How is it, all these years... I thought OU812 was just some nonsense number letter combination following 84 and 5150... or maybe the album's sku like 90125... I NEVER realized it was Oh You Ate One Too until it was spoken aloud and then alluded to here... 😓

Balance on D? What??? Hhahahhahahaa... This is insanity. Balance is one of the best records.

S Tier - 1st album, VH 2, Fair Warning.......... A Tier - 1984 ..............all the other Roth era albums can go in the B Tier............................all the other albums can go in the bin, especially Balance and VH 3

As always, I post my choices prior to watching just to see how things compare. S - Women and Children First, Van Halen A - Fair Warning, Van Halen II B - A Different Kind of Truth, Diver Down, 1984 C - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, OU812, 5150 D - Van Halen III, Balance

S - VH1 A - Unchained, VH2 B - Women and Children, 1984, Fair Warning C - F.U.C.K., 5150 D - Everything else

First 4 in S, Black Album in A The rest in hot garbage.

Love this- my first time catching the Wheel of Rock. Great episode and channel!🇨🇦 Love both eras of the band.

Van Halen 3 top tier...kidding !

Geoff is wrong about everything

I completely agree with Kyle on 5150

I keep wondering when you're going to do one of these on Marillion. Seems perfect for the format: lots of albums, distinct eras with different lead singers/lyricists, still making albums to present, etc.

Great episode, love how you all have different and strong opinions. This episode made me realize that I have honestly never dug into Van Halen deep cuts, other than I and 1984

Are these guys even prog fans?

The F album was a back to basics album with the return of producer Ted Templeman and the early Queen “No Synthesizers” rule. Best album from the Sammy era. Favorite track - Pleasure Dome which I credit Alex’s aggressive drumming. VH3 - Producer Mike Post, yes the TV composer, and the band lacked chemistry.

HA! I love how they call Sammy's stuff cheesy when VH in the Roth era was super cheese. They lived on cheese I love VH but they were always super cheesy. Hot for the Teacher is super cheese. The remakes were super cheese. A lot were great cheese but still. David Lee Roth was super cheese. That was his schtick. Lee's solo stuff is so funny. Almost unlistenable because of the cheese.

Van halen 2 is the best album for me

Nice! An Ayreon wheel of prog would also be great!

A lot of this is based on how much I love the deep cuts. VH3 is unlistenable. I have tried recently...can't do it. ADKOT just never grabbed me. S -> WACF -> FW -> VH A -> F-Album -> VH2 -> 1984 B -> 5150 -> OU812 C -> DD -> Balance D -> ADKOT F -> VH3

Ah, memory's of CD warehouse rushin' in...spent so many hours in that joint!

Balance = A

I really dislike that Kyle guy. Smug little jerk.

Humans Being is not Roth. Its Hagar. One of my all time favorite VH songs.

And DKoT has a real bite to it. EVH playing is heavy.

Hey, I like Ou812. It has an underccoked production that gives it a laid back vibe.

Van Halen 3 is probably their proggiest album.

A Van Halen debate ranking by people who don't like Van Halen.

I love sammy era

VH!! Nice

How about an Iron Maiden Wheel of Rock?

Top players on all of the albums and the live album too with NDV. I have the fondest memories of listening to these over and over again. Dare I say… even better than the Flower Kings for me anyways. And that’s a HUGE call I know 😊

A wonderful, wonderful album❤ All these AOM albums are gold 😊

I liked the parts that sounded like Flower Kings.

My favorite album of the 21st century.

Piper was Pink Floyd in 1967. Comparing it to The Wall or Dark Side is going to do it a disservice. Saucer was an attempt to replicate that album without Syd. Let There Be More Light was Astronomy Domine. Set The Controls was Chapter 24 - take some oriental poetry and make it hippy/cosmic. Arnold Layne had a strange hobby, but Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg. The title track was Interstellar Overdrive but composed by architectural students rather than an art student. From there you had four people wandering what the hell to do next. Atom Heart Mother gave them an idea. Echoes improved on it. DSOTM was an album length extension of that. It was a hit. Roger wrote the lyrics - David and Rick had no desire to do so - and by extension decided what the album was about. This pattern was repeated for the next two albums. Then Roger decided to write all the music too. End of four piece Floyd....

S: Wish - DSOTM - Animals A: Meddle - More - Piper B: Wall - Division - Saucer C : Ummagumma - Clouds - AHM D: Momentary - Final Cut - Endless

Love this group and they are underrated releases! Nad's voice is an acquired taste, but the music is so strong, I got past it. Highly recommended.

The Flower Kings Wheel of Prog next, with Mike Portnoy as guest? :)

One year ago today, Geoff Bailie forced me and my pregnant wife into a lightning storm at Morsefest. And now I find out his taste in DT albums is terrible. Train of Thought in C tier? Big yikes.

S: Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races A: News of the World, Queen, Queen II B: Jazz, The Game, Innuendo C: A Kind of Magic, The Works, The Miracle D: Flash Gordon, Made in Heaven F: Hot Space

Barrett era deserves way more respect. and personally I've always loved Atom Heart Mother. My top three would be Piper, Meddle and AHM, in fact. Least favorite is A Momentary Lapse ...

I just listened to all the Genesis albums chronologically for the very first time, and I guess I'm one of those people who like all the eras, surprisingly. Huh.

Simply- a Masterpiece!

From a prog perspective, this was the best album since Crime Of The Century, as much as I love the Roger Hodgson era.

Fantastic album!😊

Thank you for this choice, excellent album!

Great choice. Only surprised that the Supertramp choice wasn't Crime Of The Century

You gotta have dancing with the moonlit knight and the entire duke suite come on now. Also Nad seems like a gentle sweet and interesting guy enjoyed listening to him.

Wheel of Psych - King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard

Funny you should be doing this now. I'm going through my Wobbler cds trying to figure out my order of preference and I can't do it. They're all brilliant!

Funny you should be doing this now. I'm going through my Wobbler cds trying to figure out my order of preference and I can't do it. They're all brilliant!