Double Vision- Foreigner 1978 This album was constantly played in my house by my father especially during the Xmas season. During the holidays and get togethers, instead of Xmas music, he would rock this album on the stereo non stop. It would drive everyone crazy except for me and I now look fondly on this album when I think about the better times of the past.
Day 24....It was the summer of 1974 and I was spending the first half of it at my grandparents' cabin in northern Saskatchewan. At night I could pull in a radio signal from a city down south and one song on regular rotation in particular caught my ear...."Band On The Run" by Paul McCartney & Wings. I loved that song and how it kept changing as it moved through its different parts. When I got back to my hometown later that summer I got my first job as a busboy at a local restaurant. With my first pay cheque I bought my very first stereo system, and a copy of the Band on The Run album. I played that thing over and over and over again. Every song on it was great. Still one of those albums I can put on from time to time, 50 years later, and still thoroughly enjoy.
@@garyh.238 Hi Gary, probably my favourite post- Beatles album by any of the fab 4. Horns kept to a non-intrusive level too! Happy Xmas Eve, hope your stocking is hung up...
@@iainhead9898 Hi Iain, agreed....McCartney's best for sure. His horns started tooting on Venus & Mars! Thanks....Xmas is almost here....in just over an hour. It's very early Christmas morn' there right now....have a Merry one!
Day 24 Happy Holidays and safe travels to everyone. This album came out in 1971 by Led Zeppelin untitled or IV. My cousin was coming over to my house for the weekend. She didn’t know that I had bought this album and one of her also since she didn’t have this album. I gave it to her as a Christmas gift since it was almost Christmas time. I had asked my mother if I could order two copies of this album and give one to my cousin. She let me do this. My cousin arrived at my house and I gave her the gift. She was so excited to receive this gift from me. We played my copy a lot over the weekend. I still have this copy as of today in Lp format. The record still plays quite well and the cover is in excellent condition. The label is quite interesting to see. It has the four symbols on it plus the names of the different songs on each side. I read something about these symbols a while ago about this album. It said that Jimmy Page didn’t want to title their next album. Page wanted four hand drawn symbols for this album instead. These four symbols are on the sleeve plus an extra symbol for a guest that played on one of the songs. Each symbol was picked out by a band member to represent the person. Zoso is the symbol for Page. This symbol appeared in 1557 to represent Saturn. The circle with the oval circles in it. Is called three vesical piscis. This symbol is the one for John Paul Jones. The symbol for Robert Plant is a circle with a feather in it. It’s from Mu Civilization. The three interlocking rings stand for John Bonham. They are called Borromean rings. Bonham has this symbol on his drums. There is a fifth symbol that there guest had chosen. Sandy Denny played in the song “Battle of Evermore”. Her symbol was composed of three equilateral triangles. It appears on the inner sleeve of the LP. My favorite songs are “Black Dog”, “Battle of Evermore”, “Stairway to Heaven”, “Four Sticks”, and “When the Levee Breaks”.
Great story and awesome pick, Mel. As I wrote at day 1, LZ has been the very first album I ever got back in 1971, but their forth album of course is the big classic one. Have a nice Christmas Eve!
Day 24 is Welcome to My Nightmare, which is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975 by Atlantic Records. A concept album, its songs played in sequence form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed's band joined Cooper for this record. Welcome to My Nightmare is his only album under the Atlantic Records label in North America; internationally, it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records (also his only album for that label). Back in 2009 2010 I was searching for new songs to listen to. I would stumble across a song called school's out by Alice Cooper. By brother and dad would hear me sing it and listen to it as I was becoming a big fan of Alice. We would sit down one night and I would see him on a movie called Wayne's world than my whole life changed. I loved the song he played and would search online for shows of his. After one of the videos I came across an album called Welcome to My Nightmare. I was expecting something freddy Krueger esc but when I played it. I began to start loving the album. As time grew I would love the album even more when I got for my birthday in 2011 along with the album Go To Hell, which was the sequel I knew because the title track was on the game Grand Theft Auto IV on the Tock station with the dj voiced by Iggy Pop. Soon as time grew I would have to sell my Alice CD because I didn't have much room on my shelf (I might re buy it in the future, though). A couple years ago I actually got experience him in person when he came to my hometown I didn't lime the opening act but Alice Would blow them out of the water. I would start to listen to his show on the radio as I was told he actually grew up living in the same state as me in Pennsylvania and thanks to my parents Guitar Hero which had Schools put ad a choice got a song and the games I played I would not have discovered this great album.The story behind Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare is about a child named Steven who is trapped in a nightmare and tries to escape back to reality:This album was a favorite of mine as a kid. I had it on CD track and listened to it hundreds of times. It was my introduction to Alice Cooper and the first concept album I had been exposed to rught beforeBlavk Veil Bridesand Queensrÿche. I eapecially like the title track, Only Women Bleed, Cold Ethyl, Devil’s Food, and The Black Widow. The weakest part of the album in my opinion is the ending, but it has grown on me over the years. Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Welcome to My Nightmare" Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner 2. "Devil's Food" Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Kelley Jay 3. "The Black Widow" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin 4. "Some Folks" Cooper, Alan Gordon, Ezrin 5. "Only Women Bleed" Cooper, Wagner Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Department of Youth" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin 2. "Cold Ethyl" Cooper, Ezrin 3. "Years Ago" Cooper, Wagner 4. "Steven" Cooper, Ezrin 5. "The Awakening" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin 6. "Escape" Cooper, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony - from the band "Hollywood Stars" (not Chameleon) Charts Weekly charts Chart (1975) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[14] 5 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[15] 2 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[16] 23 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[17] 24 UK Albums (OCC)[18] 19 US Billboard 200[19] 5 Chart (2021) Peak position Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[20] 33 Scottish Albums (OCC)[21] 48 Year-end charts Chart (1975) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[14] 21 US Billboard 200[22] 23 Certifications Certifications for Welcome to My Nightmare Region Certification Certified units/sales Australia (ARIA)[23] 2× Platinum 140,000^ Canada (Music Canada)[24] 2× Platinum 200,000^ United Kingdom (BPI)[25] Silver 60,000^ United States (RIAA)[26] Platinum 1,000,000^
Growing up i was into anything british but i never had anything by The Kinks yet. It wasnt until around 1995 i was looking through a music catalog and saw a 3 cd compilation going for the price of 2 cds.Reading the story of the collection it seemed it had everything i liked in the package. I had it ordered. When it came i couldnt believe all the familiar songs ive heard. Songs like You Really Got Me. All Day And All Of The Night. Lola. Apeman. Tired Of Waiting. Till The End Of The Day. Im Not Like Everybody Else and Where Have All The Goodtimes Gone plus many others some i heard for the first time. This was a special collection for another reason my mother bought it for me for my 40th birthday. RIP mom.
For my 1971 Christmas list I had listed Alice Cooper's "Love It To Death" album after hearing 'I'm Eighteen" and "Ballad Of Dwight Fry". After reading my list my mom said " who is this lady,I never heard her on the radio or seen her on TV:. Funny thing was my grandmother knew exactly what I wanted and she ended up buying it for me. When I showed my mom the album cover ,she said Alice Cooper is all men. To this day, she has no clue who Alice Cooper is.
The first Scorpions album I bought was Fly to the Rainbow. My friends & I were big fans of Michael Schenker from his work w/UFO and we'd heard he had been in the band at one time. So "Fly.." was the current album & it was amazing. Ulrich Roth (now Uli) didn't sound anything like Michael but still an incredible player
It was abt 1975 or 76. Wmms , the big radio station here used to have a song battle. They would pit 2 great songs vs each other. Play each one. The listeners would vote , then they would play the winner again. I heard this song that was in the battle. I loved the riff. And, it kept winning, so i got to hear it a bunch of times that day. The song was Smoke on the water. I went and bought Machine Head shortly afterwards and loved Purple ever since
2012 Yes - Fragile (CD) I first heard of Yes around the time I was into Pink Floyd and Genesis circa 2010. My stepdad had ‘Long Distance Runaround’ as his ringtone when he used to have an android. In 2012, I went to my favorite spot at Tysons Corner mall which was B&N. I browsed the entire music section, and I came across Yes. I thought to myself, “I should buy this because it’s one heard Yes are considered one of the best Prog Rock Bands.” So I ended up buying ‘Fragile’ on CD. I gave it a listen and I thought it was good and was very similar to Genesis. Record Store Day 2013, I bought ‘Close to the Edge’ on Vinyl and eventually bought the remastered version on CD and ‘90125’ for my birthday. At the time, Fragile was my favorite Yea album until I heard Close to the Edge which is now my favorite Yes album all these years later.
When I think of High School, I can't but remember the popularity of ELP's "Karn Evil", at least in my circle of friends. I had been exposed to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, even using "Lucky Man" for a soundtrack to accompany a homemade movie I helped make with some friends for a school religion class project. (Essentially, filming in a cemetery with "Lucky Man' ironically sounding as an ominous warning or something along those lines of thought - we were freshmen, after all) But "Karn Evil 9" was quite the departure from the ELP norm. Taking up a full side of the LP, that acerbic and critical look at societal values and the vacuity of empty thrills and excitement as entertainment, "Karn" stood out as a concept album that helped break the boundaries of what rock music was capable of. Merry Christmas, everyone, and to all, a Good Year!
I remember in Dec 7️⃣6️⃣, I had collected my paper route. Xmas “ tips” and the day after. Christmas dec 26 I bought QUEEN/ A day at the RACES. An album that was released like two or three weeks prior. I specifically remember walking to ABBEY road record store in my hometown with my best friend at the time John, because it was his birthday and he complained how he basically got screwed on that day due to its close proximity to the major holiday LOL. In fact, I still have this album that I purchased on that day,-and recently played it on my cheap record player, that Marie/. Jenna/ Mia bought me for my 6️⃣0️⃣ th. Pete , thank you for your time 👍💯
Black Sabbath ... Born Again I bought Black Sabbath's Born Again on vinyl when it came out in the eighties. I remember a muddy mix that every review talked about. I distinctly heard the inspiration for every song except for Digital Bitch. Trashed was the successful attempt at a Black Sabbath version of Purple's Highway Star. Their Disturbing the Priest was the song about their creating this album, much like Smoke On the Water was about Purple creating their Machine Head record. And so on... I lost my vinyl copy of Born Again between my moves over the years. So, sometime in the "aught" decade of this century, Borders, the former national book chain, opened an outlet store in my town. They bought the imported classic rock CD stock of some unknown record store that went out of business. All this cool stuff like Magnum and this then out of print Black Sabbath album was sitting there sealed for five bucks apiece. I bought a great stack of these CDs, of course. The first one I played was Born Again, of course. Well, they remixed this record, or I got the excess wax out of my ears over the twenty-plus years since I last heard this record. I love this album. Born Again may well be when Sabbath began to lose momentum creatively and in album/tour sales. The album cover was a joke, a joke I love. Their Stonehenge tour set being too large for the Born Again smaller venues was the inspiration for Spinal Tap's Stonehenge set being too small in their movie. The Born Again record and tour was a drunken mess that sent drummer Bill Ward to the worst of his addiction issues. Fortunately, Ward would eventually find his sobriety. Whenever Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi, or Geezer Butler are interviewed about Born Again, they happily recount every aspect of the managerial nightmare they caused for others. Clearly, because they are still not yet AA members. Good for them. Some people can handle their liquor. Have I made it clear that I adore Black Sabbath's Born Again album now?
Nice Motorhead story, Pete. The Ace of Spades album was my Motorhead introduction like many other people. The Iron Fist album was when it really clicked for me, though.
@ziggyzagzi8017 I swear that they heard Roger Taylor's solo album Fun in Space before Sabbath wrote Zero the Hero. Just checked. Fun In Space came out two years before Born Again.
1973 "Twice Removed From Yesterday" by Robin Trower. I was working a midnight shift at a factory at 15 years old and one guy brought in a radio that had FM. I heard Daydream for the first time, but the DJ didn't tell me who it was. A few weeks later, I figured it out. It's been my favourite along with Live! since the beginning.
Day 24. Television - Marquee Moon Many years ago a friend of mine named John Sulak went off to NYC after getting his degree in cinimatalogy. When he returned, he turned us onto the new music of the city including a single by a band called Televison. This blew me away as thy did not sound like the others he brought back with him. When Television's debut album came out, I had to have it and was not disappointed. Still high on my list of great records. 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 24. Television - Marquee Moon
I started late with southern rock. Wasn't a popular genre here in Europe. I had a Lynyrd Skynyrd compilation and remember buying Molly Hatchet albums from some bargain bins, back in the days when I bought records on sale for their cover art. I remember that, after having seen an incendiary Blackfoot concert on Swiss television, which can still be seen on UA-cam, I rushed to buy Marauder. Metalheads loved Hatchet and Blackfoot. But it wasn't until many years later, perhaps the late '80s, that I became fully aware of the existence of an entire musical movement called Southern Rock. Searching through old vinyl records in bargain bins (how much I miss them!) I bought two albums that blew my mind and fostered my love for that music. Atlanta Rhythm Section "A Rock and Roll Alternative" and Point Blank "The Hard Way". Albums by Skynyrd, Allmans, Outlaws, Doc Holliday, 38 Special and many more followed. When grunge ruled the music industry, Southern Rock became the soundtrack for my next few years.
Thank you, Dennis! Doc Holliday is an amazing band. I highly recommend you listen to great tracks like Lonesome Guitar (I know you love the Outlaws, you'll love this song) or Thunder and Lightning on YT. Like almost all Southern bands, they have their awful album filled with 80s keyboards called Modern Medicine, which should be avoided at all costs. The rest is fantastic!"
Björk - Post (1995) At the time I took chain stores like Tower for granted, but I sure missed it when it was gone. Sometimes on a Sunday or Monday night when I had nothing going on socially, I'd go out for a run or bikeride by the lake, then swing back toward home and stop at Tower Records, which was open until midnight, when all other stores were long closed. New release day was Tuesday, but at Tower, you could go Monday night, and they'd have most major releases available to buy at a discount if you lined up to buy it at midnight. I did that with the second Björk album. I was not much of a pop fan, but her first album had been slowly growing on me, and I had a feeling she was going to get more adventurous and innovative. So on impulse I got it, not having heard anything except possibly one early single on MTV. My gamble paid off, as it remains in my top three for that year. Dang I miss Tower.
Day24-Scorpions1985. Watching MTV and this video comes on. It was the band,women I a cage,kind of the alien movie vibe to it. Rock You Like A Hurricane,by the Scorpions was the video. I never heard of the Scorpions before,but I enjoyed the video and the song. As time passed I purchased Love At First Sting. I listened to it religiously in 1985,until my friend told me to go back and listen to the music they made before this album. I didn’t realize it was so many albums. In the years to come I still own a majority of the Scorpions catalog. I must say the Uli John Roth era and Blackout are my favorites,but Love At First Sting was my gateway to this band.
Merry Xmas to all….So today’s pick from imo the greatest of the greats Led Zeppelin and their live album The Song Remains The Same …Back in the day the film got some negative press but moving forward with the decades and UA-cam etc the live show is clearly a monster and utterly well respected …If I had a dollar or a pound for everytime I watched the movie in the cinema I would be quite rich …❤❤❤
24. Metallica - Metallica This album I got on cassette for Christmas in 1991. Enter Sandman was all over MTV and that song hardly left my head at all when that came out. My first actual exposure to the band was the video for One back in 1989. That had a profound effect on me. That was the heaviest thing I’d heard at the time. Anyway, The Black Album was the first full album I’d heard by them and it’s still one of my favorites to this day. It’s not my favorite but I have a soft spot for it. Rock radio played a lot of the songs off of this album to death and for good reason, the songs are that damn good. This album made me a fan.
Merry Christmas, Pete and everyone on here! We are at the start of the festive days now, and on my personal “Traveller in Time” journey I move on to April 1976 now, with a double feature (NOT another double album), which is about 10cc: “The Original Soundtrack” from 1975, and “How Dare You” (released earlier in 1976). I got both the albums on the postal way at the same time, simply because I also had ordered both at the same time before. I had already known the hits from the radio before, like “I’m Not In Love”, “Art For Art’s Sake” and “I’m Mandy Fly Me”. But the story had started much earlier in 1970, when they had a different band name (“Hotlegs”) and had the song “Neanderthal Man” everywhere on the charts. Back then I had bought the single, which still sounds cool to me, mostly because of the “Stone Age” drum arrangement. (Might be interesting for all those of you, who do not know the connection between this early chart hit and 10cc’s later work, to check this one out.) There are some great songs on both albums, like “One Night In Paris”, “The Second Sitting For The Last Supper”, the hit song “Life Is A Minestrone”, “Iceberg” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lullaby”, among others. I like both albums still a lot. The sad point is that, after the second album, the quartet had split, with Lol Crème and Kevin Godley deciding to do their own projects, leaving Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman continuing as a two man band. Before this happened, 10cc have been a four man band, similar to The Beatles, with everyone composing and singing lead. After that, it had not been 10cc for me anymore, because the diversity was missing, and I didn’t get into their later material. - For my own Christmas story around the time, I need to go back to December 1975. It’s been at the last day of my work placement at the bank before Christmas (which would continue in 1976, of course). As I mentioned yesterday, I got no payment, as it had been part of my economic school project only. But at that day, the bank director put me aside, saying: “I’m not allowed to give you any payment for what you do, but nobody can prevent me to give you a small Christmas bonus, as everybody else on here, including myself, also gets it.” And he gave me 100 DM (Deutsche Marks, back then). This was a lot of money for me at the time, and I felt very grateful. Later that day, after work, we were invited to a restaurant, with supper and drinks for free, on the costs of the bank. And it goes without saying, that I was able to get some more albums that I had wanted from the money I have got. - Everyone on here, have enjoyable festive Days! Stay on good health, and let’s pray for peace, freedom and democracy… this is all what we need to keep, most of all. 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 day 24: 04/1976 (first) 10cc, The Original Soundtrack + How Dare You
Early 72. Bought my first album Every Pucture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart. Not really a rocker but had some good music on it. Still have the same copy now though I never listen to it. Sentimental value definitely
Merry Christmas Eve! First grade we sang 0 Tenenbaum. Second grade Up on the Housetop and Rudolph the Red-Nosed. But would I remember best is hearing the lyrics, Jeremiah was a bullfrog! That's right I'm talking about Joy to the World,not the Christmas song. Along withYellow Submarine, My earliest recollections of rock and roll. 1970. Took me another decadeto become a true Beatles fan. Remember hearing Something on the radio. Got to Get you into my Life got played on top 40 in the mid '70s, along with Rock and Roll Music. I remember loving Hard day's Night , Help , I'm Down on 45 in 1979. My other cool Aunt got me Double Fantasy for Xmas. (But being in to hard rock not too many I liked at the time). Then my old friend from the hood played Magical Mystery Tour tape on his car around 1984. W0W!!! Count me in 💯. Beatles rule!!! Walrus and Strawberry Fields! Have a happy Christmas everybody!
I have had so many albums to choose from as my favorites to hear for the first time with stories about them depending on what music genre that they were from various types of rock music as well as hard rock, heavy metal, southern rock, country pop rock, new wave among other genres and as always Thank You Pete and SOT.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Pick #24: Talking Heads' Remain in Light. Yet another one of my albums I listened to when I was living in Richmond, which is amazing because that was only between 2018-2020. But I'd had a greatest hits from Talking Heads that I'd gotten for my 20th birthday in 2014 so I always really loved Talking Heads based on that yet hadn't gotten into their full studio albums. I'd already known Once In a Lifetime and I'm fairly certain I'd also heard Born Under Punches and Crosseyed and Painless, but The Overload specifically was the track that put me in a bizarre trance that's admittedly hard to describe. I should mention in advance for tomorrow I'm going to cheat and have two picks since it's Christmas and I couldn't bring myself to take off either album. #1: The Who's Tommy (1975) #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) #24: Talking Heads' Remain in Light (1980)
DAY 24-ROBIN TROWER-Bridge Of Sighs *1974*- Hi friends well a good Xmas Eve day and night to you all. This album would get the vinyl a green version of it as their is the brown version of the bubble light blob on the front cover. I would see ROBIN TROWER twice of the 4 times in the 70s he came to town In 75 he came twice . I made the first time he came with the late great JOHN MAYALL who opened and we lost this year 2024 at age 90. Mayall was great this night and so was Trower with the late great James Dewar on vocals and bass and Bill Lordan maybe on drums if not then Reg Isadore. And Robin was great and with Trower and his bluesy rock playing and psychedelic and some Hendrix feel and Dewar with his soulful splendid vocals and bass and the drums good the trio were electric. Robin delivering so well one great track after another. And then I would see Trower again in July of 76 with J GEILS BAND opening. They were fantastic of the first of two times I would see them. Trower fantastic once again of course and the trio strong with the goods of their songs and they would have that they would play. So as of with the album story. As would hear the tracks on radio decide to go to the show and know that I would get afterwards Bridge Of Sighs and believe in that year of 75 as a great used copy as to a new at record store 2nd Time Around. I do recall not taking off any shrink wrap. But then would get For Earth Below the next album. And love that one too. And onward Trower. for long time of times to be. I did purge out the records back in 2005 but got back Brown cover version of vinyl of the album fairly recently in last year or so. I would love in getting that box set everyone is talking about of that album. Yea! Now this would be when I was aware of Trower and did along the lime go back and hear him in Procal Harum and such before. And yea the humble beginning times there, Day Of The Eagle Bridge Of Sighs In This Place The Fool And Me Too Rolling Stoned About To Begin Lady Love Little Bit Of Sympathy -================ The great songs on here of Day Of The Eagle Bridge Of Sighs The Fool and Me Too Rolling Stoned Little Bit Of Symphony. Such brilliance on the album and In This Place About To Begin and Lady Love the rest the album is a 4 without a doubt. Maybe 4.5. It touches as the notes of the chords and wah wah playing and all that so masterfully seeing Robin with his hands and fingers glide and stroke the notes of the chords. He certainly is great and a legend that many recall of. And when I see artists of the day live that do his songs the influence is definitely there for many that he has inspired. There you have this days Story. Pete and Motorhead fine story. Saw play and open for Ozzy in 81. The great Randy Rhoads. So till next time a great Xmas to all and or Hannukah and holidays TC be well and get better everyone. Including me. Love hugs and prayers. 🎶🎶❤🤗🙏☮- 🎋🌲🎄🛷🦌x9 🎅✴
HI Pete & everyone. Dave here. I have a seasonal story for you. It takes me back to 1967. I was twelve and we lived in the country, but went to stay with my uncle in London over Christmas that year. It was always exciting seeing the sights, but also my uncle had recently acquired a colour TV (we still had black and white), and had a full-size snooker & billiard table in his basement. But this all paled in comparison to the huge event that was to take place on the TV: THE BEATLES' MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR film. I was still a huge fan, unlike my parents who had decided they were on drugs the whole time. But, after much begging, they let me watch. while they were finishing dinner. When they came in, they mocked & mocked. Where is this tour bus going? The acting's terrible. Who are these egg-men? etc. etc. Thing was, I couldn't disagree. I was loving the music though. Never bought the UK double EP, but went for the US album, with those brilliant singles added.
I tell you, those parents of ours! I think a lot of the viewers were taking chemicals by that time... I pick magical mystery tour today and you're right the US version, spectacular!
My one and only comment for this series, as none of my other stories are this spectacular. Rush - A Farewell To Kings. It all started with The Spirit Of Radio on a rock collection CD I got for Christmas 1990. I liked that song so much and I wanted to get more Rush. I got my chance three years later when I saw a few Rush CDs in a record store. I grabbed the first I saw, in part because of the title of one of the songs, Xanadu. I had just read the poem Kubla-Khan by Coleridge and I was convinced this song must be inspired by this poem. Turned out I was right and it was brilliant. Rush became my favourite band for a while and I soon had all their albums. Still they are up there with the rest of them. It was a revelation to hear this music, so different from the rock and hard rock I’ve been listening to up until then
My day 24 favorite album story is hearing Runnin’ With The Devil in 1979 on the San Jose KOME rock station for the first time at my home stereo system. Went to the local Tower Records and bought the Van Halen (self-titled) vinyl record and played that on my turn table. Some of my friends were mentioning a concert that was being held in 1979 at the San Jose Civic Center. I could not afford to go but another older student went to that concert and infamously jumped onto the stage and ripped the microphone away from Diamond Dave and then was immediately dragged off the stage and sent to juvenile jail for a couple days. The school was buzzing with this news and he became an infamously popular kid (lol). I listen to this album till today.
Okay it’s Xmas so a second in a day and it’s back to album covers ….If you want blood you,ve got it ac/dc . The album cover is intriguing and gets your attention …and when you listen to the album it simply blows you away ❤❤
In 1973 my brother’s girlfriend (curiously, 50 years later she is now my girlfriend) played We’re Only In It for the Money by the Mothers of Invention for me. What really hit me was the poppiness of “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black.” I did appreciate the satire, but it took a while to sink in. Still my favorite Mothers album. Hot Rats a close second.
Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction. Thanks to Kerrang magazine I heard of GNR before they had an album out . I saw a promo copy of the album of the original banned cover at a used record store. I was raving to everyone you got to check out this exciting new band. Now I'm exhausted of the album.
In the 80s I was not into full speed ahead, rip your face off heavy metal, but if I was record shopping and browsed passed No Sleep Sleep Til Hammersmith, I would pause and think "I wonder what that sounds like." These days I'm a full on Motorhead fan, but back then I'm not sure I would have dug it.
Merry Christmas all. In June 1980 a group from Zagreb named Azra released their first album, simply called Azra. I believe I got the album as early as it was released, in the store of their label, Jugoton (for 89.50 dinars). Their style was rock/new wave with sensitivity and ferocity of new generations, even them themselves were not so young. It sounded totally different to the rest of the scene that was more in hard/heavy variations. Even the album was not along my taste, I loved it from a first moment. Singer (and guitarist) does not have a good voice, but he was an urban poet and it all clicked with me. Their live appearances were legendary, recorded on tripple album Ravno do dna. Strangely enough, I lost interest from their second album (however, I do listen to them now and then). While their popularity with first album was slightly above zero, after second album their energy on albums were reduced but they gained cult status.
I'm going to mention 2 bands that I like some of their stuff , but I don't own anything by them. They're Foghat and Humble Pie. There's others, but that's the 2 I'll mention. I think eventually I will buy something by them. I'm sure most of us have bands in that category. BTW, Motorhead isn't one of those bands. I own some Motorhead. Good story, Pete.
Hi everyone, apologies, very busy with family arriving and getting everything sorted for tomorrow, so no time for a story today as planned. Happy Chrustmas Eve!
Double Vision- Foreigner
1978 This album was constantly played in my house by my father especially during the Xmas season. During the holidays and get togethers, instead of Xmas music, he would rock this album on the stereo non stop. It would drive everyone crazy except for me and I now look fondly on this album when I think about the better times of the past.
Day 24....It was the summer of 1974 and I was spending the first half of it at my grandparents' cabin in northern Saskatchewan. At night I could pull in a radio signal from a city down south and one song on regular rotation in particular caught my ear...."Band On The Run" by Paul McCartney & Wings. I loved that song and how it kept changing as it moved through its different parts. When I got back to my hometown later that summer I got my first job as a busboy at a local restaurant. With my first pay cheque I bought my very first stereo system, and a copy of the Band on The Run album. I played that thing over and over and over again. Every song on it was great. Still one of those albums I can put on from time to time, 50 years later, and still thoroughly enjoy.
Hi garyh. Interesting story and great pick
Now that's NORTH!!! AND, quite a fantastic album to start your journey in rock and roll!
@@garyh.238 Hi Gary, probably my favourite post- Beatles album by any of the fab 4. Horns kept to a non-intrusive level too! Happy Xmas Eve, hope your stocking is hung up...
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Thx Ziggy! Indeed on both counts!!
@@iainhead9898 Hi Iain, agreed....McCartney's best for sure. His horns started tooting on Venus & Mars! Thanks....Xmas is almost here....in just over an hour. It's very early Christmas morn' there right now....have a Merry one!
Day 24
Happy Holidays and safe travels to everyone.
This album came out in 1971 by Led Zeppelin untitled or IV. My cousin was coming over to my house for the weekend. She didn’t know that I had bought this album and one of her also since she didn’t have this album. I gave it to her as a Christmas gift since it was almost Christmas time. I had asked my mother if I could order two copies of this album and give one to my cousin. She let me do this. My cousin arrived at my house and I gave her the gift. She was so excited to receive this gift from me. We played my copy a lot over the weekend. I still have this copy as of today in Lp format. The record still plays quite well and the cover is in excellent condition. The label is quite interesting to see. It has the four symbols on it plus the names of the different songs on each side. I read something about these symbols a while ago about this album. It said that Jimmy Page didn’t want to title their next album. Page wanted four hand drawn symbols for this album instead. These four symbols are on the sleeve plus an extra symbol for a guest that played on one of the songs. Each symbol was picked out by a band member to represent the person. Zoso is the symbol for Page. This symbol appeared in 1557 to represent Saturn. The circle with the oval circles in it. Is called three vesical piscis. This symbol is the one for John Paul Jones. The symbol for Robert Plant is a circle with a feather in it. It’s from Mu Civilization. The three interlocking rings stand for John Bonham. They are called Borromean rings. Bonham has this symbol on his drums. There is a fifth symbol that there guest had chosen. Sandy Denny played in the song “Battle of Evermore”. Her symbol was composed of three equilateral triangles. It appears on the inner sleeve of the LP. My favorite songs are “Black Dog”, “Battle of Evermore”, “Stairway to Heaven”, “Four Sticks”, and “When the Levee Breaks”.
Great story and fantastic album, Melanie
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 thanks Zlatan
Great story and awesome pick, Mel. As I wrote at day 1, LZ has been the very first album I ever got back in 1971, but their forth album of course is the big classic one. Have a nice Christmas Eve!
Stupendous for you and the cousin, Melanie! Add Misty mountain hop and I love those songs for sure
@ thanks FrankLang. Have a great Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day 24 is Welcome to My Nightmare, which is the debut solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on February 28, 1975 by Atlantic Records. A concept album, its songs played in sequence form a journey through the nightmares of a child named Steven. The album inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special, a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and his Welcome to My Nightmare concert film in 1976. The tour was one of the most over-the-top excursions of that era. Most of Lou Reed's band joined Cooper for this record. Welcome to My Nightmare is his only album under the Atlantic Records label in North America; internationally, it was released on the ABC subsidiary Anchor Records (also his only album for that label).
Back in 2009 2010 I was searching for new songs to listen to. I would stumble across a song called school's out by Alice Cooper. By brother and dad would hear me sing it and listen to it as I was becoming a big fan of Alice. We would sit down one night and I would see him on a movie called Wayne's world than my whole life changed. I loved the song he played and would search online for shows of his. After one of the videos I came across an album called Welcome to My Nightmare. I was expecting something freddy Krueger esc but when I played it. I began to start loving the album. As time grew I would love the album even more when I got for my birthday in 2011 along with the album Go To Hell, which was the sequel I knew because the title track was on the game Grand Theft Auto IV on the Tock station with the dj voiced by Iggy Pop. Soon as time grew I would have to sell my Alice CD because I didn't have much room on my shelf (I might re buy it in the future, though). A couple years ago I actually got experience him in person when he came to my hometown I didn't lime the opening act but Alice Would blow them out of the water. I would start to listen to his show on the radio as I was told he actually grew up living in the same state as me in Pennsylvania and thanks to my parents Guitar Hero which had Schools put ad a choice got a song and the games I played I would not have discovered this great album.The story behind Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare is about a child named Steven who is trapped in a nightmare and tries to escape back to reality:This album was a favorite of mine as a kid. I had it on CD track and listened to it hundreds of times. It was my introduction to Alice Cooper and the first concept album I had been exposed to rught beforeBlavk Veil Bridesand Queensrÿche. I eapecially like the title track, Only Women Bleed, Cold Ethyl, Devil’s Food, and The Black Widow. The weakest part of the album in my opinion is the ending, but it has grown on me over the years.
Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Welcome to My Nightmare" Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner
2. "Devil's Food" Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Kelley Jay
3. "The Black Widow" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin
4. "Some Folks" Cooper, Alan Gordon, Ezrin
5. "Only Women Bleed" Cooper, Wagner
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Department of Youth" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin
2. "Cold Ethyl" Cooper, Ezrin
3. "Years Ago" Cooper, Wagner
4. "Steven" Cooper, Ezrin
5. "The Awakening" Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin
6. "Escape" Cooper, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony - from the band "Hollywood Stars" (not Chameleon)
Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1975) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[14] 5
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[15] 2
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[16] 23
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[17] 24
UK Albums (OCC)[18] 19
US Billboard 200[19] 5
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[20] 33
Scottish Albums (OCC)[21] 48
Year-end charts
Chart (1975) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[14] 21
US Billboard 200[22] 23
Certifications
Certifications for Welcome to My Nightmare
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[23] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[24] 2× Platinum 200,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[25] Silver 60,000^
United States (RIAA)[26] Platinum 1,000,000^
1971 the Moody Blues' Every Good Boy Deserves Favor made quite an impression on me and my buddy
Growing up i was into anything british but i never had anything by The Kinks yet. It wasnt until around 1995 i was looking through a music catalog and saw a 3 cd compilation going for the price of 2 cds.Reading the story of the collection it seemed it had everything i liked in the package. I had it ordered. When it came i couldnt believe all the familiar songs ive heard. Songs like You Really Got Me. All Day And All Of The Night. Lola. Apeman. Tired Of Waiting. Till The End Of The Day. Im Not Like Everybody Else and Where Have All The Goodtimes Gone plus many others some i heard for the first time. This was a special collection for another reason my mother bought it for me for my 40th birthday. RIP mom.
Hi Dennis. Interesting article and great songs
Thank you melanie
you’re welcome @@dennisstratton6508
@ you’re welcome Dennis
Nice story and great pick for an album, Dennis
For my 1971 Christmas list I had listed Alice Cooper's "Love It To Death" album after hearing 'I'm Eighteen" and "Ballad Of Dwight Fry". After reading my list my mom said " who is this lady,I never heard her on the radio or seen her on TV:. Funny thing was my grandmother knew exactly what I wanted and she ended up buying it for me. When I showed my mom the album cover ,she said Alice Cooper is all men. To this day, she has no clue who Alice Cooper is.
Great story, king. Thanks!
Haha! Fits in with the way of the world nowadays 😵💫
The first Scorpions album I bought was Fly to the Rainbow. My friends & I were big fans of Michael Schenker from his work w/UFO and we'd heard he had been in the band at one time. So "Fly.." was the current album & it was amazing. Ulrich Roth (now Uli) didn't sound anything like Michael but still an incredible player
It was abt 1975 or 76. Wmms , the big radio station here used to have a song battle. They would pit 2 great songs vs each other. Play each one. The listeners would vote , then they would play the winner again. I heard this song that was in the battle. I loved the riff. And, it kept winning, so i got to hear it a bunch of times that day. The song was Smoke on the water. I went and bought Machine Head shortly afterwards and loved Purple ever since
Great story, Frankie. I'm a local too - WMMS ain't what it was!
2012
Yes - Fragile (CD)
I first heard of Yes around the time I was into Pink Floyd and Genesis circa 2010. My stepdad had ‘Long Distance Runaround’ as his ringtone when he used to have an android. In 2012, I went to my favorite spot at Tysons Corner mall which was B&N. I browsed the entire music section, and I came across Yes. I thought to myself, “I should buy this because it’s one heard Yes are considered one of the best Prog Rock Bands.” So I ended up buying ‘Fragile’ on CD. I gave it a listen and I thought it was good and was very similar to Genesis. Record Store Day 2013, I bought ‘Close to the Edge’ on Vinyl and eventually bought the remastered version on CD and ‘90125’ for my birthday. At the time, Fragile was my favorite Yea album until I heard Close to the Edge which is now my favorite Yes album all these years later.
Wow you got into prog rock early!!
Nice story, Kamran. CTTE is my fave too.
When I think of High School, I can't but remember the popularity of ELP's "Karn Evil", at least in my circle of friends. I had been exposed to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, even using "Lucky Man" for a soundtrack to accompany a homemade movie I helped make with some friends for a school religion class project. (Essentially, filming in a cemetery with "Lucky Man' ironically sounding as an ominous warning or something along those lines of thought - we were freshmen, after all) But "Karn Evil 9" was quite the departure from the ELP norm. Taking up a full side of the LP, that acerbic and critical look at societal values and the vacuity of empty thrills and excitement as entertainment, "Karn" stood out as a concept album that helped break the boundaries of what rock music was capable of.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and to all, a Good Year!
I remember in Dec 7️⃣6️⃣, I had collected my paper route. Xmas “ tips” and the day after. Christmas dec 26 I bought QUEEN/ A day at the RACES. An album that was released like two or three weeks prior. I specifically remember walking to ABBEY road record store in my hometown with my best friend at the time John, because it was his birthday and he complained how he basically got screwed on that day due to its close proximity to the major holiday LOL. In fact, I still have this album that I purchased on that day,-and recently played it on my cheap record player, that Marie/. Jenna/ Mia bought me for my 6️⃣0️⃣ th. Pete , thank you for your time 👍💯
Hi Gary. Interesting story. Have a Happy Holiday and safe travels.
Definitely a tough date for a birthday, GJ!! SUPER purchase.
Mel. Happy. HEALTHY enjoy !!👍💯
Ziggy. Have yourself a great day/ night 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 thanks Gary
Black Sabbath ... Born Again
I bought Black Sabbath's Born Again on vinyl when it came out in the eighties. I remember a muddy mix that every review talked about. I distinctly heard the inspiration for every song except for Digital Bitch.
Trashed was the successful attempt at a Black Sabbath version of Purple's Highway Star. Their Disturbing the Priest was the song about their creating this album, much like Smoke On the Water was about Purple creating their Machine Head record. And so on...
I lost my vinyl copy of Born Again between my moves over the years.
So, sometime in the "aught" decade of this century, Borders, the former national book chain, opened an outlet store in my town.
They bought the imported classic rock CD stock of some unknown record store that went out of business. All this cool stuff like Magnum and this then out of print Black Sabbath album was sitting there sealed for five bucks apiece.
I bought a great stack of these CDs, of course.
The first one I played was Born Again, of course. Well, they remixed this record, or I got the excess wax out of my ears over the twenty-plus years since I last heard this record. I love this album.
Born Again may well be when Sabbath began to lose momentum creatively and in album/tour sales. The album cover was a joke, a joke I love. Their Stonehenge tour set being too large for the Born Again smaller venues was the inspiration for Spinal Tap's Stonehenge set being too small in their movie.
The Born Again record and tour was a drunken mess that sent drummer Bill Ward to the worst of his addiction issues. Fortunately, Ward would eventually find his sobriety.
Whenever Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi, or Geezer Butler are interviewed about Born Again, they happily recount every aspect of the managerial nightmare they caused for others. Clearly, because they are still not yet AA members. Good for them. Some people can handle their liquor.
Have I made it clear that I adore Black Sabbath's Born Again album now?
Nice Motorhead story, Pete.
The Ace of Spades album was my Motorhead introduction like many other people. The Iron Fist album was when it really clicked for me, though.
I love zero the hero, Gillan said he vomited when he saw the cover picture...
@ziggyzagzi8017 I swear that they heard Roger Taylor's solo album Fun in Space before Sabbath wrote Zero the Hero.
Just checked. Fun In Space came out two years before Born Again.
@richardmay8153 it seems like a pretty common type of metal riff, I love their version that's for sure
1973 "Twice Removed From Yesterday" by Robin Trower. I was working a midnight shift at a factory at 15 years old and one guy brought in a radio that had FM. I heard Daydream for the first time, but the DJ didn't tell me who it was. A few weeks later, I figured it out. It's been my favourite along with Live! since the beginning.
Day 24. Television - Marquee Moon Many years ago a friend of mine named John Sulak went off to NYC after getting his degree in cinimatalogy. When he returned, he turned us onto the new music of the city including a single by a band called Televison. This blew me away as thy did not sound like the others he brought back with him. When Television's debut album came out, I had to have it and was not disappointed. Still high on my list of great records.
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
24. Television - Marquee Moon
I started late with southern rock. Wasn't a popular genre here in Europe. I had a Lynyrd Skynyrd compilation and remember buying Molly Hatchet albums from some bargain bins, back in the days when I bought records on sale for their cover art. I remember that, after having seen an incendiary Blackfoot concert on Swiss television, which can still be seen on UA-cam, I rushed to buy Marauder. Metalheads loved Hatchet and Blackfoot. But it wasn't until many years later, perhaps the late '80s, that I became fully aware of the existence of an entire musical movement called Southern Rock. Searching through old vinyl records in bargain bins (how much I miss them!) I bought two albums that blew my mind and fostered my love for that music. Atlanta Rhythm Section "A Rock and Roll Alternative" and Point Blank "The Hard Way". Albums by Skynyrd, Allmans, Outlaws, Doc Holliday, 38 Special and many more followed. When grunge ruled the music industry, Southern Rock became the soundtrack for my next few years.
Wow Ramon you found your own alternative rock haha
@ziggyzagzi8017 Absolutely! My own nirvana!
Great story ramon. I love Southern Rock also. You have quite a good list there. The only one on your list i dont have is Doc Holiday.
Thank you, Dennis! Doc Holliday is an amazing band. I highly recommend you listen to great tracks like Lonesome Guitar (I know you love the Outlaws, you'll love this song) or Thunder and Lightning on YT. Like almost all Southern bands, they have their awful album filled with 80s keyboards called Modern Medicine, which should be avoided at all costs. The rest is fantastic!"
@@ramonace4770 your welcome ramon and thanks for the info. I will definately look into it.
Björk - Post (1995)
At the time I took chain stores like Tower for granted, but I sure missed it when it was gone. Sometimes on a Sunday or Monday night when I had nothing going on socially, I'd go out for a run or bikeride by the lake, then swing back toward home and stop at Tower Records, which was open until midnight, when all other stores were long closed. New release day was Tuesday, but at Tower, you could go Monday night, and they'd have most major releases available to buy at a discount if you lined up to buy it at midnight. I did that with the second Björk album. I was not much of a pop fan, but her first album had been slowly growing on me, and I had a feeling she was going to get more adventurous and innovative. So on impulse I got it, not having heard anything except possibly one early single on MTV. My gamble paid off, as it remains in my top three for that year. Dang I miss Tower.
Day24-Scorpions1985. Watching MTV and this video comes on. It was the band,women I a cage,kind of the alien movie vibe to it. Rock You Like A Hurricane,by the Scorpions was the video. I never heard of the Scorpions before,but I enjoyed the video and the song. As time passed I purchased Love At First Sting. I listened to it religiously in 1985,until my friend told me to go back and listen to the music they made before this album. I didn’t realize it was so many albums. In the years to come I still own a majority of the Scorpions catalog. I must say the Uli John Roth era and Blackout are my favorites,but Love At First Sting was my gateway to this band.
Great story, thanks. Great album and band.
I find of the early albums, they have 4 or 5 GREAT songs on each!
Merry Xmas to all….So today’s pick from imo the greatest of the greats Led Zeppelin and their live album The Song Remains The Same …Back in the day the film got some negative press but moving forward with the decades and UA-cam etc the live show is clearly a monster and utterly well respected …If I had a dollar or a pound for everytime I watched the movie in the cinema I would be quite rich …❤❤❤
24. Metallica - Metallica
This album I got on cassette for Christmas in 1991. Enter Sandman was all over MTV and that song hardly left my head at all when that came out. My first actual exposure to the band was the video for One back in 1989. That had a profound effect on me. That was the heaviest thing I’d heard at the time.
Anyway, The Black Album was the first full album I’d heard by them and it’s still one of my favorites to this day. It’s not my favorite but I have a soft spot for it. Rock radio played a lot of the songs off of this album to death and for good reason, the songs are that damn good. This album made me a fan.
Merry Christmas, Pete and everyone on here!
We are at the start of the festive days now, and on my personal “Traveller in Time” journey I move on to April 1976 now, with a double feature (NOT another double album), which is about
10cc: “The Original Soundtrack” from 1975, and “How Dare You” (released earlier in 1976).
I got both the albums on the postal way at the same time, simply because I also had ordered both at the same time before. I had already known the hits from the radio before, like “I’m Not In Love”, “Art For Art’s Sake” and “I’m Mandy Fly Me”. But the story had started much earlier in 1970, when they had a different band name (“Hotlegs”) and had the song “Neanderthal Man” everywhere on the charts. Back then I had bought the single, which still sounds cool to me, mostly because of the “Stone Age” drum arrangement. (Might be interesting for all those of you, who do not know the connection between this early chart hit and 10cc’s later work, to check this one out.)
There are some great songs on both albums, like “One Night In Paris”, “The Second Sitting For The Last Supper”, the hit song “Life Is A Minestrone”, “Iceberg” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lullaby”, among others. I like both albums still a lot. The sad point is that, after the second album, the quartet had split, with Lol Crème and Kevin Godley deciding to do their own projects, leaving Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman continuing as a two man band. Before this happened, 10cc have been a four man band, similar to The Beatles, with everyone composing and singing lead. After that, it had not been 10cc for me anymore, because the diversity was missing, and I didn’t get into their later material. -
For my own Christmas story around the time, I need to go back to December 1975. It’s been at the last day of my work placement at the bank before Christmas (which would continue in 1976, of course). As I mentioned yesterday, I got no payment, as it had been part of my economic school project only. But at that day, the bank director put me aside, saying: “I’m not allowed to give you any payment for what you do, but nobody can prevent me to give you a small Christmas bonus, as everybody else on here, including myself, also gets it.” And he gave me 100 DM (Deutsche Marks, back then). This was a lot of money for me at the time, and I felt very grateful. Later that day, after work, we were invited to a restaurant, with supper and drinks for free, on the costs of the bank. And it goes without saying, that I was able to get some more albums that I had wanted from the money I have got. -
Everyone on here, have enjoyable festive Days! Stay on good health, and let’s pray for peace, freedom and democracy… this is all what we need to keep, most of all.
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
day 24: 04/1976 (first) 10cc, The Original Soundtrack + How Dare You
Hi FrankLang. Interesting story. Happy Holidays to you.
Great story, Frank
Another fine historical recount Frank, and great health is important for us old folk!!! Happy holidays to you and yours!
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you very much, Mel! Same wishes to you.
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 thank you kindly, Zlatan! Have nice festive days.
Early 72. Bought my first album Every Pucture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart. Not really a rocker but had some good music on it. Still have the same copy now though I never listen to it. Sentimental value definitely
Merry Christmas Eve! First grade we sang 0 Tenenbaum. Second grade Up on the Housetop and Rudolph the Red-Nosed. But would I remember best is hearing the lyrics,
Jeremiah was a bullfrog!
That's right I'm talking about Joy to the World,not the Christmas song. Along withYellow Submarine, My earliest recollections of rock and roll. 1970. Took me another decadeto become a true Beatles fan. Remember hearing Something on the radio. Got to Get you into my Life got played on top 40 in the mid '70s, along with Rock and Roll Music. I remember loving Hard day's Night , Help , I'm Down on 45 in 1979. My other cool Aunt got me Double Fantasy for Xmas. (But being in to hard rock not too many I liked at the time). Then my old friend from the hood played Magical Mystery Tour tape on his car around 1984.
W0W!!! Count me in 💯.
Beatles rule!!! Walrus and Strawberry Fields! Have a happy Christmas everybody!
Hi Ziggy. Interesting story.
@melaniethurber5117 morning Melanie Thanks have a great eve
@ you also
Great story and song selection, Ziggy. Have a nice Christmas Eve!
@@FrankLang-i3nRight O, Frank, manyi Beatles songs make us Merry!
Yes, Overkill is a masterpiece. One of the best albums by any band.
I have had so many albums to choose from as my favorites to hear for the first time with stories about them depending on what music genre that they were from various types of rock music as well as hard rock, heavy metal,
southern rock, country pop rock, new wave among other genres and as always Thank You Pete and SOT.🎶🎶📻🎶🎶
Pick #24: Talking Heads' Remain in Light. Yet another one of my albums I listened to when I was living in Richmond, which is amazing because that was only between 2018-2020. But I'd had a greatest hits from Talking Heads that I'd gotten for my 20th birthday in 2014 so I always really loved Talking Heads based on that yet hadn't gotten into their full studio albums. I'd already known Once In a Lifetime and I'm fairly certain I'd also heard Born Under Punches and Crosseyed and Painless, but The Overload specifically was the track that put me in a bizarre trance that's admittedly hard to describe. I should mention in advance for tomorrow I'm going to cheat and have two picks since it's Christmas and I couldn't bring myself to take off either album.
#1: The Who's Tommy (1975)
#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)
#24: Talking Heads' Remain in Light (1980)
Merry Christmas Pete and all of the Sea Of Tranquility members and followers.
Good timing for Lemmy's birthday!
Hi Pete just wanted to say that series is absolutely great love hearing the stories and reminding me of great music!
DAY 24-ROBIN TROWER-Bridge Of Sighs *1974*- Hi friends well a good Xmas Eve day and night to you all. This album would get the vinyl a green version of it as their is the brown version of the bubble light blob on the front cover. I would see ROBIN TROWER twice of the 4 times in the 70s he came to town In 75 he came twice . I made the first time he came with the late great JOHN MAYALL who opened and we lost this year 2024 at age 90. Mayall was great this night and so was Trower with the late great James Dewar on vocals and bass and Bill Lordan maybe on drums if not then Reg Isadore. And Robin was great and with Trower and his bluesy rock playing and psychedelic and some Hendrix feel and Dewar with his soulful splendid vocals and bass and the drums good the trio were electric. Robin delivering so well one great track after another. And then I would see Trower again in July of 76 with J GEILS BAND opening.
They were fantastic of the first of two times I would see them. Trower fantastic once again of course and the trio strong with the goods of their songs and they would have that they would play. So as of with the album story. As would hear the tracks on radio decide to go to the show and know that I would get afterwards Bridge Of Sighs and believe in that year of 75 as a great used copy as to a new at record store 2nd Time Around. I do recall not taking off any shrink wrap. But then would get For Earth Below the next album. And love that one too. And onward Trower. for long time of times to be. I did purge out the records back in 2005 but got back Brown cover version of vinyl of the album fairly recently in last year or so. I would love in getting that box set everyone is talking about of that album. Yea! Now this would be when I was aware of Trower and did along the lime go back and hear him in Procal Harum and such before. And yea the humble beginning times there,
Day Of The Eagle
Bridge Of Sighs
In This Place
The Fool And Me
Too Rolling Stoned
About To Begin
Lady Love
Little Bit Of Sympathy
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The great songs on here of Day Of The Eagle Bridge Of Sighs The Fool and Me Too Rolling Stoned Little Bit Of Symphony. Such brilliance on the album and In This Place About To Begin and Lady Love the rest the album is a 4 without a doubt. Maybe 4.5. It touches as the notes of the chords and wah wah playing and all that so masterfully seeing Robin with his hands and fingers glide and stroke the notes of the chords. He certainly is great and a legend that many recall of. And when I see artists of the day live that do his songs the influence is definitely there for many that he has inspired. There you have this days Story. Pete and Motorhead fine story. Saw play and open for Ozzy in 81. The great Randy Rhoads. So till next time a great Xmas to all and or Hannukah and holidays TC be well and get better everyone. Including me. Love hugs and prayers.
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HI Pete & everyone. Dave here. I have a seasonal story for you. It takes me back to 1967. I was twelve and we lived in the country, but went to stay with my uncle in London over Christmas that year. It was always exciting seeing the sights, but also my uncle had recently acquired a colour TV (we still had black and white), and had a full-size snooker & billiard table in his basement. But this all paled in comparison to the huge event that was to take place on the TV: THE BEATLES' MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR film. I was still a huge fan, unlike my parents who had decided they were on drugs the whole time. But, after much begging, they let me watch. while they were finishing dinner. When they came in, they mocked & mocked. Where is this tour bus going? The acting's terrible. Who are these egg-men? etc. etc. Thing was, I couldn't disagree. I was loving the music though. Never bought the UK double EP, but went for the US album, with those brilliant singles added.
Hi Dave interesting but moving story.
I tell you, those parents of ours! I think a lot of the viewers were taking chemicals by that time...
I pick magical mystery tour today and you're right the US version, spectacular!
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie.
@@ziggyzagzi8017 Thanks, Ziggy.
@@gaiaeternal5131 you’re welcome Dave. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
My one and only comment for this series, as none of my other stories are this spectacular. Rush - A Farewell To Kings. It all started with The Spirit Of Radio on a rock collection CD I got for Christmas 1990. I liked that song so much and I wanted to get more Rush.
I got my chance three years later when I saw a few Rush CDs in a record store. I grabbed the first I saw, in part because of the title of one of the songs, Xanadu. I had just read the poem Kubla-Khan by Coleridge and I was convinced this song must be inspired by this poem.
Turned out I was right and it was brilliant. Rush became my favourite band for a while and I soon had all their albums. Still they are up there with the rest of them.
It was a revelation to hear this music, so different from the rock and hard rock I’ve been listening to up until then
Great pick pete happy heavenly birthday today lemmy
My day 24 favorite album story is hearing Runnin’ With The Devil in 1979 on the San Jose KOME rock station for the first time at my home stereo system. Went to the local Tower Records and bought the Van Halen (self-titled) vinyl record and played that on my turn table. Some of my friends were mentioning a concert that was being held in 1979 at the San Jose Civic Center. I could not afford to go but another older student went to that concert and infamously jumped onto the stage and ripped the microphone away from Diamond Dave and then was immediately dragged off the stage and sent to juvenile jail for a couple days. The school was buzzing with this news and he became an infamously popular kid (lol). I listen to this album till today.
Ace of Spades got me hooked.
Okay it’s Xmas so a second in a day and it’s back to album covers ….If you want blood you,ve got it ac/dc . The album cover is intriguing and gets your attention …and when you listen to the album it simply blows you away ❤❤
Merry Christmas everyone!! Hope everyone has a great holiday!! Maybe you'll get some new music as well!!
In 1973 my brother’s girlfriend (curiously, 50 years later she is now my girlfriend) played We’re Only In It for the Money by the Mothers of Invention for me. What really hit me was the poppiness of “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black.” I did appreciate the satire, but it took a while to sink in. Still my favorite Mothers album. Hot Rats a close second.
Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction. Thanks to Kerrang magazine I heard of GNR before they had an album out . I saw a promo copy of the album of the original banned cover at a used record store. I was raving to everyone you got to check out this exciting new band. Now I'm exhausted of the album.
In the 80s I was not into full speed ahead, rip your face off heavy metal, but if I was record shopping and browsed passed No Sleep Sleep Til Hammersmith, I would pause and think "I wonder what that sounds like."
These days I'm a full on Motorhead fan, but back then I'm not sure I would have dug it.
0:33 pick #24
Merry Christmas all. In June 1980 a group from Zagreb named Azra released their first album, simply called Azra. I believe I got the album as early as it was released, in the store of their label, Jugoton (for 89.50 dinars). Their style was rock/new wave with sensitivity and ferocity of new generations, even them themselves were not so young. It sounded totally different to the rest of the scene that was more in hard/heavy variations. Even the album was not along my taste, I loved it from a first moment. Singer (and guitarist) does not have a good voice, but he was an urban poet and it all clicked with me. Their live appearances were legendary, recorded on tripple album Ravno do dna. Strangely enough, I lost interest from their second album (however, I do listen to them now and then). While their popularity with first album was slightly above zero, after second album their energy on albums were reduced but they gained cult status.
@@zlatanfilipovic8798 hi Zlatan. Interesting story. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
@melaniethurber5117 Thank you, Melanie
@ you’re welcome Zlatan
Good story zlatan we had a new wave movement that lasted a few years.
@dennisstratton6508 Thank you, Dennis
I'm going to mention 2 bands that I like some of their stuff , but I don't own anything by them. They're Foghat and Humble Pie. There's others, but that's the 2 I'll mention. I think eventually I will buy something by them. I'm sure most of us have bands in that category. BTW, Motorhead isn't one of those bands. I own some Motorhead. Good story, Pete.
Hi everyone, apologies, very busy with family arriving and getting everything sorted for tomorrow, so no time for a story today as planned. Happy Chrustmas Eve!
@@iainhead9898 Happy Christmas, Iain!
@@iainhead9898 Happy Christmas Eve Iain.
Happy Christmas, Iain!
Sounds like Motörhead?!
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