Why have so many bands and solo acts, some of them were genuinely anti establishment , allow themselves to be inducted? I know Americans were weird for stuff like that (hall of fames, declarations of greatest ever bla bla bla ) but groups from other nations are only too happy to get in .
Aside from nickelback, canada gave the world brian adams, celine dion, avril lavigne, justin beiber, shania twain and drake.. Yet we aim the nukes at Russia..
I still have a Nickleback CD. After I first got it, I asked every person who might've left it there, if they were the culprit, and nobody fessed up. So then, I asked around if anybody wanted it for free. I tried to sell it (they already had too many of them). Still have it.
@@valmarsiglia Billy joe has become the equivalent of the , non- descrript, monster sized, slice of self imploding mall pizza chain leviathan .., SBARRO
A few videos ago, I started a drinking game, where I threw down a shot every time Andy mentioned Robert Plant or Frank Zappa. I ended up in Alcoholics Anonymous.
One of the worst decisions in rock was bands insisting on filling all 70 minutes of the new CD format, meaning that even good or middling albums became intolerable. Basically, EVERYONE was putting out double albums.
In addition to including filler tracks which would not have made a regular old-school LP, this also meant that tracks which should have only been three or four minutes were stretched out to 5-6 minutes.
Radiohead gave an album away for free, but U2-which sucks infinitely harder-downloaded their own rubbish onto every iPhone on the planet without our consent.
I've heard people call other people ugly, but this is the first time i hear someone call someone else an ABOMINATION!😂😂 Holy shit Andy! You've got me in tears!
As much as I kind of agree with point #10, what you have to remember is: 1) bands were already making videos, and 2) bands were already doing photoshoots (for albums, posters and publicity). Therefore, being handsome doesn't really come into it. The reason why I think MTV was bad for rock (and music in general) is that it wasn't just about the music anymore - or put it another way, music became the side man to the image the band portrayed.
All the videos became generic. Have a 'hit' video and you got a huge amount of sales. So the formula for what was a hit video was based on the previous hit video. Just like the music biz. Then MTV got to choose what the video should be, because the advertisers would buy ad time for a certain hit video. Just like commercial radio stations. Commerce over art.
I saw Jon Anderson with the Paul Green Rock Academy at the Burg Herzberg festival in 2022, and it was awesome. Flying to another continent to play classics of rock music with a living legend in front of thousands of fans... I can imagine worse ways to "live out your parents' broken dreams".
The concept works better IRL For a long time schools only promoted classical and marshal/marching band music. Kids getting into Rock were more likely to find themselves in age-inappropriate situations, myself as a shining example. I was introduced to cannabis too early and lost my virginity to an adult woman. Schools adopting Rock Music programs let the "cool kids" cut teeth in a supervised setting. For me, it was Christian Rock and churches early on and I got the HELL out of that scene for good reasons like hyper-nationalism and homophobia. Kids need a family-oriented BUT SECULAR outlet to explore Rock.
@@Acemechanicalservices Yes. Cher's tallywacker is: Male. Deceased. Bad haircut. Even worse at politics. Not very good at skiing. Bit too enthusiastic at tree-hugging.
Not a lot of people know this but when Tom Petty's body was flown from California, were he died, to his home state of Florida for his funeral, at his family's request, members of Showaddywaddy accompanied the body, singing a cappella versions of their greatest hits. Apparently, Tom had been a fan since meeting them on a Danish tv program in the 80's. His wife said it was what he would have wanted.
From Wikipedia…. The term foo fighters was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
Me too. I vaguely remember hearing the first song of theirs, which they then proceeded to write over and over again for the rest of their career. I also remember some reviewer at the time, commenting on the sameness of that genre, referring to it as Puddle of Nickel Creed.
Tom Petty rubbish? Radiohead and Nirvana selling great is a disaster? Rather the opposite this was a blessings for rock. Dave Grohl whom I don't like much, became a songwriter that's why he didn't drum for Tom Petty or another band, including his own. You missed the greatest disaster, the Clinton act that made way for monopolizing the music industry and ending the creative indie labels and indie radios in the 90's, which killed true rock music. Indie network was the only place rock music would survive in the 80's, after the MTV driven hair metal takeover.
Radiohead made more money from the In Rainbows download (pay what you want) then they did from all their previous albums royalties. I think it was very smart. They were the first to stick the middle finger up to the industry and say this can be done without the labels. Then they released it on vinyl and cd, and made another huge packet of money. Re: the snot jar with the usb (lol) The Flaming Lips did something similar where you could buy a giant gummy lolly and you had to eat it to get to the USB with a new album on it. I think they sold it for something like $200 USD at the time. Hilarious.
@@skyblazeeterno Very much so. I can see why people might find it boring musically, but i love it. I think it's my favourite of theirs. I've been a fan since the first ep came out. What i love about In Rainbows is that they took all of the things that they do so well, and split them into individual songs. Instead of having long proggy songs, each song is distinct because they are all centred around one or two great ideas. I hated it when it came out, but have come to love it over the years.
Flaming Lips actually did similar things each month of that particular year, all hand delivered to independent record shops by the singer apparently. Gummy skull. Gummy foetus. Metal skull... On top of that they had Zaireeka the four discs with different instruments to be played at the same time, and vinyl with pop stars blood in them. They had a strong few years in promo for sure.
The only humans who should wear cowboy hats are cowboys - people who work in the burning sun and pounding rain. Nothing is uglier than a fat rich Texan getting into his 80k pick up truck with a four foot bed that has never been used, wearing a suit, AND A COWBOY HAT. (The head rest knocks the hat off every time.) or a politician in Washington DC from Texas WEARING A COWBOY HAT! Blahahahaha!
Two middle aged Englishmen encounter the mystery of the Mason Jar. It’s Americana, Andy. It’s for preserving Tom Petty’s nasal twang unto all generations.
You should do a video listing the scams that artists have done to their fans. Like Michael Jackson and his Thriller tour. The tour was sold out - so, the management company decided to hold a "lottery" for tickets. Fans pre-purchased tickets and then when the tour arrived in their city a "lottery" was held and the winners got to go to the concert and the losers were refunded. So - the entire time the tour was running the management company had millions of dollars sitting in their banks accruing interest - making more money off of the money they would eventually refund . . . pretty freaking sneaky, imho.
Which was not Michael's idea. He didn't even want to tour. It was Don King, Chuck Sullivan and Joe Jackson who came up with this scheme, and the other brothers approved (they needed the money). MJ donated his part of the proceeds to charities. Sullivan went bankrupt, had to live at Foxboro stadium after his wife divorced him, and Jackie Jackson missed most of the tour as he broke his leg when his wife (née Enid Arden Spann, d. 1997) found him with choreographer Paula Abdul and ran him over in a parking lot.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Hey there, Andy! Sorry to let you know I've never heard of Mr. Bungle, but now you've got me on to "Squeeze Me Macaroni". Which brings us back to 007... "I may be small, but I never forget!"
I don't think MTV pushed aside the ugly bands. Even pre-MTV artists preened for the cameras. Look at tge Beatles initially. Glam emphasized image and style over substance. And there were some damn ugly new wave and later hair metal bands all over MTV.
Ugliness was a prerequisite in the punk years. You only had to look at John Lydon. Glen Matlock looked ordinary like someone you would pass in the street but his looks lasted longer. Sid Vicious was hired for his looks but soon lost them.
It’s 1993 and someone hands the phone to BJ from Green Day, as someone visiting from the future plays Andy’s song at around 20:05. “You know that new sound you’re looking for? This is it!”
No way,not a single Iron Maiden member laughs from the other bands/artists "Demise", because every single Iron Maiden member are real honest good Man. Iron Maiden are a global Institution, with the Biggest and most Loyal fanbase of any other Band in Heavy Metal or in music in general. Metallica, Lars and James by the contrary are 2 Horrible, Greedy and Despicabale human beings,that sold their soul to mainstream for fame and fortune. They achived that,but they Lost all the Respect from the Real Heavy Metal World. Nowadays a Metallica concert it's 90% Posers and 10% of losers. That's the difference between Iron Maiden and Metallica. Iron Maiden above all Respects their fans while Lars and James only respect....not even money anymore.
26:26 this reminds me of that fake copypasta story about Thom Yorke that goes like this: I saw Thom Yorke in a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?" was taken aback, and all could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and heard him chuckle as walked off. When came to pay for my stuff up frontI saw Thom Yorke trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the COunter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I'm still shocked that people like autotune. Shocked! It literally is digital yodelling. It's the most annoying-sounding effect for a voice. I would rather listen to bowel movements.
Andy, one of your best yet....great stuff, very funny and entertaining. Put me out of my misery and tell me what the floor standing speakers are. I've had pair of Tannoy Mercury M3s since 1993, nearly sold them to upgrade a few times but if you've got a pair I'll keep them.....😍 Cheers...and please never go mainstream TV etc, they'll dilute you!
I’ve always felt Green Day “borrowed” heavily from Bad Religion, they took their sound, slowed it down, dumbed down the lyrical content and west coast melodic punk became toothless pop punk.😊
"Don't let the cat out of the bag" is one of a lot of phrases relating to the early days of the Royal Navy regarding the use of the dreaded Cat Of Nine Tails. "Not enough room to swing a cat" comes from the way that they would swing the Cat Of Nine Tails around for maximum speed and pain. "Don't let the cat out of the bag" was used as a threat. If someone saw a crime being committed the perpetrator would say that to the witness. If someone grassed up another Sailor, they had a nasty habit of disappearing or getting beaten up. The Cat Of Nine Tails was kept in a bag and was sometimes soaked in brandy to toughen up the knotted ends. "Rubbing salt into the wound" comes from salt being rubbed into the scars left by the punishment. Not only was it a makeshift antiseptic, it was something else to cause agony. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" comes from the intolerable itching caused by the scars. Sailors would scratch each other's scabs for relief. "A cat in hell" refers to the Sailors' belief that if they were to end up in Hell their punishment would be being whipped by a Cat Of Nine Tails for eternity.
@AndyEdwardsDrummer I love trivia like this. Here's another, I'm sure I'm not the only one here that thinks Ian Watkins is the most sickening piece of $#¡+ the world of Rock has ever seen. Somewhere on his Prison File will be a red warning "NOT ON NORMAL COURTYARD EXERCISE" what do the initials spell??? N.O.N.C.E.
@35:27 When I had heard there was this song that had already gotten more radio play than Stairway To Heaven, I assumed it must be really amazing. Then I heard the song - 'How You Remind Me' - and I thought.... 'Really?! This is the shit people go crazy for these days?!'
Seems skinny guys where in in the he 70s and I'm sure girls loved their hair, I think Plants hair looked gorgeous. Sure I was not alive back then but people seem to care much more about perfect teeth now.
All I knew about Nickelback before this video was that there is some meme going on about them being shit, and I remember seeing their concert ad in TV back in early 2000's. Based on the ad, to me it seemed to be some lame commercialized band. I never was into any 90s rock. But now, after your recommendation, I had to try How You Remind Me. Back in the day, I remember hearing it on the radio, and it was a big hit, and now I think it is actually quite catchy with ok hooks. If this stuff were like the last rock hits in history so far, I would say putting that out was more like a good idea than a bad one. Decent music compared to a lot of other stuff that has come out since. And this other song Rockstar sounds like gnr song to me and is actually something I could listen to. In this genre of commercial, mainstream rock I would say that song sounds like classic even. Way better stuff than I expected. Gotta say Andy, thanks for introducing me to Nickelback!
Foo Fighters were unidentified objects seen by pilots in WW2. So that's kind of cool. But yeah that music is as dull as a mayonnaise and white bread sandwich.
Andy, you are on fire 🔥 (this is for the Foo Fighters fans who don't understand what I've just said). And can I add that U2 are not mentioned enough as being massively overrated.
@countdebleauchamp I'm not a huge pop punk fan either. Tre Cool's drumming became much more rudimentary after Dookie and the quality of their music suffered.
The founding of the rock and roll hall of fame. All it does is confuse what rock and roll is and who plays it.
Why have so many bands and solo acts, some of them were genuinely anti establishment , allow themselves to be inducted? I know Americans were weird for stuff like that (hall of fames, declarations of greatest ever bla bla bla ) but groups from other nations are only too happy to get in .
Yes, baseball institutions are bad models for rock music and the antithesis of rock's original values.
Some people think Cher is rock.
good choice - its like the Oscars just basically a circle jerk
@@ElvisBeery Have you ever moshed to Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves? I first did on the NIN/Cher tour. It was awesome.
Aside from nickelback, canada gave the world brian adams, celine dion, avril lavigne, justin beiber, shania twain and drake..
Yet we aim the nukes at Russia..
I still have a Nickleback CD. After I first got it, I asked every person who might've left it there, if they were the culprit, and nobody fessed up. So then, I asked around if anybody wanted it for free. I tried to sell it (they already had too many of them). Still have it.
The Guess Who, Steppenwolf, Neil Young, Joni Mitchel, Gordon Lightfoot, Triumph, ...
Leonard Cohen was good
Blame Canada !
😂😂😂
Green Day is to punk (and rock in general) what Pizza Hut is to Italian cuisine.
Come on, they’re at least the Olive Garden.
@@valmarsiglia Billy joe has become the equivalent of the , non- descrript, monster sized, slice of self imploding mall pizza chain leviathan .., SBARRO
Great analogy
theyusedto have an organic salad bar at the Loco Pizza $lut. Cheers
😂🤣
Foo Fighters is like Hootie & the Blowfish without the heaviness.
🤣🤣🤣
"Foo Fighters" are what Allied WWII pilots called any unidentified flying objects (UFO) that they saw on their missions.
Streaming! Not only has it devalued music, but killed off the attention span to delve into actual albums as well.
Agreed 100% and with curated playlists, you're never going to get anything interesting either.
That could be somewhat because of commercials interruping between album tracks. Maybe, that’s just because I do not have UA-cam Studio.
Lemmy Kilmister was a good example of a less than gorgeous rock star, but his look was perfect for what he did.
I think you can easily add MeatLoaf to that
@@skyblazeeterno ...And Dr Feelgood. The whole band.
@bertrandgeorgeon3992 well isnt there a thing of becoming a rock star to get laid
@@skyblazeeterno I couldn't agree more.
@@bertrandgeorgeon3992They looked like normal people like anyone you would find in a working men's club.
That hat is the worst thing in Rock and everywhere else.
Yup.
Lemmy would disagree!
Hat looks like it is made of plastic. Not cool.
The hat sort of reminds me of Edgar Froese - “Solo 1974-1979” compilation LP
Both hats!!
The worst idea in Rock is when Lou Reed thought he could have a career as a singer and musician.
A few videos ago, I started a drinking game, where I threw down a shot every time Andy mentioned Robert Plant or Frank Zappa. I ended up in Alcoholics Anonymous.
😂
If you added Allan Holdsworth to that you'd have wound up in hospital
"They killed themselves because they knew what they'd done!" Literally spit my coffee LOL.
_'Hey, I, hey, I'm still alive'_
-Eddie Vedder
@@bryangarcia5599is it too much to ask that his band aren't?
One of the worst decisions in rock was bands insisting on filling all 70 minutes of the new CD format, meaning that even good or middling albums became intolerable. Basically, EVERYONE was putting out double albums.
True. Alot of early rock albums were under 40 minutes. No filler.
In addition to including filler tracks which would not have made a regular old-school LP, this also meant that tracks which should have only been three or four minutes were stretched out to 5-6 minutes.
The CD curse. I haven't bought a new release CD for years so I don't know if they're still doing it.
@johndef5075 well, a lot of them still had filler, but now there's 50 minutes of filler.
'I like Lego' - Andy Edwards 2025
I want the t-shirt...
That hat is the worst decision in rock and roll history
Radiohead gave an album away for free, but U2-which sucks infinitely harder-downloaded their own rubbish onto every iPhone on the planet without our consent.
thank you - I still have to get up and fast forward my phone every time it comes on
There is not enough hate towards U2.
Richard and Andy writing a song on the fly.... priceless.
"the girls dont like me" soon to be zooming up the charts. Right behind "ballad of the badger", aka "naughty badger"...lmao
I've heard people call other people ugly, but this is the first time i hear someone call someone else an ABOMINATION!😂😂
Holy shit Andy! You've got me in tears!
Jack Black's whole career summed up perfectly in two sentences.
As much as I kind of agree with point #10, what you have to remember is: 1) bands were already making videos, and 2) bands were already doing photoshoots (for albums, posters and publicity). Therefore, being handsome doesn't really come into it. The reason why I think MTV was bad for rock (and music in general) is that it wasn't just about the music anymore - or put it another way, music became the side man to the image the band portrayed.
All the videos became generic. Have a 'hit' video and you got a huge amount of sales. So the formula for what was a hit video was based on the previous hit video. Just like the music biz. Then MTV got to choose what the video should be, because the advertisers would buy ad time for a certain hit video. Just like commercial radio stations. Commerce over art.
I think Andy forgot that Stadium Rock was huge in the era of MTV
@@skyblazeeterno he's not a big fan of 80s stadium rock.
@jimmycampbell78 yeah that seems apparent
"The Girls Don't Like Me" has been one of my favorite songs ever since it came out.
School of Rock. Kids forced to live out their parents broken dreams.
I saw Jon Anderson with the Paul Green Rock Academy at the Burg Herzberg festival in 2022, and it was awesome. Flying to another continent to play classics of rock music with a living legend in front of thousands of fans... I can imagine worse ways to "live out your parents' broken dreams".
Or rather the teacher finding fulfillment.
The concept works better IRL For a long time schools only promoted classical and marshal/marching band music. Kids getting into Rock were more likely to find themselves in age-inappropriate situations, myself as a shining example. I was introduced to cannabis too early and lost my virginity to an adult woman.
Schools adopting Rock Music programs let the "cool kids" cut teeth in a supervised setting. For me, it was Christian Rock and churches early on and I got the HELL out of that scene for good reasons like hyper-nationalism and homophobia.
Kids need a family-oriented BUT SECULAR outlet to explore Rock.
Bring Richard back sometime. He’s a great companion with you.
This was a delightful video. Brightened my mood despite the “ten worst” theme. Thanks!
I love the humour in Andy's videos. Another excellent video!
On the plus side, we haven't been made to look at Cher's tallywacker.
Can you describe the tallywacker?
lol , best comment on here mate
@@Acemechanicalservices Yes. Cher's tallywacker is: Male. Deceased. Bad haircut. Even worse at politics. Not very good at skiing. Bit too enthusiastic at tree-hugging.
That poor guitar, resting on the radiator...
I don't think the heating is ever on in there...
I've made this complaint before
there is no heat those radiators are bricked, Andy already discussed this
And out of tune
Love it, Andy. i was laughing all the way through. Fresh, funny and very entertaining. Keep it up.
Glad you enjoyed it
The badgers last words...."girls don't like me"
Not a lot of people know this but when Tom Petty's body was flown from California, were he died, to his home state of Florida for his funeral, at his family's request, members of Showaddywaddy accompanied the body, singing a cappella versions of their greatest hits. Apparently, Tom had been a fan since meeting them on a Danish tv program in the 80's. His wife said it was what he would have wanted.
I choose to believe this
Zappa/Crimson/Beefheart/Blues fan here my ex wanted to go see Tom Petty so we went and I was blown away by his band. They were the real deal
From Wikipedia….
The term foo fighters was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations.
That's called a Mason jar. It's made for canning fruits and making pickles.
Top tier grumbling. Highly entertaining and enlightening.
Being a Canadian it makes me kind of proud that Nickleback made your list.
Me too. I vaguely remember hearing the first song of theirs, which they then proceeded to write over and over again for the rest of their career. I also remember some reviewer at the time, commenting on the sameness of that genre, referring to it as Puddle of Nickel Creed.
as Canadians we should have sent them to Nunavut and on a ice flow ..,
I hate nickelback because they made me tear up with that photograph song. Bastards.
Shouldn't you say "as an ex-Canadian"? Trump wants Canada for the US of A!
@@lemming9984 The USA would be a lot better off if Canada took over the USA.
Tom Petty rubbish? Radiohead and Nirvana selling great is a disaster? Rather the opposite this was a blessings for rock. Dave Grohl whom I don't like much, became a songwriter that's why he didn't drum for Tom Petty or another band, including his own. You missed the greatest disaster, the Clinton act that made way for monopolizing the music industry and ending the creative indie labels and indie radios in the 90's, which killed true rock music. Indie network was the only place rock music would survive in the 80's, after the MTV driven hair metal takeover.
Cowboy hat!!! Minus 10 English aesthetic points for you mate 😂
But Richard gets bonus points for his fedora!
Worst hat in the history of rock. Incredibly disappointing.
A cowboy would deduct points for that hat as well. They don't wear leather hats.
He’s identifying as Bono.
@@danielschaeffer1294 not Lemmy?
Radiohead made more money from the In Rainbows download (pay what you want) then they did from all their previous albums royalties. I think it was very smart.
They were the first to stick the middle finger up to the industry and say this can be done without the labels.
Then they released it on vinyl and cd, and made another huge packet of money.
Re: the snot jar with the usb (lol) The Flaming Lips did something similar where you could buy a giant gummy lolly and you had to eat it to get to the USB with a new album on it. I think they sold it for something like $200 USD at the time. Hilarious.
They cut out most if the middlemen, so it makes sense, right?
@@Crooked_Rhyme even though I think In Rainbows is boring musically cutting out middlemen IS a good idea and goes back to a punk/DIY ethic
@@skyblazeeterno Very much so. I can see why people might find it boring musically, but i love it. I think it's my favourite of theirs. I've been a fan since the first ep came out. What i love about In Rainbows is that they took all of the things that they do so well, and split them into individual songs. Instead of having long proggy songs, each song is distinct because they are all centred around one or two great ideas. I hated it when it came out, but have come to love it over the years.
Flaming Lips actually did similar things each month of that particular year, all hand delivered to independent record shops by the singer apparently. Gummy skull. Gummy foetus. Metal skull...
On top of that they had Zaireeka the four discs with different instruments to be played at the same time, and vinyl with pop stars blood in them.
They had a strong few years in promo for sure.
19:30 This is up there with that incredible scene of McCartney pulling Get Back out of the air in the ‘Get back’ documentary.
Every time I see a teenager wearing a Nirvana t-shirt I can’t help but laugh. Ask them to name three Nirvana songs and they can’t.
Nickelback is 'rock music' for new country fans. There are more Shania Twain fans at a Nickelback concert than Brian Adams fans. Guaranteed.
I enjoyed the video, Andy … From Macon, Georgia, USA, home of Otis Redding, Little Richard, the Allman Brothers, and Capricorn Records ✊🏼
Andy, the hat is a very bad idea. Stevie Ray Vaughn meets Jim Morrison meets Garth Brooks. No bueno
The only humans who should wear cowboy hats are cowboys - people who work in the burning sun and pounding rain.
Nothing is uglier than a fat rich Texan getting into his 80k pick up truck with a four foot bed that has never been used, wearing a suit, AND A COWBOY HAT. (The head rest knocks the hat off every time.) or a politician in Washington DC from Texas WEARING A COWBOY HAT! Blahahahaha!
“They killed themselves because they knew what they’d done”. I love Andy…
Two middle aged Englishmen encounter the mystery of the Mason Jar. It’s Americana, Andy. It’s for preserving Tom Petty’s nasal twang unto all generations.
You should do a video listing the scams that artists have done to their fans. Like Michael Jackson and his Thriller tour. The tour was sold out - so, the management company decided to hold a "lottery" for tickets. Fans pre-purchased tickets and then when the tour arrived in their city a "lottery" was held and the winners got to go to the concert and the losers were refunded. So - the entire time the tour was running the management company had millions of dollars sitting in their banks accruing interest - making more money off of the money they would eventually refund . . . pretty freaking sneaky, imho.
good idea
Which was not Michael's idea. He didn't even want to tour. It was Don King, Chuck Sullivan and Joe Jackson who came up with this scheme, and the other brothers approved (they needed the money). MJ donated his part of the proceeds to charities. Sullivan went bankrupt, had to live at Foxboro stadium after his wife divorced him, and Jackie Jackson missed most of the tour as he broke his leg when his wife (née Enid Arden Spann, d. 1997) found him with choreographer Paula Abdul and ran him over in a parking lot.
Are you named after Thunderball or Bungle?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Say what?
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Hey there, Andy! Sorry to let you know I've never heard of Mr. Bungle, but now you've got me on to "Squeeze Me Macaroni". Which brings us back to 007... "I may be small, but I never forget!"
That song was hilarious! Jilted John meets Rancid doing an incel hating himself.🤣
Jilted John sprang to my mind immediately as well.
@@Pwecko: Could be an age thing.😄🙂
19:48 Andy channelling Jilted John 😆
I don't think MTV pushed aside the ugly bands. Even pre-MTV artists preened for the cameras. Look at tge Beatles initially. Glam emphasized image and style over substance. And there were some damn ugly new wave and later hair metal bands all over MTV.
Ugliness was a prerequisite in the punk years. You only had to look at John Lydon. Glen Matlock looked ordinary like someone you would pass in the street but his looks lasted longer. Sid Vicious was hired for his looks but soon lost them.
I feel like I've had a brain aneurism watching this.
Enough internet for today.
Night.
Foo Fighters are just the American Cold Play... (or the other way around)
It’s 1993 and someone hands the phone to BJ from Green Day, as someone visiting from the future plays Andy’s song at around 20:05. “You know that new sound you’re looking for? This is it!”
'Gurlz dont like me'
Someone needs to get all of Andy's little songs and imitations of popstars and put them on an album for us to enjoy.
His Mick Jagger is hilarious.
Great video....great guest ......you brought everything nicely back together full circle.......Jolly Good
Digital Yodelling. Love it. Perfect description.
Thanks!
I love you Andy but Richard has a much better hat, luckily we aren't ranking hats but we could.Top ten hats in rock music.
He's always going on about his 'Indiana Jones' hat, so I am pleased to finally let him show it off to appreciative audience. Love you too
Thank you Andy for almost an hour of making me smile and laugh!!!
By the looks of it, Steve Harris is laughing at Little Lars being so little
No way,not a single Iron Maiden member laughs from the other bands/artists "Demise", because every single Iron Maiden member are real honest good Man.
Iron Maiden are a global Institution, with the Biggest and most Loyal fanbase of any other Band in Heavy Metal or in music in general.
Metallica, Lars and James by the contrary are 2 Horrible, Greedy and Despicabale human beings,that sold their soul to mainstream for fame and fortune.
They achived that,but they Lost all the Respect from the Real Heavy Metal World.
Nowadays a Metallica concert it's 90% Posers and 10% of losers.
That's the difference between Iron Maiden and Metallica.
Iron Maiden above all Respects their fans while Lars and James only respect....not even money anymore.
That U2 album they put out for free was pretty traumatic
U2 are pretty traumatic in general.
Foo Fighters had a concert in Stockholm somewhere. I heard them 20 km away on my balcony so I went in.
Stockholm is in Sweden.
"Jack Black is not even a proper musician, is he? He's just a big fat fool."
There's plenty I agree with in this video but this is the winner! 🏆
Great point on MTV! 😄 Thanks, Andy.
You could almost say that video killed the radio star.
In Rainbows is a wonderful album 👍
The Girl Don’t Like Me is definitely a pop punk hit.
26:26 this reminds me of that fake copypasta story about Thom Yorke that goes like this: I saw Thom Yorke in a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, "Oh, like you're doing now?" was taken aback, and all could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and heard him chuckle as walked off. When came to pay for my stuff up frontI saw Thom Yorke trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the COunter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any electrical infetterence," and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I'm still shocked that people like autotune. Shocked! It literally is digital yodelling. It's the most annoying-sounding effect for a voice. I would rather listen to bowel movements.
19:30 This is up there with that incredible footage of McCartney pulling Get Back out of the ether in the Get Back documentary.
Anyone ever notice young pre-baldness Lars Ulrich looked a lot like the infamous young Varg Vikernes of death metal band Mayhem???
Yes.
Hahahaha! No. But thanks for pointing that out.
Yes
Another GREAT episode.
In Rainbows is great!
Andy, one of your best yet....great stuff, very funny and entertaining. Put me out of my misery and tell me what the floor standing speakers are.
I've had pair of Tannoy Mercury M3s since 1993, nearly sold them to upgrade a few times but if you've got a pair I'll keep them.....😍 Cheers...and please never go mainstream TV etc, they'll dilute you!
I’ve always felt Green Day “borrowed” heavily from Bad Religion, they took their sound, slowed it down, dumbed down the lyrical content and west coast melodic punk became toothless pop punk.😊
Also, Descendants.
30:00 pretentious is the word
33:00 Gene Simmons - Take me Home
You don’t like Tom Petty? Well, I don’t like your hat. So there you go.
Nothing like watching 2 dudes trying to decode the mystery of the canning jar...
The double neck guitar. It was all over for me prog-wise when I saw the first one.
I think there have been triple neck guitars
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Five necks for Rick Nielsen but then the two cool guys and two nerds thing- it fitted. Wasn’t serious.
The keytar was worse.
I don't often listen to songs about Badgers but when I do, they're performed by Andy Edwards.
"Radiohead are really good... that's what I don't like about them."
Radiohead are so good that the bands they inspired can never match them
😂
"Don't let the cat out of the bag" is one of a lot of phrases relating to the early days of the Royal Navy regarding the use of the dreaded Cat Of Nine Tails.
"Not enough room to swing a cat" comes from the way that they would swing the Cat Of Nine Tails around for maximum speed and pain.
"Don't let the cat out of the bag" was used as a threat. If someone saw a crime being committed the perpetrator would say that to the witness. If someone grassed up another Sailor, they had a nasty habit of disappearing or getting beaten up. The Cat Of Nine Tails was kept in a bag and was sometimes soaked in brandy to toughen up the knotted ends.
"Rubbing salt into the wound" comes from salt being rubbed into the scars left by the punishment. Not only was it a makeshift antiseptic, it was something else to cause agony.
"You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" comes from the intolerable itching caused by the scars. Sailors would scratch each other's scabs for relief.
"A cat in hell" refers to the Sailors' belief that if they were to end up in Hell their punishment would be being whipped by a Cat Of Nine Tails for eternity.
This is the sort of comment I appreciate...look everyone...this is how you comment on my channel!!!
@AndyEdwardsDrummer I love trivia like this. Here's another, I'm sure I'm not the only one here that thinks Ian Watkins is the most sickening piece of $#¡+ the world of Rock has ever seen. Somewhere on his Prison File will be a red warning "NOT ON NORMAL COURTYARD EXERCISE" what do the initials spell??? N.O.N.C.E.
Never seen a canning jar?
is that what that is?
I like you angry...it makes me laugh. So thank you for putting a smile on my face. Keep up the good work.
Well now I need an "ugliest bands of the 70's" list.
This is so good! I laughed my a** off!
Can I request Ten Worst Hats in UA-cam History? Or the other nine, really.
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love you guys!
He wasn't alive in the 70s? He doesn't look much younger than me and I was born in 1954.
Beards make people look older . He is also greying at an early age.
Squatchin'll do that to ya
@@gavintuesday4959He looks as if he was born in the 70s.
I love how Burnt Weeny Sandwich is positioned right in the middle, especially after your debunking the FZ-"jokes" only a day earlier.
Are you suggesting that video killed the radio star
@35:27 When I had heard there was this song that had already gotten more radio play than Stairway To Heaven, I assumed it must be really amazing.
Then I heard the song - 'How You Remind Me' - and I thought....
'Really?! This is the shit people go crazy for these days?!'
Leave Tom Petty alone ffs, the guy was a songwriting champion. I think we need more Eagles-bashing on the channel
fully , fully agree !!!
Jeff Lebowski was right!
They have not managed to weather the sands of time well.. Joe Walsh however is aging like fine wine
It is a bit petty
@ we won't back down ;) .., so don't do me like that .., :)
New title for that song "THE BADGER AND THE TALLYWACKER".😂😂
I think the MTV comment is a little weak as since the 70s rock bands basically needed to make videos. Plant and Coverdale WERE considered good looking
I know....I was trying to be funny and only said it so I could put that pic up of Robert with the gap tooth...sorry
Seems skinny guys where in in the he 70s and I'm sure girls loved their hair, I think Plants hair looked gorgeous. Sure I was not alive back then but people seem to care much more about perfect teeth now.
Richard looks like he’s there under duress.
He took a deep breath after walking out of the door, I fuckin know! 😆
That's some bad hat, Harry
Amazing reference.
Was just watching Jaws for the 500th time!🤣
All I knew about Nickelback before this video was that there is some meme going on about them being shit, and I remember seeing their concert ad in TV back in early 2000's. Based on the ad, to me it seemed to be some lame commercialized band. I never was into any 90s rock. But now, after your recommendation, I had to try How You Remind Me. Back in the day, I remember hearing it on the radio, and it was a big hit, and now I think it is actually quite catchy with ok hooks. If this stuff were like the last rock hits in history so far, I would say putting that out was more like a good idea than a bad one. Decent music compared to a lot of other stuff that has come out since. And this other song Rockstar sounds like gnr song to me and is actually something I could listen to. In this genre of commercial, mainstream rock I would say that song sounds like classic even. Way better stuff than I expected. Gotta say Andy, thanks for introducing me to Nickelback!
I would add those hats to the list
Great video guys
Foo Fighters were unidentified objects seen by pilots in WW2. So that's kind of cool. But yeah that music is as dull as a mayonnaise and white bread sandwich.
Andy, you are on fire 🔥 (this is for the Foo Fighters fans who don't understand what I've just said).
And can I add that U2 are not mentioned enough as being massively overrated.
Regards to Green Day, Dookie is a killer album. Tre Cool's drumming is amazing. But they peaked with that album.
Excellent album. Although I detest pop punk in general.
@countdebleauchamp I'm not a huge pop punk fan either.
Tre Cool's drumming became much more rudimentary after Dookie and the quality of their music suffered.
The drummer is called Tre Cool? Ha! Ha! Sounds like he was out to destroy them from day one...
@thescrewfly Not a fan of his name. Trying WAY too hard. 😂. But his drumming on Dookie is on another level.
Best one yet ….. the Cher bit and the Ode to a Naughty Badger😂