Rush - Hold Your Fire and Presto Dio - Sacred Heart Pink Floyd - The Final Cut The Who - It's Hard

Robert Plant - Shaken 'n' Stirred Bought it when it was released. Listened to it 1000s of times. Still one of my favorites. So different and unique .

Five that I love that tend to get dissed regularly are: Starcastle - Real To Reel (1978) Jethro Tull - Under Wraps (1984) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - American Dream (1988) Jefferson Airplane - S/T (1989) Boston - Life, Love & Hope (2013)

Iron Maiden, No Prayer for the Dying.

Rush - Presto Priest - Turbo Floyd - Momentary Lapse Gonna go relisten to American Soldier now.

Great show guys! Starz - Attention Shoppers Gillan - Scarabus AC/DC - Blow up Your Video Angel - Sinful Little Feat - Down on the Farm

Great show chaps a good laugh throughout, especially the beer section. Aerosmith - Nine Lives Iron Maiden - Virtual XI AC-DC - Ballbreaker Metallica - Reload The Who - It's Hard

KISS - The Elder

Maiden - X Factor; AMOLAD, DoD Van Halen - Diver Down Celtic Frost - Shit . . Uh . .Cold Lake Rush - Presto AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip BÖC - Mirrors The WHO - Face Dances

Van Halen - diver down . Love it 👍

I've been podcasting for over 13 years and I just stumbled onto the Sea of Tranquility. I'm totally hooked especially the U.K. Connection. You guys have great chemistry. I'm going to go back and check out all of the old shows.

Black Sabbath - Born Again Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark Motorhead - Rock n Roll AC/DC - Fly On The Wall. Ozzy Osbourne - Ultimate Sin.

Iron Maiden - X Factor first of all 🤣 Pink Floyd - Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of reason Queen - Made in heaven...I enjoyed it! Led Zeppelin - Coda Almost all Volbeat, Bullet for my valentine (not Temper!) and Avenged Sevenfold albums. Linkin park - Minutes to Midnight and 1000 suns(my favorite)

Off the top of my head. 1,Deep Purple The Battle Rages On. 2,Annihilator Remains 3,Exodus Force of Habit. 4,Marylin Manson Mechanical Animals. 5,Setherial Lords of the Nightrealm. 👍

Gentle Giant - Giant for a Day. An album of well crafted songs that anyone who was into Toto, Supertramp, Alan Parsons, 10cc, even a smidge of Kiss may like. It just doesn't have weird time changes. Marillion - I can't make up my mind because there are four candidates and I really like them and tend to listen to them more than the EMI albums

Steven, totally agree with Calling All Stations. I do appreciate this album, and it's nice to see someone appreciate it as well. I l love the UK Connection show! Keep rocking, gents!

Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite Metallica - Death Magnetic 311 - Music Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth

Wishbone Ash 'Locked In' is a fav of mine, not on many folks' top 5 list of their discography. Many thanks lads.

Kingdom Come - In Your Face Everyone hates them for sounding like Zeppelin but I love this album from start to finish. "Do You Like It" is such an amazing song that you want to forking blow your speakers off. Simply hard rocking with no weak spots

Simon choosing Thor Fantastic! I think Only The Strong is his best. I totally agree with Steven’s choice of the Poison album. And I like the Maiden and UFO albums Pete chose. My choices are Krokus - The Blitz, Megadeth - Risk, Raven - The Pack is Back, AC/DC - Fly on the Wall and Saxon - Destiny. Now I intend to play the Meat Loaf and the Danger Danger albums for the first time.

Quo‘s Never too Late comes to mind.. hated it in 1981 - now love it !

Holy moly, I live in Australia and have never heard of Taliesin. Now I shall have to check them out

Great video gents! There are some albums here that I really love. My choices are... REM - Out of Time. I agree Radio Song is crap, but the rest of the album is amazing. My favourite REM album White Zombie - Soul Crusher. I don't know anyone who's even heard the first two album, nevermind likes them. To me they're just as good as La Sexorcisto and Astro-creep. AC/DC -Ballbreaker. The first AC/DC album I owned (on tape!). I absolutely loved it at the time. With hindsight it's not as good as I thought at time, but I still like it alot. Rainbow - Stranger in us All. My first Rainbow album on CD. Not their best, obviously that's Down to Earth (which maybe could have made this list), but still great! Paradise Lost - Believe in Nothing. A gothic, synthy masterpiece to me, bollocks to most. The production is a bit crap on the original release, but there are some great songs. Honourable mentions got to the Blaze Bailey Iron Maiden albums, especially X Factor, Motley Crue - Motley Crue and Whitesnake - Restless Heart.

Niche, but I can explain: The Status Quo covers albums in the 90s/2000s: Riffs, Famous in the Last Century and, the one that really got me, Don't Stop. First CD I remember my dad buying instead of just existing. We played that thing over and over, particularly the cover of Fun Fun Fun with the Beach Boys. Nostalgia? Of course but very special all the same.

Brian May and Friends: Star Fleet Project. I've probably listened to this album several hundred times over the last 40 years.

The Tubes-Love Bomb Magma-Merci The Damned-Anything

As Alan Partridge said, 'Wings, the band the Beatles could've been.' My picks are Anthrax - State of Euphoria, Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy, Queensrÿche - Promised Land, Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden, Green Jellÿ - Cereal Killer Soundtrack (Although I think Green Jellö we're trying to be bad! I have the VHS too. Blessed be bands that do not take themselves too seriously!)

I love Peter Criss' solo album! it's a true solo album! his best vocal performance! Loved it them... Love it NOW!!! It probably would have done better if Easy Thing and I Can't Stop The Rain were released as singles! Perfect singles for the late 70's!!! But PAUL wouldn't let him overshadow him again!

Deep Purple Turning To Crime Rush - Feedback

Mike Batt's an unsung genius like a British Todd Rundgren, some great solo albums but most people will know the songs he wrote and produced for other artists like Art Garfunkel, most notably "Bright Eyes" from the 1978 animation classic Watership Down, Elkie Brooks, Alvin Stardust and David Essex. I've always liked the concept album and stage production The Hunting of the Snark that featured a host of famous singers like Julian Lennon, Roger Daltrey, Justin Hayward and George Harrison.

I like good albums too, but... Demolition Hammer - Time Bomb Killers - Menace to Society Judas Priest - Nostradamus Dio - Magica Judas Priest - Jugulator M.O..D. - Rhythm of Fear Malevolent Creation - Stillborn Overkill - I Hear Black Pestilence - Spheres Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Sepultura - Against Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis Slayer - Diabolus in Musica Testament - Demonic Coroner - Coroner Destruction - Cracked Brain Iggy Pop - The Weirdness Iron Maiden - The X Factor Pink Floyd - A momentary lapse of reason

From your picks, I love Thor, Peter Criss, London Town, and Calling All Stations From my own list not mentioned on the show: Iron Maiden - The Blaze albums (Just love Blaze in general, Wolfsbane, Maiden, and all his solo stuff) Judas Priest - Nostradamus (wildly ambitious left turn that I think is good for what it is) Kiss - The Elder (same reason as Nostradamus) Manowar - Sign of the Hammer (Very different from the rest in a good way) Tommy Shaw - Ambition (Gets trashed all the time but I always liked it) Yes - Union (Hardcore Yes fans seem to hate it but I think it's top tier stuff)

OK! with all that said... my pick is Nostradamus! I think it is brilliant!!! Priest doing symphonic power metal is a natural step for them and me! there are some great songs on here! this is a greatly misunderstood album! If it was properly edited and promoted it would have been HUGE!!!!

Great topic guys. Let's see more of these in the future. Good call on Meatloaf, Genesis, and Queensryche. Many of the other titles mentioned, I can't comment on, but actually UFO's "High Stakes" record was pretty good. I really loved the '80s stuff, so this being their first entry in the '90s showed good effort, but was import-only in the States and so didn't stand much of a chance. Here are a few off the top of my head: The Cars: Door to Door - Good variety like on Heartbeat City, but much more of a straightforward rock record. For a band on the verge of bowing out, this was a brilliant effort. Di'Anno: Self-Titled - This may qualify more as unknown than unpopular, but if more people knew of it, they'd probably think it sucks. Paul's first foray into post-Maiden life was puzzling to say the least, but taken for what it was: good, cheesy, pop metal that resonated with those of us who didn't mind the "sell-outs" so much as a sign of the times. Scorpions: Sting in the Tail - This was a solid return to form an album before they hit it out of the park with their latest one. This was a nod to their 80s hard rock style from start to finish. Molly Hatchet: The Deed is Done - I loved the record when it came out. Radio led me to "Satisfied man," but I discovered plenty more gems. I'd equate this album to ZZTop's "Afterburner," both with a similar style and sound They're more musically adventurous here and for the most part, they pull it off. Listen to "She Does" for a good example. Saxon: Innocence is No Excuse - One of my favorites, leaps and bounds ahead of Crusader; heavy, anthemic, much improved production. To me they did well to merge the classic with the current better than most, going more commercial without sacrificing credibility. They'd go on to do that with their next album. W.A.S.P.: KFD - They jumped the aggro-industrial trend in the late '90s, but what lay beneath was their heaviest, angriest album since the debut. It blew away SNBE that came before and the listless Helldorado that followed. In brief: Kiss "Dynasty," The Knack "But the Little Girls Understand, Accept "Objection Overruled" and "Predator," Judas Priest "Ram It Down," Kreator "Endorama" ....

To be fair Bret was probably dying for a change in the times to do a more bluesy mature album, he's on the record saying main influences are Lynyrd Skynyrd and Zepp, he also like Thin Lizzy, Rush and VH and thinks AC/DC is the best rock band ever. Bret tried to get Slash back in the day but the other guys didn't agree, what a timeline that would be. It wasn't really weird that they got a shredder in Kotzen since DeVille was also one, one hell of a feeling player as well, crazy underated. I think Poison gets too much shit, yeah, there's the Unskinny Bops but there's also the Ride the Winds.

I’m not a lyric guy either Steven 😉 😂 I had all 4 KISS solo albums (still do), and I get your point about Peter’s, and I can still hear some of those Peter songs, so that says something, right?

Kiss - Music from the Elder Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Jethro Tull - Under Wraps Yes - Big Generator Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks + Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy (Alice and BS perhaps not hated but very underrated albums) ELP - Love Beach Queen - Hot Space The Rolling Stones - Dirty Work Rush - Hold Your Fire Venom - Calm Before the Storm Celtic Frost - Cold Lake Helloween - Chameleon Motley Crue - Motley Crue Iron Maiden - The X Factor Slayer - Diabolus in Musica

I had never that Poison album until last year. It sounds like a Kotzen solo album with Brett singing. It’s really good. I was quite impressed.

Great show again guys. Quality banter! Great to see many votes for Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason album. I grew up loving this and playing it to death. Still love it - even prefer the 80s mix of it. Cheers lads 🍻

For UFO, I suggest 2004's You Are Here, which features Vinnie Moore.

Metallica - St. Anger Aerosmith - Rock and a Hard Place Genesis - Calling All Stations Judas Priest - Jugulator

"Still Waters" - Bee Gees. Love you, Simon!

I love the following: Rush--Hold Your Fire AC/DC--Fly on the Wall Judas Priest--Turbo KISS--Sonic Boom Yes--Big Generator

The Yardbirds - Little Games. For a far more head-scratching Mike Batt collaboration than the Justin Hayward album, in my opinion, check out Lemmy’s version of “Eve of Destruction”.

An album from a band that’s hated on this channel: Guns N Roses / Chinese Democracy. I freaking love it. For me, it’s aged so well. Fantastic guitar work on it. Just wish that era of the band had released more!

Steven, respect! I love your 2 top choices. I too saw Poison on that tour in the Barras. I loved it. Without a doubt it is the best album musically by them. I think I will pull out "Native Tongue" later today as I haven't listened to it for a long time. I also love the Queensryche album. It is dark, but I find it full of emotion. I half expected a gung ho type album despite what Tate had said beforehand. I was wrong. Really respectful and thoughtful. Another album I need to dig out! Great choices.

1. Iron Maiden - The X Factor 2. Megadeth - Risk 3. B O C - Imaginos 4. Rainbow - Stranger In Us All 5. Metallica - Reload

My favorite Udo Accept album is Russian Roulette. Love that one.

Replacements- Don't Tell a Soul Robyn Hitchcock-Perspex Island Rolling Stones-It's Only Rock and Roll 🤘🤠👍

Loved the differing views on Thor's musical capabilities so much, it led me to check out the doco on him. Put Spinal Tap and The Story Of Anvil in a blender and you get I Am Thor. Cheers!

Burning in the Shade - Tygers of Pan Tang

Kansas: Monolith Pete picking Wings' London Town--it is a spectacular album, IMHO. Sir Paul got a bit moody/atmospheric... good

The 83 albums..flick of the switch,Born again,Another perfect day,Revölution by night....

The Black Crowes By your Side and Warpaint.

Pete Wings over America great pick it is a great live album.

Wolverhampton's finest bitter. But the Mild is the one.

Not thought a lot about this topic, but one that jumps to mind immediately is Def Leppard Slang, their ‘grunge’ album. I don’t really like any other bands grunge albums. Yet always liked this and play it more than a few of the albums that followed when I was off the Leppard train, until sparkle Lounge

Taliesin was a 6th century Welsh bard. Pronounced Tally-es-in

Whitesnake Slip of the Tongue. My second favorite Whitesnake album behind 1987.

"Bonkses". A Black Country beer and that is the correct pronunciation of the name.

The one that sprang to mind was Under Wraps. Yes, i like that album quite a bit.

For me, Steven, also Calling All Stations by Genesis. One gripe that I have is that some of the songs fade out too early and quickly, especially the title track! Another one for me is Chicago XIV from 1980. The band did two albums with Donnie David on guitar after the death of Terry Kath. They were of a poppy flavor but still had some great rocking material and a couple disco-oriented songs but after Dacus was fired and Chris Pinnick came in, wow! This guy is a monster of a guitarist and Chicago XIV is decent because I feel that Pinnick gave the songs some grit and power with his playing, especially on the lead-off song, Manipulation.

Simon is The Lancashire Legend 😂😂😂

Asia- John Payne Era albums Bee Gees- Still Waters Fleetwood Mac- Behind the Mask Genesis- Collins Era and Calling All Stations Iron Maiden- All 90s albums Judas Priest- Turbo/Ram It Down and Ripper Owens era albums Pink Floyd- A Momentary Lapse of Reason/The Division Bell Yes- Big Generator

Dio - Sacred Heart ACDC - Fly On The Wall Magnum - Goodnight LA Scorpions - Savage Amusement Cheap Trick - Busted I have to agree about Trans and Old Ways both are really good I would also add Are You Passionate which gets a lot of hate . Hopefully one day we will get the full Old Ways sessions because some of the outtakes on bootlegs are as good as the songs on the album.

Supertramp-Some Things Never Change, Yes-anything from 90125 thru Fly From Here, Pink Floyd-A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, Deep Purple-Shade of Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones-Undercovered.

Rush for me is 2112, of course, and... Roll the Bones. 2nd favorite. From Jethro Tull, I adore most of their 70s albums, as well as... Roots to Branches. I also like Catfish Rising quite a bit. And I don't need any Bruce Springsteen albums other than The Ghost of Tom Joad. In fact it is the only one I own. Honorable mention: Zooropa is U2's all time (and only) masterpiece. Sue me.

I first learned guitar back in high school from an Andy Timmons instructional video. He shreds. I don't know if I *love* it, but I think "The X Factor" is better than the two albums that came before it (and the one after it, obviously). It's got an identity to it that's pretty unique in their discography.

MOTLEY CRÜE - MOTLEY CRÜE SUPERTRAMP - FREE AS A BIRD AC/DC - FLY ON THE WALL

By God, it's Thor!

1. Dan Fogelberg, Phoenix. It kicks butt. 2. Pablo Cruise, Worlds Away.

Judas Priest-point of entry Blue oyster cult- club ninja

I'm with Steven. Whenever this topic comes up, my go-to is always Calling All Stations

My dad used to drink Utica Club in the 70s!!

Highly enjoyable episode, gents, with laughs a-plenty that began as soon as Simon offered up his first choice. The only personal choice to be added at this time is the album Phoenix by Dan Fogelberg. Yes, it did chart but is was critically panned though it is personally loved. Thanks to the UK trio but consistently entertaining episodes. Pete's beer choice and discussion reminded my of the beer of my youth that could be had so cheaply - Old Milwaukee (which we gladly referred to as Old Mule Water). Cheers!

Steven, my Mrs also likes to rate bands hair when at concerts, so much so she tried contacting Hammerfall to find out what products they use because their hair was “wonderful” 😂

Van Halen - III Styx - Kilroy Was Here Kansas - Drastic Measures Def Leppard - Slang Genesis - Calling All Stations KISS - The Elder Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Last Rebel Journey - Arrival

For me, it's Union by Yes. I recognize that the song Angkor Wat is not a good song, but I do enjoy the rest of the album.

Fastway - Bad Bad Girls The Cars - Door to Door Ratt - Detonator

Thor is fun. I can’t take it seriously. It’s like Spinal Tap. I like that Danger Danger record as well. Andy Timmons has some ripping solos.

Styx-Brave New World. I think a solid album top to bottom. Maybe not the Styx you’d expect but good songs. Pat Travers-Black Pearl. Poppy, a couple rockers. Enjoyable listen. Outlaws-Wanted. Yes it’s filled with special guests, yes it’s country, yes I like it.

Albums im never tired of listen to but most couldnt care less of🤘 AC/DC - Fly On The Wall and Blow Up Your Video Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier and The Book Of Souls Motörhead - Another Perfect Day and 1916 Judas Priest - Ram It Down and Redemer Of Souls Nazareth - Their debut album and No Jive Dio - Lock Up The Wolves and Master Of The Moon Uriah Heep -Wonderworld and High And Mighty Deep Purple - Fireball Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer and TYR

Queen's Hot Space, I like the kind of music which it prefers to fall into, and I think they totally nailed it. Rush's Presto has fans, there is maybe no truly hated album among the Rush fanbase, but I definitely place it higher in my ranking of their oeuvre than most... Yes's Fly From Here and Heaven & Earth, I like them to a degree, not classics, but very pleasing and tranquil, rather different from the music of the early '70s, but I think they composed beautiful recordings for the softer genres they were aspiring toward. Frankly, I'd rather listen to those than the limp-prog of those last two studio albums... In the world of slick, contemporary well-produced neo/neu-disco 'music-snob alternative' girl-pop, I thoroughly like Zyra's Sober, not a well-received album, similar to enjoying her more acclaimed contemporaries Jessie Ware, Ana Frango Elétrico and/or Charli XCX (well just her 2020 album, hm...). Oh, Tony Banks' The Fugitive, I will champion that, some tracks (or at least the instrumentals) are worthy of early OMD, which still isn't going to sell the prog fans on it whatsoever, but to those that enjoy both dimensions, Fugitive is really gratifying stuff tbh...

London Town seems to be liked quite a bit from people, actually. George Harrison's Gone Troppo, however, not so much, but I like it more than All Things Must Pass, so there. Ha.

Thank you só much Steven for the Criss solo album. It’s just crázy, I probably play Criss’ album most of the four.. For me Stanley’s album is the best, Frehley is after that. But somehow I play Criss’ album most.. Has somehow to do with the time I was really young, I’ve always found comfort in this album. It’s so honest and pure… I Can’t Stop The Rain is still one of the top ballads I think..

Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request, Pink Floyd - Umma Gumma & Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer - Third album although I don't know if anyone paid any attention. Lord I love this show, Thor bring back lots of great and bad memories...

Good show, might revisit No Prayer, it was so disappointing at the time. It's only since I've watched music waffle channels that I've found out some of my favourite albums are not well regarded, like these: ACDC - Blow Up Your Video Gillan & Glover - Accidentally On Purpose IQ - Are You Sitting Comfortably Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising Lillian Axe - Poetic Justice Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Last Rebel Motorhead - 1916 & On Parole Neil Young - Are You Passionate Uriah Heep - Conquest The Who - Face Dances Zz Top - Recycler I don't recall seeing these mentioned, I've no idea of others opinions of them, but they should be more widely known Presidents of the USA s/t Michael Bruce - In My Own Way Mammoth s/t No Sweat s/t Kiss of the Gypsy s/t

Paul was, by light years, the best singer in KISS.

Led Zeppelin - In Through the Outdoor Black Sabbath - Never Say Die Judas Priest - Turbo ZZ Top - Afterburner Testament - The Ritual Megadeth - Cryptic Writings The Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

Dream Theater- When Day and Dream Unite Celtic Frost - Cold Lake Linkin Park - One More Light Uriah Heep - Fallen Angel Queen - Flash Gordon Warrant- Cherry Pie Van Halen - Diver Down Bon Jovi - 7800 Fahrenheit Mott - Shouting and Pointing Triumph - Thunder Seven

Pete John Waite is 3rd on the bill with Styx and Foreigner

Maybe it's more highly regarded today, but even the band didn't seem fond of this one: Helloween - The Dark Ride. To me it's by far the best Deris era album, his voice works really well on the darker stuff. There are some really, really good songs on it, and the title track is incredible.

Ah a easy one as apparently I am a contrarian a few that come to mind Status Quo ai t complaining Mercury Mr.Bad Guy Jagger She's the boss Bowie Never let me down

So many wonderful descriptions! Had never head ABB's High Falls (off Win, Lose or Draw) -thanks Pete, R.I.P. Dickey Betts and I want to trek and come across a meadow while listening to this song. Gulp: Lots of love for Judas Priest's Turbo in Comments. I dig Metallica's Death Magnetic.

on UFO,..Pete's comment about Mogg/Way,that was 1997/99,...5 years after 1992's High Stakes album,.....not b4

Wishbone Ash Locked In, most hate it, the band hated it but I like it and can sing along with every song and that's sad.

Wow Thor l saw him my local pub and l can confirm he blew a hot water bottle we all got covered in the rubber what an experience 😂

Danger Danger Screw It is great. Can't believe Pete hasn't listened to them!

I love the Danger Danger first 2 albums

Great show as ever gents, most illuminating😄 Rush "Hold Your Fire" is probably the first one that springs to mind for me!