A huge thank-you once more to Martin Popoff for joining us on the show to talk King’s X! We have been immersing ourselves in the magic trio from Texas: Dug, Ty and Jerry. And it has been brilliant. And these were some brilliant lists. Martin’s insight on these crucial records will be of interest to diehards and new fans alike.
Want a starter’s kit into King’s X? Watch this show and listen to Martin. He comes in at 0:12:45 of the stream.
Martin hung out and chatted King’s X (and a little Rush) for an hour. Afterwards, we were joined by Kevin from Buried On Mars to continue the musical discussions. Jacob Moon, Marillion, Def Leppard, Black Sabbath…it was a fun freeform chat that I hope you will stick around and enjoy for the balance of the show.
A huge thanks to Mr. T-Bone Erickson for the new Martin Popoff intro.
Your panel tonight was:
- Myself
- Martin Popoff
- Superdekes
- Uncle Meat
- and special bonus guest Buried on Mars.
Thanks for Dr. Dave Haslam and KK for your bonus lists!
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A great show. I should be more into King’s X. Popoff knows his stuff, and he’s super cool on top of that. Looking forward to next week. Concept albums, a love of mine. I guess I don’t really want to be on, but I’d like to put in a list for that one, since I love concept albums. Well, when they’re done right. It’s hard to fail more spectacularly than when you make a bad concept album.
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Thanks, he was an awesome guest as always…I thought the guys did great too!
Sure, submit a list! I can’t promise that we will necessarily get to it because I think next week will be a long show, but we shall see! That was Rob Daniels’ idea. You just know Rob will have something unusual to show & tell.
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Is your email the best place, or should I give it to Harrison to give to you?
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Either one works — someone also mentioned writing the picks in the comments so I can put them on screen. I like that feature a lot too. You could make a list, and copy/paste? (Just keep it clean at my mom is now my most regular viewer even when she doesn’t know the bands). Anyway it’s up to you — I personally like having the text on the screen while I read but that’s just me!
Gonna be a great show though, I know you like when Rob is on. The guy knows of what he speaks!
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I’ve tried to keep it clean since I found out more than just us guys were watching. Nothing blue now, just silliness at worst.
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Sounds good to me man! Gonna be a fun night.
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Say, did Harrison tell you Danny Elfman is back? Totally doing something new. Nice to hear a 67 year old totally reinvent himself without sounding out of touch for a minute. He’s putting out a new single every month.
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I heard something about this but not through the cabbage vine.
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This is the latest single of three released so far. KK is a fan.
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Glad I caught some of this stream! Because of it, that 5CD box of Kings X is now on its way to my house. I’ll catch up on what I missed at the beginning shortly!
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SO awesome! Now I didn’t catch all the comments, is that the first five albums?
That would be:
Out of the Silent Planet
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Faith Hope Love
King’s X
Dogman
Five killer albums right there. Although only Martin’s picked King’s X as one of his five.
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Yup that’s them. $19.99 (plus $3.49 shipping).
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Dude that’s a steal. Well done — you are now a member of the club.
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Haha thanks (I think)! I know folks like them but I don’t know anything about them so this’ll be a total noob experiment in 2021. And for that price, why not!
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Those five albums could easily be a top five on their own!
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Right on! It’s a secondary seller so they’ll probably get here next month lol.
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LOL! Hey at least it’s CD or it would have cost a kidney to get there!
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For sure, though I doubt 5 LPs would have been $20 anyway! I’m really liking these albums boxed sets. I got the ZZ Top one, and the Police is on the way (still), and now Kings X. I also have the Phil Collins one, which I totally didn’t need but whatever… I just like to have the records to put tunes in my ears, not too bothered about packaging etc.
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It was the 5CD box that got me started. Loads in there to enjoy.
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That’s the one Kevin just ordered as well!
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It’s a great starter box and you can find it cheap (it was £10 or so over here).
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I’ve got one on the way here!
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I really hope you like it after all our hype! Been listening to King’s X all week and into the weekend here.
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Well I am brand new to it. Have I even heard a song of theirs? Maybe? On an old CMJ maybe? I dunno. Anyway, I like a challenge, and I love new-to-me tunes so I’ll give ‘er!
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Nice to see multiple Leafs jerseys on screen (even if only briefly with Jen’s cameo!) – and the LeBrian Sports Hour would be a fun twist!
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LeBrain knows nothing about sports, so that would be fun!
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I’ve caught up with the first hour and it was cool hearing what you guys had to say about those King’s X albums. My favourite is either Dogman or Ear Candy (Gretchen, Tape Head, Mr Bulbous make up my top 5).
I’ll catch up with the rest tomorrow, but I enjoyed that first hour.
By the way, how do you rate Tres Mtns?
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Thanks for watching Mr J!
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Tres Mtns? What’s that?
I love that you got Bulbous in there…it’s an interesting listen that I put on more now than ever.
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Tres Mts. is Pinnick’s project with Jeff Ament (Richard Stuverud and Mike McCready are on there also). Really good album.
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Noted. I like Mike’s creamy guitar.
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Definitely plenty there for you to enjoy, man.
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Nice. Noted. I’ll keep two eyes open on that.
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I just wanted to let Kevin and Meat know that there are no hard feelings towards them for not liking Def Leppard haha!
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I think Meat is way more into them than I am, lol
I still need to give High ‘n Dry a spin. I hope to do so before next week’s show but I don’t even know if there will be time to talk about it. It is going to be a busy one!
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If you hear the version of High N Dry with the infinite groove, you’ll never have time, no! No! No! No! No! No!….
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That sounds like a hard pass from me!
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Oh ok he just doesn’t care for Hysteria much? That’s fine, it’s not a perfect album in my opinion.
No rush, there’s always time to get into Def Leppard! Oh is that the 80s riffs show?
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No, concept albums. But there are a lot of guest hosts and I think Mike has a few things he wants to get to.
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Tons of ideas to get to! Already scheduling interviews for March and topics beyond!
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As long as one of them isn’t Nostradamus! I’ve heard bad things about that album.
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It’s not bad. It’s long. But it won’t be on any of my lists. Who knows my list could be all Canadian at this point.
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I’m sure your list was awesome and that’s cool you support Canadians, representing where you came from. Sorry I couldn’t catch it live, but I’ll check it out sometime this weekend!
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