Well, sheesh, I'll go find the other 4!

I really liked this episode....part 2 works for me too. Cheers!

There needs to be a part 2, 3 & 4 of this. Make it an ongoing series.

Agreed. On the need for another and especially The Eagles.

You Forgot To Mention KISS, Limp Biscouit, Whitesnake & most bands of the 2000s lol.

Yes

Frey is worse, though. Henley had some decent solo songs. Frey has goddamn Sexy Girl.

Talking Heads, Tom Petty, and Pearl Jam are solid out of that list in my opinion

@@jjgdenisrobert That moron on the left has forgotten more about music than you'll ever know.

Yes The Clash. Ugh dude sings like he's constipated.

1970s to early 80s quo is one of the best bands of all time

the pretenders?! sacriledge

LMAO

Michael Bolton would work equally well or Mariah Carey lol

I would certainly run !

I worked on a River Cruise in college. We used to turn on the Heat in high summer to get people to leave. Yours is the musical version of that.

This is one of the funniest comments I've ever read in all my life! 300 IQ right there!

tight pants

Teen girls had crushes on Jon and Richie?

@@EitherEndofAugust Teen girls are always looking for a show where they can scream like lunatics

@@reinaldofavoreto7160 plenty of bands had tight pants and still played far better, more interesting music

@@VyxenBlack yeah. I have no idea how bon jovi made success. They are horrible..... ha, that´s it. People love horrible music ( listen to all hits of the 2000s).

I don't know about that. Some music that I loved between the ages of 12 and 20, I still love, and some of it, I don't. There is a lot of music that I love now, in my 40s, that I couldn't really get into between the ages of 12 and 20. I didn't get into much jazz, beyond Miles Davis and John Coltrane, until my 30s. I never liked much death metal or black metal until my 40s. I'm 47 now and still discovering some of the greatest music I've ever heard!

While you have a point, 30 year olds today are covering Blind Faith. 50 years from now will anyone cover stuff from today?

Not sure about this. I was 27 when I started listening to extreme metal and I love it now.

@@Scottlp2 Blackberry Smoke have *great full albums* that I will be listening to for *decades* to come, and any rock band should be proud of having written and recorded those albums. There is still great rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock being made. It's just not in the mainstream, and all over the radio, in the U.S. anymore, but it's definitely out there.

@@christianman73 I disagree with whammy's comment too, a lot. If you really love music you got to grow through the years.

Patti does a great cover of Smell's Like Teen Spirit.

Agree completely. The mark of good criticism.

These guys are always right on!!!

Indeed! I actually often disagree with Martin Popoff on a particular band or album, but he is still so interesting to listen to, even when we disagree, that I happily keep reading his work and listening to him!

Great comment.

Agreed. The term “so-in-so sucks” is the laziest term to describe a band or musician one doesn’t like, as if it’s a dictation that all in the world must agree to. These gentlemen realize and convey that they’re aware many love an artist that they don’t and it’s just a matter that it doesn’t click for them. No need to project a stance of being the only one who’s right. Well done.

Nice take. Their old stuff was edgier and more artistic. I thought they ran out of gas during the Pop Mart Tour, and then they rediscovered how to mail it in and make money.

I thought they peaked on Achtung Baby ... but agree they became insufferable.

U2 were one of those bands it seemed like we had to get embarrassed into saying anything good about... they had one or two songs that I can remember, and they weren't bad songs, but it just wasn't the sort of thing I ever listened to by choice, and I just can't bring myself to care that they exist. There - I said it! I don't care about U2, I don't get them, I won't be shamed any longer into pretending everyone needs to like them!!!! :D

Agree i like u2s first 3 albums boy, oktober, war, they were really something special back then

They suck.

The hall of fame is a joke in itself, don't pay too much attention to it. It's irrelevant.

Especially when bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest aren't.

My first thought too; "Oh!, not the F@*×ing Eagles, Man!"

The dude abides

I heard a story that the guy who owns the rights to 'Dead Flowers' by the ROlling Stones allowed them to use the song in the movie (without paying royalties) because of that line, as he hates the Eagles as well!

Wow that's one great first buy!

Even more on Sandinista, for better or worse.

Agree! Such a literal cliche of a band. Feel like a fake group in a fake world. Sugar coated crap cookies.

The first three albums have their moments, but yikes, things go way down hill starting with New Jersey. After Slippery was a major hit, success went to Jon's head really fast.

@@ryanjacobson2508 We can talk about Bon Jovi but this band were never blow up from Grunge storm .

@@ryanjacobson2508 Those three have their moments? Like the three moments they are done playing?

Real outlaws don't get perms.

I'm a big Axel fan but that's funny.

Awesome!!!

Did with part of Little Feat?!? On the surface, that just sounds totally odd.

They should have names their band Little Elf Feat. I'll see myself out now. Sorry bout that.

I knew it. I knew some people would discover Magma with this very show and that, amongst them, some would first be intrigued before falling for the amazing uniqueness of their music.

Alright I’m going to give it a try

@@kevinismawayoflife4660 One of the problems with Magma is that Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh is broadly considered as their signature album. Well..., happens to be one or the one I never got into. Beginners never should start discovering the Magma discography with MDC. Try the easier ones : Attahk and Merci. Although the latter one is more of an Offering album than it is a Magma's.

@@h.m.7218 I started with that live video that has Zombies as the second song. The first song just rolls into the second one. I have listened to that whole thing at least 10 times now. It's become Sacred Music to me now. Who are these Gods? lol!

Too funny!! Here they are, dogging bands and inadvertently turning people on to those very bands. Glad you discovered Magma. They're FANTASTIC....GENIUS!!

Lol

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I saw Dream Theater at the Hollywood Palace when Images and Words was out. They blew me away live, other than LaBrie. LaBrie is a guy, not bad, not special...nothing like Bruce Dickinson or Ronnie James Dio...it's just that for the talent of the rest of the guys in the band, he's not in their league.

I quite liked the Bond song that Hynde sang for License To Kill (1989).

Saw them when they touring behind their 2nd album and the show was awesome.

Erik Haley They did lose their sound, but their comeback album after those tragedies (Learning To Crawl) was still pretty damn good!

@@davidl570 True. It's not really a Pretenders album, but it's very good.

I pretty much love anything Chrissie Hynde does..Last of the Independents is a great album..

To each their own, but he's the primary reason I hate Journey.

@@donnievick3076 The first 3 Journey albums before Steve Perry are the best.

@@markhaus2830 I agree!

He was flawless live, also, while many rock singers struggle to pull off much simpler vocal lines live.

@@markhaus2830 LOL!!!

Great comment. With your analogy in mind, I offer: Dream Theater, Nightwish = Fine dining Maiden, Priest, Scorpions = Affordable steakhouse food Early Van Halen = A great flavorful pizza, full of fresh toppings KISS, Nugent, Aerosmith = french fries (steak fries, crinkle cut, tots, etc) Motley Crap, Poison, Cinderella, Bon Jovi = stale generic potato chips

@@dvg4104 I prefer the stale potato chips over the fries in this case lol 😂

@@televisedpork7993 I'm with you on this one, except 70's Aerosmith. Kiss and Nugent, pass for me.

@@televisedpork7993 -- To each his own, amigo. :-)

@@dvg4104 I think I just lost my appetite. 😄

you might be surprised to know how many people like the illusions albums. I think they suck but Appetite is a sleaz-rock masterpiece. Lies was a great EP as well.

GnR toured the world on the Illusions. After all bands should be seen live. the album is just the start

The eagles became legendary because they deserved to bon Jovi I can take or leave

a billion hit songs, that's how

I think when he says I never really got it sums it up. Nobody gets everything.

I go as far as Remain In Light with Talking Heads. It's a mixed bag after. Brilliant band, though. That Martin Popoff would a game changer like Patti Smith's Horses "soft" is beyond. Fine. It's his taste..

@@stuartfishman1044 The guy likes the Abacab period better than earlier Genesis, so his taste is suspect to begin with.

Talking Heads are definitely a band to see live to really appreciate. Their first three albums ( Talking Heads '77, More Songs..., Fear of Music) are my personal favorites.

Talking Heads are in my top 10 for sure. For some reason I like the music critics of the 70# and 80s tended to like. I guess it boils down to what you think about punk rock. These 2 guys although very nice and God bless them. They just seam like musical bone heads. Everyone has their own taste. I'd like to have a beer w these two guys for sure.

I must be a bone head, too. I'm not into The Talking heads. Nothing against them. Great songwriting but that doesn't mean I like the music. Same as Queen. The masses love Queen--I'm not into anything they've done-- even pre A Night at the Opera stuff. Back to New wave: I do like a lot of ; New Wave and some punk; but Talking Heads aren't punk. I'm just not into their style. Rush fans seem to be the most immature when one criticizes them. You're not at that point but you're almost there. @@bhdctn

Brave? C'mon.

@@saint.vitus.7775 you have a point there. Not brave really because of the hot takes being a thing to provoke comments but I do think that there are definitely so many records that are held up as classics that to my ears just do not merit the popular acclaim. Then again, I'm a person who thought the Screaming Trees record Invisible Lantern or Thin White Rope's Moonhead should be known by all and revered.

Stop Making Sense is insane. And let's remember that Adrian Belew was a touring member around the Remain In Light era, along w/ Bernie Worrel from P-Funk.

@@hunterthompson2206 The Great Curve is an awesome song....especially live.

@@jamesdykes2968My all time fave of theirs and one of my fave songs of the 80s

Right then, no Dio?

Agreed except for The Doors. The rest of the list I would also name each.

Agree, except Springsteen and Doors

The Doors were a fine psychedelic rock band - I have about a dozen of their songs on regular rotation in my playlist, and i've been hearing their music since I was a toddler in the '70s, they never seem to get old for me. I love death metal, too - lots of splendid stuff going on there, especially in some of those Florida acts (once you get over the vocals, Obituary has some damned heavy and crunchy riffs that are the equal of almost anything else in hard rock and heavy metal), and the melodic stuff that started appearing in places like Sweden, Finland, and Norway back in the '80s (the likes of Entombed, Dismember, At the Gates, Therion, Amorphis, Cemetary, and Tiamat could get rather beautiful!) I couldn't really complain about most of the rest of that list, though - could just be a matter of taste, but especially the likes of Springsteen, Dylan, Pearl Jam, Blink 182, Dave Matthews, and U2 do little or nothing for me. For example, with Sprinsteen, U2, or Bob Dylan, I feel like hearing their most famous songs once was pretty much all I needed, and anything after that is overkill. They don't replay well, at least in my book, and their deeper cuts did nothing for me. I suspect that Nine Inch Nails might grow on me if I gave them a chance: I loved their ambient soundtrack for the old Quake video game. And I rather liked Nirvana's unplugged album - most of those songs are on regular rotation in my playlist, even though I don't own anything else by Nirvana, and don't care to bother with almost any other grunge band. I'm not a fan of Marilyn Manson or The Sex Pistols at all, but I guess I can understand why their fans like them: I think I'd sooner roll with a proper electronic/industrial gothic metal act (say, Samael or Mortiis Era II) or The Ramones, though. REM and Journey are tough ones for me to judge: I've heard a song or two by REM that seem enjoyable enough, and one or two that irritate me, but it's not my style of music, and just not something I could get into... where REM works, I can appreciate that they work, but otherwise.... And, much the same with Journey: I've heard three or four songs from them that I like well enough, but it's just not close enough to my style for me to bother giving them any more effort than turning up the occasional hit when I'm forced to listen to the radio on a long car trip. I just don't have any interest in exploring their back catalogs at all. Still, it seems to me that a good Journey or REM song is probably better than anything else I'm likely to hear on the radio (and even then, I'll sooner take The Doors or my favorite death metal bands any day!)

Agreed, except for Nine Inch Nails, Doors, Manson and what you described as "any death metal band". I wouldn't change the rest of your list.

I like some Radiohead but KID A tried but could not get into it The Pyramid song is one of my all time favorite songs.

Count me in for some huge Kings X love.

New album from those mighty three in 2022

They were My Other Favorite Band (favorite being R.E.M.) in the early 1990s. I still think that Rush and King's X would have been the perfect double bill.

@@sarah2.017 you are absolutely right. I've always felt that a Rush tour with Kings opening would be a fantastic double bill.

When Kings X came out I thought they would rule the world. Their music was accessible but distinctive. It was different without being weird. They were a classic three-piece with great singing and playing and they were very visual. And they had the same manager as ZZ Top. I thought they would rule. Shows what I know.

... and then Estranged and November Rain are their 2 greatest songs... from different albums ;-)

Three great albums

@@jonnuanez2843 lol

I know gnr lies is two eps but doesn’t that equal an album?

@@jonnuanez2843 One great song does not a great album make

Yeah all the songs sound the same lol

Yeah, definition of generic rock band, zero edge to them

@@xxxInternazionalexxx exactly - everythings written for maximum airplay - with no heart / soul / attitude - dave seems desperate to be as big as nirvana on his own - but will never be revered like them

@@azdh85224 yeah tryin way too hard - with little or nothing in the way of authenticity

Foo Fighter actually get even worse. When they try to bring humour into there songs.

Lmao, not even close. As soon as Tipper Gore retracted her claws, Blackie Lawless cowered like a little bitch and softened up.

I always loved Blackies vocals

And you think other critics are dishonest about that? I think as a music reviewer you have to be honest. Otherwise a review/criticism is pointless.

Yeah, they're the perfect example of a band in this category.

I agree 100% !!!

Absolutely agree. Their music was pretty average at best. A few catchy party songs but other than that it was just the costumes, stage show and hype.

Totally agree 👍

I've thought about this a lot because I hear what you're hearing. All I can come up with is that you had to be there and buy into the horror imagery and dramatics. It probably helped to be a teenage boy in the '70s.

Look on guitarist Tim Pierce's channel. He played the lead on it and has a video talking about it. That's often an unknown is that despite who the band is, sometimes a session musician is brought in to complete an album. Happened with KISS at least a few times and a decent amount in the 80s.

Me too. Can't stand them. That said, I think Jonny Greenwood is an amazing musician and his film scores are fantastic.

Ive tried with radiohead. And good god stop comparing them to pink floyd!

Yeah I don't get them either. Foo fighters can go away too

A lot of Metal heads love them...Hammet, Ulrich, Anselmo...

Yes agree 100%. Ive tried with Radiohead.

In the Court of the Wenton King is great too

i am a big wasp fan and to me they hit a nerv that i really like. This is personal and i do believe that the crimson idle is the best rock opera ever. love all blackie's stuff ...but again it's personal

I saw Bon Jovi open for Kiss in 1984, seeing them then I never would've thought they'd ever get anywhere with that weird punk/rock image they had early on, like when Hollywood depicted street gangs or rock bands in the '80s it never looked like the real thing. Incidentally, saw Helix open for Kiss the year before and thought they might get real big but that didn't quite happen, I liked them well enough to get their excellent No Rest for the Wicked album.

Right! And I know this shouldn't matter, but listening to Chrissie in an interview is about as fun as watching paint dry. She has this very off-putting, marble-mouth, faint English accent thing going on which comes off phony ( yes, I know she lived there briefly...) with NOTHING interesting to say which doesn't speak very well of her persona, off-stage.

Sorry but Martin Chambers is a great drummer with a very unique style. So you are wrong IMO.

Only thing is, after their deaths, I thought she assembled a pretty damn good band for Learning To Crawl and all the subsequent albums.

Yes David L, a very good band was assembled for Learning to Crawl and I think it's really an exceptional album. I would probably argue it's better than II, however i do think those first 2 albums had such a unique, particular sound that was the result of Farndon and especially Honeyman-Scott's brilliant, idiosyncratic guitar playing.

The Drummers for Journey are legendary: Ainsley Dunbar to Steve Smith to Deen Castronovo. Also Bass players: Ross Valory to Randy Jackson back to Ross. Great Musicianship with Lead - Neal Schon and Keys - Jonathon Cain two of the best EVER! There's a whole lot to like.

@@stevendavid5370 Sure no doubt everyone in the group were/are great musicians on their own and i like them all but still Perry/Schon made Journey rocket to a different level, in my opinion. Cheers!

They're good but I don't think that they have wide appeal like many claim, I view them as an acquired taste.

@@mck7646 True. I remember one time when the guitarist was pushing back on a fan who was complaining that the record company wasn't supporting their latest album (Faith Hope Love). Sometimes it's not the right time or the right sound. I still love these guys, regardless.

You might enjoy W.A.S.P "Live...In the Raw". I really love that album.

@@cinemathequerouge317 I enjoy that album a lot actually

4 if you include Captured. I always assumed that every serious music critic felt the same way. Escape is listenable and has a few good tracks; stoned in love and mother, father are good, but yea totally with you. Now I am assuming you mean the first 3 with Perry which was technically Journey's 4-6th. Journey sweet spot is Infinity, Evolution and Departure. Are those the ones you meant?

@@maximuskhan2100 No, I meant the first three, Journey, Look Into The Future and Next. To me, they went from prog to pop when Perry joied the band.

@@neuropete1 You're better off sticking with the ballads then.

@@mattmiller2761 I've listened to either "Journey" or "Look Into the Future" and would've never known it was Journey. Jazz-like in spots, IIRC. Same with the earliest Scorpions stuff. Rather like both of them BECAUSE they were so different from the sounds that made both groups famous.

"Steve Perry is a novelty voice". Yup. A "male diva", as he's been described. He makes a fine contrast to Gregg Rollie on "Feeling That Way" or "Anytime", but I can't take it all day long. Also Steve Smith has to be the most simplistic, boring drummer ever. If they'd kept Dunbar, it would have been different.

I credit Bernie Worrell and the energy that the two backup singers.

My older brother rented it when I was 13. Turned me into an instant super fan. Ended up buying all their LPs.

They were coked up af

Watch their 1980 Rome concert on UKposts if you haven't seen it.

@@DMTsmoke That Rome concert is legend.

Pantera? Cmon bro... not even one album?

Pantera??????

Nothing wrong with Toto.

Actually Pete despises Poison and I tend to agree!

@@jasonyoung4179 Yeah, Pete has dumped on Poison any number of times.

I admit it...I love Toto...lol...Lukather is a beast on guitar...to me they are a little polished at times...but unreal musicians

King's X is like licorice. Either people love it immediately or just can't stand 'em. I love both! They're like Rush in many ways, too.

So true! Bland, tasteless, soulless, lifeless, etc. The soundtrack of purgatory.

Foo Fighters arent the heaviest band on the planet as well as Ghost, but they make rock, regardless you like their music or not.

The punk ethos of the band wore off fairly quickly. I saw them a few years back and left after 3 songs, which took them 20 minutes to play.

Foo Fighters are so boring I wouldn't even trouble myself to put them on the show.

@@MrCalmao Foo Fighters make rock the same way McDonalds makes food.

You better believe it! Saw their first tour concert with Matallica & Armored Saint! Still love the first album!

Brian Adams What a line up man. Saw them in Santa Barbara and they were good. Saw them with Maiden and enjoyed them. I always thought WASP was better live than what they captured on record.

Me too can't stand the vocals, same with Rush and others.

The same. The guys in the band all seem like good guys with good taste and I like Mike's tribute side projects but Dream Theater's music just doesn't click with me.

@@leonardspinazzola6714 Rush vocals are shite.

That's the one 😅

Yep! Same here.

I don't even think of those two as grunge. I think they just broke right around that time and being from the Northwest they were lumped in with the rest. and those two are the ones that I still go back to today. Forget the rest.

Agreed outshines a example hard rock to me metal not grunge

@@lordtazzman3140 I tell people that all the time! But they don’t want to hear it; they will never know just how hard those two rock out!

@@nelsonmaud1 BadMotorFinger as a whole is a great example. Outshined is definitely a highlight!

I like them the best too. Also i dig Stone Temple Pilots. But Pearl Jam and Nirvana not so much.

Yeah never could get into them or REM or Pearl Jam .

Who the eff is Coldplay, I heard the singer married Gwyneth Paltrow, but that's about it.

I would have said this when they were at their peak but a lot of people seemed to turn against them a few years back.

Its a band that only girls like

Cant stand them

I don't get the comments about Talking Heads either. Unique band.

Yeah sometimes you just need to say "I dont like this band" and not try to find some technical reason to bolster your opinion. Especially if you love throwaway disposable music like the Ramones. And hair metal.

@@charlesrambeau519 I like The Ramones and The Dickies too, but they are not even in the same league as Talking Heads, all 4 of them are great musicians and Byrne was a great frontman, Pete’s reason for not liking them beyond their hits is precisely why I like them, being weird is what made them stand out amongst all the other stuff at the time, they certainly weren’t conventional and their weirdness wasn’t forced weirdness, it was genuine, they came up through the NYC music scene and played at CBGB’s often as did Blondie neither band were punk bands, they were doing their own things. Talking Heads experimented with different sounds on each album and each album is different from the other, that’s also what makes them such a great band. Funny too Pete doesn’t like “London Calling” by The Clash either. He’s just not a punk/post punk guy, but “London Calling” is probably The Clash’s most diverse album. I don’t like a lot of metal bands and some classic rock bands covered here either, I’ve never been a metal head, I find the music just meh, the singers pretty much sound the same to me as do the guitar tones, no connection to it. Nothing really stands out. Metal is just an old worn out genre, it has nothing else to offer. Talking Heads were a breath of fresh air during their heyday.

I always thought Talking Heads were a band for weirdos. And I was right 👍

@@robertpottle2887 that’s a compliment. 😊

Each to there own Mark indeed I love early Talking Heads and a lot of US new wave Television Marquee Moon one of my top 10 favourite albums behind Heaven and Hell and Back in Black.

@Catharsis I agree their early work is their best, but Speaking In Tongues, and everything after, all have their fair share of highlights.

Cant stand Talking Heads,Byrne irritates the hell outta me. As far as Television,brilliant band,Marquee Moon in my top 10 of all time.

I wonder if he's ever seen "Stop Making Sense"

Their first two albums are fantastic! My favorite songs of theirs are not on the best-of albums.

Totally agree. I like their early stuff as well, but their later stuff is probably their best.

Golgotha is amazing song

the HEADLESS CHILDREN is a fantastic album

It's a nonstop slam fest. No one can deny the magistracy of Headless Children. But Pete is right. It's not compelling. But it is HUGE and the over drumming is a gift that keeps giving. Pete is deaf.

That is an excellent song!

Holy trinity of Steve Hackett, Camel and David Bowie was my top 3 at years 16-21 and still are now that I'm almost 29. Nostalgia is very important for me too. But I also find new bands and artists every year, but every year it gets more difficult.

That's the problem.

Sometimes, but not always. I was in my teens from the late 80s and into the 90s, but to me the best music was made between 1966 and 1982. I never play my albums from the 90s anymore. I hate grunge, rap and electronica.

When I was 16, my favorite bands were (in order) Procol Harum, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Cream. And now at 60, those are STILL my favorites in the same order.

True words and there is nothing much can change it. The first band I really got into was Deep Purple back in 71/72...still my favourites. And first band I ever saw was Hwkwind on the Space Ritual tour in 73...it is in my top five gigs ever to this day.

thank you

ten was a great album, everything after that was pretty damn boring.