Ranking the Studio Albums: Saint Vitus

[@donaldcady3839]

Saint Vitus is such a good band. The first album is still my favourite. Born to late a close second alongside Mournful Cries.

[@kevinlathem6616]

Thanks for pulling this band out if the dark and shedding some light on the catalog! Hard to believe this band had their start playing to hardcore punk audiences opening for BLack Flag!! You can't stop doom!

[@hellojimmypage]

Born Too Late is the best pinky cover album in metal of all time, no doubt.

[@hbosch3544]

Mournful cries is a masterpiece. Btw thirsty and miserable is a Black Flag cover, Vitus were signed to SST records back then label owned by the guitarist of black flag. Would be great to see a show about the mighty Paul chain!! The Italian doom master. Cheers!!

[@themetallian2112]

Top 5: #1 - "Born too Late" - (1986) #2 - "Hallow's Victim" - (1985) #3 - "Saint Vitus" - (1984) #4 - "Mournful Cries" - (1988) #5 - "Die Healing" - (1995)

[@nolifetilmetal1]

Vitus rules! Thanks for sharing. Not only some great full length albums but some killer EPs and live albums as well.

[@SuperStrik9]

Saint Vitus are extremely consistent. The self titled debut and Born Too Late are the band's best albums imo. That said they've never put out a bad album and the entire Saint Vitus catalogue is worth checking out.

[@louderthanlife]

This one was easy for me. I think Reagers is the definitive Vitus frontman. His expressive and creepy style is just impossible to top. So glad he's back behind the mic. 01) Hallows Victim 02) Die Healing 03) The Walking Dead 04) Born Too Late 05) V 06) Saint Vitus '84 07) Saint Vitus '19 08) Mournful Cries 09) Thirsty & Miserable 10) C.O.D. 11) Lillie F-65

[@FreakinHardStyle]

Just curious, what don’t you like about Lillie F-65?

[@louderthanlife]

@@FreakinHardStyle I'm just not a fan of the songwriting. I really only dig "Bleeding Ground" and "Blessed Night".

[@mikek8553]

Fuck yeah Wino is better in The Obsessed, Reagers the man.

[@piratesinmypants]

reagers is one of my fav vocalists of all time!

[@thedoomed71]

My ranking: 1. Children of doom 2. Saint Vitus (84) 3. Hallow's victim 4. Born too late 5. Saint Vitus (19) 6. Mournful Cries 7. V 8. Die healing 9. Lillie F-65 I know that C.O.D. is disputed, but I think it's killer. Maybe it's because I got to know Vitus with this Album at age 21. Title track and Get away are my alltime favourites. But as Peter said, they never released a weak Album. And the live experience (I had the honour twice in my life) is overwhelming. Thank you for this Video, Pete.

[@neuroisis85]

My favorite Doom Metal band. 1. Saint Vitus (1984) 2. Die Healing 3. Hallow's Victim 4. Born Too Late 5. Mournful Cries

[@Trifixion22]

For me they're juuuuuust behind Pentagram as my favourite

[@ScottyKirk1]

I mean you could do a three hour show just on Wino!! I'm lacking in my collection of St Vitus, but I LOVE The Obsessed, Place of Skulls and Spirit Caravan immensely! I've always thought that Wino was right up there with Iommi on the riffage index.

[@garyjoyce2160]

I played it again. DON DOKKEN , wow , 1992 C.0.D. / producer. Would never visualize that combo ! Again , I learned something new. Thx PETE 💯👍

[@christophriederer7340]

Well, die healing is my favourite Doom Album ever..

[@johnmichaelwilliams6694]

Great show to start Thursday morning. Listening to your top two before commenting. Burial At Sea definitely great. Thanks, Pete.

[@wastelander1015]

Huge influence for me. 1. Born Too Late 2. Saint Vitus (1984) 3. V 4. Lillie: F-65 5. Mournful Cries 6. Die Healing 7. Hallow's Victim 8. Saint Vitus (2019) 9. C.O.D.

[@alanjames762]

How about ranking bands Wino has founded or been involved in? So much heavy and memorable music...he’ll leave quite a legacy. The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, his acoustic stuff, Shrinebuilder, Place of Skulls...!

[@gasmaskboi19371945]

Wino is a nice dude.

[@ricksuddarth7200]

St. Vitus is a great influential band. My first exposure to them was the 'V' album, killer stuff. Although I do enjoy Wino's band The Obsessed a bit more . But both bands are pillars of Doom! Great video!!

[@captainbeyond7469]

Feedback, Fuzz and Wah-Wah count me in. Can’t wait to explore the catalog.

[@BigMuff75]

You'll love it. You probably have figured it out in the last 3 years... :D

[@paulh6673]

An all-time fave band of mine. I love the Scott Reagers stuff but Wino...I mean he's a Lemmy-type lifer legend. The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, Place of Skulls, Shrinebuilder, the solo & acoustic stuff...he takes up a big space on my CD shelves. Also check out the video 'Scott Wino's garden' on here. It's classic stuff.

[@ajaykiran973]

Awesome Ranking Pete. Just two requests please. Can you please do the album ranking of Obscura and also list your top ten Doom albums of all time. Thank you. Will listen to St. Vitus today. 🤘🏻

[@careytamburrino746]

Love me some Saint Vitus. Finally got to see them at a small club in Sacramento a few years back. They were excellent

[@erikberg5363]

Just started listening to these guys lately and I f**king love them! I haven’t heard “C.O.D.”, “Lillie” or the latest one yet but I’ll have to check them out soon

[@docdeens4030]

Ah! one of my top five favorite bands!

[@johnzavradinos4677]

One of the greatest ever doom bands.

[@thewal1ofsleep]

I'd place the first three albums with Reagers as the top 3. None of the Wino records come close for me. I like Wino alright, but Reagers sounds so dramatic and unhinged that it just fits Chandler's riffs so much better. It's a shame the most recent record with Reagers wasn't better, because it isn't a worthy follow-up to the masterpiece that is Die Healing.

[@gwts1171]

My list: 9) C.O.D. (The only one that I don't like at all.) 8) Hallow's Victim (I don't know this one much, for some reason.) 7) Die Healing 6) Saint Vitus (2019) 5) Lillie: F-65 4) Mournful Cries 3) V 2) Saint Vitus (1984) (This & "V" could flip easily depending on my mood.) 1) Born Too Late Thanks for the video, Pete!

[@rickheafner2516]

Thanks Pete, I love Saint Vitus. I have never thought of how I would rank the albums. Thanks for your opinion. I like your channel.

[@Zackplayer123]

It would be nice to see a ranking of the blind guardian discography

[@acdcking1234]

It took me awhile to get into born to late but now that I am I can’t stop listening to it

[@goatuscrow4135]

My intro to Saint Vitus was an SST punk comp. cassette which had “Look behind you” on it. Loved it, great band.

[@mikefaul6937]

Have that LP on vinyl,called The Blasting Concept.

[@sabinoabdala5685]

Ey Pete...i love Saint Vitus. Great Surprise!!

[@ronaldwilliams2456]

Love this band! They started out on Black Flag's SST label. In fact Thirsty and Miserable is a slowed down version of a song from Black Flag's Damaged LP. Flag may have been the epitome of early Eighties "hardcore punk" but they had nothing but respect for heavy rock, which they basically grew up on.

[@patrickschlosser8208]

Cool, What do you think of an album ranking of the greek band "Aphrodite’s Child" or a ranking of the project "Jon and Vangelis" ??? Greetings.

[@JaniceLalla]

The concert happenings theme song of WRNW

[@patrickschlosser8208]

@@JaniceLalla yes that is great 👍👍👍

[@carlosabad6596]

My top list ( without seen the video yet ) 1- Born Too Late 2- V 3- Saint Vitus ( 1984 ) 4- Children Of Doom 5- Mournful Cries 6 - Die Healing 7- Lillie - F65 8- Saint Vitus ( 2019 ) 9- Hallow's Victim

[@georgegsroomofrock9868]

V is one of my favorite doom albums ever!

[@fernandobenitezvalencia2591]

Dokken said that it was like a favor he owed to someone. I read that not too long ago, can't remember where. he also said he thought the mighty Vitus sucked, because they were a plodding, one-trick pony band, with lousy tempo. hell, that is precisely why i LOVE St. Vitus. i do like Dokken, though, good pop metal with terrible hair haha (Vitus has always had the best look, imho), great guitar and memorable tunes here and there. but hey, saw Dokken in 88 and the kinda sucked, saw them again in 2013 and they were terrible; saw them again at some festival in 2018 and Don's voice was all but gone. so there!

[@georgegsroomofrock9868]

Pete if you ever interview Don Dokken you have to ask him about him producing C.O.D

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Can't imagine I would at this point, but ok.

[@wc1994]

My introduction to Saint Vitus is a compilation cassette called Program: Annihilator from SST Records. Which I still have. Good ranking. I prefer Reagers to Wino but still own every CD. Like you said Vitus have never put out a bad album.

[@DarkVegetaman]

I kick myself so hard for not picking up that Saint Vitus reunion 2003 DVD back in the day when I had the chance... Such a great live capture of the band. I really do like Born Too Late a ton, but really Lillie F-65 is the album of theirs I just keep coming back to. It's like 2 songs short of being a masterpiece IMO at only 35 minutes long with 2 instrumentals (only the last track "Withdrawal" with all the fuzz and noise doesn't do much for me, though I think I understand it in the context of the album).

[@NMahon]

Any chance of doing a video on Melvins? Would love to hear your thoughts.

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Never owned a thing by them, sorry.

[@mikefaul6937]

@@seaoftranquilityprog Too bad,they kick mighty ass.

[@tomfisher2103]

Cool review of a band that's been on my radar. Staying with the doom/stoner metal theme, is Monster Magnet review in the pipeline? Sometime back during a Q&A thought you mentioned you were into them, might be wrong of course.

[@chrismuimbwa6424]

I listen mostly to fully tech-metal, these guys don't know how to play their instruments and they are my favorite metal band! There 's just something magical in the combination of lyrics, riffs, unglamorous tone and sloppiness that gives a whole different twist to the whole thing for me. Reagers is a phenomenal singer! Once with some buddies we played every album plus The Walking Dead ep in a row and we didn't understand how 7 and half hours went buy!

[@chrismuimbwa6424]

@brotherbluesteel wrong or right they are perfect to me.

[@michaelhudson2912]

Pete, are you well-versed in VIRGIN STEELE? I'd love to see a ranking for them

[@M.H691]

Mournful Cries is top for me - aside from 'Dragon Time', it's the bleakest thing they did, crushing beat that's slow but not too slow... great band, no matter who is behind the mic. The Obsessed are also killer, Lunar Womb is one of the best rock albums ever, IMO. That Wino / Reader / Roger's axis... HEAVY...

[@EilerSorensen]

Any chance there will be a ranking of the albums by Paradise Lost?

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Probably not...I haven't heard too many of their albums.

[@EilerSorensen]

Ok that is too bad, a very underated band.

[@SlipperyRat]

Lillie-F65 is so underrated imo. My actual favourite

[@jasonpegram2114]

Never heard of this band i will have to check them out

[@jimekberg]

Saint Vitus is one of my biggest favorite bands. Maybe the best album is the live album from 1990.

[@Questmetalband]

Will there be a ranking on Witchfinder General?

[@kinginthenorth2013]

Hahaha

[@garlock696]

I love these album rankings! Lots of great information about bands that may have slipped under peoples' radar. Don't even worry about dum dums that might accuse you of preposterous nonsense. I'm pretty sure you haven't received any kickbacks from Greg Ginn to sell his old warehouse CDs, lol

[@jimg6570]

Pete (and everyone else), if you haven't heard it, check out another of Wino's bands, The Obsessed. Start with the tunes Lunar Womb and Sodden Jackal. You won't need any encouragement to listen to the rest. You're welcome!

[@SuperStrik9]

Saint Vitus debut is an all time classic.

[@mr.timebombman2230]

Hallow's Victim by a country mile.

[@gilbertojimenez1095]

Pete, can you please do a ranking of premiata forrneria marconi or banco del mutuo soccorso next

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

I'm missing too many albums from each to be able to do a ranking.

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Breakfast of champions! ☕️💨 ✊🏿🤘🏾🤎🖤

[@lening9]

1) Born Too Late 2) Saint Vitus 3) Mournful Cries 4) Hallow’s Victim 5) Die Healing 6) V 7) Lillie: F-65 8) C.O.D. 9) Saint Vitus (2019)

[@bengalgangster]

new cactus i had no idea sweet

[@ln8300]

Great band.

[@garyjoyce2160]

My no 1️⃣ born to late - mon - Wednesday- fri- Sunday. 1a . St vitus - tues- Thursday- Saturday/. 💯👍

[@kissterio]

Ranking W.A.S.P. albums?! WHEN???

[@seaoftranquilityprog]

Don't own a single WASP album...sorry

[@thomassibley9475]

Missing out. Get yourself the crimson idol album

[@meanjoe4299]

White Stallions!!!!

[@independenceltd.]

Orchid is a "newer" band (unfortunately, I believe they may be defunct) that any fans of the Sabbath tree, a la Witchfinder General, Trouble, Cathedral, should check out. Great band. I hope they're just on hiatus.

[@travisperrotta7330]

The Sword as well.

[@hellojimmypage]

Going a bit off-topic but my issue personally with most modern doom bands is that they obviously try hard to sound like Sabbath but they don't have any blues in them or any jazzy flair to their drumming. I find those elements integral to Iommi & co.'s sound.

[@NMahon]

@@travisperrotta7330 the sword are killer!

[@chadwilley9573]

I want to know the Don dokken connection

[@jeffchannel-lf6df]

Damn. Forgot all about Cactus

[@rayleigh8]

Hey Pete....👋

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

One of the best things for me was that they were almost Punk. SST. Wino. The Obsessed being from DC. Just a cut above the rest 🪦💐

[@samhouston1979]

had to pause & listen to Dragon Time

[@jamessolidairy8134]

Nick would of been perfect for this episode

[@BlackMoore82]

V. Born Too Late. Mournful Cries. Hallow's Victim. C.O.D. Lillie: F-65. S/T (1984). S/T (2019). Die Healing. I've seen Scott 'Wino' perform four times, once in The Obsessed, once with Saint Vitus, and twice in Spirit Caravan.