Here's
#1. Click on the play button to watch
'Lost Angels', from Sweet's 1977 album 'Off
The Record'. Thanks to Jerry Ewing for bringing it to my attention.
Okay,
# 2 is 'Shitkicker', from American Dog's 2005 album 'Foamin'
At The Mouth Live'
Brought to my attention by none other than Michael Hannon of
Columbus, Ohio!
#3
is... Raven... 'Don't Need Your Money', live version of a song
from the band's 1981 debut 'Rock Until You Drop'
#4
is Status Quo filmed live in 1974, but originally recorded
on the previous year's seminal 'Hello!' album. This li'l beaut was forwarded on by Colin Harkness
of Bolton
#5
is 'Angel Witch' by Angel Witch, from the 1980 album of
the same name.
Shame the music isn't quite in sync with the visuals, but beggars can't
be choosers. Selected by Jerry Ewing (again).
Here's
YouTube Of The Week #6. A brilliant live version of AC/DC's
'Rocker' filmed at Essex University
in Colchester, 28th October 1978. Complete with Angus Young's smoking
satchel.
Brought to my attention by Nige Glazier of Reading.
Top work, fella.
Here's
YouTube Of The Week #7. 'The Line Went Dead' by McQueen,a band so good it's almost possible
to forgive them for hailing from Br***ton. Check out the girls' album
'Break The Silence'.
Recommended by Matt from Demolition Records.
YouTube
Of The Week #8 is a real blast from the past.
This excellent footage of the Young & Moody Band,
with guests Lemmy from Motörhead,
Cozy Powell and (ulp!) The Nolan Sisters playing
'Don't Do That' first appeared on Tiswas in 1981.
Sender Adrian Pedersen from Oslo wanted to know the
identity of the "fantastic Art Garfunkel lookalike" on vocals.
It's Ed Hamilton, a great singer whose voice sounds a bit like John
Lawton of Heep fame.
YouTube
Of The Week #9 is an oddity. Check out this version of UFO's
'Rock Bottom' from 1973, but with different lyrics.
Mr Mogg's propensity for forgetting his own words is legendary, of course,
so he wins extra brownie points for getting through
this alternative set without a slip. Or was this the way he intended
them to be all along? Answers on a postcard.
The link to this week's suggestion for YTotW was sent to me by Batttttty...
who else?!
To
celebrate the fact that we're onto YouTube #10 - double figures, at
last - I'm making my own selection this time.
I've just finished transcribing an interview with Fountains Of Wayne's
Adam Schlesinger and felt compelled
to re-visit the saucealicious video for 'Stacy's Mom', starring
Rachel Hunter, from the masterfully hummable
'Welcome Interstate Managers' album. Never before have The Cars
been so satisfyingly plagiarised... enjoy!
(Love
Me Tonight and Without Your Love) from the band's self-titled
debut album in 1979.
How brilliant that when producer Tom Dowd runs through the line-up,
claiming that "each member of the group has
the potential to be a superstar", Michael Bolton's name is mentioned
last. Submitted by John Dryland of Cargo Records.
Had
quite a few nice emails about YouTube #11, so here's something related.
Former Blackjack singer Michael Bolton's 1985 album 'Everybody's
Crazy' is, of course, a landmark of the AOR genre.
Here's its wondrous title track. Submitted by the not-quite-so-wondrous
Jerry Ewing.
Two
for the price of one this time. My sincere thanks to James Mitchell
of the Edinburgh-based bandVantage
Point
for submitting YouTube #12, a pair of hilarious TV adverts for Judas
Priest's 'Turbo' album, released back in 1986.
The campaign to make Rob Halford the first ever gay James Bond begins
right here!
Here's
YouTube #13 - definitely an unlucky one. May I present Headgirl,
the Motörhead-Girlschool amalgam,
looning around with the old Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
song 'Please Don't Touch' on Top Of The Pops.
Would've been way back in February 1981. This gem was brought to my
attention by my old mate Nigel Glazier from Oxfordshire.
RIP, Kelly Johnson.
As
this clip's supplier, Rich Wilson of Manchester, so
wisely theorizes, YouTube #14 might just turn out be YouTube Of The
Year.
The classic line-up of Marillion reuniting at the Hobble
On The Cobbles Festival in Aylesbury on 27.8.07
for a version of their debut hit single from 1982 that caused grown
men to weep with joy.
Ladies and gents, I give you 'Market Square Heroes'.
YouTube
#15 is a cool animated promo for 'When The World Was Round',
a song from Ian Hunter's excellent latest album,
'Shrunken Heads'. It was brought to my attention by
Mick Brown of Hunter's label, Jerkin' Crocus Records.
Mick is a top fella, except for supporting his local team... yes, the
vile Seaweed shite.
Oh
wow... what a find, Canadian soft rock geniuses Max Webster playing
'Paradise Skies', from their 'A Million Vacations' album,
on Top Of The Pops, and introduced by that grinning buffoon Peter Powell
("Hard and heavy" my ass - MW were neither of the sort).
The YouTube info box claims that this clip, unearthed by John Dryland
of Cargo Records, was filmed in 1977,
but in fact the song wasn't a hit until the album's release two years
later. Enjoy!
So
sorry that YouTube #17 has been such a long time coming. Recorded live
in 1981, this marvellous TV clip
of 'Astra Wally' features the classic line-up of Rose Tattoo
(Angry Anderson, Pete Wells, Mick Cocks, Geordie Leach and
Digger Royal) in action. Christ, they were an excellent band.
Takes me back to the days of seeing them at the 'old' Marquee Club in
Wardour Street.
Much appreciation to my fellow Heepster Alan Keetley for bringing
it to my attention.
YouTube
#18 is something that you must've thought you'd never see again; four-fifths
of the classic Krokus line-up
- vocalist Marc Storace, guitarist Fernando Von Arb, bassist Chris Von
Rohr and drummer Freddy Steady -
playing a medley of the tracks 'Tokyo Nights', 'Bedside
Radio' and 'Heatstrokes' on Swiss TV.
Krokus' 1980 album 'Metal Rendez-vous' is one of my
all-time favourites, so thanks to Peter Evans in Nuneaton
for forwarding the link.
So
we're onto YouTube #21, wisely selected by my old boogie-head buddy
Colin Harkness.
I present a piece of definitive glam-rock history - The Sweet
peforming one of the very first singles I ever bought,
'Teenage Rampage', on Top Of The Pops during January of 1974.
There was no need to "lock up your daughters" from the limp-wristed
deejay fella at the end, I suspect.
Here's
one of my all-time fave songs, performed by another of my all-time fave
groups.
Yes, it's Europe adding their thumbprint to 'Love
To Love' with an orchestra in their Swedish homeland back in
January.
Stay tuned as next month we'll be bringing you Hellhammer's acoustic
rendition of 'Afterglow' by Genesis.
Thanks for the Batttttty (who else?) for the tip-off.
YouTube
#23 features Susanna Hoffs, the doe-eyed former Bangles frontbabe
and future Mrs Ling (had she played her cards right),
sashaying her way through Bad Co's 'Feel Like Making Love' back
in 1991. Suggested by my ol' Spider buddy Colin Harkness,
who quite rightly asks: "Is it just me, or is it hot in here...?"
Um, I'm just off for a lie down...
And
so to a timely YouTube #24. Rock Candy Records recently
re-issued the self-titled debut from Romeo's Daughter,
partly produced by the celebrated Robert John 'Mutt' Lange
back in 1988.
As recommended by Paul Wilcox of Oxford, here's 'Heaven
In The Backseat', as featured in the
fifth Nightmare On Elm Street movie (hence Freddy Krueger's inclusion
in the video).
Welcome
to YouTube #25. David Coverdale of Whitesnake strutting
his stuff on the daytime chat show/gossip-fest Loose Women.
This is absolutely priceless stuff. What a ham... Thanks to Malcolm
Dome for the link.
I'm
indebted to Dave Derry of Pontefract for tipping me
off about this little beaut. YouTube #26 is the original Diamond
Head line-up
performing 'Helpless' on the BBC Midlands TV programme
'Look Hear' way back in 1980. The guys look so young,
it's positively frightening.
This
guy has got what my son Eddie would probably term “a potty mouth”.
Josh Homme calling out an audience member
at a Norwegian festival earlier this summer. Dee Snider would be proud
of the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman’s
verbal combative performance. Thanks to Rich Wilson
for bringing YouTube #27 to my PC screen
Here’s
this month’s YouTube, and it’s a real corker – Montrose
playing debut album classic ‘Bad Motor Scooter’
on TV in 1974,
with an incredibly youthsome and hirsute Sammy Hagar
on vocals. Recommended by my old tape-trading buddy Tony Crowley
from Norwich.
Now
this is indeed a gem – the Ronnie James Dio-fronted Rainbow
performing ‘Gates Of Babylon’ in 1977.
I’m indebted to my old boozing buddy Malcolm Dome for being
so kind as to have mailed it to my inbox.
Yet
more audio-visual buried treasure, this time unearthed by my old mate
from Reading, Nige Glazier.
What we have here is ‘Gravy Train’, Bruce ‘Bruce’
Dickinson’s final song as a member of Samson, performed
at the Reading Festival
in August 1981 – I’m trying to recall whereabouts I was
in the crowd.
The footage is a bit grainy, but the sound is excellent. RIP Mr Samson,
six years on and still missed.
My
thanks to Pete Feenstra, who sent this link of the Pat Travers
Band performing ‘Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)’
at a gig in North London’s Whetstone on 26th October, 2008. PT
still rocks: It’s official.
Onto
YouTube #32. I’ve been in a bit of Slade mood recently,
so here’s the band’s 1974 hit 'Everyday'
performed before some classic haircuts and jumpers on Top Of The Pops.
Recommended by my boogie buddy, Colin Harkness,
whose band Spider actually got to tour with Noddy and chums in 1981.
Thanks
to Alex Dunbar from Paisley for this link to Lizzy Borden’s
‘Me Against The World’ from 1987’s sensational
‘Visual Lies’ album.
It still annoys me when Lizzy sings: “This ain’t no false
façade” – what other type of façade is there?
But ‘MATW’ is as fantastic a slice of stompalong glam-metal
as you’ll see/hear.
In
celebration of Dan Reed’s return to the rock music scene,
here’s his goosebump-inciting hippy anthem ‘Rainbow Child’,
which dates back to the singer’s newly-shavenheaded days of the
late 1980s.
Thanks to Lesley Cotton of Exmoor for providing the suggestion/link.
More next month
FM
are to play the Firefest again, so what else could the 35th YouTube
Of The Month selection possibly have been
but the preposterous promo for ‘That Girl’, taken
from the UK band’s seminal ‘Indiscreet’ debut?
Pink suits are bloody well mandatory on this one, folks. Chosen by…
well, me actually. But you knew that…
YouTube
#36 is the clip that everyone’s talking about – Metallica
jamming on Saxon’s ‘Motorcycle Man’
with that band’s singer Biff Byford during a gig at the
Palais Omnisport De Bercy in Paris. Terrific stuff…
YouTube
#37 - This three-song video from Alice Cooper has been on the
net since last October, but it’s the first time I’ve seen
it.
Check out the inter-linked promos for 'Vengeance Is Mine', '(In
Touch With Your) Feminine Side' and 'Killed By Love' –
all from
the Coop’s current album ‘Along Came A Spider’
– and enjoy.
YouTube
#38 was suggested by Sam Hyde from Lincolnshire.
I used to love Wrathchild, a band I saw many, many times onstage.
‘Stakk Attakk’ was, of course, the title cut
of the self-styled Evesham glam-rock warriors’ debut from 1984,
produced by Robin ‘Heartline’ George.
Unearthed
by site regular Mark Taylor, Krokus perform ‘Bad
Boys Rag Dolls’ on the much-missed
Saturday morning TV show Tiswas back in 1982. There’s no sign
of the Phantom Flan Flinger,
but at least the Swiss metalheads were introduced by my then wife-to-be,
Sally James.
And
with no further ado, here's YouTube #40. The reunited Airrace
performing 'Caught In The Game',
from their 'Shaft Of Light' album, at the River Rooms in Stourbridge
earlier this year. Enjoy!
I
wasn’t at Steel Panther’s recent show at
Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London but this excellent
clip of their
hairspray-tastic opening song, ‘Eyes Of A Panther’,
sure does make me wish that I’d gone!!
On
to YouTube #42 and my friend Caroline Greenwood has dredged up
this footage of Napalm Death performing three tracks
('Lowpoint', 'The Kill' and 'Dead') on the UK show
TFI Friday back in February 1999.
Haven’t seen this l’il beaut since… well, since I
was in the crowd for it!
Spotted
by my pal Nige Glazier, here’s one for fellow fans of
Francis Dunnery – the man himself performing
‘Calling To You’ onstage
at the Walls in Oswestry on 6th November 2009, in the company of a special
guest… a certain Robert Plant.
It’s camera-phone quality but… enjoy!
I’ve
been listening to a lot of Magnum this past week, ‘Back
To Earth’ is such a classic song.
This version, from Hammersmith Odeon in March 1988, just before
they broke big with ‘Wings Of Heaven’, is superb.
I love the shot of the venue’s exterior; such a shame the cameraman
failed to capture Malcolm Dome’s near-legendary scuffle
with a ticket tout as we left the pub.
’YouTube#45.
Although it's edited, unfortunately, it’s joyous. Emerson Lake
& Palmer playing the first part of classic ‘Pirates’,
complete with orchestra at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, 1977.
I **cannot** wait to see them again at the High Voltage Festival
this summer.
Onto
YouTube #46, and with the back catalogue of Savatage set to receive
an overhaul, I couldn’t resist nominating ‘Gutter Ballet’,
the title track of the now sadly defunct Floridian band’s sixth
album, from 1989.
What a song! What a voice! What a guitarist! What a video! (cont’d
page 94…).
Submitted
by James Whittaker from Newport, here are the Scorpions
and ex-Nightwish chanteuse Tarja Turunen performing ‘The Good Die Young’, a song from the superb new
album ‘Sting In The Tail’, on German TV last month.
Danke schön, James!
At
the end of a particularly draining football season, there could be just
one possible choice for YouTube #48.
Let us rejoice in ‘The Beautiful Game’
by Willie Dowling and the Jackdaw4.
A contagious chorus and a cameo or two, or maybe three or four, from
somebody that looks suspiciously like my good self!
The
Down ‘N’ Outz’ version of ‘England
Rocks’, originally recorded on Ian Hunter’s ‘Overnight
Angels’ album. Mr Elliott recent told me: “There’s no reason why
‘England Rocks’ couldn’t become England’s unofficial
World Cup song.
I can already imagine hearing it on Sky Sports with Rooney sliding on
his knees after scoring.” I agree, this is great!
A
classic as we reach YouTube #50. The ‘Big Four of Thrash Metal’
play Diamond Head’s ‘Am I Evil?’ in
Bulgaria, June 2010.
Shame that Kerry, Tom and Jeff from Slayer weren’t a part of this
historic jam session... but pretty momentous nonetheless.
Having
seen these guys at the recent High Voltage Festival (albeit momentarily),
it was about time for a visual dose of Bigelf.
This excellent promo clip for ‘Money, It’s Pure Evil’,
is sourced from the Californian group’s most recent album, ‘Cheat
The Gallows’
…
And onto YouTube #52. This clip of Opeth paying tribute to Ronnie
James Dio with a version of ‘Catch The Rainbow’
at the recent Bloodstock Festival was despatched to my ‘in’
box by none other than Metal Hammer head honcho Alex Milas,
a man lucky enough to have been an eye witness of the event concerned.
YouTube #53 is a promo video of ‘Born
To Rock ‘N’ Roll’, a hugely enjoyable anthem from
‘Breaking The Silence’,
the new album by reunited UK rockers Skin. It was filmed at this
summer’s Download Festival. I love it!
And onto YouTube #54. Filmed at the Greek
Theatre in Los Angeles in July 2010, guitarist Trevor Rabin joins
former band-mates Yes for the first time in 16 years to play ‘Owner Of A Lonely
Heart’, the song Rabin wrote for the ‘90125’ album.
I’m gonna pick YouTube #55 myself.
‘Beautiful Dangerous’ is a song from Slash’s
self-titled solo debut,
one of my favourite records of 2010. Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas is great as the slutty,
deranged super-groupie that picks him up
and takes him home in this video – all the more chilling given
that John Lennon was murdered
by a so-called ‘fan’ almost 30 years ago to the day.
Thanks to Col Harkness of late,
lamented Merseyboogie combo Spider for this month’s YouTube
selection.
The mighty Chariot performing ‘When The Moon Shines’
and ‘Vigilante’ on Channel 4’s near-legendary
TV show, ECT, during the mid-80s.
Shouldn’t this series be available on DVD by now? Somebody should
pull their finger out and make it happen in 2011.
P.S. I’m there in the crowd, if you know where to look!
I’m going to pick this site’s
57th YouTube selection. Here’s a video for ‘The Doctor’,
a track that features on the Cambridge band The Treatment’s
debut album, ‘This Might Hurt’.
Now here’s a slice of genius, selected
by site regular Nick Long. Twisted Sister’s now
legendary appearance
on the Channel 4 TV series Tube back in '82, a spot that caused
the band to be signed to Atlantic Records,
administering their career a much-needed hotwiring. Truly brilliant
stuff!!
YouTube #59 is 'All Or Nothing', the new video
from Canuck metalheads Cauldron.
Okay it's a bit silly, but any band that sleeps in their Angel Witch
T-shirts will always get the thumbs up from me.
It was brought to my attention by Dan Tobin from Earache Records.
I was unable to attend last week’s gig by the
Down ‘N’ Outz at London’s Royal Albert
Hall (where the band opened for Paul Rodgers),
so the chance to see this filmed version of Mott The Hoople’s
‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Queen' was most welcome.
Check it out!
