Heaven Up Here is one of the very best Echo lps. Their 1st four are all great and totally deserve to be heard. Crocodiles, Heaven,Porcupine and Ocean Rain. All fabulous. Id also throw in their double lp of BBC sessions. An argument could be made its their best lp! I kid you not.

Thanks for reviewing my request Heaven Up Here ! It won the Uk 🇬🇧 equivalent of a Grammy 🏆for best album cover. Rewarded to the late Brian Griffin who did many Depeche Mode , Kate Bush & Elvis Costello album covers. The cover represents the album perfectly 👍

I'd love you to review Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Let Love In and Roky Erickson And The Aliens: The Evil One. I really think you would enjoy these albums. Long time subber but I admit, I don't comment much. That cop made me spit out my coffee haha. I love that Pere Ubu album too. I have that and their second album called Dub Housing. Really love your videos and appreciate all the work you put behind these videos. Cheers from Finland!

23:16. Best part of the video 😂😂😂. I never get tired of you insulting the Beach Boys!

Damn it Fithen! I had to pull off the road when the cop showed up! Classic! 😂😂

I’m surprised you haven’t listened to Echo and the Bunnymen. They were a great early 80’s band. I think you will like their first four albums.

I'm glad you liked the Pere Ubu. One of my all timers. They actually got weirder after that then sort of got 'normal'. The next one, Dub Housing is the shit!

What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Robert ❤😊

Enjoying these reviews 👍🏻I’d make a suggestion but I think with over 50 you probably have plenty, ha. A Bob Dylan “Desire” story… You mentioned the song Sarah. There is an awkward moment in the studio with Dylan singing “Sarah”. He and her were having really bad issues around this time. Sarah happened to be there, or irrc Dylan invited her to the session, when Bob was recording the song. She had no idea he was going to do this “win her over” song and sing it to her through the studio glass. Needless to say she was nonplussed by this and it was one of those weird Dylan moments.

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Ok, I went and give Thousands On A Raft a listen.... and wow.... Indeed, Robert, why didn't we know about this one before? and why wasn't it bigger than they were? Thank you so much Michael for pointing that gem out!

These are just great Robert!! Who would have thought that I could sit through an entire Mike Love album review and be engaged the entire time.

Thanks for the reviews, Robert! I always look forward to your videos!

When this whole vinyl resurgence started, Heaven Up Here was the first thing i got. The Bunnymen always eventually take you back into the light.

Robert , you crack me up.

You dressed up like a policeman 🔥 Youre just full of surprises. "We're gonna find that c###!!" I think i found it! 🤣😆 Neat that u liked Echo & the Bunnymen, i thought for sure u were going to trash it.

Big Pere Ubu fan. Yes, Pere Ubu did eventually go in a pop direction. Their most successful poppy Ubu album would be Cloudland from 1990. Their other poppish albums are kind of boring tbh, but since 1995 they have reverted to being a more avant rock band. Incidentally, The Art of Walking was probably their weirdest.

Congrats to Mike Love for escaping "so bad it's good" territory. Also, please review Pink Flag by Wire and The Scream by Siouxie and the Banshees.

I must plead guilty that the cop interrogation had me laughing.

PLEASE REVIEW: BEE THOUSAND by Guided by Voices!!!!!!

The first four Echo and the Bunnymen albums are great! Then I remember seeing them playing Lips Like Sugar live on TV before it was released and it sounded really good. But when the single (and the self titled album) came out they'd polished all the life out it.

Really enjoyed these videos, great fun. If you do more can I suggest ‘Irish Tour 1974’ by Rory Gallagher. You might be familiar with this album, but I would love you review it, if only bring it to the attention of people who don’t know it exists.

how about reviewing “loveless” by my bloody valentine? it’s my favorite album of all time.

You are always funny...You KNOW that this Peter Brown is not Brian Epstein assistant/Apple Records Exec/Author of dubious Beatle books Peter Brown...Always entertaining...Peace and Love, Terry Tutor

the album i would love you to review is my favorite album.. leonard cohen 'thanks for the dance'... thank you...

I'm enjoying these! Can you please give a review of Swans White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity.

Rameses’ Space Hymns was produced by 10cc.

Great to see so many U.K. LPs. I played in a band with a guy that taught Ian McCulloch how to play C on the guitar. But as a fan of Folk Prog I'm wondering if the channel is my bag. Favourite album of all time, and request to review, "Help Yourself" by "Help Yourself".

😂😂😂😂😂 Thanks for reviewing ‘Ramases’, that was the reaction I was hoping you would give. Yes! Check out the other 2 album’s I recommend, I think you’ll get a kick out of them. One was Daniel Johnston Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded alone in his home, and his music was frequently cited for its "pure" and "childlike" qualities, Johnston also spent extended periods in psychiatric institutions and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The album for you to check out is ‘1990’, that one was more produced and he has a backing band supporting him. The other record was Barry Louis Polisar’s ‘my brother thinks he’s a banana’, he writes really clever and interesting children songs, if Bob Dylan was a children’s entertainer this is what he would sound like. Oh! I actually did a review on my channel for that record, it was my daughter’s holy grail record, I did a reaction video for it. I know you have a lot of recommendations already and probably backed up, but if you get a chance give it a listen, you don’t have to respond in a video, but like I said you’ll get a kick out of them. Thanks again

Wait Wait Wait! I just remembered an album I just recently got into that I loved even more. Gone to Earth by David Sylvian. He's kinda been my recent musical obsession 😅

Cold Spring Harbor was fixed in 1983. I heard the original chipmunk version on my local college radio station. Yes, they played the WHOLE THING!

I am not personally a huge Billy Joel fan (although I certainly like him), but I think he is a brilliant songwriter. Sharp lyrics. And he was great at those pastiche songs (like Say Goodbye To Hollywood). I have a lot of respect for him.

It's like Billy Joel became a victim in the 80's due to the music scene. And how he tries to reinvent himself. I find it as 2 era's. Everything before, and after that Greatest Hits album.

If you're taking more recommendations, for future videos or just in general, I'd recommend Rare Bird's debut album, Nazz' first album (with the original 'Hello It's Me') and for a real oddball, "Schony" by hockey player Jim Schoenfeld

Great reviews! Not sure if it's too late to mention any requests but here's mine. Alan White- "Ramshackled"

Nice to see someone else besides me talk about Pere Ubu. They have a back catalogue of about 30 albums, so if you're going to explore further, here are some suggestions. Avoid New Picnic Time and The Art of Walking LPs, unless you are into really out there avant garde, I found those two albums hard to listen to. The 2nd album Dub Housing is just as good as the first. In the 90s, they made an attempt at going commercial, and made 2 albums of twisted pop tunes, Worlds in Collision and The Story of my Life, both worth a listen at least. Their later albums are interesting, especially Carnival of Souls, and The Tenement Year, and there's also a compilation of their early singles titled Terminal Tower. Sorry to ramble on about Ubu, but they are such a unique band and one of my hometown favorites. And definitely check out Echo and the Bunnymen's Crocodiles.

I never knew anything about Pere Ubu either. I assumed they were the same as UB40? Thanks for the tip Robert.

I’ve never been into Billy Joel. Bakersfield radio plays him quite a bit. It is enjoyable.

Please consider creating a video containing your favorite excerpts from album reviews you've read. As in "Shit-Sandwich" from Spinal Tap, etc.. Thank you.

My list: The Nomads "Outburts" The Rezillos' "Can't Stand the Rezillos" The Fuzztones "Lysergic Emanations" The Modern lovers - debut album The Sonics "Here are the Sonics"

I agree with you about Billy Joel. Billy Joel was great until circa 1985. In my opinion, his best albums were “The Stranger”, “52nd Street”, and “An Innocent Man”.

Suggestion:The Men Who Love Music by Young Fresh Fellows. Power pop or pop punk indie alt. Sorry I'm late for the party

Would love to see you review “Dripping Wet” by Wet Willie, a live album. Wet Willie are a really tight live band

I would love to hear your opinion on Clutch Blast Tyrant.

Artist: The Apples, Album: Buzzin' About

You should listen to the band Indian summer and their self titled album, it should be right up your alley if you liked thousands on a raft!

Pere Ubu are one of my favourite bands, I have everything by them. I don't know how to describe them. They are not World music, for me they didn't seem to be weird to get into because I got into them via a main man David Thomas solo album which on reflection is bloody weird but I didn't know that at the time as until I was 9 I listened only to classical music and so I knew nothing of modern music. My number 1 David Thomas tune is the same one that I've loved since I first heard his music aged 9 "Happy To See You". Pere Ubu played in Leeds, England on November 21st the day before my birthday and they took a break because they were going to be doing an avant garde jam later on the stroke of midnight. My birthday is November 22nd and in the downtime I got talking to the wife of David Thomas and when I bought his book she went ""David, don't be such a grump, it's his birthday - go sign it for him." He sighed with the weight of the world on his shoulders and said "I'm only doing this because she told me to". I said would it be okay if he wrote "I was so happy to see you" even though it would be our in joke that he was plainly far from happy to see me. That made him smile, he wrote exactly what I asked and even added in a doodle of his profile and told me that if he ever saw my copy of his book up for sale there would be death squads after me

I'd like to ask for a review of Jean Michel Jarr's album: Zoolook.

Highly recommended The Soft Boys-Underwater Moonlight

I'm from England and Billy Joel is someone that was never on my radar, there was nothing at all in his music that I was capable of relating to. I did a school exchange in 1992 (my Grammar School was founded in 1492 same year as Columbus sailed the ocean blue and so they figured they could ship us over for a bit and get some peace). My school family I did the exchange with are my folks and remain my adopted family that I go over every time I have a holiday. Billy Joel simply doesn't work in England - my folks are in upstate NY and it was only driving around with them with Billy Joel on the stereo as we were doing this exchange that I understood the openness in the music and I really appreciate you not being a Billy Joel hater as my adopted driving back to Wallkill from a night out in NYC with "Captain Jack" on the car stereo followed by Elton's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is enough to start a religion

Pete Bardens, the answer is one I think you might enjoy.

i’ve got the original cold spring harbor… they actually stripped off a lot of the overdubs on the 1983 release. the original has a lot of over the top strings and horns and really elaborate arrangements. i think his voice in general was higher early in his career… can even hear a bit of that style on piano man. but maybe it was still a bit fast on the 1983 release.

Okay Robert I can tell how high The Beach Boys rate with you and that’s okay. I know many others who would agree and disagree. But this suggestion is an attempt to drag you a little closer to my side and this is no joke. Try Dennis Wilson’s solo album Pacific Ocean Blue released in 1977. While the BB influences are there esp with the vocal harmonies this is a 1970’s slice of pure LA vibe more in the vein of Fleetwood Mac than Laurel Canyon. It’s gritty and smooth at the same time. If you are reluctant then read the Allmusic review first. I bought it when it was first released and it’s still in my rotation today. One more suggestion: If you can stream through your audio system then listen to it from there starting with River Song.

Ha! Speaking of being in sync, Mike Love's 2019 LP gets a proper bollocking in our upcoming video for that year. Unfortunately I missed "Unleash the Love", otherwise we'd have savaged that one as well.

Echo and the Bunnymen are one of my favorite 80's bands, but I prefer their first album "Crocodiles" and their fourth, which is their masterpiece "Ocean Rain". Another great 80's album is "The Days of Wine and Roses" by the Dream Syndicate, this album, their first was released the same year as The Violent Femmes 1st album and on the same record label. Where the Violent Femmes is an acoustic version of the Velvet Underground, The Dream Syndicate is a more loud psych version of the VU. A great album that you probably never heard but need to, is, "Under the Bushes Under the Stars" by Guided By Voices from 1996. Excellent! David Thomas from Pere Ubu used to be lead singer in a band called Rocket From the Tombs. When Thomas quit the band to form Pere Ubu, the rest of the band got a new singer, Stiv Bators and formed the Dead Boys. The Dead Boys first single, "Sonic Reducer" was originally recorded by Rocket From the Tombs with David Thomas on vocals.

Desire is my favourite Bob Dylan album and I have something like 300 of them including bootlegs I stopped buying Dylan when I found myself buying them, playing them once and then putting them back on the shelf (about 4 albums after "Tempest" - I was bored by that. Desire is pretty much the only one that I still play and the sloppy "One More Coffee" is the one I can play whatever mood I'm in, "Hurricane" is my favourite but one I skip if I'm feeling mellow. "Unleash the love"!!!!!!! (no, please don't!!!!)

I’m pretty sure Pink Floyd stole The 1000 on the rafts riff for Brain Damage. I would buy the rights just to sue them if I could lol Glad you liked it. I was wondering what someone else would think of it, but I had the same reaction after listening to it as you did.

Cock Robin were a Southern California band. Got some airplay for first two albums. Not much traction in the US. But huge in France, of all places. Yeah, the name. Decent mid 80's pop, new wave.

Echo And The Bunnymen - you have nailed it Robert, get the debut "Crocodiles", it's by far and away their best and "Heaven Up Here" can't hold a candle to it. The lead singer is a bit full of himself and last time I saw him he was doing a Solo gig with Ian Broudie of The Lightning Seeds (lovely guy but so boring, I'm a record nerd and I was surrounded by record nerds and even though he was lovely, nobody wanted to talk to the other Ian that wasn't the Mac) Ian McCullough, the lead singer of The Bunnymen is a bit full of himself but we got talking and he seemed to like what I said and told me to walk with him as he was in a bit of a hurry. He asked me what did I think of the show and I said that it was great but I felt a bit cheated, I didn't mean to say it but I have no pause button. Ian went from being lukewarm to cold as ice and went "why did you say that, you know I don't like criticism" to which I replied that it was listed as an Ian McCullough gig and yet you did mostly Bunnymen songs and I have seen The Bunnymen countless times was wanting to hear his solo work and especially the track "Start Again". I got given a limited edition hardback book that Ian dedicated to me personally after we talked about our Dad's - and no, it is not up for sale - no money could buy that.

I think Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen is worth a listen. The track The Killing Moon was the big song on it but the whole album is pretty epic.

I do have another request. Foxygen-We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic Or Diane Coffee-My Friend Fish

Anything by David Thomas/Pere Ubu is just really good, and there's a lot...

I remember you saying that you would do these reviews, and I think i might have suggested one, but I can't find where I might have commented... Anyway, if you are still taking recs I ask that you review E'Nuff Z'NUff - Strength. I think it's an underrated power pop record that was unfortunately overlooked when they were lumped in with the dying hair metal scene and grunge was taking over.

Mike Loves review looks lower quality…how prophetic!

Dude, you crack me up, Lol. Here's one you should review. Fraction "Moon Blood" Rare album in it's original pressing. But has just been rereleased this year. Noble Records has put it out. Psych Christian band. It's really a good grove. I think you'll like it. So check it out.

Would love to know what you think about the album Bolex Dementia by Hard Stuff. It features members of Atomic Rooster

I have a short list for you Robert, but I’ll hold off for a while.

Hey Robert. In The Fam-Jewelz genre, Howza' 'bout a review of The Pre-Steely Dan lp, entitled "The Original Soundtrack" Lp, by Becker/Fagan. (i found it in the UK, back in the day. also, Pre & post "Crimso'; Giles, Giles and Fripp, McDonald & Giles. Cheers 'n' way cool vid. don't always agree with you, but dig yer point of view. Cheers from SpoCanada, in the soon to be U$$@

Give a listen to this one (its from portugal, so you wont understand lyrics, but is good sound): Artist:josé cid Album: 10.000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte

Mind reviewing In Tweed We Trust by Thee Headcoats?

You do know the Rolling Thunder "documentary" is satirical, don't you? I know plenty of people who bought the whole thing as true. Scorsese wanted to do his own Dylanesque put on and failed. The concert footage is spectacular, but I can barely watch the rest. I find it embarrassing. I wish they had made an actual documentary about the tour and the Renaldo and Clara movie.

Atomic Rooster’s “Death Walks Behind You”…. Please?

Sometimes ... maybe your rip off impersonations may even drive you up the wall... but... we love them!!🥴😁

I’ve got a great 80’s band I think would be up your alley. Droogs “Kingdom Day”. The cover will sell you.

Also, if you are still taking requests... Smiley Smile by the Beach Boys. And this is not just another Pet Sounds joke. Smiley Smile is now being REAPPRAISED as a lost classic after being thought of as a jumbled mess for decades. However, I still think it's a jumbled mess. And I actually enjoy Pet Sounds (although not as much as I enjoy your jokes), so I can only imagine the field day you'll have with it. P.S. The story behind Ramases is fascinating. He was an HVAC guy who went nuts and thought he was the reincarnation of the Egyptian pharaoh. That's 10cc backing him up. But yeah, much better cover than album. The original foldout cover is amazing.

Has anyone ever listen to Billy Joel's band Attila? He hates it . I love it. Just him and a drummer on the record

How did Billy Joel go from ATTILA to his debut?The 70s were very avant-garde and weird 😂

My father spent 12 years in a federal prison for cock robin and, as a result, my mother left him, fled to Europe and changed her name. Almost ruined my childhood.

Farm 1971 vinyl

Ian Mcluuuuhhh....🙂 Its pronounced muh-KUL-uk 🙂

I enjoy these but 36 minutes is pushing it bud.

P$, 'n' i'm a sqwalking saxist. Dig Echo & Pere Ubu.