Y&T probably the most underrated band ever

@stevesnvegas9040

3 жыл бұрын

Close...Savatage is.

@kevingartland723

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevesnvegas9040 We can agree to disagree

@stevesnvegas9040

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevingartland723 I know, it's all in good fun.

@domsrecords6353

3 жыл бұрын

Steve's N Vegas agreed

@LuchaLibertaria

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevesnvegas9040 Tbh I have never met any Heavy Metal fan who would rate Savatage poorly in my life. I think you mean in terms of popularity.

Thank you for Ranking the Studio Albums:Y&T. I love this band!!🎤🎸🎵🥁

Love "Lipstick and Leather", I don't care if its cliche. Y&T are so underrated. Thanks, keep on rockin'.

@WolfHeavyMetal

2 жыл бұрын

It's a good Rock cliche tho Lisa! = )

Criminally Underrated Band

I still love the Yesterday and Today albums. Leonard Haze is a beast and has a killer left foot, an amazing single bass drum player. I still think that those albums have "heft"(the Pete Pard of standard of production: "heft" lol) I agree.

Great, great ranking! Y&T is a fantastic band wich I have followed for over 35 years. I never gave up on them and bought their 90:s albums at release! They have always released music with lots of quality, and never dissapointed me.

I just wanted to thank you for all the great and positive content you put out. Watching your video reminds me of hanging out and talking music with my friends.

@angeliquewoolley5057

3 жыл бұрын

It is a fantastic opportunity to watch all listen to music and other people's option. I really enjoy watching this channel.

Great show Pete, one of my favorite bands of all time,and one of the only classic bands that comes to the UK every year and play out of their skins every time.Last year they had no support and played for 2 1/2 hours,amazing night.

No matter how great their catalogue, and Earthshaker really is a GEM - must have for every serious rock / metal fan - the true genius of Dave and co can only really be experienced in a live performance!

@tttarms1970

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree... I dont miss them when they roll in...saw them over 15 times....one of the best was a standing ovation for like 9 minutes after I believe in you in Chicago area. Brought dave to tears....

@pvdguitars2951

2 жыл бұрын

@@tttarms1970 I was in tears too after hearing I believe in you at the end of Y&T concert. Phenomenal

CRIMINALLY underrated group... have loved them for years. #PetePardoArmy #PetePardoNation #BigMeatPete #SplashYourSeaOfTranquilityAllOverMyFace

Love your channel. I am so glad there is a channel like this that doesn't have a loud mouth complaining about lineup changes.

1- Black Tiger 2- In Rock We Trust 3- Mean Streak 4- Earthshaker 5- Ten 6- Facemelter 7- Down For The Count 8- Endangered Species 9- Contagious 10- Musically Incorrect

@LuchaLibertaria

3 жыл бұрын

@Ellison Lowrimore Thanks Ellison 👍🤘

@MichaelWH

3 жыл бұрын

Saw the "In Rock We Trust " tour....opening for Rush I believe ?

Best Damn Channel on KZread Peroid!!! 🍻 Cheers Pete!

I'll Cry For You is probably one of my favorite instrumentals from that time/genre.

One of my favorite bands. Dave Meniketti has to be the most underrated guitarist & vocalist of all time. Black Tiger, Mean Streak & Earth Shaker are drop dead classics. This band should have been huge. I still listen to them on a regular basis. They still tour every year.

Hello Pete , was always going to be earthshaker, remember hearing when it first came out and absolutely loving how not american it sounded if that makes sense. Saw them a million times in u.k especially 1982 at Reading festival and Newcastle Mayfair, also have several yesterday and today live recordings from the us on cassette. Keep up the rankings because it keeps me sane during pandemic, even if I rarely agree with your choices. Subjective of course.

Been waiting for this. Love Y&T so much, 1) Meanstreak 2) Earthshaker 3) Black Tiger 4) In rock we trust 5) Debut 6) Contagious 7) Struck down 8)Down for the count 9) Facemelter. They dominated the hair metal era too, Lipstick and Leather an anthem. Facemelter quite descent for 2010. PS. Lockdown pt 2 coming..

Great band that I listen to a lot still today! 1,2,3 can change any day: Earthshaker/Black Tiger/Mean Streak 4. Struck Down 5. In rock we trust 6. Yesterday & Today 7. Ten 8. Musically Incorrect 9. Down for the count 10. Contagious 11. Endangered Species 12. Facemelter

Absolutely love this band, especially "that" holy trilogy of albums between 1981-1983. Meniketti's such a great vocalist and guitar player. Super overlooked band, one of my favorites in hard rock and heavy metal. I always heard similarities between them and Night Ranger as well. 1. Mean Streak 2. Earthshaker 3. Black Tiger 4. Contagious 5. In Rock We Trust

Was waiting for you to do this one. Glad you finally did it.

The absolute number one is "Earhtshaker". The album is one of my all-time favorite albums. That record rocks from start to finnish, it's hard rock classic!!!

My wife and me saw them on February 29th. Dave still sings and plays guitar as good as ever. The rest of the band is really good and they do justice to the original songs.

Saw them supporting AC/DC at Hammersmith in 82. Phenomenal. In a later interview Dave cited these as his favourite gigs so happy I was there at the right time. Three of that line-up sadly no longer with us.

Can't wait to watch this when I get home from work. Love this band and back in 82 one of the first bands I loved when I was growing up discovering music other than Kiss. Criminally under rated group. Still think Forever is one of the best rock songs ever

I’m a huge Y&T fan, my friend turned me on to them in the 80’s and have loved them ever since. I absolutely love the Ten album, it’s a classic from star to finish with Ten Lovers being the top song of the album. Down for the count was mid 80’s was a fun album. Summertime Girls was a fun song, All American Boy is also like Summertime Girls, a fun commercial song. I never got too into Endangered Species to much. In Rock We Trust was a great album, Don’t Stop Running, Lipstick and Leather is cool. Musically Incorrect, like Endangered Species, I didn’t listen to it much. Contagious is AWESOME, loved this album, Contagious, Girl Crazy, City, and I loved Rhythm or Not, a very cool, kinda dirty, misogynistic song. The first two albums, I never really got into these two albums. Black Tiger was a great album, Meanstreak, awesome album. I would disagree with your number one pick but I agree Earthshaker is an awesome album. All in All your picks were great, love Y&T. Most underrated rock band from the west coast, being from NY originally I can understand when a local band hits it big on the east coast, like another favorite band of mine Blue Öyster Cult, very big on the east not so much on the west coast. I like your rankings, keep up the good work. \m/ Stay Metal \m/

without question one of my favorite bands. The first album is a masterclass on hard rock drumming, courtesy of Leonard Haze. have seen the band numerous times and they never fail to deliver the goods. Dave is one of my favorite six-stringers

Another favorite band of mine...I'd say my top 5 would be 1. Yesterday And Today - s/t 2. Black Tiger 3. Earthshaker 4. Meanstreak 5. Struck Down

Such an underrated band. Always hoped they would get bigger. They couldn’t be put in a musical category and I think that hurt them as far as sales. Their 80’s live you tube videos really show the quality of Meniketti’s voice and guitar. Sadly, Dave Meniketti is the only classic member alive. 1 Mean Streak(Mean Streak song is a stone cold classic) 2 Earthshaker 3 In Rock We Trust 4 Black Tiger 5 Yesterday and Today (debut) 6 Contagious

@1970borntorun

3 жыл бұрын

Well, here in the Bay Area, ( and I don't agree with this mindset, myself... ) what seemed to hurt Y&T's career was A&M releasing "Summertime Girls" which kinda wrecked their momentum as a Melodic Hard Rock band after the highly-successful Meanstreak record, and made them seem that they were getting "soft" and Commercial. Kinda like what happened to Billy Squier with the whole "Rock Me Tonite" Video fiasco that basically tanked Billy's great music career.

@kevinm5957

3 жыл бұрын

1970borntorun I guess that was meant to be part of the meaning of my post was that even the record company wasn’t sure who to market them to.

@1970borntorun

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinm5957 Yeah, that's definitely the case I'm sure. As was the case for many Rock bands in the mid-80s.

@independenceltd.

3 жыл бұрын

@@1970borntorun And that stupid new "mascot" they trotted out.

@dickfitzwell1557

3 жыл бұрын

@@1970borntorun Watching that Rock Me Tonite video today makes me feel embarrassed for Billy Squire. You can't watch it with a straight face.

You know why 'ya gotta keep on running'? Because it's contagerous, it's contagious!!!

Dave Meniketti’s solo album from 1998 “On the Blue Side” really showcases his prowess on the guitar and is loaded with heavy blues/metal tunes that IMHO rivals anything he did with Y&T. The tone used by him on this album is epic,,,,,,,,

Great show Pete, and thank you for including also the "older" and the "newer" albums. Just need to get those first albums of Yesterday and Today, never heard them. I had the great pleasure of seeing Y&T's show here in Sweden in October last year, and I must say that we were amazed about the quality of Dave Meniketti's voice, he really had the full power intact which is more than we can say about other ageing artists. And his handling of the guitar was absolutely flawless... very, very impressive. He also seemed to be very happy about his companions in the band, you could feel that he enjoyed playing and singing together with them all. Hopefully their band-harmony can bring them to write some new music, I'd love to see a new album.

I have run into Dave Meneketti a couple times at a Grocery store here in Santa Clara ( CA ) a couple times over the years. He couldn't have been more cool, or down to Earth :)

@newavatar2947

3 жыл бұрын

Did you notice what was in his cart? I would have noticed !

@BradWietersen

2 жыл бұрын

Please say Hi for him to us from Canada? Thanks! Y & T are amazing musicians!

@WolfHeavyMetal

2 жыл бұрын

That's always great to hear! When I worked for a Music Magazine in the 80's I met Def Leppard and Queensryche when they toured together! This was in 1988 during their "Hysteria" and "Operation Mindcrime" albums. Def Lep & Q were both GREAT performers and great people! Both bands spent a LOT of time in the backstage area meeting their fans and it was very exciting for everyone. I have photo's from that time that are priceless to me. DL Guitarist Steve Clark was shy & quiet but posed smiling for an awesome pic with a young teenaged fan. Every time I look at it I think she couldn't possibly look any happier! Good times.

I love that you cover so many genres! There's a ton of stuff I like that you don't cover...but there's a ton of stuff you have introduced me to. Thanks, Pete..keep up the good work!!

Love your Vacations Pete; they actually benefit us! Thank you and thank you for Y+T!

Just happened to be noodling on my guitar whilst watching this....at 18:15, Pete sings the Meanstreak riff in the right key....perfect pitch! Haha! Awesome band!

Y&T is one of my favourite bands ever Love dave meniketti wonderful singer and guitarist

one of the best gig's ever Y&T marquee london 1982

The two unearthed volumes are pretty darn rockin.

Saw Y&T 1985, Vegas they opened Twisted sister & blew them away!

Eartshaker my nr 1. One of the first hard rock albums I bought back in the early 80s.

Yes Pete, I love this band! Thanks brother!

Very coincidental review as I picked up Mean Streak and In Rock We Trust today on LP to add to the others. Love Black Tiger.

Pete, thanks for this show and helping bring back a movie memory. About the time you mentioned the song Summertime Girls, I had to take a break from the show for other matters so I played that song to keep show in mind. It sounded like part of a song from the 80s Val Kilmer movie titled Real Genius. Always found his role in that movie entertaining. After doing a bit of research, found out it was that song. I see the SoT archives have a top ten sings of Y&T so will be watching that after getting through your content of the last few days. Thanks again, Pete. Your show remains must-see content.

A routine great video Pete. You cover all the great underrated bands. I thought they were well ranked, and enjoyed the video as usual.

Always been my fave band along with BOC. I adore "in rock we trust" the most. Earthshaker and meanstreak are up there as masterpiece albums too. Black tiger is really underated too.

'In Rock We Trust' was one of my early metal albums. I discovered their previous stuff after that album. Love Black Tiger!

THANK YOU SO MUCH PETE PARDO FOR YOUR EXCELLENT RANKING AND ASSESSMENT of Y & T's studio albums! You inspired me to write a little paragraph here 3 hours ago about the work of this great band. Now I want to go back to search out those Y & T albums that are missing from my collection. I need to find them and BUY THEM ALL! I really enjoyed listening to this segment! It takes me back!

New to the channel. Born in 82 and I love anything and everything by bands that i classify as sunset strip rock n roll bands. Anything from WASP, L.A. guns, warrant, whitesnake, poison you name it. I'm glad I found your channel. Even though we have different tastes I am coming to you for good 70s recommendations. Cheers to my friend pete

1. In Rock We Trust 2. Earthshaker 3. Black Tiger 4. Mean Streak 5. Ten 6. Musically Incorrect 7. Endangered Species 8. Contagious 9. Facemelter 10. Down For the Count Great analysis on the 2 mid-90's albums. I always thought "Fly Away" was Dave Meniketti finding his inner Robin Trower. And they're still a fantastic live band.

As a longtime Bay Area guy, I go way back listening to Y&T and seeing them live. I've never understood why they never really broke through huge. Dave Meniketti's talents deserved better. My Top Five: 1. Mean Streak 2. Earthshaker 3. Black Tiger 4. In Rock We Trust 5. Contagious

I love their Unearthed albums.

Great ranking Pete. You are spot on with the order. Very underrated band. I found them by accident thanks to Columbia House cassette club (yes I'm old) when they shipped Ten to me by mistake. I got hooked and love the many eras of the band.

Glad to see some love for Y&T

OH YES! LOVE THIS. Y&T ONE OF MY FAVORITES. UNDER RATED. TEN MEAN STREAK EARTHQUAKER YESTERDAY AND TODAY BLACK TIGER IN ROCK WE TRUST CONTAGIOUS! DOWN FOR THE COUNT 2 ALBUMS WITH RARE B SIDE UNRELEASED TRACKS! FACE MELTER! I'VE TRAVELED TO CA OVER THE YEARS WHEN THEY PLAY ALL OVER LA AND ORANGE COUNTY SO I CAN SEE THEM MORE THAN ONCE. ITS' WORTH EVERY PENNY. DAVE IS ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS TO TALK TO NO ROCK STAR ATTITUDE.

Face melter is in my top five. Best production of all the albums.

great ranking Pete keep that way

In Rock We Trust is my number one album. Great band. Always listened to them back in the day.

1.Black Tiger 2.Mean Streak 3.Earthshaker 4.In rock we trust 5.Yesterday& Today

Gotta say, fan since 1984, In Rock We Trust is awesome, and possibly underrated generally speaking...

In Rock We Trust was my first intro to them. Probably my fav studio album by them.

Love these guys, my top 3 1 - In Rock We Trust 2- Black Tiger 3- Mean Streak... My number 1 is the first time I saw them in concert and it has just stuck with me ever since. Nice Job Pete!!! keep up the fantastic work.

I was introduced to this band by a friend in 1984 who gave me "In Rock We Trust" on cassette to listen too and I never looked back. This was my favorite album and Masters and Slaves my favorite song from this album.

Black Tiger, Meanstreak, Earthshaker, Contagious, In Rock my top 5

Top 3 1. Earthshaker 2. Black Tiger 3. Meanstreak. Earthshaker was the first one I ever heard and is still top of the list.

Great show about a band worth to discover 🚀🌍👍🏼

Great show Pete.. With you on the top 3👍

One of my all-time fav bands.

One of my favorite bands of all time. Mean Streak, was when I got into them the title song was all needed to hear and I was hooked, they got two albums out of just songs of rarities that you got to get fantastic stuff can't believe that never made it to album.

Mean Streak in no 1 for me, followed by Black Tiger then Earthshaker.

oooh great! I am looking forward to seeing the Birth Control ranking and the Appice's interview part 2! Thanks Pete, you are awesome!

1) Earthshaker 2) Mean Streak 3) Black Tiger 4) Struck Down 5) Yesterday and Today 6) In Rock We Trust 7) Contagious 8) Down for the Count 9) Musically Incorrect 10) Endangered Species 11) Ten 12) Facemelter

Glad to see this one. I was lucky enough to go to an album signing right after Black Tiger came out and had that and Earthshaker signed by the entire band at Tower Records in Mt. View, CA. Amazing only Dave is with us from original band. They got way too radio friendly on some of those later albums seeming to search for that commercial hit. Dave has those perfect rock vocals. Very underrated.

Looking forward to Agitation Free. What a nice surprise!

I haven't heard their way-early albums or their two 90s albums...so I can't make a real list. But I have to admit that Ten is one of my favorites along with Mean Streak and Black Tiger. And if I had to make a top ten list of favorite hair metal songs, Summertime Girls would be on that list. And, yes. Facemelter is okay...not great though. I do also love the Open Fire live album.

I learned a lot about a band here I wanted to learn a lot about for some time.

1. Mean streak 2. Black tiger 3. In rock we trust 4. Earthshaker 5. Down for the count 6. Struck down 7. Ten 8. Contagious 9. Yesterday and today 10. Endangered species 11. Musically in correct 12. Facemelter

Saw them in Cardiff in 83, got on the stage with them and was swiftly removed lol. Great band.

Adore this band. Earthshaker, Black Tiger, Mean Steak, Down for the count, In rock we trust and Ten are simply brilliant. Whenever I need a pick me up, Anytime at all is always a go to, melodic but kick ass.

As I've already said in one of the previous videos, Y&T's Earthshaker is, together with Riot's Fire Down Under, the best heavy metal album I know.

Got to chat with Dave and his wife on the monsters of rock cruise-one of the nicest most humble dudes ever! Still has all the vox and chops live-hasn't lost a beat!

Brilliant band, saw them on the Mean streak tour.

Great show again Pete. Ranking the albums of Cinderella would be a good show 👍

@seancsehil7081

3 жыл бұрын

That would take 10 minutes since they only have 4 albums

@nikkiboyce4632

3 жыл бұрын

@@seancsehil7081 😁😁😁😁😁😁

@independenceltd.

3 жыл бұрын

@@seancsehil7081 Pete's ranked plenty of bands with four albums, and less.

@treffbennett6534

3 жыл бұрын

Great band, Cinderella, and Tom Keifer stuff is STELLAR! Cinderella, along with Ratt, Tesla, Dokken, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Love/Hate, Mr. Big, Warrior Soul, and Saigon Kick (to name just a few) were unfairly lumped in with shit hair metal bands who cared more about eyeliner and mascara than riffs and musicianship! Would absolutely love to see Cinderella reunite-all their albums are packed with great tuneage. take care.

@LuchaLibertaria

3 жыл бұрын

@@treffbennett6534 Cinderella's first album is Glam Metal, their later albums are Blues/Hard Rock. There's no music genre as hair metal,, that term was invented in the 90s to ridicule 80s Hard Rock Bands, thats why you have all these 80s bands lumped in that made up genre.

I love Y&T, I Discovered them about the same time I discovered Tygers of Pan Tang back in the early 80's. They were really cool to jam to with your buddies and friends back in the 80s.

I Live your top álbuns ... you are the Best ... I’m usually using your list to decide what next LP to buy

Thanks Pete, I’ve seen this band many times. An East Bay band. 1 Black Tiger 2 Earthshaker 3 Mean Streak 4 Yesterday and Today 5 In Rock We Trust 6 Down for the Count 7 Ten 8 Contagious 9 Musically Incorrect 10 Facemelter

One of my favorite bands so underrated My list would be: 1. Black tiger 2. Earthshaker 3.mean streak 4. Musically incorrect 5. Endangered species 6. In rock we trust 7. Facemelter 8. Ten 9. Contagious 10. Down for the count

@treffbennett6534

3 жыл бұрын

Great to see Musically Incorrect and Endangered Species on your killer, on point, list! These two, under the radar, albums just have not been heard by many Y&T fans.....WE MUST FIX THIS! Facemelter was kind of disappointing for me-I was so amped up for it-the big comeback....it lacks fire. Yeah, vastly underrated band, Meniketti was a MONSTER on guitar and behind the mic!

Great job as always, I would love to hear your thoughts on Blind Guardian and how you would rank their albums

Agree Earthshaker and Meanstreak are mandatory in any collection!

Bought recently Earthshaker,Black Tiger and Mean Streak .Had Mean Streak on cassette when came out never a huge fan of this band at the time but definitely like a lot more now.Love Pete's accurate guitar vocal intro to Mean Streak.

Love it when you do the 80s bands.

Writer, Singer and Guitarist.........one of the best, if not the best musician overall.......Dave Meniketti and Y+T.....totally underrated! Facemelter and Ten are really good albums and better than their MTV albums (84/85) or their mid 90ies albums. Also their 70ies albums, have some good songs but they find their style and peak in the early 80ies with the 3 greatest Y+T albums. I saw them last, late 2019 and I have to say, great line up, strong than ever and still a passion that a lot of bands dont have live. And this for over 40 Years. Dave your the man!

My friend tried to get me into Y&T . He gave me a couple of miscellaneous cd mixes of their music . I kind of ignored them cause we have extreme different taste in music . He got me to go to the Y&T show with him a few years back and they are not at all the hair metal band I was expecting . Know I listen to the cd's he made for me regularly

Fave Y&T Albums #1 Contagious #2 Down For the Count #3 Ten #4 Black Tiger #5 MeanStreak Fav Y&T songs #1 Contagious (From Contagious obviously) #2 Fight For Your Life (From Contagious) #3 In the Name of Rock N Roll ( From Down For The count) #4 Meanstreak (From Meanstreak) #5 On With the Show (From Facemelter)

Brings back memories of a hot and sweaty London Marquee club in June 1982 - fantastic and would have been the gig of the summer if it hadnt been for Twisted F****n Sister's debut UK gig at the same club a few weeks later. Also pretty damn good at 1982's Reading Festival, very much holding their own on a bill with a host of other great acts - looking back I think 82 was a great year for Reading. By the time they got to Donington in 1984 though, for me they'd just gone off the boil - and not helped being sandwiched in between Accept and Gary Moore then Ozzy with Jake E Lee, all three putting in stellar sets (IMO) -Motley Crud opened, so yeah so what, and Van Halen did what they do - or rather Dave messed around and Eddie made all us guitar wannabees feel like giving up. AC DC headlined but , not being their biggest fans, me and my buddies went to the back, watched the majority of the set and went home to avoid the crowds - did the same thing a few years later when Bon Jovi headlined. No quarrel with your top 5 and nice to hear you compare Meniketti's voice to Hagar , something I've always thought as well.

I saw Y & T live 3 times and also met dave and phil, they are great and cool guys to talk and one of the best live bands so the best albums are the live ones, i myself love the albums 10 from 1990, musically incorrect from 1995 and black tiger from the early eighties, i saw them twice at sweden rock festival, a band that is invited twice to sweden rock festival in less than 10 years is not an underrated band but a great band, thanks pete for ranking this great live band.

Just ordered the box set of their first 5 albums plus a live disc. Couldn't beat the price, so thanks again Pete for another band I only had a best of from. But like you say a best of collection doesn't always have a bands best songs!

Great band and I was so happy to finally see them live this past January. What a great show and Dave sounded perfect and showed his sense of humor with stories and joking about. The only thing that sucked was two drunk guys. One was annoying and the other kept bumping into my dad and I and so my dad got pissed and almost threw down. Anyway, loved them for many years and wish they would start recording again.

Good band. Nice review of their career output. My personal favorite is "In Rock We Trust". As a further suggestion along these hard rock lines, I have two other bands which I don't think Pete has covered previously, and these two bands are personal favorites of mine. The two bands are Great White and Kix. Both bands have a long history and, among hard rock circles, are talented, well-respected acts. I have not heard Pete discuss any of these bands previously, so I am not sure if he is super familiar with them. I think both bands are a bit underrated, and given the great job Pete does with all his album reviews, I would be interested in hearing his take on the discographies of these two bands.

My top 10 1. Black Tiger 2. Earthshaker 3. Meanstreak 4. Musically Incorrect 5. In Rock We Trust 6. Endangered Species 7. Facemelter 8. Contagious 9. Struck Down 10. Ten

My first exposure to Y&T was when I was a kid i had this giant concert poster from Germany that advertised an Ozzy live show and at the top it said that Y&T where opening.