Day 23 Feel better soon Pete. This album was giving to me by my parents. It’s a good thing that my mother never saw the picture on the gatefold to this album. The band members were all naked and had naked women sitting on them or standing beside them. They were partly covered with cloth. My album is by the Doobie Brothers and the name of the album is TOULOUSE STREET. It came out in 1972. The cover is in good condition. The sleeve has an advertisement pictures on one side and the other side has a picture taken in September 1917 in Burbank California. The label on the record has a more updated picture on it of the same street. This album was published by Warner Brothers studio in Burbank California. My favorite songs on this album are “Listen to the Music”, Toulouse Street”, and “Jesus is just Alright”. Happy Holidays and safe travels to everyone.
NIce pick Melanie...it's one of my favourite Doobies albums. I love all the hits on it, and the title track, as well as Snake Man and Disciple. A really strong record.
Morning, Melanie. What a great album to pick and your story put a smile on my face. Will be away from posting for a few days though hoping to still read posts. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and joyous holiday season, whichever holiday you may celebrate. "See" you before the end of the year.
It was 76. I was 13 . My cousin was coming in from california. She was a playboy centerfold. March of 71. My mom asked if i wanted any albums cuz Chris was coming into town and wanted to get us something. I told my mom i heard a song by a band called Boston and a song by Queen that i liked . Well, cousin Chris came over. Handed me Boston and Day at the races. Loved both albums and still do. First time i heard both entire albums.
For my 21st birthday in Nov. of '76,my wife decided to get me something to listen to and she thought I might like something other than Black Sabbath,Kiss,Deep Purple and Ted Nugent, so she took a chance on getting me "A New World Record" by ELO. I heard a few songs on the radio but never got any of their albums,but it all changed when I put it on the turntable.
My story today is pretty straightforward and follows on from yesterday. It's Spring 1983 and my friends and I are getting over the disappointment of Ronnie James Dio leaving Sabbath after 2 amazing studio albums and a double live effort. We were all full of anticipation over what Ronnie wouid do next and word had reached us that he had formed this crack band with hot shot Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell, bassist Jimmy Vain and ex Sabbath (amongst others) drummer Vinny Appice. We could hardly wait to hear the album. The Saturday after it's release, 4 of us met up and headed off to the nearest record store. We each bought a copy, fortunately the store had the foresight to order enough and we headed back to my friend, Gary's house. Said album was duly placed on the turntable and from the opening riff of the frenetic Stand Up and Shout, we knew we had all bought 'a winner'. We played it through twice that afternoon, captivated by it's power, majesty and memorable songs with Ronnie still at the top of his game and the band especially Viv, living up to all expectations. I must have played that album through multiple times that Sunday afterwards and then home from work on the Monday, it was straight back on my turntable. A masterpiece. Due to an outpatients pre op appointment at the local hospital tomorrow, I won't be posting, so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all you great SOT contributors a very Merry and Happy Christmas and festive season with your families and loved ones and Pete, I hope you feel better really soon and thank you for continuing to keep us entertained even when feeling 'under the weather'.
@@jerryattwooll4864 Hi Jerry, that was similar to my experience of buying that album too. The fact that they not only toured it and played Aberdeen on the tour, with Queensryche supporting was just a seriously big bonus!! Hope the pre-op goes OK, look forward to chatting more after the Xmas mayhem! Have a good one, cheers and all the best!
April, 2017: King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (CD) I remember seeing the album cover right around the time I was getting into prog dog circa 2010-11. My best friend was also vinyl and CD collector. He also owned laserdiscs, which I never heard of until I met him. In his collection LP collection, he had In The Court of the Crimson King. When I first saw that cover I laughed, and I thought it looked silly. I did some research about King Crimson later on. Flash forward to April of 2017, I walked into FYE (For Your Entertainment) at Fair Oaks Mall, Virginia, I would always go there whenever my parents would go to the mall. I always browsed the movie and music sections. I came across King Crimson and found their debut album. I said to myself, “I should buy this because it’s one of the most important prog rock albums as well it being the most iconic album cover.” I bought it and listened to it when got home. At first I thought it was very obscure then the title track comes on and I started getting goosebumps. Once the album was finished, I said to myself, “this is a masterpiece.”
you definitely got a masterpiece , Fair oaks Mall became our Mall when it opened since we lived in arcola, didn't have to drive to Tysons corner anymore!
Hi Malik. Yes, this is a masterpiece. I discovered the album after the first ELP albums, after I have read about that Greg Lake has been the singer on it.
Duran Duran-Rio (1982) After Elvis fandom and before listening to basically just hard rock and metal in the 1980s, I had a short but big Duran Duran phase, and Rio was THE ALBUM for me for a while. Heck, I played it so much that it seemed to ruin the vinyl (I remember the sound quality on it clearly worsened after a while). I don't think that's happened to me before or since. It was in late '81 or early '82 when DD's hit "Girls on Film" had very much caught my interest. The British synth pop, and also synth sounds in general were really captivating to my young ears; I loved The Human League's Dare but even e.g. Don Airey's and Tony Banks' playing on Rainbow's Difficult to Cure and Genesis' Abacab, respectively. However, it was Duran Duran that I became a massive fan of. Afterwards, I've sometimes wondered how much their image and looks had to do with. I've been straight throughout my life and this was pre-teenage anyway, but I was still very fascinated especially by Simon Le Bon. Anyway, when I heard some samples ("Hungry like the Wolf" at least) from their new album on radio, I simply had to have this record. Nowadays, I'm not terribly into the Durans, although "Save a Prayer" would probably be among my top 20/30 ballads of all-time. Still, they were very important to me for those few months before big bad metal truly came in to my life. More on that later.
Since I was little I always liked the Beatles, but I didn't have an album by them until much later. When I started buying tapes, they were already the soundtrack of the previous generation, they were already considered classics. We even learned music theory at school with songs by them, like Yesterday or Michelle. In my last years of school, however, Paul McCartney was very successful with his band Wings. I loved a Wings song that was played everywhere, and I ended up buying the single, it was Goodnight Tonight, with Daytime Nighttime Suffering on the b-side, two great songs. Shortly after, Back to the Egg came out and it is today one of my ten favorite albums. I like everything about this album, I think it contains the most rocking material that a Beatle has ever recorded. Old Siam Sir, Rockestra Theme, Spin It On! And those wonderful melodies that only Sir McCartney can write, Getting Closer, Arrow Through Me, Winter Rose...
@@ramonace4770 Hi Ramon, nice memories of the fab 4, never really took to much of their solo work, but Macca produced the pick of what I do like, mainly with Wings to be fair.
@@iainhead9898 Thank you Iain! Back to the Egg is the only album by Wings and Macca as a solo artist that I adore. The rest of his albums have awesome songs (Band on the Run, Jet, Rock Show, Mull of Kintyre, one of my favourite tunes, etc..) but also a lot of filler and soothing songs in my opinion .
First time i saw Joe Cocker was in the Woodstock Movie i never saw any singer perform like he did before i thought he was in a full body spasm. I really liked the way he sang With A Little Help From My Friends. But my first Joe Cocker album was his 2nd lp which was released in nov of 69. The album was simply titled Joe Cocker. Backing him were members of the Grease Band and guests. Henry McCulloch lead guitar. Chris Stainton Piano organ and guitar. Leon Russell piano organ and guitar among others and singing backup were Merry Clayton. Bonnie Bramlett and Rita Coolidge. Joe made a career out of making other peoples songs his own and he did them all with the Cocker touch. The highlights of this album are Bob Dylans Dear Lanlord. Lloyd Prices Lawdy Miss Clawdy. The Beatles She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. Leon Russells Delta Lady. John Sebastians Darling Be Home Soon and my favorite Hitchcock Railway. Nobody ever sang a song with more soul than Joe Cocker.
Deep Purple .. Live in California 1976 On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat Cub Koda .. Welcome to My Job (Collection 1963-1993) For a short period of time at the end of the last century, it was a golden period of retail music stores. There were independent niche stores for every style/genre of music. Chain electronic stores like Best Buy and Circuit City were using huge discount CD sections (huge discount in price, huge in selection) as a loss leader to get us to buy our electronics there. A Michigan record store chain, Repeat the Beat, opened a store or two in Cleveland nearby me. It was a huge store. I remember two purchases there. One was a live Deep Purple MarkIV album with Tommy Bolin on guitar. Really cool to have that. Being a Michigan chain, Cub Koda and his old band Brownsville Station were also from Michigan. Brownsville Station had broken up at the end of the seventies. Cub is best known as the singer of their hit, Smokin' In The Boy's Room. He went solo on independent labels after the breakup. I remember a poster in the store of the various tribute albums available from Cub for Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and so on that Cub self-produced. I didn't get the chance to buy up those albums because of a long illness I suffered soon after finding the store. By the time I recovered, the store was closed. Of course, with the coming of the 21st century and the internet, retail music began to quickly die off as we knew it. I miss that nineties peak, though.
Good morning (afternoon, evening or night) and since I'll likely be away a few days, very, Merry Christmas, Pete. Enjoyable tale today about coming back to an album so personal story today in a similar vein. It had to be Christmas 1970. The guitar-playing next-door neighbor who I have often mentioned gave me an album for a Christmas gift that year. The album was A Question Of Balance by The Moody Blues. Our family had what was known as Christmas breakfast for all the neighbors and relatives so we had to open gifts early, then clean up and put everything away before people started showing up. Then Christmas dinner at the grandparent's so no chance to listen to the album until either later that day or the next day. There were several albums received as gifts that year and when I finally got to the Moody's, the music just didn't seem to grab me quickly and it sort of languished in my record collection limbo for a bit. I guess at age 14, I was too busy listening to other types of music and nothing grabbed me immediately. But the next year, the oft-mentioned older brother bought the Moody's follow-up to that album, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and when he played it on Dad's stereo at the high volume he always used in those days, the sounds really grabbed my attention. So, remembering the Question album, I asked Dad if I could use his stereo and headphones to listen to the album. And what an album it was? Either time or playing it on a really good stereo system with headphones let me hear what I either had missed before or was not ready to hear. Question of Balance quickly moved up and stayed high in the playlist and though there is another album or two by the band I may prefer, Question has stayed a top three to five album all these years. And then a quick story for Christmas Day as won't be posting again for a few days. . Way back in the late 50s/early 60s when there was not an annual and constant flood of Christmas albums, every family seemed to have one particular Christmas album that was the tradition to play every year. So while I may not remember the exact year I first heard it - probably in my first year on the planet - Christmas With Coniff by The Ray Coniff Singers was that album for our family. Mom or Dad would pull it out every year around December 1st and it was always played when we decorated the tree, on Christmas morning and various other times. It is as much in my musical DNA as any other album and I still have to hear it a few times every Christmas. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or Joyous Kwanzaa or whatever holiday is celebrated, best to all the SoT group for the coming holidays. Thanks again, Pete.
@@FrankLang-i3n Thanks, Frank, not only for your comments but raising my curiosity to return to day 15 and read your write up. Really enjoyed that and looking forward to reading your other entries as well.
Day23-Ted Nugent-Double Live Gonzo. 1980 my best friends brother again. Listening to music,when he put’s on this live album by Ted Nugent. I heard Cat Scratch Fever before,so I was familiar with him. As we listened to this album, I enjoyed it and Ted’s guitar playing. My favorite songs were,Stormtroopin,Strangehold and Wang Dang Sweet Poontang. Hearing them live probably influenced me to buy this album and the LP’s the other songs are on. I’ve seen Ted perform these songs live a few times,he doesn’t disappoint.
Around the time of February 1976, I’ve got an album from a band which is highly regarded legendary now, with an also legendary singer (sadly not with us anymore). It’s about “A NIGHT ON THE OPERA” by Queen. By the time of the fall of 1975, there had been two songs high in the singles charts which I deeply loved (and still do). The first one which came earlier, had been “Sailing” by Rod Stewart. I have never been a big fan of him, but this is one of his songs I always loved. I got a Greatest Hits album from him at a modest price much later (around the late 80s), and it included the song, of course. The second great song has been “Bohemian Rhapsody”, maybe to this day this is the greatest single release ever. When I first watched the song at the top of the UK charts, it just blew me away. I knew their hits “Killer Queen” and “Now I’m Here” from the radio before, but this was kind of extraordinary, comparable to nothing else in the music history before. I deeply loved that real epic song, up from the beginning, knowing I had to get it and the album where it was on. At the time, I had started my economy school education of 2 years, where on the first year I had to experience a work placement somewhere, alternating at 4-weeks switching with the school time. I found a place at a bank, thanks to my dad who was friend with the bank director. There was no payment to the job at all, but I learned how to practice bookkeeping, which helped me a lot later in my life. And it has been the first time for me to get in touch with a computer. It sounds weird today… they only had one, on which a lady did the inputs of bookings each day on a 4 hour job, using punching tapes. (But let’s don’t forget, this has been at the time of 1974/75.) The bank where I was, had just opened a year before I joined. All the people working there were at a quite young age, the director as the oldest guy was at age 30. I was close to 19, and there have been a few apprentices younger than me (age 16+) and a guy the same age. This guy, named Franz, was the son of another bank director himself, and -due to this reason - had a lot of more money to spend than I for his musical hobbies. It soon became clear that both of us shared a lot of musical preferences together. He told me that he deeply loved Queen’s new album “A Night At The Opera”. Of course, I asked him if I can borrow it to get it on tape, and he gave it to me. What can be said of the album? Beside of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the May composition “The Prophet’s Song” is epic and superb, and “Love Of My Life” is just beautiful. Brian’s voice shines on “39”, as well as Roger’s voice on “I’m In Love With My Car”. And John Deacon’s composition “You’re My Best Friend” became the second single hit, for good reason. I asked Franz about the earlier Queen albums later on. He had all three of them, and I also was allowed to record them on tape. In hindsight, it’s quite interesting how strong this band has been up from the beginning. No weak tracks, at all… and I loved Queen’s first three albums as much as “Night At The Opera” later soon. I remember having ordered Queen's 5th album "A Day At The Races" in December, and got it at the forenoon of New Years Eve 1976. It's been close to the quality of its precursor, with a lot of strong songs in various styles on it. As for today, when we look back at Queen’s oeuvre in total, their 4th album for sure marks a high point in their career. “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been the song which got me into them, with “Innuendo” being the one most close to it. There are so many songs in-between I also like a lot, even “Another One Bites The Dust”, which is just fun to watch, and to me much more worth hearing than “This Thing Called Love”. To be honest, I never got into “Hot Space”, which marks the low point of Queen’s album releases, and never have heard anything from the “Flash Gordon” soundtrack anymore for decades. I had them on vinyl format, but could live easily without these two albums (never got them on CD). And, by the way, I love “Radio Ga Ga” and “Man On The Prowl”, the latter being a much better Elvis interpretation than “This Thing”. And, not to forget…. to me, the video of “I Want To Break Free” was pure fun, and mostly because of that so much of negative conservative reactions having been against it… at this point they had done something right, for sure. QUEEN became the 8th band in my eternal personal Top 10, after Zep, Purple, Tull, Heep, Floyd, Yes and Supertramp (in no particular order). The two remaining bands will be following soon. My school time albums discoveries, In chronogical order: day 01: 07/1971 (fav) Led Zeppelin IV, (first) Led Zeppelin III day 02: 08/1971 (fav) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water day 03: 09/1971 (fav) Atomic Rooster, In Hearing Of day 04: 09/1971 (fav) Deep Purple In Rock, (first) Deep Purple, Fireball day 05: 11/1971 (fav) Jethro Tull, Aqualung day 06: 11/1971 (fav) Black Sabbath s/t, (first) Master Of Reality day 07: 12/1971 Jesus Christ Superstar day 08: 01/1972 (fav) Grand Funk, Phoenix, (first) Grand Funk, E Pluribus Funk day 09: 03/1972 The Doors, L.A.Woman day 10: 04/1972 Neil Young, Harvest day 11: 06/1972 (fav) Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, (first) Pink Floyd, Meddle day 12: 07/1972 (first/fav) Uriah Heep, Demons And Wizards ("Magician's Birthday" coming very close) day 13: 07/1972 (first) Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus (fav, maybe) Trilogy day 14: 09/1972 (first) Alice Cooper, School's Out (fav) Alice Cooper, Killer day 15: 10/1972 (first) Moody Blues, A Question Of Balance (fav) Days Of Future Passed day 16: 02/1973 (first) Cat Stevens, Catch Bull At Four (fav) Cat Stevens, Foreigner (because of the suite) day 17: 03/1973 (first/fav) Yes, Close To The Edge day 18: 07/1973 (first/fav) Ekseption 5 day 19: 10/1973 (first/fav) Stevie Wonder, Innervisions day 20: 11/1973 (first/fav) The Who, Quadrophenia day 21: 12/1973 (first/fav) Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road day 22: 07/1975 (first/fav) Supertramp, Crime Of The Century (close: Breakfast In America) day 23: 02/1976 (first/fav) Queen, A Night At The Opera
@@FrankLang-i3n Great story, Frank! Ah, those days when we recorded albums on C90 tapes... I had hundreds of recorded cassettes, as I had money I acquired the LPs. News of the World was my first Queen tape, instantly became my favourite band at that time.
Awesome story and list, Frank. I never could get into Hot Space, either. A Night At the Opera is an amazing album. I will have a story about this album coming soon. Take care!
The Toad is back in town! Day 23....back in 1973 our school got a new band teacher - a real cool guy who plastered the music room with posters of Carole King, James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, the Doobie Brothers and many others. The first big piece of music he got us to work on was a medley of songs starting with "Wake Up Sunshine" which morphed into "Make Me Smile" and culminated in "25 or 6 to 4"....what a riff that was. Not long after that discovery, I took my allowance down to the local record store and made my very first vinyl LP purchase ever....it was CHIGAGO II (the double album with the sky blue metallic cover). What a smorgasbord of musical delights awaited me on those 4 sides of vinyl. There's something for everybody on it....rock, pop, jazz, classical, country, folk and funk. What a record, what a band! Terry Kath on guitar and his Ray Charlesesque vocals, and all the other players were top notch musicians. It was that Chicago record that opened my ears to so many other musical paths. I still listen to that album a lot....I hear something new on it with every play, even 50 years later. One of my desert island disques.
Hi Pete & everyone. Dave here. My album today is another of your recommendations. It's KICKSTART THE SUN by CATS IN SPACE. I first heard your praise as one of your best of 2022, and then checked out your review (with Steven Reid and Simon Bray of the UK Connection) and listened to tracks. I was just blown away, as you all were. Terrific songs; great vocals & harmonies; 70s style melodic rock and power-pop, with a bit of prog bombast and musical theatre pzazz. Wonderful, as they were when I saw them live here in London last year. It's actually the second time I've seen them, as I remembered they were supporting Deep Purple at London's O2 in 2017. They were great then, but I never followed them up at the time (typical of me!).
@@gaiaeternal5131 Hi Dave, fantastic album indeed, I caught them live in Milton Keynes, where they recorded their recently released live album. The new one wasn't as immediate as Kickstart..., but it's grown on me with repeated listens - definitely needed a couple more uptempo, rockier numbers to make it a 5/5 like KTS though...
23. Marillion - Fugazi This album came into my life after seeing it in my local record shop in late 2001. I bought used for $5 and at the time, it was the best $5 I ever spent. The only song I knew from the band was Kayleigh. I know that song isn’t on this album, but I figured, for $5, why not?! Listening to the epic opening of Assassing really drew me in and I found that the music was a blending of classic Genesis with a bit of Rush. Punch And Judy, the title track, and She Chameleon are standout tracks, along with the aforementioned Assassing.
Jazz was the first Queen i purchased. Got the cassette. Not long after my tape deck chewed it up a little. I was fairly expert at rehabbing cassettes. Got out my exacto knife and scotch tape. Of coarse for years after there was that little interruption during 'Fat Bottomed Girls' & 'Don't Stop Me Now'. Cheers everybody!🎅
Day 23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation When I first heard this, I went WTH is this? It sounds like Ornette Coleman with a high school bar band. After a few more listens I finally got it. This was rock and roll played with precision and innovation. Bob Quine's guitar work was definitely original. 1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 3. Steppenwolf - S/T 4. Mason Proffit - Wanted 5. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson 6. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head 7. The Doors - S/T 8. Bride - Scarecrow Messiah 9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments 10. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - On Tour 11. Tower of Power - East Bay Grease 12. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West 13. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills 14. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers 15. John Michael Talbot - The Lord's Supper 16. X - Lost Angeles 17. Govt. Mule - Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends 18. Elvin Bishop - Rock My Soul 19. Iron City Houserockers - Have a Good Time.... But Get Out Alive! 20. The Choir - Circle Slide 21. MC5 - Heavy Lifting 22. Skillet - Ardent Worship 23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
It happened to me with the album News of the world,at the age of 11 I heard the album at one of my best friend home and a few days later bought the album.
Morning/Afternoon/Evening everybody, and Happy Christmas Eve Eve! Looks like I'm first in... Today's tale is a combination of a fairly simple case of hearing a new album, purchasing and introducing it to friends, followed by a darker journey of deception and skulduggery. Settle back, its an Epic! The album was the 2nd by a much loved power metal band and I recall acquiring said album before the 2nd part of my story takes place, but double checking the dates seems to indicate that, chronologically, the 2 events should have been the other way round. Its possible the album came out as an import first but otherwise I'm confused... Anyway, the album was "Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1" by HELLOWEEN (I'd missed their debut, and only went back to it later). My mate Stuart and I decided that this was the greatest thing since sliced bread and that should the chance of seeing them live present itself, we should take it immediately. Lo and behold, within weeks, UK dates were announced, but there was a double problem. The biggest one was my parents, mum especially, who, however happy she was to have my friends round of an evening, was one of life's great worriers and hated me going too far from home - Edinburgh was OK, as there were family friends there I could stay with and, by now, friends of mine in their 1st year of University, but that brings us on to the 2nd problem: the band were only playing 2 dates, London and Manchester. The only glimmer was that the Manchester date was a Saturday in early May, but actually this presented a 3rd problem, as I had fairly important exams looming and that would have greatly worsened the inevitable parental stress levels and equally inevitable row... So, we hatched a plan. Graeme, my friend in Edinburgh, was to have his birthday that weekend (not true) and had invited a few of us down (also not true, but we told him he had!!) Could I pleasepleaseplease... PLEASE go down on the Friday, be there for his birthday bash on the Saturday, and come home first thing on Sunday. The answer, after promising to be sensible and do lots of exam revision once I was back, was yes... Of course, Stuart, having no such parental problems, had been doing all the donkey work on the sly, booking bus and concert tickets. My dad dropped me off at the train station at the time I'd said I was meeting Stuart to catch the train to Edinburgh. I waved him off, then walked across the road and met Stuart at the bus station instead... Of course, there were no mobile phones back then, so it was easy enough, when the bus made a 15 minute stop in Edinburgh, to hop out, call home on a payphone to reassure mum that I'd arrived safely at Graeme's then get back on to continue the long, overnight trek to Manchester where we were deposited, bleary eyed, at the bus station at about 5.30 AM. We hovered round the station for half an hour til a cafe opened and we grabbed bacon rolls and a cup of strong tea. Our plan then was to find the venue and then a B & B with a twin room to crash in for a few hours before the gig. Finding the Manchester Apollo was easy, but a cheap B&B, close by, willing to let us crash during the day proved slightly harder, but we eventually found one with a 'Vacancies' sign in the window. We went in and waited at the vacant reception desk for a minute or two until a door opened from the back and the owner emerged in, to our shock, a bloodstained butcher's apron!! In the event, he was very accommodating, had a twin room, let us check in there and then and, later, when we'd had a few hours Kip, recommended us some decent local, cheap eateries, hoped we enjoyed the gig, and was happy for us to leave whenever we liked to catch a mega early bus back up to Scotland. The bloodstains on the apron were never explained... The bus back the next morning was at stupid o'clock, but we got up after just a couple of hours sleep, slipped out without disturbing anyone and were back in Aberdeen by lunchtime. Dad picked us both up, asked if Graeme had enjoyed his birthday, and home we went... The gig? Awesome, as were Overkill supporting. I did come clean to my dad, but only many years later when I felt it was safe... He thought it was hilarious!
In 2003 I was working at a new position. It worked out well as I listened to a lot of music while working. I took a chance on a CD called Symbol Of Salvation by Armored Saint. It was originally released in 1991, but this was a 3CD re-release by Metal Blade. The original release, the original demo with the late guitarist Dave Pritchard, and a disc with a band interview by Metal Blade label head Brian Slagel. Everything, including the very touching interview disc blew me away. If you are a fan of Armored Saint, you need this 3 disc set.
My Day 23 pick is indestructible , the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. A self-produced effort, Indestructible is the first Disturbed album that did not feature Johnny K, the producer of Disturbed's previous three albums, The Sickness, Believe, and Ten Thousand Fists. Indestructible was recorded at Groovemaster Studios in Chicago, Illinois.[3] The album features two songs, "Perfect Insanity" and "Divide",[3][4] that were written by Disturbed prior to their first album, The Sickness, but were never previously released. When I was about 8 or 2008 my brother was fizzling out of liking wrestling and liking football and major other sports. So at that age I would turn to my best friend who liked the same stuff as me like wrestling and rock( at the time) we would listen to a band called Disturbed and watch all the crazy musux videos they would have. I loved every single one because most of them looked straight out of a horror movie( which at that time my friends would think is weird because how could an 8 year old love horror and metal). One day I would get game called WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2009 and a song Perfect Insanity would come on The band re-recorded the song in 2007 and released it on Indestructible and is a downloadable track in the Rock Band series( which I would play at that time too( Another song I would listen to is the title track which the song Indestructible" is "an anthem for soldiers", vocalist David Draiman comments.[1] "It's meant to be something that would make them feel invincible, take away their fear, make them strong."[1] According to Draiman, the song also signifies Disturbed's lingering presence and success in the music industry. Draiman comments that the song "kind of symbolizes the fact that we're still fucking here, that we haven't been destroyed, that we withstood the test of time."( which I thought was cool because I would watch my brother play called of Duty and I would imagine that song play as he was going through all the levels). My parents would than by me this album and the live album for Christmas that same year along with called of Duty and wrestling so I can have that imagination when my brother wasn't there because he only stayed the weekends. The album shows Disturbed abandoning the nu metal sound prominent on previous three albums[5] and features significantly darker themes than any of their previous work, according to the band. Some of the lyrical themes involve actual experiences that vocalist David Draiman had endured over the course of the past few years prior to making the album, including "bad relationships",[6] a motorcycle accident that he was involved with, and an incident of suicide. To match the aggressive attitude and nature of said themes, Draiman told the other band members to create darker, more textural music than they have before. Despite these themes, the title track, "Indestructible", is meant to encourage those in the military that are fighting in wars and boost their morale. To this day I still have those memories in My head every time i hear those songs and album. Track listing edit All tracks are written by Disturbed No. Title Length 1. "Indestructible" 2. "Inside the Fire" 3. "Deceiver" 4. "The Night" 5. "Perfect Insanity 6. "Haunted" 7. "Enough" 8. "The Curse" 9. "Torn" 10. "Criminal" 11. "Divide" 12. "Façade" Charts edit Album Chart (2008) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[40] 1 Austrian Albums Chart[41] 10 Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[42] 49 Canadian Albums Chart[43][44] 1 Danish Albums Chart[45] 22 Dutch Albums Chart[46] 57 Finnish Albums Chart[47] 2 German Albums Chart[48] 11 Irish Albums Chart[49] 43 Japanese Albums Chart[50] 63 New Zealand Albums Chart[51] 1 Scottish Albums[52] 29 Swedish Album Charts[53] 15 Swiss Albums Chart[54] 15 UK Albums Chart[55] 20 US Billboard 200[56] 1 US Alternative Albums Chart[57] 1 US Digital Albums Chart[58] 18 US Hard Rock Albums Chart[59] 1 US Rock Albums Chart[60] 1 US Tastemakers Albums Chart[61] 1 Chart (2010) Peak position US Catalog Albums Chart[62] 26 Certifications edit Region Certification Certified units/sales Australia (ARIA)[67] Platinum 70,000^ Canada (Music Canada)[68] 3× Platinum 240,000‡ Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[69] Gold 10,794[69] New Zealand (RMNZ)[70] Platinum 15,000^ United Kingdom (BPI)[71] Gold 100,000* United States (RIAA)[11] Platinum 1,000,000^
That album definitely is heavy, heavy heavy, saw them with Slipknot at mayhem fest, right in the center of jiffy lube live amphitheater. Most powerful sound waves blowing the air toward us.
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994) Over a month before his album came out, I saw Jeff perform at The Hot House in Chicago on a humid summer night on July 5. I'd never heard him, but knew he was the son of Tim Buckley, a favorite of mine, and his live shows were getting rave reviews. It was also a great choice to bring a date -- between his rockstar good looks and soaring chanteuse vocals, covering Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Big Star's "Kanga Roo," it was a romantic setting, but also kind of electric, like we knew we were watching an historic show. It was a tiny, low-key venue and could chat with him after the show, and he flirted with my date. That fine by me. We saw him three more times within the next year at the Green Mill, Uncommon Ground Cafe and the Metro, which was filmed and released on blu-ray. Sadly a reason those shows were so special is that in less than three years he was gone, taken by the Mississippi river, leaving behind only one official studio album, which of course I bought the day it came out on August 23. Like his music, the romance I had with my date was torrid and fleeting. I'm sure Buckley would have approved of his music triggering such bittersweet memories.
Excellent story, FnB. My introduction was seeing him perform live on an arts programme on British TV. Amazing, and I bought Grace straight away. It's still a favourite.
I was home from college for the summer and decided to go check out some of my favorite singer/songwriter's releases. I picked up Joni Mitchell's "Hejira", but when I put it on the player, it was like nothing I had heard from Joni Mitchell before. Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass interacting with lead guitarist Larry Carlton was a sign that Mitchell was moving away from pop melodies and counterculture lyrics. Not quite all the way into jazz, it certainly skirted the genre's edges. Longer songs and even more personal revelations undergirded a Nietzschean ethos that informed her emotional approach to romance and travel, with her identity as artist/musician emerging over and above love and romance, though she recognizes her inescapable need for that too. Pretty heady stuff for a young man such as moi, though I had read "Zarathustra".
Signals -Rush. Received many packages from RCA / Columbia House / BMG music clubs. One sticks out over the others. Pleasure Victim by Berlin, Hello, I Must Be Going by Phil Collins, Frontiers by Journey and maybe 1 other didn't get much play as was busy listening to Pyromania by Def Leppard, the slightly older Ghost in the Machine by the Police, and Signals by Rush over and over and over...
Pick #23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole. Again, probably not the most interesting story, but I had always liked a handful of Chemical Brothers singles here and there and when I was living in Richmond decided to try taking a deep dive into some of their albums. I chose Dig Your Own Hole and was pretty blown away by not only how great each song was but how well everything flowed from start to finish. I wouldn't say I listen to a ton of big beat/techno or which ever genre you would place Chemical Brothers in, but them and Daft Punk are two groups I go back to fairly consistently. #1: The Who's Tommy (1969) #2: RX Bandits' ...And the Battle Begun (2006) #3: Metallica's ...And Justice For All (1988) #4: Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979) #5: Daft Punk's Alive 2007 #6: Yes's Close to the Edge (1972) #7: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) #8: Arcade Fire's Funeral (2004) #9: Silverchair's Diorama (2002) #10: Green Day's American Idiot (2004) #11: The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004) #12: Death's Symbolic (1995) #13: Radiohead's Kid A (2000) #14: Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns (2010) #15: Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001) #16: Tool's Lateralus (2001) #17: Opeth's Blackwater Park (2001) #18: Rush's Grace Under Pressure (1984) #19: Rainbow's Rising (1976) #20: Black Sabbath's Mob Rules (1981) #21: Kansas's Leftoverture (1976) #22: Pearl Jam's Ten (1991) #23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
Misery, Christmas Peter to you and your family. Great pic Pete for a good memory. Never bought Jazz, but I do have it on my iPhone. It’s one of my favourite Queen albums. Get better get well. 👍🏼 Cheers, Mike L 😎🇨🇦✌🏼🎸
Unleashed in the East, Judas Priest. It was '79. Saw an advert for it in a music paper and as I was into the Priest I thought it was a must have album. Loved the cover and started getting into the denim and leather thing. If only I could relive it all over again!
The first albums i ever got was in the late 70's when I got my first record player but I couldn't afford to buy full LPS but I could afford the 45's and had several 45's including A sides and B sides singles from such artists as Cheap Trick, Jefferson Starship, Ted Nugent, Journey and Foreigner but my cousins gave me several of their full albums that they didn't want anymore and in the collection of my first albums to listen to on my first record player was such artists as Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band, the Eagles, the Edgar Winter Group, Montrose, the original Fleetwood Mac, Mountain, Doctor Hook and many others like this Thank You and Merry Christmas Sea Of Tranquility.🎶📻🎄📺🎶
My day 23 favorite album story is hearing David Bowie on the radio back in the early 1970s in my Dad’s car, the 1969 Space Oddity song… having recently witnessed the first moon landing with my parents. Listened to Bowie’s songs on and off the radio during the 70s and then going to Tower Records in 1980 and purchasing the Heroes cd. I then purchased various CDs from his discography since then. 1. The first time I heard the Lambs Lies Down on Broadway vinyl record was on my family turn table in our recreation room. This was my first vinyl record back in 1977 from the Where House records store. The album cover designs intrigued me, especially the image of Rael reaching out to himself, Rael looking at the connection of the two Raels, and Rael with no mouth. This imagery of self-introspection appealed to my love of science fiction books from Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard and Robert Sheckley (among others). The surreal lyrics and music appealed to my love of science fiction and brought me into the world of progressive rock where I later bought other prog rock band vinyl records. I found myself singing out the lyrics in a full-throated roar... a connection to my love of profound science fiction stories and the words embedded in those stories. Today it is still one of my favorite progressive rock albums to listen to. 2. Hearing Jethro Tull songs like Living in the Past, Aqualung and Locomotive Breath back in 1974 on our San Jose-based KOME rock station. Loved the intricate, unique flute sounds from Ian Anderson. Went with my father in 1974 to look at old vinyl records at Moe’s Records and purchased the Living in the Past vinyl record for around $2 or 3 dollars. Still have the record and play it occasionally on my son’s turntable. 3. Hearing Rush for the first time on KSJO and KOME radio stations in 1981. The late DJ Dennis Erectus introduced the Tom Sawyer song on KOME. Today, I still love the album on CD. 4. 1980 listening to ELO’s Out of the Blue 8 track tape cartridge on my first car, a brown Capri. I would crank this tape up for my 1982 Lincoln High School Senior Cut day to Santa Cruz, CA. Still listen to this album on my CD player in my car. 5. In 1979 I purchased the Roxy Music vinyl record For Your Pleasure at the Campbell Tower Records store and played it on my turntable. I had heard past songs on the KOME radio station and first heard the Both Ends Burning song. Really liked the spookiness of the In Every Dream Home a Heartache song and listen to this CD often. Went with my wife to see Roxy Music at the San Francisco Chase Center a couple years ago and they sounded great. Manzanera, the guitarist was on fire that evening. 6. Listening to Steely Dan’s hit Rick Don’t Lose That Number song on my parent’s car radio back in 1974. I then bought the Pretzel Logic vinyl record back in 1979 at the Where House record store. I listen to the CD frequently today and have grown to like the deeper cut songs like Night by Night and Pretzel Logic and dislike the pervasive elevator muzak versions of their songs. 7. Hearing the Moody Blues - Nights in White Station on the radio station in 1973 for the first time. Remembering my older cousin recommending this band to me around 1975. He loved the Moody Blues. My cousin sadly passed away from substance abuse back in 2022. I often play the Moody Blues on CDs and fondly remember my older cousin’s passion for the Moody Blues. 8. Hearing Kansas’ Dust in the Wind back in 1976 on the local KOME radio station at home. Went to the local Tower Records store and bought the Kansas Leftoverture vinyl record around 1979. Still listen to Leftoverture with my CD player at home in my car. 9. Watching the January, 2019 SoT Top 10 Songs: Camel and starting to listen to their discography upon Pete’s recommendations. Had always heard of Camel but never explored their discography. Thank you Pete. First Camel CD that I explored was Mirage, purchased at Street Light Records in early 2019. Love Andy Latimer’s fantastic guitar tones. 10. Watching the Suspiria movie back in 1979 on our family VCR player during the Halloween season and remembering the haunting music. Discovered that the Italian band Goblin created most of the movie sound track. Went to our local Where House record store and bought the Goblin Roller vinyl record in 1979. Expanded my Goblin discography in the 80s with their CDs and have seen them live a few times since 2013. Met the band members before their 2013 Warfield, San Francisco show. Listen to them regularly since then. 11. Hearing Yes’ Roundabout song on the local San Jose rock station, KOME, in 1978. Went to our local used vinyl record store, Moe’s Records in 1979 and purchased the Yessongs triple vinyl record album for around $6. Enjoyed the live album then and still listen to the vinyl record today. 12. Listening to the SoT Big Big Train episode - New Releases … Big Big Train - Grand Tour in 2019. Upon Pete’s strong review, I purchased the Big Big Train - English Electric: Full Power, compilation CD in 2019. I have been exploring their discography since 2019 and wanted to thank Peter for recommending them. 13. Listening to Todd Rundgren’s Utopia’s Time Heals on the local rock KOME station back in 1978 and then seeing the 1982 Time Heals video on MTV. I then bought the Utopia Swing to the Right CD at our local Tower Records store. I then purchased most of their discography in CD format in the 80s. I have been listening to their CDs off and on till today. 14. I am an avid reader of science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov and had read his classic I, Robot in the mid 70s. Listening to The Alan Parsons Projects song - I Robot on the San Jose KOME rock station in 1977 and saw the title I, Robot, drew me to the record. I then purchased The Alan Parsons Project vinyl record at Tower Records and then most of the discography on CDs in the 80s. I have been listening to their CDs and vinyl records off and on and into today. 15. Listening to The Cars on the San Jose KOME rock station song - Good Times Roll in 1978. Went to the Towers Records store and bought The Cars - The Cars vinyl record in 1978. I then bought the next few Cars albums on CD and listened to them off and on until today. 16. Hearing Supertramp’s Logical Song on the radio in 1979. Intrigued by the British view of America and went to the Where House Records store and bought the Breakfast in America vinyl record. Loved the lyrics in all of the songs, especially Child of Vision. I then went and bought several of their CDs in the 80s and have listened to them off and on till today. 17. Acquired the Honey Barbara - I-10 & W. Ave. CD tip inserted into the Emigre Graphic Design magazine #60 in 2001. Listened to this Texas band’s quirky songs including Sleep Late, Beddie ‘bye and Killer Duds. Listen to this CD to remind me of my early Graphic Design career and for graphic design inspiration to today. 18. Watching the 2020 SoT Ranking the Studio Albums: Gentle Giant episode and hearing Pete’s recommendations for ranking the Gentle Giant albums. Upon Pete’s recommendations, I acquired the Octopus album and then continued to get the other albums in their discography. Love the musical virtuosities of the band. Thank you Pete. 19. Perusing the CDs at my local San Jose Where House records store and was attracted to the beautiful illustration of the Dead Can Dance - Aion 1990 CD. This Melbourne transplants to London, Lisa Gerrard, vocalist and vocalist Brendan Perry have created beautiful neoclassical darkwave/medieval folk music since 1981 into today. The beautiful Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book and Black Sun from the Aion CD led me to get most of the discography on CD. I enjoy and listen to their music today. 20. Listening to early Marillion songs on the radio from the early 80s including Kayleigh led me to the local Tower Records store to buy the Marillion Misplaced Childhood CD in 1985. Would be the rest of the Fish-based Marillion CDs after that. I have enjoyed this 80-based Marillion CDs till today. 21. Watching the 2021 SoT episode - Ranking the Albums: Wobbler (w/Rand Kelly) Wobbler. They ranked the Wobbler albums of this Norwegian retro-prog band. This SoT episode prompted me to get the From Silence to Nowhere CD from Streetlight Records in San Jose. I have been listening to their CDs since then. Thank you Pete and Rand. 22. Seeing the Dixie Dregs perform at my alma mater, San Jose State University in 1981 in a free performance in front of the Ivory Tower. Morse and company were on fire. The concert moved me to purchase the 1980 Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth CD. I bought most of their 80s discography on CDs and have been listening to them since then. 23. Hearing David Bowie on the radio back in the early 1970s in my Dad’s car, the 1969 Space Oddity song… having recently witnessed the first moon landing with my parents. Listened to Bowie’s songs on and off the radio during the 70s and then going to Tower Records in 1980 and purchasing the Heroes cd. I then purchased various CDs from his discography since then.
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses. WSOU was the station I was always tuned to in the 90s. Would have never discovered Type O Negative if it wasn't for that station. Black # 1 was always in heavy rotation.
Great story, Pete. Day 23: The Who - Quadrophenia (1973) Today we go back to mid November 1973 shortly after Quadrophenia was released. I was nine years old and about to turn 10. I want to preface this by saying that I didn't choose Tommy because I was four years old when that album was released and have a little recollection of my first impression of the album. Most of what I recall is what my brothers have told me. Anyway, back to Quadrophenia. My brothers and I were in the living listening to albums. My parents were out running errands. My oldest brother put on an album. The first song started (“I Am the Sea” and I closed my eyes imagining I was at the ocean. I guess you can say I was swept away. lol And of course during “The Real Me I was playing the air bass. During the song “Quadrophenia” I broke out into interpretive dance. My brothers and our dog got out of the way. For the rest of the album I was my usual “Deb” self. Then the last song, “Love Reign O’er Me” began. I thought cool, more piano, ooh thunder, rain… Then Roger’s vocals. This song had me. I believe at one point I was conducting the orchestra. Roger’s last scream left me bugged eyed for a moment. I remembered asking my brothers “What was that?”. Their reply was that it was amazing. Quadrophenia is special to me and I listen to it regularly. I don't think I will ever get tired of it. Day 23: The Who - Quadrophenia)1973) Day 22: Van Halen - Van Halen (1978) Day 21: ABBA - Arrival (1976) Day 20: The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy (2024) Day 19: Dio - Holy Diver (1983) Day 18: No Story Day 17: No Story Day 16: The Runaways - The Runaways (1976) Day 15: Live - Throwing Copper (1994) Day 14: No Story Day 13: No Story Day 12: Rainbow - Rising (1976) Day 11: Yes - Fragile (Released in the UK on 12 November 1971 and in the US on 4 January 1972) Day 10: Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976) Day 9: Deep Purple Machine Head (1972) Day 8: Boston - Boston (1976) Day 7: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (1973) Day 6: Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi (1978) Day 5: Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle (1976) Day 4: Journey - Infinity (1978) Day 3: Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (1983) Day 2: Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971) Day 1: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
As Sir Iain and my nephew would say, 2 More Sleeps!! Just a public service announcement after the nail biter Commanders win over the Eagles. Our DC classic rock station iHeart just played stairway, sweet home, Sweet emotion, centerfold....REALLY?? Back deep to the internet to hear our deep cuts! Long Live Rock and jazz, if it's by Queen...
@@iainhead9898 still love Christmas time after All these years! I can't believe anybody listens to those stations anymore... They still sell lots of advertisements
My story is a little backwards. As a young teen back in ‘77, My buddy said let’s go see this band I really like called Rush. I had heard of them but didn’t know much of their music. They were promoting “All The Worlds A Stage”. But their opening band I thought blew them off the stage. Some band called UFO. I remember we had like tenth row & just before the show started part of the sound crew kicked us out of our seats. I guess for equipment. We told the venue and they gave us 2nd row! After UFO played I was a huge fan. But didn’t own any of their records. Next day I went out & Bought their lasted album. To this day it’s still my favorite. The album? “Lights Out”.
First album I got of Queen was Queen 2 on 8 track and I wore it out. Loved it and bought what I could on 8 track afterwords. Night at the Opera was awesome on 8 track along with Sheer Heart Attack on 8 track!
Been sick since thanksgiving, myself, Pete, and I can’t get rid of this dang cough.😡 broke a few ribs because of it. Argh! Enough already! Feel better and merry Christmahanakwanzika! 🎄🕎🥢🥡
Too Old To Rock N Roll, Too Young To Die- Jethro Tull 1981- I hear the title track on WNEW NY and immediately want to hear more from this band. I found out my mother was headed to Korvettes to do some shopping and I asked her to pick up this album in the record dept since I was in school that day. When I got home, the album was sitting in the Korvettes bag in my room. She came in and told me how I embarassed her when she carried the album to the register with Ian Anderson on the front cover making an obscene hand gesture. She told me that would be the last time she would buy me any album again.
DAY 23. THE MONKEES -More Of (1967) The vinyl. Hi friends, HERE is where it started with collecting records and getting the vinyl back in this day when 11 years old as I'm Not Your Stepping Stone would hear on AM Top 40 radio as since hearing on transistor radio and what was to hear music as well as small stereo component system, Which would get upgraded as soon after and all that as being a smart kid and observant to what is happening along in music and artists I would be in coming to like and love. And would get other Monkee albums after wards but only have this album as reminder to ny beginning of record collecting, The 4 of them and with all those studio musicians to back them up on records before making their own and being on their way and having their great fun tv show classic so loved watching as well. Having good parents that to wanting to help and see that I would could be able to get started with music listening and enjoying. The vinyl don't have the original vinyl from then as well to old and used and in bad shape so swapped and bought a stereo used in good condition version of the lp all so while back. Micky Dolenz. Davy Jones RIP, Peter Tork RIP, Mike Nesmith RIP Song- Vocals She Micky When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) Davy Mary, Mary Micky Hold On Girl Davy Your Auntie Grizelda Peter (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone Micky Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) Davy The Kind Of Girl I Could Love Mike The Day We Fall In Love Davy Sometime In The Morning Micky Laugh Davy I'm A Believer Micky -------------------------------- Not a bad song on this album would have faves. Would get debut after then go forward. The expanded editions would have tracks of leftover stuff that would more likely to be on their Missing Links albums and such. And deluxe boxes etc in the future on CDs, Vinyls as well. Would visit some friends house that would have Monkee albums and hear them on the stereos in their homes. Great times and great pre fab band with great voices and the craft of what they could do and play to be that we all witnessed. There you have it, Take care and love hugs and prayers Pete nice pick Queen and Jazz album story. Keep getting well as me being in same of as well. In with to be in good health and Take care host friend. Everyone Happy holidays . See ya later friends Stay well. 🎶🎶❤🤗🙏☮🌲🎄✴ P.S. My first 45 was 1-2-3 by Len Barry 1965 hit. Monkee 45s would have and get when would see them. TC
My Queen story .. Summer 74 went over to a buddies,, I think he was babysitting fora relative .. it was a kid not an infant .. anyway .. there were albums and he put on Queen 2 .. blew me away, never heard that before,,,,but did not go and buy it ,, kinda forgot about it i guess ,, and then when Sheer Heart Attack was released in the fall ,, saw that in the new release rack at the local store in the mall adjacent to my HS .. so I remember and bought that and not 2 ....and next fall I went to UNI and bought Night when it was released.. I did not get around to getting Queen 2 until later that year or the next at a used record shop... it remains my favourite Queen LP all these years later
Not much of a story today. Close to the end of 1979 a new local group, formed in city of Zagreb a year earlier, released their first album. Band was called Aerodrom and the title of album was Kad misli mi vrludaju. They were fresh breeze on the scene, lead by the guitarist Jurica “Jura” Pađen. The title song opens the album and brings ferocius guitar playing, alas that is the only track to sound like that - not that the other songs are bad, but are not bringing the joy as the first track. Do not know where I bought it, in Jugoton store (as they released the album) or in Unima/Sarajka department store - more likely. Next year I finished my high school and usually a large event was prepared for such occassion, in sports hall. The name of manifestation was Red Carnation and all of us finishing 4th grade of many high schools in a city would come. The main act that evening was group Aerodrom, fresh, energetic (and not so popular) but I was more than happy to listen to their performance and it was absolutely brilliant. I believe they sold a lot of records in stores across my city in days after the concert.
Loved Queen in the early days, saw them twice in the mid 70's. Had all their albums but fell off after News of the World. For me that was the last great album.
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Feel better soon Pete.
This album was giving to me by my parents. It’s a good thing that my mother never saw the picture on the gatefold to this album. The band members were all naked and had naked women sitting on them or standing beside them. They were partly covered with cloth. My album is by the Doobie Brothers and the name of the album is TOULOUSE STREET. It came out in 1972. The cover is in good condition. The sleeve has an advertisement pictures on one side and the other side has a picture taken in September 1917 in Burbank California. The label on the record has a more updated picture on it of the same street. This album was published by Warner Brothers studio in Burbank California. My favorite songs on this album are “Listen to the Music”, Toulouse Street”, and “Jesus is just Alright”.
Happy Holidays and safe travels to everyone.
Great pick, Melanie.
@ thanks Rick. Happy Holidays
NIce pick Melanie...it's one of my favourite Doobies albums. I love all the hits on it, and the title track, as well as Snake Man and Disciple. A really strong record.
Morning, Melanie. What a great album to pick and your story put a smile on my face. Will be away from posting for a few days though hoping to still read posts. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and joyous holiday season, whichever holiday you may celebrate. "See" you before the end of the year.
@@garyh.238 thanks garyh.
It was 76. I was 13 . My cousin was coming in from california. She was a playboy centerfold. March of 71. My mom asked if i wanted any albums cuz Chris was coming into town and wanted to get us something. I told my mom i heard a song by a band called Boston and a song by Queen that i liked . Well, cousin Chris came over. Handed me Boston and Day at the races. Loved both albums and still do. First time i heard both entire albums.
@@frankies9465 hi Frankie. Interesting story
For my 21st birthday in Nov. of '76,my wife decided to get me something to listen to and she thought I might like something other than Black Sabbath,Kiss,Deep Purple and Ted Nugent, so she took a chance on getting me "A New World Record" by ELO. I heard a few songs on the radio but never got any of their albums,but it all changed when I put it on the turntable.
Good mom, helping you expand your horizons, mister
@@kingmrfone5604 hi King. Awesome story. Happy Holidays and safe travels.
@@ziggyzagzi8017 my mom story comes tomorrow and it is quite funny. My wife has bought me quite a few gems in our 49 years of marriage.
@@melaniethurber5117 thanks so much,same to you and yours. My only trip will be to visit my mom and sister. You will like my mom story tomorrow.
@ you’re welcome King. My husband doesn’t live with me anymore. He’s gone into the nursing home.
My story today is pretty straightforward and follows on from yesterday. It's Spring 1983 and my friends and I are getting over the disappointment of Ronnie James Dio leaving Sabbath after 2 amazing studio albums and a double live effort. We were all full of anticipation over what Ronnie wouid do next and word had reached us that he had formed this crack band with hot shot Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell, bassist Jimmy Vain and ex Sabbath (amongst others) drummer Vinny Appice. We could hardly wait to hear the album. The Saturday after it's release, 4 of us met up and headed off to the nearest record store. We each bought a copy, fortunately the store had the foresight to order enough and we headed back to my friend, Gary's house. Said album was duly placed on the turntable and from the opening riff of the frenetic Stand Up and Shout, we knew we had all bought 'a winner'. We played it through twice that afternoon, captivated by it's power, majesty and memorable songs with Ronnie still at the top of his game and the band especially Viv, living up to all expectations. I must have played that album through multiple times that Sunday afterwards and then home from work on the Monday, it was straight back on my turntable. A masterpiece.
Due to an outpatients pre op appointment at the local hospital tomorrow, I won't be posting, so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all you great SOT contributors a very Merry and Happy Christmas and festive season with your families and loved ones and Pete, I hope you feel better really soon and thank you for continuing to keep us entertained even when feeling 'under the weather'.
@@jerryattwooll4864 interesting story Jerry.
@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie.
@ you’re welcome Jerry
@@jerryattwooll4864 Hi Jerry, that was similar to my experience of buying that album too. The fact that they not only toured it and played Aberdeen on the tour, with Queensryche supporting was just a seriously big bonus!!
Hope the pre-op goes OK, look forward to chatting more after the Xmas mayhem! Have a good one, cheers and all the best!
@@iainhead9898 Thanks Iain. Hope you have a good one too. The big op is due Jan 23rd all being well, so I still get to enjoy Christmas and New Year.
April, 2017:
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (CD)
I remember seeing the album cover right around the time I was getting into prog dog circa 2010-11. My best friend was also vinyl and CD collector. He also owned laserdiscs, which I never heard of until I met him. In his collection LP collection, he had In The Court of the Crimson King. When I first saw that cover I laughed, and I thought it looked silly. I did some research about King Crimson later on. Flash forward to April of 2017, I walked into FYE (For Your Entertainment) at Fair Oaks Mall, Virginia, I would always go there whenever my parents would go to the mall. I always browsed the movie and music sections. I came across King Crimson and found their debut album. I said to myself, “I should buy this because it’s one of the most important prog rock albums as well it being the most iconic album cover.” I bought it and listened to it when got home. At first I thought it was very obscure then the title track comes on and I started getting goosebumps. Once the album was finished, I said to myself, “this is a masterpiece.”
you definitely got a masterpiece , Fair oaks Mall became our Mall when it opened since we lived in arcola, didn't have to drive to Tysons corner anymore!
Hi Malik. Yes, this is a masterpiece. I discovered the album after the first ELP albums, after I have read about that Greg Lake has been the singer on it.
Duran Duran-Rio (1982)
After Elvis fandom and before listening to basically just hard rock and metal in the 1980s, I had a short but big Duran Duran phase, and Rio was THE ALBUM for me for a while. Heck, I played it so much that it seemed to ruin the vinyl (I remember the sound quality on it clearly worsened after a while). I don't think that's happened to me before or since.
It was in late '81 or early '82 when DD's hit "Girls on Film" had very much caught my interest. The British synth pop, and also synth sounds in general were really captivating to my young ears; I loved The Human League's Dare but even e.g. Don Airey's and Tony Banks' playing on Rainbow's Difficult to Cure and Genesis' Abacab, respectively. However, it was Duran Duran that I became a massive fan of. Afterwards, I've sometimes wondered how much their image and looks had to do with. I've been straight throughout my life and this was pre-teenage anyway, but I was still very fascinated especially by Simon Le Bon. Anyway, when I heard some samples ("Hungry like the Wolf" at least) from their new album on radio, I simply had to have this record.
Nowadays, I'm not terribly into the Durans, although "Save a Prayer" would probably be among my top 20/30 ballads of all-time. Still, they were very important to me for those few months before big bad metal truly came in to my life. More on that later.
Since I was little I always liked the Beatles, but I didn't have an album by them until much later. When I started buying tapes, they were already the soundtrack of the previous generation, they were already considered classics. We even learned music theory at school with songs by them, like Yesterday or Michelle. In my last years of school, however, Paul McCartney was very successful with his band Wings. I loved a Wings song that was played everywhere, and I ended up buying the single, it was Goodnight Tonight, with Daytime Nighttime Suffering on the b-side, two great songs. Shortly after, Back to the Egg came out and it is today one of my ten favorite albums. I like everything about this album, I think it contains the most rocking material that a Beatle has ever recorded. Old Siam Sir, Rockestra Theme, Spin It On! And those wonderful melodies that only Sir McCartney can write, Getting Closer, Arrow Through Me, Winter Rose...
Sweet deep pick, Ramon. I haven't heard much of this one, so I'll check it out
@@ramonace4770 Hi Ramon, nice memories of the fab 4, never really took to much of their solo work, but Macca produced the pick of what I do like, mainly with Wings to be fair.
@ziggyzagzi8017 Thank you Ziggy!
@@iainhead9898 Thank you Iain! Back to the Egg is the only album by Wings and Macca as a solo artist that I adore. The rest of his albums have awesome songs (Band on the Run, Jet, Rock Show, Mull of Kintyre,
one of my favourite tunes, etc..) but also a lot of filler and soothing songs in my opinion .
@ramonace4770 Never liked Mull... much - and I'm Scottish!!
First time i saw Joe Cocker was in the Woodstock Movie i never saw any singer perform like he did before i thought he was in a full body spasm. I really liked the way he sang With A Little Help From My Friends. But my first Joe Cocker album was his 2nd lp which was released in nov of 69. The album was simply titled Joe Cocker. Backing him were members of the Grease Band and guests. Henry McCulloch lead guitar. Chris Stainton Piano organ and guitar. Leon Russell piano organ and guitar among others and singing backup were Merry Clayton. Bonnie Bramlett and Rita Coolidge. Joe made a career out of making other peoples songs his own and he did them all with the Cocker touch. The highlights of this album are Bob Dylans Dear Lanlord. Lloyd Prices Lawdy Miss Clawdy. The Beatles She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. Leon Russells Delta Lady. John Sebastians Darling Be Home Soon and my favorite Hitchcock Railway. Nobody ever sang a song with more soul than Joe Cocker.
@@dennisstratton6508 hi Dennis. Interesting article and awesome picks
Thank you melanie
@@dennisstratton6508 you’re welcome Dennis
Great story, Dennis. Awesome album.
Thank you debbie
Deep Purple .. Live in California 1976 On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat
Cub Koda .. Welcome to My Job (Collection 1963-1993)
For a short period of time at the end of the last century, it was a golden period of retail music stores.
There were independent niche stores for every style/genre of music. Chain electronic stores like Best Buy and Circuit City were using huge discount CD sections (huge discount in price, huge in selection) as a loss leader to get us to buy our electronics there.
A Michigan record store chain, Repeat the Beat, opened a store or two in Cleveland nearby me.
It was a huge store. I remember two purchases there. One was a live Deep Purple MarkIV album with Tommy Bolin on guitar. Really cool to have that.
Being a Michigan chain, Cub Koda and his old band Brownsville Station were also from Michigan.
Brownsville Station had broken up at the end of the seventies. Cub is best known as the singer of their hit, Smokin' In The Boy's Room. He went solo on independent labels after the breakup.
I remember a poster in the store of the various tribute albums available from Cub for Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and so on that Cub self-produced.
I didn't get the chance to buy up those albums because of a long illness I suffered soon after finding the store. By the time I recovered, the store was closed.
Of course, with the coming of the 21st century and the internet, retail music began to quickly die off as we knew it. I miss that nineties peak, though.
Nice story about how you got into Queen, Pete.
@@richardmay8153 I also have this Purple live cd! Awesome stuff!
Good morning (afternoon, evening or night) and since I'll likely be away a few days, very, Merry Christmas, Pete. Enjoyable tale today about coming back to an album so personal story today in a similar vein. It had to be Christmas 1970. The guitar-playing next-door neighbor who I have often mentioned gave me an album for a Christmas gift that year. The album was A Question Of Balance by The Moody Blues. Our family had what was known as Christmas breakfast for all the neighbors and relatives so we had to open gifts early, then clean up and put everything away before people started showing up. Then Christmas dinner at the grandparent's so no chance to listen to the album until either later that day or the next day. There were several albums received as gifts that year and when I finally got to the Moody's, the music just didn't seem to grab me quickly and it sort of languished in my record collection limbo for a bit. I guess at age 14, I was too busy listening to other types of music and nothing grabbed me immediately. But the next year, the oft-mentioned older brother bought the Moody's follow-up to that album, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, and when he played it on Dad's stereo at the high volume he always used in those days, the sounds really grabbed my attention. So, remembering the Question album, I asked Dad if I could use his stereo and headphones to listen to the album. And what an album it was? Either time or playing it on a really good stereo system with headphones let me hear what I either had missed before or was not ready to hear. Question of Balance quickly moved up and stayed high in the playlist and though there is another album or two by the band I may prefer, Question has stayed a top three to five album all these years.
And then a quick story for Christmas Day as won't be posting again for a few days. . Way back in the late 50s/early 60s when there was not an annual and constant flood of Christmas albums, every family seemed to have one particular Christmas album that was the tradition to play every year. So while I may not remember the exact year I first heard it - probably in my first year on the planet - Christmas With Coniff by The Ray Coniff Singers was that album for our family. Mom or Dad would pull it out every year around December 1st and it was always played when we decorated the tree, on Christmas morning and various other times. It is as much in my musical DNA as any other album and I still have to hear it a few times every Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or Joyous Kwanzaa or whatever holiday is celebrated, best to all the SoT group for the coming holidays. Thanks again, Pete.
@@johnmichaelwilliams6694 hi John. Fantastic article and picks. Happy Holidays and safe travels.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie!!
@ you’re welcome John
Hi John. Great story and pick. This was also my introduction to the Moody Blues (I had it on day 15).
@@FrankLang-i3n Thanks, Frank, not only for your comments but raising my curiosity to return to day 15 and read your write up. Really enjoyed that and looking forward to reading your other entries as well.
Day23-Ted Nugent-Double Live Gonzo. 1980 my best friends brother again. Listening to music,when he put’s on this live album by Ted Nugent. I heard Cat Scratch Fever before,so I was familiar with him. As we listened to this album, I enjoyed it and Ted’s guitar playing. My favorite songs were,Stormtroopin,Strangehold and Wang Dang Sweet Poontang. Hearing them live probably influenced me to buy this album and the LP’s the other songs are on. I’ve seen Ted perform these songs live a few times,he doesn’t disappoint.
My number one Llive album, Cuz. Those songs plus great white buffalo!
Around the time of February 1976, I’ve got an album from a band which is highly regarded legendary now, with an also legendary singer (sadly not with us anymore). It’s about
“A NIGHT ON THE OPERA” by Queen.
By the time of the fall of 1975, there had been two songs high in the singles charts which I deeply loved (and still do). The first one which came earlier, had been “Sailing” by Rod Stewart. I have never been a big fan of him, but this is one of his songs I always loved. I got a Greatest Hits album from him at a modest price much later (around the late 80s), and it included the song, of course.
The second great song has been “Bohemian Rhapsody”, maybe to this day this is the greatest single release ever. When I first watched the song at the top of the UK charts, it just blew me away. I knew their hits “Killer Queen” and “Now I’m Here” from the radio before, but this was kind of extraordinary, comparable to nothing else in the music history before. I deeply loved that real epic song, up from the beginning, knowing I had to get it and the album where it was on.
At the time, I had started my economy school education of 2 years, where on the first year I had to experience a work placement somewhere, alternating at 4-weeks switching with the school time. I found a place at a bank, thanks to my dad who was friend with the bank director. There was no payment to the job at all, but I learned how to practice bookkeeping, which helped me a lot later in my life. And it has been the first time for me to get in touch with a computer. It sounds weird today… they only had one, on which a lady did the inputs of bookings each day on a 4 hour job, using punching tapes. (But let’s don’t forget, this has been at the time of 1974/75.)
The bank where I was, had just opened a year before I joined. All the people working there were at a quite young age, the director as the oldest guy was at age 30. I was close to 19, and there have been a few apprentices younger than me (age 16+) and a guy the same age. This guy, named Franz, was the son of another bank director himself, and -due to this reason - had a lot of more money to spend than I for his musical hobbies. It soon became clear that both of us shared a lot of musical preferences together. He told me that he deeply loved Queen’s new album “A Night At The Opera”. Of course, I asked him if I can borrow it to get it on tape, and he gave it to me.
What can be said of the album? Beside of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the May composition “The Prophet’s Song” is epic and superb, and “Love Of My Life” is just beautiful. Brian’s voice shines on “39”, as well as Roger’s voice on “I’m In Love With My Car”. And John Deacon’s composition “You’re My Best Friend” became the second single hit, for good reason.
I asked Franz about the earlier Queen albums later on. He had all three of them, and I also was allowed to record them on tape. In hindsight, it’s quite interesting how strong this band has been up from the beginning. No weak tracks, at all… and I loved Queen’s first three albums as much as “Night At The Opera” later soon.
I remember having ordered Queen's 5th album "A Day At The Races" in December, and got it at the forenoon of New Years Eve 1976. It's been close to the quality of its precursor, with a lot of strong songs in various styles on it.
As for today, when we look back at Queen’s oeuvre in total, their 4th album for sure marks a high point in their career. “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been the song which got me into them, with “Innuendo” being the one most close to it. There are so many songs in-between I also like a lot, even “Another One Bites The Dust”, which is just fun to watch, and to me much more worth hearing than “This Thing Called Love”.
To be honest, I never got into “Hot Space”, which marks the low point of Queen’s album releases, and never have heard anything from the “Flash Gordon” soundtrack anymore for decades. I had them on vinyl format, but could live easily without these two albums (never got them on CD).
And, by the way, I love “Radio Ga Ga” and “Man On The Prowl”, the latter being a much better Elvis interpretation than “This Thing”. And, not to forget…. to me, the video of “I Want To Break Free” was pure fun, and mostly because of that so much of negative conservative reactions having been against it… at this point they had done something right, for sure.
QUEEN became the 8th band in my eternal personal Top 10, after Zep, Purple, Tull, Heep, Floyd, Yes and Supertramp (in no particular order). The two remaining bands will be following soon.
My school time albums discoveries, In chronogical order:
day 01: 07/1971 (fav) Led Zeppelin IV, (first) Led Zeppelin III
day 02: 08/1971 (fav) Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water
day 03: 09/1971 (fav) Atomic Rooster, In Hearing Of
day 04: 09/1971 (fav) Deep Purple In Rock, (first) Deep Purple, Fireball
day 05: 11/1971 (fav) Jethro Tull, Aqualung
day 06: 11/1971 (fav) Black Sabbath s/t, (first) Master Of Reality
day 07: 12/1971 Jesus Christ Superstar
day 08: 01/1972 (fav) Grand Funk, Phoenix, (first) Grand Funk, E Pluribus Funk
day 09: 03/1972 The Doors, L.A.Woman
day 10: 04/1972 Neil Young, Harvest
day 11: 06/1972 (fav) Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, (first) Pink Floyd, Meddle
day 12: 07/1972 (first/fav) Uriah Heep, Demons And Wizards ("Magician's Birthday" coming very close)
day 13: 07/1972 (first) Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Tarkus (fav, maybe) Trilogy
day 14: 09/1972 (first) Alice Cooper, School's Out (fav) Alice Cooper, Killer
day 15: 10/1972 (first) Moody Blues, A Question Of Balance (fav) Days Of Future Passed
day 16: 02/1973 (first) Cat Stevens, Catch Bull At Four (fav) Cat Stevens, Foreigner (because of the suite)
day 17: 03/1973 (first/fav) Yes, Close To The Edge
day 18: 07/1973 (first/fav) Ekseption 5
day 19: 10/1973 (first/fav) Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
day 20: 11/1973 (first/fav) The Who, Quadrophenia
day 21: 12/1973 (first/fav) Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
day 22: 07/1975 (first/fav) Supertramp, Crime Of The Century (close: Breakfast In America)
day 23: 02/1976 (first/fav) Queen, A Night At The Opera
Hi FrankLang. Interesting article and excellent pick
@@FrankLang-i3n Hi Frank, great write-up as always, timeless classic of an album too!
Fantastic historical reviews. Keep up the good work, Frank. Taping albums was an important part of my gig too.
@@FrankLang-i3n Great story, Frank! Ah, those days when we recorded albums on C90 tapes... I had hundreds of recorded cassettes, as I had money I acquired the LPs. News of the World was my first Queen tape, instantly became my favourite band at that time.
Awesome story and list, Frank. I never could get into Hot Space, either. A Night At the Opera is an amazing album. I will have a story about this album coming soon. Take care!
The Toad is back in town! Day 23....back in 1973 our school got a new band teacher - a real cool guy who plastered the music room with posters of Carole King, James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, Jethro Tull, Neil Young, the Doobie Brothers and many others. The first big piece of music he got us to work on was a medley of songs starting with "Wake Up Sunshine" which morphed into "Make Me Smile" and culminated in "25 or 6 to 4"....what a riff that was. Not long after that discovery, I took my allowance down to the local record store and made my very first vinyl LP purchase ever....it was CHIGAGO II (the double album with the sky blue metallic cover). What a smorgasbord of musical delights awaited me on those 4 sides of vinyl. There's something for everybody on it....rock, pop, jazz, classical, country, folk and funk. What a record, what a band! Terry Kath on guitar and his Ray Charlesesque vocals, and all the other players were top notch musicians. It was that Chicago record that opened my ears to so many other musical paths. I still listen to that album a lot....I hear something new on it with every play, even 50 years later. One of my desert island disques.
@@garyh.238 hi garyh. Interesting story and awesome picks
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie!
@ you’re welcome garyh. Happy Holidays
@@garyh.238 hi Garyh. Interesting story and fantastic picks
@@garyh.238 Gary! Chicago! Shock, horror, gasp!!! Of course, it had to be...
Hi Pete & everyone. Dave here. My album today is another of your recommendations. It's KICKSTART THE SUN by CATS IN SPACE. I first heard your praise as one of your best of 2022, and then checked out your review (with Steven Reid and Simon Bray of the UK Connection) and listened to tracks. I was just blown away, as you all were. Terrific songs; great vocals & harmonies; 70s style melodic rock and power-pop, with a bit of prog bombast and musical theatre pzazz. Wonderful, as they were when I saw them live here in London last year. It's actually the second time I've seen them, as I remembered they were supporting Deep Purple at London's O2 in 2017. They were great then, but I never followed them up at the time (typical of me!).
Hi Dave. Interesting story
@@gaiaeternal5131 Hi Dave, fantastic album indeed, I caught them live in Milton Keynes, where they recorded their recently released live album. The new one wasn't as immediate as Kickstart..., but it's grown on me with repeated listens - definitely needed a couple more uptempo, rockier numbers to make it a 5/5 like KTS though...
SOT Power!!
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Thanks, Ziggy. It's a fantastic channel.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie.
23. Marillion - Fugazi
This album came into my life after seeing it in my local record shop in late 2001. I bought used for $5 and at the time, it was the best $5 I ever spent. The only song I knew from the band was Kayleigh. I know that song isn’t on this album, but I figured, for $5, why not?! Listening to the epic opening of Assassing really drew me in and I found that the music was a blending of classic Genesis with a bit of Rush. Punch And Judy, the title track, and She Chameleon are standout tracks, along with the aforementioned Assassing.
Jazz was the first Queen i purchased. Got the cassette. Not long after my tape deck chewed it up a little. I was fairly expert at rehabbing cassettes. Got out my exacto knife and scotch tape. Of coarse for years after there was that little interruption during 'Fat Bottomed Girls' & 'Don't Stop Me Now'. Cheers everybody!🎅
Day 23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation When I first heard this, I went WTH is this? It sounds like Ornette Coleman with a high school bar band. After a few more listens I finally got it. This was rock and roll played with precision and innovation. Bob Quine's guitar work was definitely original.
1. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
3. Steppenwolf - S/T
4. Mason Proffit - Wanted
5. Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
6. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
7. The Doors - S/T
8. Bride - Scarecrow Messiah
9. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Bright Moments
10. Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - On Tour
11. Tower of Power - East Bay Grease
12. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - East/West
13. Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
14. Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
15. John Michael Talbot - The Lord's Supper
16. X - Lost Angeles
17. Govt. Mule - Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends
18. Elvin Bishop - Rock My Soul
19. Iron City Houserockers - Have a Good Time.... But Get Out Alive!
20. The Choir - Circle Slide
21. MC5 - Heavy Lifting
22. Skillet - Ardent Worship
23. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
It happened to me with the album News of the world,at the age of 11 I heard the album at one of my best friend home
and a few days later bought the album.
Morning/Afternoon/Evening everybody, and Happy Christmas Eve Eve! Looks like I'm first in...
Today's tale is a combination of a fairly simple case of hearing a new album, purchasing and introducing it to friends, followed by a darker journey of deception and skulduggery. Settle back, its an Epic!
The album was the 2nd by a much loved power metal band and I recall acquiring said album before the 2nd part of my story takes place, but double checking the dates seems to indicate that, chronologically, the 2 events should have been the other way round. Its possible the album came out as an import first but otherwise I'm confused...
Anyway, the album was "Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1" by HELLOWEEN (I'd missed their debut, and only went back to it later). My mate Stuart and I decided that this was the greatest thing since sliced bread and that should the chance of seeing them live present itself, we should take it immediately.
Lo and behold, within weeks, UK dates were announced, but there was a double problem. The biggest one was my parents, mum especially, who, however happy she was to have my friends round of an evening, was one of life's great worriers and hated me going too far from home - Edinburgh was OK, as there were family friends there I could stay with and, by now, friends of mine in their 1st year of University, but that brings us on to the 2nd problem: the band were only playing 2 dates, London and Manchester.
The only glimmer was that the Manchester date was a Saturday in early May, but actually this presented a 3rd problem, as I had fairly important exams looming and that would have greatly worsened the inevitable parental stress levels and equally inevitable row...
So, we hatched a plan. Graeme, my friend in Edinburgh, was to have his birthday that weekend (not true) and had invited a few of us down (also not true, but we told him he had!!) Could I pleasepleaseplease... PLEASE go down on the Friday, be there for his birthday bash on the Saturday, and come home first thing on Sunday. The answer, after promising to be sensible and do lots of exam revision once I was back, was yes...
Of course, Stuart, having no such parental problems, had been doing all the donkey work on the sly, booking bus and concert tickets. My dad dropped me off at the train station at the time I'd said I was meeting Stuart to catch the train to Edinburgh. I waved him off, then walked across the road and met Stuart at the bus station instead...
Of course, there were no mobile phones back then, so it was easy enough, when the bus made a 15 minute stop in Edinburgh, to hop out, call home on a payphone to reassure mum that I'd arrived safely at Graeme's then get back on to continue the long, overnight trek to Manchester where we were deposited, bleary eyed, at the bus station at about 5.30 AM. We hovered round the station for half an hour til a cafe opened and we grabbed bacon rolls and a cup of strong tea. Our plan then was to find the venue and then a B & B with a twin room to crash in for a few hours before the gig. Finding the Manchester Apollo was easy, but a cheap B&B, close by, willing to let us crash during the day proved slightly harder, but we eventually found one with a 'Vacancies' sign in the window. We went in and waited at the vacant reception desk for a minute or two until a door opened from the back and the owner emerged in, to our shock, a bloodstained butcher's apron!!
In the event, he was very accommodating, had a twin room, let us check in there and then and, later, when we'd had a few hours Kip, recommended us some decent local, cheap eateries, hoped we enjoyed the gig, and was happy for us to leave whenever we liked to catch a mega early bus back up to Scotland. The bloodstains on the apron were never explained...
The bus back the next morning was at stupid o'clock, but we got up after just a couple of hours sleep, slipped out without disturbing anyone and were back in Aberdeen by lunchtime. Dad picked us both up, asked if Graeme had enjoyed his birthday, and home we went...
The gig? Awesome, as were Overkill supporting.
I did come clean to my dad, but only many years later when I felt it was safe... He thought it was hilarious!
Indeed that is an epic tale Iain!
@garyh.238 Thanks Gary, nice to hear from you. All set for Xmas?
Obviously you did okay on your exam scores if you're not a donkey worker...
@@iainhead9898 hi Iain. Interesting article. Happy Holidays
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie, the same to you and yours.
In 2003 I was working at a new position. It worked out well as I listened to a lot of music while working. I took a chance on a CD called Symbol Of Salvation by Armored Saint. It was originally released in 1991, but this was a 3CD re-release by Metal Blade. The original release, the original demo with the late guitarist Dave Pritchard, and a disc with a band interview by Metal Blade label head Brian Slagel. Everything, including the very touching interview disc blew me away. If you are a fan of Armored Saint, you need this 3 disc set.
My Day 23 pick is indestructible , the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. A self-produced effort, Indestructible is the first Disturbed album that did not feature Johnny K, the producer of Disturbed's previous three albums, The Sickness, Believe, and Ten Thousand Fists. Indestructible was recorded at Groovemaster Studios in Chicago, Illinois.[3] The album features two songs, "Perfect Insanity" and "Divide",[3][4] that were written by Disturbed prior to their first album, The Sickness, but were never previously released.
When I was about 8 or 2008 my brother was fizzling out of liking wrestling and liking football and major other sports. So at that age I would turn to my best friend who liked the same stuff as me like wrestling and rock( at the time) we would listen to a band called Disturbed and watch all the crazy musux videos they would have. I loved every single one because most of them looked straight out of a horror movie( which at that time my friends would think is weird because how could an 8 year old love horror and metal). One day I would get game called WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2009 and a song Perfect Insanity would come on The band re-recorded the song in 2007 and released it on Indestructible and is a downloadable track in the Rock Band series( which I would play at that time too( Another song I would listen to is the title track which the song Indestructible" is "an anthem for soldiers", vocalist David Draiman comments.[1] "It's meant to be something that would make them feel invincible, take away their fear, make them strong."[1] According to Draiman, the song also signifies Disturbed's lingering presence and success in the music industry. Draiman comments that the song "kind of symbolizes the fact that we're still fucking here, that we haven't been destroyed, that we withstood the test of time."( which I thought was cool because I would watch my brother play called of Duty and I would imagine that song play as he was going through all the levels). My parents would than by me this album and the live album for Christmas that same year along with called of Duty and wrestling so I can have that imagination when my brother wasn't there because he only stayed the weekends. The album shows Disturbed abandoning the nu metal sound prominent on previous three albums[5] and features significantly darker themes than any of their previous work, according to the band. Some of the lyrical themes involve actual experiences that vocalist David Draiman had endured over the course of the past few years prior to making the album, including "bad relationships",[6] a motorcycle accident that he was involved with, and an incident of suicide. To match the aggressive attitude and nature of said themes, Draiman told the other band members to create darker, more textural music than they have before. Despite these themes, the title track, "Indestructible", is meant to encourage those in the military that are fighting in wars and boost their morale. To this day I still have those memories in My head every time i hear those songs and album.
Track listing
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All tracks are written by Disturbed
No. Title Length
1. "Indestructible"
2. "Inside the Fire"
3. "Deceiver"
4. "The Night"
5. "Perfect Insanity
6. "Haunted"
7. "Enough"
8. "The Curse"
9. "Torn"
10. "Criminal"
11. "Divide"
12. "Façade"
Charts
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Album
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[40] 1
Austrian Albums Chart[41] 10
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[42] 49
Canadian Albums Chart[43][44] 1
Danish Albums Chart[45] 22
Dutch Albums Chart[46] 57
Finnish Albums Chart[47] 2
German Albums Chart[48] 11
Irish Albums Chart[49] 43
Japanese Albums Chart[50] 63
New Zealand Albums Chart[51] 1
Scottish Albums[52] 29
Swedish Album Charts[53] 15
Swiss Albums Chart[54] 15
UK Albums Chart[55] 20
US Billboard 200[56] 1
US Alternative Albums Chart[57] 1
US Digital Albums Chart[58] 18
US Hard Rock Albums Chart[59] 1
US Rock Albums Chart[60] 1
US Tastemakers Albums Chart[61] 1
Chart (2010) Peak
position
US Catalog Albums Chart[62] 26
Certifications
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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[67] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[68] 3× Platinum 240,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[69] Gold 10,794[69]
New Zealand (RMNZ)[70] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[71] Gold 100,000*
United States (RIAA)[11] Platinum 1,000,000^
That album definitely is heavy, heavy heavy, saw them with Slipknot at mayhem fest, right in the center of jiffy lube live amphitheater. Most powerful sound waves blowing the air toward us.
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1994)
Over a month before his album came out, I saw Jeff perform at The Hot House in Chicago on a humid summer night on July 5. I'd never heard him, but knew he was the son of Tim Buckley, a favorite of mine, and his live shows were getting rave reviews. It was also a great choice to bring a date -- between his rockstar good looks and soaring chanteuse vocals, covering Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and Big Star's "Kanga Roo," it was a romantic setting, but also kind of electric, like we knew we were watching an historic show. It was a tiny, low-key venue and could chat with him after the show, and he flirted with my date. That fine by me. We saw him three more times within the next year at the Green Mill, Uncommon Ground Cafe and the Metro, which was filmed and released on blu-ray. Sadly a reason those shows were so special is that in less than three years he was gone, taken by the Mississippi river, leaving behind only one official studio album, which of course I bought the day it came out on August 23. Like his music, the romance I had with my date was torrid and fleeting. I'm sure Buckley would have approved of his music triggering such bittersweet memories.
Excellent story, FnB. My introduction was seeing him perform live on an arts programme on British TV. Amazing, and I bought Grace straight away. It's still a favourite.
I was home from college for the summer and decided to go check out some of my favorite singer/songwriter's releases. I picked up Joni Mitchell's "Hejira", but when I put it on the player, it was like nothing I had heard from Joni Mitchell before. Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass interacting with lead guitarist Larry Carlton was a sign that Mitchell was moving away from pop melodies and counterculture lyrics. Not quite all the way into jazz, it certainly skirted the genre's edges. Longer songs and even more personal revelations undergirded a Nietzschean ethos that informed her emotional approach to romance and travel, with her identity as artist/musician emerging over and above love and romance, though she recognizes her inescapable need for that too. Pretty heady stuff for a young man such as moi, though I had read "Zarathustra".
Signals -Rush. Received many packages from RCA / Columbia House / BMG music clubs. One sticks out over the others. Pleasure Victim by Berlin, Hello, I Must Be Going by Phil Collins, Frontiers by Journey and maybe 1 other didn't get much play as was busy listening to Pyromania by Def Leppard, the slightly older Ghost in the Machine by the Police, and Signals by Rush over and over and over...
Pick #23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole. Again, probably not the most interesting story, but I had always liked a handful of Chemical Brothers singles here and there and when I was living in Richmond decided to try taking a deep dive into some of their albums. I chose Dig Your Own Hole and was pretty blown away by not only how great each song was but how well everything flowed from start to finish. I wouldn't say I listen to a ton of big beat/techno or which ever genre you would place Chemical Brothers in, but them and Daft Punk are two groups I go back to fairly consistently.
#1: The Who's Tommy (1969)
#2: RX Bandits' ...And the Battle Begun (2006)
#3: Metallica's ...And Justice For All (1988)
#4: Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979)
#5: Daft Punk's Alive 2007
#6: Yes's Close to the Edge (1972)
#7: Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974)
#8: Arcade Fire's Funeral (2004)
#9: Silverchair's Diorama (2002)
#10: Green Day's American Idiot (2004)
#11: The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004)
#12: Death's Symbolic (1995)
#13: Radiohead's Kid A (2000)
#14: Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns (2010)
#15: Muse's Origin of Symmetry (2001)
#16: Tool's Lateralus (2001)
#17: Opeth's Blackwater Park (2001)
#18: Rush's Grace Under Pressure (1984)
#19: Rainbow's Rising (1976)
#20: Black Sabbath's Mob Rules (1981)
#21: Kansas's Leftoverture (1976)
#22: Pearl Jam's Ten (1991)
#23: Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
Quite a mix of albums, Hair!
Misery, Christmas Peter to you and your family. Great pic Pete for a good memory. Never bought Jazz, but I do have it on my iPhone. It’s one of my favourite Queen albums. Get better get well. 👍🏼
Cheers,
Mike L 😎🇨🇦✌🏼🎸
Unleashed in the East, Judas Priest. It was '79. Saw an advert for it in a music paper and as I was into the Priest I thought it was a must have album. Loved the cover and started getting into the denim and leather thing. If only I could relive it all over again!
The first albums i ever got was in the late 70's when I got my first record player but I couldn't afford to buy full LPS but I could afford the 45's and had several 45's including A sides and B sides singles from such artists as Cheap Trick, Jefferson Starship, Ted Nugent, Journey and Foreigner but my
cousins gave me several of their full albums that they didn't want anymore
and in the collection of my first albums to listen to on my first record player was such artists as Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band, the Eagles,
the Edgar Winter Group, Montrose, the original Fleetwood Mac, Mountain,
Doctor Hook and many others like this Thank You and Merry Christmas Sea Of Tranquility.🎶📻🎄📺🎶
My day 23 favorite album story is hearing David Bowie on the radio back in the early 1970s in my Dad’s car, the 1969 Space Oddity song… having recently witnessed the first moon landing with my parents. Listened to Bowie’s songs on and off the radio during the 70s and then going to Tower Records in 1980 and purchasing the Heroes cd. I then purchased various CDs from his discography since then.
1. The first time I heard the Lambs Lies Down on Broadway vinyl record was on my family turn table in our recreation room. This was my first vinyl record back in 1977 from the Where House records store. The album cover designs intrigued me, especially the image of Rael reaching out to himself, Rael looking at the connection of the two Raels, and Rael with no mouth. This imagery of self-introspection appealed to my love of science fiction books from Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard and Robert Sheckley (among others). The surreal lyrics and music appealed to my love of science fiction and brought me into the world of progressive rock where I later bought other prog rock band vinyl records. I found myself singing out the lyrics in a full-throated roar... a connection to my love of profound science fiction stories and the words embedded in those stories. Today it is still one of my favorite progressive rock albums to listen to.
2. Hearing Jethro Tull songs like Living in the Past, Aqualung and Locomotive Breath back in 1974 on our San Jose-based KOME rock station. Loved the intricate, unique flute sounds from Ian Anderson. Went with my father in 1974 to look at old vinyl records at Moe’s Records and purchased the Living in the Past vinyl record for around $2 or 3 dollars. Still have the record and play it occasionally on my son’s turntable.
3. Hearing Rush for the first time on KSJO and KOME radio stations in 1981. The late DJ Dennis Erectus introduced the Tom Sawyer song on KOME. Today, I still love the album on CD.
4. 1980 listening to ELO’s Out of the Blue 8 track tape cartridge on my first car, a brown Capri. I would crank this tape up for my 1982 Lincoln High School Senior Cut day to Santa Cruz, CA. Still listen to this album on my CD player in my car.
5. In 1979 I purchased the Roxy Music vinyl record For Your Pleasure at the Campbell Tower Records store and played it on my turntable. I had heard past songs on the KOME radio station and first heard the Both Ends Burning song. Really liked the spookiness of the In Every Dream Home a Heartache song and listen to this CD often. Went with my wife to see Roxy Music at the San Francisco Chase Center a couple years ago and they sounded great. Manzanera, the guitarist was on fire that evening.
6. Listening to Steely Dan’s hit Rick Don’t Lose That Number song on my parent’s car radio back in 1974. I then bought the Pretzel Logic vinyl record back in 1979 at the Where House record store. I listen to the CD frequently today and have grown to like the deeper cut songs like Night by Night and Pretzel Logic and dislike the pervasive elevator muzak versions of their songs.
7. Hearing the Moody Blues - Nights in White Station on the radio station in 1973 for the first time. Remembering my older cousin recommending this band to me around 1975. He loved the Moody Blues. My cousin sadly passed away from substance abuse back in 2022. I often play the Moody Blues on CDs and fondly remember my older cousin’s passion for the Moody Blues.
8. Hearing Kansas’ Dust in the Wind back in 1976 on the local KOME radio station at home. Went to the local Tower Records store and bought the Kansas Leftoverture vinyl record around 1979. Still listen to Leftoverture with my CD player at home in my car.
9. Watching the January, 2019 SoT Top 10 Songs: Camel and starting to listen to their discography upon Pete’s recommendations. Had always heard of Camel but never explored their discography. Thank you Pete. First Camel CD that I explored was Mirage, purchased at Street Light Records in early 2019. Love Andy Latimer’s fantastic guitar tones.
10. Watching the Suspiria movie back in 1979 on our family VCR player during the Halloween season and remembering the haunting music. Discovered that the Italian band Goblin created most of the movie sound track. Went to our local Where House record store and bought the Goblin Roller vinyl record in 1979. Expanded my Goblin discography in the 80s with their CDs and have seen them live a few times since 2013. Met the band members before their 2013 Warfield, San Francisco show. Listen to them regularly since then.
11. Hearing Yes’ Roundabout song on the local San Jose rock station, KOME, in 1978. Went to our local used vinyl record store, Moe’s Records in 1979 and purchased the Yessongs triple vinyl record album for around $6. Enjoyed the live album then and still listen to the vinyl record today.
12. Listening to the SoT Big Big Train episode - New Releases … Big Big Train - Grand Tour in 2019.
Upon Pete’s strong review, I purchased the Big Big Train - English Electric: Full Power, compilation CD in 2019. I have been exploring their discography since 2019 and wanted to thank Peter for recommending them.
13. Listening to Todd Rundgren’s Utopia’s Time Heals on the local rock KOME station back in 1978 and then seeing the 1982 Time Heals video on MTV. I then bought the Utopia Swing to the Right CD at our local Tower Records store. I then purchased most of their discography in CD format in the 80s. I have been listening to their CDs off and on till today.
14. I am an avid reader of science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov and had read his classic I, Robot in the mid 70s. Listening to The Alan Parsons Projects song - I Robot on the San Jose KOME rock station in 1977 and saw the title I, Robot, drew me to the record. I then purchased The Alan Parsons Project vinyl record at Tower Records and then most of the discography on CDs in the 80s. I have been listening to their CDs and vinyl records off and on and into today.
15. Listening to The Cars on the San Jose KOME rock station song - Good Times Roll in 1978. Went to the Towers Records store and bought The Cars - The Cars vinyl record in 1978. I then bought the next few Cars albums on CD and listened to them off and on until today.
16. Hearing Supertramp’s Logical Song on the radio in 1979. Intrigued by the British view of America and went to the Where House Records store and bought the Breakfast in America vinyl record. Loved the lyrics in all of the songs, especially Child of Vision. I then went and bought several of their CDs in the 80s and have listened to them off and on till today.
17. Acquired the Honey Barbara - I-10 & W. Ave. CD tip inserted into the Emigre Graphic Design magazine #60 in 2001. Listened to this Texas band’s quirky songs including Sleep Late, Beddie ‘bye and Killer Duds. Listen to this CD to remind me of my early Graphic Design career and for graphic design inspiration to today.
18. Watching the 2020 SoT Ranking the Studio Albums: Gentle Giant episode and hearing Pete’s recommendations for ranking the Gentle Giant albums. Upon Pete’s recommendations, I acquired the Octopus album and then continued to get the other albums in their discography. Love the musical virtuosities of the band. Thank you Pete.
19. Perusing the CDs at my local San Jose Where House records store and was attracted to the beautiful illustration of the Dead Can Dance - Aion 1990 CD. This Melbourne transplants to London, Lisa Gerrard, vocalist and vocalist Brendan Perry have created beautiful neoclassical darkwave/medieval folk music since 1981 into today. The beautiful Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book and Black Sun from the Aion CD led me to get most of the discography on CD. I enjoy and listen to their music today.
20. Listening to early Marillion songs on the radio from the early 80s including Kayleigh led me to the local Tower Records store to buy the Marillion Misplaced Childhood CD in 1985. Would be the rest of the Fish-based Marillion CDs after that. I have enjoyed this 80-based Marillion CDs till today.
21. Watching the 2021 SoT episode - Ranking the Albums: Wobbler (w/Rand Kelly) Wobbler. They ranked the Wobbler albums of this Norwegian retro-prog band. This SoT episode prompted me to get the From Silence to Nowhere CD from Streetlight Records in San Jose. I have been listening to their CDs since then. Thank you Pete and Rand.
22. Seeing the Dixie Dregs perform at my alma mater, San Jose State University in 1981 in a free performance in front of the Ivory Tower. Morse and company were on fire. The concert moved me to purchase the 1980 Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth CD. I bought most of their 80s discography on CDs and have been listening to them since then.
23. Hearing David Bowie on the radio back in the early 1970s in my Dad’s car, the 1969 Space Oddity song… having recently witnessed the first moon landing with my parents. Listened to Bowie’s songs on and off the radio during the 70s and then going to Tower Records in 1980 and purchasing the Heroes cd. I then purchased various CDs from his discography since then.
Type O Negative Bloody Kisses. WSOU was the station I was always tuned to in the 90s. Would have never discovered Type O Negative if it wasn't for that station. Black # 1 was always in heavy rotation.
Great story, Pete.
Day 23: The Who - Quadrophenia (1973)
Today we go back to mid November 1973 shortly after Quadrophenia was released. I was nine years old and about to turn 10. I want to preface this by saying that I didn't choose Tommy because I was four years old when that album was released and have a little recollection of my first impression of the album. Most of what I recall is what my brothers have told me. Anyway, back to Quadrophenia.
My brothers and I were in the living listening to albums. My parents were out running errands. My oldest brother put on an album. The first song started (“I Am the Sea” and I closed my eyes imagining I was at the ocean. I guess you can say I was swept away. lol And of course during “The Real Me I was playing the air bass. During the song “Quadrophenia” I broke out into interpretive dance. My brothers and our dog got out of the way. For the rest of the album I was my usual “Deb” self. Then the last song, “Love Reign O’er Me” began. I thought cool, more piano, ooh thunder, rain… Then Roger’s vocals. This song had me. I believe at one point I was conducting the orchestra. Roger’s last scream left me bugged eyed for a moment. I remembered asking my brothers “What was that?”. Their reply was that it was amazing.
Quadrophenia is special to me and I listen to it regularly. I don't think I will ever get tired of it.
Day 23: The Who - Quadrophenia)1973)
Day 22: Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
Day 21: ABBA - Arrival (1976)
Day 20: The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy (2024)
Day 19: Dio - Holy Diver (1983)
Day 18: No Story
Day 17: No Story
Day 16: The Runaways - The Runaways (1976)
Day 15: Live - Throwing Copper (1994)
Day 14: No Story
Day 13: No Story
Day 12: Rainbow - Rising (1976)
Day 11: Yes - Fragile (Released in the UK on 12 November 1971 and in the US on 4 January 1972)
Day 10: Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976)
Day 9: Deep Purple Machine Head (1972)
Day 8: Boston - Boston (1976)
Day 7: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
Day 6: Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi (1978)
Day 5: Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle (1976)
Day 4: Journey - Infinity (1978)
Day 3: Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual (1983)
Day 2: Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)
Day 1: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
@@weirddebbiem1619 hi Debbie. Fantastic story and pick. I love that album also.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you, Melanie. Great that you love the album, too.
@ you’re welcome Debbie.
cool story and album, Debbie. I also had it at day 20.
@@weirddebbiem1619 Debbie when you heard this album I was in my first year of college at that time.
🌠DUUDE FEEL BETTER ..SOON ..GOOD PICK ..BROTHER CAPRICORN..
A great story Melanie.
@@danielfuentes3226 thanks Daniel
@melaniethurber5117 You're welcome Melanie.Take care Melanie.✌
As Sir Iain and my nephew would say,
2 More Sleeps!!
Just a public service announcement after the nail biter Commanders win over the Eagles. Our DC classic rock station iHeart just played stairway, sweet home, Sweet emotion, centerfold....REALLY??
Back deep to the internet to hear our deep cuts! Long Live Rock and jazz, if it's by Queen...
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Calm down here, Z'ster! Hooray for the deep cuts ,- classic rock radio, eh, 20 songs on permanent rotation...
@@ziggyzagzi8017 hi Ziggy. Interesting story
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie
@@iainhead9898 still love Christmas time after All these years! I can't believe anybody listens to those stations anymore... They still sell lots of advertisements
@ you’re welcome Ziggy
My story is a little backwards. As a young teen back in ‘77, My buddy said let’s go see this band I really like called Rush. I had heard of them but didn’t know much of their music. They were promoting “All The Worlds A Stage”. But their opening band I thought blew them off the stage. Some band called UFO. I remember we had like tenth row & just before the show started part of the sound crew kicked us out of our seats. I guess for equipment. We told the venue and they gave us 2nd row! After UFO played I was a huge fan. But didn’t own any of their records. Next day I went out & Bought their lasted album. To this day it’s still my favorite. The album? “Lights Out”.
First album I got of Queen was Queen 2 on 8 track and I wore it out. Loved it and bought what I could on 8 track afterwords. Night at the Opera was awesome on 8 track along with Sheer Heart Attack on 8 track!
Been sick since thanksgiving, myself, Pete, and I can’t get rid of this dang cough.😡 broke a few ribs because of it. Argh! Enough already! Feel better and merry Christmahanakwanzika! 🎄🕎🥢🥡
Too Old To Rock N Roll, Too Young To Die- Jethro Tull
1981- I hear the title track on WNEW NY and immediately want to hear more from this band. I found out my mother was headed to Korvettes to do some shopping and I asked her to pick up this album in the record dept since I was in school that day. When I got home, the album was sitting in the Korvettes bag in my room. She came in and told me how I embarassed her when she carried the album to the register with Ian Anderson on the front cover making an obscene hand gesture. She told me that would be the last time she would buy me any album again.
DAY 23. THE MONKEES -More Of (1967) The vinyl. Hi friends, HERE is where it started with collecting records and getting the vinyl back in this day when 11 years old as I'm Not Your Stepping Stone would hear on AM Top 40 radio as since hearing on transistor radio and what was to hear music as well as small stereo component system, Which would get upgraded as soon after and all that as being a smart kid and observant to what is happening along in music and artists I would be in coming to like and love. And would get other Monkee albums after wards but only have this album as reminder to ny beginning of record collecting, The 4 of them and with all those studio musicians to back them up on records before making their own and being on their way and having their great fun tv show classic so loved watching as well. Having good parents that to wanting to help and see that I would could be able to get started with music listening and enjoying. The vinyl don't have the original vinyl from then as well to old and used and in bad shape so swapped and bought a stereo used in good condition version of the lp all so while back. Micky Dolenz. Davy Jones RIP, Peter Tork RIP, Mike Nesmith RIP
Song- Vocals
She Micky
When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door) Davy
Mary, Mary Micky
Hold On Girl Davy
Your Auntie Grizelda Peter
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone Micky
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) Davy
The Kind Of Girl I Could Love Mike
The Day We Fall In Love Davy
Sometime In The Morning Micky
Laugh Davy
I'm A Believer Micky
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Not a bad song on this album would have faves. Would get debut after then go forward. The expanded editions would have tracks of leftover stuff that would more likely to be on their Missing Links albums and such. And deluxe boxes etc in the future on CDs, Vinyls as well. Would visit some friends house that would have Monkee albums and hear them on the stereos in their homes. Great times and great pre fab band with great voices and the craft of what they could do and play to be that we all witnessed. There you have it, Take care and love hugs and prayers Pete nice pick Queen and Jazz album story. Keep getting well as me being in same of as well. In with to be in good health and Take care host friend. Everyone Happy holidays . See ya later friends Stay well. 🎶🎶❤🤗🙏☮🌲🎄✴
P.S. My first 45 was 1-2-3 by Len Barry 1965 hit. Monkee 45s would have and get when would see them. TC
Great story wizard i liked their tv show. More of and Headquarters were my 2 favorite albums.
@@dennisstratton6508 Thanks my friend, My favorites too.
@@thedarkwizardroom your welcome wizard
My Queen story .. Summer 74 went over to a buddies,, I think he was babysitting fora relative .. it was a kid not an infant .. anyway .. there were albums and he put on Queen 2 .. blew me away, never heard that before,,,,but did not go and buy it ,, kinda forgot about it i guess ,, and then when Sheer Heart Attack was released in the fall ,, saw that in the new release rack at the local store in the mall adjacent to my HS .. so I remember and bought that and not 2 ....and next fall I went to UNI and bought Night when it was released.. I did not get around to getting Queen 2 until later that year or the next at a used record shop... it remains my favourite Queen LP all these years later
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Not much of a story today. Close to the end of 1979 a new local group, formed in city of Zagreb a year earlier, released their first album. Band was called Aerodrom and the title of album was Kad misli mi vrludaju. They were fresh breeze on the scene, lead by the guitarist Jurica “Jura” Pađen. The title song opens the album and brings ferocius guitar playing, alas that is the only track to sound like that - not that the other songs are bad, but are not bringing the joy as the first track. Do not know where I bought it, in Jugoton store (as they released the album) or in Unima/Sarajka department store - more likely. Next year I finished my high school and usually a large event was prepared for such occassion, in sports hall. The name of manifestation was Red Carnation and all of us finishing 4th grade of many high schools in a city would come. The main act that evening was group Aerodrom, fresh, energetic (and not so popular) but I was more than happy to listen to their performance and it was absolutely brilliant. I believe they sold a lot of records in stores across my city in days after the concert.
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 hi Zlatan. That’s quite an interesting story. Happy Holidays and safe travels.
@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie.
Good story zlatan.
@dennisstratton6508 Thank you, Dennis
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 your welcome zlatan
The one Queen album I don't hate.. I'm sure the infamous Bicycle Race poster played a part in it from a thirteen year old's perspective
I bought Jazz for the song lyrics not the poster 😎😎😎
Loved Queen in the early days, saw them twice in the mid 70's. Had all their albums but fell off after News of the World. For me that was the last great album.