Won’t you take me back to school?
I need to learn the golden rule.
Won’t you lay it on the line?
I need to hear it just one more time. — Justin Hayward
Truly awesome show tonight as we took our musical time machine back to 1981. Thanks to the awesome panel: Harrison the Australia Guy, Eric “Uncle Meat” Litwiller, and Dr. Dave Haslam. Together we went deep on the following 12 albums from the year 1981 A.D.:
- Oingo Boingo – Only a Lad
- AC/DC – For Those About to Rock
- The Who – Face Dances
- Thin Lizzy – Renegade
- Iron Maiden – Killers
- Blue Oyster Cult – Fire of Unknown Origin
- Genesis – Abacab
- John Williams – Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack
- The Moody Blues – Long Distance Voyager
- Styx – Paradise Theater
- ELO – Time
- Rush – Moving Pictures
In addition, if you indulge yourself to watch the whole 3+ hour show you will also get:
- an unboxing of the new Kiss Destroyer 45th Anniversary box set
- history of the year 1981
- a clip of Eric’s cinematic debut Raiders of the Lost Fart
- lots of laughs
- a list of virtually every noteworthy album of the year 1981
This show was a sequel to last year’s retrospective on the year 1980 with Deke and a spinoff of Deke’s excellent followup on albums from 1981.
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I can’t believe I forgot that Hooked on Classics was also released in 1981. I would have brought it up just for a bit of fun. Never fails to get me air-conductoring throughout the house.
But still great fun all around. And some new music to appreciate as well.
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Wow good one Harrison, Hooked on Classics was not on my list!
See you next year for 1982?
I think I decided to take next week off, I deserve a break!
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Yes you do. And yes, unless someone else desperately wants to do 1982, you can count me in.
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I guess the shorter show idea is out the window now!! LOL!!
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This was discussed after the show — when we do 1982, we pick 2 albums each. Truthfully I didn’t know how long this would go, but I didn’t want to stifle the vivid conversation.
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I get it. Once you get going, it gets so fun you don’t want to stop!! No complaints at all…funny observation for me though.
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I hope you get a chance to see some of it, doesn’t matter what part, it was all solid and awesome and funny!
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I will. I usually do get through them…mostly. A lot of the times, I keep them in the background when working so I can at least hear it and when someone does a show & tell, i find myself watching more than working!!
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Do yourself a favour and at least check out Raiders of the Lost Fart. Go to about 2:18:00 for that. It’s brief…but oh, so very worth it.
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Will do!!
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Man, I was 7. I’ll come back and watch this.
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I was only 9, but I only ended up picking albums I heard much later in life (aside from Raiders).
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Fair enough!
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At the end, we list off basically every major album released that year…you will be shocked just how many we didn’t even touch on.
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I hope Black Flag was on there!
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You guys did good! You gave 1981 the love it deserves. My only criticism is that you forgot Def Leppard’s ‘High ‘n’ Dry,’ but I’m guessing that’s because Deke covered it on his 1981 show.
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Correct. There was no forgetting, you have to watch the whole show right to the end, it was on my list at the end of the show. Believe me we forgot NOTHING.
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Ah ok, I’ll have to watch the end then.
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The end was the best! That’s the part where I lost my breath lol
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I just watched it! You were beaming with excitement as you named the albums that weren’t mentioned earlier. I also heard someone burp and saw Harrison make a grossed out face cause Dave wanted him to listen to Blondie.
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HAHAH yes someone burped! Man that was fun! I am sure you could tell! I am taking a break this week because last week, with all the listening we did, each guy poured about 12 hours of time into the show! That’s 48 hours of work!
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Yeah and it was exciting lol! You and the guys definitely deserve a break, especially since the show was over three hours.
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