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I love F&J, but my favorite has to be "No Place for Disgrace." Perfect melodic Metal.🤘🤘

I don't think they've ever put out one Bad album and I own all of them. Great ranking as always🤘

No Place For Disgrace is one of my all-time favourite albums. I don’t hear many people say that over the years. I think it’s a thrash metal classic personally.

This band deserves much more attention than it gets, so THANKS for this video! For me No Place...is their best album. And i would like to mention to everyone: GO TO SEE THEM LIVE, if you have the opportunity!.

I thank you, mr Ruthless for introducing me ( i think it was your 1986- ten-best-ranking video) to D.f.t.D. album. It is fantastic! I think it is one of the best debut albums ever, maybe the best. You are right, it has no fillers. Every song is a killer!

I've sooo waited for this one...thank you for making it !!

Can't wait to check some of these out. I also have to agree some real talent NPFD was my first F&M album 🤘👏👏 great video as always

I have a soft spot for Cuatro because I got that CD for free by accident through Columbia House and that's how I discovered the band! Double Zero and Secret Square are probably my favorite tracks.

My favorite album will always be High... Monster is my favorite song by them. I also lived in Phx AZ back then and got to visit their studio a few times when this album was being recorded. They played at the Mason Jar all the time back then. The parties at the garage/studios back in the late 90s where they practiced were awesome.

i must admit i haven’t heard a lot of their middle discography, but the last few have all been really solid and doomsday for the deceiver is easily a top 20 thrash album of all time. such an underrated band 🤘🏽

First heard F&J on the Headbanger's Ball promoting Cuatro. Loved it and Drift. Empty Air is still one of my all time favorite songs.

I can't wait to listen to this band now! Thanks for making these videos dude👍

I think The Cold was an absolutely a sleeper great album.

Do Fates Warning!!Love your content

Interesting you mentioned Soundgarden during the Drift album, because Chris Cornell actually has writing credits on Cuatro. Anyway, my favorites from each of those albums, respectively, are Smoked Out and Wading Through the Darkness.

i love your videos man , a real metal maniac , cheers from montevideo uruguay

"I Live You Die" from Metal Massacre 7 was the first and best song I heard from these guys. Underrated band.

Killer video as always! You should do a video of the worst to best Agent Steel albums (and maybe show where Mad Locust Rising would fit between those?)

Great vid.Really enjoyed.I agree with your top 3,but I put When the Storm Comes Down,as my favorite.I got into that album,when it came out in 1990.🤘

I wholeheartedly agree with your choices. Amazingly, their last three were very well produced and thrashing for recent productions. Most bands’ production these days are too flat and heavily down-tuned.

Great work as always, ,man!

Cuatro and The Cold, underrated albums.

Love this band, incredibly underrated

Drift is simply amazing! Not a bad song on the album, but Smoked Out is one of the most perfect angry songs ever created. Check it out if you haven't.

I have to admit, I enjoy all of your videos and will now add Flotsam and Jetsam to my Spotify playlist. I am not all that familiar with them, but I know they are one of your favorite bands. The comment about the album "When the Storm Comes Down " about it sounding like "And Justice For All" except for the BASS was funny👍🤘

Great band saddled with incredibly bad luck. Yet they're still releasing good music. Perseverance

Just by Jason's contributions to Flotsam and Jetsam, it's such a shame Metallica were too emotionally stunted/immature to let Jason write more.

glad you decided to stick around, great video

My number one band of all TIME!!!!

Har bara hört och ägt No Place For Disgrace, tyvärr hade jag den som pris i ett musik quizz 1992 som första pris. Andra pris var en kasstett med Enuff Z'nuff, hahaha. Trevlig och informativ video som vanligt! 🤘🥂

Flotsam all the way. Listen to them at least 5 times a week!!!!! Good ranking😁😁😁

I’ve been a fan and following since Doomsday. I would’ve ranked a little differently. But awesome list. Kudos my Metal brother

I got "When the Storm Comes Down" when it came out and loved the hell out of it. Seeing it at #3 overall is probably about right.

We're really close on this one! First saw F&J when they were to open for Celtic Frost in 1987 but CF canceled. I was immediately hooked. Saw them a year later and opened for King Diamond. Very memorable show.

I have the albums "Cuatro" and "Drift". I got them in the 90's. They did have to take a slight detour, like many others, to survive the grunge onslaught. I looked into buying "No Place For Disgrace", but all I can seem to find is the re-recorded issue. I'll have to look harder to find those first three albums with their original recordings. Thanks for the video, Ruthless!

Good ranking👍👍

Never heard about this band, until they were mentioned alongside Carnivore in Peter Steele’s biography, a good band indeed. Found out about bands like Whiplash too and others because of that book

No Place for Disgrace has always been my favorite Flots. But I agree with you on When the storm comes down bring underrated.

Great video 🤘🏾keep up the good work 🍻 any chance we will see a Razor rank em all?

The Cold is a bad ass modern F&J album. One of my favorites.

Doomsday for the Deceiver is a classic, the only album to feature Jason Newsted before he join Metallica. Also, No Place for Disgrace and When The Storm Comes Down are amazing as well

As much as I like their early albums and a couple of their most recent ones, I've never given the majority of their albums a listen for some reason. Also, keep up the good work my man! Cheers!

Commenting as I'm watching, I'm VERY excited to check this video out. Flot is a band that has always been at the wrong place at the wrong time in terms of musical styles but they have a lot of absolutely incredible albums. Drift, to me, is the best groove metal album there is!

Thank you for recognizing the excellence of WTSCD

Best Flotsam & Jetsam moment= That Jason Newsted bass solo in the middle of Metalshock

Ask for my ranking. ? Just like Yours ! Nice job, man. ( Had to do my homework for 2 albums from the 2000s. I missed out )

Very underrated band it sucks that people just know them mainly for Jason newstead and I think doomsday and the deceiver is Jason's best album he's played on

🤘Great Rank of awesome band🤘unrrated🤘

How about ranking Saxon's albums? Just started to listen to their music and it rocks of my socks!

Jeezus Christ on crutches I dint even know Flots made that many lps. I checked out after The Storm Comes Down.

Great ranking. What about doing Morbid Angel worst to best ranking?

1 - Doomsday for the Deceiver (1986) 2 - No Place for Disgrace (1988) 3 - Flotsam and Jetsam (2016) 4 - When the Storm Comes Down (1990) 5 - Cuatro (1992) 6 - The Cold (2010) 7 - The End of Chaos (2019) 8 - Blood in the Water (2021) 9 - High (1997) 10 - Dreams of Death (2005) 11 - Ugly Noise (2012) 11 - My God (2001) 12 - Unnatural Selection (1999) 13 - Drift (1995)

Nice video. Doomsday is great, but no place is my favorite, maybe because I heard it first. I saw them live in Boston when they were supporting High. Great show. I haven't heard most of their 90's stuff, but I thought High was ok. Erik AK is awesome and very underrated. I never knew they went back to their thrash sound. I'm going to check out those more recent albums. One thing though......I did not like that re-recording of No Place for Disgrace. I'm not sure what the point of that was. It was just slower and Erik didn't really hit and sustain the high notes. \m/

“Why is Flotzilla teabagging Satan” heheh, got a good chuckle out of that. Diving into this discography! Debut is stellar!

"Suffer the masses" will always remind me of those last few years spent going to high school way waaaaaaaaay back in the day, lol. Listening to that song gives me a nostalgic vibe every time, it was the end of a truly incredible era as the 80's were coming to a close. The main riff on that track was so fckn HEAVY and I absolutely loved it... couldn't get enough. You could make it even heavier with the right sound system, listening to that one on a car stereo really brought out the low-end without sacrificing the crisp tones on the other side of the spectrum. We've got different tastes when it comes to mixing falsetto with thrash though, it just doesn't seem to mesh that well for me. It definitely has its place, but I've never cared much for falsetto vocals on a thrash track. That style is best suited for the King himself in my humble opinion... King Diamond will always wear that crown in my mind. Great video brother, keep 'em coming! 🤘🏻☠️🤘🏻

Don't have a ranking as I don't own all of their albums, but just like alot of the bands in my collection, my first is usually my favorite. In F&J, for me it's Cuatro. I love the dynamics on it, blending brutal speed and heaviness with the softer, quirkier bits, also kinda cozying up to grunge with a co-write with Chris Cornell (interesting collaboration). Just a great album in my opinion.

Ed Carlson and Michael Gilbert. That was a twin guitar attack from hell. Very overlooked IMO.

Damn you always seem to call it right and I’m from Arizona and Flotsam forever!!!! Seen them so many times in mesa and Tempe

I saw this band live twice in 1999 at the Mason Jar in Phoenix AZ where I was living at the time. I listened to No Place For Disgrace 10 years prior when I was in the 8'th grade. I was really into the Cuatro album when I heard some of it on the Metal Shop radio show before it was even released.

Seen them live end of chaos tour great show looking forward to seeing them again

Never listened to Flotsam, I'll start with your no.1 recommendation.

You should do a list of the lightest to heaviest exumer albums

After Quattro, I lost interest, but the most recent couple of albums, THEY'RE BACK! I saw them back in 93 in Houston Texas USA and they kicked ass. Saw them again with James Rivera on vocals and he butchered every song.

One of my favorite bands! I have translated one of their songs on my other channel ❤

Just listened in one day the first 3 records…wtf! Now I’m addicted!

When the storm comes down is number 1 for me!

Playing marbles with Yahweh . From the one of the song descriptions of the album When the Storm Comes Down. Even though I am not crazy about When the Storm Comes Down, it remains the only Flotsam and Jetsam that I have ever bought new. I remember that other than Annihilator it was the only album that I have ever seen where not only was a lyric sheet included, but also contained little sections above each song title that sort of gave a history and description to what inspired the songs. I have always had a hard time finding a copy of No Place for Disgrace. Friends would record it for me through the years. Even though overall I would consider both Doomsday For the Deceiver and When the Storm Comes Down to be Heavier than No Place For Disgrace in different ways. I think that NE Terror is definitely not only the Heaviest Flotsam and Jetsam song, but also among the Heaviest songs of all time . It's been years since I've heard When the Storm Comes Down maybe I should listen to it again, I just found a CD of Doomsday For the Deceiver at a Pawn shop last year, it was better than I remember it being. Love Eric AK's Halford style screams , but overall Doomsday is lacking a good mid tempo song. Most of the album is fast and faster

Even though I'm romantically more attached to When the Storm comes down (best thrashing sound !! for me) - Drift and The Cold. I agree with your ranking list. First three albums are ... masterpieces! Flot's 'till Death!

Also the re recorded of the 1st 2 lps that they did are also BAD ASS as well!!

Rankzilla! 😆😅🤣🤘 awesome

Flotsam are my absolute favourite band to go see live. Honestly their songs become 10 times better when they play em live, what a great band

So many people forget that the Iron Maiden was actually a torture device. I wrote a song about the Iron Maiden many years ago

Hey Man, I really like your taste in thrash and I was wondering if you could make a Video about the best Thrash records released after 2000? Maybe a Top 20, or a Top 10 by the Oldschool Bands and a Top 10 by Bands of the new wave of thrash... I mean, there are not many "great" records that come to my mind, M-16 was pretty good, Power Trips "Nightmare Logic" is great and I liked "The Evolution of Chaos" by Heathen.... something along those lines. And another question, have you heard of Teutonic Thrashers "Pessimist" ? My friend is the guitarist there, good old War-themed teutonic thrash.. Check out the Song "Landsknecht"

I am listening to Cuatro a lot these days! It is very good! Kinda like it.

What about RAZOR ? Would be great to hear Your opinion on this alltime underdogs from Canada.

IT will be a new flotsam and jetsam album called i am the weapon which comes out september this year

I love the last three albums. I’m going to see them in two weeks with Hypocrisy!

I only have one criticism of their When the storm comes down album, and that it the tappy sound of the snare drum, I’d love to hear the album with a more traditional tuned metal snare.

Drift is awesome. Sonically it sounds amazing.

The Cold is a phenomenal album throughout, if you can accept it as a heavy metal record and not a thrash record. NPFD is my favorite though.

1. Doomsday for the Deceiver 2. When the Storm Comes Down 3. No Place for Disgrace 4. The End of Chaos 5. Blood in the Water 6. Flotsam and Jetsam 7. Cuatro 8. High 9. Drift 10. My God 11. Dreams of Death 12. Ugly Noise 13. The Cold 14. Unnatural Selection

Even though I seen them live in 1985 in London and a few other times after that and loved their stuff I am ashamed to say that I don't own one album of them 😒

Finally you listened to me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. When the storm comes down

\m/ oh yeah

Wait,,,there were albums after DoomsDay For The Deceiver ??? :) Just a joke. Actually, the titles been on my mind lately. I did buy that though and dug it. Been ages since i heard it. Never paid attention later. Newkid was like the manager of that band from what i recall. Went thru the gauntlet with Metallica. No wonder his next project was called IR8. Now i'll watch the vid. Thanx in advance !

Game Over is a Thrash masterpiece!

Got Doomsday when it came out. I was so excited when I heard JN joined Metallica. The bass tone was so good. Then AJFA had no bass. Go figure.

I tend to really like the 90s albums, the only 80s album I would put over those would be "No Place for Disgrace"

Ruthless have you ever listened to the band Transmetal?

I can't argue with #1 and #2 as they're the only F&J albums that I own.

No Place for disgrace is definitely my favorite

1. When The Storm Comes Down - only pure thrsh album F&J 2. Doomsday for the Deceiver 3. No Place For Disgrace 4. The Cold 5. My God 6. Drift 7. Dreams of Death 8. Cuatro 9. Ugly Noise 10. Blood In The Water 11. Flotsam and jetsam 12. The End of Chaos 13. High 14. Unnatural Sekection

Drift is the best album period!!!

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'High' is definitely my Fave. You ranked 'Unnatural Selection' as worst? Dude, that record is movin! But hey, no one is "right" on what is best and what is shit. Us old school (55yrs) metalheads appreciate the groove Pantera put in the thrash style of metal. Simply, because "thrash" was getting boring and it needed a some different ingredients added. In the 90s many 80s thrash bands were adding ingredients in just to stay in the mix and uggh...stay 'relevant'. Testament, for example, added what they always needed and went better than ever in the 90s but sold less records. Starting with '94 'Low' (Personally, still their best to date) and '97 'Demonic' is just pure brutality and '99 'The Gathering' which has a mix of Low and Demonic is, again, IMO...perfect, despite the decline in sales. F&J dropped the ball a few times but the groove style they incorporated in a few of the mid 90s records, fits them the best. They were just following the thrash movement of the time, with Dooomsday AND IS NOT their best. It wasn't even close to their "style". Like for example 'Show no Mercy' isn't even close to the same style as 'Reign in Blood' or that 'South of Heaven' or 'Seasons in the Abyss' is to 'Hell Awaits' but its still Slayer. I even love the Diabolus in Musica record(Alot of people don't) because it's just super heavy and intense with Araya belting vocals from the very depths of hell like never before. These lists are just YOUR OWN personal tastes. It doesn't mean shit to me, or anyone else but, YOU! Thanks for "informing" us on YOUR favorites anyway. Btw, I would bet dollars to donuts that NOT 1 person ENTIRELY agrees with ANY of your lists. You had fun(and time) which probably made you believe that you were the all seeing "worst to best" critic of metal! It's appreciated, at most! Siskel & Ebert were wrong 90% of the time on their movie choices and they had a long running 'critics' TV show! They also believed that their opinions were "GOSPEL" and 100% accurate, that they were the only 2 people that knew anything about good and bad movies but, its all for the ole entertainment purposes now isn't it? I can say this though....it IS appreciated, at most! Cheerz 🍻 🤘 "If its too loud, You're too old"

Kelly David Smith is brilliant.

It's No Place for Disgrace all the way for me. Once in a while Doomsday For the Decever, I can get by just fine without the rest of their catalog. I sort of liked Prayer For the Masses until I found out how similar it was to Grunge band in fur colar vinyl coats Greasy haired wanna be Hippies known as Mary My Hope song Wild Man , Child Man

The only album I didn't really like was Unnatural Selection