I’m a purist, so I don’t think rap or country or most R&B should be there. It’s diversity politics, which just trivializes the whole thing.

Another Alt-Right Andrew list “best of”, “worst of”, … Andy’s subjective, personal favorites of whatever year … Cause Andrew couldn’t ever get any guest interviews … cause even the legacy, geriatric talents are still touring & working in real music … not having a conversation with AE …

thanks Professor Andy! a couple here I havent heard so I checked out El Chico. Stunning! i really miss being able to hear the room. why does no one do that anymore? the drums play the room! why does it all have to happen in a vacuum? Have you heard the Carroll Decamp recordings of Wes Montgomery from the 50's? love the jazz. a lot of the other jazz aficionados on youtube are into fuzak or very pretentious stuff. i noticed on your 1985 list you kinda lumped Branford with Wynton. i'd invite you to check out Branford's work more. he is kind of the anti-Wynton in a lot of ways. and he does an amazing interview with Alice Coltrane you can find here on youtube. and Rubber Soul is my favorite Beatles Album :) that's all my comments. -just another rando

This put ejaculate in me eye! You could've warned me! Right? 😂

Does Aqualung count? The Yes Album? The are epics

Even Mick Jagger had a better album that year than some of your selections 😛 But we certainly agree on Sting and Kate Bush!

This is the jazz fusion black metal we need right now. Well done, Andy. (I still like The Warning, though.)

In the 1980s, "40 years" meant World War II... the stuff you see so often in Pink Floyd, "The Wall". To this day I still think of World War II as "40 years ago" because of that even though it ain't. It's actually double that now. Funny how that works.

Andy make a video about bands that will be remembered yrs from now.

I agree with list.

Head on door great album

Fantastic video.......Back in the day, you'd have to pay Godley and Cream real money for those fancy computer graphics!

You and your friggin’ fusion. Yeah, yeah… super-musicians engaging in virtuosic masturbation. Fine. Great stuff… but, fuse this. 🤨 Black Sabbath: Sabotage; Brian Eno: Another Green World; Camel: The Snow Goose; Manuel Gottsching: Inventions For Electric Guitar; Kraftwerk: Radioactivity; Queen: A Night At The Opera; and, I know you like to cherry-pick things to hate from this album and always ignore the high points, but… Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run.

Study in Brown Clifford Brown / Max Roach essential, every track a gem and beautiful. Atmospheric tunes that are instantly accessible (at least the heads) and appeal to most people .

I gotta tell you Andy you are insane. I agree with you REO horrible The Ramones horrible Kiss horrible I think the Ramones wore wigs too. And all these bands hate each other. It’s a riot.

Andy knows his stuff.

Number one was a nice surprise. Absolutely love Kate Bush.

Andy's pronouns are they them

John Lydon, a great fan of Katie Bush... Say No More!!

Ah, 1965. I remember it not at all. I was three. But my mom told me I used to stand in front of the t.v. and dance along to the dancing cigarette pack in one of the commercials. So that's my pick.

Lloyd Cole - Love Story / Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid / Self - Subliminal Plastic Motives / Jill Sobule / The Trampolines - Splash* / The Merrymakers - No Sleep Til Famous* / Stonecake - In the Middle of Nowhere* * [From the newly burgeoning Swedish Indie Pop scene, which would spawn The Cardigans and The Wannadies] [93 to 95 were my Dark Ages for UK music. Thus just the one entry]

Have you ever talked about the band called Death?

Love it! I will play this on my radio show.

Smokin' babe in the leader. She changed, I hear. Update: Elliot Ingber, Winged Eel Fingerling, passed yesterday, January 22. He lived in this building for 20 years, I've recovered and kept some of his mail which was being tossed in the bin. I did my best to find him in Central L.A. to get his mail to him. I did not find him and now he's free. 1995 - the Shutov Assembly, Brian Eno. Also whatever Harold Budd recorded that year and yes, they did collaborate. Eno is known throughout the galaxy and is much listened to. Oddly enough, so are Miles and the Beatles and Jimi...

Almost prog😂

My top 1985 Albums: 1. Larry Coryell / Emily Remler, Together; 2. Tony Williams Civilization, 3.Tom Waits Rain Dogs

That was crazy! In both good and bad ways.

This is pure gold. I expect the views will be a slow burn but certainly deserves to be seen by the many, not the few.

INPO: Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull Fly by Night - Rush Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin Dressed to Kill - Kiss Abba - Abba Alive - Kiss Caress of Steel - Rush Fish out of Water - Chris Squire The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell Live! - Bob Marley and the Wailers

So good I listened to it twice.

Thanks Andy! Informative and funny as always!!

Afterburner by ZZ Top was on top for me. Not as good as Eliminator though, but back in 1985 it was the best, considering that on the whole music was really crap in the mid 80s

Andy likes Lenny White. He has no idea what chicken fried steak is.

Decode yourself and hounds of love are the only albums I got which I still play from time to time. Not sure I'd bother with many of the others

🔥🚬🥸 a little more cowbell and you've got yourself a number 1 hit.

Great interview! Dani is a genius player 🫡

Unpopular choice - Worldwide Live by Scorpions. Sting for sure, and Brothers In Arms, but for me #1 is This Is Big Audio Dynamite. 'Get 3 coffins ready' is a phrase I hear most every week :)

thank you, really needed to learn this.. i was 14 got a cassette jimi at morecombe/monterey ... can't remember , i was at both gigs, had too much lucozade/rinena, bought an electric guitar and amp... AH i am feasting upon.

Reed, Bowie, Smith, Morrison were pretentious art rockers. Baker was obnoxious to everyone. Spector was a martinet who killed someone. No Ozzie? After his stupid TV family show? Mumbling dope? Aaargh.

01. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush 02. This is the Sea -The Waterboys 03. Meat is Murder - The Smiths 04. Hell Awaits - Slayer 05. Invasion of Your Privacy - Ratt 06. Low-Life - New Order 07. The Wishing Chair -10,000 Maniacs 08. Boys and Girls - Bryan Ferry 09. The Head on the Door - The Cure 10. Rock a Little - Stevie Nicks HM: Killing is my Business - Megadeth Power Windows - Rush Heyday - The Church

Going to check out that Jan Hammer album. Thanks Andy.

Meat is Murder - The Smiths, The Head on the Door - The Cure, Fables of the Reconstruction - REM, Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears, Tim - The Replacements, and yes Kate Bush and Talking Heads.

I haven't watched this yet, but the first mention of the Mahavishnu Orchestra or anyone who's ever played with them, it will be turned the fuck off.

Not bad, but I'd make a few changes. I'd l replace Ornette with Dolphy. I happen to think that Duke is important more for the fact that he brought an elegance to black big band jazz, but he wasn't the greatest composer or arranger. (He brought in Strayhorn for that). He was actually an underrated pianist! I'd put Brubeck in there because he made jazz popular to a wide audience. I think you have to add Gene Krupa. He was a superstar on an instrument that was barely considered an instrument. And he made it a SOLO instrument. That's pretty incredible. And as far as influences, Lee Morgan, Chick Corea and Jaco Pastorius might have to get in there as well.

Andy, may i ask please, what do you think about Ren Gil (anglesey/brighton multi everything)?

Nice

You’ve mixed Caress of Steel with Fly by Night. “By-tor and the Snowman” 😂

I bought Al Dimeola's Tour de Force on vinyl in 1985. What was going on in the UK?

This Nation’s Saving Grace -The Fall Run, Sodomy and The Lash - The Pogues In My Head -Black Flag Psychocandy-Jesus and The Mary Chain Rain Dogs Tom Waits Tim-The Replacements To Mega Therion- Celtic Frost Killing Is My Business- Megadeth Bad Moon Rising-Sonic Youth Love -The Cult

A couple things: - Pete Townshend and John Entwistle definitely did influence the volume of Marshall amps, but also the size of cabinets. After discovering that the 8 x 12" cabinets they requested were much to big for gigging, they had them cut in two, thus creating the 4 x 12"...with which they created the 'stack'. There are various tales about who came up with the slant-top cab, but the primary purpose was to project the sound to the ceiling, where it would ounce to the back of the venue. The Tremeloes, a band reliant on multi-part harmonies, claimed it was their idea, noting that on small, shallow stages a typical amp/speaker combo like a Vox or Selmer projected the sound into the back of their legs. With the slant-top it projected upward, so they could hear themselves. Remember, this was a time when there were no stage monitors. During this era John Entwistle also requested James Howe of Rotosound Strings to design strings based on piano wire. Thus the invention of round--wound bass strings, which is what we heard in the breaks on 'My Generation' and later with Chris Squire in Yes. - Gabo Szabo is someone that Jim Keltner did a lot of playing with. In fact, he was touring with Szabo when he got the invite to join Derek & the Dominos. His failure to respond led to Clapton and Bobby Whitlock, founders of the band, to enlist Jim Gordon, who happened to be in London. At that point George Harrison, who originally introduced Clapton to Delaney & Bonnie and Friends - enlisted all three as well as Dominos bassist Carl Radle to be the house band for 'All Things Must Pass' . Harrison was also ex-Delaney & Bonnie, as were trumpeter Jim Price and saxophonist Bobby Keys, who were also on the album. Of course they found great renown as the horn section for the Rolling Stones.