LIVE! Contrarians Chat: They Never Looked Cooler! 

You four gentlemen still have the BEST chemistry of any panel show on Contrarians or SoT. Keep it up!

Radio Birdman - Radios Appear ( I prefer the black and white photo )

Have to agree with the Crue. They looked like badasses, even with mascara. Tough street gutter rat look.

No one looks cooler than Bob Dylan on the Blonde on Blonde cover. I mean the scarf, the hair, and that look he has just screams rock star.

Maiden Piece of Mind gatefold sitting at table with brain being served.

Great show guys! Lots of great choices. I'll make a list off of the top of my head. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock KISS - KISS The Dictators - Bloodbrothers Van Halen - Van Halen II ( back cover ) Metallica - Kill 'em All ( back cover ) Humble Pie - King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Humble Pie in Concert Randy California - Kapt. Kopter & The Fabulous Twirly Birds Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction ( back cover ) Def Leppard - High N Dry ( back cover ) The Doors - Waiting for the Sun Slayer - South of Heaven ( back cover ) etc etc

Darkthrone always look the part on their album cover photoshoot

For the record, Kojak's catchphrase was actually 'who loves you baby?'. And I agree that he is way cooler than the guy from The Cars!

Thanks for shouting out the central Ohio bands grant. Love both of those. Chatfield just joined one of your favorite bands, grand funk!

Queen A Day at the Races (gatefold) Great live shot of the band probably doing an acoustic number Uriah Heep The Magicians Birthday Gate fold. Great pics of the band members. Blackfoot Marauder back cover Monster Magnet Powertrip Deep Purple Made in Europe back cover Rainbow Rising Back cover Led Zeppelin Vol 3 back cover Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare Heart - tie between Little Queen and Bebe Le Strange Nazareth Play n The Game

I would watch another round of these!

Got to be the Ramones first album..the epitome of cool

The band shot on blizzard with Randy, Ozzy, Lee and Bob is killer!

No Place TO Run UFO

No mention of Trouble's S/T album?

Most of the Jam albums for me; In the City, All Mod Cons, The Gift and This is the Modern World are all great covers; The Beat (Paul Collins Beat) is another brilliant shot of the band on the street and finally The Flamin' Groovies on the cover of Shake Some Action, where they're standing next to the Jag.

Biased because I'm a huge "Sweet" fan. That pose of Brian, Steve, Mick & Andy, on the inside of the Level Headed album, from 1978!..Also, Jim Seals & Dash Crofts on the cover of Get Closer album, from 1976...Their look of absolute "hippie" serenity.

Love the Godz. Glad u gave them some love. Underrated killer band

I watched the entire video waiting to see the back cover of Rush's 2112 with them showing off their kimodos scrotal-style. And a big miss leaving out Slade's front cover of Old New Borrowed and Blue. A bunch of handsome lads there.

Danzig 4 had a cool picture of the band in coffins with a Bill Clinton lookalike standing next to them

Kojak's line was, "Who loves ya baby?' Ah the 70's......Cheers guys

the back of " love it to death "

I was thinking UFO - No Place To Run (thought Martin might have chosen this ) and Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies original gatefold sleeve ... bit weird though for obvious reasons 🙃

Yeah, Grant! Ramones, baby! Ramones for the WIN! You just neglected to mention Johnny Ramone surreptitiously giving the middle finger in that friiggin’ awesome pic, man. I loved the Steely Dan/Denny Diaz line too, “l don’t know if he’s going to farm, or work on your car.” Bwhahahahahahahaha! Classic. Another cool show, cats. Cheers from The Big Apple. 🍏 Rock Out, Prog On & Pogo! Your pal and ours, ~ The Lugubrious, Sonorous, Delirious, Davey Cretin from CRETIN CLASSICS.

Mondo Cozmo's second album New Medicine. Cool shot on a cool day! Check it out, an alternative act I really love!

Thin Lizzy UK version of Fighting!

My Generation. The Mods have it.

Skynyrd either Pronounced or Street Survivors

Is it just me or could Jamie pass for Ted Nugent on that Double Live Gonzo shot if he had long hair and facial hair?

Metallica Ride the Lightning back cover. They all look bad ass or the back cover of Master Puppets. KISS Alive! Cover, gatefold and the booklet Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East front cover Michael Schenker Group- MSG back cover pic of the band. That is a few off the top of my head.

I hope the next one will be "they never looked stupider" 😅

Misfits Walk Among Us

Vince looks like Ron desantis...

Neil Young- Tonight’s the Night

The Stooges debut. They look like hooligans

The Beatles - Rubber Soul album cover Hellacopters - Payin‘ the Dues, great photo on the digipak backside. Velvet Underground - backside of the VU compilation, love the photo shot of the band! Madness - One Step Beyond, album cover The Clash - s/t, album cover Hives - Barely Legal, album cover

Contrarians come out of the closet episode

Thin Lizzy bad reputation album cover

Alcatrazz - Live Sentence Cheap Trick - Dream Police Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits MSG S/T US version back cover Derringer - Sweet Evil Van Halen - Women and Childen First Eagles - Desperado Angel - Sinful BOC - Mirrors back cover REO - Nine Lives

Raspberries - Starting Over Queen - Greatest Hits The Sweet - Desolation Blvd