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Just an aside on Adema's cover. I happen to know the giant they used for the cover. His name is George "The Giant" McArthur, and he's 7'1 or 7'2. He's been one of my dad's friends since high school, and my sister and I call him our uncle, cause he spent so much time with us and our dad when we were kids.
The 'Bark At The Moon' bit has to be one of the best things I've ever seen. Love the album, feel a lot of nostalgia with it and the cover, but even I've gotta admit that the cover is a little goofy. Couldn't imagine it any other way though lol
The Magical Mystery Tour cover always reminds me of this little ice cream shop I used to go to as a kid that unfortunately closed after about a year. I don't even remember the name of the place but it was so tackily decorated and colorful. RIP that.
Two bad album covers come to mind and they’re right behind you: Aerosmith’s “Get a Grip” and Our Lady Peace’s “Happiness is Not a Fish You Can Catch.” Great albums, terrible covers!!
Heino is actually pretty mainstream here in germany. He released a record a couple of years ago with rerecordings of some of his hits in the style of Rammstein.
It’s sandwiched in between a psychedelic masterpiece (“SPLHCB”) and minimalist masterpiece (“The White Album“), so “Magical Mystery Tour” suffers in comparison.
I want to kiss you I feel like crying tears of joy! Thank you Crash! Please don't make us wait two more years for number 5. I love the idea of covering big artists! You're awesomely funny! You always make my day with your uploads! P.S love the new set up! Miss the past few videos, so maybe I just haven't seen it yet
I think a great example of the “let’s be medieval warriors cause it’s cool” era of the 80’s is Carnivores photoshoot for their first release (which is just the self titled album), look it up for yourself but damn they look angry
RanterInShades I haven't finished listening to their early glam metal stuff, but honestly from what I listened to it was just to lame for me. It had many (if not all) of glam metal's worst stereotypes.
Power Metal is actually one of my favorite Pantera records, cheesy lyrics and all. But it's almost pure Judas Priest worship. Very little of it sounds "glam metal" to me.
25:18 Knowing Young's "relationship" with record companies, my guess is the record executive just shrugged and thought "so this is a thing now? Fine. Whatever. At least it's not an electronica album."
23:40 I mean, The Band, who are partially credited with starting the Americana genre were 5/6ths Canadian during their most famous period, so I think Americana can definitely also be considered Canadian in its origin.
So you’re gonna do a pantera retrospective? YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREERESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ps. can you do Metallica as well or any of the big 4 (mainly SLAYER) pls
I'm so fucking hard for that Glamtera episode. I avoided the first 3 albums, but I listened to Power Metal and that album is actually unbelievably awesome. So, it would interesting to hear your opinions of the albums and analysis of how their style progressed.
No, it was much closer to Speed Metal than anything. You could connect it to U.S. Power Metal as it bares some similarities though. Still, in 1988, Power Metal was still not fully formed yet. The term "Power Metal" was used as a catch all term like how James Hetfield, back in the day, described Metallica as being Power Metal. I imagine Pantera did the same.
7:05 Detroit: Become Human had pretty nice hair on almost all the characters. Still not as realistic as the face capture, but a step in the right direction, none the less. 28:16 Also, yes. Before he was Dimebag, he went by Diamond Darrell. OOF
A few albums that got my attention because of the cover were: Love, Fear and the Time Machine by Riverside Diaspora by Cormorant Queen of Time by Amorphis Contradiction by Schammasch The Congregation by Leprous Citadel by Ne Obliviscaris, etc... I still think Five Finger Death Punch has pretty terrible art work (and neither edition of their last album helped.) I have to agree that many of these covers are pretty terrible, but I honestly don’t mind the cover art for Bark at the Moon
I just Realized something. That font for the band’s name on that Shinedown album, IT’S THE SAME ONE FROM THE TITLE CARD TO THE CLASSIC SPONGEBOB EPISODE “SAILOR MOUTH”! I mean, WOW.
Fun vid Crash! I always dig these chilled out Bad Album Covers vids. I'd love to see some ELP albums next time! Love Beach specifically because I'm pretty sure what they were doing was dated even at the time. I'd also love to see the harlequin romance novel cover that is Dream Theater's first album on here! Finally maybe some Helloween? Most of their covers are half and half ironically and unironically awesome but there's 2 album covers that are supes bad. The ones in question are Pink Bubbles Go Ape (weird title i know), and Rabbit Don't Come Easy.
Some of the stuff you claim to be "Small artists probably printing these themself" are actually huge artists. at 1:28 for example Heino used to be one of the biggest german Schlager singers and was very very popular with older people. He got insanely popular when he suddenly released an album with Schlager covers of Metal and rock songs which actually lead to him performing at Wacken Open Air, the biggest german metal festival...as a Schlager singer. EDIT: Wikipedia actually states that he's one of the most successful german musicians of all time, having sold over 50 Million records. While the pictured album wasn't a particularly successful one he in germany has one gold and one platinum album (the rock/metal one)
When I think of Neil Young it reminds me of this story my mom told me growing up where she was at one of the Crosby, Stills, Nash, and sometimes Young guy’s solo shows (I think it was Graham Nash, and he yelled at the audience not to sing along because he couldn’t hear himself sing.
Really enjoyed this video! Glad to see this series return! Random question. Do you ever have plans to make a episode of The Rock Critic on Metallicas Load & Reload? I only ask because I remember you bringing up the idea somewhere a while ago. Keep up the great work.
OK as a furry myself, I was not expecting that two minute detour you did talking about the Beatles... kudos Crash. Oh yeah and where do I send the bill for a new keyboard seeing that made me spittake Coke all over it from laughing so hard.
I was in a glam metal discord sever for awhile, and they ran a poll for the worst album cover out of these three: Look What The Cat Dragged In- by Poison, Metal Magic by Pantera, and Feel The Steel by Steel Panther. I shit you not, the people voted that Feel The Steel was worse than Metal Magic
Killjøy Clique “The fuck is this Lawrence Welk bullshit?!” I didn’t find out until after I commented this that they were quoting the movie American Beauty lol.
Heino from your introduction (the one with the bulgy eyes) is actually a huge star in Germany. He started in 1965 and still has many fans, adults and children alike. Because of his eyes - he has Basedow's disease - he wears dark glasses.
Bad covers by relatively known artists? How about Hinder, a 2000s post grunge act? Before Hinder released their debut album in 2005, they made an EP in 2003 (people call it an EP, but it has a runtime of 50 minutes lol) called Far from Close. There are different versions of the cover floating around. The most popular one being just the band with the album title. But the original cover art... hoo boy, it sure is something. Let's just say someone had a field day with PhotoShop's Liquify tool...
I actually kinda like the cover for Us and Them. Not necessarily as an album cover, but if it were a book cover I probably probably would have read it in high school. It has intriguing atmosphere and appeals to the edgelord I used to fancy myself. It's not perfect, but the artstyle is pretty neat at least.
I’ve seen Adema live, I understood the Adema reference…yes surprisingly they were big for a little bit, people. They even did the theme song for a Mortal Kombat game. “You can’t kill meeee I’m immortallll”
Hey Crash, great video man, i love your work! Could you do in a future a retrospective about The Mars Volta? Greetings from Argentina! (Sorry for my awful english)
I always been under the impression that if you love Jake E Lee, you need to check out The Ultimate Sin. When I finally sat down and listened to that album, it honestly made Jake dethone Zakk as my favorite Ozzy guitarist.
