02:54.440
Love and Shout at the Devil. Or even Theater

01:02:54.440 –> 01:03:00.579
of Pain. The singles off of this outside of Kickstart

01:03:00.579 –> 01:03:05.300
My Heart, which I can listen to, I can’t listen

01:03:05.300 –> 01:03:09.980
to any of the other songs. Wow. They’re probably

01:03:09.980 –> 01:03:13.199
the band that I’ve seen most live in my lifetime.

01:03:13.780 –> 01:03:17.539
And hearing Don’t Go Away Mad and Same Old Situation

01:03:17.539 –> 01:03:24.190
every fucking time. Drives me crazy. And hearing

01:03:24.190 –> 01:03:26.150
that on the radio, and that’s the thing, U .S.

01:03:26.170 –> 01:03:29.130
radio, you hear all of those songs, at least

01:03:29.130 –> 01:03:32.769
New York metropolitan area, all of those songs

01:03:32.769 –> 01:03:36.150
got played every single day on the radio. Every

01:03:36.150 –> 01:03:40.889
day. Where I’m thinking to myself, are you serious?

01:03:40.949 –> 01:03:43.789
You’re not playing anything off of any of the,

01:03:43.809 –> 01:03:47.530
well, no, excuse me. Add smoking in the boys’

01:03:47.610 –> 01:03:50.489
room to that list as to what they would play.

01:03:51.179 –> 01:03:57.860
On the radio. So I think that this is an album

01:03:57.860 –> 01:04:01.659
much. This is their Van Hagar album to me in

01:04:01.659 –> 01:04:05.159
the sense that I liked it when it came out. And

01:04:05.159 –> 01:04:09.159
as time went by, I lost interest in this album

01:04:09.159 –> 01:04:11.760
for them to say that it’s their best album, I

01:04:11.760 –> 01:04:13.679
think, is a joke. Yes, it’s their biggest selling

01:04:13.679 –> 01:04:16.400
album. Yes, I get it. I get it that this is the

01:04:16.400 –> 01:04:20.489
album that will heat their pools. for a few decades

01:04:20.489 –> 01:04:26.210
to come um but the deep tracks slice of your

01:04:26.210 –> 01:04:30.670
pie rattlesnake shake nikki sweet she goes down

01:04:30.670 –> 01:04:34.530
time for change to me none of those songs are

01:04:34.530 –> 01:04:38.309
strong i mean i get it the singles are these

01:04:38.309 –> 01:04:41.590
what’s that even the titles sound cheesy just

01:04:41.590 –> 01:04:45.230
listen to you go through yeah and this is the

01:04:45.230 –> 01:04:50.300
album To me, Motley Crue became an imitation

01:04:50.300 –> 01:04:53.960
of themselves. This is where for the longest

01:04:53.960 –> 01:04:57.400
time they said, oh, no, don’t compare us to all

01:04:57.400 –> 01:05:01.000
these L .A. strip bands, to all these glam bands.

01:05:01.159 –> 01:05:03.159
We were here before them. Oh, yeah, but we’re

01:05:03.159 –> 01:05:05.059
going to put out an album just like them because

01:05:05.059 –> 01:05:11.860
that’s what’s selling right now. And I will say

01:05:11.860 –> 01:05:16.349
that everything that came out after this, In

01:05:16.349 –> 01:05:20.230
my opinion, it’s probably better than this. And

01:05:20.230 –> 01:05:24.110
I know that’s not a popular opinion. But there

01:05:24.110 –> 01:05:26.849
are songs on their subsequent albums that to

01:05:26.849 –> 01:05:33.309
me are better than this. Anyway. Rant over. But

01:05:33.309 –> 01:05:39.909
we don’t have that same radio climate that you

01:05:39.909 –> 01:05:47.250
have in the US. Speaking only for me, but it

01:05:47.250 –> 01:05:53.269
was a bit more exclusive than it was perhaps

01:05:53.269 –> 01:05:58.250
for you in the New York, New Jersey area. You

01:05:58.250 –> 01:06:01.269
didn’t hear those songs on the radio. Never.

01:06:02.710 –> 01:06:06.050
Every day. To this day, you hear them every day.

01:06:06.489 –> 01:06:19.039
Yeah. So a different thing. All right. So I think

01:06:19.039 –> 01:06:21.019
for a lot of people, at least for me, when I

01:06:21.019 –> 01:06:22.980
started tallying this, I thought that that was

01:06:22.980 –> 01:06:27.480
possibly going to be our number one. Just due

01:06:27.480 –> 01:06:31.880
to popularity. I will say that the top three

01:06:31.880 –> 01:06:35.360
albums got voted on a lot more than every other

01:06:35.360 –> 01:06:43.119
album. Two and three are only separated by two

01:06:43.119 –> 01:06:50.309
points. And one and two are separated by one

01:06:50.309 –> 01:06:57.670
point. Whoa. No way. Up until the last. You know,

01:06:57.690 –> 01:07:03.630
I really had a hard time ranking these albums

01:07:03.630 –> 01:07:06.769
for this year. You know, there wasn’t a clear

01:07:06.769 –> 01:07:09.349
number one for me. And maybe that kind of shows

01:07:09.349 –> 01:07:12.349
in the voting as well. It wasn’t like this one’s

01:07:12.349 –> 01:07:15.710
definitely number one. I mean, all the past years

01:07:15.710 –> 01:07:18.010
in the 80s that we’ve done, I’ve had like really

01:07:18.010 –> 01:07:21.570
strong first four or five albums and then kind

01:07:21.570 –> 01:07:24.130
of, you know, had to figure it out for the rest

01:07:24.130 –> 01:07:29.909
of it. But this year, yeah, I had no clear thought

01:07:29.909 –> 01:07:32.630
on any of them. None of them really stood out.

01:07:33.130 –> 01:07:35.090
So I’m curious to hear number two and three,

01:07:35.190 –> 01:07:37.550
or two and one, excuse me, because that was three,

01:07:37.650 –> 01:07:39.829
right? Yeah, that was three. For me, I would

01:07:39.829 –> 01:07:43.050
say that there were some clear -cut favorites.

01:07:45.439 –> 01:07:50.420
But anyway, all right. So number two. Number

01:07:50.420 –> 01:08:01.539
two. I got it. I got it. I got it. You got it?

01:08:01.760 –> 01:08:09.340
Yeah, it’s Skid Row. It is indeed Skid Row. I

01:08:09.340 –> 01:08:13.059
heard a bunch of those songs last week, too.

01:08:13.440 –> 01:08:17.680
Released January 24th, 1989. Recorded in 88.

01:08:18.600 –> 01:08:21.920
Recorded at Royal Recorders, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

01:08:23.260 –> 01:08:26.020
Length of the album is 39 minutes, 28 seconds.

01:08:26.159 –> 01:08:30.319
Released on Atlantic. Produced by Michael Wagner.

01:08:30.659 –> 01:08:34.300
And singles are Youth Gone Wild, 18 and Life,

01:08:34.479 –> 01:08:37.840
and I Remember You. Johan, just so you know,

01:08:37.979 –> 01:08:44.000
all of these songs. are on US radio. And this

01:08:44.000 –> 01:08:46.859
is a band from my home state of New Jersey, outside

01:08:46.859 –> 01:08:50.520
of Sebastian Bach, who is from Ontario, Canada.

01:08:50.699 –> 01:08:55.439
And I did not get into Skid Row probably up until

01:08:55.439 –> 01:09:01.560
the last five or six years because they were

01:09:01.560 –> 01:09:05.899
on the radio, on every local radio station so

01:09:05.899 –> 01:09:10.359
much that I couldn’t stand them. Because it was

01:09:10.359 –> 01:09:13.439
the same songs over and over and over again.

01:09:13.500 –> 01:09:15.479
And it was funny, when I finally listened to

01:09:15.479 –> 01:09:19.920
this album, I started realizing that Eddie Trunk

01:09:19.920 –> 01:09:22.539
had played every single one of the songs off

01:09:22.539 –> 01:09:26.180
of this album on his radio show at one point

01:09:26.180 –> 01:09:28.359
or another. So I had already heard the album.

01:09:29.880 –> 01:09:35.060
So anyway, Brad, you got to see Sebastian Bach

01:09:35.060 –> 01:09:40.109
at M3 last week. Is he still able to pull these

01:09:40.109 –> 01:09:46.069
songs off? Yeah, I’ve heard other reviews from

01:09:46.069 –> 01:09:50.850
people that just watch videos on YouTube and

01:09:50.850 –> 01:09:53.329
people are saying, oh, he didn’t sound very good.

01:09:53.710 –> 01:09:56.750
And I’ve seen plenty of bad sounding videos of

01:09:56.750 –> 01:10:01.149
him, but I thought he did really well. He came

01:10:01.149 –> 01:10:02.670
across really well. It’s kind of interesting

01:10:02.670 –> 01:10:06.060
for him being a headliner for that night. Because

01:10:06.060 –> 01:10:07.840
in years past when he’s played the festival,

01:10:07.920 –> 01:10:10.840
he’s been really early in the day. But people

01:10:10.840 –> 01:10:15.739
showed up for him. I mean, and people loved what

01:10:15.739 –> 01:10:17.840
he was doing. What was really cool is he played

01:10:17.840 –> 01:10:23.000
not just all Skid Row songs. He started off with

01:10:23.000 –> 01:10:24.920
a couple of songs off his new album, which was

01:10:24.920 –> 01:10:28.880
good. And he played one American Metalhead. He

01:10:28.880 –> 01:10:31.520
played that, which is I really like that album.

01:10:32.250 –> 01:10:35.289
So he sounded really good. Skid Row is kind of

01:10:35.289 –> 01:10:39.090
a band that I just never really just hit me with

01:10:39.090 –> 01:10:43.270
their music. But Friday night, the songs kind

01:10:43.270 –> 01:10:45.989
of resonated with me. I don’t know. Maybe it’s

01:10:45.989 –> 01:10:50.850
just he has a really good band. That helps. And

01:10:50.850 –> 01:10:54.510
he comes across very, very likable on stage,

01:10:54.770 –> 01:10:59.569
which is not what you would expect. Shelly liked

01:10:59.569 –> 01:11:01.970
him. Shelly, you know, normally she’d be like

01:11:01.970 –> 01:11:04.270
after three songs, let’s get out of here. But

01:11:04.270 –> 01:11:08.310
she, we, we stayed till the end and, and yeah,

01:11:08.449 –> 01:11:10.689
so there you go. Somebody brand new being thrown

01:11:10.689 –> 01:11:12.890
into the mix. I mean, I’m sure she’s heard some

01:11:12.890 –> 01:11:16.970
of those, the songs that you mentioned, but yeah,

01:11:17.130 –> 01:11:20.630
she, he was, he was good. Okay. I got, I got

01:11:20.630 –> 01:11:22.329
to say he was, he was good. So there you go.

01:11:22.649 –> 01:11:27.380
There you go. Skid row boys. Anyone else on Skid

01:11:27.380 –> 01:11:32.260
Row? Five -time platinum selling in the U .S.,

01:11:32.260 –> 01:11:36.220
which means it was huge. It went over on the

01:11:36.220 –> 01:11:38.539
West Coast as well, too, on all the radio and

01:11:38.539 –> 01:11:41.720
all the songs. And sonically, as we’ve spoken

01:11:41.720 –> 01:11:43.720
about other bands, this one I think is mixed

01:11:43.720 –> 01:11:46.380
really well. So it plays really well. It plays

01:11:46.380 –> 01:11:50.720
really well loud. It’s a perfect balance. The

01:11:50.720 –> 01:11:54.619
bass, the drums, the guitar. They nailed it.

01:11:54.640 –> 01:11:57.119
At the time, that’s all you listen to. And it

01:11:57.119 –> 01:11:58.560
was a little bit different at the time coming

01:11:58.560 –> 01:12:01.000
out. You’re getting away from Poison and the

01:12:01.000 –> 01:12:03.460
lighter stuff. And they were a little bit heavier.

01:12:03.619 –> 01:12:05.899
Of course, Metallica comes along and kills that.

01:12:06.020 –> 01:12:09.840
But still, and I think they teamed up with Pantera

01:12:09.840 –> 01:12:14.560
not too long after this. So, yeah, we wore the

01:12:14.560 –> 01:12:17.039
album out to where you can’t play it anymore.

01:12:17.460 –> 01:12:20.300
You don’t need to hear 18 and Life ever again.

01:12:21.429 –> 01:12:25.430
Never, and just stop. So that’s what happens

01:12:25.430 –> 01:12:32.710
is you listen to it too much. Yeah, it’s the

01:12:32.710 –> 01:12:37.750
ballad thing. It’s like enough. But pretty much

01:12:37.750 –> 01:12:39.930
all of these albums have the ballad, right? True.

01:12:40.729 –> 01:12:45.390
Yeah, Testament, Great White, LA Guns, Tesla.

01:12:47.149 –> 01:12:49.770
I’m not sure about the Wasp album, but Motley

01:12:49.770 –> 01:12:54.869
Crue had several, and this had several. Yeah,

01:12:54.890 –> 01:12:59.210
it was mandatory during those years. Yeah. Yeah,

01:12:59.369 –> 01:13:01.529
the record company is probably leaning on it.

01:13:01.529 –> 01:13:03.850
Yeah, because they made them for me. I like balance.

01:13:06.949 –> 01:13:12.430
You’re the guy. I like a good, solid power balance

01:13:12.430 –> 01:13:16.699
from the late 80s, early 90s. There you go. What’s

01:13:16.699 –> 01:13:19.020
your favorite food to cook while listening to

01:13:19.020 –> 01:13:26.960
a ballad? Oh, it’s always some selfish. Mussels,

01:13:27.020 –> 01:13:33.220
spaghetti vongole. Oh, vongole. A la vongole,

01:13:33.340 –> 01:13:38.939
yeah. I think at this point, Johan likes to move

01:13:38.939 –> 01:13:41.579
it from the kitchen to maybe the bedroom. That

01:13:41.579 –> 01:13:51.050
is true. Oh, man. All right. There’s another

01:13:51.050 –> 01:13:53.050
show right there, Victor. What’s your go -to

01:13:53.050 –> 01:13:56.270
song in the bedroom? There you go. Top ten. Top

01:13:56.270 –> 01:13:59.449
ten bedroom songs. Could be a topic for the future.

01:14:00.430 –> 01:14:05.770
Let’s talk about that Slayer bone again. I’m

01:14:05.770 –> 01:14:07.750
sorry. Sometimes you’ve got to hit your Slayer

01:14:07.750 –> 01:14:12.640
bone. Wait, wait, wait. Where’d that go? Tickle

01:14:12.640 –> 01:14:18.600
my Slayer bone. I love having my Slayer bone

01:14:18.600 –> 01:14:26.180
tickled. Rock and roll. That’s it. All right.

01:14:26.180 –> 01:14:31.960
So let’s recap this real quick. At 10, Black

01:14:31.960 –> 01:14:34.979
Sabbath, the Headless Cross. At 9, Testament

01:14:34.979 –> 01:14:38.600
with Practice What You Preach. At 8, Great White

01:14:38.600 –> 01:14:42.960
with Twice Bitten. At seven, Faith No More with

01:14:42.960 –> 01:14:46.359
The Real Thing. At six, L .A. Guns Cocked and

01:14:46.359 –> 01:14:49.899
Loaded. At five, Tessel with The Great Radio

01:14:49.899 –> 01:14:53.939
Controversy. At four, Wasp with The Headless

01:14:53.939 –> 01:14:58.640
Children. At three, Motley Crue with Dr. Feelgood.

01:14:58.739 –> 01:15:02.680
At two, Skid Row with their self -titled debut

01:15:02.680 –> 01:15:10.149
album. Any guesses as to… What number one is,

01:15:10.229 –> 01:15:14.229
or you guys just want me to go with the… I

01:15:14.229 –> 01:15:18.229
think I know. Well, I can say what it is. I know.

01:15:18.770 –> 01:15:24.289
Sodom. Great agent orange. Jeremy? The cult.

01:15:26.470 –> 01:15:34.869
Metal Dan? It’s not Lizzie Borden. I don’t know

01:15:34.869 –> 01:15:37.750
what the number one is, but it’s not mine. Brad?

01:15:39.029 –> 01:15:42.270
It’s not Badlands. I’m looking at my list here,

01:15:42.430 –> 01:15:46.189
and I don’t. It’s not Leatherwolf. I don’t know.

01:15:47.250 –> 01:15:49.289
That’s a West Coast thing. Not Leatherwolf. Ed,

01:15:49.369 –> 01:15:55.170
any guesses? It’s not except. Sepultura? No.

01:15:55.329 –> 01:15:59.649
Yes. Yes. There you go. It’s not. Could I get

01:15:59.649 –> 01:16:03.510
that lucky tonight? It’s not Dirty Looks. All

01:16:03.510 –> 01:16:05.750
right. All right. So, Johan, it should be Rush,

01:16:05.829 –> 01:16:09.869
right? It’s not Rush. Presto. It’s not that great

01:16:09.869 –> 01:16:14.430
a sound. Number one. Oh, wait. Where’s the sound?

01:16:14.949 –> 01:16:18.789
Number one. Oh, you got to be shitting me. All

01:16:18.789 –> 01:16:21.229
right. Hold on. Let me fix this. Comment if you

01:16:21.229 –> 01:16:25.329
know it, Victor. It’s Steve Stevens. Atomic Playboy.

01:16:25.350 –> 01:16:34.529
Atomic Playboys. No, it is not. I bet Dan has

01:16:34.529 –> 01:16:39.470
some. Oh, why is this just working? Hold on,

01:16:39.550 –> 01:16:46.829
hold on. Yeah, I do. I knew it. I wish I could

01:16:46.829 –> 01:16:48.270
have seen more. Nothing like technical difficulties

01:16:48.270 –> 01:16:53.989
on the air. It’s not Annihilator, which is almost

01:16:53.989 –> 01:17:00.789
a perfect album. It’s not, oh, Blue Murder. It’s

01:17:00.789 –> 01:17:03.949
not Badlands. It’s got to be the Celts. Udo.

01:17:05.940 –> 01:17:10.939
Number one. Oh, come on. That’s it? Are you going

01:17:10.939 –> 01:17:14.180
to give us? That’s all I’m going to give you

01:17:14.180 –> 01:17:18.720
guys. I’ve been hearing this in my head. Is that

01:17:18.720 –> 01:17:24.460
Badlands? Badlands. Badlands. Yeah. Badlands.

01:17:25.699 –> 01:17:31.159
Must be. You sure that’s Badlands? Yes. That’s

01:17:31.159 –> 01:17:34.060
the final answer. But that’s what I’m going with.

01:17:34.060 –> 01:17:35.500
That’s one of the widest album covers of that

01:17:35.500 –> 01:17:39.539
year. That’s the cult. Besides Pump by Aerosmith.

01:17:39.859 –> 01:17:46.180
It’s not that. Seeing if Edgar Winterson had

01:17:46.180 –> 01:17:51.779
a guess or not. What did he have? I am pleased

01:17:51.779 –> 01:17:58.539
to say because I’m very happy with This result,

01:17:58.659 –> 01:18:01.960
the number one album, as voted by you guys, at

01:18:01.960 –> 01:18:08.939
one point, Skid Row’s self -titled debut is the

01:18:08.939 –> 01:18:17.659
self -titled debut by… Who? Whoa. Yes! Yes!

01:18:19.039 –> 01:18:24.939
Released May 11th. Released tomorrow. In 1989,

01:18:25.260 –> 01:18:30.579
recorded October 88 through January 89, recorded

01:18:30.579 –> 01:18:34.560
at one -on -one studios, Los Angeles and the

01:18:34.560 –> 01:18:38.819
record plant in New York City. Thankfully, it

01:18:38.819 –> 01:18:41.920
is listed as blues rock and hard rock, and no

01:18:41.920 –> 01:18:45.859
one decided to throw glam metal in there. 49

01:18:45.859 –> 01:18:49.640
minutes, 33 seconds. Label was Titanium Atlantic.

01:18:50.460 –> 01:18:56.699
Producers, Paul O ‘Neill. And Badlands, the single

01:18:56.699 –> 01:19:00.159
was, as you guys heard there, Eric Singer with

01:19:00.159 –> 01:19:04.039
Dreams in the Dark with the B -side being Hard

01:19:04.039 –> 01:19:10.699
Driver. The Edgar Winters song. Dan, Badlands.

01:19:13.300 –> 01:19:15.680
All I could – when I think of Badlands, it’s

01:19:15.680 –> 01:19:18.340
controversy as it’s not available and it’s banned

01:19:18.340 –> 01:19:22.590
now. Something happened. Something happened.

01:19:22.810 –> 01:19:28.029
We unfortunately had a lead singer who willfully

01:19:28.029 –> 01:19:31.850
infected people with AIDS. And as part of the

01:19:31.850 –> 01:19:36.829
settlement is that these albums can not be re

01:19:36.829 –> 01:19:39.430
-released. Rock Candy or somebody along those

01:19:39.430 –> 01:19:44.010
lines was going to re -release it. And when it

01:19:44.010 –> 01:19:47.949
was about to be re -released, it was pulled from

01:19:47.949 –> 01:19:51.760
the shelves because of… A court order because

01:19:51.760 –> 01:19:55.920
settlement with the families was that neither

01:19:55.920 –> 01:19:59.779
of these two albums could be re -released. I

01:19:59.779 –> 01:20:03.619
am ignorant to the situation and really – I don’t

01:20:03.619 –> 01:20:07.460
know. Don’t judge. I don’t know. And I have the

01:20:07.460 –> 01:20:10.319
original. I listened to it. It wouldn’t be my

01:20:10.319 –> 01:20:13.779
number one. It’s good. It sounds great. It’s

01:20:13.779 –> 01:20:20.119
not all that. Yeah, I’m with you on this, Dan.

01:20:20.199 –> 01:20:21.640
I mean, when the album came out, I was like,

01:20:21.720 –> 01:20:23.479
yeah, this is pretty cool, but it’s kind of…

01:20:23.479 –> 01:20:26.600
I like the second album better, but that’s me.

01:20:27.859 –> 01:20:31.880
But I still think this is just a great, great

01:20:31.880 –> 01:20:35.500
album performance -wise. I mean, Jakey Lee was

01:20:35.500 –> 01:20:39.119
just tearing it up. Say what you want about Ray

01:20:39.119 –> 01:20:44.199
and his escapades. He was an incredible vocalist.

01:20:44.260 –> 01:20:46.600
I mean, really, really just unbelievable how

01:20:46.600 –> 01:20:51.170
good he was. So, and I got to say the bass playing

01:20:51.170 –> 01:20:54.649
on these Badlands albums is just fantastic. I

01:20:54.649 –> 01:20:57.510
mean, it’s good old, good old just jamming out

01:20:57.510 –> 01:21:00.010
and not just following the guitar player. And

01:21:00.010 –> 01:21:03.170
Greg Chaison or whatever his name is. Chaison.

01:21:03.470 –> 01:21:08.430
Yep. Chaison. Yeah, he does a great job. It’s

01:21:08.430 –> 01:21:11.710
a good sounding album. But it didn’t fit into

01:21:11.710 –> 01:21:14.229
any of the niche of this year either. I mean,

01:21:14.229 –> 01:21:16.109
there was not a single band doing what these

01:21:16.109 –> 01:21:19.869
guys were doing. These guys absolutely did not

01:21:19.869 –> 01:21:26.770
chase what was going on at the time. No ballad

01:21:26.770 –> 01:21:29.229
that would fit into any of these other albums.

01:21:29.710 –> 01:21:32.869
So I got to give them credit for that. They did

01:21:32.869 –> 01:21:35.770
their own thing, probably paid a price commercially

01:21:35.770 –> 01:21:38.609
for it. I don’t know that they ever really headlined

01:21:38.609 –> 01:21:43.649
any decent shows or anything like that. But I

01:21:43.649 –> 01:21:45.350
never got to see them. Dan, you ever get to see

01:21:45.350 –> 01:21:48.939
them? If I did, I don’t recall it. It’s not in

01:21:48.939 –> 01:21:53.420
my memory. Wow. Okay. Yeah. I would have loved

01:21:53.420 –> 01:21:56.039
to have seen them. But anyway, I think it’s a

01:21:56.039 –> 01:21:59.000
great album. I was, I got to say it was number

01:21:59.000 –> 01:22:02.840
two on my list. So there you go. Anyone else?

01:22:03.060 –> 01:22:08.220
Badlands? Oh, and if you want to hear it, if

01:22:08.220 –> 01:22:10.279
you don’t, can’t buy it, can’t stream it, you

01:22:10.279 –> 01:22:14.840
can hear it on yardmetal .com. So I have a question.

01:22:15.600 –> 01:22:19.939
Go ahead. So I didn’t hear this album until probably

01:22:19.939 –> 01:22:24.260
the last 10 to 20 years. If I even did hear some

01:22:24.260 –> 01:22:27.439
of it, I don’t know how I did because, as you

01:22:27.439 –> 01:22:32.500
said, it’s not available to buy or stream. But

01:22:32.500 –> 01:22:37.180
this is more like a bluesy hard rock band, correct?

01:22:37.300 –> 01:22:40.640
Yes, correct. And so what were Jake’s solos like

01:22:40.640 –> 01:22:43.800
on this album compared to what he did in Ozzy?

01:22:47.660 –> 01:22:51.420
His tone is just incredibly raw, just like guitar

01:22:51.420 –> 01:22:53.920
plugged straight into the amp and just burning.

01:22:54.319 –> 01:22:57.180
I mean, he’s just blistering. In fact, everybody,

01:22:57.340 –> 01:22:59.300
the drums, Eric Singer’s playing drums on this

01:22:59.300 –> 01:23:04.180
one. Yeah, everything is just, these guys are

01:23:04.180 –> 01:23:08.579
just rocking and just playing. It’s kind of like

01:23:08.579 –> 01:23:10.699
good old humble pie kind of thing where the guys

01:23:10.699 –> 01:23:12.699
are just really putting their soul into every

01:23:12.699 –> 01:23:18.300
note of the song. Are his solos more like a bluesy

01:23:18.300 –> 01:23:21.239
rock -based solo and less shredding, I would

01:23:21.239 –> 01:23:24.960
think, with the music? Yeah, but they’re still

01:23:24.960 –> 01:23:29.600
shredding. Yeah, tone -wise, it’s nothing like

01:23:29.600 –> 01:23:31.100
what he did with Austin. But, I mean, you’re

01:23:31.100 –> 01:23:37.640
crossing, like, Jake’s fiery solos with, and

01:23:37.640 –> 01:23:39.600
I don’t want to say a Stevie Ray Vaughan sound

01:23:39.600 –> 01:23:44.500
because it isn’t as clean as Stevie. But there’s

01:23:44.500 –> 01:23:50.979
still a lot of like fire and oomph to it. This

01:23:50.979 –> 01:23:53.659
was my number one. I have no problem admitting

01:23:53.659 –> 01:23:55.840
it. I absolutely love this album. I like the

01:23:55.840 –> 01:24:01.659
second album more, but I think this is a masterpiece

01:24:01.659 –> 01:24:07.140
because you listen to Jake soloing with Eric’s

01:24:07.140 –> 01:24:11.680
playing and with Greg Chason’s bass playing behind

01:24:11.680 –> 01:24:16.739
it. They’re going in completely different directions,

01:24:16.739 –> 01:24:21.939
and it all works. Like, Greg Chason isn’t doubling

01:24:21.939 –> 01:24:25.619
Jake. Greg Chason playing walking bass, he’s

01:24:25.619 –> 01:24:30.420
doing a lot of different, like, complicated patterns.

01:24:32.039 –> 01:24:35.359
And he’s got his own bass tone, too. Johan, you

01:24:35.359 –> 01:24:41.060
got this album? No, I haven’t. I only have heard…

01:24:41.479 –> 01:24:44.359
one or two songs of it. So I can’t really comment

01:24:44.359 –> 01:24:48.220
on that. Yeah. Yeah. As a, yeah, as a bass player,

01:24:48.300 –> 01:24:49.939
you’d have to, you’d have to love this stuff.

01:24:49.979 –> 01:24:53.560
The guy’s great tone and a great playing. And

01:24:53.560 –> 01:24:57.579
it’s just, yeah. I’m kind of, I’m kind of now

01:24:57.579 –> 01:24:59.859
making, I want to make this my number one, Victor.

01:25:00.060 –> 01:25:04.359
Too late. Too late. We all made it number one.

01:25:05.619 –> 01:25:08.260
There you go. Your number two is still factored

01:25:08.260 –> 01:25:12.680
in there. Yeah. And you got number one without

01:25:12.680 –> 01:25:15.020
really any commercial success. I don’t know how

01:25:15.020 –> 01:25:18.760
much this sold. Probably didn’t go platinum,

01:25:18.800 –> 01:25:21.119
did it? I think it went gold. I think the album

01:25:21.119 –> 01:25:24.859
did go gold. Yeah. Yeah. So for an album to not

01:25:24.859 –> 01:25:27.420
sell much, not be available now to the world,

01:25:27.460 –> 01:25:31.520
other than on Yard Metal, and it made number

01:25:31.520 –> 01:25:33.500
one with our group. That’s pretty impressive.

01:25:33.680 –> 01:25:36.619
No, I agree with that. And that’s why, to me,

01:25:36.640 –> 01:25:39.640
I was happy that this ended up as number one.

01:25:40.110 –> 01:25:43.069
Because I wasn’t expecting it at all, even though

01:25:43.069 –> 01:25:46.670
I had personally voted it number one. I said,

01:25:46.810 –> 01:25:49.930
there’s no way. Like I said, I thought Motley

01:25:49.930 –> 01:25:52.489
Crue’s Dr. Feelgood, because of its popularity,

01:25:52.829 –> 01:25:57.029
was going to be a runaway number one. I said,

01:25:57.029 –> 01:26:01.210
there’s no way. And as I’m tallying things up,

01:26:01.310 –> 01:26:05.550
I’m like, shit, a lot of the top 10 is a lot

01:26:05.550 –> 01:26:08.140
of things that I voted for. So for the first

01:26:08.140 –> 01:26:12.439
time, there’s a lot of stuff in here that I really

01:26:12.439 –> 01:26:17.159
enjoy. I mean, honestly, outside of three albums

01:26:17.159 –> 01:26:21.699
that didn’t make my top ten, the rest are kind

01:26:21.699 –> 01:26:27.600
of in there. Yeah, I’m kind of amazed that the

01:26:27.600 –> 01:26:31.319
Kiss album ranked up there with the – I mean,

01:26:31.340 –> 01:26:33.760
I thought Ace’s album was actually a lot better

01:26:33.760 –> 01:26:36.239
than the Kiss album. I agree with that as well.

01:26:36.279 –> 01:26:40.140
I think to me, Trouble Walking is Ace’s strongest

01:26:40.140 –> 01:26:44.000
solo album. That’s exactly what I was going to

01:26:44.000 –> 01:26:49.239
say. Hot in the Shade is hot in the shit. I mean,

01:26:49.260 –> 01:26:51.899
it’s one of their worst albums, but it just shows

01:26:51.899 –> 01:26:55.739
the popularity of the brand and the logo. I mean,

01:26:55.779 –> 01:27:00.359
the album is just a bunch of demos. It’s, you

01:27:00.359 –> 01:27:03.420
know, it’s got. a ton of ghost players and drum

01:27:03.420 –> 01:27:07.220
machines on it. And they recorded in the same

01:27:07.220 –> 01:27:10.039
studio that appetite for destruction was recorded

01:27:10.039 –> 01:27:12.520
in just to see if they could get their own appetite

01:27:12.520 –> 01:27:17.279
out of there. I mean, it’s just the whole ridiculousness

01:27:17.279 –> 01:27:21.020
of them chasing fads and trying to be popular.

01:27:21.939 –> 01:27:24.659
So, yeah. Hey, I got to throw one out there for

01:27:24.659 –> 01:27:28.840
Dan. Dan, did Lord Tracy meet your top 10? I

01:27:28.840 –> 01:27:32.000
love Lord Tracy. I still listen to them today.

01:27:32.520 –> 01:27:35.159
They didn’t make my top ten. But let me tell

01:27:35.159 –> 01:27:38.359
you, Lords of Babylon, they toured with Ace and

01:27:38.359 –> 01:27:41.640
they broke in the U .S. because of that, in my

01:27:41.640 –> 01:27:45.840
opinion. And they have live album on streaming

01:27:45.840 –> 01:27:50.109
and I listen to it. I still want to see them

01:27:50.109 –> 01:27:52.350
now. I saw them back then, and I want to see

01:27:52.350 –> 01:27:55.630
them today. They still hold up, and I miss them.

01:27:55.750 –> 01:27:58.710
The singer is amazing. The bass player is amazing.

01:27:59.489 –> 01:28:04.010
What a band. Let’s go to Texas because that’s

01:28:04.010 –> 01:28:06.489
where they play, and I’m probably going to have

01:28:06.489 –> 01:28:09.010
to get on a plane when they finally do it again

01:28:09.010 –> 01:28:11.170
because they’ve done it like two years ago, I

01:28:11.170 –> 01:28:14.470
want to say. They put a show together, and it’s

01:28:14.470 –> 01:28:16.390
like, I got to go. One of these times, I got

01:28:16.390 –> 01:28:21.159
to make the effort. I’ll meet you there. Johan,

01:28:21.199 –> 01:28:24.479
you ever heard of Lord Tracy? No. That’s a fun

01:28:24.479 –> 01:28:27.899
album. Never heard of him. Jeremy, Lord Tracy,

01:28:27.899 –> 01:28:31.779
for those that don’t know, features Terry Glaze,

01:28:31.800 –> 01:28:37.420
the original lead singer of Pantera. Yeah, so

01:28:37.420 –> 01:28:40.600
that’s the – I have that album in my collection.

01:28:41.100 –> 01:28:44.539
Yeah, and Phil does it better. But, yeah, that’s

01:28:44.539 –> 01:28:49.210
how he broke it. Screw that. Lord Tracy, he’s

01:28:49.210 –> 01:28:51.210
got a great thing in that band. There’s enough

01:28:51.210 –> 01:28:54.390
albums. I wish they made more. That album, that

01:28:54.390 –> 01:28:59.649
Lord, not that. Yes. Lord Tracy is on the list.

01:29:00.149 –> 01:29:02.949
People voted for that album. That’s a perfect

01:29:02.949 –> 01:29:06.369
album. I missed it, Brad. I missed it. I screwed

01:29:06.369 –> 01:29:09.270
up. That’s all right. So I’m going to challenge

01:29:09.270 –> 01:29:11.289
everybody here who hasn’t listened to this album,

01:29:11.489 –> 01:29:14.500
Deaf Gods of Babylon. Listen to it. I mean, it

01:29:14.500 –> 01:29:17.079
covers a lot of territory there. They kind of

01:29:17.079 –> 01:29:19.640
remind me of what some an old Swedish band would

01:29:19.640 –> 01:29:22.520
do. They kind of trying to spread the music around

01:29:22.520 –> 01:29:25.659
to touch all different kinds of areas rather

01:29:25.659 –> 01:29:29.239
than just every song is kind of the same. But

01:29:29.239 –> 01:29:31.520
it’s all good. It’s it’s a really, really good,

01:29:31.579 –> 01:29:34.159
solid album. Deaf Gods of Babylon, Lord Tracy.

01:29:34.159 –> 01:29:38.630
They’re a tight playing band. But they like to

01:29:38.630 –> 01:29:41.609
screw around and play, kind of like what Metallica

01:29:41.609 –> 01:29:44.270
does, and they don’t take themselves so seriously.

01:29:45.130 –> 01:29:47.949
Not at all. And that background squeal thing,

01:29:48.010 –> 01:29:52.050
that ooh -ah thing, I can’t do it, is, yeah,

01:29:52.210 –> 01:29:54.829
damn, it’s so good. I’ve listened to it over

01:29:54.829 –> 01:29:56.789
and over, and I haven’t really gotten tired of

01:29:56.789 –> 01:30:01.369
it, that live thing. Okay. There you go. There

01:30:01.369 –> 01:30:03.710
you go. Edgar, if you’re still there, listen

01:30:03.710 –> 01:30:07.119
to that album, Deaf Gods of Babylon. I could

01:30:07.119 –> 01:30:10.560
listen to it. I would geek out with you on that

01:30:10.560 –> 01:30:12.439
album. That’s amazing. We’d have a good time

01:30:12.439 –> 01:30:19.319
talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love

01:30:19.319 –> 01:30:21.939
that album. Okay. Why did we hijack this, didn’t

01:30:21.939 –> 01:30:24.899
we? Number one, I fucked up. That guy, Nick,

01:30:24.939 –> 01:30:29.880
missed kicks that one year. Yeah. See that? You’re

01:30:29.880 –> 01:30:38.319
kicking yourself about that, huh? Yeah. All right,

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cool. So I do want to thank everyone who voted

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for this 1989 special. Like I said, great turnout.

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Great turnout of the list. A lot of good music

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came out this year. The full list will be posted

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up on signalsfrommars .com when the podcast audio

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version is released so you guys can see where

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your picks ended up. A lot of great music. But

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there you go, Brad trying to do his D .O. with

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the lasers. In any event, again, thank you guys

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for listening. Thank you guys for watching live,

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those of you that have. And thank you, Metal

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Dan, Johan, Ed, Jeremy, and Brad for being here

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tonight. And Edgar Winterson in the chat. We

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will see you guys next time right here on Signals

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from Mars. See you, folks.