Crystal - nice t-shirt. One of my favorite sesame street sketches... "... I'll remember - a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter."

Hey Paul, I’ve actually really come around on British Steel, and it’s now my favorite Priest album! Hell, I even dig United now, although it’s definitely the weakest track on the record! :P 🤗🖤😎😈

Ohhh nice. Some Inner Soundtrack nicely placed in the segment. If you don’t know - get on it. A masterpiece.

This is my list: 15. The Final Cut - not bad, but kind of boring. And boring sucks. 14. More - it kind of screams at me, but not in the right way. 13. Momentary Lapse of Reason - if it wasn't for that framing thing, I'd go fully along with it. 12. Saucerful of Secrets - reflects the two first parts of the title track. A bit messy. 11. Animals - yeah, I get it, but it doesn't rich my personal bullseye 10. Piper at the Gates of Dawn - it's 1967, young and fresh and the debut, so I'll love it just because of that 9. Obscured By Clouds - something about it speaks to me. It has this summery moody feel that I love about it 8. The Wall - simplicity and iconicness, and I like that. 7. The Endless River - I don't live, but like it, and that thing about who painted it pushed it up the list for me 6. Division Bell - good handcraft and it's better than the music IMHO 5. Wish You Were Here - Never really cared for that wide passepartuot, but that little burn mark saves it. 4. Meddle - always loved it, it's blue and mysterious and reflects the music (i.e. Echoes and One of these Days) 3. Ummagumma - always loved that one because it sets me in the mood and I actually love the album (I know I'm a weirdo) 2. Atom Heart Mother - That album cover as the one that called my attention and curiosity before I went into Floyd ages ago 1. Dark Side of the Moon - I think I have nothing to say that hasn't been said a billion times already Thank you for a very good 45 minutes, guys.

Great video, I loved hearing your thoughts on this incredible discography! I do want to speak up for one of my favorite songs, "Little Lamb Dragonfly," though lol. I hear a lot of people criticize it for the "Lalala" sections, but that's not actually very much of the song -- just the transition from the intro into the main body of the song, and then the outro. (I've seen people call it the chorus, but it's not, really -- the chorus is "Since you've gone I never know/I go on, but miss you so." It's a weird song structure lol) Anyway, I think the "Lalala" section actually calls back to the first line of the song, "I have no answer for you," as those transitions are meant to reflect a feeling of grief that can't be put into words. That's what I get out of it, anyway! I just think it's a beautiful song about incomprehensible loss, juxtaposing the death of a little lamb on his farm with the loss of a dear friendship, and not really being able to find sense in either.

Great video dudes. Crystal. I dig the tee shirt homage to that famous animated Sesame Street segment 👊. I remember it so well.

This one was an absolute joy. YOU ARE ALL AWESOME

A loaf of bread, a container of milk, & a stick of butter! Amazing! The flashing light was on the first pressing of the Pulse album.

We're all sweating it out. (R.I.P. Richard Simmons.) So, the Pink Floyd album covers. I wouldn't say any of these are terrible or bad. The ones at the bottom are just confusing to me if anything. Frustratingly so in a few cases. So, here goes: 14. Meddle (It's an ear? Really? I dunno. Looks like an elephant trunk or a penis to me. I'm into "weird" and avant-garde stuff, I envy and love Crystal for knowing so much about art herself, but this.... yeah, like I said above, frustratingly confusing to me.) 13. The Final Cut (Military ribbons? Okay, fine.) 12. Obscured By Clouds (I guess for what it is, it works.) 11. More (Same as 12.) 10. Endless River (Yeah, it does look like an illustration from a children's book. I was also thinking something from a Disney movie. Considering how cartoonish Floyd had become at this point, I guess it makes sense in that regard.) 9. Saucerful Of Secrets (Getting better.) 8. The Division Bell (I do remember hearing about that "pulse light" in the first pressing or so of the album.) 7. Ummagumma (If only Gilmour would wear shoes on this album cover...) 6. Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (It's simple. It's their first album. It works.) 5. Animals (Pig Floyd. :Butthead laugh: Nevermind. Shout-out to @abigaildevoe whose review of Animals was posted on her channel this week.) 4. Wish You Were Here 3. Momentary Lapse Of Reason 2. The Wall (Whether that scroll is on it or not, it works.) 1. The Dark Side Of The Moon (You're not the only basic bitch, Tommy. Ha! Simple, iconic. "Arty" without being too cerebral. Perfect, really. One reason why the album was so successful, I'm sure.) I can't be the only one who got a tad emotional when that dude in that MTV ad mentioned "14-cent stamp", am I? 2019 albums next week. Yeah, I'll get back to you on that. Ha! See y'all then. :)

Well awwright... happy Thursday my fellow music lovers! So it's all about Pink Floyd album covers. This is perfect for me since I'm not ready for 2019. Here's my top 15 list of the album arts... 15. The Final Cut 14. More 13. Boogie Oogie Oogie (I know it's Ummagumma but I just like to make a joke about it too) 12. The Endless River (meh!) 11. A Momentary Lapse Of Reason 10. Meddle (great album but the cover...eh!) 9. The Wall 8. Obscured By Clouds 7. The Division Bell 6. A Saucerful Of Secrets 5. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 4. Atom Heart Mother 3. Animals 2. Wish You Were Here 1. The Dark Side Of The Moon (no doubt that's one of the greatest album covers in music history)

The wall was the big kids album in the summer of 79. The camp counselors would go off and listen to it when we kids were playing

Crystal. Your shirt dislodged a memory. A Saturday morning cartoon in the 70s? School House Rock sketch? Loaf of bread, stick of butter, quart of milk. Sent to the store to get them for their mom?

Did I miss Obscured by clouds? Why is that omitted and More stays?

I very much appreciate all three of you and your ability to describe in detail what you like and don't like about an image. It takes time and thought. You guys make interesting, funny and really enjoyable. 3 different #1 but I like all 3 of your reasons as to why!

Fun concept for a show and Pink Floyd have some very iconic covers great show gang total fun

The great and mighty Pink Flooooooyyyydd!! The covers of so much of their albums so awesome and well done by Hypgnosis, but a couple of them, like More and The Final Cut, were trash! 😂

Well I guess today's soundtrack while I'm at work is ELO time for a deep dive

1. Road To Ruin 2. Leave Home 3. Ramones 4. Too Tough To Die 5. Rocket To Russia 6. Pleasant Dreams 7. Brain Drain 8. Halfway To Sanity 9. Animal Boy 10. Mondo Bizarro 11. Adios Amigos 12. End of The Century 13. Subterranean Jungle 14. Acid Eaters

I love The Crusher

maybe have a beach boys ranking

Some great choices! Although I have to say…Don’t Stop Believin’ is in my dishonorable mentions. I never liked it at all and think it’s really overplayed and really hokey and boring..😢 And I also hate Centerfold, pretty annoying song and also kinda creepy lol

1. Meant for you 2. Friends 3. Wake the world 4. Be here in the morning 5. When a man loves a woman 6. Passing by 7. Anna lee the healer 8. Little bird 9. Time to get alone 10. Busy doin nothing 11. Our prayer 12. Cabinessence

Hello Paul & Everyone. Here's my top 10 ELO songs (not all of which were singles): 1. Twilight 2. Do Ya 3. Sweet Talkin' Woman 4. Calling America 5. Livin' Thing 6. Summer and Lightning 7. Hold On Tight 8. Don't Bring Me Down 9. Bluebird 10. Poker

I sat next to Guy Gilchrist this past weekend at a comic con and I told him how y'all do Muppet head nods. He said he was gonna check y'all out. He laughed and asked if you did the Waldorf and Statler voices

Good stuff, I'll record 1975 this week and ELO will be on there (Evil Woman this year) each year until Time if they released something. Jeff Lynne had the pop juice for sure. Haha, the Rock n Roll thing can be hokey yes, perfect word but perhaps in the early 70's it was nostalgic like someone in the 00's doing an 80's sounding song. Solid list as usual.

1. Venus and mars rockshow 2. Whatever gets you through the night 3. Old dirt road. 4. Titanium man 5. Letting go 6. Scared 7. #9 dream 8. Call me back again 9. Steel and glass 10. Lonely old people 11. Nobody knows you when your down and out

Great video as always Paul. My favorite ELO single would have to be Evil Woman followed by Livin Thing and Mr. Blue Sky. Strange Magic and Telephone Line would definitely make my Top 10 though

"Rocky rolly thing" heh. I call those his robobilly songs. I don't know for sure, but it seems they were an influence on 80s Dave Edmunds (duh, he did produce and wrote "Slipping Away") and even ZZ Top and indirectly, Queens of the Stone Age! And like you said, it informed Lynne's production work for other artists through the 80s. I've gotten more tolerant of that stuff over time, but not my faves. Are you planning to see Jeff Lynne's ELO's final tour? I saw it two years in a row in 2018-19, and the setlist was exactly the same, which was disappointing. I liked that it started with the deep cut "Standin' in the Rain," but don't love how the encore has always been "Roll Over Beethoven." Ugh. I get that it symbolizes his statement of purpose, carrying the torch from "Eleanor Rigby" and "I Am the Walrus," but it does suck. No songs from Time or Secret Messages either. The one track that was originally meant for the double album that didn't make the 2018 reissue was "Beatles Forever," which I have NEVER heard. Lynne must have been really embarrassed by it for it to be the one track left out, and impossible to find anywhere. Let us know if you find it! Curious what your favorite non-singles are. My fave is probably "So Fine" -- I often find it more uplifting than "Telephone Line" and "Livin' Thing." "Jungle" was a lot of fun when I was a kid -- had a dance for the part where the animals danced. 1. So Fine 2. Jungle 3. Sweet is the Night 4. Tightrope 5. Here is the News 6. Standin' in the Rain 7. Summer and Lightning 8. Hello, My Old Friend 9. Yours Truly, 2095 10. Need Her Love One song I never got was Can't Get It Out of My Head. I've heard it hundreds of times, but never really liked it. #8 was one of the tracks added to the double album reissue of Secret Messages. I wrote this about it a while back: When I first heard the dramatic intro of the vocodor robot voice on “Prologue,” leading into Bev Bevan’s blazing, phased drums on “Twilight,” I swore it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard, at the age of 11. ELO was by far my favorite band for over three years, but by 1983, U2 and Iron Maiden were duking it out with Rush for the top spot. Nevertheless, I anticipated the release of Secret Messages and enjoyed it, even if it was a step down from Time. Secret Messages was a sarcastic response to allegations from American Christian fundamentalists of hidden satanic messages going all the way back to Eldorado (1974). With the plan to include a live side to make it a double album to complete their contract with the record label, Lynne ended up writing 20 songs, resulting in an 18 track album, including the tribute “Beatles Forever.” While the trunceated album initially signaled ELO’s artistic decline, marred by the incredibly lame “Rock ‘n’ Roll Is King” single, a failed rehash of the robobilly “Hold On Tight,” it’s still impressive, with the Roy Orbison inspired “Endless Lies,” and especially the closing epic 8:31 long “Hello My Old Friend,” a kind of summary of ELO’s artistic lifespan. “High-rise tower blocks with panoramic views of trains and coal, Tiehead railway tracks tread faithfully, The gas works to behold.” The label forced Lynne to edit and remix it down to a single album, losing it’s best track. While most of the cut tracks were released as B-sides and compiled on Afterglow, “Beatles Forever” remains unreleased, even when the album was finally released in a 17 track vinyl double album on August 3, 2018. Lynne must have deemed the tribute to his now old pals not up to snuff. Finally in it’s originally intended tracklist, it nearly matches Time. In this context, songs like the title track, “Bluebird,” “Stranger,” and “Four Little Diamonds” sound even better.

I used to have Pisces, but I don't now. I had to sell it. That had some great songs.

Fine ranking, I saw 10538 Overture on TOTP at the time, Jeff had a propeller on his hat and it's still my favourite!

Ahhhh, ELO! When I was a kid, ELO was the lingua franca of musical taste: my friends and I ALL loved ELO, so it was the conduit through which we were able to talk about music. My ranking would be different from yours (I’d put Ma-Ma-Ma Belle much higher, and I’d have to put Mr Blue Sky at number one, for examples), but I completely get your ranking. I agree with you that Balance of Power is a much better album than most fans give it credit for, and I’d say Face the Music is almost as under appreciated. I mean, come on! One album that has massive hits like Evil Woman and Strange Magic, and should’ve been hits like Nightrider and One Summer Dream, and one of the best pop-rock instrumentals of the decade in Fire on High…. Just a spectacular album. And even then, it has to compete with A New World Record and Out of the Blue… Woof. As for Xanadu, I really like the version Jeff Lynne released in the Flashback set. Lovely song.

Elo were one of the best singles bands of the 70s and also a band that always gave you a full album experience my favorite Elo singles are Mr blue sky, strange magic, calling America, and don't bring me down

ELO were always the ones that picked up where The Beatles left off. Jeff Lynne just took all the best elements of The Beatles’ imperial era with the best tendencies of orchestral pop and power pop all put together with masterful meticulous mixing and production to create something truly amazing and timeless in a beautiful way! 😊

first (after the fix) after skipping through, need to sleep, i have so much much homework to do ... while i know some songs there is so much i missed but i'm pretty sure it is worth it. Thanks!

I actually have The Partridge Family Shopping Bag. It came with a shopping bag, a very mod looking shopping bag. I actually had the same album that my mom gave me from a garage sale in the 90s. That one didn't have a shopping bag. And I have the first album, but I don't think it had a pin up.

1:12 20:46 22:14 😂

This was a funny episode. Loved how Paul stared. Too funny

Best year in music in my opinion.

Well allll riiiiiiight! I'm not letting 2018 break me, dug around and found some cool stuff. Thanks for the great video! 1. Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth 2. Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love 3. Blood Orange - Negro Swan 4. Mélissa Laveaux - Radyo Siwèl 5. DJ Koze - Knock Knock 6. Shame - Songs of Praise

This was a great watch, you guys have great chemistry.

My first vid from you guys, LOVE IT. Here's my worthless 2 cents: 9). Coda 8). Presence 7). LZIII 6). Physical Grafiti 5). In through the out door 4). ZOSO 3). Houses of the Holy 2). LZI 1). LZII

Who actually hates George’s sitar? Is this rage bait 😅 Within You Without You is a top 3 Beatles song

1.The Aces - When My Heart Felt Volcanic 2. Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out! 3. Bad Sounds - Get Better 4. Bishop Briggs - Church of Scars 5. Hollie Cook - Vessel of Love 6. Jain - Souldier 7. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer 8. Lily Allen - No Shame 9. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises 10. Sofi Tukker - Treehouse

My favorite 2018 album : Jeremy Dutcher - Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (not in french as usual) least favorite : Fall Out Boy - Mania !

French lyrics vs. French horn.

You haven't lived until you've heard this version of Yellow Submarine kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z32ym4pjdrtrnLMsi=hkTN_1Q4x7Rzl_pK

Great video as always! Not to be that guy...but wasn't Lennox's version of "No More I Love You's" from 1995? Or am I smoking something? Lol regardless...it's one of my favorite songs of hers, Eurythmics or not!

yeah, good video

This was the year i saw metric open for the pumpkins. Both bands played all their hits. Pumpkins did songs from Watchmen and Batman and robin movie soundtracks

Hiya, everyone! Here’s the list I managed to cobble together for 2018. Not an especially rich tapestry, in the grand scheme of things, but I was genuinely enjoying these sounds some six years back… 1 - Go-Kart Mozart - ‘Mozart’s Mini-Mart’ (‘When You’re Depressed’) 2 - Suede - ‘The Blue Hour’ (‘Flytipping’) 3 - IDLES - ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ (‘Never Fight a Man with a Perm’) 4 - Manic Street Preachers - ‘Resistance is Futile’ (‘International Blue’) I look forward to, as always, seeing the picks of our esteemed hosts and those of my fave AISB community members! Best wishes, Christian