Stairway to Eleven Episode #13: The Best of the Best of the Best Albums

00:00:00There's a podcast that shows all that rocks hard is gold. And they're climbing the stairway to 11. When they get there they know the record stores are all closed. But online they can get what they came for.

00:00:30Oh, and they're streaming the Stairway to 11.

00:01:00So, woohoo, still here. Do we win anything or do we just get like a badge on Untapped and it means nothing? Exactly like that. We got a badge. Woo! That's right. We did. It's like a little one year. I feel good about it. With the little sparkles. It did seem to go by pretty quickly. It did, actually. It's shocking to me, actually. Yeah, yeah. Nine more to go. Oh? Until we can have another celebration. Oh, okay. Oh, we could do a five year, you know. Oh, yeah. We could have any kind of celebration we want, right? Yeah, it's been a year and three quarters. Woo-hoo!

00:01:30He made it. 15 months and two weeks. Yeah. We rule. Yeah. That's the takeaway here is we rule. Remember that. Yes. So I don't know if they're going to feel how much we rule after this episode. Oh, they will. They will. Trust me. Yeah. So this episode, we're doing a sort of a themed episode again. This one is the best of the best of's.

00:02:00It's not necessarily the best of. It's our favorite best of. As TR mentioned offline, these may be things that you wouldn't expect because it's maybe not what we always listen to, but because it is what it is, it's something that we care about. That's not at all what he said, but I'm trying to summarize. You completely mischaracterized everything I said, but. TR is offended now. No, you got the gist and you're exactly right, George. We'll talk about this throughout, but I think, I think when you talk about a greatest hits or an anthology,

00:02:30You know, a lot of times it might just be something like, okay, this is enough. This is all I want from this artist, right? Yeah. So it might be a little different, but then again, it might kind of turn you on to that artist and it might kind of open the door for that artist to get into your collection. So I guess we'll see what everybody thinks about it. Yeah. Or your fans of the Time Life collections that no longer exist anymore. Yeah. I like some of them because at least from the perspective of this podcast,

00:03:00because there's some artists that I really like that only have one or two songs

00:03:05in an album over a long career that I'm really super stoked about.

00:03:10And so when you gather all those together, you've got an amazing best of album.

00:03:15Whereas if I was trying to talk about one of the albums, I'd be like,

00:03:18there's 10 songs, I like one of them.

00:03:21This helps.

00:03:23It's funny, though, because of my five that I'm going to feature,

00:03:27Three of them are artists that I would also listen to everything by them. Okay. That kind of shoots me in the foot there with that assessment. But I mean, now that you say that, George, looking at mine, I think at least two of mine are like that for me. So yeah, that's a valid point. All right. John, any thoughts? I have plenty of thoughts on the topic of this episode.

00:03:57of which we are speaking. Plenty of those two. Go for it. So these are not my five favorite best of compilation anthologies. These are the ones I just found right off the bat. Low hanging fruit. These were standing on the street corner when I walked up. When you have three or four thousand CDs behind you and you're like, I have no clue what I have. You have to kind of improvise and think right away.

00:04:27Which ones come to mind? And that's what most of these are. Then I found one that I thought this is too good not to have on because there's a funny story to it. Some of mine I bought because of what you guys said. And that's why I mentioned Time Life. Remember Time Life? You could spend $150 just putting this one CD together, buying individual tracks. But Time Life, you could spend $148 for this collection. You've got money left over for a coffee and a newspaper.

00:04:57Some of my collections are like that, like you guys said. I like a lot of songs from artists, but I didn't necessarily feel like I needed to have anything more than that. Some of mine were, I don't know anything by this artist, and I'm going to just dive in. I know a couple songs, but there's a lot on here. There's got to be more that I like. This is pre-streaming, pre-YouTube and all that. Yeah, this is for some of these. This is CD Club stuff right here. No, some of mine, I actually, back when we had

00:05:27you could go to even in the Best Buy era, which depending on where you live in the country, some Best Bys were great and some stunk. There were a couple of money that just were loaded with music. And you'd be walking through and say, oh, wow, I don't like this band. Maybe I'll pick this up. You know, they'd have the big sticker on it, you know, $5.99. You're like, that's the price. I'm getting that. And then I've got all the reasons why I have them, but I won't waste time. I'll save it for when we go through our lists.

00:05:56Yeah, I was going to say, you know, it's also a good place for people to start. If they're not familiar with an artist, you can start with the best of go and get the overview of what this artist is like, and then dig deeper for the deep tracks individually as you care to. And of my five, I would say three of them are definitely ones that, you know, they're massive. And so if you know them, which everybody who listens to this is going to have heard of these artists, you may not need

00:06:26that to get into them. But it's still nice to have something where you can just grab all the good stuff and go. Turn it on in the car and roll with it. Younger people are definitely at a better advantage or have a better advantage than we did because they have streaming. So you literally don't have to go album by album if you stream. You just could literally, you don't have to buy anything. Just make a playlist. Just make a playlist. No, you can get the best of like on Spotify for bands. They're all on there. So you don't even have to really do,

00:06:56any work. Literally just pull up your Spotify and put the band name in those compilations for some of those bigger bands come up right away in the feeds. So I'm not I'm not complaining. We just we bought all these at the time because we didn't have that option. Have we had that option? There's a lot of stuff I would have never bought. You millennials have it so freaking easy. No millennials had to buy CDs too for a certain point. Well what is there anything after millennials? Is there something newer than that? Sure. Yeah. Gen Z.

00:07:26I thought Millennials and Gen Z were the same. No. That's after Millennials, really? Yeah. That's like the kids of today pretty much are Gen Z. Oh, you Gen Z. I think the age ranges are only what? 10, 12 years? 20 years, I think. I don't know. Gen X is what? From like the early 60s to 80, I think? 82. Mid 60s to 81. I think 62 in some definitions. I thought it was like 64.

00:07:56But yeah, somewhere in there into the early 80s. But right, yeah. Gen X is 65 to 80. So yay, we're all Gen X. On this show. The coolest Gen. That's right. The forgotten one. The ignored one. All right, so that's what we're doing. I think we will start with TR because TR. Oh man. All right. So I'm going to,

00:08:26I don't you know so the order of these is really not I don't know if it's all that significant but I am going to save some of my best for last so I am starting with my best and working my way backward but you can do it however you like yeah I'm going to start I'm going to kind of build the anticipation here all right maybe I'll do that too fine you can do what you want George I know so yeah so I guess what I'll do is start with my number five what I would say is number five

00:08:56And that's the Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits, 74 to 78.

00:09:01Nice.

00:09:02And this, so when I was a kid and I used to hear songs on AM radio, I remember like in the very beginning of my musical awareness, I think there were a couple of songs from Steve Miller that I always thought were really cool when I was a little kid.

00:09:24And one of those was Fly Like an Eagle. I thought that song was so cool. I really loved that tune. And then also, I like Jet Airliner. Jungle Love was pretty good. Take the Money and Run. Swing Town's pretty good. So there's a bunch of tracks on this album. And actually, this greatest hits is really mostly from Book of Dreams and Fly Like an Eagle. You're missing my favorite. Because it came out in like 80 or something. Can you guess what that is?

00:09:53That's probably Abracadabra or something. Yeah, baby. Yeah. I love that one. That was my first Steve Miller song. I used to call into the radio station and request it. That's how old I am. Yes. I want to reach out and grab you, George. Yeah. So, yeah. So, Steve Miller band, again, as time passed, I, you know, some of the luster wore off on this a little bit, but I did like the whole vibe. Fly Like an Eagle kind of has this. There's this.

00:10:23You know, it's a 70s vibe to that recording. It's weird because it was recorded in the 70s. Yeah, exactly. But the point I'm making is it really does sound like it, right? And it's got that feel of those songs from the 70s. They managed to capture the feeling of the time that they were in. It really was. An effective recording technique that actually captured what was really happening. So I think it's just, I mean, to me,

00:10:53There's a bit of a nostalgia for this, right? And I think some of the choices that I've made for this are partly based on, there's some that are kind of nostalgia-based. And when we get to our honorable mentions, there's one that I picked that was completely nostalgia. But yeah, so just to go through it real quick, it's got Swingtown, Jungle Love, Take the Money and Run, Rockin' Me, Serenade, True Fine Love, The Steak, The Joker, Fly Like It,

00:11:23and eagle threshold which is kind of that instrumental passage before jet airliner begins

00:11:29dance wintertime and wild mountain honey and so anyway that was i guess i'll kick it off with

00:11:37that all right that's good i actually just wrote down steve miller because i'm like i haven't

00:11:42listened to steve miller in a long time i need to go back and check out some steve miller you know

00:11:46so i'm all about that yeah i don't have that because i already have the joker fly like an eagle

00:11:52and Book of Dreams are my collection. And those are the three that TR said that was all that was on. So when I listen to AM radio, it was talk. So it was FM radio in my town. Oh, I beg your pardon. Yeah. No, I'm not. There was AM. Everything by me was FM at that point. Don't you know the Everclear song? You know, the AM radio? Yeah. You probably don't, but it's a good song. And it's about listening to the AM radio and listening to rock music. Ours. I mean, we had AM, but all our predominantly big stations,

00:12:22were all for talking sports.

00:12:26They were in traffic on the hour.

00:12:27And now it's on the eights.

00:12:28On the eights.

00:12:29That's right.

00:12:29That's right.

00:12:30Yeah.

00:12:31But yeah,

00:12:31I already had those three and I like Steve Miller and it's still nostalgic.

00:12:36It's still cool stuff.

00:12:37I mean,

00:12:38yeah.

00:12:39All right.

00:12:39What do you got,

00:12:40John?

00:12:40All right.

00:12:41So mine are not in order.

00:12:44Mine are categorized as the type of compilation that I bought.

00:12:48So I'm going to start with the one that fits into the box of, I'm really not a fan of this band. Ah, okay. I bought it because there's a lot of songs on it. And I liked a few songs and ended up coming to this band a lot more, even though I still don't own anything from this band other than this. I didn't know cannibal corpse. Yeah. I was going to say between the buried and me, did they have a best of? No, I have all their stuff now. I've, I've told you I made the switch. Yeah. Anyway,

00:13:18My Best Of, and this is a running joke in our house, who this band is, and I'm going to make some shout-outs during this. My first one is Chicago, The Very Best of Chicago, colon, only the beginning two CDs. Ooh. Yeah. Okay. So there's horns. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is when they were still Chicago Transit Authority, right? They were only that for one album. Oh, okay. Yeah. There are two songs from them.

00:13:48But there's actually two songs I always like

00:13:51no matter what

00:13:53and that was the song Make Me Smile

00:13:55and they do just

00:13:56an absolute, and I don't like covers

00:13:58you guys have heard me say this, but I like a few, they do

00:14:00an absolute wicked cover of I'm a Man

00:14:03by Spencer Davis Group

00:14:05and it's all kind of

00:14:07funked out and it's got some cool

00:14:09percussion stuff going on

00:14:11and I always liked those songs and

00:14:13I eventually said, alright, enough of this

00:14:15I gotta get this

00:14:17because at the time we didn't have streaming. So I bought the compilation and I knew a few other songs on there and I came to a lot of songs on it. However, this comes with a caveat. I do not like the second CD on this. It's all the 80s stuff. It's all the Peter Sotera stuff. Not a fan. Yeah, I really only like the Peter Sotera stuff. All right, let's stick with me on this first. Here we go. So that's all the Jen stuff. Jen, my other half, better significance.

00:14:47and other half. She's a huge fan. But she loves all that stuff that you like, George. Yeah. Because Jen's cool. She knows what's up. Yeah. I like all this stuff from the first four albums, which is they're kind of proggy, jazzy rock stuff. I mean, they really have a lot of prog in their early stuff. It's their version of prog, though. Yeah. It's like jazzy proggy. But there's, yeah, like songs like 25 or 6 to 4 is their kind of hard rock

00:15:17with the song in a sense because of the driving

00:15:19bass. But, you know, Question 67

00:15:21and 68, I was like,

00:15:23geez, this stuff is insane.

00:15:25Sounds like a ballad.

00:15:27It's not. They have ballads.

00:15:29Trust me, they do.

00:15:30But, and I always thought Terry

00:15:31Not ballad, ballad, like a voting

00:15:33ballad in California.

00:15:34Question 67.

00:15:36Oh, I thought I sounded like

00:15:37you said a ballad.

00:15:38Yeah, that makes sense.

00:15:40But they have some cool stuff

00:15:42on the early albums, so

00:15:44I'm not going to list every song

00:15:45because for this, I had them originally written out and I took it all out because this is too much. And I don't care about the second CD, but there's 19 songs on the first CD. I think there's 19 or 20 on the second. And I was like, well, if you're going to get a compilation, this is a lot of music. The problem with compilations and best ofs that I absolutely hate are edit and remix versions they put on. I don't want a short version of a song. I don't want a remixed version of a song that is different than what's on the original release.

00:16:15Or an extended version.

00:16:18If it's just like extra fluff, extra solo.

00:16:22I mean, if it was like, you know, Hendrix or something, great.

00:16:25But, you know.

00:16:27Like an example of that would be, if you were going to buy a David Bowie best of,

00:16:31the song Let's Dance is like seven and a half minutes long on album.

00:16:34They always cut it down to four.

00:16:35But you're cutting out all this cool percussion and guitar solo stuff.

00:16:39So that's why I would want the song to be long.

00:16:41However, I understand why the edit's there for that.

00:16:43But that's not for me.

00:16:44So that's the kind of stuff I don't want. And a lot of these compilations have that. This one has it, unfortunately. But with all that said, it's a cool one. I like it. It's got the song, like I said, Make Me Smile, 25 or 6 to 4, which you've all heard. I'm sure somewhere on the radio. Does anybody really know what time it is? No, but it's a really cool song. I know Beginnings. I know you guys have probably all heard that. Color My World, Free, Saturday in the Park. These are all really famous songs.

00:17:14What's the one? As I was walking through the... That would be... I believe that's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is. Oh, maybe, yeah, that's it. Right. Yeah. Which would be when they were CTA. Okay. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's what it is. Yeah. I get confused by all this. Yeah, that's... Yeah, that is... Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is. Yeah. That's the track, yeah. And the running joke with this album is that Jen and I, both George and T.R. have been to this place called The Casual Point, which is close to our house that we hang out. And one of the guys who works,

00:17:45there,

00:17:46who is always gracious with his time.

00:17:48And he talks to us a lot.

00:17:50Luis,

00:17:51it's a very cool guy.

00:17:53He,

00:17:54for a while there hasn't done it.

00:17:55We haven't seen him as much recently because our,

00:17:57our schedules aren't matching up as well.

00:17:59Every time we'd walk in,

00:18:01he would go and he changed the music that they,

00:18:04cause you know,

00:18:05all these businesses use their own pipe to music,

00:18:08whatever service they're using.

00:18:09And he would always select the Chicago channel.

00:18:12And every time we walked in,

00:18:12It was one of those cheesy Chicago songs from the second disc that I don't like. Yeah. Every time. And so Jen was like, thank you, Luis. And I'm like, yeah, thanks. Thanks, jerk. No, he's not a jerk. He's a good guy. I know, but I mean. No. Yeah. Yeah, really? Can't put one of my bands on? Where's the Rush Channel? They want to bring in business, not push them away. Yeah. Yeah. I actually, I wanted to challenge them because they have something on the wall that says Rush Hour, four to seven, and it's,

00:18:42these drink prices. And I'm like, I want to walk in and say, so you're playing Rush for these three hours. Right? I want to hear Rush for three hours. Yeah. During Rush Hour. No, it's during Rush Hour. I like that. It doesn't say while you're driving from Rush Hour. It just says Rush Hour. Anyway. So that's my first one. This is a band that I'm not really that big of a fan of, but I do like songs. And I decided to buy the largest collection I could find. Oh, and I don't know if we, I think TRU mentioned it. So I should also mention

00:19:13This came out in 2002. So this is covering basically from 1969 to 1995 in their collection. That's 22 albums. Wow. Yeah. It does have my songs in there. Probably has a lot of your stuff. But I prefer, like I said, the Terry Caviers with the guitarist from the band who died from a self-inflicted gun wound playing, I think, Russian who played, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong about that, but I think that's what he did. Oops. Yeah.

00:19:42Yeah, I like the Peter Cetera stuff because Barb is a big fan of the Peter Cetera stuff. However, the two songs that I like are the ones that I knew from way back when. I think I mentioned You're the Inspiration and my favorite, Hard Habit to Break. Remember listening to that on the radio. By the way, I should clarify, there's what I mean, I'm sure you guys know this too, the Peter Cetera years mean is that when he started to dominate vocally and the songs were

00:20:12what his solo career was like when he left. But he wrote a lot of the early stuff too. He was fully involved. Because I'm actually, this sounds like something that I would like, John, because again, I'm not like a big Chicago fan, but I've always kind of liked what they did. Like their hits were good. And I always felt, yeah, that's a cool band. But I never went and got any of their stuff, but I liked their hit songs.

00:20:41You would probably like this stuff. I probably would like that. Yeah. I gotta check it out because it does seem like it would be, you know, something I would enjoy because I do know all those songs you listed and, you know, and even some of the... I didn't even list those. I know. But I know them already without even having you to list them. Now, what I'd be curious about, though, is how many songs that I would recognize that were post, you know, 1986.

00:21:10That I don't know. You might know one or two. Maybe. I'd be kind of curious to see what's on that compilation from the latter part because I have to admit, you know, I didn't really follow them, so I didn't really know. And then Peter Cetera left at a certain point in the 80s to go on his solo career, right? Yeah, there were issues there too, I think, between the band. Okay. I think they, I don't know the full story, so it would be wrong for me to speculate, but I think that there probably were.

00:21:40some dynamic issues going on too. Okay. Yeah, because I think he left in, I want to say, 80. Yeah, he left in, he was there from 67 to 85. Okay. Yeah, which, you know, I don't know how much success they had after that. They are a touring machine. Yes. They tour roughly nine to ten months a year, every year since like the 1969, 70 period. They have never stopped touring. Wow.

00:22:11And that's not a joke. They literally never stop touring. And they've got, what number are they up to now on their albums? Every album that gets released is a number. Yeah. They're... Gotta be like 40-something probably, right? No. I don't know. Now Chicago came out in 2014 is XXXVI. 36. There you go. Wow. And they've got two more albums after that. And then their live albums get numbers too.

00:22:40Oh yeah. So they're close. They're closing on 40. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Compilations. I think also got numbers. It just, anytime they released an album, they just got a number. Yeah. So. All right. Good enough about Chicago. Unless you guys will have more to say about it. Nope. Nope. All right. So my first one, I'm sorry to take this one out of circulation so quickly into the podcast. I, but I think you guys will survive. This is an album that definitely.

00:23:10is all I need from the artist because it has everything. And I don't really know that I care for any of the deep tracks. And this is The Immaculate Collection by Madonna. I know. Hide your disappointment on not being able to do this one. Now I have to cross it off my list, George. I expect this will be a fairly quick topic, but... Don't you preach to us, Papa. Yeah, come on, Papa. Yeah, it's on there. I was a young lad.

00:23:40Like a Virgin came out and I got into Madonna just like a lot of people that at that time. So that song kind of resonated with you at that point in your life huh? Very much so. And she's just like me. Never thought of it that way. It's an identification thing you know. Wow she knows what it's like. You know Barb is a huge fan of Madonna. I've been to see Madonna

00:24:10And I gotta say, nobody tops her live. Nobody. Wow. Even Iron Maiden? Even Iron Maiden. Nobody tops Madonna. I'm Madonna, bitch. That's what she says. But I'm just gonna run through these because everything but the last song is a smash amazing song. Holiday. Lucky Star. Borderline. Like a virgin. One of my personal favorites, but not my favorite, Material Girl. Crazy for You.

00:24:40Into the Groove, You've Got to Prove, Your Love to Me, Live to Tell, love the synth on that one. Papa Don't Preach mentioned that one. Open Your Heart, it's a little, it's all right. But my favorite Madonna song for God knows what reason is La Isla Bonita. Because that song is, it is an earworm.

00:25:11Like a Prayer, another huge, massive one. Express Yourself, Cherish, Vogue, and Justify My Love. All of those that can't see what's happening right now. George just did a Vogue move. Who would have thought? The last song, I don't know, is called Rescue Me. I guess I never get that far. I think I know everything off that. Exactly. I might know Rescue. It's not by choice. That's the thing. You can't help but

00:25:40hear that stuff all of it exactly it's it doesn't even matter if you're a fan you know it

00:25:45yeah exactly you couldn't avoid her really you know from what 85 early no her first album yeah had to come

00:25:54out well 83 was the first album but she blew up in 84 yeah but wasn't borderline on the first album yes i

00:26:00mean it was a hit but it wasn't until like a virgin that she like went well that's true yeah that's true

00:26:05but i mean she got radio play even on the first album yeah the first three songs holiday lucky

00:26:10All that stuff was big. Yeah. I mean, I remember, you know, again, you couldn't avoid that stuff when it came out. And yeah, it's catchy. It's poppy. It's, you know, and of course she was a real character, right? I mean, she kind of, yeah, exactly. Like she kind of leveraged her popularity and, and she knew, you know, what, what the fans were, you know, into and what they were about. And even what, you know, non-fans probably were into and

00:26:40about. So, and so she knew all that, right? She was very conscious, I think, of her whole persona and what got put out there. And, you know, all her videos, you know, a number of her videos were very somewhat controversial. And I think she kind of liked pushing that, you know. Envelope. Yeah, exactly. And I think that, you know, she, I mean, certainly very savvy, right? Savvy. As a business person.

00:27:10And so yeah, I mean, while I probably wouldn't listen to any of that, like I can see why somebody would. I mean, it's certainly very poppy and catchy and, you know. I own the CD. Yeah. Thoughts, Chuck? For the sake of giving thoughts, sure. I know all the songs. I mean, how could you avoid them? Not a fan. I don't deny they're not catchy.

00:27:40And then there's earworms. Some are like burning flaming sticks jabbed in your head. But we all... That would be a burning jabbing stick just thrusted through your ear canal. Hot acid on the end. But no, I don't... There's only one band on planet Earth. I might question my friendship with somebody over. Oh, here we go.

00:28:09Steel Panther. Yeah, there it is. That's it. It's the only one. Yeah. You like something. That's your gig. Yeah. If you like Steel Panther, I can't know you. I have problems then. I mean, last night as a very quick sidebar, George TR and myself, along with Will from the Metalheads podcast and our good friend James from Decibel Magazine, went and saw Judas Priest. And I made a comment to James. He and I were, I was sitting

00:28:39and he was next to me and then the other guys were next to James and I made a comment

00:28:44during the band Sabaton the opening act we were commenting on them I'm not a fan of Sabaton however they are very professional on stage they're very cheesy for their power metal but they're obviously professional musicians they know how to entertain I loved that he could speak to the crowd so well he's yeah he was very good at it yeah yeah and I hope that the humility that he was displaying on stage is real

00:29:09because of it is that he sounds like he's a decent guy. Very much. And they're great musicians, actually, too. I mean, and the way he treated that family with the little kids and stuff was really amazing. I thought, you know, to just like to single that them out and give them, you know, his glasses and his little wristband or whatever. I thought that was really nice that like those people will never forget that. Yeah, sure. But I made a comment to him. I said, and I think he James was saying he was digging it because he was enjoying the cheese that came out of it. It's power.

00:29:39And if you know much about European power metal, there's a lot of cheese involved.

00:29:43It's a lot of gang vocals.

00:29:45Yes.

00:29:45A lot.

00:29:46And a lot of clapping and, you know, a lot of vocalizing.

00:29:52I'll sing this little vocal line, You Follow Me, which, of course, also happened during Judas Priest, which kind of annoyed me a little bit.

00:29:57But nonetheless, and I said, I'll tell you what, I'll take Sabaton any day of the week over seeing Steel Panther, which Judas Priest had them open.

00:30:07Right.

00:30:07for them on the Redeemer of Souls tour. And I was mad for that whole 40 minutes. It just pissed me off. I hate that band. I don't like to say that. I know they're great musicians. Those guys are very good musicians. I still hate that music. I can't stand it. And James and I had a very good talk about how he doesn't like them either. I can see him not liking them. No, but then it was funny because he liked Sabaton. He enjoyed the show, I should say. Yeah. He seemed surprised that I enjoyed it.

00:30:37Yeah, I knew that you like some of their stuff, or you enjoy some of the stuff like that, if it's well done. I remember when, I don't know if it was the first album, but Primo Victoria, at least an early album, it was a while ago, came out. And I was like, oh, this is kind of cool, because the vocals were kind of rough, and they reminded me of Running Wild, which is a German metal band that I'm a big fan of. So I got into it, but I never really was like, oh my god, I love this band, and you know, follow everything. But I do like them.

00:31:07Yeah. No, they were entertaining. I mean, I had nothing against them at all. I just, I'm not a fan of style music. Anyway, my point of bringing this up was, and I deviated a little longer than I thought I would, is that Steel Panther is literally the only band. If you came to me and said, this is a great band and they make great music, I'd be like, I have to question all the other musical choices. I don't like hair metal. I've never shied away from that and I never, ever will. Anyway. All right. Let's go back to TR again then.

00:31:37All right. Well, this is another band from the 70s that I remember hearing their music as a young wee lad. And, you know, it really wasn't kind of a big leap to get this. And this is Eagles, their greatest hits, 71 to 75. And I can see by John's reaction that he probably would have preferred that I said that I'd like Steel Panther.

00:32:05But this album is a compilation of parts of their first four albums. And it's got all the hits that you would probably know from their early period. Take it easy, witchy woman, lion eyes, already gone, desperado, one of these nights, tequila sunrise, take it to the limit, peaceful, easy feeling and best of my love. And as a young lad, you know, these were songs that I recalled hearing on the radio.

00:32:35And I kind of liked them at this time. I liked probably Hotel California and, you know. The long run. Yeah, the long run a little more because, you know, once Joe Walsh was in the band, it was a much better band. This is the correct answer. Because, you know, he just kind of brought just like a cool rock and dimension that they didn't have prior to that. He's an ordinary average guy. He is. Nice.

00:33:04So anyway, again, this is kind of an unremarkable anthology, but I did like early Eagles at this time when I was young, and so I picked it up. I gotta stop you, Tare. I'm sorry. Did you say unremarkable? What? This compilation is unremarkable? Yeah, compared to maybe, yeah, compared to like... It's one of the greatest selling albums in the history of music. It's like number two, I think. Wow.

00:33:34Okay. So maybe it's not unremarkable, but I mean, I mean, everybody knows it is, I guess what my point was. It's common. It's common. Yeah. Rather than unremarkable. Yeah. Right. Very remarkable. Yeah. Sales. Yeah. True. Right. No, I guess my point was more that everybody probably knows this and has it. So anyway, that's my number four. Right on. That was on my honorables. So now it has been scratched. My head is sinking further by the minute. Yeah.

00:34:04Lift Up Your Head, little camper, and give us your next one. That's great, guys. Like this. Just something about this era of the band I just don't like. I agree. When Joe Walsh got in the band, I do like those albums. I can listen to those albums. The three-guitar flair I thought was really cool that they did. They were the original three guitarists for our big rock band. I'm just not a fan of Don Henley, although I like, what is it, Building the Beast, that solo album? Yeah. I always thought that was a great album. So, T.R.,

00:34:34I'm not knocking you for liking this at all. Trust me. I'm not. And neither you, George, for having it on your list. There's just one of those bands for me. But you're from California, man. Like, that's the problem, man. I like the later period stuff myself. But this does not surprise me it's on one of your guys' lists because you just named off, I think there's 10 songs on it. Or is there 11? 9, 10, 11. 11. Yeah. 10 of those 11 songs.

00:35:04are like gold. Yeah. Number one hits are, you know, way up there. Yeah. Think about that. I totally get it. It's just, I'm not a fan. And I'm also still mad that they canceled the show that I was going to take Gen 2 here in D.C. and said they couldn't play D.C. but then they booked the show that night for a different city and that kind of pissed me off. Yeah. Wow. It's never a super fan of how they handled the politics in the band Don Henley and Glenn Fry either. But who am I? What do I know?

00:35:34I have to, you know, the funny thing about this is I haven't, I haven't actually listened to this in many years. Like, I think mostly because, I mean, the funny thing is, is I own this. And a lot of these, like we talked about, like when you're in the record club and you got to pick a, you know, you got to pick something. You're down the line and you got to get it. Yeah. And you got it. Right. Exactly. So it's okay. What am I going to get? What am I going to fill? I got to finalize this order. I got to finalize this to get my, you know, freaking penny's worth here.

00:36:04And so it was like one of the, a lot of these are like that, right? I was in the club. You have to get something, you throw it in. And it's like, yeah, this is good. And so what that means in case anyone is, Oh, go ahead. There's plenty of people that probably don't know. Go ahead. What that means is it's 10 CDs for a penny. And you're like, Oh man, I'm going to stock up on my Judas Priest collection. And he realized, Oh crap. I still got to get two more albums where I can't get these eight Judas Priest.

00:36:35I'm exaggerating. And that's what happens. And the other thing too was like, I think it was like every month they would send you something unless you picked something. Yes, you had to put, you still had to send it in the mail. Yeah, you still had to pick something or you'd get something that you maybe didn't even want. You didn't have to pick something. You could send back and say, no, thank you this month. How many times did you do that though? Because you had three years or something.

00:37:04to do it, your obligations, as long as you were within that period. And I don't know, they might've had some sort of, if you declined three in a row, something happens. I don't know, but you did have the option of saying, get something else. I just remember, okay, I got to pick something here. I don't know if it was part of the, how do I squeeze 10 things into this penny? Or if it was a monthly obligation, I got to pick something. So it's, oh yeah, I like all these songs. So yeah, let me pick this. And the fact is, we've all heard these songs so many times.

00:37:34that there's no reason to own them. Because, you know, you just hear them naturally, like on the radio or, you know, elsewhere. So the truth is, you know, some of these like my Steve Miller band, I honestly haven't listened to that in decades. And this Eagles thing, I haven't listened to that in decades. So, yeah, even though it's like my number four. It's a really good pick, even though I'm poking fun, it is. And by the way, both of those

00:38:04you've mentioned so far had iconic album covers and what i mean by that is not that they

00:38:09necessarily were some amazing work of art they were so recognizable anytime you could be

00:38:17everybody in the 70s had yes and you could be late 70s you know yeah everybody like this was in

00:38:24everybody's collection and you saw this in everybody's house you went yeah anybody that was your buddy

00:38:30that had music. You'd go in and they had these records. If you had it, if you had, if you guys had it in the background on the, on, while we're zooming that I would immediately know what it is. It's that recognizable. And again, nothing super artistic. It's just, yeah. The art design was so well done. Yeah, exactly. Very iconic. So anyway, I will give them due credit though on that album. The harmonies are amazing. Yes. Just not a fan of the song.

00:39:00That's all. Okay. All right. So my next album, I'm sorry to go with another one. That's probably, you know, you're chomping at the bit to talk about, but this is the album that actually inspired this theme for me because I really love this guy. And, but some of his albums, he's only got like one or two songs that I dig. Anywho, this is genius. The best of Warren Zevon.

00:39:31I don't know if you guys listen to him at all but this

00:39:34he's the werewolf of London right yes he has two maybe three songs that people are familiar with

00:39:41and the lawyer song right lawyers guns and money werewolves of London and they play it on the radio so maybe people know it excitable boy or if you're really cool rolling the headless Thompson gunner but this genius the best of Warren Zevon is packed full of 20

00:40:00two tracks and I would say most of those I absolutely love and so because of that I'm going to make you sit through me talking about all these yeah I don't necessarily talk about about a list them the first four songs are off of his self-titled first album you've got poor poor pitiful me the French inhaler Carmelita and hasten down the wind all really good you know mid-70s Warren's Yvonne stuff

00:40:30But then, in 78, he put out Excitable Boy, which has the four songs that I actually just mentioned. Werewolves of London, Rolling the Headless Thompson Gunner, Excitable Boy, and Lawyer's Guns and Money. Hands down his biggest album. And I absolutely love those songs. Rolling the Headless Thompson Gunner is probably one of my favorite songs by him. Then we move on to two songs from Bad Luck Streak and Dancing School. We've got Play It All Night Long. That's another good one.

00:41:00A Certain Girl. That one took a little, but I kind of dig that one too. From The Envoy in 1982, it has Looking for the Next Best Thing. Catchy tune. Sentimental Hygiene in 1987 has three songs represented. Detox Mansion. It's kind of a social commentary song. A Reconsider Me. Great ballady kind of song. Boom Boom Mancini is a boxing song. Then we've got one song from 1989's Transverse City,

00:41:29which is absolutely beautiful song and i highly recommend checking it out next we have you know i didn't realize this until a couple days ago actually while i was looking at warren zivon he did an album with members of rem under the name hindu love gods oh i actually remember that but i didn't know that's who was in it i didn't either i was like oh yeah i've heard of hindu love gods and they did a

00:41:59of Princess Raspberry Beret, which is awesome with him singing, with Warren singing. Next up is Searching for a Heart. Nah, it's all right. Things to Do in Denver Where You're Dead is an amusing little song off of Mr. Bad Example. And then we have the song Mr. Bad Example, which is freaking hilarious. This is his like tongue-in-cheek satire amped up to 12, even more than 11. You got to hear this song. It's awesome. We've got three more songs.

00:42:29from 1995's Mutineer, the title track Mutineer. It's another pretty ballady song. Life Will Kill Ya in 2000, I Was in the House When the House Burned Down. It's a bit of a rocker. And then the closing track from My Rides Here in 2002, Genius, which of course titles the compilation. You know, I got into Warren Zevon the last few years of his life. He passed away in 2003, I believe it was, from cancer. Far too young, I think he was 56.

00:42:58But in the several years prior to him passing, I got into him somehow. And this collection just absolutely blew me away. And while I dig the deeper tracks on his albums, this is still what I reach for most of the time because I can just put this on and plow through the whole thing with glee. So I don't know if either of you have ever listened to him before, but if you haven't, I think you should. Yeah, I can't say I know more than the four tracks that, you know, the big hits.

00:43:28Everybody kind of knows.

00:43:32But yeah, I mean, that's a pretty ringing endorsement, George.

00:43:36So probably bears more listening.

00:43:39I just, I don't know.

00:43:40I never, he seemed kind of like a, I don't want to say like a novelty act, but you know, some of the, the subject matter of his songs kind of seemed kind of novelty style.

00:43:52I mean, you know, when you talk about werewolves of London, but yeah, but it's,

00:43:58He's got good social commentary. He's making, I don't know, making light of it, I guess. And I don't know, maybe Lawyers, Guns, and Money kind of goes in that same category because it's all about, oh, I'm in trouble and I need help. Yeah. Right. And I never got past that, but it sounds like if you do, there's a whole other thing waiting for you there when you get in. Listen to Splendid Isolation and then talk to me.

00:44:28Okay. Jan? I don't know anything about him other than a couple of songs, to be honest with you, and I never ventured to listen to him at all. I think you got some homework now. Probably. I mean, he had the whole singer-songwriter kind of heartland thing going on, a little bit of the folk. I mean, he kind of mixed a lot of things together in some genres that or areas that I just was never a big fan of. Rock music? Yeah.

00:44:58But he does have the singer-songwriter. I know that's a very wide umbrella, but he has that vibe to his style. Yeah. You know, that he could, if he had to sit there with a piano or guitar, acoustic guitar, he could do that himself. I mean, so, at least I'm, that's how I perceived him, you know, all along. So, I'm not opposed to checking him out. I just never really, I know the name. Yeah. I know the songs that come on. I'm the same way, John. Like, I never felt compelled.

00:45:29to delve in anymore.

00:45:31And I'm not opposed to delving in either.

00:45:33I compel you.

00:45:34You don't have to compel me.

00:45:35You'd have to do that with Madonna.

00:45:38Oh, wait, I already know all those songs.

00:45:39I don't have to do it.

00:45:41That's right.

00:45:41Jeez.

00:45:43No, this is a good pick.

00:45:44This is something that I would expect.

00:45:48All right, let's move on to number three from TR.

00:45:51John hasn't done number two yet.

00:45:54Wait, what?

00:45:55Did we skip you?

00:45:56Yes, you did.

00:45:58I guess I gotta edit that just go out of order and I'll go again after TR it's fine

00:46:03nothing anything it's all right you guys are gonna probably like mine anyway so

00:46:10wow yeah all right it's never happened before so um my number two is a band that I discovered via MTV

00:46:20and because of one song I which I always liked and all my friends were it sounds okay but I don't know if I

00:46:25I like the band. I ended up kind of liking them, even though I didn't really have anything by them. But you guys know most of their songs that were radio friendly. Some you probably are sick of because I know I am. But I ended up getting this collection because it covered almost 20 years of their career at the time. And I've since I had one out. I take it back. I did have one of their releases and I bought the compilation and went back and bought another. So this is one of those bands where I have just a

00:46:55a couple albums and I have a big compilation and the band is in excess and the oh yeah

00:47:03compilation is shine like it does the anthology 79 to 97. I first heard them with the song the one thing and I always like that song for some reason I heard that on the on the radio coming back last night from the show yeah there was something about the first of all the video was kind of like a tamed down version of gluttony and excessiveness

00:47:25because they're at the party and they're all eating and I always thought it was kind of cool that that cat was walking on the table during the video while they're eating and I always kind of dug his twangy western guitar sound on that now they're from Australia you say oh they wouldn't have that well you do know there's a little something called the Outback so it kind of I kind of dug it because it had an Americanized vibe but it was very Australian the sound yeah and I always liked that about them and if we'll were here

00:47:55B.B., like, shut the hell up. But I always dug that they used sax in a rock way, but not like Bruce Springsteen. They did it different. It still sounded different. And so I've always been a fan. And then the album Kick came out, which is like a behemoth for them. And I love every song on that album. I don't care how many times they've been played on the radio. I loved every song. Love and excess. Yeah, this is good to hear. I'm happy. I wasn't sure. And this is part of my 80s stuff. This is one of the 80s synthies.

00:48:25Bands, Poppy Bands, but they're a rock band too that I liked a lot from the very beginning. So this compilation, again, I'm not going to mention everything because there's 42 songs on this thing. Oh my gosh. Yes. It's really well worth it. I should say I have the album Shabu Shabu, not Shabu Shabah, which is I always get hung up on that, which came out in 82 and I have Kick. I never got Listen Like Thieves, but all the songs

00:48:55I want from that album are on this compilation. So especially the song This Time, which I absolutely love that song. But there's other songs on here that I love from The Swing. I'm sure you guys have heard I Send a Message or Original Sin. Yeah, I remember that. Which were very synthy pop, you know. It wasn't until Listen Like Thieves got a little more 80s sounding, if you know what I mean by that, with the big drums sound. But it includes everything, like I said, This Time, What You Need, Listen Like Thieves.

00:49:27I mentioned Kick. They surprisingly took six songs off of Kick out of 11. You could have put all 11 on there, to be honest with you. But you know the songs Need You Tonight, Devil Inside. I always loved New Sensation. I don't know what it was about that song, but I always thought it was just a great rock song. New Sensation. Never Tear Us Apart, always kind of like, eh, man. I love that song. But it's a really good song, though. It is. But then there's other great, like, deeper tracks on the album that they actually put on, like Mystify and Kick. Oh, yeah. Mystify was a good song.

00:49:55It's a good tune. Yeah. And it's crazy how they didn't include the opening trap, Guns in the Sky, Song Mediate, The Loved One, Wildlife. Those are all great songs. So I know it just continues on with albums like Wherever, Welcome to Wherever You Are, which had Heaven Sent, Not Enough Time, Taste a Beautiful Girl. Those were huge songs for them after that. You know, there's just a lot. And so if you're looking for an excess collection that has a ton of music,

00:50:25And it covers all of Michael Hutchinson's career. That's the other thing, too. And I know they've tried to continue on and they've... I'm not going to say they're a shell of themselves. They're just not as popular anymore because no one wants to consider the band, even though it's five other guys. Yeah. And I believe it's all the same guys, isn't it? Have they... As far as I know. Aren't there some brothers? Yeah. Three of them, I think. Is it the Ferris brothers or two at least? Yeah. That's right. And so it's the same guys. It's just they've had to get new singers.

00:50:55They have to continue. They weren't obligated to. Their career alone at that point was top flight. But I have no qualms of them continuing. They have every right to continue. Queen did. They have every right to do whatever they want. It's their band. Yeah. Or Stone Table Pilots. People bitch about that, but whatever. Don't listen. I think it's a great anthology, personally. Yeah. Totally agree. Yeah, I have to admit, again, this is a band.

00:51:25where I'm familiar with the hits. I like the hits, but I never felt compelled to get any of their stuff that much. I think because they were kind of synthy in some ways, even though like they were guitar driven in a lot of ways too. You know, there are a lot of cool riffs. Yeah. So, you know, they definitely had guitar riffs, but I think, you know,

00:51:55maybe the that 80s kind of synth stuff kind of might have you know gotten in the way a little bit and that was at a time too when you were anti-synth yeah i was like yeah i don't like any of this stuff and i don't want to hear any of this and you know all those bands that were kind of new wavy i just didn't want any part of and and so you know and i think you know a little bit to my detriment just because i kind of you know ruled out some stuff just

00:52:25out of hand. Yeah, I did too. When really, if I had kind of given them more of a chance, I probably would have liked them a little bit. But this is the one that slipped through the cracks for me that I liked right from the start. I would suggest if you are interested, this would be the place to go for you to sample through. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. In the eighties, I was a very anti in excess YouTube person. And ironically, I have now done a 180 and I'm a huge fan of both bands. That's funny.

00:52:55Yeah. See, I actually liked U2 early on. Yes. Before they became quote-unquote U2. If you know, if you can read through the lines here, those first three albums are cool and obviously Unforgettable Fire. Then they became U2. Yeah. The juggernaut. So. Josh. There's still cool stuff after that, but my, yeah. I agree. Early stuff. Yeah, I love that stuff too, John. I just love it.

00:53:25stuff is. So, George, you were never into war? No, I was. I know that has New Year's Day and Sunday Bloody Sunday, right? Two Hearts Beat is one. I mean, it was a very edgy sound. But Joshua Tree is what? Is that your jam? No, I mean, actually, I like Octung Baby Best, but Joshua Tree was the album that blew them up like ridiculous. Yes. Yeah. When they got on the cover of Time Magazine, I was like, in a time

00:53:55When time did not put rock bands on their magazine, that's kind of like when you knew. That's when they got global icon status, but actually Unforgettable Fire, they did blow up then. They went from playing venues to playing stadiums and arenas. True. The nail in the, not their coffin, but the nail of it was, yes, Joshua Tree solidified it completely at that point. But I remember when I saw them at the Civic Center in San Francisco,

00:54:24and it held like 8,000 people. And I got lucky and got tickets. And I was like literally 10 feet in front of Adam Clayton the whole night. The next time they came to San Francisco, they sold out arenas like in an hour. I mean, it blew up that fast. And then obviously Joshua Tree and now they're playing world tours where they're selling out bigger than arenas and stadiums. Live Aid probably helped with that.

00:54:53or their involvement in anything like that, those type of, you know, they were, Bono was in We Are the World, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah, I believe. Or is he also in the other one, the original one, Feed the Children? Oh, yeah. Actually, I think it's that one. I don't know if he was on We Are the World. Yeah, it was one of the two he was involved with. Anyway. Yeah, because I just watched the We Are the World documentary thing with Lana Ritchie, and I don't recall Bono being in that. I don't remember seeing him. Could be wrong, I just don't remember. Yeah.

00:55:24Cool. Now, TR, you can do number three. Yeah, but before you do, if you like U2 and want to know more, they also have a best of that you should check out. I don't remember the name of it, but there's one. Two best ofs, right? Like the early stuff and the later stuff, right? Probably, yeah. All right. So my number three is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits. Oh, yeah. Wow. And I got to say, this album is packed.

00:55:53with really good songs.

00:55:56And not just Tom Petty and the heartbreakers.

00:55:58It's also got some of Tom Petty solo stuff as well.

00:56:02And this is another one that was part of the club.

00:56:06And I never really got any of Tom Petty's albums.

00:56:10Actually,

00:56:10no,

00:56:10I have wildflowers,

00:56:12but,

00:56:12or,

00:56:13you know,

00:56:13what's the one full moon fever,

00:56:15full moon fever.

00:56:16Yeah.

00:56:16And you've got it.

00:56:17So that's the first one you got it.

00:56:19Yeah.

00:56:20I mean,

00:56:20I always liked his earlier stuff,

00:56:23But I never bought any of it. I don't know why. I don't know why I wasn't, you know, wasn't compelled to go get any of his albums. But I never did. And when I, you know, got kind of pressed into it in the club, I got this CD. And there's a lot of great stuff on here. Oh, yeah. American Girl, Breakdown, Listen to Her Heart, I Need to Know, Refugee, Don't Do Me Like That, Even the Losers, great tune.

00:56:52Here comes my girl, the waiting. Waiting. Awesome. Yeah. You got lucky. Yeah. Don't come around here no more. I won't back down, running down a dream, free falling, learning to fly into the great wide open, Mary Jane's last dance and something in the air. Did you mention a woman in love? Is that not on there? It's not. That is not on there. How is that not on there? Yeah. I don't like this compilation anymore. Yeah. Just going to have to buy the whole albums. Yeah. But yeah.

00:57:22It's got pretty much almost everything that you'd want to hear from him. And so, yeah, this is my number three. Wow. I was eyeing it. Almost everything, because I'm actually somewhat surprised The Woman in Love is not on there, because when that came out, along with The Waiting off of that album, Hard Promises, I was a super fan of those songs. Now, I, like you, I never bought anything. I did go back years later and say, okay, I literally know everything. Why don't I have this?

00:57:52And why am I not buying it? And I never did. I don't know why still this day. Yeah. It's weird. I'm a bigger fan probably of his earlier stuff. So probably the first four albums. Was it Long After Dark? That was all the MTV stuff, wasn't it? You Got Lucky, I think, was on that. That was a huge, is that the sci-fi kind of? Yeah, right. Where they're like driving around in a space pod.

00:58:22thing or whatever. It's like their scaled down version of Tom Petty and the Road Warriors kind of thing. Exactly. But it was. And while I was, I could never hear Refugee again, and I wouldn't care, because it's his Stairway to Heaven, basically. It's still a great song. I mean, yeah, that's a good, that's a very good one. I like this one. Yeah, Full Moon Fever was my first album by him, too, but mainly because I'd always liked stuff I'd heard. But at this point in time, I was 80s,

00:58:52to the hilt.

00:58:54And I wasn't going to go buy a stupid Tom Petty.

00:58:56Oh, geez.

00:58:57And by the time Full Moon Fever came out, I was open to picking up other things.

00:59:02And so I got that.

00:59:03And I was like, this is awesome.

00:59:06I'll be honest with you, George.

00:59:07I think the three years difference in age actually plays a part.

00:59:12Because TR and I were hearing this stuff when we were probably, because his first time was what, 76, I think?

00:59:18Yeah, 76.

00:59:19So we were getting that when we were

00:59:229, 10, 11.

00:59:23We were hearing those songs on the radio.

00:59:25It's hard to imagine

00:59:27American Girl, which sounds like an 80s song,

00:59:29was released in the mid-70s.

00:59:32It's hard to think that.

00:59:34It doesn't make sense.

00:59:36But yeah, because I think, George,

00:59:38when you got into Metalist King at that time,

00:59:41and I could see where this would slip through the cracks.

00:59:44Yeah, it's had to hear stuff, but...

00:59:46Yeah.

00:59:47And now, also, it should be noted, the guitarist in his band is freaking awesome. Mike Campbell? Mike Campbell's freaking awesome. Absolutely. He is so good, technically. I mean, I'm not even a guitar player. Even as a songwriter, he wrote a lot of songs. He contributed to many of these songs. And he's a decent backup singer. He's not bad. Always liked him. Do you know the story about Ben Monttanch? Oh, yeah.

01:00:17He's the keyboard player. And he wrote

01:00:19The Boys of Summer for Tom Petty.

01:00:22Ah, yes.

01:00:23And Tom Petty passed.

01:00:25Yeah.

01:00:25And so it went to Don Henley, which of course made it a huge hit.

01:00:29Yeah.

01:00:29Well, and that's funny because he also has his own story of a song that he wrote

01:00:35that he passed along to somebody else that became one of their big hits, although he

01:00:39still credited on the song title, which is Stop Dragging My Heart.

01:00:43Yep.

01:00:44Stevie Nicks.

01:00:45That's actually his song.

01:00:46Everyone thinks it's her song. I know he gave it to her. Right, but a lot of people, most people who don't know the history, don't dig that deep, automatically think it's her and that he's just on it with her. Right. No, they happen to be in their studio at the same time, roughly, and she needed something. And I'll be honest, while it would have sounded great as a song on one of his albums, there is a certain kind of flair with both of them singing it. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. It adds to the drama of the lyrics.

01:01:16Yeah, it does. It definitely does. So, yeah. Trivia question. Who knows the band name that was previous to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Yeah, there you go. Cool. Cool. All right. So am I going again then to get us back in order? I think so. Okay. I'm going to try to keep this one short because it's two compilations I have for this artist to cover that much ground. But I'll,

01:01:46I won't belabor it. And the reason I have this is because it literally, I mean, I think I have over 70 songs or something from this band. And that is the Kinks. Greatest Hits, 70 to 86, which is when I got my start with them. And then there's the Essential Kinks, which covers a lot of ground before that. They really have, you know, across their history is a vast sound difference.

01:02:16from the beginning to where they ended up. Yes, they do. Yes. And there's so much good stuff from each of those periods. Yes. It's so the greatest hits collection, 70 to 76, which I think is actually two greatest hits collections merged together, which I believe it's the King's greatest celluloid heroes, which came out in, I think, 76. And then the come dancing with the King switch covered from 77 to 86. So it's like a,

01:02:46All these compilations just all mixed together. Wow. And the reason I got these is because I got an album in the early 80s on tape, mind you. Let me get the right title for this. I thought I had it here, and now I don't see it. I apologize. It might be in my second page or this is a very bad performance on my part. They released a live album that came out, and I'll get it here in a second. And it had all these amazing versions of their songs.

01:03:16their famous live version of Lola on there, which you've heard a million times in the radio, but everything that you know, you really got me all day and all the night. But then I had all these other songs that came out in the 70s, like low budget. And I wish I could fly like Superman and catch me now I'm falling. And I was just like, what is this stuff? And it was on a live album. And then I picked up two more tapes, which this is the band that I started out with tapes on cassettes. And that was give the people what they want, which is not a very good album.

01:03:46But I do like the song Destroyer a lot. Yeah. You know, and it's such a punky song too. And then they released State of Confusion, which I thought was actually a better album, although got panned more than give to people what they want. But they have all these amazing songs. And so I got this compilation to get the actual studio versions and to get a lot of stuff I didn't have. And then I was like, shit, there's all this 60s stuff.

01:04:15I don't have. And that's when I got the second one, the Essential Kinks. And I'm not listening to these tracks, most of them, because there's 36 on the first compilation I mentioned and 48 on the next. Oh my gosh. Yes. And I figured. Just the highlights. Yeah, I figured I could get the albums, but it's a lot of work. And I, if you guys, if I haven't mentioned, maybe you've heard me say this, I don't buy a lot of new music from bands that have a lot of albums that I haven't discovered because I'm a

01:04:45I'm going to go through that whole catalog.

01:04:48You know, and I just feel like it's too much work.

01:04:50But some of the songs, like I mentioned, that are my favorites.

01:04:53Destroyer.

01:04:54There's a song called Do It Again, which I always thought was a great song.

01:04:57The Hard Way.

01:04:58Like I said, Catch Me Now, Fallen, Low Budget Picture Book.

01:05:01It's a great song from the 60s.

01:05:04Tired of Waiting for You.

01:05:06Lola, All Day and All Night.

01:05:07You Really Got Me.

01:05:09Where Have All the Good Times Gone.

01:05:10I mean, literally, Van Halen was covering all their songs.

01:05:12I didn't realize that where all the good times

01:05:15gone was a kink song I didn't know that

01:05:17yeah I just knew it from Diver Down

01:05:19yeah that's what's so funny

01:05:21I mean I think

01:05:23Eddie had a real appreciation

01:05:25for the punky edginess

01:05:27of their rock

01:05:29they weren't a punk band but

01:05:31they sure should have been

01:05:33because they had that attitude

01:05:35without

01:05:37the image

01:05:40when the Sex Pistols

01:05:41came out and bands like that and the Ramones and there are a few others Susie and the Banshees were they originally kind of a punky band yes I can't remember their look was their actual look it was six months later as they they say what didn't take that long where everyone wanted to look the clash to they wanted to look like the bands that just look that way and that's when it changed so the kinks had a lot of that attitude but they

01:06:11like the Beatles. Yeah. Right. And the Stones, they all had these thin neckties and black suits. Uh-huh. And I love going back to this stuff. And I think the kinks get forgotten a lot. And they really should be in the conversation with the Beatles and the Stones as significantly important, not good, significantly important bands. It's too bad they're the original Oasis Brothers. Yeah. Yeah. Sadly. Or the original, what are the brothers?

01:06:41from Gallagher. The Gallagher brothers. That's the Oasis brothers. No, the guys from Black Rose. Thank you. Robinson brothers. The Robinson brothers. Yeah. Those guys are all just stealing the kinks material there. They're even stealing the fights. Oi! Let's be like the kinks. I'll hate you today. You hate me tomorrow. All right. Let's punch. Yeah. And then there's the Fogarty brothers too from CCR. Yeah. Anyway, if you don't know much about the kinks,

01:07:11These are actually two great places to start because there's so many songs. I know. I'm like, man, I need to go back and do a deep dive because I know all the hits, but I, you know, I've got all this stuff. I just need to go back and listen to it. And I really do. I don't know how much of the live album was tinkered with, but it's, it sounds awesome. It's, and it's got the pink cover. It's, you can't mistake that album cover. Yeah. I remember that from, from Columbia house, you know, seeing that all over the page. Yeah. Anyway. All right.

01:07:41I'm definitely going to go back and do a deep dive on these guys. I'd put it on my list with Steve Miller and a few others. All right. So my next one, this is where I start to get into the heavy hitters that I know you know, and I would hope you like. And from, you know, we haven't done, or at least I haven't yet, a release on. This was released in November of 1974. And it's got some amazing songs on there. There are some songs that have come after this that I love even more.

01:08:11more, but Elton John's greatest hits is a stone cold classic. At the piano? Were you sitting in the white suit? Is that the album cover? Yes. Yes. I had that when I was a kid. Yes. Yeah. I know I have this on cassette somewhere. And other than there's one song that I actually, I'm looking at this and I'm like, I don't remember that one. I probably know it by melody, but, but everything else on here is classic. You can't even touch it. Your song.

01:08:42Daniel,

01:08:43my brother,

01:08:44honky cat,

01:08:46honky cat,

01:08:48a little funky.

01:08:49The name of his farewell tour.

01:08:51Goodbye,

01:08:52yellow brick road.

01:08:53I mean,

01:08:53that you just can't have a better song than that.

01:08:56Yeah.

01:08:56Saturday nights.

01:08:57All right for fighting.

01:08:58That's a great rock song and covered by flotsam and jetsam in the eighties.

01:09:02Rocket man.

01:09:03Come on.

01:09:03They named the movie after this one.

01:09:06I think it's going to be a long,

01:09:06long time.

01:09:07That is a classic.

01:09:09Benny and the Jets is one that took me a while to get into. Back in the day is a little too funky for me, but Benny and the Jets. Yeah. You know, it's good. Is that the only recording that kind of live sounding version of it? I don't think he ever did a studio version, did he? It's from Goodby, Yellowbrook Road. Right. But I swear. Or did they add the content to it? Yeah. There's like almost like audience sounds or something. Yeah. Like it sounds kind of live-ish, but yeah. He starts. I think that was really.

01:09:40That was part of the actual recording. I don't think that was really a, you know, that didn't come from a live performance. I don't know. While you keep going, George, I need to look it up now because I always kind of wondered about that. And after, sorry, I gotta go back page two. After that, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me. Huge song. Huge. Yeah. Then Border Song. Do you know that one? I feel like I know the title, but it's just not ringing a bell.

01:10:09to me. Oh, you know it. I'm sure I do. Yeah. And then Crocodile Rock. Even my mom knows that one and loves that one. That's the one that I didn't like. I mean, how much? That's so funny. That you don't like? I'm not a fan, but it's a spectacular album compilation. Yeah, no, I mean, he did it live when we saw him last year, and it was awesome. But my favorite Elton John song is not on here, and that is a little more into the 80s, and that is, I guess that's why they call it the blues. That was his big, wasn't that?

01:10:39his big comeback song at the time not probably but yeah kind of he thrust himself back in the spotlight yeah that was about the same time as sad songs say so much maybe thanks kind of in that time frame all i know is it was a school bus song barbara and i talk about this we have school bus songs and for her skating rink songs i never went to a skating rink in my life except for what i did went to an ice skating rink with her i don't know 10 15 years ago but i

01:11:23I had some albums.

01:11:39And I had that one, George. I listened to it all the time. Nice. So it's a great choice. You guys are correct. And we've confirmed. Yeah, it was a studio recording of Benny and the Jet State added the live effect to give it that feel. And then Judas Priest said, yeah, that's a great idea. We ought to do that. Okay. Rob went back and sang all his parts. The rest of the stuff is from the recording, but it's a good one. I mean, and there's tons of songs missing on that album. That's what's crazy.

01:12:09Yeah. So like where's burn down the mission? Hello folks. Yeah. That's a good one, George. I definitely remember all those songs from the seventies and hearing them all the time and being familiar with them. And I remember, you know, as a kid also really liking that stuff. But again, it was another one where I never got any of it. I listened to it. I was familiar with it, but I just never bought any of it. And so I can, you know, certainly see how it was.

01:12:39this would be a great way to capture all that in one go yeah by the way there's another song that's not on there that absolutely blew up in the 80s that was off of goodbye yellow brick road candle in the wind yeah yeah now i bet they're huh have we put that on there too yeah i don't know that it would have sold you know would it have sold another million copies or whatever i mean i'm sure it sold millions and millions right

01:13:09That song, because he, did he replay, or re-imagined it for Princess Diana? Yeah. And it just absolutely blew up. It did. I mean, I don't think we can even emphasize how big that was when that happened. Yeah. That's a good one. All right, back to TR for number four. All right. And in my countdown, this is actually number two. Excuse-moi. Because I'm going backwards here.

01:13:39And this is the one that I'm sure you guys have been waiting for. It is, released in 1992, The Essential Michael Schenker Group. I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah, it is. Isn't it all essential? Yeah. Is it essential if you have every album? Here's the thing. At the time, I didn't. And this was my gateway into Michael Schenker Group. So this basically has

01:14:09selections from their first four albums Michael Shanker Group, MSG, Assault Attack, and Built to Destroy. With I guess a little bit it's a little more front-loaded because you know with every successive album I think you know it kind of got where maybe there were less and less tracks that were really you know of the same epic quality because those first two albums were really good and I like Assault Attack because it's got Graham

01:14:40But yeah, Armed and Ready, Cry for the Nations, Bijou, Pleasureette, Into the Arena, Attack the Mad Axeman, on and on, Never Trust a Stranger, Assault Attack, Rocky to the Ground, Samurai, Desert Song, Captain Nemo, Rock Will Never Die, Still Love That Little Devil, and Don't Take It Out on Me. This was kind of my introduction into Michael Schenker Group, and it really kind of opened the door for me to go to the

01:15:09find his stuff and get more into his solo albums. And this was a really a good way to get the best of from that period. And yeah, I really like it. It's got pretty much most everything that you'd want from that time frame. I feel like for the most part, they grab the right tracks from all those records. I'd probably, I don't know, I don't know that I'd really, Built to Destroy didn't really do a lot for me.

01:15:39There's not a lot that I would really have selected other than what they've got here. But yeah, this is one of my favorites. So I'm a little surprised. I mean, were you a UFO fan before this? So actually, you know, the funny thing is, well, I kind of know the answer is no to that. I mean, obviously I knew UFO tracks and I liked, you know, some of their songs, but I, you may be surprised to learn. I don't own anything other than Strange

01:16:09in the night. Do you need anything else? Yeah, I don't think you do because that's pretty much the best. That's their best of right there, really. And did you get like the whole expanded thing with all the different shows from that tour? So trust me, I really debated about, you know, going and getting that. But I think I can't remember what they wanted for that. But it was crazy. Yeah, it was. You're almost better off just getting it digitally because then at least you can get what you want. But OK, not to interrupt. I just I was thinking when you are saying this, I'm like, wait a minute. Did he?

01:16:39stumble into Shanker in the early 90s for everything? Oh, no. What I would say, though, is I actually, I'm trying to remember now. I, you know, obviously I knew who he was, right? I mean, I knew that he had been a part of the Scorpions on their first album and then also on Love Drive when they, when, you know, he did Coast to Coast with them and some of the other tracks. And I knew that, you know, he had his UFOs

01:17:09career and I knew, you know, some of the hits from that. And I knew that he had his own solo career and then Macaulay Shanker and some of the stuff he did in the late 80s, which, you know, I really didn't get into that as much because I, you know, I was more into the 70s stuff that he did. The stuff that didn't suck. Yeah, exactly. And, and, but I kind of got a renewed interest in him in the mid 90s when he rejoined UFO, went on tour with them.

01:17:39briefly. Like he wasn't even, it didn't even last a year. I don't think if I recall. And he had just released at that time, an album, a solo album called Thank You, which is just him and his like an ovation style guitar, like an acoustic electric style guitar. And the album, this album, Thank You. So when I went to see him with UFO in 95, you could

01:18:09get his autograph, but you had to buy his solo album to get it. And so I was like, I'm doing this, you know? So I got, and I remember it was kind of expensive. Like his solo album was like 20 bucks or something. And at the time, you know, that was kind of a lot for just a single CD album, you know? But of course you got his autograph too. So I guess that was part of it. Right. But this album, thank you, blew me away because it's

01:18:39just him and like an acoustic style guitar. I mean, it's plugged in, but like, it's just him doing these acoustic instrumental songs. And I think this was when he was kind of getting himself cleaned up and everything. And I think it's some of his best work that he's ever done. The tracks on Thank You. And that really kind of opened the door. That was when I was like, I got to, I really got to get serious about Michael Shanker. When I heard that album, Thank You, that's,

01:19:09when I was like, okay, I really gotta, I really gotta get into this more. And that was, and I mean, you know, that we're not even really talking about that, but that was, you know, that's where this story took me. But anyway, yeah. Essential Michael Shanker group is my number two. You know, when you say the, thank you, you know, what song that brings to mind to me? That's not Michael Shanker. Led Zeppelin? No. Keep working. I think TR might be able to work it out.

01:19:39Thank you.

01:19:41CC top.

01:19:43Oh, yeah.

01:19:44Come on.

01:19:45Didn't have to love me like you did, but you did.

01:19:49And I thank you.

01:19:51And I thank you.

01:19:53All right.

01:19:55Back to John again.

01:19:57Yes.

01:19:59I'll just say about TR selection.

01:20:02I don't know really anything by Shankar.

01:20:04What?

01:20:05I don't.

01:20:06I really don't.

01:20:07Are you serious?

01:20:07I'm very serious.

01:20:08I mean, I know UFO stuff. I'm not a UFO fan. I'm like one of those three dudes that's not a UFO fan. I'm one of those three. I'm not a fan. Just never got into them. Yeah. I like UFO. I like Shanker, but ask me the name of the song and I'm like, uh, no, Dr. No, you know, other than that. Wow. And who's the DJ that really triumphs the UFO from that metal show? Oh, Eddie. Yeah.

01:20:38Eddie Trunk is such a UFO fan. And he said, blah, blah, blah, UFO, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He can't even get three words out of his mouth without saying UFO. And it kind of turned me off. It just did. It just makes no sense whatsoever why I feel that way. So I don't, I just never got into it. So that's all I wanted to say. But I know you Shanker fans worship at the altar. Shanker wanker. I mean, Jay is just you. Love Shanker.

01:21:08We May Noah, famous musician in our world. That's a big shanker for him. I'm not going to go into that stuff, but I get it. You guys love him, and that's very cool. I just never got into him. That's cool. Not a guitar player. That might be part of it, too. Yeah. So, anyway. It's a good choice. I figured that was coming. Actually, I didn't think that was coming. I take it. Yeah, right. You probably wouldn't have thought I would have gotten the best of when you probably expected that I already owned all this stuff. Exactly. I think you were going to say, I own everything, and I got this just

01:21:38because I love Shanker so much even though I have all the songs. It does have a limited unreleased track on it so you know there's your justification. There you go that's what you that's why you have to buy it right yeah all right. All right John what do you got? All right so try to keep this one short too because it's another really big compilation but this is a band that we all three of us know very well and it's because there's a certain song from this band that was huge and I'm not saying that to be

01:22:08It was just massive.

01:22:11And it was at a time in our lives where it was tied to something that was big.

01:22:17It's one of our calling cards from our high school years.

01:22:22And it's a band that I purchased the compilation eventually because I was like, you know, I like all these songs.

01:22:29And now I've gone back and picked up five albums.

01:22:32I'm not going to lie to you.

01:22:34It was one of the five for 18 deals.

01:22:36So they're not that great, but I think actually they were remastered at least a little bit. So they turned the volume up just slightly. But I ended up picking up five albums from them. So I have the compilation and these five albums. And it's funny because I'm not really big on the stuff that comes after these five albums on the compilation, but that's where I am. And that compilation is Simple Minds, the best of. Wow. Yeah. It's not that I disliked them, but they were a synthy band, obviously.

01:23:05And they were kind of a post-punk band, I guess. Meaning they came in that new wave, early new wave world when they started. Not that they were ever punky, I don't think. But they were part of the new wave that kind of developed after post-punk, which obviously came from that era. And I always liked songs, but I was like, eh. But there's no denying that Don't You Forget About Me was a huge song. Huge. Huge.

01:23:35because of the movie,

01:23:36the breakfast club,

01:23:37which resonated with all of us at that time.

01:23:39That's our movie or one of our movies,

01:23:42but that one for the social commentary of the film resonated with all of us.

01:23:48That is a gen X film through and through completely.

01:23:51Yeah,

01:23:52completely.

01:23:52I mean,

01:23:52I don't know anyone who doesn't at least like some aspect of that film.

01:23:57That's that grew up during that period just because it hit everything in our lives.

01:24:02It nailed everything about that.

01:24:05You mess with the bull, you get the horn. I mean, everyone remembers these lines. Anyway. I want to be an airborne ranger. Yes, exactly. I ended up getting this because as they became more popular, which according to all their hardcore fans is their worst stuff, which is funny. This is stuff I like, man. I ended up getting the compilation. It includes a ton of songs. I'm not going to read them all again because here's another one. It's got 17, 18 songs on each CD.

01:24:34It's two CDs. Wow. However, songs like I mentioned to you, Don't You Forget About Me, Promised You a Miracle, which I always thought was a great song off of their album, New Gold Dream. Parentheses, 81, 82, 83, 84, parentheses. I never understood that. But Alive and Kicking, which is when they became, everyone started saying they were like a U2 clone at that part. I still liked it. I didn't care. All the things she said, Sanctify Yourself, Ghost Dancing. I kind of get into them.

01:25:05And after a while, when we started talking about doing this podcast, I was like, well, I got to pick up some stuff because I feel like I need it. And I could have easily just streamed it. But the collector, I mean, it's like, oh, you got to get some stuff. And I stumbled upon the five CDs for 18 bucks thing that comes in a little box with sleeves. I was like, sold. I'll take it. So I have, you know, some of their stuff that is probably during their strongest period are debatable. You know, how much you want to,

01:25:34except for their commercial stuff. But it's all their early 80s stuff. It's good stuff. I always liked them. They had a concert video back when they used to show them on MTV that they used to show live clips from. And I don't know if you guys remember MTV. They used to have the Saturday night concert for a while there. And I swear I saw this on there at some point. Or maybe I saw clips of it. But I swear I saw the whole thing on TV one night. So after it came out.

01:26:04So that's my next pick. A compilation that I bought first had nothing, and then I actually started picking up albums afterwards because of it. Cool. Yeah, I mean, I have this Greatest Tits album, too. But to be honest, I really mostly remember Don't You Forget About Me and how that was written for Billy Idol, and he didn't want to do it, so they gave it to Simple Minds. And when you listen to it, it sounds like a Billy Idol song.

01:26:34Billy missed that one yes he did it's kind of like Tom Selleck it's his Tom Selleck moment I know what you're talking about but I don't remember Indiana Jones that's right that's right that's right I've heard it but I couldn't remember what it was yeah all right we're moving on so yeah I mean obviously yeah um I know their big hit and maybe a couple of the other tracks that you mentioned John but I never they were a band I didn't really get into

01:27:04And again, they were one of those bands that were kind of semi-new wavy. Not really, but they got lumped in with all that. But they were, though. They were very new wavy. And I think that probably kept me away. But I'm sure if I gave them another chance or whatever, I'm sure there'd be some tracks in there. Stuff that I probably didn't give a chance at the time that upon reinvestigation would probably be like, yeah, it's pretty good.

01:27:34Yeah, I think you would find that. I think, yeah. I get to hear it every once in a while because Barb's, like I said, a big fan and she'll put on the whole thing and just will listen to it in the car or something. Yeah. That song, Sanctify Yourself, is freaking awesome. I love that song. Yeah, I remember that track. Yeah. It is synth-wavy and it's very heavy 80s sound, but it's still just, it's just made for arenas, that song. I don't know why, but that's not a good thing necessarily.

01:28:03sometimes, but it worked for that song, I thought. Okay, moving on. All right, so my second to last choice is not one, is it not two, is it three greatest hit albums. What? Yeah, I got to do them all because this guy has so much good music, it is just ridiculous. I think I might know who this is. And he can fill three greatest hits.

01:28:33albums.

01:28:35Without a problem.

01:28:37I think I know.

01:28:38What's your guess?

01:28:40Billy Joel.

01:28:41It is Billy Joel.

01:28:42Oh yeah.

01:28:43Billy Joel is one of my favorite artists of all time.

01:28:47I got it.

01:28:48I love this man.

01:28:49He may be a butthole, but.

01:28:54But his music is amazing.

01:28:56Something else.

01:28:57That's right.

01:28:58It's his greatest hits volumes one, two, three.

01:29:02Yes.

01:29:03I won't go into a lot of detail, but I am going to go into a lot of songs because you have to understand. I have to do this so you can understand the magnitude of this man's importance in the history of music. So the first album, Piano Man. Duh. Yeah. You know, one of the greatest songs of all time. Say Goodbye to Hollywood. Awesome track. New York State of Mind. I think that's pretty much the theme song, except for New York, New York of the Empire State.

01:29:33The Stranger. Good stuff. Just The Way You Are. Beautiful song. Moving out, Anthony's song. Very good. Only the Good Die Young. Stealing from Iron Maid a little there, but you know, before they wrote it, but you know. Steve had actually written that song in 1968 when he was four. Yeah. But a great song. She's Always a Woman. Gotta love that.

01:30:03which was also used as the theme song for what show? That would be Bozom Buddies. Bozom Buddies. Starring who? That would be Tom Hanks and oh hold on. That Peter guy. Peter yes. And then probably my favorite Billy Joel song You May Be Right. Love that song. Moving on to Greatest Hits 2. It's still rock and roll to me. That is awesome. Don't ask me why or as

01:30:33He likes to say in the song, don't ax me why. Pressure. Allentown. Yep. Amazing. Good night, Saigon. What? I know. Tell her about it. Another classic. Uptown Girl, Christy Brinkley, come on down. The Longest Time. Another good one. You're Only Human. It's all right. The Night is Still Young is pretty good too. But then we move on to

01:31:03Number 3. Keeping the Faith. There's another good one. An Innocent Man. What? How did that not get on the... Wasn't... Yeah, Uptown Girl and Longest Timer on that one. Somehow we got split over onto the number 3. But yeah, Innocent Man. A Matter of Trust. Another great one. Baby Grand with Ray Charles. Hello. This is the time. That's a great song. Yeah, that is a good tune. That is the song that Barb and I danced to at our wedding.

01:31:33Yeah.

01:31:33So, you know, that's going to be on there. Leningrad.

01:31:36What a beautiful post, almost post-Soviet song.

01:31:40We Didn't Start the Fire.

01:31:42Still an amazing classic and also a history lesson.

01:31:46I Go to Extremes.

01:31:48Got to relate to that one.

01:31:51And so it goes.

01:31:53That one's not as big, but it's still, it's pretty good.

01:31:55The Downeaster Alexa about his daughter.

01:31:59Shameless, covered by Garth Brooks.

01:32:02which blew my mind a great song all about soul and that's pretty much there's more after that but i start losing the thread there but yeah billy joel one of the greatest artists of all time as far as i'm concerned and wow so many classic amazing songs yeah tear me down tear me down no i'm not i'm with you because so the funny thing was is when we actually you know talked about this as a theme for the show

01:32:32And, you know, we all talked about, okay, hey, we're going to, you know, look through our, you know, pick the greatest hits stuff, right? And I thought, I don't think I have any greatest hits. I couldn't think of, like, for some reason, I just couldn't think of anything that I had that was that fit into this category. And then I went back to my record collection. And I was shocked because, as I said, you know, all these club buys that I did, I ended up,

01:33:01Filling a lot of those spaces with stuff I knew I was going to like that was going to be good. And I think I have the Billy Joel volume one, which is a two disc or two record set, as I recall. And I had that on album. I got that. That was one of my early selections from the club. And I remember just thinking to myself, yeah, volumes one and two. Okay. Yeah. That's what I have.

01:33:30And you're right. There's not one dud on that whole thing. Yeah. You know, and it's amazing. Like that. Here's this guy that just wrote all these incredible songs. And yeah. So yeah, George, I'm with you. That was one of the ones I had as well. Again, it's not one that I listened to very often, but it's certainly one that, you know, you can't deny like how popular and good these songs are. I come back to it all the time. I cannot live without Billy Joel. John. I only.

01:34:00I don't know where it is I may have gotten rid of it at some point I only had one Billy Joel album believe it or not and that was the bridge that's the only one I've ever had and I think I bought it because obviously the video for a matter of trust but I believe there's a song on there that was included on moonlighting on the show oh wow and I think it was big man on Mulberry Street which was that kind of show to any type song I think they did like some they had an episode where they were being

01:34:30Silly.

01:34:31Bruce Willis, silly?

01:34:31What?

01:34:32What?

01:34:32Yeah, exactly.

01:34:34But I always liked his live album, which if you haven't listened to it, it's pretty good.

01:34:40It translates to just Concert, which is the one he played in Russia.

01:34:45Yeah.

01:34:45And I always liked the songs that were never on his compilations.

01:34:50So like Angry Young Man, I always thought it was a great song.

01:34:54Oh, yeah.

01:34:54I always just thought, and it was not like his normal sounding music.

01:34:58has no role hits that he played. So I like a lot of songs, but I got to tell you, after watching that one documentary, was it, oh, was it Hired Gun? It might've been, yeah. You know, and just to hear the stories about him and how he treated his band, this is kind of ruining it for me here. So I have to take that with a semi-grain of salt. Obviously it's not that I don't believe the musicians, but I do believe that their contributions to those songs still outweigh some stuff.

01:35:28Yeah, I don't dislike Billy Joel. I think maybe I'm just tired of hearing him because he's on the Sirius XM radio all the time. Yeah, but that's not his fault. I mean, those songs are timeless. All righty then, back to TR. All right, my number one, and this is literally, I think, one of the first, first, this was a cassette. I got a, this was my first thing that I bought as, you know, a young lad with my own money. And,

01:35:58You pretty much can't cram more hits on something than this, in my opinion. And this is the Beatles 62 to 66. This has all the early stuff. And I have to admit that the early stuff is what I love the most. I know I'll probably be, you know, derided for, you know, liking that stuff. But why? You know, the White Album was way cooler than that. But it's all good. Yeah. Yeah.

01:36:27I never kind of I kind of always bemoaned their whole you know psychedelic tripped out stuff that kind of I felt like they started going off the rails a little bit when they started doing that now that I you know look back on it it's it's a little more acceptable but at the time when I was you know you got to remember I was a little kid and that was too that was a little weird right this is very straightforward and very you know straight ahead kind of music.

01:36:57Nancy Reagan said, don't listen to Sgt. Pepper.

01:36:59That's right. I could listen to this without any guilt. And so anyway, this, as a young wee lad, this was something that I just immediately took to and really liked. And it's got, you know, basically a bunch of their singles from the early part of their career, songs from Hard Day's Night, Help, Rubber Soul, and Revolver. And just, you know, a ton of great music on this double album.

01:37:26That's my number one.

01:37:28It is a very good choice.

01:37:30I think I have, is this one of the colored ones, like blue, red?

01:37:33Yeah, this is the red album.

01:37:35Yeah, okay.

01:37:36I had those on cassette.

01:37:38Yeah.

01:37:38Yeah, good stuff.

01:37:40I'm going to hold my tongue, though, because there may be more.

01:37:43We're going to have actual some overlap with different albums.

01:37:45Oh, okay.

01:37:47It's a good choice, and I'm confused by one thing.

01:37:53You were confused by the psychedelic stuff when you were a wee young lad. Right? Yeah. But you're an adult now. You can't change your mind if you'd like to. Yeah. You're seeing the Sky with Diamonds is a good song. Okay. Yeah. I find it funny that you would say that when Rubber Soul and Revolver songs are on this compilation because that's when they started getting weird. And that's still their two best albums. I don't care what anybody says on this planet. Yeah.

01:38:23I'm waiting for Soul and Revolver are their two best albums. Yeah. And Abbey Road. I do admit Abbey Road is great. But I'm surprised you don't like anything from the Blue Album or the Blue Album doesn't resonate with you because there is still some great stuff off of that. Oh, yeah. Don't get me wrong. There's definitely it's not like I don't like the later stuff. I just like this more. Yeah. You prefer and this is not listeners. This is not enough. You prefer the bubblegum stuff on the early stuff more like the Love Me Do.

01:38:53Yeah, let me do. And you know, what's it? So no, it's let me do please me for me to you. She loves you. I want to hold your hand. All my loving can't buy me love a hard day's night. And I love her eight days a week. I feel fine. Ticket to ride yesterday. Help. You've got to hide your love away. We can work it out. Day tripper. Drive my car. Norwegian wood. Nowhere man.

01:39:23Michelle, in my life, girl, paperback writer, Eleanor Rigby, and Yellow Submarine. Yeah, I remember that. It's good. I mean, it is. But it's really funny how many songs from that are from just those two albums. Yeah, that's true. It's really funny. No, it's a good pick. Yeah, if there's anybody that could have more hit songs than Billy Joel, it's the Beatles. Yeah, maybe. I never got those because eventually when they

01:40:23I think than other bands. First of all, their songs are like two minutes long. And I was early. Yeah. They have 33 songs. No, that's a good one. That's good. I kind of feel like since my number one is a Beatles two, I should just go now. Get it out of the way. Yeah. Okay. So mine is the Beatles one. I knew it. I knew you were going to do it. I knew it. Cause this is the ultimate Beatles compilation because it contains all 27,

01:40:53Well, 27 of their number ones. Apparently, it's not. According to Wikipedia, the album features virtually every number one single the band achieved in the UK or the United States from 62 to 70. There are 27 songs, and there's only one that I'm like, meh, and that's track two. But number one, already mentioned, Love Me Do. Track two, From Me To You. I know this one, and I like this one.

01:41:38But then,

01:41:40we've got Eleanor Rigby, Penny Lane,

01:41:44All You Need Is Love, Hello Goodbye, Lady Madonna,

01:41:49Hey Jude, Get Back Jojo,

01:41:52The Ballad of John and Yoko. Something. Come together. Let it be. And The Long and Winding Road. I mean, come on. Could you be any more talented? Yeah. And I actually, you know, as you read some of the later tracks, it just, you know, it did, it does. Well, what was the Peter Jackson thing that he just did with them? You know,

01:42:22the re-release of the Beatles, like them filming the, you know, when they were recording. Yeah, the, what was that called? It was on Apple TV. Yeah, exactly. And it was, you know, and that, that gave me a whole, that, that was also gave me a whole new appreciation for the latter period of that band. Yeah. Cause you know, you could see that like the band was starting to unravel, but like they were still kind of keeping it together enough to kind of put together some amazing songs.

01:42:52and you just see them working in the studio and doing this stuff and it's amazing you know George Harrison getting all grumpy yeah it's so funny because you know he seems like the least like offensive and the one to offend he's just he's the most easygoing out of all of them like he just you know you can tell he's like a he's a lover right he's let's everybody just can't we all just get along and let's he's the Kirk Hammett of the Beatles yeah exactly so anyway

01:43:22Yeah. After hearing you list some of those songs at the end there, it's, yeah, that stuff is really good. And this is just like the number ones, you know? Right. This is 20 songs, 27 songs of the number ones. There's more songs, you know? You don't have Lucy and this guy with Diamonds. You don't have Strawberry Fields. You don't have Across the Universe. Right. You know? There's so many other songs. I mean, pretty much everything off the White Album. Come on. I know you guys are smack talking it, but the White Album's got great songs on there. Back in the USSR.

01:43:52You know, Octopus's Garden, come on. It's just, this is just the cream of the crop and it's 27 songs. Yeah. Amazing. That's a good one, George. That definitely, that basically, that's kind of like the red and the blue album best of. Exactly. Yeah. And in fact, no, it's red and yellow, but there's a one plus. Oh, it's the Blu-ray. And that was red and blue. But anyway. Okay. All right.

01:44:22Yeah. Well, let me finish up with this. It's good. I like it. There's one song on there I absolutely cannot stand. And it's everyone's favorite song by the Beatles. I just hate you. I can't stand that song. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Hey, dude. Can't stand it. The movie was called Get Back, which featured the making of Let It Be, which is really funny. That's the one that he would pick to do.

01:44:52or I guess that's what they had the footage for. Yeah. Cause they had planned. It's kind of like, eh, it's all right. I mean, there's some good songs on it, but that's one of the first albums for me in a while on their collection or their discography. I'm like, not everything's so good on this album, even though it's got great songs on it. Yeah. Agreed. Um, you know, let it be the long and winding road across the universe. Those are cool tunes, but there's a few on that I'm just, yes. And I don't want to name any names, Yoko Ono, but somebody was involved and screwed things up.

01:45:24It's so obvious. Like when you watch that footage, it's oh my gosh, you know, like there she is. Do you want to know why George Harrison was grumpy? Yeah. And obviously the song Get Back. If you guys, if people don't know how significant this was, is go back and watch the John Lennon, Chuck Berry video where they're performing live and Yoko starts screaming and Chuck Berry's jamming and he just looks over. What the beep?

01:45:52I mean, the memes, you're just like, oh, he's just getting me out of here. Anyway, that's a good one. Two good picks for me, guys. I never would have picked anything from them because I have like, I don't know, 14 of their albums. So yeah. Oh, I mean, I have everything and every possible format. But in terms of greatest hits album, you know, it's if I'm just like, hey, I just want to like hear some Beatles. I'll throw this on because I get the full experience.

01:46:22you know as opposed to just picking an album yeah i had a few on cd early on and i held out

01:46:28because i was kept thinking it's they're gonna eventually release these remastered and they did and

01:46:33they did they gave you what the mono and stereo versions i think both came out for all those albums

01:46:39it's pretty cool and then there's the john lennon collection that came out it was probably 10 15 years

01:46:43ago at this point but they like remastered all of his stuff and re-released and i bought it all on apple

01:46:48like a dope.

01:46:49But, you know, his stuff's, he's got some pretty amazing stuff too.

01:46:54All right, John, take us home.

01:46:55All right, I'm going to finish this up.

01:46:57This will be quick because this is a modern compilation and it's a metal band.

01:47:05However, TR is going to really appreciate the irony of me getting this.

01:47:11This is a compilation that is 100% unnecessary in my collection.

01:47:17Okay.

01:47:18I have everything from this band other than one album. There's no reason I bought this other than probably something got remixed. And I was like, oh, I need to have that. Some Chronicles? No, I did not. I had that too, but I don't know why. This is Dream Theater's greatest hit. And 21 other pretty cool songs. Right. I have no reason to have this album. That's so funny because I think I have that too. There is no reason because we had it all.

01:47:47And the reason was is that they had remixed the images and word songs on this collection. I thought, oh, that might sound pretty good because the production on that album, as great as it is, the drums are grating on that album to me, especially the snare and the kicks a little too loud on that. So I thought, oh, maybe this would be great. I still don't need it. I don't need this at all. Yeah, it's so funny because that, yeah, I think I have that too.

01:48:17And like you said, there's really no reason for us to have that at all. And this is not the collection I would have selected either. But I have it. And I think it's kind of funny that Dream Theater has a great assist. It's two discs. There's the dark side and the light side. So the dark side is the heavy stuff. And the light side is obviously the, how would you describe their light? I guess their proggier side is the easiest way to describe it.

01:48:46Because most of those songs are fairly tame. There's a few ballady type songs on here. But again, don't know why I have this. I really don't. But I have it. And I thought it would be funny to bring up a band where I have everything from them. And I still bought this at the time thinking, oh, you know, man, I got this. There's different versions of these songs on there. I gotta have this. And you need to turn 50 and realize, okay, I can

01:49:20I could be reckless and buy stuff I don't have. So I chose to be reckless and buy stuff I don't have. So, but there's all their bigger songs. Now, you guys would be the only ones who knows. Most people listening would know, but it has Pull Me Under on here. It has the song Lie, which was actually a pretty, fairly decent radio song for them. The song Home, but it's the edit version, so it's missing seven minutes. Think about that.

01:49:46It's five and a half minutes long. It's missing seven minutes. Yeah, and you just got done saying, I don't want to get a compilation that cuts all the stuff out of it. This might kind of sound cool. No. What do they take the seven minutes off for, man? That's the best part. And there's actually one rarity on here, and that's the song To Live Forever, and it's the Adco Demos version of it, which I already have it in three other places. Right. Again, I don't know why I have it, but if you are interested,

01:50:17It's actually a very good place to start for someone who's never listened to them. And it covers up through 2000. It was released in 2008, but I believe it covers up through the album Octavarium, which came out in 2005. Is there anything from Train of Thought on there? There is a few songs from Train of Thought. Oh, wow. Okay. Yes. There is As I Am, which is the clean full length radio edit version of it. The edit version for the radio is 7 minutes and 14 seconds, so I don't know what that means.

01:50:46Endless Sacrifice is on here. And I think that's it. Okay. Oh, it just disappears off of Six Degrees. Oh, yeah. I just looked through my iTunes, you know, collection, and I don't see it in there. So maybe I didn't get it. I thought maybe I did, but I didn't probably because I knew I had it all. I don't need this. Yet I have it. I didn't even know they had such a thing.

01:51:16That's the irony in the name. If you think about it, it's called Greatest Hit. Literally. And there's 22 songs on it. I'm sure this is a label thing, too. Probably. At the time. This isn't even a hardcore fan purchase. Why would a hardcore fan purchase this? Right. But I wanted to include this to show the different aspects of these compilation albums and how they end up in our collections. I don't know why this ended up in my collection, so I can't answer my own question.

01:51:47There's no answer for that. No, but I thought it would be kind of fun to poke fun at my purchasing something that you didn't even need. Yeah. Good. All right. So are we going to do some honorable mentions here? We are. Do it. Okay. All right. So my honorable mentions for this are, so here's a couple that I, at least one that I mentioned before in a previous episode, the humble pie, hot and nasty anthology, the diary,

01:52:16The Fairstraight's Money for Nothing collection, I guess. Which, I can't recall if that's where I started with them. And then I went and bought pretty much everything they ever did, which is what happened. And I have to say that, you know, with that band, I ended up pretty much liking everything they did, you know. And Martin Offler's solo stuff's good, too. So I haven't listened to as much of that as I probably should.

01:52:46I should have but yeah I wouldn't be surprised

01:52:49and then to close it off here

01:52:51I actually found the best of Kansas

01:52:53in my record collection

01:52:54that was one of the ones that

01:52:56was a club purchase

01:52:58and I haven't listened to it in ages

01:53:01and so I gotta break that out

01:53:03and spin that

01:53:04so that I can listen to that again

01:53:05because as I recall

01:53:07there was really lots of

01:53:08excellent stuff on there

01:53:10cool

01:53:10first five Kansas albums are awesome

01:53:13I need to check that out too

01:53:15And then this falls into the category of this is kind of all I need from this band. R.E.M. Eponymous when they released that compilation of a bunch of their hits. That's good. That's actually a really good one. It is a good one. And, you know, at the time, I really didn't care for R.E.M. when they came out. But another one of the bands I hated in the 80s and turned around and loved this. Yeah, this is one of those bands that the nostalgia factor kind of got me on.

01:53:43And, you know, even though I wasn't really big on them, over time, I kind of grew to appreciate their sound and what they were doing a little more. And now I didn't go and listen to a bunch of their albums, but certainly like the songs that were hits that were on the radio, I gained, you know, a greater appreciation for. And so when that came out, that that was another one of the club purchases that I was like, I kind of like these songs. Let me listen to this.

01:54:12And it ended up, I really ended up, you know, liking what was on there. However, I have to admit, I haven't listened to it in a really long time. Yeah. I remember when the one before losing. That's after that. That's after. Yeah. Whatever. After green. Yeah. No green. Green is the one I'm talking about. When green came out, stand was on that. Right. And I made fun of that song mercilessly. Yeah. Yeah. But I did it so much that eventually I liked it.

01:54:42And that was the beginning of my love for REM was Stan because I made so much fun of it, but I sang it so much that it got caught in my head. And then I was like, all right, let me listen to the rest of this. I want the shiny people over here. I want the happy people over here. Exactly. And then to close it out, this is a compilation that I just received recently from John and Jen. And it is Michael McDonald, the ultimate collection. And while this might've been a bit of a joke, there's actually,

01:55:12some really good stuff on this album. She doesn't think it's a joke. She loves it. I know. I know. But, you know, we kid around about it. But, you know, because you don't know me, but I'm your brother. Barb likes him, too. You know, I get messages on my machine. Hey, TR, this is Michael McDonald. So, yeah, actually, there's a lot of cool stuff. And the best part is they it's not just him solo, right? It's the songs he did with Doobie Brothers. And then, of course, his solo stuff and some, you know, singles and some various things that he did. Yep. So I threw that in.

01:55:42is an honorable mention because it's pretty good if people only knew how many songs he wrote or co-wrote or wrote for other artists they would be shocked yeah or wrote but didn't get credit for i mean eddie van haile called him down to help them finish one of their biggest songs actually ted templeman called him was it okay yeah but i mean it worked yeah yeah yeah

01:56:12That's right. All right. Nice. What you got, Jack? All right. I got two, and the two from each band here, I have two. So I have four. Okay. So it'll go fast. So my first one, Steely Dan, the definitive collection. I originally had a decade of Steely Dan, which in itself is good enough. Why did I have to buy the definitive collection? I bought it for one.

01:56:42one song. Because there's only four different songs that additionally include it on the definitive collection that are not on a decade. I bought it just so I could get the song Dirty Work. Oh, yeah. I know you're a big fan of that. I love that song. I don't know what it is. It's just a song that resonates with me. So if you don't have anything from Steely Dan and you actually want something, it's for a family,

01:57:12Like TR, you might be like, ah, it's missing this and missing that. That's probably true. However, it's hard to argue with this. And I believe the definitive collection covers the whole career prior to them breaking up or going separate ways or whatever. Yeah, right. Yeah. Because I think it goes up through two, three, I think is the last song on the album. Things I Miss the Most is on there. Oh, so that's part of the second chapter because, you know, they, you know, they really broke up and after what?

01:57:42What, Gaucho? 79 or 80. So there's two songs on here. Cousin Dupree's on there also. Yeah, right. Okay. So that's, yeah, their second chapter when they started getting back together in the late 90s, I think. They started touring again in the mid-90s. And then they actually wrote, you know, some albums, you know, subsequent to that. Everything Must Go and, you know, some of those. But it's loaded. Do it again. Dirty Work, Reel in the Nears. Bodhisattva. I always get that. Bodhisattva, yeah. Yeah. My old school, Ricky,

01:58:12You Don't Lose That Number, Black Knight, Bad Sneakers, Kid Charlamagne, Deacon Blues, Peg, FM, Hey 19, Babylon Sisters. I mean, if you want to get their definitive songs, it's a pretty good question. I'm sure it's missing stuff too. But I literally got it for Dirty Work. I already got these songs. Anyway, and my second one, I did for the same reason. I still don't know why I got the second one this time. But that's Duran, Decay.

01:58:43Yeah. I should have their first four albums. I'm thinking I should have, but I don't, but I had decade. And then for some reason I bought greatest after that years later when that came out and I'm not sure why I did that, but there are, because it has all the same similar songs and there's a few extra songs added to it. But again, another compilation that I shouldn't have and I should have the original versions because there's a lot of edited,

01:59:12It's mixed type version stuff on here. And it's kind of annoying or single versions. And I think I bought this because I wanted Ordinary World, which I should have just got the album. Yeah, it's a good album. You know, and I should just really have a few of their albums anyway, because I, I turned my nose up at Duran in the 80s. It was very easy to do. But two things happened that changed my opinion on them. One, A View to a Kill came out. I was like, okay, this is kind of badass.

01:59:42this song. It doesn't sound like them. This is different. And then the power station evolved. Right. And I was a huge power station fan. And I was like, wait a minute. So you're telling me John Taylor and Andy Taylor, no relation. Actually, all three Taylors are no relation to each other, which is really bizarre. Yes. You're telling me that these guys can rock and they're heavy as hell. Get out of here. Yeah. Wasn't that with Robert

02:00:12It was with Robert Palmer and Tony Thompson on drums. And I was like, are you effing kidding me? And I went and saw that tour. Now Robert Palmer did not tour with them. It was Michael DeBrie or Michael DeBarns or something like that, who's famously known, I think, for either writing or co-writing. Some guys have all the luck that Rod Stewart sang. But I saw them on that tour for the first Power of Sechalm, and it was killer. It was heavy.

02:00:42He is in. And I don't think people knew that Andy Taylor was a hard rock player. That's what he liked doing. And I always thought John Taylor was a really good bass player. And he looked cool. I had to admit, it's like, oh, good looking. He looks cool. Back then, you didn't want to admit that. Yeah, man crush, right? Yeah. A little bit, maybe. Yeah, because he's a damn good bass player. Somewhere in England, Richard Barbieri wants to kill John. Do you guys like Rod Stewart? Okay, that's all.

02:01:12That's all I need to know. Thank you. That's about where I sit. All his stuff with Jeff Beck and the faces or those group of guys, I like that stuff. Okay. After that. Yeah. I think that's like a no. It's just no. It's not for me. I mean, I can listen to it. There's certainly far worse things, but not something I'm going to reach for. No, I mean, either. Stay With Me is, I think that's what it's called.

02:01:42It's awesome. His collaboration with Jeff Beck

02:01:46when people get ready is great.

02:01:49That answers my question, thank you.

02:01:51Yeah.

02:01:52So, anyway, to sum it up, I mean, this thing's loaded too.

02:01:56Is there something I should know?

02:01:58Which I always actually kind of liked.

02:02:00And I always liked the reflex.

02:02:01He was like, yeah, Duran Duran can go to hell, man.

02:02:04They're not hard rock and metal.

02:02:07Okay, don't tell anyone, but I like this song.

02:02:10And they're another band that took me a little longer to finally, but now I could care less what anybody thinks. Yeah. Most of the stuff that I poo-pooed in the 80s, I'm a huge fan of now. And it's so funny because you go back and listen to Girls on Film and Planet Earth. This is pretty cool stuff. Girls on Film. You know, New Moon on Monday's great. Wild boys, wild boys. You know, Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, Save a Prayer, I always thought was a great song. Yeah. And I like some of the layers.

02:02:40Not later, meaning like host. Third album, I think. Notorious is kind of cool. All she wants. Yeah, it's all right. Not even some of, like their more recent albums are good too. Yeah. They're good. They somehow managed to just evolve and keep relevant. And that was the wedding album, I think, that did that for them, wasn't it? I don't know. I mean, there was Ordinary World. Yes.

02:03:10They put out stuff like Paper Gods

02:03:12came out a couple years back.

02:03:14And I think they've even they've got one that came out last year, too.

02:03:17It's like a Halloween themed album.

02:03:19Yeah, but it's good that I'm referring to is called Duran.

02:03:22That's got too much information on it, which is a cool tune.

02:03:25So, yeah, Jen keeps telling me we have to go see them.

02:03:29I'm like, OK, let's go.

02:03:31You've seen them, right?

02:03:32No.

02:03:32Oh, shit.

02:03:33I've seen.

02:03:33I've only seen Power Station.

02:03:35Oh, no, I saw them a few years back and it was amazing.

02:03:37It was a total time machine back to everything that was wrong with the 80s in terms of what everybody there looked like. Yeah. But I was like, dang, I feel young. But who was in the band? Was Roger Taylor back on drums? I don't remember. Do you remember the guitar? Was Andy Taylor back with them again? Because he has since left and he's actually, I don't think doing very well. I don't remember. It was at this point, it was probably at least five years ago.

02:04:07maybe six or more oh okay yeah so the guy warren whatever the guy from missing persons oh yeah and he was also part of zappa's band so he was gone at that point okay yeah i mean this was pre-pandemic so it was easily four or five years ago probably more probably like eight okay let's see who is that on guitar now they got a decent guy to play from now so yeah that's it all right i've got one two three four five six seven eight

02:04:37Wow. I know, right? And I just stopped there because I was like, ah, it's probably good enough. So the one that I thought John would do, but I understand that he didn't because he's such a mega fan is changes Bowie. Just because, oh yeah, I just figured you'd do it just because you're like, Hey, it's a chance to talk about Bowie, but changes Bowie along with Ziggy Stardust were my first two Bowie albums, you know, Ziggy because Ziggy is like that song. And then changes Bowie.

02:05:06I picked up to try and diversify a little bit. So there's that one that nobody here knows. The Cure, standing on the beach, staring at the sea. That was my introduction to The Cure. I was like, hey, how should I get into The Cure? And somebody was like, get this. And it's got some great songs on there. The first track, which I will not name because it's inappropriately, it's not good. Even though I don't think it's meant to be that way,

02:05:36The Title Alone is just offensive. But Boys Don't Cry, Jumpin' Someone Else's Train, A Forest, one of my favorite Cure songs, Charlotte Sometimes, Hanging Garden, Love Cats. That's a good one. Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. Hello. I don't even need to go into that. They've got some great songs on there. But my next one, I'm placing it here simply because it is similar to one of their songs.

02:06:06Simon and Garfunkel's biggest songs and that is The Sounds of Science by the Beastie Boys. And, you know, I am not a huge rap hip hop kind of fan, but I do love me some Beastie Boys. And, I mean, aside from the rap hip hop stuff that they do, just the stuff that they did experimenting, expanding what they were doing, you know, they didn't just be like, hey, let's lay down a

02:06:36and rap over it. They created sounds and looped things and did all this crazy stuff that nobody had done before to make their songs. And it's, you know, knowing this and listening back to it now, it's extremely inspiring. And check your head. Exactly. What you want, what you want, but that's gratitude. Love me some Beastie Boys. Yeah, I actually like that. I want the car's greatest hits, you know? Yeah. So you bust it. That's so you bust it.

02:07:06their first album.

02:07:08Yeah.

02:07:08No, that's not a joke.

02:07:10I mean, there's six or seven.

02:07:11I know.

02:07:11I know.

02:07:11It's on that album out of 10.

02:07:13Yeah.

02:07:13Yeah.

02:07:14But I love the cars.

02:07:15Everything about the cars.

02:07:16I love the cars.

02:07:17Here's another one for you, John.

02:07:19Bob Seger's greatest hits.

02:07:21Jim would love you for that one.

02:07:22I know.

02:07:23My boy from Ann Arbor, Pioneer High School represent.

02:07:27Yeah.

02:07:27Bob Seger.

02:07:29The Who.

02:07:29Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy.

02:07:31I didn't even know that was a compilation when I bought it. It was just had a bunch of cool who songs on there. Boris the spider. And then my last one out of right field, Jim Croce photographs and memories. I have that. I love, I love Jim Croce, but that's about as far as I go with Jim Croce is the best stuff. And I had the Eagles greatest hits too, because, but you know, T.I. mentioned that. So, I got a quick question. You guys, if you could think of it,

02:08:01I know we want to wrap up but can you think of any that you would want to get that you haven't yet I've definitely got one okay what is it like Gordon Lightfoot gold oh I'd like to get that yes yeah that's a good one John I want to check out this Kansas one that you mentioned yeah it's good I got to listen to that some more it's really short that comes down to yeah that's a typical 70s 10 song yeah greatest hits oh I had one on vinyl and

02:08:31I was younger. It's actually really good. And that was the first greatest hits from Foreigner. Oh, yeah. It actually is very good. Yeah, I got that. And I had Foreigner 4. And I was like, wow, I'm loving life. That's pretty much all you need right there. Yeah. You know, I do Foreigner 4. I think that's a cool album. Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's got some sap on it. But like Jukebox Hero could easily have been a Def Leppard song on Pyromania. Totally. Go back and listen to it. Yeah, actually. It's structured very much.

02:09:01I could see Joe singing that song. I could hear the drums. Did What's-His-Name produce it? Yeah, that's a good question. I'll never forget what's-his-name. A good old What's-His-Name. Mutt. Mutt. But you know what else? I know they have a greatest hits that I may or may not have it, but it's not listed here. But something that I was digging back into after one of the previous Metalheads podcasts was Styx. Because David Gregor was talking about them. And I was like, I'm going to go back and listen to

02:09:31like Paradise Theater and stuff like that. And I did a little bit of that and I was like, wow. Yeah. It's been so long. Actually, that's a good selection because they were another band that I kind of liked some of their stuff, but I never got any of their albums. My very first album was Kill Roy Was Here. That was the first thing I ever bought. But I never went backward from there. I mean, not like buying stuff. I didn't go forward either. I bought that and I was done.

02:09:59You know what, TR, you just probably had too much time on your hands. Oh, yeah. Too much. Call me a renegade. Time on my hands. So here's a weird little tidbit of information. Yes. John Robert Mutt Lang produced Foreigner 4. Nice. Wow. That so makes sense. See, I called it. I knew it. Somehow I knew it. Big drum sound. Thanks, Phil Collins for that. Yeah. Wow. Interesting.

02:10:29All right, I think we are ready to wrap this one up, put it to bed, or at least put us to bed. Yeah, it's been a long day. Living in Reseda, there's a freeway running through the yard. I'm a bad boy, but I don't even miss her. I'm a bad boy for breaking her heart. Tom Petty, yo. It's been a long three days. It has. So just for those that don't know, today is Monday. Saturday, John and I had a Metal Heads podcast.

02:11:00A special one. A special one. It was our 150th 10-year anniversary episode. Wow. Then Sunday, me, John, TR, Will, and James, as mentioned previously, we went to Judas Priest last night. Oh, yeah. Got home late. And now here we are doing a stairway episode. So, you know, talk about grueling dedication to your craft. That's right. Two words. Dumb.

02:11:30That too. But I tell you what, I'm looking forward to tomorrow not doing anything. Anything. Other than work. Well, tomorrow I have to go to a concert to see Dixie Dregs and Steve Morse band. Oh, wow. You are. It continues for me. You are the trooper. It continues for me. I heard it's good. I heard there's a lot of old Dixie Dregs. It's the old band back together, isn't it? They're getting the band back together? Everyone's left, yeah. Everyone's left, yeah.

02:11:59And Jordan, Jordan's playing with him. Double duty for Steve Morris is the price of admission alone. Absolutely. Single-handedly one of the greatest technical guitarists ever to live in. People don't talk about him. Yeah. Wasn't he in deep purple? Yes, he was. He was there when we saw him, John. Probably longer, yeah, probably longer than most any other guitarist that was in deep purple. And the band was adamant he should have been inducted in the Hall of Fame, and they refused to put him in.

02:12:30And they, I think, uh, Ian and George say it. How do you say the last name? Ian. Gillen, not Gillian. I think he like really had some choice words for the rock and roll hall of fame. It should be up to the band who they want to put in, not what, you know, the people at Rolling Stone things. Was he doing that to try and get Richie out of it? No, he just felt he should have been included with it because he had helped keep that band.

02:12:59and afloat when they needed a guitarist.

02:13:01And he was a loyal member of the band.

02:13:04Yeah.

02:13:04He was awesome to see live.

02:13:07He's so good.

02:13:08The guy's in his late sixties.

02:13:09He's still amazing.

02:13:10Yeah.

02:13:11You know,

02:13:12old people rock.

02:13:14All right.

02:13:15Anything else to say before we go?

02:13:18No,

02:13:18I'm going to bed.

02:13:19Yeah.

02:13:20A couple of head shakes.

02:13:21All right.

02:13:21All right.

02:13:22Here you go.

02:13:22This is fun.

02:13:23Episode 13 in the bag.

02:13:25Come back next time to see what kind of crazy stuff we get up to.

02:13:29We don't even know.

02:13:31History of Mutt Lang in the 80s.

02:13:33Yeah.

02:13:34Favorite Mutt Lang albums.

02:13:37Oh, God, no.

02:13:38Great.

02:13:39Until next time.

02:13:39See ya.

02:13:40Later.

02:13:41Rock on.