Loved the video. One error of judgment though: Jimmy Hall (on the Jeff Beck album Flash) is far from a generic eighties hair metal guy. He is the excellent lead singer of Wet Willie. Remember Keep On Smilin'?

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

That probably wasn't fair of me since I don't really know much about him. Those songs on the Beck album are not good, though.

@flyingburritobro68

4 ай бұрын

@@amitytracksyou trashed the guy and in correcting yourself you say but those songs weren’t good anyway🙈 Do some research before making yourself look silly.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

@@flyingburritobro68 The songs on the Beck album are not good. What is there to research about the bad songs on the Beck album?

@toddfrank3344

4 ай бұрын

@@flyingburritobro68 If he doesn't like them he doesn't like them. He has every right to be wrong.

I greatly enjoy Amity Tracks in high dudgeon! This was great. I laughed pretty hard when, after slamming the U2 double LP for a while, you lifted into frame the FOUR-CD version that you also own. Completism is a helluva drug. :) And I looked up the lyrics to "Queen of the Supermarket," so now I have you to thank (blame?) for that. Wow.

Hey brother, enjoyed the video, If you're a wonderful Jimmy Hall is He was the lead singer of Wet Willie from the 1970s.

Just found your channel, great video, great presentation style.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I've been a fan of your channel for years. We're honored you stumbled upon ours!

Beck's Rough and Ready (1971) with Bob Tench on vocals is a great album.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I'd say it's good.

@donaldwesterhazy9333

4 ай бұрын

@@samstone22744 Easily my favorite from Beck.

Nice list, thanks! 1.) I DO love Stills' 'Right By You' actually; Yes there's some 80's production on some of it for sure, but on other tracks he strips it back to mostley acoustic instruments. Nice pacing and variety of song styles. 2.) Also actually like 'Endless Wire' -it's mellower than alot of other Who albums, but you are right though, the recent follow up is better (you might have mispoke, but I think that's Roger Daltry sounding like Tom Waits on that one song. Just a fun note about that 'Outlaw Pete' song by Springsteen; It pretty much steals the melody from KISS's 'I Was Made For Loving You'. Cheeeeeeers! :)

Great video. Very entertaining! A part 2, please (11-20..)

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I may do that!

there's a good bit I like on Right by You by Stills. He had a solo video on MTV before Crosby or Nash did, even though Neil was hip to video as a medium way before the other three members of CSNY.

@alexnejako777

4 ай бұрын

PG is a cool dude and has done a lot for world music, the Internet, fan communities and other musicians but I don't have anything of his beyond 1992. Us was the last really great album from him in my opinion and it has many good songs.

@alexnejako777

4 ай бұрын

If Neil gets with the right band, he thrashes. Mirror Ball with Pearl Jam is one of the best 1990s albums.

I'm telling ya, you've completely missed the boat on the U2 Songs of Surrender set. A real grower for me. I do really like it now. These reworkings of their songs do not eclipse the original versions but they are a very nice compliment to them. So glad that they did this.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I should revisit it. I do remember liking about a CD's worth of the songs from the 4-CD set. I also remember thinking that the best tracks from the 4-CD set did not make it on the 2 disc vinyl version.

Ohhhh....so you're spreading out the videos on great artists. So Jethro Tull is on the horizon. Sweet!

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

You got it. I am saving Jethro Tull for the peak of this channel's existence.

@michaellord9745

4 ай бұрын

It's all downhill from here, buddy. 😜

Great list! Some of those I knew enough to stay away from just based on reputation and maybe just streamed a few songs from. I'm looking at you American Dream...although those songs sounded pretty good on Neil's Summer Songs online album/collection from that era. Think Visual was the new Kinks album when I first started actively buying a lot of music. I thought the cover was cheesy even then and have never listened to it. U2...yes, enough with the "songs of" BS. Get Eno and Lanios back and make a decent record again. I liked Endless Wire more than you, but haven't bothered to play it since it first came out. Springsteen...sometimes you really can judge a book (or record) by its cover. Storytone...oh you didn't like the orchestrated version? How about the stripped down version? That went too far? Ok, ok, how about the combo version where we dial back the orchestra just a bit? Sorry Neil, how about it's just not a very good record and not one we need to buy three times. Thanks for the shout out! Glad you hopped on board.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the idea, it was fun. I like all of your points. Especially on the fact that Neil puts out a crappy album, and then thinks we want multiple versions of it.

OMG! Think Visual is my FAVORITE Kinks record!!! WOW!! I thought you were going to say UK Jive....or Phobia - both brutal. Think Visual is full of Lost and Found like songs. How Are You, Working at the Factory, etc. Chocolate and vanilla, I guess!!

Endless Wire was the first one that came to mind as I'm a big Who fan; although, I don't mind the Wire & Glass mini opera. I don't mind Think Visual. I found it in a lot of records I bought and there are a few good tracks like Working At the Factory and Lost and Found.

What would be interesting to post a horrible album and then a recovery album like the bad Who album then the last one they did.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

That's a great idea!

A nice video, and some good arguments for why they are bad. One band I love is the Ramones. However, their album Pleasant Dreams is not really the best. However, it's not really their fault; their producer was ordered by the label to make them sound as crassly commercial as possible. if you're familiar with their sound, you know that won't work. When the band found out about this, Joey wrote the single from that album "We Want the Airwaves" as a big rude finger to the situation. Many years later, the label would release demo versions of the songs, and everyone agrees they sound much better.

Angry Machines - Dio Shadowlife - Dokken Bananas - Deep Purple Forbidden - Black Sabbath Flesh and Blood - Whitesnake Heaven & Earth - Yes A - Jethro Tull Secret Society - Europe In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin Invisible Touch - Genesis

I think you’ve mentioned Having Fun with Elvis on Stage in an earlier episode. Captain Beefheart’s Unconditionally Guaranteed. (Wasting a terrific Magic Band line-up.) Besides some of his weaker raunchy stuff, Zappa re-recording instruments on good stuff. I actually like Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, which is unlistenable. The Clash’s Cut the Crap. And, of course, John Lennon’s Two Virgins, with Yoko.

@amitytracks

5 ай бұрын

Those are some good bad ones! Yeah, I did a whole episode centered around Elvis' Having Fun... album.

The Kinks and the Who are giants in rock history. I admit I don't own either of those albums.

Once you give up on an album, it's difficult to make out decent tracks burried in there: "Compass" from CSN&Y is one of them, "Is That Enough" from The Who another. Absolute classics? NO, but decent enough

Neil Young - Landing On Water or This Notes For You Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey Joni Mitchell - Mingus Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden CCR - Mardi Gras

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I'm actually kind of a fan of 80's Neil. Great call on the Eagles album. And it's a double!

I like Video Shop on Think Visual. For me it's the follow up UK Jive where it gets really sad. With CSNY's American Dream some of the songs were better live like Compass and the acoustic version of the title track Neil was doing in the 80's. Drivin' Thunder cracks me up, it's so wrong between the "Slide rule" lyric and sounding like CSNY trying to sound like 80's ZZ Top. I'm a major Who fan, for me the Endless Wire stuff got better live. I pretty much never listen to the original album now since they started giving away their Encore Series CDs and DVDs away for nothing. I bought the Calgary show from the Endless Wire tour on CD and DVD for $5 and that's how I listen to Endless Wire stuff now.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

UK Jive is pretty bad too, but I like it more than Think Visual. I think two real keepers are on UK Jive: How Do I Get Close and Loony Balloon.

Talking about terrible albums by artists I love how about the horrific 1984 synth pop disaster that is Steve Miller band Italian x-rays what was he thinking and I've got a worse Stephen stills album for you his 1978 disco disaster thoroughfare gap can't get no booty what an embarrassment from such an amazing talent

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Those are both terrible!

@georgemathie8123

4 ай бұрын

@@amitytracks yes they are

Great picks! I actually loved the song American Dream but when I bought the album it was a huge disappointment. I gave up on U2 years ago. At one time they were my second favorite band after The Beatles for many years...

@amitytracks

5 ай бұрын

Thanks. I'd love to see you jump on this and do one of these 10 Terrible videos too.

@lib556

4 ай бұрын

@racks I believe he did... before you did. actually. Or am I thinking of that Brit guy I've been following... 🤔 Andy Edwards... that's him... not sure who did it.

@lib556

4 ай бұрын

Larry, I agree that I enjoyed the song American Dream and the video. I never bothered to listen to the rest of the album.

Disagree on Beck. I loved Ambitious. It's a generic Niles Rogers drum machine track but Beck's lead playing over it smokes.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Agree that Beck's leads always smoked.

Unless you bought both the cd and lp of the U2 album at the same time, Why would you spend you money on the other?

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Good question. With a handful of artists, I just a completist. And the CD version is twice as long. I do think they didn't put the best tracks on the vinyl.

@islandhorizonvideos8230

4 ай бұрын

@@amitytracks Have you ever heard of Guided By Voices? They are a great band to be a completist of because every album they bring out is worth having. It's like a treasure hunt. But they have so many albums it could break the bank, good thing I started collecting their releases in the mid-90's.

@jackwezesa1081

4 ай бұрын

@@islandhorizonvideos8230 I bought every release that came out , including their solo stuff! Interesting band.

Anything Rod Stewart did after he left the Faces. Do you think I’m sexy, anyone?

With "Flash" Beck used the hottest producer of the day, Chic's Nile Rodgers. An obvious attempt at commercial success but Rodger's style really didn't suit Beck. Funk and disco were out of Beck's league.

Spot F-ing On!

No, not Endless Wire! Admittedly, I did hate the record initially, but over time it has grown on me, and now I would rank it above Who, It's Hard, maybe even Who Are You. I did have to laugh, though, when you were talking about Into the Ether because my reaction was exactly the same? Why is Pete Townshend trying to sound like Tom Waits? And I'm a Tom Waits fan! We're also in agreement about Queen of the Supermarket and Outlaw Pete (although I wouldn't describe the album on the whole as "terrible"...just not that great). With Outlaw Pete, even the title is silly. Who is going to be threatened by a guy named Pete? It's like calling the song Outlaw Bob, or Outlaw Dave, or Outlaw Chris for crying out loud. He couldn't come up with anything better than Pete? It's funny, one time I was on a car trip with my mom and I was playing that CD, and at that point near the end where Bruce is singing "Can you hear me?" ad nauseum, my sweet little Catholic mother who never said anything bad about anyone (well, with the exception of a certain former president) shouted out "We hear you already!" I'll never forget that. :) Cool video by the way. The one that pops into my head is the last XTC album, Apple Venus Vol. II, something about wasps, I don't know. It doesn't even sound like the same band! Terrible, regrettable way for one of the best bands ever to ride off into the sunset.

@ZionForman

5 ай бұрын

the song Endless Wire is a good one, the album is ok.

@amitytracks

5 ай бұрын

Thanks. "Outlaw Pete" just goes on and on and on. And it didn't need to. It was like Bruce was trying to have a long song just to have a long song. It would have been the same as a 4 minute song.

2:30 Yes, Think Visual is from 1986... Terrible year for Classic Rock

Mazzy, I “used” to be a fan of his

@amitytracks

5 ай бұрын

I've always really liked him and his channel. Don't know him personally, though.

david bowie is my favorite singer but.... "tonight" is his worst album. 2 great originals in "blue jean" and "loving the alien" but it's an album that largely features covers and songs he had written with iggy pop in the 70s as the production is dated and has too many marimbas. people will say that or "never let me down" as i can agree to that but if you listened to the 2018 version of the latter. the songs feel more direct in its stripped down production and is a better album.

Neil Young was Jesus Christ to me for a good part of my life. Thankfully he's still releasing old stuff. Really thought "Everybody's Rockin'" would be here.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I like Everybody's Rockin' mostly because it is a funny middle finger to David Geffen. And I dig his version of "Wonderin'" on that one.

@jltrem

4 ай бұрын

@@amitytracks I listened to “Fork In The Road” one time.

Interesting idea💡 How about Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" or Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play" and "Too old to Rock'n'Roll, too young to die"? All three albums have interesting or great underlying ideas, but their musical execution doesn't move me. In Floyd's case Roger Waters shot himself in the foot by banning Richard Wright and using David Gilmour just as a sideman😂. In Tull's case the bad experience in Chateau Desaster led Ian Anderson to write and record under pressure a complete new oeuvre and it shows: complicated for complicstion's sake😢. The original Chateau D' Isaster Tapes as published on " Nightcap" or in a shorter version on the "20 years of Jethro Tull" Box are excellent! But beware of the wilson version in the "Passion Play" Box set: it's boring😑

@iancocks9408

4 ай бұрын

The Final Cut pissed me off, coming after the wall which had gilmour all over it. And taking 4 years. Terrible

@davidl570

4 ай бұрын

@@iancocks9408 "A most unpleasant and humiliating experience."--David Gilmour re: The Final Cut

Landing On Water - Neil Young Under The Red Sky - Bob Dylan

In defence of U2: Innocence is a great rock album, that was completely overshadowed by the whole itunes debacle. Experience i agree is poor, but i would argue that is mainly due to the awful production, than to the actual songs themselves. Surrender therefore rescues some of the Experience songs from that horrible production. The full 40 track set, starting with 'One' and finishing with '40' for me is a great alternative look at their back catalogue. I don't think that any of the versions on Surrender are superior but I still really enjoy these versions. For decades U2 played stripped down acoustic versions live on their B stage and no one ever complained. So why now? I also think that after over 40 years together, U2 had earned the right to revisit their back catalogue. The defence rests, lol. Stuart

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Excellent points. And I did notice that the Songs of Experience tunes were well served in the stripped down versions. I should revisit it again, I am a big U2 fan. I seem to remember out of the 4 disc set, I could have made a really good single disc out of the tunes I liked.

@thevoid99

4 ай бұрын

yeah but U2 hasn't made anything interesting since that "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, hello hello hello hello hello yeah yeah yeah yeah" song. they got way too serious afterwards. and bono is a turd.

Almost fell over when you called vocalist Jimmy Hall “some generic 80’s hair metal guy”. You lost all credibility right there. Jimmy Hall was the leader of southern rock band Wet Willie and had a top 10 hit with Keep On Smiling in 1974. He is a soul and blues influenced vocalist and still has a great voice.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you didn't fall and hurt yourself. I never had much credibility to lose in the first place. Hall may very well be great, but those songs on the Beck album are still bad.

Porcupine Tree the incident

Agree with The Who's worst album by FAR But disagree with Think Visual, which has enough quality tunes to make it very listenable . Phobia, however is a bad Kinks record

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

Agree with you on Phobia, except "Scattered" is the one good song on that one.

You were doing good until you got to ZZ Top... Love XXX!

how about ten bands everybody loves, but you dislike in the strongest possible terms.

@amitytracks

4 ай бұрын

That would be a good one. A long time ago I did a video on albums everyone loves that I don't love.

My favorite artist is Neil Young. I really, really hate "Everybody's Rockin'" and "Trans".

@SH-ud8wd

4 ай бұрын

Completely agreed

@davidl570

4 ай бұрын

Greendale is pretty awful too. The hell was he thinking with that crap??

@mikescully6972

4 ай бұрын

Everybody’s rockin’ is awesome and delightful, shows Neil has roots in 50s rockabilly, and I appreciate it, love his acoustic albums, but I think his crazy horse is just to grungy for my taste, but to each their own, how bout landing on water?

The kinks are really awesome and they have about 12 albums that are horrible.

CSNYs "American Dream" appears on lists of the worst album ever for good reason.