Best 80s Rock Songs: Our Ultimate Bangers Mixtape

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Uh got a great one for you today. We're gonna do our we're gonna start actually our mix tape series. And uh today we're gonna do, you know, kind of headbangers, uh songs that get your adrenaline rolling, songs that perhaps will get you a speeding ticket when you're listening to it. Just shit we love. So hello all you fargin ice souls. I have meaning Donald. Hello. Mark Hello there, brother. Kevin. Hey ho! And I am AJ, and we're gonna get started right out of the gate today. And unfortunately, I have to start this one, which quite frankly, I wasn't looking forward to. But first, I just wanted to get um our email address out there, and that is pta80H at gmail.com. Once again, pta80H at gmail.com. Love hearing from you guys, and come on, get involved. And we'll have the socials up sooner, hopefully rather than later. And a website. So, you know, technically we haven't really launched yet, but now that we're about 22 episodes in, I I suppose we should probably get there. But anyway, awesome. So I'm gonna start out. Um, I didn't really do a two-sided thing here because I wasn't thinking properly of the you know all 60 or 90 minute max L tape, but um so I you know I didn't put them in order. I mean, I kind of put them from 10 to 1, so I'm just gonna stick with what I have and then I should have done a tape order.

And yeah, with mine, it's gonna be starts with the first song on the record.

Perfect. Well, I don't have the patience to look at my list and and go through and figure out which one I'm gonna start with. So my number 10 on my list here is something that gets me pumping in the car, and it's it's a little later on, it's from 1998, which does qualify for vintage by one year, and it's Rob Zombie's Dragula.

Just dig through the ditches and burr oh just love this song.

And I mean, I love Rob's Rob Zombie. Um I I find it him to be one of the ones that kinda, you know, after White Zombie, just he's still like headlining festivals and he kinda kinda nailed it with the way to stick around and shit. So, but anyway, so that will go to you, Donald.

All right, so I'm gonna start off with the kind of vintage, the OG for me, which was Led Zeppelin's rock and roll. It's got you know, the kicking drum, you know, intro, and then you know, it's an easy blues riff and it's super easy to play on guitar, but it's just fun and it's rocking. Yes. Um it's just the beat of it, everything about it just gets you wanting that. Leg Zeppelin 4.

Yeah, and this is as most of you know, if you've been listening, Donald is the one who does not get burnt out on songs. Although I think there's a few on my list that you'd think I'd be burnt out with, but I'm not. So some of them don't.

I mean, I think it's an individual, personal kind of thing, but some songs it's like they just don't. I can do that again.

Yeah, absolutely. All right, so then that's to Kevin.

To me, we have um, I I had to because this was kind of the genesis of where this whole thought came from. So we're gonna we're gonna say Steve Harris uh with the driving, rumbling bass in the trooper is just, I mean, if you don't feel it, you ain't alive. The song is is based on the charge of the light brigade, and they just bring it to life with with with the guitar solos, and like I said, Steve Harris is just driving bass and Bruce Dickinson's absolutely phenomenal lyrics. Again, we've said it before, Iron Maiden is heavy metal. With a history lesson. With a history lesson. And that one just gets you rolling.

Damn right. And that's something that I noticed going through, you know, choosing this list was we're gonna have a lot. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but probably some songs that we've spoken about already throughout the podcast. But hey, that's why that's why we love them, right? Yeah, we're not gonna change our tune. That's right. All right, brother. So that's you.

All right. Well, what better way to start out this? Uh the first song on my tape is also the first song on Aerosmith Rocks, which I is one of my favorite records, if not my favorite record of all time, is back in the saddle. Yes. This is Steven Tyler at his best. I would sing it, but I can't reach his uh decibels or his uh Please don't. His range. I'm not going to his range. I don't have anything close to his range, but most humans don't. Yeah, right. Yeah, it's just a rocking song, and I love it. And uh so that's when I went with my uh my first song on this wonderful mixtape that I have.

Not not a lot of hit songs with horses whinnying in the background.

Yeah, right. Yeah, awesome. All right, nice. So to me, and yes, some of my list may be a bit cliche, but I don't give a rat's ass. I grew up in the 80s, MTV era, and this is the shit that moved me. And you want to talk about perhaps some fatigue, but this is one that does not fatigue me, and that is we're not gonna take it by twisted sister. I don't know how that can't get your blood rolling, especially if you're watching the video at a fucking riot. But just I don't know, that just spoke volumes to me back in the day. It was like just such a a moving song to me. And um, the way to like uh we talked about one hit wonders, and I've said it before how this album, Stay Hungry, was just you know kind of a a one album wonder. And yeah, I don't know, I might talk about someone else later that was quite similar. But anyway, to you, Donald.

Could happen. All right. So this song was originally played by Black Sabbath, um, but the version that I loved is the anthrax version of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Yeah, it's rocking. I mean, they can I don't know it was circa eighty six-ish, but um it just when they came out with their and they kind of did it to the you know, close to the T, you know, they didn't change it up too much, but their version was just kick-ass. It was definitely all right, Kev.

Following in Mark's footsteps, going back with the Aerosmith, one that kind of got swept under the rug. It didn't, I don't know, it it wasn't it wasn't huge, but a great song, actually written by Richie Supa, who came in when, sorry, AJ, came in when Joe Perry took his leave. Um, it was recorded it uh live first at Caljam 2 over in Santa Monica, and then later um down the road here at the um the farmhouse in Massachusetts talking about Chip Away the Stone. Which is just one of those songs that you just because we all knew that girl that was like acting like a prima donna, she was just doing everything, she just a cock tease and making every guy, you know. You just and that song just sums it up, and it's a it's such a great riff, and and the fact that I mean he was replacing Joe Perry, who's the master of the walking riff, and he came in and and did that, and just a great song all around.

All right, Mark. Okay, well, my song, second song on the tape, is uh you know, named after a primate. And for once, once and for all, for all you people that don't know your primates, monkeys have tails, apes do not. So this is Skid Rose monkey business. It's a a song that uh you know you're rebelin against the machine, kind of, if you will. It's just ball crushing song, and David's band used to do it. There's there's probably several on my my list that are gonna be from Flesh Tuxedo also. Great Sebastian.

Again, I I I I looked at that as well, Mark, and definitely had a hard time not picking it. Um but and I think we've mentioned this before that you know, coming in at 89 with their first album, and then coming out with Slave to the Grind, that they made the choice instead of following that that glam rock, the the hairband stuff, they went heavy, and then even heavier.

And then even exactly the subhuman race. Yep.

Yes, yeah, but that's but even that right there was was just like a departure. I remember buying it and just being like, whoa, what the you know, what what just happened there?

All right, so to me, this one is from 1983, so I think we probably talked about it on the last episode, and it's Ozzy's Bark at the Moon. Just the title track to me, this album. Um, I think I talked about it already, but I just didn't get into it until a little later on in life. So when I did, it was really helping me through a time in my life. That song to me is just so fucking underrated when it comes to Aussie stuff. Uh the whole album really is always makes me bang my noggin, man.

So I had to I think that one might have been like a bit of a video uh victim as well, because the video was such a production and all the makeup and everything that they put Aussie in that I think the video might have kind of all overshadowed how good the song was.

Right, right, dongo.

Yes, so I'm I'm keeping it old school again and similar to my previous pick, is also going to be Black Sabbath, and this is Paranoid. Um again, it's one of those ones you're gonna criticize me for being the the new it's the top one, you know. The probably everybody who learnt picks up a guitar learns that riff. Uh, it's just that driving beat that just gets you on this bang your head, you know.

So that's kind of like two minutes long.

Yeah. That's one of the songs I can actually play and sing at the same time. Finish with my woman because she couldn't help me with my mind. Because I hit my hand in my mouth. I mean, I I'm sure I could probably train myself how to do it or take lessons. And it's just, you know, like Brother David, God rest his soul. I could I was amazed that he could sing while playing guitar, he could sing while playing drums. It just it was unfathomable, fathomable to me. But uh, but that song also used to pretty much be my theme song because you know absolutely.

I can't tap my head and rub my belly.

I can not sing and not play guitar at the same time. I can do that, yeah. I can sing and play out of tune almost in the same room.

But at the time that song came out, there was nothing close to it, you know. So I mean, you were coming out of the the late 60s with that type, you know, the Beatles and all that kind of stuff, and then here comes Zeppelin and and Sabbath with stuff that people were like, whoa, right, what the is this, you know?

Well, I'm sure you guys all know the story of of where that sound kind of came from. It was the day that they were gonna get, I can't remember, it was it was Iomis last shift at the factory, and he lost his fingertips. Yeah, and he's got like little rubber things glued onto his finger, still to this day. Wow, and and a lot of that has oh. Oh yeah, that's why he is the rift.

I just knew he he was a left-handed guitar player.

Yeah, no, he lost, I think, the the the three fingers. I think he lost the tips of those, if not, if not two, then three. Um, but yeah, he's got rubber caps on his fingertips, which it leads a lot to you know, so the sound of some of his slides and then getting into the triads and all that was part of you know what he wasn't able to do. Same thing with Django Reinhardt getting his hand mutilated in a fire and still became an amazing guitarist. Um and Jerry Garcia even missing the little, but that's on his strumming hands. Big deal.

You know, you think about it, you almost wonder if Tony Iomi's thankful he chopped his fingertips off. Yeah, maybe any obstacle began.

You never know. All right, to you, Kevin. Okay. I just seem to be following Mark here, but they're different songs. So I'm going with Skid Rose 1989. Here I am. I mean, that just punches you in the face from the opening. And and again, Bach is just howls like like nobody else. He's he's amazing.

He's got attitude, man. He's got attitude.

Oh, yeah, and some toot, too, I'm pretty sure. Um but I was on Trailer Prack Boys a couple times, I think. Oh, was he? I wanted to ask you guys because I think in past casts, you've mentioned that he's a good guy and and all of that, which is funny, like, right, AJ? Like you've you've made comments about charitable things that he does and whatever else, which is funny because he's obviously turned himself around because I was reading articles about back in the day what a fucking asshole he was. Yeah, and again, this this was when he was young and a star, but I read one article about him uh on a flight. It was like a private flight with there was the band and just one other older couple there, and the waitress tried to shut him off, and they ended up having to like tackle him and and tie him to the chair and whatever else. And the whole band is like, nothing's happening, you know what I mean? Yeah and the couple's like losing their minds, they're like, what the hell is going on? And they're like, it's just the way he is, don't worry about it. It's just it's just what he does. So he was he was completely out of control in those days, which I guess is why they won't take him back in the band, which is too bad because people fucking change, you know.

Oh, absolutely. And I get I'm really upset about that.

If if Stevie Nicks and fucking Lindsay Buckingham can get on stage together after what they went through, then then then the boys in Skid Row can give it up and and get him. Imagine that tour. Yeah.

Well, you wait, Kevin. And I will say this because uh, you know, you guys know I listen to Eddie Trunk all the time. Uh an offer will come in at some point where they just can't fucking say no. Right. You know what I mean? And and then it'll erupt six months in.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, I mean, it's it's it's standard operating procedure. Look at the Eagles' um Hell Freeze is over tour. Right? I mean, literally, they said we'll play together again when Hell Freeze is over.

And then they got enough money and they did it, and then they kicked Donfelder out and overrated and Oasis right now, like it's like the biggest tour in the world coming up, like they're selling out like stadiums left and right.

If they were playing on my porch right now, I would close the curtains and not listen to them.

Yeah, and it's not that I Oasis, you mean Oasis, yes.

I I just I I guess it was the commentary about oh, we're bigger than the Beatles or whatever.

Oh yeah, I remember that.

And I just the music is not that good. I just don't find anything for me in that music. And I'm not shitting on anybody else's. If you like it, you like it. That's that's great. But for me, exactly. I just I don't I don't see anything that that that warranted the kind of swagger that they talked about themselves with. And and the thing is too, I mean, if you're talking about yourself, maybe maybe you ain't that good. All right, brother, we're off to you.

Okay, well, this next one, number three on the list is Neon Knights from Black Sabbath. I do believe, isn't that the first song on Heaven and Hell? Tis indeed. Yes, it's just friggin' rocking and it just speaks to me in an incredible way. Rock and roll. We love it. This is what this is our realm, we're protecting it. If you don't like our music, then get the fuck out of here. Yes. But I I prefer him to uh Ozzy Osborne in a lot of ways.

Voice-wise, absolutely big time. I mean, the only thing Ozzy really contributed, and I'm sorry because I'm not shitting on Ozzy, because I love his stuff. Obviously, I picked Bark at the Moon. But Ozzy brought in melody with his vocals, other than that. Fucking when it came to writing, he had jack shit to do with it, which is why I still get so fired up.

But is it Ozzy's ability to pick a guitar player songwriter?

Yes, Donald, but I'm not talking about any of that. Right. I'm talking about him giving credit where credit's due. Oh, absolutely. You know, and that fires me up beyond belief. Might have something to do with his his bride as well. All right. So that's to me. And God, do I love this song from 1984? Not something you'd think that I would pick off the album, but it is creeping death off Ride the Lightning, Metallica. Just this song and Hetfield's lyrical ability in writing lyrics, you know, obviously very biblical this song. To listen to those lyrics, like I I can't it's it's something that I probably go to like what once a month on the YouTube and bring up the lyric videos so that I can read them. I mean, I kind of know them by heart now, but it's still nice to to read them. I think one of their best songs they've ever, ever put out, and that's all I'll say about it, but to you, Donald.

All right, so another one going back, and this is one that I wouldn't have thought of until I just had it come across my feed um this past week from a 2007 music award show, and it was um Barracuda from heart. Ah, great fucking. But it was um the band that was playing it was uh Allison Chains with Gretchen Wilson.

I like the song. This is over.

And they did a cover of it and they did it to the T and it was awesome. But the original song, Barracuda from Heart, is just a it's just that dun da da dun da da dun da da dun da da dunga dun da da da da incredible song. And then the drums kick in and the vocals, it's just a rock and tune.

Their vocals are unbelievable.

Incredible.

So do you, Kev? You just don't know. All right, I'm gonna go with um old school because let's face it, there were so many amazing Scottish hard rock bands. Uh, so I had to I had to mention them, and that would be Nazareth, Hair of the Dog. Back in the day, we didn't. I mean, I guess today they call them hype songs or something like that. But if there was so across the street from our school, my high school, there was the parking lot, which was called the Pines. There was a a park behind it. So that was that was the thing in school. If there was gonna be a fight, meet me in the pines.

Yeah.

And then somebody would take their TSX 80 pioneer speakers off of the package shelf of their 78 Monte Carlo and set them up on the roof, and they would crank Terror the dog to because that's what you got riled up to get in a fight with. Now you're messing with a son of a bitch.

This is, I don't know, back in the very early 80s, I do believe. I was with Jay Degrina. Do you remember the Degrina boys? Yeah. We're down at his house or whatever apartment at the time, and don't try this at home. I mean, I was probably 16 maybe. He poured a full glass of whiskey, and I proceeded to guzzle the entire class to plan. And then we went to the hero the dog after that. And uh, that's just I that's a memory from back in those days. You would think I wouldn't have any memory from that.

It's a fuzzy memory.

But no, but it was early in the day. I was fine the next day, okay? All right, so I uh also from Ride the Lightning is Metallicus for Whom the Bell Toll. This is one of those songs when it starts out, you can subtly tell the difference between this and Hell's Bells. And I'm always psyched when it's this song against Hell's Bells, but I much prefer this one. Right. And uh this is also another song that uh uh Flesh Tuxedo did, and they did a damn good job at it. You know, David was on guitar at this point, so that's my number four, my side one. That's how I'm doing it, people.

So to me, I am going to 1983 yet again, and it's shout at the devil. Motley Crue, shout at the devil. Um, Kevin, you wouldn't know this, but the other three here would. And that's certainly do.

You're not afraid of him anymore, at least that back then. Yeah.

We we sang shout at the Davil because Brother Dave and just he was we were all afraid of him back then because first of all, we utilized his room more often than he'd like. So he'd come home and there'd be beer cans and ashtrays and spills all over his floor and records not put away, whatever, but uh, but just the song. Um, and I'll be the first to admit that I've lost a lot of respect for Motley Crew. I can't stand a few of them, but but this song was undeniable, and just when it kicks in, you know, just yeah, I mean, you can't not start pumping your fist up in the air when you're driving and fucking getting into it.

All right, so I'm gonna go with Symphony of Destruction. Yeah, thank you. I rubbed it.

What will become a guy? What people get a wrong one of their classics.

Uh again, it's you know it's the populist. I like the populace.

One of it goes just like the Pied Piper, great songs.

So many great songs, iconic ref, too, you know. Everyone knows that. Oh, yeah. That's a band that came on on my radar after Metallica later on, and I never liked them back in the day. I I mean I didn't like Metallica at first, but then so many great songs. And not an incredible songwriter, Mustaine, is just awesome to Kevin.

I god, I could have picked anything out of their catalog, but for some reason at this moment, Electric Eye just from Judas Priest just jumped out at me. I mean, that is, you know, and I'm stopping myself because I'm gonna lift off like the top ten that I could have picked from them, but I'm sure they'll show up later. But Electric Eye was just a great song and prophetic. I mean, it was uh 82 release, I believe, and they were kind of referencing 1984 and or possibly today. No, everything that he talks about in that song, watching from the from the satellites and and all of that, it's all absolutely name of it again Electric Eye.

All right, so to you, Mark.

Alright, so number five on side one is from Allison Chains 1992 record Dirt. It's called Damn That River. Just a raging, raging sh song. It's very angry. It's based on a fight between Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kenny. I beg your pardon, Kenny, the drummer. And Jerry Cantrell, all these years later, uh, admits that he was immature and a jerk throughout the whole thing. But it's just a ballsy song. It's in drop C sharp tuning, which is the same as drop D, except it's half step down plus you know, C sharp instead of D. But it's just an incredible tune. Angry, angry, angry, and it's ballsy. I just said that, but I love the song. I didn't Alice and Chains to me is by far the best quote grunge band from back then. I mean they didn't even start out to be grunge. They were you know, they were kind of hair metal, they were just going with what was going on, but I love that band to this day. I in fact, I still I even still like them with the uh new singer. They just write so many good songs, and this is definitely on the top of, you know, it's definitely a adrenaline rush kick ass tune.

All right. Well, I'm going back to 1989 and uh youth gone wild. I think it's the first skid row song I actually ever heard. I'm not sure if it was their first single or not. I think it might have been their first single skipped your ass, and then Bach kicks in with that fucking incredible voice.

This is anti-the man, I'll tell you that. That's what this is about. But just wow, establishment, anti-the man. And uh what would they sing about? I mean, if they went up and did it now, would they have to say we're the middle aged gone wild, or we're the young senior citizens gone wild? Right.

I know there's so many bands out there that have that issue now. I mean, Gene can't be singing Christine 16.

Oh my god.

Yeah, you can't you can't have uh Rod Stewart like set.

It's pretty inappropriate then. Right, exactly. Super inappropriate now.

Yeah, but I think it's Rod Stewart. I think it's Rod Stewart that went on tour and said he was done doing like a lot of his, you know, songs like that, like legs and whatnot. And then he sold no tickets and realized I guess I need to do that, and fucking went back to doing it. But awesome.

All right, Dungo, five to you. All right, so talking about anti establishment, I'm going with rage against the machine, killing in the name of.

Oh, well, let me see here. Well, this one I it's weird. Weird because when David Lee Roth left, and it could have been any of the early Van Halen songs that, and and I went round and round, but again, we're looking for stuff that we have attachment to. Um when when Van Halen, when Hagar joined them, I I feel like they had the one good album with 5150 where where Eddie still had some joy in his music, he's still being creative, and I just don't see that in the later albums with Hagar. Nothing against Sammy, you know what I mean? He's he's an amazing guy, works his ass off. He's a hell of a performer. I've seen him a few times, saw him with Van Halen. Nothing against him, but his songs are like at one level of of well-crafted pop songs, and then what Van Halen was with Roth before that was on the road. Yep. But I will say that the title track fifty one fifty. And just the subject matter of the song. I mean, it's talking about, you know, that that woman, and I had one particular at that time, um, that it was like 5150. It could never be down the middle. You needed to get me that you put that extra on me. You needed to have that extra above half. You know, you couldn't meet me halfway. You just had to, and that just I don't know. That song always kind of strikes me, and and and I will be probably getting pulled over when that comes up. Right. And I'm driving down the highway.

That's a great album, man. I mean, it is. It really is. You know, I think later. I think they're definitely two different bands, but I think later um Eddie had so much input and you know, went more to the keyboard end of it and shit like that. Yeah. But even with even with 1984.

Oh, they started from right there for sure.

Absolutely.

Yeah, they were using it then.

Yeah. Yeah, but it became, you know, it's like I I think that Templeton had talked about bringing they wanted to get rid of Roth in the beginning and had talked about bringing Hagar. Oh, they did in the beginning '77 or something like that, whatever, whenever they did the first recording. Um, but then he realized that that Roth's lyrics were like fucking wild, you know.

And he could write a song in the hallway in ten minutes.

And a great song. Yeah, really a guy. I get it. I mean, the guy never turns off. He's always fucking blah, you know what I mean.

Well, they said he had a lot of negative energy around him, too, you know. The one thing about Sammy Hagar, though, he's also a good, a really good guitar player.

Oh, without a doubt. Yeah, absolutely. But it's it seems to me, again, like you took something otherworldly and turned it into a good thing. But I mean, if you listen to Pound Cake versus And the Cradle Will Rock.

Right, right, right.

I mean, hard to believe it's the same guy on the guitar.

All right, Mark. All right. Okay, this song is from Warrant. And yes, this is not the original singer. AJ, you have not let me live this down. Okay? I will get it right this time. The singer's name is the late Janie Lane. Am I correct that I say it right?

Yes, sir.

So yeah, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Another song that Flesh Tuxedo did, you know, it's just rocking. It gets right to your soul. It gets me going. I would crank it up in the in the car. You know, so yeah. That's my number first song on side two.

We're going to number four to me, and you want to talk about cliche? Well, here you go, boys. It's quiet riot, metal health. In parentheses, bang your head. So it's in the name. It's in the name, baby. So I just, I mean, I I God rest his soul. I was never a huge Kevin DeBro fan, but the rest of the band, he was an undeniable talent, but just I don't know, he was a cocky prick. And that song you could not get away from in 1983. You know, that and some others that I won't mention, but just God, it was so fun. Just I I mean, what can I say about it? I I imagine that at least three of the four of us had that feeling. Mark, you were a little older. I don't know if it was pushed into your world though, like like it was ours, you know, but to be a kid at that point.

I was an asshole back then. I you remember Jean, uh the drummer in Flesh Tuxedo. He he said that he met what's the guy that's name again. Kevin DeBro. Kevin, he met Kevin DeBrot, and he was a prick when he uh first met him, and then he met saw him years later. And I guess he was a really sweet guy, and he admitted that, yeah, no, I got I it went to my head, man. I I turned into a jerk.

He humbled himself later on. Well, that's good to know.

Probably about the time he put that really bad wig on. Oh man. Because when they hit the scene, God bless him, he was kind of thin. And then later when they made the resurgence or or some of the later albums, he had like the worst. I mean, it looked like somebody took him off. He looked like Gallagher. Yeah, terrible.

So there you go. There's my knowledge of uh Quiet Riot.

One of the things I wanted to say about him is it's amazing. He's such a unique voice, but when you listen to Naughty Holder from Slade, who they took a lot of songs, covered a lot of songs from, the similarities in in his vocal approach and his sound to Naughty Holder are like it's weird, right? Because it's such a unique sounding voice. Similar, right?

Awesome. All right, so that's to Dongo. Am I correct here? Yes, sir.

And I'm going back to Dio like a rainbow in the dog to the music. It's just kick ass riff. Love his power vocals there. Just awesome song. Incredible song. Running. Speaking of uh keyboards. Yeah. Yeah.

The break keyboard.

Like keyboards and metal. Yeah. It was pretty, you know, a neat little interjection. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It works and a brave move at the time. Because a lot of people. Because didn't they didn't that didn't a lot of the bands start where they'd have somebody come in to play keyboards on the album and then they put them under the stage during the live show. Oh, absolutely. Well, you're in the band, but you're not really no, you're going to be down here in a closet, and we'll just run the cable up and just, you know, we'll throw you a we'll throw you a groupie. All right. So where do you, Kev? I think Mark's gonna get mad at me here. Uh I had to, though, because this is one of the greats, one of the all-time get-in-the-car, eight minutes of Uncle Ted just bashing you over the head with his axe with strangle hole. I love that song. Just amazing, amazing um Love that song. Psych tune. Um, I was reading about it, and this I didn't know. Um the the producer on his own took some of Ted's guitar work and put it through a delay to make it sound like there was two different guitars going on. And when when Ted heard it, he said, Yeah, that sounds great. Don't ever fucking do that again without asking me.

I mean, he's the most underrated guitar player I know. He doesn't get any love from you know when you talk about the best guitar plays. I don't know, is it is it his his political views?

Mark, I mean of course potentially it is his political views.

It is um that's why he'll never go in the hallway.

Stranglehold was on an awesome soundtrack for Rockstar. Yeah, that's where I was going next. There were some songs from that soundtrack that I wanted to use for this, but it was like 2001. Like the band Steel Dragon, yeah, songs, you know, but it was like 2001. But that Stranglehold was on that movie, and that scene was great.

Oh, what a great scene. And that's exactly where I was going, Don, with that not only that scene, but just the feel that that guitar had that could put you into a vibe or a fucking move. Yeah, it's just yeah, it's moving like that is what guitar is all about, and that is why Nugent should be fucking at the top.

You can't you can't be you cannot be unaffected by that song.

No way.

You're a sociopath if you are. It did so, Mark, he did get some kudos. It was the 31st best guitar solo according to guitar world.

Nice. Yeah, that's a joke. That's a joke. That's a joke. I know.

I think we still need to do an episode of what shit fucking Rolling Stone fucking rankings are. All right, so that's to you, Mark.

All right, songs three on side two for me is from Led Zeppelin number four. It's called Misty Mountain Hawk. It's just a ballsy song. It's it's kind of about spirits and everything. And um it's it's pretty pretty pretty much the same riff all the way through, but I absolutely love this song. It's it's it's on one of my lists. If I was stuck on an island, I would have to have that song. Like Donnie, I've absolutely I cannot get sick of that song. Not even a little.

Alright, so three to me. And speaking of songs that I can't get tired of, this to me, God, I I feel bad having it only at three. And I've discussed this in the past, how at first this was a band I hated and refused to like. But this to me could be one of the greatest metal songs of all time, and that is Master of Puppets. This fucking song, God, I didn't write down the time, but it's like seven, eight minutes, just incredible. All of the guitar changes it's a masterpiece. It is a masterpiece for master, masterpiece. But anyway, it's just, you know, the lyrics in it had meaning to me from you know, back in the day. I mean, I had some demons, and just I mean, you want to talk about a song that fucking in the car when it kicks on, I'm like, you know, it's almost as bad as texting because I'm just like my head's down half the time. You know what I mean? Your demons ever let you go. This song to me is so balls, and I mean, I think it's their pinnacle. Like, obviously, it wasn't their biggest hit on um MTV or anything like that with what came later, but this is the song that I think pulled me in. You know what I mean? Just like, wow, you know, I'm supposed to hate this stuff because everyone's not kiss. It's not kiss, it's not, you know, fucking the regular hard rock that I'm into. It's a new genre coming in. I'm not supposed to like it, but I can't not love it. Man, and the whole album's fucking incredible, but yeah.

Like what you like, man. That's how it is. Don't worry about what other people think.

I don't give a rat's fuck about what anyone else thinks. I'm just how it's who gives a fuck what you think. Exactly. How it clipped with me, though, and click uh clicked with me, just incredible. All right, Dongo.

Cool. So I'm gonna go with one that is a little these this band is kick ass, in my opinion. But again, they never really broke into the the main mainstream, and it's uh King's X. Oh yeah, over my head.

Over my head, I give you the beginning.

Over my head, I give you the head. Over my head, it's loud and clear.

Go into my head rocking tune and just kick-ass harmonies, but I mean they they they were rocking, they were rocking, yeah. You probably incredible.

You sang with them they when they were doing that tribute down at uh Berkeley Calf.

Yeah, when we were at the Berkeley Calf concert. I was there for it, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was background vocals for that. Yeah, which you know, I have a video, VHS video of that. You do the sound sucks. I mean, nowadays with a cell phone, you'd be making 10 times better, and high definition.

Yeah, yeah. This is what, 92, I think.

I can't imagine the audio sucking on a VHS tape, Donald.

It was horrible. It's because it was so loud, and the and the camera was probably right next to a speaker, so you just hear it. You know, over overrun was static. Yeah.

Well, in comparison to the uh the movie day at school when we were in grade school, the sound on those chitty chitty bang bang.

How did you do that? I thought you were you were fading out or something. I was worried out, son of a bitch.

Do you remember that though? They'd come out and they'd set the fucking watch a film. The print was just always like terrible. And the film would break halfway through, and you'd go for refreshments. All right, Kev, so do you. All right. Well, you know, it had to be, it had to happen. Um, I gotta get my boys in there. Death or glory, the clash, 79 off London calling.

I believe in this five. That's the story.

And and this is this is where I was like, maybe we should have maybe we should have differentiated between banger and anthem. Or maybe we should do an anthem one because there's a lot of oh god. Anthem is a different anthem.

That's a different mixtape.

But but this is definitely fits both categories. And uh, and I love the fact that it was like because that was the punk thing, was was shitting on that's the whole thing. Was it was talking about like the who and whatever else. I hope I die before I get old, and they're like, Yeah, well, you're fucking old now and you're still alive. And and and here they are, you know, and I think the who is still touring or something like that. Nothing against them. I'm just saying it was that that punk attitude of you know, just being two-faced and corporate and just kind of shitting on that. But but a great tune to to get into and kind of really get get your spirits all up.

Yeah. And that's funny because, you know, the who should be picking on them now because I think they did their first farewell tour in the 70s.

And there's no play. It was Budweiser's Budweiser promoted. I can still see the ad. 1982. The first farewell tour, but I think there's 48, something like that. Can you imagine? I think there's I think there's more Who members living today than there are clash members.

Right, exactly.

Okay, Mark, so do you. Okay, well, this is uh kind of a special song to me in some ways. It's except balls to the nice. Maybe me and David didn't get there.

No, you told me Bon Jovi was before exact.

Well, that's what I saw when I looked up the the concert. Yep. I don't we probably didn't get there for Bon Jovi. We we took a a bus down. Yep. Um, you know, like a trailways bus or Concord, whatever it was. But uh but yeah, this is the first band I ever saw opening up for kiss. And I really don't know much of their other stuff, but it's just the riff is just grab you by the balls, Jesus. Incredible songs. You know, I just came up with that, not trying to pun myself, but um can l I can't get sick of this song either. I guess that's the theme, right?

All right, so my number two here, this is heavy songs, and I have talked about this on so many of our podcasts, and this is Kiss Not for the Innocent. Just what a great, great song. Uh Gene Simmons vocal. Fucking this is when Vinnie Vincent was in the band and helping write X amount of songs, just tons of them. Talk about violent. And yeah, exactly. And just fucking battle axe. Just they's so heavy. Just I I don't know. I it it could possibly be my favorite Gene Simmons songs of all time. And actually, I think it might be. I mean, he's got some stuff on Revenge I Love, and obviously I love the older stuff, but just this song to me has so much fucking meaning and is so kick ass. It's like, fuck you. Here we are. This is Demon Gene, and I love it. All right, Dongo, so that's to you.

Cool. So I gotta go to Ozzy. Um, it wouldn't be headbanging if you didn't have an Aussie tune in there. And this song is fast and it's rocking, and I love the live version on the Randy Rhodes tribute, and it is I don't know.

Yes, sir. Yes.

It's great. Great tempo of it.

Yeah. That's like the first song on that record. This is like the introduction to Ozzie Osborne as a solo act.

Yes. Yeah. It is the introduction, absolutely.

And I feel like it's safe that nobody's gonna pick one, but I did look at the um Born Again Black Sabbath album.

Yeah, you did.

Just because I had it, and there was some there was some songs on there that were uh how do you say not terrible? Not terrible, right? I was ne I was never the guy from Ian, what's his name? From Deep Hole, yeah, Gillin. I was never a big fan of the game.

That was another band that Angus Young didn't like.

Yeah, right. I was never a big fan of his uh you know Space Truck and makes me go, who who why would you release that? All right, he's screeching. It's like why? Um but an interesting album and and one of the greatest album covers ever.

No, it's so bad.

Well, perfect, Kev. We'll keep going because we are to you. Gotta talk about their moans, Blitzkrieg Bob Hey, oh, let's go, I oh, let's go, uh, oh, let's go, uh, oh, let's go, go, go through the top, the go through the top, talking about a band that didn't have a song really that lasted more than two minutes and forty seconds. I mean, they they just came out and and hit you in the face. And I mean, Blitzkrieg Bop is just a classic. Originally was gonna be um called Animal Hop, but Didi thought that was not a good idea, and he came up with Blitzkrieb, uh the AO Let's Go.

How long is that song?

I made it in 12 seconds, probably something like that. Um, that was actually making fun of the way Mick Jagger sang Walking the Dog. Um, he he it was tiptoe and he sang it all kinds of Mick Jaggery, and so they were goofing on him. But the craziest part is that that chant itself was inspired by the Bass City Rollers, S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y, really? And they wanted and that's it. He wanted to he wanted to have a song that had that kind of chanting anthem to it. So if it wasn't for the Bass City Rollers, we might not we wouldn't have that tune.

I think that is actually the other. There were three bands, and we they were all mentioned. Um, the other band is the Ramones that Angus Young doesn't like.

Oh boy. What was it, Black Sabbath? Uh Ramones and who? Deep Purple. No, it was the Ramones in Led Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin, right. Unreal. All right, brother.

So where do you? Okay, it's Looks That Kill by Motley Crue. This was actually the the song that um Dr. Michael Savage had at the beginning of his show. So it's got a little special place in my heart. Also, it's kind of got that ace chord, you know, that he does with um shock me. Shock me. Give me a break, Mark. Um cold cold gin and hard times, and uh, you know, the I it's I don't know how to explain it, but if if you're a guitar player, you would know what it is. But it's just a ballsy song.

Cool. Awesome. All right, so I believe we are to number one, and quite honestly, I'm very happy that Mark did not take this one already. So but when this is from 1980, and this is Heaven and Hell Black Saturday.

Oh, heaven fucking just uh sing me a sound, you're a singer.

Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil, but devil is never a maker. The last year, you're a taker. So it's this riff is just so incredible.

Great and and the lyrics and the whole vocal of the of the whole song is God, I didn't write them down, but uh God, I know them by heart too, but it's not coming to me. But when you walk through golden halls, you get to keep the gold that falls. Just I mean, I think it could be one of the greatest hard rock metal songs in history.

I guess right to the point, right down to brass taxes, heads.

Brass fucking tax is just amazing. Number one of you, dongo.

I'm waiting in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime.

Reflecting on my past life, and it doesn't have much time.

Yes. Hallowed be thy name by Iron Maiden is probably one of my favorite songs of all time.

When the prize comes to break me the last place, take a look for the bubbles of the last seats on the wall that was getting for around.

The changes in it, you know, it's a headbanging tune. I had to pick it, but just I remember us growing up going to Loudoin music hall, watching rocks play that Minery, and then playing with Minery for a short period of time, playing that song. Awesome. Thinking I was like playing with maiden themselves, you know. Yeah, it's a big deal back then, man. Yeah. Um, so that that's why I had to go with that one.

I left it off my list purposely for you, Donald. Yeah. Awesome. So do you, Kev.

All right. I just don't want to jinx Mark, but I think did we get through this whole thing without stepping on anybody else? We've had no uh repeats.

You just jinxed me, but that's all right. I mean, I already know knock on wood.

I've had a couple reserves that have scratched off that have been named. Yeah, I had puppets and and I had uh little. I got a couple too, but yeah, okay.

Let's see, you have one more shot, Kevin. I thought it went along masterfully uh to this point. Because there is, I mean, we easily could have made this your top three million bangers. Um, but for my number one, I I had to I had to take a little bit of Metallica off the last album that they ever made. And Justice for All. Yes, sort of straw. Knock your teeth out. Um even even with what they did to Newstead. Um and it's amazing too. I was reading that that uh uh the Muppet behind the drums there said, Oh, that was our CNN phase. And I guess what they were doing, him and Hetfield were watching CNN trying to come up with subject matter for songs, and that's another one you're like talking about Ozzy, like, oh, he's a hell of a songwriter. And I don't know, maybe maybe Hetfield has a different level that we don't see, but certainly listening to that album, I felt like there was a lot more behind it than what's been proven since. Um there's some pretty heavy topics in that album. A fantastic song. Um, and and weird too when we go back and do these things, that uh because one of the the one of the guys that they got to produce that they ended up not going with is Mike Clink, and they took him because he had just done Appetite for Destruction with Guns N' Roses, and it didn't work out, so they got rid of him and got the guy they wanted to begin with, Fleming Rasmussen. Um but in my mind it was hard to justify that Appetite for Destruction came out a year before Anjustice for All. It just doesn't seem I didn't know. I I don't know if it was what I was listening to at the time or what I was into. It was like really appetite is older than Anjustice. Strange, just weird how the aging process happens and and and our uh our lineal linear memories aren't quite in sync with what really happened.

All right, okay. And I was gonna say something, but I'm gonna let Mark go first because what I'm gonna say could step on his toes. So number one, Mark.

Okay, well, here we go, AJ. This is the first repeat. I refuse to take this off my record just because you already picked it. I am not changing it. The song means too much to me. It is also my favorite Gene Simmons song, possibly my favorite kiss song ever. Not for the innocent. I I just I love playing the song on guitar. I like putting it on into my focus right, onto my cakewalk, and then listening into it to my to my own self playing it and everything, and just you know, better lock up your daughters. We're coming to your town. You better pray we're not around. That's right. That's my last song on side two.

Great pick, Mark. Awesome. So, anyway, I thought that was a great episode. I mean, I it was very difficult for me. I don't know about you guys, but I mean, I'm focused. Ironically, there were so many songs to pick from, but I struggled finding ten when it really boiled down to it. But anyway, Mark, thank you.

Oh, you're welcome, AJ. That was a lot of fun, and uh, you know, I got a little overexcited, people. It just happens sometimes.

That's how we do it. Tongo. Thanks. Thanks a lot. It's always fun. I think for homework I'm gonna dig through some old bins and see if I can find an actual mixtape that I made. I'm sure you guys see how the songs match up, Kevin.

Well, thank you, AJ. Always a great time. Um, I think this is probably gonna happen to all of us over the next week. We're gonna jump in our vehicles to go somewhere, and a song's gonna come on, and we're gonna go, how the f did we miss that?

Oh god, a hundred times it's gonna fucking happen. Awesome. And thank you out there, people, for listening. Uh, once again, PTA80H at gmail.com. PTA80H at gmail.com. Please reach out. Can't thank you enough for the downloads and thank all of you boys, and we are out.