Rock & Metal In1983... Def Leppard and Motley Crue Lead The Way. 

1983 and 1991 are my favorite years in music! Thanks for doing this series

I sold my soul to rock n roll is a killer tune Bullet kick ass

Awesome show & kudos to the both of you for the excellent lists. Metal Health & Pyromania definitely set the bar high. WTG Bryan throwing Fastway on the list. I have that on vinyl & love it. Don't know if it fits with you guys, but BILLY IDOL - Rebel Yell was one I really enjoyed. Thanx for the great watch guys !!

My top 10 Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Albums from 1983 1. Def Leppard - Pyromania 2. Quiet Riot - Metal Health 3. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind 4. Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil 5. Dio - Holy Diver 6. Rainbow - Bent Out Of Shape 7. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon 8. Y & T - Mean Streak 9. Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning 10. Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock 'N' Roll Honorable Mentions Metallica - Kill 'Em All Saxon - Power And The Glory Accept - Balls To The Wall Dokken - Breaking The Chains (U.S Version) Black Sabbath - Born Again Kiss - Lick It Up Europe - Europe Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll Krokus - Headhunter Night Ranger - Midnight Madness AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch Fastway - Fastway Michael Schenker Group - Built To Destroy

Some top notch albums there, especially T/S one of my all time favourite live bands. Saw them in '83 at Sunderland Mayfair, what a gig. Last i saw them was Download 14 and they blew everyone else off stage

The episodes getting better & better but i wonder why i never heard the word 'Saigon Kick' !! This is the band i love and their 'Lizard' album is a classic, Jason Bieler is a talented musicians and i appreciate their works better and better even after all those years, they are one of the best. Hope you done a video of this band someday, and i'm waiting.

I am with you with your #1. I am 52yo and "pyromania" was the sh*t ! and speaking or Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams, I LOVE "Waking Up the Neighbours". Every song is a banger and it's a long damn album.

Alpha was always my favorite Asia album. I think it is the best in '83.

Another amazing vid and excellent choices! So glad Bryan had Thunder and Lightning! Thin Lizzy is one of the best bands of all time in my opinion. I have a ton of metal honorable mentions from 83: Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Slayer - Show No Mercy, Black Sabbath - Born Again, Tokyo Blade - S/T, Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac, Savatage- Sirens, Raven - All For One, Vandenberg - Heading for a Storm, Satan - Court in the Act, Oz - Fire in the Brain, Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell, Alcatrazz - No Parole From Rock N Roll, Kix- Cool Kids, Saxon - Power and the Glory, Grim Reaper - See You in Hell, and one of my favorite Motörhead albums - Another Perfect Day

I was a senior in high school the the tours we got to see in the Midwest AC/DC with Fastway on Flick of Switch tour was killer Maiden Piece of Mind again Fastway and a Canadian band Coney Hatch, Def Leppard opening for Billy Squier right before Pyromania blew up saw that show twice amazing year Crue & Saxon Twisted Sister & Ratt and really everything from 1980 on

This is James Anthony this was a great video Anthony I've said it before you two are always gold My albums are for 1983 are Metallica Kill'em All KISS Lick It Up Quiet Riot Metal Health Def Leppard Pyromania Motley Crue Shout At The Devil Twisted Sister You Can't Stop Rock n Roll Y&T Mean Streak Pantera Metal Magic Ratt Ratt Accept Balls To The Wall Lita Ford Out For Blood Helix No Rest For The Wicked Aldo Nova Subject Aldo Nova Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning Europe Europe Iron Maiden Piece Of Mind Ozzy Bark At The Moon Dio Holy Diver Kix Cool Kids Dokken Breaking The Chains ACDC Flick Of The Switch Steeler Steeler Night Ranger Midnight Madness Krokus Headhunter Killer Dwarfs Killer Dwarfs Fast Way Fast Way Motorhead Another Perfect Day Black Sabbath Born Again Alcatrazz No Parole For Rock N Roll Anthony your videos never fail I always get so much out of them I always mean this when I say it I love your videos your videos always get me in a good mood they help me get threw the bs of the day just thank you Anthony for absolutly everything you do

Heres another idea, I like the chemistry with you and Bryan. Maybe if you just wanna talk rock and metal just have an open chat and record it. Talk about what youve bought recently or what youve listened to and just let it flow from there. I think people like me (who don't really have anyone else to talk music with) just enjoy listening to people talk about music we like

Not only the car in ZZTop’s Eliminator videos but holy mackerel… the babes

Bands like Night Ranger, Def Leppard, Motley, Van Halen, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, RATT, WASP, Dio, The Scorpions are what you might want to call “proto-hair metal”. That’s how I think of the early borderline metal bands. They weren’t really part of that scene but were the bands the hair metal bands all copied. That’s what makes these early 80’s years so hard to do. To me, actual hair metal, starts with Poison. That’s when the formula solidifies, you get the uniform, style, sound and the overall blueprint for what’s to come. That might be why a lot of these borderline bands hate being called hair metal bands too cuz they don’t see themselves that way. Great list of bands as usual and tell your friend thanks for turning me onto to Krokus. That damn dude can sing like crazy.

Pantera - Metal Magic was from 83 The first album of the "Glamtera" era. This would have been the most hair Metal album on the whole list. The hair metalist? Great stuff tho guys, keep em comin.

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Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go’s also cowrote two of their biggest hits “Vacation” (which she brought to the band as it was a song from her time in the Textones) and “Head Over Heels”. Belinda was and still is a total babe but she can’t write a song to save her life. All of her solo hits were written by other people. Interesting side note, John 5 aka John Lowery (the new Motley guitarist) was in a band with Jane Wiedlin called Frosted who released an album in 1996.

6:05 The look on his face. Oh, f*ck he's talking about that dog again... lol!

Here we go!!

“Passion Play” on Midnight Madness is a killer album cut.

For Breaking the Chains only song Jaun played on was Paris is Burning, the rest of the record bass was played by Peter Baltes from Accept. Pete Way didn't quit, he just couldn't get out of his record contract and Fastway had already been signed to a label.

I think of ACDC's 'Flick of the Switch' as their heaviest record. Amazing album. Kind of an an angry sounding album like Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'.

When KISS took the makeup off, I never thought of them differently from the Hair metal bands for some reason. But I just thought of bands as having different styles like ACDC had theirs and Poison had the glam look. Guess the Hair metal tag wasnt a big deal then.

Flick of the Switch is my favourite AC/DC album from the Brian Johnson era. Yes, I now prefer it over Back in Black, which I overplayed after buying it in the early 90s.

I mean, Guru where do you even Flocking start with this year?? Holy Diver by Dio, Pyromania, Diary of a Mad Man, Killem All, Y&T, Quiet Riot……Too many good ones to chose.

I loved ZZ top at that time

I think you giys need to go back to the years 1988-92. There was so much stuff in those years that you could definitely do 1 or even two more episodes focused on those years. Maybe dig into the honouable mentions a bit more?

It’s all about Shout . I stole my big brothers cassette tape ( I was like 5 !) . He had that big Poster of the Looks That Kill video shoot , next to a Van Halen Poster . I would read the liner notes , and listen to it start to finish . I then started reading Circus and Metal Edge , and the rest is history . But the Shout record is killer . Get past title track and Looks Kill . It’s Ten Seconds , Red Hot , and Danger and Bastard .. still my favorite record by MC over Too Fast and Feelgood .

ACDC can't put out a bad album. Back in Black was sooo big, just can't live up to it.

I love restless and wild from accept,my favorite album from them. Balls is a great song and album, but if you don’t like raise your hands, or mistress of the dawn,you need to clean out your ears.!lol.

Metal Health explodes in 1983, Pyromania, two great hair metal albums!

Anthony… being the fan of punk that you are you may appreciate certain aspects of Maiden’s first two albums with Paul Di’Anno when they had a rawer sound.

That was me Star Wars

ZZ Top is a Hair band. It's on their face.

“Gene will tell you he invented orange juice.” -Dio

Regarding the metal albums I own from '83: KISS - Lick It Up (#25) Satan - Court in the Act (#24) Riot - Born In America (#23) Gary Moore - Victims of the Future (#22) Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon (#21) Motorhead - Another Perfect Day (#20) Fastway - Fastway (#19) Savage - Loose 'N Lethal (#18) Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'N Roll (#17) Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac (#16) Dokken - Breaking the Chains (#15) Tokyo Blade - Tokyo Blade (#14) Savatage - Sirens (#13) Queensryche - Queensryche (#12) Black Sabbath - Born Again (#11) Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (#10) RATT - RATT (#9) AC/DC - Flick of the Switch (#8) Slayer- Show No Mercy (#7) Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil (#6) Night Ranger - Midnight Madness (#5) DIO - Holy Diver (#4) Mercyful Fate- Melissa (#3) Metallica - Kill 'em All (#2) Def Leppard - Pyromania (#1) Honorable Mentions: Cobra - First Strike Streets - 1st Waysted - Vices Raven - All For One The Rods - In the Raw Vandenberg - Heading for a Storm Grim Reaper - See You In Hell Girlschool - Play Dirty Y&T - Mean Streak Steeler - Steeler Pandemonium - Heavy Metal Soldiers Quiet Riot - Metal Health Tank - This Means War KIX - Cool Kids Zebra - Zebra Saxon - Power and Glory B.O.C. - Revolution by Night Triumph - Never Surrender Axewitch - The Lord of Flies Michael Schenker Group - Built to Destroy Lita Ford - Out for Blood UFO - Making Contact Magnum - The Eleventh Hour Pantera - Metal Magic Still Need to acquire: Witchfynde - Cloak and Dagger Virgin Steele - Guardians of the Flame Vault - No More Escape Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning Spartan Warrior - Steel n' Chains Rox - Violent Breed Ranbow - Bent Out of Shape OZ - Fire in the Brain Obsession - Marshall Law Manowar - Into Glory Ride Jaguar - Power Games Europe - Europe Chasar - Chasar Burn - Burn The Angels - Watch the Red

Wrong fellas! 1983 was Ozzy, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest! Long Live Rock and Roll!!!

Lick it Up was great. They were not trying to be anybody on this. Kiss are legends. They have always been relevant. It just rocked like a Mother Fucker. In my top 3 Kiss albums!

Steve Harris’ bass playing reminds me of the old tv show Bonanza lol. But I like Iron Maiden though

ZZ Top....Eliminator. TV Dinners grooves.

Also Guru check out an up and coming punk band over here called Bar Stool Preachers, they are totally awesome

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You gotta pay to have your RIAA updated and Dokken probably never had it re-certified.

I must be gettong old. I started to wince everytime Bryan dropped an "F" Bomb....every 2 min...😅

Cant find a Kiss album that sold more than 2X platinum, acording to RIAA most of their albums just went gold.

I listen to you from Ireland and I really enjoy it you do a great job so nice to see you mention Philio and Lizzy Phil is a god over here Thunder and Lightning is probably the hardest Lizzy album Philo was trying to catch up with the new metal bands of the time and its a solid album I have no idea why Lizzy broke up at the time as I think Sykes would have really driven the band forward through the 80s but as you say Phil had a terrible drug problem which he could not Kick such a shame. Phil is an interesting Story he was really close to his mother who has only died quite recently check out this if you have not already seen it really good doc on Philo ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ej5LJ6W339k.html RIP Phil

Accept is a great band, for two songs at a time. After the second song your sonically done.

Forged in Fire Anvil- listen to motormount

Such a good chat on Ozzy Sharon is an utterly despicable person Ozzy could not write a tune to save his life that is well known Daisley, Jake E Lee, Geezer, Lemmy wrote lots of Ozzy Stuff but Sharon screwed these guys out of literally millions. Lemmy wrote Mama I coming home and he got a flat fee for that. Lemmy said this in an interview Nikki Sixx done with him when he was doing Radio. Now Ozzy Lives Mansions and Jake E Lee not so much such a shame he is so talented

Great Britain is the big island (England, Scotland and Wales). The United Kingdom tags on Northern Ireland for historically ridiculous reasons!

Guru you need to kneel at the alter of Accept’s Restless and Wild album. Thank me later.

Guru I recommend Thin lizzy renegade lp Play it 5 times then it will grab you by the balls I'm not a big thin lizzy fan but renegade is a top 50 favorite

I've always said that Helix is a poor mans Kix

Great Britain is just the mainland. Uk includes northern Ireland.