Best Albums of 1981, Ranked

Hello all. Welcome to Pasttimes at 80s High. Got a great one for you today. We are going to do our favorite albums released in 1981. This is our first in-person podcast. I have Donnie, Kevin, and my brother Mark here. Donnie, how are you doing today? I'm doing very well, thank you. Lovely. And Kev. Doing great. Awesome. And my brother. Friggin' amazing. Awesome. Awesome. So I think this will be a fun one. Most of us did our homework. And as always, we are going to start our decade series off with just a quid a quick little news tidbit from that year. So I'll start out with March 27th, 1981, where Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a dove at a CBS record label gathering in Los Angeles, which, of course, shocked everyone in the studio. And Donald to you. All right.

Mine is on August 1st, 1981. MTV started its first 24 hours per day uh music kind of cast. And it was uh Video Killed the Radio Star. It was the first video.

Nice. And boy, did that like live in our houses for years, man.

Kevin, you right. 30 days later, I got off the couch.

Uh September 11th, 1981, Iron Maiden fires the lead singer Paul Diano. Uh they hired Bruce Bruce from Samson, also known as Bruce Dickinson, to replace him on the 26th of September. And it was, I believe, on the 26th of October. Uh just a month later, he did his first show with them in Italy and finished out the last seven uh gigs from that tour, the Killer World tour.

Unbelievable.

So, not a lot of time to learn all those songs, but man, he has held the torch ever since. Yeah.

Awesome. All right, brother to you. On April 11th of that year, 1981, the great guitar player from Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen, married Valerie Bertinelli from One Day at a time, and they stayed married for a long time.

They did indeed. Awesome. We're just gonna start off right out of the gate here. Um, we are, you know, we typically do a top seven. Uh, it's kind of our staple. My favorite number always has been. Everyone's favorite number, probably, but anyway, just to make it a little different. When we decided to do the decades albums, we're gonna do um ten of them just because it's so frigging hard. But anyway, so uh Kevin, you drew the straw here, so we're gonna start with you today. What do you got going on?

Well, I just wanted to start by saying that it was kind of an interesting year, 1981. It was kind of in between. There was a lot of styles that were kind of an artist that were waning and and kind of not doing their best work, but just putting something out. And there were others that were not quite to their peak yet, that were they were on their way. So there was a lot of stuff in between. Not a great amount of albums that year, but definitely some great albums that year. Absolutely. And uh I wanted to start it off with I mean, wasn't a huge fan, but but if you look at the body of his work up until up until a certain video, the guy was pretty incredible and had some great stuff. Exactly. So my first pick would be Don't Say No by Billy Squire, which I mean you got the stroke, come on. My kind of lover in the dark, lonely is the night, which is an amazing riff.

That's a great song.

What a great riff that is. Um, but yes, the man sadly, his career disappeared. Could you explain what happened on that? So it was Rock Me Tonight, I believe, was was the song. That was a little later on. Um, for some reason, and I don't know how it got past everybody in his entourage, all the producers or whatever, they had him dancing around quite effeminately in a pink sleeveless shirt or sweatshirt in a in a breezy apartment with neon lights, and and it just was like everybody just kind of went, what the fuck is that? And and literally, I've seen interviews with him now where he was like, I had stadiums sold out and booked, and people just kept canceling. It's it was that fast. As much as MTV made people's careers, I'm looking at you Buggles and you know a few other bands that you we know probably wouldn't have had the the exposure without it, but at the same time, they shut his career off like a switch. It was like goodbye, dog.

Destroyed, yeah, destroyed. Great pick. What such a great artist. Um, his previous band, too, Piper. Don't know if you had ever heard any of that, but that was pretty amazing, too. Nice, awesome, great pick. All right, um, brother, that goes to you.

All right, my number 10 is the number three part in the trilogy of Bob Dylan's phase when he was a born-again Christian. The name of the record is Shot of Love. It spoke to me at the time in my life. This is back when mom and dad were doing this kind of thing, and you know, it it Shot of Love is a great song, Property of Jesus Jesus, Lenny Bruce is a great song, and that that's about uh the the comedian. Yeah. And uh in the oh, in in the summertime is another good one. It it just back then I'd listened to it over and over again, and it made me feel better. I I mean I don't really know how much else to say about this record. I just saw it on the list and I remember listening to it.

You remember it friggin' meaning something to you.

It meant a lot to me at the time. Absolutely and then the next record, uh, I think it was Infidels, and uh he went into a uh a Jewish date, if you will.

Mr. Mr. Zimmerman went into a Jewish date. Yes. Oh, is that his real name? His real name is Bob Zimmer Zimmerman, yes.

But no, he just he he's gone through a lot of different Oh yes, he has. And I you know, he never could write lyrics to be honest with you, but he was his voice, his voice, though I could just sit listen to him croon all day.

I was always amazed at the the change between like lay lady lay to I don't know, rainy day women or something like that. He went from like crooning on lay lady actually sounded pretty good back then. He actually sounded like a singer to me.

I don't know what happened. I don't know.

They they blame it on the motorcycle accident, which might also have been a heroin addiction. We don't know. We we we can't prove or disprove any of that. But yeah, that's it meant something to me at the time when it came out.

It was well, that's kind of my number 10, too, just has special meaning to me. It's kind of my a little bit of a guilty pleasure, and I can still hear the squeakiness in the voice of please, please tell me now. But it's Duran Duran, their self-titled debut album. I really loved this band. Um, through a lot of albums, actually, but this was the start of it. Uh, you know, girls on film. Yeah, I can still see the video. Of course. What a ridiculous video they got this fat. Sumo wrestler, a girl rubbing him down. It's a little disturbing, actually, if I may say. Uh, but anyway, I just I wanted to start with them because later on I just absolutely frigging love this band. I don't have a lot to say about this album, but just the fact that it was a guilty pleasure because you and David would have beat me up. Actually, AJ, I love Duran Duran back in the 80s. Well, I wouldn't have known that because I wasn't allowed to like anything other than kiss. Now that's probably more Dave than me, or was it me too? That was a little bit of both. All right. Definitely more David, but yeah. All right, Donald, so to you for number 10.

All right, for my number 10 is a band that just kind of was 80s to me, you know. It it signified the 80s, and it's Jay Giles and Freeze Frame from October 26, 1981. Uh just a you know, classic 80s style genre of music. Um kind of poppy, kind of, you know, not really rocking per se, but definitely uh something you can sing along to and dance to and chase girls after and that kind of thing.

Absolutely. Perfect. Interesting though, because that was again where I was talking about transitional. I mean, Jake Isles was a straight up blues band with a heart player until that album.

And then Yeah, they they almost felt like they had to jump on the 80s bandwagon.

But they did it well, though. That's the thing. I mean, everything from freeze frame to centerfold to my personal favorite from that one, Piss on the Wall, which was just a great fucking song. Number nine to you, Kevin. Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine. Well, I'm here to tell you that number nine is number four, and that would be Foreigner Four, which was one of those albums, and you guys were talking about well, this this album meant a lot to me, and that I thought about the albums that were like massive at that time, and I'm like, yeah, maybe I'm not gonna do those and whatever else. Then I remembered, I was like listening to Foreign or Four again for the first time in I don't know how long, and I was like, every song, even those deep cuts that most of us have probably I had forgotten, like Woman in Black. I was girl on the moon. I was like, holy shit, these songs were they were present in my life at at that time when well, back when life was good, um but but also unavoidable, Jude Bach's hero. I mean, yeah, nobody ever played that in 1981. That song was like very underplayed, underplayed. Every second of every day. Um break it up, waiting for a girl like you. I mean, come on, come on.

I mean, that album is just it's a staple. Absolutely. Awesome pick. So that's number nine to you, brother.

Okay, I have six paradise theater. That was huge back then. It kind of was the year before me that I graduated. That was like their theme record. I mean, Rockin' the Paradise is probably one of the better songs on it. Best of times. They had two little, they had like a little intro part of that that they played before they actually did the song later in the record. And then too much time in my hands. Um, there was a line in that that pretty much typified my life at the time. Okay, this is Guilford, New Hampshire. Okay, we're talking Guilford, New Hampshire. I have dozens of friends, and the fun never ends. That is long as I'm buying. That typified my life. Okay, this is awesome. I'm making three dollars an hour somewhere, and uh, I have to buy the beer. That was bullshit.

See, I related to I've been sitting on this bar stool talking like a damn fool. I mean, that was that was the line that struck home for me. Well, yeah, that was all there, too.

But yeah, but that's so, but anyway, it was that was just a huge record that year. Yeah, not as big as some of the other ones I'm gonna talk about later on. All right, but that's my number nine.

All right, good pick again. Um, my number nine, uh, just back to that real quick, though. I wanted to mention um David's band, why not used to do that? So which is why it really clicked with me too. But to my number nine, um, I have Judas Priest, point of entry. I, you know, have to admit, I did not get into this band until much later in my life. But this band being stuck between British Steel and Screaming of Vengeance, you know, I mean, how do you do something that good? And I think they did. Um, it's not as highly rated as the others, but I mean, God, I just this album um just really, really heading out to the highway, Desert Plains, incredible. Rob Halford's voice. Just I don't know how I overlooked it for so long. Once again, I think it had to do with the kiss bias, but thank God I found them and went back and started listening because they're just unreal.

Yeah, the the way that KK Downing and Glenn Tipton played off. I read a book from KK Downing. Yeah, yeah, they're just those guys were awesome. And I I, on the other hand, was a huge fan right from the early stuff, Sad Wings of Destiny, the stuff that was a little bit more dramatic, a little bit more operatic, I guess, with Halford's voice, right up through what was it, Turbo? Turbo was when they sold out. That's when I was just like, okay, I'll used to love that song.

Um, your turbo owl, you will fuck me now.

Judas Priest. Hey, Janet, there you go. That was a great pun. Awesome. All right, Donald, to you then.

Well, my number nine is also going to be Sticks Paradise Theater, and I think we kind of talked about most of the talking points on that. And my mine too was David's band and us running the lights for that boom, boom, pam, boom, boom, boom, pam, boom, boom, boom, pam. Trying to like, if you could see what we're doing, like pushing buttons.

There was eight buttons on the lightboard. Eight buttons.

Yeah, it wasn't a very sophisticated light board. Oh no. But we tried to make it like uh, you know, a professional show. And we did damn friggin' good. The centrum, yeah.

Didn't you? Yeah, we did do I was I was wondered, you know, where did you go to school? Where where did I I would look at the light guy and be like, what what is his what is his background? How do you get right and and I guess the key was being one of the band members' younger brothers or girlfriend was actually that was that was a qualification. I didn't have either of those qualifications, so never got to be the light guy digital and you know right.

It's all figured into one fucking laptop, and 90% of the time the laptop also has the lead vocals and some of the guitars in it, unfortunately. But anyway, I I won't go there. All right, so that's number eight to you, Kev.

All right, from my number eight, I picked a band that has just changed and morphed and created genres and just been great all along the way. I know you guys could never relate to this, but they were two brothers that used to uh fight quite a bit, sometimes on stage and knock each other out. I am, of course, talking about give the people what they want by the kinks. Oh yes. Uh just a a great album. Again, it it it kind of goes back to some of the the early stuff that they did that really was kind of foreshadowed what punk was, I thought, with um, you know, around the dial, um, talking about the DJ that that wasn't the corporate guy that that went missing and and why. Um, but definitely had some punk overtones to that um as some of their early stuff as well. That I don't think they ever get the credit for that. That kind of the the punk approach, the punk attitude came from a later. Right. But some of their early stuff as well. I mean, you know, you really got me. The the most of us really knew from from Van Halen covering it, as well as um my brain's not gonna work. The other one that that Van Halen did. Um Where of All the Good Times Gone? Where of all the good times gone? Yes, the kinks. Where of all the good times gone out was bam out, bam out another great it almost had that kind of that punk kind of approach of of the simplicity and the and the loud and and all of that.

Awesome pick. All right, Mark. Number eight to you. I have Jefferson's Starship Modern Times. Do you guys remember them? They were Jefferson Airplane, then they turned to Jefferson Starship, and then they just went simply to Starship. Yep. One of my favorite songs of all time is Find Your Way Back. Actually, another great song, Strangers from that record. Um, me and Big Al went to a concert in Manchester, and it we just went to the shows back in the day because oh, it's close.

Right.

And we can go down to Manchester and enjoy a show. I mean, we held it.

Was that on the river or was it yeah?

We I mean, crape. I went to Holland Oates, Rick Springfield. Yeah, you know. I don't know why they stopped doing that. Because they got a venue, I guess, but yeah, but anyway, I had the the best time of my life in a concert, and I'm like, these guys, all these great songs, I didn't even know were them.

Oh yeah, exactly.

They're a great band, they're tight as hell.

What one of the things I I mean, I was never a huge Jefferson Starship airplane starship fan. Um, but definitely that was like Find Your Way Back was a great song. Was a great song. And is Mickey Thomas? Is that the the lead singer? The lead singer on that one.

Yeah, you if you look at the video, I mean, it looks kind of cheesy. I mean, he's sitting there dressed in I don't know. Like he's at a wedding or something.

I mean, it wasn't it wasn't we built this city, so it couldn't, you know, that that put the bar pretty low. But no, I just a lot of people don't realize that he was the lead singer on Fooled Around and Fell in Love by um God, I should have turned my brain on this morning. Yeah. Elvin Bishop.

He shuffled a lot of snow yesterday.

No, that's I think that and this morning. But yeah, Elvin Bishop's Fooled Around and Fell in Love, which everybody knows. It was, I think, recently in um what, Guardians of the Galaxy? I think it was in that. But that's but that's Mickey Thomas singing before he joined up with a Starship. Okay. That was that was him.

Nice. I love going back and discovering new stuff too.

Well, I mean, that whole concert. Yeah, yeah.

You say turn your brain. I like I can't even remember yesterday. So I mean, going back to the 80s, I can't barely so I mean your brain is working far better than that.

I mean, I'm 17. Very kind of you to say do what I turned 17 in 81, so I was a little more advanced.

Yeah, I'm actually a little opposite opposite that from that. It's weird because I'll forget what I'm saying mid-sentence. And I think all the time, but I can remember a lot from when I was a kid, and I don't know.

I oh, I can remember 1981 a heck of a lot better than I can remember an hour ago.

Exactly. All right, so that's number eight to me. And yes, this is one of my favorite albums of this year, mind you. Uh, not from the band. And I have it at number eight because what I have above this, I just could not rightfully put it above any of the other albums. But it's Kiss Music from the Elder. Um, as I've already said many times, I'm a massive, massive Kiss nerd. And this album, although it was very polarizing, a concept album, which I still can't, you know, get out of the songs, but they actually re-released it in the order that it was supposed to come out in. And originally they were like, we need a heavy song to start this off with, and that was The Oath. And I love that song. I love Dark Light, which is Ace's track on that. Under the Rose, Mr. Blackwell, I like all those songs. I always made me feel very like powerful. Like, yes, I fucking believe in me.

And maybe I've been pretty selfish, so I'm joking, AJ. Yeah, but you just kept saying I. It's the name of the song.

Yeah, but anyway, I just I love that album, but I just could not go above number eight with it. No way. But all right, Donald, number seven to you. It's uh Donnie's birthday, by the way. Well, thank you. Donnie's Donnie's eight. Yeah. Oh, you're on eight. I apologize. Yes. Thank you.

So this might be lower than people might put this album at, but I've just never was a huge fan of them. But this is probably one of my favorite album arts of all time, and that's gonna be The Stones Tattoo You, which was released on August 24th, 1981. Um, Start Me Up is one of the classic tunes um that the Stones ever cut. Awesome. Like I said, the album art was what kind of grabbed me to that, but um being a tattooed person.

Was it the tattooed face or was it the horse's hoof and the high heels?

The tattooed face, yeah.

I always, as a young man, having that album, I always thought, what what is that what does that mean? What are they trying to say here?

I mean, I l they're amazing musicians. It's just I I never was a huge Stones fan, but I do like their songs.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, how can you not? I mean, some of them sympathy for the devil, holy shit, just amazing. A lot of well, well written music from the stones. I mean, that's why they're eighties still street like man.

That's my one of my too mature for me at that time when I was a just a wee little lad.

Awesome. That brings us to number seven now, correct? Am I right? You are correct.

I believe that is seven. Seven to you. I'm having a little malfunction, but number seven for me, um, again, just to highlight the diversity in the music that we had available to us at that time. Um, the Stray Cats, the Stray Cats album was, I mean, it was 50s rockabilly. Yeah. In the middle of now, you've got Duran Duran, and I don't want to name too many other bands because they may be coming up, but you still had punk going on. New wave was coming, you know.

They were huge very briefly, but they were huge, man.

They were absolutely huge. And that was it, was just like, can you imagine in in today's world something being that far out? I mean, everything that is released these days, and I can't listen to much of it, it's like pigeonholed. You know, they've taken over the industry, and and and the executives are like, you need to sound like this, or you won't get any airplay. And it's and the straight cats were just like, Yeah, fuck all that. We're gonna do this. They could have they would have fit.

They would have fit right in with the 50s, probably.

Oh, absolutely, yeah. I mean, the whole, I mean, their their look, their style, uh, I mean, you know, the upright bass and and and just remember that the drummer just, you know, he had what a high hat, a snare, and and a kick, and he stood up playing it. I mean, it was just they were an incredible band, and and Brian Setzer has gone on to do amazing stuff with more of a big band kind of feel that doesn't get you know, it doesn't get the airplay, but it was definitely I mean he's he's uh one hell of a musician.

Uh Glenn Miller-esque.

Yes, yes. And those guys were just great, and and again, it just you know, it's people are working in a human league, has got synthesizers and this, you know what, all this other stuff, and they're like, Yeah, let's just go back to this, you know, big hollow-bodied Gibson and and an upright bass and snare drum. Yeah, so definitely awesome, cool.

Okay, so let's see, number seven to you, Mark.

Okay, I have Def Leopard, High and Dry. Yes. Um this record, okay. At this point, we talked about mid-card earlier, right? And in our last uh that was that was a different cast. That was the side cast. And they were pretty much mid-card at best at this point. This record was their stepping stone to absolutely going just through the roof in popularity. Yeah, in in the UK, definitely. Yeah, I mean, Let It Go, Bringing On The Heartbreak, High and Dry. I mean, this they were ready to explode. And this what a great album. Yeah, and personally, I like this record and the next one they did, which we will get into whenever we do that cast, but I like this stuff a lot better than their huge record with pour some sugar on me and all that stuff. Oh, yeah. So I mean, I I again they just were ready to explode, and it's it's really neat to look at stuff right before that, you know?

Right. Oh yeah. They got way too polished later in hysteria, which you were talking about.

You wonder if it was because of the drummer's accident. Right. It had a lot to do with it where they kind of like forced to do that.

Absolutely. I think there there were there was a lot of that, but I think they I I'd read that there was a lot of problems with producing, like Jim Steinman, who did Bat Out of Hell with Meatloaf and and and a couple albums after that as well. They brought him in to produce, and he had no idea what he was doing, and and if is in their genre, so they lost a lot of time. But the thing that always struck me is how cool is that that those guys waited.

Fucking weird.

Pyromania, they were on top of the fucking world. That'd be my favorite album. Rick Allen loses loses his arm, and instead of just hiring another drummer, we're gonna finish the album, and when you're you know, I mean nowadays they would have done that.

Right.

How do you how do you how do you go? Well, the drummer lost his arm, so what do we do? Right well, let's let's wait until we can use technology so that he can play drums again. I mean, that amazing. I mean, you can say what you want about that band. Oh, okay. I wish Phil Collin would put a shirt on. It's kind of creepy at this age. Um but but in all reality, you've got to hand it to those guys too.

Yeah, I mean, Paul Stanley would have done the same thing. I mean, if if uh Eric Carr lost an arm, he would have still been in the band.

Done like the Who and grab somebody from the audience to finish the show.

Yeah, exactly. Well, Def Leppard clearly really fucked up after High and Dry because they did two albums that went diamond. So you can't really Yeah, and that the the second one that I was speaking of.

I don't hate the record.

Pyromania, you're talking about no hysteria.

Oh, hysteria. No, he was Pyromania is the one with Fullen and Rock of Age food photograph.

There's not a bad cut on that album, in my opinion. And the next one was the hysteria. It was the next the following.

That's with uh you know, pour some sugar on the end. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. All the a lot of great hits on it. And yeah, that's what they did for that guy just absolutely is is touching and just so classy.

Yeah, especially in an industry where you know you you know that the executives were like, you guys could just gotta go. You gotta go. You gotta make this album, you gotta go. Because there's so many, you read about so many people that were like have a small bit of diversity in their life or their band. And I mean, I mentioned Styman. Styman after after Bat Out of Hell, Meatloaf got a little bit road weary, got a little bit into drugs, wanted to be an actor. He did the movie Roadie and whatever else, and he couldn't sing, he lost his voice. So Steimem actually put the album out doing the vocals himself, and it was terrible, right? But but he had no choice because the record company was like, You need to do this. We don't care that you don't have the singer, the guy whose name is the band, Meatloaf. You need to do an album because you you owe us do it.

Exactly. Do it, and that's of course, you know, back when record sales were a thing, you know, right? And that's how they made it. Now it's all what concert sales and now it's all touring and meet and greets, which I friggin' hate, but that's another story. All right, that brings me to my number seven, which this album um there's not I mean, it's Escape from Journey, okay, July 17th. What can I say about this album? It's just so many classic songs that you hear every day on the radio. Most of them, of course, I'm thoroughly burnt out on and never need to hear again. But you just can't deny the talent, the songwriting. I mean, Perry's voice is just to me still one of the greatest vocals vocalists. Oh, without a telling a raw deal time, you know, and and they're still going, you know, with this new guy, and well, he's not new anymore. He's been what 25 years, right? But just I I mean, that's all I can say. It's just friggin' huge, huge vocals, huge everything. And I love that album.

Right. And that's interesting contrast to what we were just saying about Def Leppard is that uh originally I think Perry broke his hip or something and needed a surgery and kept putting it off and putting it off, and and and finally they were just like, Yeah, we're we're done. We need another six. Yeah, we need somebody else. We're we're we're all set with you. The great thing about that album is there are songs on it that are awesome that that weren't bludgeoned to that. Stone in Love is just fantastic.

Oh, yeah, it's a great, great song. It's a great album. So number seven to you, then Don.

My number seven, and this is the curse of being the last, is is Def Leopard Higher and Dry. So I won't, I won't uh I won't beat that dead horse that we've already but uh bringing on the heartbreak is just you know I I'm a I'm a sucker for the for the number one song.

The power ballads, absolutely that's a great tune.

Yeah.

All right, so then number six to you, Kev.

All right, now we're getting repetitive here because my number six is the Rolling Stones Tattoo You, which Donald had already picked. Um, that was one of those albums that again, even though it was like everywhere, and Bill Gates ruined Start Me Up with their I can all I can only see him and his goofy friends just You will eat the bugs. I will not eat the bugs, um, dancing to to that. But it was also it was so it was an album that I had and listened to, so it kind of became part of the soundtrack of my life. And again, more of those songs that didn't get played on the radio are why I love it, you know, um Hang Fire, Neighbors, little TNA. I mean, just just great songs. And the fact that it was, I mean, they had already had an amazing career, they had already released, like you said, sympathy for the devil. Can't you hear me knocking? I mean, and and again, going from being that blues band and innovator to still being relevant in in a techno eighties kind of world was just crazy. And I say I put waiting on a friend up against any kind of I don't know if you would call that a ballad or what, but yeah, it's just like a challenge.

Yeah, just like I'm like a relaxing yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and there's a video that's absolutely hilarious because it's just them walking down the street in New York and going to a pub, and they're obviously I mean, Ronnie Wood's Ronnie Wood and Keith is Keith. And right.

So I did ask my mother what T A was because I didn't know. I remember asking her, like, what is T A? I don't know.

Never mind.

It's a wrestling, right? It's a wrestling company.

It actually is. So, how did your mother feel that question?

Pretty good. I don't think she actually answered it.

She did well, depending on how old you were.

Yeah, I was pretty evil.

I believe it's Bedoua. I believe the answer's there in the in the lyrics. I think it is.

Yeah. Too funny. Yep. Okay. So number six to you, Mark.

Okay. I have no problem with this at number six. It's KISS, uh, music from the elder. At this point, they they're coming off. I mean, AJ loved Unmasked. They're coming off Dynasty and Unmasked, and we're worried that they're just going, they're going south here. You know, Peter Chris has left the band, or he's been asked to leave. To me, I was just so excited that it wasn't another attempt at disco type music. Right. And I absolutely love a lot of this record. A lot of it isn't so good, but I mean, Dark Light, which originally was Don't Run. Um, and I think uh Lou Reed, I think, had to come in and write a different lyrics. I'm not sure if I can get inaccurate, but the solo on that song is incredible. So his fastest solo ever, I think. It's fastest solo, and I don't, if I recall, there's no back end rhythm to play at. It's just and two of my favorite songs of all time, back to back, and the way they meld into each other, it's just very gothic, is only you and Under the Rose. Yeah, yeah. And just, I mean, one of my the most romantic nights I ever had was dancing with with my now wife to those two songs, and she was loving it. And I it's just it's a very unique record. Ace really used to say it's not a bad record, it's just not a great kiss record or a terrible kiss record, whatever that means. Another song I liked is World Without Heroes because I like the solo. That's a great song. Yeah, Paul Paul can actually do some pretty cool solos. That's a Paul solo. And um, you know, they're tensing. I mean, what I didn't like in concert was that stupid solo he used to do.

That Joe Schmoe could have played. Oh my god.

It was terrible. But that record, I love the record. You know, it hurts me when I hear people put it down sometimes because I enjoyed it so much.

But I mean, including fucking Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. Paul despises the album, and it's like, you know what? You didn't hate it when it came out when you were telling us it's the greatest thing you've ever made. Exactly.

So this is the one record that they did not go out in support of out on tour. They played a show on Fridays, I think was it. Yep. Classic video from back then. But this is uh Ace Freely's last record with KISS for a long time. And you know what? Even though he was on the cover of Creatures of the Night, okay, but he was not there, and well, uh, you know, supposedly he was supposed to be on Carnival of Souls, and he was here and here, but we won't get not Carnival of Souls, but I beg beg your pardon. Psycho Circus. Yeah, he sang one song. Yeah, and Peter, that's the only song on the whole record. That's a story for another day.

Exactly. All right, so number six to me, and of course, this is gonna happen for the rest of our list, but it's Foreigner Four. It's already been talked about, so the only thing I can add to it is that it was originally called Silent Partners, and it's called Four because not only is it their fourth album, but prior to the album, they dropped to four numbers. I mean, to four members. I will, I mean, Lou Graham, his vocals. He's incredible. He's still doing real good. He played in um some little festival they do in Cancun this year, and he still sounds amazing. I mean, is he what he was once, you know, long ago? No, but still incredible. But I won't go any further since who knows?

It might be up there as well for other people. But that's another one like Journey, where they found somebody to, you know, uh I mean, I don't think he's as good as as Lou, but neither is Lou. But the guy that Foreigner has singing with them now, um, he can he can belt him out. Yeah, you know, he does a good job, but I would love to see them get back together again with the original lineup because I'm a sucker for that.

Absolutely. Okay, so Dongo number six to you.

So my number six is a band that you know I think personifies the eighties and it's car the cars shake it up. Oh, yes. So I mean they they just they had that that sound that was awesome, very 80s sound, just good tunes that you can sing along to and you know fun and shake it up. Yeah, all right, 11681.

Nice number. Number five, then we're up to five already. So do you, Kevin?

Number five for me is hands down my favorite album from this band. Um started out as uh on a small label and then quickly got picked up. Um Leather Records was the original release. Uh, but Electra picked them up. Motley Crue. Yes, uh Livewire, Fast for Love. Which is too fast for love, sorry. Which was just, I mean, it was everything again talking about that, you know, what was happening, that whole sunset strip attitude that was going on.

That the It was just the beginning of that.

Yeah, yeah, the the glammy stuff that was that was that was happening. But that album is like I'm I'm looking at it and thinking about it, and every song on there was like it was one of those ones where it was, you know, the the songs were not that long, and they went through them very quickly, and much like another band lead singer that I'm sure we'll talk about somewhere in the coming. As as a young man, I remember thinking to myself, why didn't they wait till the lead singer cured his stuffed up nose before they recorded the album? I mean, obviously there was something else that was causing that nasal congestion at the time.

Um but as a young man at 11 years old, I wasn't aware of allergies will get you every single time that pollen powder.

Yes, yes, especially when you put your face down to a plate of it. Uh the pollen was very white and it was good. Oh but no, great, great album, and I think it's better than anything. I mean, maybe the recording wasn't great, the sound wasn't perfect, but I would take that as a whole album over everything they did after that.

Yes. Great album. All right, so number five to you then, Mark. Okay.

Um, this is Lover Boy, get lucky. Yes. Um, it was released on October 7th. So basically, what I'm trying to say is in '82 was when a lot of us were hearing it. And that's the year I graduated from high school. And you know what this record reminds me of is me and Norm Godbout going fishing, like constantly. We would go.

That's an old buddy of Mark's. Yep. I I I miss him.

Norm, I miss you, man. I I do, brother. But uh anyway, working for the weekend, when it's over, take me to the top. I think it's my favorite song on that. I love the guitar sound. It was just a th, you know, like I mentioned with sticks uh for the 1981 class. This is the one that reminded me of my year graduating, and it's just a lot of a lot of good stuff, a lot of good guitar work, and you know, for for lover boy anyway. Absolutely.

Oh, awesome pick. All right, that brings me to my number five, which here we go again. High and dry, Def Leopard, just so incredibly raw. I love this album. There's not a whole lot I can say about it, other than you, Donnie, singing Pour Some Sugar on Me at my brother David's wedding actually got me more into Def Leopard. Although I hate I hate that friggin' song, but the title track, such a party song, and their gang vocals. I mean, they're just such a great band and such a great album, but we've already talked about it. They do have a song on there called No No No, which is funny to me just because of the kiss release later. But anyway, Donnie.

That's number five to you. Number five is Genesis Abacab. Nice. Um again, I I kind of go with the the bands that are my antithesis of the 80s, like what reminds me of the 80s. Of course. And Genesis is one of those bands that just they had hit after hit in the 80s. They sure did. They were awesome. Um, Phil Collins is an amazing songwriter and uh producer. It's kind of what he does now. He doesn't perform anymore, which is kind of too bad.

But well, he was not too long ago. He was sitting in like a Costco office chair, like Eddie Trunk says. It's like they couldn't have gotten him a throne like they did Dave Grohl or Ozzy. They put him out there in a $40 friggin' office max chair. But anyway, yeah.

But the synthesizers were kind of like the in thing, and people would kind of gratuitously use the synthesizer, and but they did it very well.

Big eight, so the eighties, yeah. He was awesome. Phil was he was just a machine at that time because I mean, I don't want to pick it if somebody had a solo album the same year that was massive as well. Exactly. The thing that I find incredible is that Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis and they go from being a small prog rock band, relatively small prog rock band, to being a pop juggernaut. And it was good pop. It wasn't it wasn't bad pop.

I mean, it's wasn't today's pop, that's no for sure.

But but it's just amazing that you're like, oh crap, Peter Gabriel, who was I I just saw him last year, is a genius, and he leaves a band. And well, what do you do? Well, let's let's have the drummer sing.

Okay. So Kevin, number four.

Number four, moving pictures from Rush.

Yes, sir.

I mean, you gotta give it up to the world's greatest drummer. Arguably, I guess. But but he was I say some pe some people will will will argue that about Neil. And then the fact that he wrote, I think most, if not all, of the lyrics. He's a huge writer of Rush. His stuff was just I mean, lyrically, to be to be that great a drummer and and lyrically, and then and then you kind of genius. And then you kind of somewhere you overlook the the bass player that sang and played keyboards. So you know what I mean.

It's it's Neil Peart would have fit right in on the Big Bang thing. No, he wouldn't have, but Neil Peart would have.

Damn it. Uh, too funny. All right, my brother, number four to you.

One of my favorite Van Halen records. Fair warning. I love that record. There's so many great songs on it. It's heavy. If I have you ever seen the uh album cover, I mean it's pretty friggin' I don't know if I would say dark, I would say violent. There's somebody disturbing. Somebody's head in and the other guy's sitting there laughing, which today you somebody gets beat up on the train, and everyone else is taking their phones and videotaping it instead of helping them. But I wasn't expecting to go on that rant, but you know, it's a lot of people. I love the rants.

You're right. Yeah, that was the final episode.

But anyway, it's you know, mean street. Uh dirty movies. Hear about it later, Unchained. It's got push comes to shove, so this is love. I mean, there's a lot of great songs on that. I mean, they did a lot of albums that had a ton of hits on them. I mean, Eddie Eddie Van Halen was gold with his guitars. I mean, he had David Lee Roth up there, you know, basically saying how incredible he is. But I want to say something here important. Who is the best singer in the band at that point? You want to take this one, Kev? In the band at that point?

Yes, sure, no.

A bass player.

Michael Lee, Anthony. Thank you. Much better voice than freaking David Lee. He didn't even sing.

All right, so this is a whole different episode, and I'll fight you to the death on this one. Yeah, well, we're gonna be able to do that. J. Lee Roth was not the lead singer, he was the front man. Exactly. Like I said in reference to the him doing a kink song. All my life I never stopped to worry about a thing. Open up and shout it out and never try to sing.

Right. Makes sense.

Nobody holds a candle to Diamond D. There's a reference. All right.

I apologize. I hope I didn't hurt any sentence in your head.

Not at all. But everybody, you always read these. Oh, we're like like Eddie, God bless him, talking about, oh, you know, then we had we we had Sammy Hager. We finally had a singer in the band. Yeah, and then everything sucked after 15 minutes.

David Lee Roth was an entertainer. Jilly did his talk show that lasted about three and a half months because his rating sucked. I know. He wasn't even that good. I used to listen to him on my way to work.

Oh no, but but but he he just, I mean, the the kick you can't take the guy seriously. I mean, I don't think anybody He's a paramedic, too. Did you know that? He was an EMT for a time, yes. EMT mountain climber. Uh jujitsu master. The guy lived a life, but yet yet now you see him, he still seems like he's like unsure of himself. You know what I mean? He's like he's like he he just seems to be driven to prove himself to everybody. It's like, dude, no, you're you're the king.

I think he's insecure, but back in the day absolutely he had more different lives than uh Forrest Gumped. I mean he had so many talents.

You know? Mama told me prostitutes are like a box of chocolates. You got to pay more for the good ones.

So that's my number four.

Really enjoyed that record. Damn right. Well, my number four is uh been picked as I think the rest of mine are gonna be. But that's Motley Cruz, Too Fast for Love. Just friggin' ballsy, ballsy, ballsy. And I gotta say, I'd be lying to you if I didn't think the movie The Dirt on Netflix had me go back and just look into it deeper. And fuck when they kick in a live wire in the beginning, and the girl's like, You're not you're too good for this band, or whatever she was saying, and then she's like, Holy shit.

Is there an issue going on with Mick Mars in that band right now?

There is, there is, but it's it's over with, I think.

But is that because John Five's playing with him now, right?

Yep, John Five's with him now, and Mick just released a solo album. Right. It's all they're arguing over, you know, Mick's not with us. I mean, obviously he has his back issues that are brutal.

Right. But they were saying that he couldn't play, and he said he can play. They were playing the tracks, right? And he didn't want to do that.

He always looked sickly, didn't he?

Well, yeah, he was. He's had that since the 80s, really. Oh, yeah. Poor guy can barely fucking move. You know what I mean? But just uh what's the song? And uh Frankie died, it was suicide, whatever it was, just uh was that onto the show. I can't remember, but that's like a life story about you know Nikki Six because he changed his name for Frankie. And I don't know, I just love that fucking album. It's just it's kick-ass. I like it better than Shout. And yeah, you know, a lot of people go to Shout and say that's their you know signature album, but for me it's too fast for love.

One of the greatest rock and roll quotes, in my opinion, was Tommy Lee. And we were shooting Jack Daniels. We could have just drank it. Fucking not a smart man.

All right, Dongo, number four to you. Number four to me is four and a four. And we've had this a lot. And uh the reason why I picked it up higher is because jukebox hero, like I'm a lover of the cheese songs, and some of my other ones that are coming up are some cheese songs, and you know, I just I champion the the you know the rocking like song. Oh, so jukebox hero is just one of those, like as a kid wanting to be a musician and you know, hearing the lyrics to that.

And nice, yeah. I can still see myself shooting the duck to it. I mean, at the roller ring. What a it I mean, it's undeniable, that's for sure. All right, that we're wow. Number three. Okay, Kevin, number three of the year.

Number three is already been spoken of. We are going back to Van Halen's Fair Warning, which is I mean, it it's interesting that it was it was the year that we picked, and we're we're talking about it, but uh by far, and everybody kind of alluded to it, it is the Van Halen fans uh album.

Especially the guitar fans. Oh, absolutely. And I'll go to that.

So I mean, it's it's I think some of the Eddie's finest work, without a doubt. And it's got that edge. And he did, I mean, he did a great job with songs that were a little lighter, and you know, Dance the Night Away, and some of those songs, but this was just it was a prodigy it showcased how amazing he was.

Absolutely. Oh, all right.

So that's to you then, Mark. Okay, well, my number three. I thought it would be higher, but mine is is Journey Escape. Again, this is at a time where this album was so massive. This is my first concert I ever went to in '81. I was working at Dexter Shoe, and it was at Portland, and obviously it was general admission. We actually our seats were the aisle, uh the aisle stairs going up between the sections. Yeah, been there. And we didn't even care. No, it it was jam-packed. Every I mean, I just can't uh articulate to you guys how big they were at this time. Oh, yeah. And if you can look Google some of their escape tour footage, you'll see what I mean. But obviously, don't stop believing. You want to talk about fatigue. Yeah, that is the biggest fatigue song in the world. Stone Stone in Love. But the biggest song back then was Who's Crying Now? That's a song that people freaked out at, or well, the girls did, you know what I mean? But Escape is a great song. Escape is a great song. Absolutely, yes. They played that. And Open Arms, I think, is a lot of song that a lot of people forget is on that record, too.

But oh god, that's one of the biggest ballads ever.

Special place in my my heart, first concert ever. They're not as heavy as I what I'm typically into, but yeah. So that's my number three. We've all talked about it a little bit.

Well, I have a feeling that could continue to happen. Although I finally get one that no one has said yet, and I won't go too crazy on it because I have a feeling, like I said, it's gonna keep coming up. So my number three is Black Sabbath Mob Rules. I mean, I can't say enough about this album. It's just I it's almost to me like a sister album, you know. But to heaven and hell. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, and sign of the southern cross. I mean, you want to talk about an epic song, an epic vocal. Just I mean, I love Ronnie anyway, love his voice, just just absolutely incredible. Um, and I I think that is kind of you know, a takeoff of children of the sea, so to speak. Uh you know, same type, but then you get voodoo over and over, over and over. That last song is just another incredible Ronnie James Dio vocal.

But I mean, I should have been, I don't know why I didn't listen to this a lot when I was back in those days. I don't know why.

It gets overlooked a lot for because of Heaven and Hell, but it's I think it's right up there with it. I'm still a Heaven and Hell guy, but this album is a damn damn close second.

Okay.

All right.

Number three to you, Don. All right, for number three, keeping with the my picking of the 80s sounding bands, is Holland Oates Private Eyes. Um, I think they have more popularity now than they did then. Oh, yeah, because they're fighting.

By the way, they were great in concert.

I had a blast at their concert. Yeah, is that the one that got canceled and then redid?

They might, if I don't remember, we're talking about mid 80s.

Yeah, Laconia they did.

Oh no, I'm talking about back in the probably 85 or 86.

The guys can sing, you know. They yeah, they're suing each other now.

Yeah, I don't think I'd want to hang out with them or anything.

Yeah, I think Daryl is one of the most soulful white guys. Yeah. Which one is who? Daryl's Daryl Hall is the is the is the blonde guy that oh wait, yeah. I'm backwards, I'm sorry. And Oates is the Juan Epstein looking guy.

Exactly. The porn star.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that that would that would uh sum it up pretty much.

Kind of reminds me of the Soul Glow guy in the Soul Just Let's Oh my god.

Awesome. Great pick, Don. All right, up to number two, Kev.

All right, my number two is an album that nobody's ever heard of before, coming out of nowhere. It's a little band called Journey, and and their album, Escape. Uh, we've talked about this quite a bit. Um it is just a fantastic album. It was massive, it was inescapable, it was it was everywhere. And like Mark said, some of the stuff that didn't get beaten to death, Don't Stop Believing, Who's Crying Now, and Keep On Running, Lay It Down, Dead or Alive, all great songs because they had that there there was the tension between what what Perry and Kane were writing and what Neil Schoen wanted to do as a hard rock guitarist. And I think that's what made the diamond that was that is you got because Neil Schoen was like, I think he was like 15-16 years old playing with Santana. Right, you know, and and so the guy had I mean, talk about a pedigree. He was, you know, unbelievable. He was a guitar god.

All right, so that's number two to you, then, brother.

And I'm so happy that I did not hear this one yet. You fucker, it's gonna be the my next one. Yes, probably, but it's Ozzy Osborne, Diary of a Madman, uh, Randy Rhodes. Last this is his last album, right?

Yes. For Randy, yes.

The first three songs. I mean, Over the Mountain. Yeah. Just a I mean kick-ass song. I I there's a word I can't really come up with. It's just like almost like the tension is building throughout the song. And Flying High again, not my favorite, but the song that I think pretty much typifies our life and our rock music fandom is You Can't Kill Rock and Roll. The song almost brings me to tears. I think basically, you know, you and I and David and Donnie too, and I just met you, but but anyway, just it's just it tipif typifies everything we believe in, and it makes my heart just want to cry out of tears of just joy.

Absolutely. Oh, that's what's great about these albums is the way they touch you, Mark. And you know, that's what it's all about. Well, anyway, my number two might as well go to it. It's the same thing, diary, and I won't say much because God knows who else is gonna have it. But I think you said it all, Mark.

Well, say it before they do.

Yeah, uh, but for me, the title track is one of Randy Rhodes' uh greatest, greatest works, and I find it so haunting, you know. It kind of creeped me out when I was a kid. It it also it also um put me, you know, into I don't know, a mode. Like I, you know, I had a lot of problems, you know. I moved and I was away when I was listening to this a lot, and I thought I was a little crazy then too. Well, obviously, I I but anyway. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.

Well, no, I mean you were crazy then. I mean, I don't think anything's really changed, to be honest with you, but uh so wait, the album was Diary of a Madman?

Yeah, it was I always thought it was Dairy of a Mad a Madam. Totally Dairy of a Madman. I totally misread that.

Don't you think a bunch of freaking Holsteins are gonna be on the cover? Yeah.

All right, Donald. Number two to you. So my number two is Journey Escape. So, I mean, we're we're we're in the repeat categories here.

I mean, this album is just so big, it was bad.

No song. I'm a person who can't like hear a song enough. Like, songs don't get burned out with me. So if Don't Stop Believing comes on the radio, I am turning up the volume and singing in my car and just going at it. You know, so good for you, man.

And Stone in Love is another Stone in Love. Great song. Yep. Yep. Awesome. Well, here we are, man. We're we are up to our number one. Let's see how many repeats we can have here. From below, I mean. But anyway, Kevin.

Numero uno. So I will tell you, I can guarantee that nobody else has this.

Oh, let's see.

So my number one is You Are What You Is by Frank Zappa.

Oh, I had a feeling somebody was gonna have that.

So I I had I had experienced Frank at that time, Peaches and Regala, some of the, you know, some of the more radio friendly, if you could even describe any of Frank's music with that. Um I so I knew who he was, I had an idea what he was about. But listening to You Are What You Is, it really just I was like, this guy looks at things the same way that I do, a little bit outside of the mainstream, and just kind of he he was he was a th a thinking kind of guy. He he he just looked at things differently, like we talked about that with with with Ted Nugent, that he just had a different take on things, but he was also, I mean, a genius musician. I think this was the first one that Stevie Vi played on. Um there's there's an instrumental called uh Theme from the Third Movement of Sinister Footwear. Yeah, easy to say, easy to say, rolls right off the tongue. It's you nailed it. It's and it's it's amazing, and you can tell that it's Stevie Vi.

It's basically have guitar, will travel, that kind of guitar player. Absolutely like Jakey Lee and right, right.

Um, great story about that. I think it was that tour somewhere about when Vi first joined with him. He was very young, went out boozing the night before, got a bug. Um, they were in Texas at one of the huge stadiums there. He said he was on stage, he was everything, every orifice of his body was expelling things, he was vomiting, he was he had diarrhea, and he was just leaned up against an amplifier, and they just kept coming over and like emptying his bucket and whatever else. And he played the whole show because he just got a gig with Frank Zappa. Right. And you're not gonna You ain't giving that you're not giving it up. And and and Frank was a kind of an asshole when it comes to the the band playing for him. Yeah, he didn't he didn't really give a lot of uh of leeway to people. Um well, it just made me think of one of the things, you know, I don't know if any of you guys have seen the the Laurel Canyon.

Yes, awesome Netflix.

Yeah, I don't recall, but I don't think they mention it. All of those people, yeah, it's it's about like um uh what was it? Laurel Canyon. Laurel Canyon, where where where like the birds and and a whole bunch of different bands in the 60s had moved to that area and they all kind of and they'd walk over like Jackson Brown was living in an apartment downstairs from from Don Hanley and the Eagles and whatever else, but I don't think they mentioned it. That the reality was all of those people went to Laurel Canyon because Frank Zappa lived there.

Exactly.

Without Frank Zappa, there would be interesting no Alice Cooper.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, there wouldn't be so many bands, so many people got into it be because of Frank and and just followed him, but he just never got that. And I think purposefully, I think it was by intent that he never became a pop star because he had no interest in that. Yep, very interesting guy. And I would say that again, his music isn't always that accessible. You are what you is is a fairly accessible album in terms of Frank Zappa. So if you haven't listened to him, I recommend checking that one out. There's a there's he's always got a little bit of dancing queen. Yes, a dance and fool, absolutely dance and fool. Dance and Queen. No, that's okay. Well, that was that was Abba, but close. Dance and Fool, Zappa, Abba, you know.

I don't know much about dancing, that's why I wrote this song. I saw that on SNL, believe it or not.

Yes, I am the slime. There you go. That's not on this album, but I am the slime from the video. You need to listen to that song and then think about where we are in society today with television. He did that back in 70 something. Oh, yeah. So absolutely great to check it out. Great album with with lots of different styles. There's everything from doo-wop to country to reggae on that album. So a great, a great listen. And and uh I will turn it over to you to Mark because I'm probably sure that's your next pick. No, I'm just kidding.

Uh no.

All right, so yeah, number one to you, Mark. Okay, my number one is the wiggles jumping squirb. Huge record in back in 1981. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the three-year-old saw it.

Oh boy. Sorry. I didn't expect the wiggles. All right, brother.

What's your what's your real number one?

Uh, that would be Rush Moving Pictures. Yes, sir. It is such a great record. Um, Tom Sawyer, obviously. Fatigue. It's a fatigue song. Red Bashetta is a great, great song. Yes, sir. You know, the bass, uh, everything that Getty Lee plays on bass sounds awesome. And of course, Neil Neil Pearrett. Pierrett with his 75 Tom drum set back there. YMZ is a great song. Limelight. I mean, it's just great song after great song. And Rush, I wasn't a big fan of. I I went to a concert back in 1994, I believe it was, with David and Bert from Creative Force, the only decent one in the band. 20,000 other men. Uh, there were a lot of men there, but there were some women. Nope. But I mean, I listened to it a little bit yesterday, and I'm like, song after song, or somewhat deep cuts a little bit, I mean, other than Tom Sawyer. Yeah. But and if you look at, I mean, if you ever see them in concert, it does. It looks like you're at a dungeon and dragon, dungeons and dragons. I mean, the stuff they they do put on the screen and everything. Oh, yeah. So they they would also fit on fit in on uh uh big bang theory.

I think the last tour they just had a washer and dryer up there, and people would come up and swap over the laundry.

They actually, I think it was for a number of years they had that washer and dryer on tour with them, and and I can't remember why they said they did it. It was just something they needed something on stage, so they just let's let's do laundry. That'd be interesting to look into. If that riff to limelight doesn't get you right in the nards, then I'd I don't know, you're you're not alive. Exactly. It's such a awesome, awesome opening riff there.

All right, that brings us to my number one, and here it is, of course. It's Van Halen Fair Warning, just another repeat here. But I feel a lot of the music that I love because of Van Halen um wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Van Halen. I've said this before, but the the run of four albums that they put out in a row, I just spec effing tacular. I mean, I can't think of a run actually of four that that were better, but just you know, it's been talked about, so I won't go into too much detail and I'll let you go, Don. But one thing I want to say is Mean Street, the opening to that. It's so fun. Eddie Van Halen's, you know, guitar. And it's just a power chord. Nuno Bettencourt said he was on a cruise with a band that was doing a Van Halen cover. They were doing a set, and Nuno Bettencourt said he refused. That's the only song he wouldn't play because he cannot do the fucking intro. Oh, the lead. So if it's just a power chord, then it's a pretty damn case.

Okay, well, AJ, what I mean is that's one of my favorite parts of the song. So it comes out of that lead. I thought he was saying it was simple. Hell no. I'm talking about when he goes bam, bam, um, no, no, bam, no, bam.

Yeah. I was talking about the intro. I know what you mean. It's incredible. And I mean, that's all I can say about it.

I thought it's a power cord. That's all enough.

Well, you know must suck then. Yeah, he's terrible. Oh man. All right, Donald. Number one to you, birthday boy.

Uh, Livia Newton John. Let's get physical. No, no. Above the wiggles. You know, hey, she something to look at. I can see the video. Randy Rhodes is my favorite guitar player. Um, I love that album. There's not a bad cut on it, so that's that's all. I felt bad about that.

What more can we say, right? We got it.

Can you imagine if if he had survived? Yeah. What would because you think about all the classical stuff, which almost became like mandatory on a heavy metal hard rock album? Right. That oh, we gotta get up the 12 string and do, and it was like that was that was Randy that brought that classical approach to guitar playing.

Do you know who he was elite guitar play for? I didn't know this because I wasn't a huge quiet riot fan. Right.

That's crazy to think that. All right. Well, that's why we're here, boys, to take everyone back to those decades that were just the greatest time ever. So thank all of you for being here. Donald, Kev, Mark, hey, thanks. Thank you.

Thank you very much for having us. Yeah, of course. And thank you, Kevin, for hosting the podcast.

My pleasure. Uh wait to get out and shovel some more snow.

Yeah. Anyway, hope to do one real soon. And thank you so much, listeners, for joining us and coming on back to 1981 for a little album nostalgia. We'll see you next time.