Forgot to add the Puppetts album cover! Here you go... i.discogs.com/O6hZJdSjLJhWUuxiBVhHFp5ECnADjgRCdD5ECHK6fxU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMzU3/NjY4LTE1NDQ4MzI4/NzQtNDY0OC5qcGVn.jpeg
Also, I can’t believe I didn’t notice it until now, but Tommy literally giggles and laughs at everything and finds everything funny and I love it! He lights up the whole room! 😁🤗☀️
It's the end of an era... When you announced what this week's video would be about, I immediately thought, "Yeah, I'm not gonna do that." But after watching your discussion, I decided to go ahead and pick my top ten from my yearly #1s. This is what I came up with: 10. Round Trip, The Knack (1981) 9. Beat Crazy, Joe Jackson Band (1980) 8. 52nd Street, Billy Joel (1978) 7. Sail Away, Randy Newman (1972) 6. The Royal Scam, Steely Dan (1976) 5. Out of the Blue, ELO (1977) 4. Fragile, Yes (1971) 3. The Monkees, Headquarters/Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. (1967) 2. Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (1973) 1. Abbey Road, The Beatles (1969) This was a much harder challenge than I thought it would be, and I thought it would be a bitch... I really, really wanted to shoehorn a few albums onto the list, like The Rutles' Archaeology, Paul Williams' Surf Music, Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad, and anything by Fountains of Wayne and Barenaked Ladies, but hard decisions had to be made... I like to think the experience has made me a better man.
I started with you guys in 1980 and applaud y’all for sticking with it once we got into later years. I have beloved albums across multiple decades, but it’s pretty obvious that I’m an 80s gal. Here’s my top 10 of my number ones. This was a daunting task! 1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002) 2. The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (1985) 3. Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (1987) 4. Morphine - Good (1992) 5. Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986) 6. The Knife - Silent Shout (2006) 7. New Order - Power Corruption And Lies (1983) 8. Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing (1998) 9. Lord Huron - Vide Noir (2018) 10. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (1993) HMs: Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980); The Sound - From The Lions Mouth (1981); The Cure - Disintegration (1989); Suede - Dog Man Star (1994); Muzz - Muzz (2020)
Hands down, Revolver is the most iconic and pinnacle Beatles album of all time and reigns supreme as head of its class to this day. Kudos for exceptional and exquisite taste on that one especially. Also, the Alice Cooper 'Killers' album is my top in his discography as well. Keep on rockin' and lockin' 'em in Paulster.
What a bittersweet episode! 🥹🤗🖤 My Top 10 Favorite #1 Albums! *And these actually are my top 10 favorite albums of all time! :3 1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975) 2. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) 3. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995) 4. Mark Eric - A Midsummer’s Day Dream (1969) 5. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996) 6. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It (2006) 7. Adam Schmitt - World So Bright (1991) 8. Suicide - Suicide (1977) 9. Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) 10. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966) Now…my top 10 worst choices ever… 10. Björk Guðmundsdóttir - Björk (1977) 9. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (2023) 8. Insane Clown Posse - The Great Milenko (1997) 7. Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse (2021) 6. Tom MacDonald - Deathreats (2018) 5. Onision - Onision (2012) 4. Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall (2019) 3. Psycho Sexual - Torch the Faith (2020) 2. Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 the Core (2016) And….the absolute…worst album I have ever heard..is…🥁🥁🥁 1. MENOMETRORRHAGIA - EXTREME GORE NOISE TERROR (2013) *the absolute nadir of “music”. 26 minutes (at least it’s short, thank fuck) of harsh noisy bass and programmed machine gun-fast drums..and a bunch of a vomit and stomach sounds and noises made with a pitch shifter on mic..and there’s no lyrics on the album, but if the horrible cover art and song titles are anything to go by..I guess it’s about Resident Evil or something, idk..the cover features Claire and Leon from Resident Evil..doing absolutely horrible things to each other, in each other’s blood and internal organs (there’s even a song on the album called Internal Organs Everywhere), all of which tells you everything you need to know. It’s “gorenoise”, which is a genres that’s just noise and about blood and gore and stuff. So yeah..fuck this album and whoever made it! 😊
As far as UA-camrs go, you are flying up my own personal charts. The show is great. How can I explain why I love you even more for putting 3 of my favourite albums on your worst of list: Exile, Sandinista, Born Again… I challenge you all to a duel next Saturday morning at dawn in Wawa, Ontario. You choose pistols or swords… Gore out
Thanks to you, I have found favorite albums in english from each year (I'll have to do the same for albums in french !). My favorite album of all time is not necessarily here because, before 1980, I picked only one album per act : 1- Eighth Day - On The Eighth Day (68) 2- Yes - Close To The Edge (72) 3- Beach Boys - Today (65) 4- Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance (70) 5- Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (71) 6- Enya - The Celts (86) 7- Jan & Dean - Ride The Wild Surf (64) 8- Libera - (self-titled album) (99) 9- Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life Gazette (69) 10- Association - And Then Along Comes… (66) mentions : - Zero 7 - The Garden (2006) - Myrkur - Folkesange (2020) least favorite albums : 1 Sacks, Sam - Sing It Again, Sam ! (61) 2 Metallica - Kill 'em all (83) 3 Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (69) 4 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1 : Two Virgins (68) 5 Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! - Recital!!!! (54) 6 Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (EP 79) + (self titled album) (80-00) 7 Prince - Purple Rain (84) 8 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, He's The (77) 9 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (74) 10 AC/DC - Back In Black (80)
Wow it's been a fun year long journey and every Thursday has been filled with hilarious one liners and excellent stories I'm totally looking forward to what you all have planned for us viewers for Thursday's going forward whatever it will be it's going to be fun and informative
Well awwright... Happy Thursday my musical family and friends. This has been a great journey talking about albums all through the years and glad to be part of it. And before I can share my picks of my number one albums and my least favorites, there's something that I want to say that today is my 42nd birthday. Happy that this is shown on my birthday. Well let's get started with my lith... My Top 10 Number Ones: 10. Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957) 9. Etta James - At Last (1960) 8. The Police - Ghost In The Machine (1981) 7. (Tie) Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind/Talking Book (1972) 6. Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983) 5. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976) 4. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985) 3. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) 2. The Cars - The Cars (1978) And my number one album of my number ones goes to: 1. Prince - 1999 (1982) Now onto my worst number ones: 10. The Chipmunks - Chipmunk Punk (1980) 9. Dee Dee King - Standing In The Spotlight (1989) 8. The Beach Boys - Summer In Paradise (1992) 7. The Clash - Cut The Crap (1985) 6. Duran Duran - Pop Trash (2000) 5. Paul Anka - Rock Swings (2005) 4. Tin Machine - Tin Machine II (1991) 3. Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (2016) 2. Michael Jackson - Michael (2010) And my worst number one album goes to: 1. Pat Boone - In The Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1997) There's my lith. See y'all soon!!
You're not going to believe this but there is an episode of Midnight Special where Focus performs Hocus Pocus and they get a standing ovation from the audience. Lol
@AsItShouldBePodcast to be perfectly honest, I dig Focus. I cannot think of any band or tune from the 60s or 70s that I really dislike. Yeah, I am one of THOSE people lol. I understand why others wouldn't like Focus though.
Paul could've just put all the Beatles albums into one tie. ;) Took me some doing online to find info on that Puppetts album. Plenty of info on the album No Strings Attached by the Meat Puppets, though. With the way you were describing the Puppetts album cover, I thought maybe it was an actual photo of Gallagher and Marcel Marceau and Terry Kath etc. Maybe cardboard cutouts like they were doing a sort of Sgt. Pepper homage. Then again, I'm sure it would've cost them a lot to get clearance to use their likenesses. Best to just bare a resemblance to them. Ha. I did see the link to the cover you provided, Paul, in the comments, so. Funny, I don't ever recall hearing that Hocus Pocus song until more recently when reactions to their performance of it on the Midnight Special sort of went viral. Would've thought Cut The Crap was a gift to those who hate the Clash. Then again, since it wasn't the classic lineup and it's been disowned not only by the majority of their fanbase but also by the band themselves while Sandinista hasn't been, I guess that's fair. Ah, Sam Sacks. Thanks again Tommy for introducing me to that and giving me one of my biggest laughs, especially at a time when I really needed one. I hope Paul knows how lucky he is to have friends like Crystal and Tommy who are willing to travel from wherever they reside at to the As It Should Be Studios to do videos with him discussing their favorite and least favorite music. We all should be so lucky to have friends like that. Ha. I've certainly enjoyed the ride myself. It is something I look forward to every Thursday along with whatever Paul posts on Mondays. Apologies if these comments of mine tend to be long. I hope it at least shows that I did indeed watch the videos all the way through. Ha. All the best. :)
Another great episode! Regarding the band Focus, I totally get the Hocus Pocus song being annoying as hell and I don't really like listening to it myself, but the album it's on (Moving Waves) is actually pretty good. The other songs are more progressive rock instrumentals and they do a fantastic job on them. But yeah the yodeling Hocus Pocus song is not their best, although it made them famous.
Forgot to add the Puppetts album cover! Here you go...
i.discogs.com/O6hZJdSjLJhWUuxiBVhHFp5ECnADjgRCdD5ECHK6fxU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMzU3/NjY4LTE1NDQ4MzI4/NzQtNDY0OC5qcGVn.jpeg
Egad.
Holy fucking shit 😵😵💫
That could be a horror movie poster
Also, I can’t believe I didn’t notice it until now, but Tommy literally giggles and laughs at everything and finds everything funny and I love it! He lights up the whole room! 😁🤗☀️
Well done guys. Really enjoyed it all.
It's the end of an era... When you announced what this week's video would be about, I immediately thought, "Yeah, I'm not gonna do that." But after watching your discussion, I decided to go ahead and pick my top ten from my yearly #1s. This is what I came up with:
10. Round Trip, The Knack (1981)
9. Beat Crazy, Joe Jackson Band (1980)
8. 52nd Street, Billy Joel (1978)
7. Sail Away, Randy Newman (1972)
6. The Royal Scam, Steely Dan (1976)
5. Out of the Blue, ELO (1977)
4. Fragile, Yes (1971)
3. The Monkees, Headquarters/Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. (1967)
2. Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd (1973)
1. Abbey Road, The Beatles (1969)
This was a much harder challenge than I thought it would be, and I thought it would be a bitch... I really, really wanted to shoehorn a few albums onto the list, like The Rutles' Archaeology, Paul Williams' Surf Music, Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad, and anything by Fountains of Wayne and Barenaked Ladies, but hard decisions had to be made... I like to think the experience has made me a better man.
I started with you guys in 1980 and applaud y’all for sticking with it once we got into later years. I have beloved albums across multiple decades, but it’s pretty obvious that I’m an 80s gal. Here’s my top 10 of my number ones. This was a daunting task!
1. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (2002)
2. The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always (1985)
3. Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (1987)
4. Morphine - Good (1992)
5. Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986)
6. The Knife - Silent Shout (2006)
7. New Order - Power Corruption And Lies (1983)
8. Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing (1998)
9. Lord Huron - Vide Noir (2018)
10. Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion (1993)
HMs: Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980); The Sound - From The Lions Mouth (1981); The Cure - Disintegration (1989); Suede - Dog Man Star (1994); Muzz - Muzz (2020)
Hands down, Revolver is the most iconic and pinnacle Beatles album of all time and reigns supreme as head of its class to this day. Kudos for exceptional and exquisite taste on that one especially. Also, the Alice Cooper 'Killers' album is my top in his discography as well. Keep on rockin' and lockin' 'em in Paulster.
What a bittersweet episode! 🥹🤗🖤
My Top 10 Favorite #1 Albums!
*And these actually are my top 10 favorite albums of all time! :3
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)
2. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
3. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
4. Mark Eric - A Midsummer’s Day Dream (1969)
5. R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996)
6. Sloan - Never Hear the End of It (2006)
7. Adam Schmitt - World So Bright (1991)
8. Suicide - Suicide (1977)
9. Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968)
10. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (1966)
Now…my top 10 worst choices ever…
10. Björk Guðmundsdóttir - Björk (1977)
9. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden (2023)
8. Insane Clown Posse - The Great Milenko (1997)
7. Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse (2021)
6. Tom MacDonald - Deathreats (2018)
5. Onision - Onision (2012)
4. Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall (2019)
3. Psycho Sexual - Torch the Faith (2020)
2. Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 the Core (2016)
And….the absolute…worst album I have ever heard..is…🥁🥁🥁
1. MENOMETRORRHAGIA - EXTREME GORE NOISE TERROR (2013)
*the absolute nadir of “music”. 26 minutes (at least it’s short, thank fuck) of harsh noisy bass and programmed machine gun-fast drums..and a bunch of a vomit and stomach sounds and noises made with a pitch shifter on mic..and there’s no lyrics on the album, but if the horrible cover art and song titles are anything to go by..I guess it’s about Resident Evil or something, idk..the cover features Claire and Leon from Resident Evil..doing absolutely horrible things to each other, in each other’s blood and internal organs (there’s even a song on the album called Internal Organs Everywhere), all of which tells you everything you need to know. It’s “gorenoise”, which is a genres that’s just noise and about blood and gore and stuff. So yeah..fuck this album and whoever made it! 😊
Wow I’d never heard Mark Eric before and just checked out that album. Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you music lover!
@@higgaroc no worries! and make sure to avoid that Menometrorrhagia album! Or check it out if you want, if you’re morbidly curious lmao
As far as UA-camrs go, you are flying up my own personal charts. The show is great. How can I explain why I love you even more for putting 3 of my favourite albums on your worst of list:
Exile, Sandinista, Born Again… I challenge you all to a duel next Saturday morning at dawn in Wawa, Ontario. You choose pistols or swords…
Gore out
Thank you but your reaction to our "worst of" placements of some of your faves says more positive things about you than it does us. 🙌
Thanks to you, I have found favorite albums in english from each year (I'll have to do the same for albums in french !).
My favorite album of all time is not necessarily here because, before 1980, I picked only one album per act :
1- Eighth Day - On The Eighth Day (68)
2- Yes - Close To The Edge (72)
3- Beach Boys - Today (65)
4- Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance (70)
5- Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (71)
6- Enya - The Celts (86)
7- Jan & Dean - Ride The Wild Surf (64)
8- Libera - (self-titled album) (99)
9- Four Seasons - Genuine Imitation Life Gazette (69)
10- Association - And Then Along Comes… (66)
mentions :
- Zero 7 - The Garden (2006)
- Myrkur - Folkesange (2020)
least favorite albums :
1 Sacks, Sam - Sing It Again, Sam ! (61)
2 Metallica - Kill 'em all (83)
3 Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (69)
4 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No. 1 : Two Virgins (68)
5 Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! - Recital!!!! (54)
6 Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (EP 79) + (self titled album) (80-00)
7 Prince - Purple Rain (84)
8 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, He's The (77)
9 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (74)
10 AC/DC - Back In Black (80)
Wow it's been a fun year long journey and every Thursday has been filled with hilarious one liners and excellent stories I'm totally looking forward to what you all have planned for us viewers for Thursday's going forward whatever it will be it's going to be fun and informative
Thank you, this series was a blast! Looked forward to it every episode, even the "painful" years!
Thank you John!
This series has cost me a small fortune!
Just picked up Meddle on Tommy's recommendation ..... savage!
A weekly hour of fun and opening doors to music I was not aware of. Thanks a lot from another world (continent)
Well awwright... Happy Thursday my musical family and friends. This has been a great journey talking about albums all through the years and glad to be part of it. And before I can share my picks of my number one albums and my least favorites, there's something that I want to say that today is my 42nd birthday. Happy that this is shown on my birthday. Well let's get started with my lith...
My Top 10 Number Ones:
10. Little Richard - Here's Little Richard (1957)
9. Etta James - At Last (1960)
8. The Police - Ghost In The Machine (1981)
7. (Tie) Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind/Talking Book (1972)
6. Def Leppard - Pyromania (1983)
5. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976)
4. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair (1985)
3. The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969)
2. The Cars - The Cars (1978)
And my number one album of my number ones goes to:
1. Prince - 1999 (1982)
Now onto my worst number ones:
10. The Chipmunks - Chipmunk Punk (1980)
9. Dee Dee King - Standing In The Spotlight (1989)
8. The Beach Boys - Summer In Paradise (1992)
7. The Clash - Cut The Crap (1985)
6. Duran Duran - Pop Trash (2000)
5. Paul Anka - Rock Swings (2005)
4. Tin Machine - Tin Machine II (1991)
3. Corey Feldman - Angelic 2 The Core (2016)
2. Michael Jackson - Michael (2010)
And my worst number one album goes to:
1. Pat Boone - In The Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
There's my lith. See y'all soon!!
Happy Birthday, Damar! 🥳🎂🎁 Wishing you a fantastic year ahead! ❤🎶😊 Love your Police, Tears For Fears, and Cars picks!
@@michelewiese48 Thank you Michele my belle!! Glad that you love my picks (aka my heavy rotation albums lol). 🥰💝🎶
@@UniversalBlackRocker 🥰💝🎶🥂
@@michelewiese48 🥰💝🎶🥂
Happy bday! 🎉
You're not going to believe this but there is an episode of Midnight Special where Focus performs Hocus Pocus and they get a standing ovation from the audience. Lol
Yikes!!
@AsItShouldBePodcast to be perfectly honest, I dig Focus. I cannot think of any band or tune from the 60s or 70s that I really dislike. Yeah, I am one of THOSE people lol. I understand why others wouldn't like Focus though.
Paul could've just put all the Beatles albums into one tie. ;)
Took me some doing online to find info on that Puppetts album. Plenty of info on the album No Strings Attached by the Meat Puppets, though. With the way you were describing the Puppetts album cover, I thought maybe it was an actual photo of Gallagher and Marcel Marceau and Terry Kath etc. Maybe cardboard cutouts like they were doing a sort of Sgt. Pepper homage. Then again, I'm sure it would've cost them a lot to get clearance to use their likenesses. Best to just bare a resemblance to them. Ha. I did see the link to the cover you provided, Paul, in the comments, so.
Funny, I don't ever recall hearing that Hocus Pocus song until more recently when reactions to their performance of it on the Midnight Special sort of went viral.
Would've thought Cut The Crap was a gift to those who hate the Clash. Then again, since it wasn't the classic lineup and it's been disowned not only by the majority of their fanbase but also by the band themselves while Sandinista hasn't been, I guess that's fair.
Ah, Sam Sacks. Thanks again Tommy for introducing me to that and giving me one of my biggest laughs, especially at a time when I really needed one.
I hope Paul knows how lucky he is to have friends like Crystal and Tommy who are willing to travel from wherever they reside at to the As It Should Be Studios to do videos with him discussing their favorite and least favorite music. We all should be so lucky to have friends like that. Ha. I've certainly enjoyed the ride myself. It is something I look forward to every Thursday along with whatever Paul posts on Mondays. Apologies if these comments of mine tend to be long. I hope it at least shows that I did indeed watch the videos all the way through. Ha.
All the best. :)
Another great episode!
Regarding the band Focus, I totally get the Hocus Pocus song being annoying as hell and I don't really like listening to it myself, but the album it's on (Moving Waves) is actually pretty good. The other songs are more progressive rock instrumentals and they do a fantastic job on them. But yeah the yodeling Hocus Pocus song is not their best, although it made them famous.
Also, what was Crystal and Tommy saying they better get instead of a lawn? I couldn’t hear you guys lol
Where's the No Strings Attached album cover?!
i.discogs.com/O6hZJdSjLJhWUuxiBVhHFp5ECnADjgRCdD5ECHK6fxU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMzU3/NjY4LTE1NDQ4MzI4/NzQtNDY0OC5qcGVn.jpeg
@@AsItShouldBePodcast Hoooo. Leeeee. Gaaaaaaawd.