Like most music fans, my inbox often contains several emails to YouTube links each day.
So I thought it would be good to highlight the best of them in a new section called
YouTube Of The Month.

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…).

More soon. Please feel free to email your suggestions for this page.
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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 band Vantage 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.