Ten Albums | You Must Hear - Vol.1 

This must be the best music reviewer on RU-vid. I do want him to stop telling me to stay safe, though, as though I'm something weak, and as though that stupid New World Order bug existed in the first place

Great to hear a Slade review. Very much a prog listener these days, but growing up Slade were so exciting, and amazing live. A band that deserve respect in my view!

"Green Onions"is the most personally important single record I have ever heard. After I first heard it, I went up to my local library to try and find a) who recorded it and b) a picture of them, photocopies the picture, took it to Morrie the Muso's on Station Road in Woodridge and asked how much a guitar like that one in the picture would cost. It took me 9 years to save up, but I finally got my first telecaster (called Dusty) and have been playing telecasters (i'm onto #2 now, Ol' Buck) ever since. A few points - Duck Dunn doesn't play on Green Onions Lewie Greenberg does and they weren't Stax's house band well, ever - Steve Cropper became a Stax house producer who hired them all the the time, but they never had the status of, say, Motown's Funk Brothers or the Wrecking Crew. I met Booker T a few years back at a shake n' howdy, got his autograph on my setlist. A real gentleman. I'm sure he's say the same about me!

So very personal. I enjoyed your nostalgic description of the album 'Slayed'. Not a band I would choose to listen to being born in the late 80's, but It makes me want to give it a go, and I will. I love this channel.

Rolling my eyes? Slade is fabulous, even over here in The States! I loved Traffic when I was about 11 years old. I don't think anyone else I knew had even heard of them.

Excellent; articulate, consistent work.

How have I lived my life without Skylarking? Never heard of it before this video. Adding it to the vinyl collection ASAP. Thanks!!

Well done. Can't argue with that list at all. Love all those albums! Cheers, mate!

great list; i only own 2 of these albums but i’m looking forward to discovering the rest. i really enjoy your content, keep it coming 🤘🏼

I'm looking forward to Vol. 2-10. Fascinating selection!

Love this concept. There are a few I'm deeply familiar with and others that are now on my listening list. Perfect concept for a short but insightful video.

Interesting selection of albums! I'll have to give a listen to some of them because I know only four out of ten. Looking forward to Vol.2 😎

Some great picks. Looking forward to more.

This is a lovely mix of albums I've lived with and loved (London Calling and Moondance especially) and some that I really want to either revisit or hear for the first time. Great video!

Great idea for a video. Some welcome surprises; Slade! Look forward to vol 2!

Nice choices. The ones I haven't heard will provide the playlist for this weekend.😊

Green Onions always brings me back to the climactic drag-race-at-sunrise scene from American Graffiti. A must watch movie with great cars, a killer soundtrack, a cast of future stars and Wolfman Jack.

10/10 Fine picks, mate! Just felt the urge to spin both Rain Dogs and Skylarking on the turntable. It's been a while!

One eclectic list of albums. Very interesting.

A great start to this series!

Wow. That was one hell-of-a list. I have to say that the quality of your reviews persuaded me to revisit some of the "eye rolling" selections. My final verdict remains to be seen, but kudos to you for coaxing me out of my comfort zone. So with an open mind and sound deadening headphones...once more into the breech. Cheers.

A surprising and interesting choice based on your previous videos and all the better for it.

Great selection. A useful, eclectic and certainly enjoyable list. I'm kind of surprised Springsteen hasn't popped up, but this is only Vol. 1!

Youth Of America - Wipers Heydey - The Church Tim - The Replacements Radios Appear - Radio Birdman Mommys Little Monster - Social Distortion Volcanic Rock - Buffalo Road To Ruin - Ramones Toulouse Street - Doobie Brothers Time Fades Away - Neil Young Cold Fact - Rodriguez Slade Alive is the first album I ever owned.

Thanks for this interesting list.

Like your list and I definitely agree with Moondance and Rail Dogs. Looking forward to Vol. 2!

Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties a must In any Rock Music Collection I do enjoy your show

I like your new albums you must hear format. I admit I was very heavy into current music in the early 80,s until I delved into music that really predated my age.The Velvet Underground and Little Richard great examples of such material. Music if good is timeless alongside modern bands of your own era. Thanks for your selection.

Bobby Womack-The Poet Kyuss-Blues from a Red Sky The Drones-Gala Mill XTC-Drums & Wires The Fall- Wonderful & Frightening World Of The Fall The Kinks- Arthur The Beatles- Revolver Radiohead-Kid A David Bowie- Station to Station The Pixies- Doolittle But even this top ten doesn't do justice to my essential albums.

Superb list; eclectic, and not obvious either. I'd forgotten about Raindogs, one of the few Tom Waits albums I haven't heard (for no particular reason). Green Onions was another, so thank you!

Great, eclectic and even controversial list. To my astonishment, given the wide net being cast here, I am fully on board with a good number of your selections. I am especially pleased to see Rain Dogs getting the love it merits. Skylarking, John Barleycorn, and the Band are great albums that have received their due (Van Morrison even more so!), but even in Tom Waits's incredible ouvre, Rain Dogs is a musical tour de force, with some beautiful melodies amidst the nods to genres recent and remote. Thanks, Barry!

Skylarking ✅

Barry enjoyed watching, great list thanks 👍

with you on Slayed, London Calling and oh yes! Green Onions. Interesting suggestions on the rest. Keep up the good work!

Spot-on with the Inclusion of The Boatman’s Call. He’s also one of the best live performers going these days. Really enjoying your channel. For my two cents I’ll throw in “Grace by Jeff Buckley.”

Listened to "Music from The Big Pink" in its entirety for the first time this week - and it's as brilliant as all the praise. Stunning stuff from The Band.

I will check some of these out. 🍻

Henry James said “Summer Afternoon” are the two most beautiful words in the English language. Dorothy Parker said she preferred “Check Enclosed”...

Finally someone's besides myself feels that skylarking by XTC is their standout album.

Great list. Do more, please

Thanks for educating me. I only have London Calling on this list but I'm intrigued by Skylarking, so I think I'll start there. Cheers again.

I love listening to you Man, Thanks

Interesting list, not many I know very well. Listening to Big Pink now in 24/192 on Qobuz and will go down the list over the next couple days. Saw XTC back in maybe '82 at the behest of an old GF but only remember Senses Working Overtime from the show, hadn't really caught the new wave fever at that point. Thanks for the suggestions Barry.

Slade was one of my favorite bands in the 70's. My personal favorite album from them was Sladist.(1973) and even though the album is a audio cornucopia of anthemic singles, my favorite is "Look Wot You Dun". I've always thought that Slade was far too underappreciated in it's day. Finesse is thrown out the window for raw drive and, as you put it, stomp.

This video is a Very good idea for content on a music review channel. Arguments over lists are ok, but opinions and insights into quality music not heard by my ears is the reason I keep returning. I like comparing my opinion to yours and others on music I know well , but the true engagement is the possibility of a new wonderful discovery. Your channel does that. The worlds recorded music library is enormous now. We need guides like you to help us! Thank you

Nick Cave and The Badseeds! Fantastic album. Brampton Oratory for me. I would love to see your reviews on various Seeds albums. Well done.

Worth listening to for the phrase "Charismatic jazz mumbler" Couldn't concentrate after that for laughing. 😂

Love the list. Gives me a lot of ideas for music I haven't ever listened to and need to branch out. Look forward to more of these. I could see you teaching a course in the history of Rock and roll music

Great choices, especially happy to see some Slade in there. "BABY, BABY BABY!!!!!!"

Music from big Pink is a phenomenal album, but it’s with their self titled where they really step out of that Dylan shadow and become The Band. Their dynamics as both players and singers are at their most sophisticated and yet so loose, so natural resulting in what is truly one of the greatest songs ever in “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”.

Fantastic choice of music, thank you! My 10 would be; 1. Men At Work - Business As Usual 2. Status Quo - Hello 3. Melissa Etheridge - Fearless Heart 4. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold 5. Olivia Newton John - Totally Hot 6. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle 7. Peter Gabriel - (3) Melt 8. Suzanne Vega - Days Of Open Hand 9. Marillion - Script For A Jester’s Tear 10. Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl

In no particular order 10 albums I think are important must owns. The beatles - Abby Road The Rolling stones sticky fingers The sex pistols - never mind the bollocks Pink floyd wish you were here Black sabbath - Black sabbath Led zeppelin 4 Mike oldfield - Tubular Bells The doors- The doors Bob Dylan - the freewheelin' Bob Dylan Jimi hendrix - electric ladyland.

A good listen even though I only know one of these albums very well, XTC, and two fairly well, The Band and Van Morrison. The one that really interests me the most is Booker T. the title track of which plays a wonderfully perfect part in the finale of one of my favorite films, American Graffit,i featuring two good friends of mine, Candy Clark and Paul Le Mat. Well done. Cheers.

Once again you nailed it down.

I very much appreciate that you included 'Slayed', obviously an album that carries memories for you. I would'nt have thought of it, when listing Top 10 albums; but it is surely a very good album. Lesser known numbers like "I Don't Mind", "Look at Last Nite", the single 'Gubuy t'Jane" and the anthemic closer "Let the Good Time Roll"; and of course that great Janis cover 'Move Over" which seems perfect for Noddy's vocals. Slade don't get enough credit as songwriters, which is plain to hear in their early albums, when they were skins still. Agree that 'Rain Dogs" is part of a trilogy; wouldn't know which one I love more of the three. "London Calling is not only a great Clash album, but probably one of the greatest albums ever. It is the first album that really features Topper's incredible drumming. While I love Winwood's vocals, IMO Traffic was always a bit boring as a band; but "John Barleycorn" is very good. 6 strong cuts. I also like the closer "Mother's Son" a lot. If I can suggest an interesting comparison for you, check out "Sofa" by Supergrass, after listening to 'Mother's Son"; the closing jam The track 'Sofa' alone, alerted the world that Supergrass was a top band already at that young age. I have (I think) all Van Morrison's albums. His output from late 60's on is mind boggling in it's high quality. He is one of the few 60/70's artists who did not lose his way in the 80's. You really had me up until the top two slots. Nothing against those two albums, just surprised. I thought we'd see Stones or Hendrix or Fab4. Edit: I often forget to thank you guys for putting up these clips that have us discussing. I know it takes dedication and effort on your part.

Great selections Barry & Skylarking for me is up there with the very best albums of the 1980s..... Looking forward to hearing more of your picks.

Great idea for a video, Slayed was a very brave inclusion which I wouldn't include personally but I admire your choice. I have real trouble picking a top ten albums because my choices change all the time depending on my mood.

Great to see Slade included; I have always admired them. If people do not believe they are good then try listening to side 1 of Slade Alive! I recall Gene Symonds on radio saying Slade were a guilty pleasure, which I thought was a bit of a cheek. The song Afternoon Delight may be called a guilty pleasure, but never Slade. This is the first time I have watched a Classic Album Review, and I am very pleasantly surprised and impressed by your knowledge, wit and wordsmithery! I shall watch some more. it is nice to hear an articulate British RU-vidr. Thank you.

My god after watching this I feel like an amateur. These albums are deep interesting and in a strange way frustrating because half of them I’ve never heard and don’t know if I’m ready for. I’ll be donating to this channel for the inspiring education.

Just logged on, your first choice was rain dogs, nuff said, subscribed

London Calling is worth it for Topper Headon's drumming alone. He's one of the best.

very good list

Own all those albums. Great picks!

Love all these bands/singers. Saw Nick Cave pre covid in Western Australia. My God ! I have never felt such power coming off a stage . Completely astounding Van Morrison ? My go to Hard Nose the Highway , Snow in San Anselmo a stunning track 😂❤ Have a great day.

Thanks for another top-level show. Quite an eclectic group of records. London Calling and Skylarking are surefire choices. Have to check out some of the others less familiar. I would add Kinks Arthur, The Who's Who's Next. Rolling Stones Between the Buttons. p

Great choices, mate

Really interesting list, has given me some new albums to listen to. London Calling has always been a great favourite of mine. Thanks for including Slade I feel they've been overlooked for far too long

Nice to see Slade here.....being taken seriously....Britain's greatest rock and roll band. IMO

Nice video, great entertainment as usual. Thought I'd take a different spin on it and these are the most played albums on my iTunes database, might not be the most important but they're great stuff :)... Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Queen - A Night at the Opera Billy Joel - Turnstiles Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Dio - Holy Diver Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Queen - News of the World Ludovico Einaudi - Una Mattina The Police - Regatta De Blanc

I have Jim Jarmusch to thank for turning me onto Tom Waits. To songs were featured in his film Down By Law and it was enough to make me run to the record shop and buy Rain Dogs. It remains my favourite of his albums I was late in discovering Bob Dylan and it was the all-star tribute concert where Eddie Vedder overs Masters of War that made me reconsider my opinion about Dylan and not to be so distracted by his vocals but to listen to the lyrics. I immediately went out and bought Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and the rest is history. The Who's Quadrophenia is their masterpiece. It is among those albums that doesn't have a bad track. It's the band at their creative height. Whereas most would pick Dark Side of the Moon as Pink Floyd's best I will always prefer Meddle. It contains three of my favourite Floyd songs, One of These Days Fearless , and the magnificent Echoes.earless The Talking Heads is my favourite band and I'm hard pressed to pick favourite, but I'd probably go with Little Creatures. If I were to recommend an album to introduce someone to the band it would be this one. So many great songs. Revolver is in my opinion The Beatles true masterpiece. Many will go with Sgt. Pepper but I think it's vastly overrated and it's Revolver that has the band at their best. Another album that I like every track.

Excellent choice 😎👍🏻

I have never understood people raving over London Calling! I liked the first album and saw them play it on tour in 1977. Give me enough rope was pretty good too. But I think London Calling starts well with the title track and the cover of Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac, but I think the rest of the album is just average fare.

I have really begun to enjoy your videos! I regard you as a college professor, vastly more educated and experienced than I am in your field, but man, I don't know what the hell you see in some of the crap you think is wonderful music! (Ha!) I have never heard of ANY of those albums except Booker T and The MG's. That is a fantastic album. Now I gotta go listen to the rest of them. See what I think.... Cheers and thanks!

Faith No More - Angel Dust Husker Du - Zen Arcade Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Magazine - Real Life Steely Dan - The Royal Scum Neil Young - Tonight's the Night Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Tomahawk - Tomahawk The Damned - Phantasmagoria

My list: 10. A Day At The Races - Queen 9. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix Experience 8. Hotel California - The Eagles 7. Journey - Escape 6. Let It Be - The Beatles 5. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 4. Boston - Boston 3. Led Zeppelin IV 2. Van Halen - Van Halen 1. Moving Pictures - Rush

Really nice selection. Most of my "essentials" are from the 60's and Big Pink would be toward the top. - also, as a keyboard guy, I grew up on Booker T. Also from that era I would include Traffic: Mr. Fantasy, and the Electric Flag: Long Time Comin. I would call the Blind Faith album an "essential' , like a lot of classic albums from the 60's that are so well known there's no point to list them. Again, a great list, I enjoyed.

SLAYED !!! Yes!

Excellent choices brother 😎😍

Great show! I'm originally from Memphis, so I'm quite familiar with Booker T. -- Check out the cover on McLemore Avenue. I've got The Band album but otherwise, I've got a lot of work ahead of me!

Must add my 10, I'm 67 sooo: 1.E Costello This Years Model (his masterpiece) 2. Viva' Roxy Music 3. Van Morrison St. Dominic's Preview 4. J Tull Aqualung 5. Simon and G Sounds of Silence 6. Beatles White Album 7. Led Zeppelin 1st album 8. David Bowie Ziggy 9. The Police Regatta del blanc 10. Fleetwood Mac Then Play On(my personal favorite of all!) Cheers

I don't know several of these albums (Bert Janush? never heard of him)...but since 3 of the albums you mentioned are already high on my own list (Nick Cave, The Clash, and of course Tom Waits), I figure our tastes can't be all that dissimilar...the great thing is, with an Apple Music subscription, I have found them all...the perfect solution for a rainy couple of Spring days, so big thanks to you. Looking forward to the next installment.

Good list, this would be mine The Velvet Underground & Nico Roxy Music - Siren The Clash (British version of debut) Buffalo Springfield Again Marvin Gaye What's Going On Van Morrison Moondance The Band Music From Big Pink Love Forever Changes Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die The Kinks Something Else

Can only agree with you on London Calling this time but it's a good video idea and I like the way you explain why you chose them. Much better than the usual boring fare in most rock mags. Looking forward to future parts. 👍

I'm glad you mentioned the Jenny Agutter scene...first think I think of when I hear Van Morrison:)

Love the American Werewolf link mate 🙂

Cannot quibble with any of your choices here, Barry, save Bert Jansch (kinda missed that in Mississippi in '65...). I listened to my older brother's GREEN ONIONS album damn near every morning before I went to school in the second grade (had been listening to Ray Charles since before first grade, so you get the idea how weird my childhood must've been!). Your comments on SLADE (a fave of mine, too) were spot on!

Much kudos for including Slayed by Slade. If there was ever a more reckless,raucous, rumbustious rousing rendition of Rock n roll then I need to hear it. A perfect antidote to the depression inducing state of the world. If only fun were allowed in the 21st century. Oh well

Nice one and not one Prog album to be found at all! I actually own 8 from your 10, so I guess I have to approve...... I assume we will be watching Vol. 20 this time next year!?

I am glad you mentioned Slade. They are underrated. In the early 70s I had “Sladest” a greatest hits album. Played it loud with friends when my parents were out. For XTC, I have never been able to get into “skylarking”; I am more a fan of their early stuff; much preferring Black Sea and “Drums and Wires”. The latter is Mark Harts (of Crowded House) favorite album of all time.

in 1975 while FM rock radio was in its album oriented direction, a jockey threw on John Barleycim Must Die...I heard it, but Missed the Name of the Artist, never saw a pic, yet certain key tunes popped into my mind for years... in the 1980s browsing a record store to find Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, there was an unassuming dull brown cover as I was flipping past "barleycorn" caught my eye. I've enjoyed it since.😊

John Barleycorn! Nice.

"Street Hassle" by Lou Reed.

Nitpicking my friend but it’s Carla Thomas not Thompson. Great short vid and I have em all with the exception of the Bert Jansch first record which I just downloaded for a listen. Thanks, and keep up the fine work, enjoy it!

Slade love it!

Quite a list. I don't think Slayed? Being on the list is a shock at all. It's wonderful, blue collar Rock'n Roll stomp by a band that could unleash that level of energy better than most. It's a great addition to any list.

Thank you for sharing. I think who’s next and Queens night at the opera are two albums that are wonderful. And the first Boston album. And of course Frampton comes alive. I’m also going to put wings back to the egg from 1979 in there. And Cricklewood green from Ten Years After.

Great List - I couldn't listen to "Slayed" all the way through I have to confess but that doesn't deny your observations; More brown ale vicar.

good stuff

I first heard London Calling on a classic rock station in Florida when it was released - the DJ apologised and said 'look, I know it's punk rock but give it a chance'.

First of all love your insightful commentary I'm a classic rock,prog and 80s pop to some of my fave albums are utopia Ra, Barclay James harvest baby James harvest, simple minds new gold dream, the police synchronicity and Peter Hammill nadirs big chance just to name a few of my eclectic choices and tastes