Fascinating lists tonight, and a clear winner emerged! This fantabulous list show was brought to you by:
- Keen Kevin (Buried On Mars)
- The shrewd Sarah (Caught Me Gaming)
- The macrocephalous Meat Man (Max the Axe)
- Righteous Rob Daniels (Visions In Sound)
- And graphically-inclined Geoff (1001 Albums in 10 Years)
This epic show included some surprises, including about 25% CanCon and none of them named “Rush”. Even the picks that were only selected once included some pretty massive albums. Check out the lists, and the graphs by Geoff, and let us know what you think about our picks!
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Some surprises here for sure. Will hopefully catch the show (or some of it) later today.
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Hope you can check it out!
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Paul Laine got some love!! Awesome!! Great show tonight and some bands I had never heard of which is always cool. I am surprised there weren’t more repeats.
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Paul Laine thanks to you buddy! And Coney Hatch thanks to Deke. Two albums on my list are ones I first heard in 2020!
To me the biggest surprise is Cyndi Lauper! Great lists all around!
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Cyndi was a surprise, but it really isn’t. It is a fantastic album. Cyndi was really more than her crazy outfits. The woman can sing!
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True that. I just didn’t expect it from this group!
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I really thought there would be more overlap, but even Sarah and I only had one album that did. Shows you how many fantastic debut albums there are out there!
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And as mentioned — no Zep, no Rush, no Kiss. Great show and thank you guys for hanging out. And listen to that Helix album. It deserves its high praise.
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I really wasn’t expecting to see Rush or Kiss. But Zep was surprising. It was on both of our lists early on. I’m sure Breaking Loose is a fine album. It just no Gordon!
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Rob’s list is a fantastic mix bag of music. Wow. Thats a Maxwell 90 minute tape right there!
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Coney Hatch on my list thanks to you bud! And another shout out to you on my Paul Laine pick.
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That was a lot of fun – and I learned a new word this morning, macrocephalous!
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Thanks Geoff! And as an added bonus, it has two meanings in this instance. 1) “Check out the big brain on Eric!” and 2) Big-headed Eric — assertive of his opinions!
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Meat picking Steely Dan is awesome.
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love reading through the lists you posted. Information society. wow, great choice. some others I’d agree with too. fun time!
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How can you not have the first Ramones LP? Pah.
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Did I see someone recognize Helix? On one of those lists. Good call. They really knocked it out of the park on “No Rest For The Wicked” but never came close to topping that – I don’t know what exactly I would pick for this – maybe Ratt “Out of the Cellar” if you can look past the EP that came out a year before it – maybe GnR “Appetite for Destruction” – maybe Meatloaf if “Bat Out of Hell” is his 1st album and I think it was.
I noticed someone mentioned Tori Amos – that is another really good pick.
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I had Helix on my list and Eric had Tori on his!
Helix are my hometown boys, although I recommended Back For Another Taste as a fantastic post No-Rest album.
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I don’t know if I ever heard that album. I know they got dropped by Capitol Records and tried the indie label route for a bit. The Canadian band I preferred though out of that early 80’s class (Headpins, Helix, Coney Hatch, Kick Axe, White Wolf, Anvil, Razor) was KICK AXE. I loved that band and thought they should have been big.
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Oh dude! Have you read my Kick Axe series? I reviewed everything from their first single to Rock the World, including the Transformers soundtrack. The only thing I was not able to get to (yet) is the 4th LP.
All the links are right here:
https://mikeladano.com/2019/09/04/review-kick-axe-rock-the-world-1986-2016-remaster-kick-axe-series-part-six/
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I was low-key hoping that Kevin was going to pick AC/DC’s debut album, but it’s understandable that their first album wasn’t their greatest and the ‘High Voltage’ (1976) album was basically a compilation of their first two albums in Australia. Props to Geoff for participating in the topic discussion and providing lovely graphs for the show. Great stuff, Mike!
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Awsome topic, awesome panel. Well done.
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