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EP. 82 40 Years Later: The Albums That Defined 1985
Four decades can pass in the blink of an eye, especially when the soundtrack is this good. Take a musical journey back to 1985, a year that delivered some of the most influential albums in rock history, now incredibly turning 40 years old. From commercial juggernauts to artistic breakthroughs, these fifteen albums helped define not just a year, but an entire musical era.
The mid-80s represented a perfect moment where artistic expression and commercial viability created generation-defining masterpieces. Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required" dominated airwaves with five hit singles and 25 million copies sold worldwide. Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" revolutionized production standards while moving 30 million units globally. And who could forget Heart's self-titled comeback that delivered four top-10 hits despite the Wilson sisters' later misgivings about their glamorous image makeover?
This episode also celebrates remarkable career revivals—John Fogerty returning triumphantly after a decade with "Centerfield," Aerosmith reuniting their classic lineup on "Done With Mirrors" to launch their massive comeback, and Simple Minds capitalizing on "The Breakfast Club" success with "Once Upon A Time." We explore how MTV's growing cultural dominance shaped these albums' trajectories, helping transform bands like Mötley Crüe, INXS, and Mr. Mister into household names. And discover why The Outfield's perfect power-pop debut "Play Deep" deserves more recognition beyond their hit "Your Love." Whether these albums formed your teenage soundtrack or you're discovering them for the first time, their influence remains undeniable. Subscribe to the Ben Maynard Program wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube, and help us reach 500 subscribers this year!
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Speaker 1:Let's put the spectacles on here. It's been 40 years, it's crazy. Oh, let me get my mouse here. Let's do this. Let's get the banner up and it is right there. Boom, all right, now I hope you guys see that banner and my name in blue, because it is not showing in blue on my side. But I know from last week's episode it was showing in black and when I went back and watched the train wreck we're not even going to get into it we got a Friday night live coming up. We'll talk all about that stuff, but everything was in blue. So I don't know what's going on with StreamYard. They seem to have done some updates and things get changed around. And I don't know what's going on with StreamYard. They seem to have done some updates and things get changed around and I don't even know about it. But nonetheless, 1985 was 40 years ago. Where has the time gone, man? I was well at this time in 1985, I was 19 years old, so I was geez. I was 19 years old, so I was geez. I was just a kid. But, man, we did this last year and we're doing it again this year. I love it.
Speaker 1:We're going to go over some albums that are turning 40 this year. Actually, I think a couple of them on the list that I put together have already turned 40, but I, I just I just picked these out. It was no, um, okay, two of them, but we'll get to that later. Two of them are here for a specific reason and, uh, the rest of them, there's no rhyme or reason as to why I picked them out. I just did. I think that they are either big albums in an artist's catalog or there's just some significance to them, and that's why they're on the list. I don't know, I got a whole bunch of notes here. We'll see how it all plays out, right, um, but, but in 1985, I mean so, so many important albums, some of them, I guess they were even monumental um to an artist, a band, um, and. But there's so many, just too many to even mention. That's why I think I cut it down to 15.
Speaker 1:But we'll discuss some of the huge albums turning 40 this year. So here we go. Oh, and one thing to take note in this as well. Mtv was huge at this time, huge in 1985. Mtv had just had really hit their stride four years in. And if you go 40 years back from when we're doing this episode tonight, they weren't even four years old but they had their fourth anniversary. I believe it was August 1st in 1985. And so, on their fourth year, they are really in stride, hitting it hard, with great music videos, great segments. The VJs were outstanding, great guest VJs, breaking news in the music world, all kinds of good stuff, if you, I mean, besides reading the, you know the music magazines Hip Parader, or Circus, or gosh I don't even remember if they were still out in 85. Or gosh I don't even remember if they were still out in 85. You had to go to MTV to get your music news. So MTV was so influential and so huge and really I think for some of these albums here, the bands that we'll discuss tonight, you'll see that MTV had a lot to say, a lot to had a lot to say anyway.
Speaker 1:So let's just jump right in. As I said, no, um, no particular order, just going to go with it and instead of digging into my uh albums and CDs, which I really didn't feel like doing. I, I, um, I printed out the cover of each of the albums, so, and actually I think I forgot one. I did, I do, I think I forgot one. We'll get into it, anyway. So, number one, number one, turning 40 in 1985, is right there. Motley Crue as I knock my water over Motley Crue's Theater of Pain, I'm just holding it up to the camera just for a few seconds. Okay, so, theater of Pain, I forgot to write down the release date for this one, but obviously it did come out in 1985.
Speaker 1:This was the follow-up to their big breakthrough in 1983, which was Shout at the Devil. The album itself is not a huge favorite among the band members these days. However, the album did have a lot of success. It reached number six on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, and you know, billboards got a bunch of charts out there. The ones that that we focus on a lot here are the billboard hot 100 or the top 40 and, um, the billboard top 200, which is the top 200 of the out. That's the album chart. Okay, so, um. So, theater of pain reach number six on the Billboard Top 200 chart. It's sold over 4 million copies just in the US alone. So, even though the band may not care for it, it was incredibly successful, bigger than their previous album, their previous album.
Speaker 1:It had two hit songs on two hit singles. A cover of the Brownsville Station Smokin' in the Boys' Room that was the big video that played on MTV and so I think MTV was a driver in that as well. Of course Motley Crue fans were amped up to get something new from the band coming off of 1983 and Shout at the Devil. This one took a little bit of a turn from that album and it kind of turned off some fans too, but nonetheless it was mighty successful. The second single and another big MTV video was Home, sweet Home. So there's the first one turning 40 this year, 1985. Number two we've got Aerosmith Done With Mirrors. Okay Again, I was just putting this show together this afternoon so I forgot to write the release date on that.
Speaker 1:But this one is the eighth album in the Aerosmith catalog. It's the return of Brad Whitford and Joe Perry to the band after about a five-year absence. They both left in about 1980, right after Night in the Ruts was released. There were no real hits on the album. Commercially it wasn't well received. Critically it got good reviews. But more important in the band's history because it, more importantly than the success of it or critical acclaim or whatever it began.
Speaker 1:What was the band's comeback at that time, which? That comeback included? Some of the biggest albums in their history. Geez, what was that? Permanent Vacation? I think there was Pump and Get a Grip, those three back to back to back. I didn't look at the stats on those, but those probably are the biggest three albums in their catalog Huge, huge albums. This began that run and put Aerosmith back on the map. Of course they had the big song and video with Run DMC, walk this Way. That was a year after this one was released, that was in 1986. And again, big video MTV, boom. There you go. All this kind of together launched the comeback of Aerosmith, because they were kind of down and out at that point.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so then let's move to the next one on the list. Put these things back on. Phil Collins. No Jacket Required.
Speaker 1:This one is Phil's third solo album. It was released on February 18th in 1985. You know what? We know we're talking 1985 here. We know we're talking 40 years later. So I'm going to give the month and the date, I'm not going to give the year every time out. It's just silly. This one had five singles Susudio, one More Night, don't Lose my Number.
Speaker 1:Who Said I Said and Take Me Home? Huge radio play for this album. Huge MTV play for this album. One of the best-selling albums of the 80s and one of the best-selling albums all time. It's sold over. It has, to this date, sold over 25 million copies worldwide, so absolutely huge.
Speaker 1:Obviously, phil Collins' biggest solo album amongst I think he has like eight of them, eight or nine, something like that, I don't recall but his biggest. The thing's just enormous, um, and a great album too. Just a great, great, great album Really really is. Um, and I mentioned a few episodes back when spaz was in studio with me, when we were talking about and Roll Hall of Fame nominees, we went over snubs and Phil Collins was one of those snubs that we discussed Absolutely a snub for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I mean, if you just took his solo career, by itself, phil Collins should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1:But then you put together Genesis and all that. It's hands down. So get your heads out of your rear ends. Nominating committee. Let's get it done, okay, moving on. Moving on to the next. Well, let's take them one at a time. Holmes, all right, this one right here.
Speaker 1:You may or may not be able to get a good look at it, but this is the self-titled album from 1985 by Heart. Apparently, heart couldn't come up with a better name for the album that Ann Wilson had said something to the effect that since they didn't do a lot of the songwriting themselves, they felt like there was nothing that they could grab a hold of to give to the title of the album. I don't know, that's her, not me, but whatever the album, it's Heart's eighth studio album. It was released on June 21st. It's Heart's eighth studio album. It was released on June 21st. Five singles were released these Dreams, what About Love? Never, nothing at All. And If Looks Could Kill. Now the first four. They all reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself reached number one. It's the biggest selling album in the Heart catalog and it's sold over 6 million copies worldwide. So it's an absolutely huge album and there are times, you know, the band has come a little bit.
Speaker 1:You know I shouldn't say the band, I should say Ann and Nancy have come around to this album more in the last 10 to 15 years. You know it was a period of time where they kind of almost hated this album and a lot of it had to do with uh, you know the fact that they did not write a lot of the songs on the album they did. They did have some, some songwriting credits on the album but from what I recall it wasn't even on the big songs. Not only that, we're talking about that mid-80s. Look, the girls were all turned into sex objects, poofed up hair, short skirts, they had all that I don't know frilly stuff and whatever. It kind of had a. The band almost kind of had a colonial look to them without the hats. But I know that the Wilson sisters were not crazy about all that.
Speaker 1:But you know they were kind of kowtowing to management, record label, whatever it might have been at the time being that. You know they were on a bit of I won't say a downturn in their career, but certainly they weren't at the level of success that they had had in the mid to late 70s. So the early 80s was a little bit tough for them. And look, somebody made the right call. Somebody made the right call on it. But bottom line was Anna, nancy and their band made these songs absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 1:So it's a great album. Great album. Does it have a little bit of an 80s sound to it? Well, of course, but I think not only is it the biggest selling album in their catalog, but to me it's my favorite. It's my favorite and I know a lot of hardcore heart fans are going to be like you're an idiot dude. No, it's Dreamboat Annie or something else. But I really, really like this album. So it's a good one. It's definitely a good one. Next, number five I think we have 15. So we got number five right here. That would be field. Now, this was kind of like.
Speaker 1:This was John's return after a 10-year absence from the music business. The last album he had released was in 1975. And John definitely makes a triumphant comeback with this one here. John played all the instruments and it speaks to his talents.
Speaker 1:On the album it had three singles released to radio, solid, solid radio hits. I think the first one released was the Old man Down the road. That was, uh, another big MTV song. Follow up to that was rock and roll girls another big MTV song too. And then the third one was the title track Great, great song, great baseball song. Um, you know, every time you hear that song you just want to get out, run out onto the ball field and you know, play some catch, hit some balls around, whatever it is, I just it's such, a, such a good song. It was a huge album, sold over 2 million copies in the US alone and peaking at number one on the Billboard Top 200 chart. So good on you, john Fogerty. And you know, john still sounds great to this day. So forget about anyone else performing those Credence songs. If you want to hear Credence Clearwater revival, you go see John Fogarty. He's the one that wrote the songs. He's the one that sings the songs and does a great job. He still sounds great to this day. Yes, good on you again, john. Next one, let's turn this over. Next one here. All right, wet the fingertips here.
Speaker 1:John Cougar Mellencamp's Scarecrow Released July 31st and it's John's eighth studio album. A lot of people don't remember that. They don't even realize that John was releasing music in the 70s as John Cougar, but this was one of his best and best-selling albums. It's sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. It had three top 10 hits Let me see Small Town, lonely Old Night and ROCK in the USA.
Speaker 1:I think this one is my favorite. Well, I don't know, I don't know. The one prior, uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh, was the one prior to that. That was a good one too. I really did like that one. That's the one with pink houses and gosh, what else? Oh, the authority song, and can't even recall. Oh, crumbling down or Tumbling Down, one of the two. It's when your walls come tumbling down, you know. But this is a great album and I love the title track. The title track well, it's really not the title track, it's the title of the song is Rain on the Scarecrow, but you can sort of call it the title track. It's a really dark song with, but it's an impassioned plea on behalf of the small farmers of America. Just such a good song, such I don't know profound lyrics. Great stuff, great, great stuff. So it's a great album. Like I said, it's the best-selling one in the John Cougar Actually, I'm sorry the John Mellencamp, because after this album he went back to his name John Mellencamp.
Speaker 1:He took the full Mellencamp name back Because, if you remember, early on in his career and if you don't remember I'm going to let you know he was John Cougar had started to break out and have his huge success. That was with the American Fool album and the following album, uh-huh. He wanted to get rid of the cougar. He always hated that. Well, they compromised. He released the album John Cougar Mellencamp, uh-huh. And then this one here, scarecrow, released it under John Cougar Mellencamp. But that was the last one Got his real name back fully after that. So good stuff from John.
Speaker 1:Next one on the list is Rat Invasion of your Privacy. This one is Rat's. It's their follow-up to the debut album, so it's their second album, released on May 30th. Three singles were released, with the big ones being Lay it Down and you Love. Also big videos on MTV, huge videos Selling over 2 million copies in the US alone and then peaking at number two on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. This one solidified Ratt as a legitimate 80s hard rock band. Great stuff, great band, great band. Love Ratt, all right. Oh, the next one. Yeah, this one I messed up on. I forgot to print the album cover. This one is Sting. Dream of the Blue Turtles and this is Sting's debut solo album coming off the breakup of the Police.
Speaker 1:If you love somebody, set them free. Fortress Around your Heart, russians, moon Over Bourbon Street and Love is the Seventh Wave, were the five singles and then, while peaking at number two on the top 200, it sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. So I didn't go through the Sting catalog to see where this one sits, but I would imagine that among his solo albums, this debut is right up there, right up there with the best ones with the highest number of sales. Highest number of sales. So, um, I just remember that that the opening song, or the opening line on the first single released if you love somebody, set them free. It almost sound like Elmer Fudd singing. It almost sounds like he's saying we, we set them free. Go back and listen to it. You'll never hear the song the same again, I promise. I promise, let's see. What else do we got here? What else do we got All right, this one right. Come on, get them together there, we go Right here.
Speaker 1:Acdc's Fly on the Wall, released June 28th. Not the same success, of course, as Back in the Black. Back in Black, back in Black. Or For those About to Rock, hard to get, you know, hard to get the same success of Back in Black. That one's one of the biggest selling albums worldwide of all time. But even for those about to rock sold over 4 million copies, but the band seemed to stumble a little bit. For the second release in a row, with this one here, fly on the Wall it still sold 2 million copies worldwide. But most fans find that it's not quite up to snuff with most of the catalog. But for ACDC those guys, they could fall out of bed and still sell a million records. So what are you going to do? The big songs on it, I think, were Sink, the Pink and I forgot what else, darn it. But they would start to hit their stride a little bit more in the back half of the 80s, early 90s.
Speaker 1:Next one, dire Straits, brothers in Arms, and I'll hold that up there for a second or two. I'm going to tell you something, man. What an absolutely killer, killer album Released May 17th. It's a monster album for the band. It's their fifth studio album. Five singles were released on this one the title track, brothers in Arms, your latest trick, a big single, walk of Life, a big rock single, so Far Away, and then, of course, the absolutely stratospheric, enormous Money for Nothing. The album peaked at number one everywhere around the world and it's sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, more than 10 million just in the United States alone. Um, so it's, it's, it's so, so good.
Speaker 1:This, uh, brothers in arms, was the first first album that I bought on CD. First album that I bought on CD and I was, you know, obviously I was new to CDs in 1985 CDs were fairly new to all of us back then and I put it on the stereo and I would just crank it over and over again and it just sounded so, so good and and that I don't know. I I think so far away is probably my favorite song on the album. It's just the groove that it has going money for. Nothing obviously hands down. It's just a tremendous song. You know crazy lyrics, you know written while in an appliance store, things like that Just nuts bananas. But yeah, so far away For my money, that's like my go-to on the album. But it's just a great album and of course, that one definitely is the biggest in the Dire Straits catalog, for sure. All right, what is up next? This one right here, another great one, mr Mister, welcome to the Real World. If you are unfamiliar with Mr Mister, you've got to go check him out.
Speaker 1:Short-lived career. I think they had like four albums. I think the last album they released was like in 1988 or 89, something like that, which is a shame. The band was pretty much's their second studio album and it's the biggest one in their catalog. It's sold about 2 million copies worldwide and it has great songs on it, great musicianship on it, great musicianship, great vocals from Richard Page, the lead singer, who I saw him. I saw him perform Broken Wings 12, 13 years ago and sounded amazing. Sounded amazing. I think he's amazing, sounded amazing. I think he's. I think he tours from time to time with uh, ringo stars all-star band, but, um, absolutely amazing, great songs, um, just good stuff. Of course there were.
Speaker 1:Now there were four singles released from the album broken wings huge number one. Hit kirie another number one hit on the album. Broken Wings huge number one. Hit Kyrie another number one hit on the album. I think. The other one was Is this Love? And I think it was. Black and White was the other one. But you know the album through and through, from top to bottom, just solid, absolutely solid.
Speaker 1:If you're unfamiliar with it, go check it out. You can stream it. You already know that. So go check it out. It's worth a listen and there's an awesome, awesome ballad on there. Just thought of it right now. It's called Run to Her, give it a listen. Give it a listen. Good stuff, I promise. Look, if you get mad at me over any of my suggestions or if you get mad at me over anything on the list tonight, leave it in the comments. All right, leave it in the comments and holler at me, let's see Next up.
Speaker 1:Next up is this one here From In Excess Listen Like Thieves. This is the fifth studio release and the biggest seller to that point, up to 1985. It was released on October 15th and this one, as far as America is concerned, this is probably when the band began to really hit their stride. I think two albums prior, 1983, they had, um, a minor hit. Uh, it did break the top 40. That was, um, darn it, it wasn't. Uh, what was it? Shoot, I forgot now, whatever, doesn't matter because we're talking about 1985. But yeah, in America the band wasn't really known that well. So this is where they really started to hit their stride. The big songs and the big videos were what you Need and this Time, along with the title track, those are the big songs on the album. Listen Like Thieves is a huge song for In Excess, what you Need. Huge song for In Excess. Worldwide, the album has sold about three and a half million copies.
Speaker 1:I only had the pleasure of seeing In Excess one time live, and unfortunately it was after Michael Hutchins had passed away. I saw them in 2005, I believe it was, and that was when they had JD Fortune on lead vocals. Jd did a fabulous job, great job, and in fact the band had put out an album leading up to that tour that I had seen them on. A great album too, a good album. Everything about it was in excess, except the fact that it wasn't Michael Hutchins. But, as I said, jd Fortune did a great job. Yeah, they were in excess. Fortune did a great job. Yeah, they were, you know, in excess. Just such a great band man. So good, so good.
Speaker 1:All right, where are we Next up? Man, I'm just like flying by, I'm just like flying through all this stuff, aren't I? Well, that's kind of good for you guys, because you know me, I get going and I just talk and I talk and then I talk a little bit more. So we're kind of making this an economic episode. It looks like so far. Anyway, who knows?
Speaker 1:All right, next up this one right here, simple Minds Once Upon a Time. Now, I'm sure most of you had no clue. I had no clue that this was Simple Minds' seventh studio album. This is the biggest one in their catalog and this is the one that comes off of. It comes off of their number one hit Don't you Forget About Me that they had on the Breakfast Club soundtrack. So the name I was familiar with the band Simple Minds, but I had no idea that there were six studio albums prior to this one here. I don't think I'd actually heard anything from Simple Minds until the Breakfast Club soundtrack, but that's really what put those guys on the map.
Speaker 1:And this album here is, like I said, not only it's their biggest album, it's sold over 2 million copies worldwide and three singles were released from it. All three of those singles are dynamite songs Alive and Kickin', man just killer, just a killer song. Sanctify Yourself, all the things she said. Of those three singles, alive and Kickin' was the biggest of the three. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. But so good, so good. Such a great album. It really is Um and worth your time.
Speaker 1:Um, you know, like I said, I just kind of well, I think I'm getting down to the nitty gritty here, but up to this point I just picked these albums out. Oh, yeah, I remember that one, I remember that one, that one there. It wasn't like. Oh, that one there, it wasn't like. Oh, this one's my favorite here, so I wanted to. It had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1:So I think that this list that I put together has got some absolutely dynamite albums released 40, count it 40 years ago this year, and that's just silly, silly to think about. But go check some of these out. If some of these kind of piqued your interest a little bit, go check them out and then, when you do again, leave comments. Leave comments. Okay, we can't communicate unless you leave comments or you call in live on the live show. All right, next one, the live show, all right. Next one. This is actually number 14. Wow, all right. Next one Kiss Asylum. Now, this one I did handpick because there's no way I'm going to do a list of albums turning 40 this year and not put a Kiss album on there that was released in 1985. There's just no way it's going to happen. So, yeah, I did handpick that one, but Animal, I mean not Animalized, that was the one before.
Speaker 1:Asylum is the 13th studio album from from the band and it's um. It's the third in a run of non-makeup era albums albums. It's selling a million copies in the US alone. It only had one single released.
Speaker 1:That was Tears Are Fallen, which is a fabulous song. That is such a good song, I don't know. I like it because it chugs. It's got a chugging rhythm to it and I tend to I don't know, for some reason I tend to lean on a lot of songs that chug and listen to it. If you're familiar with it, you know. But if you're not, go listen to it and you'll kind of get what I'm talking about when I say it just chugs. But Tears Are Falling great song. It was the one song released to radio Really didn't do anything on the chart. However, there were I believe it were three videos from the album released big MTV videos, which Tears Are Fallen is one of them. Excuse me, what else? Oh yeah, all Night and who Wants to Be Lonely. Those were the videos released to MTV, big videos.
Speaker 1:And I don't know many, well many, kiss fans. I'm not one of them, but many KISS fans believe that Asylum is the best of the non-makeup albums. But I don't agree that one I don't agree with. It's a great album. I do love it. I don't remember where I ranked it on my KISS top 20 albums, but I do like the album a lot. And I don't know, I think a toss-up between my favorite songs on the album or Tears Are Fallen and King of the Mountain, which is actually the opening track, and that one tears it up that one is really really good, so good. So check it out. If you're unfamiliar with it, go check it out. It's what you have to do. Well, like I said, we're getting down to it and I brought this one, this one I kind of handpicked as well, because last week I did start to talk about, um, this band during the drunk show and I was way drunk and I did not do this band any justice and trying to talk about them. So, being 100% sober today, uh, I'm going to talk about this band right now and this album right here. Yeah, I didn't need to print the album cover on this one because I had it sitting right here on the shelf.
Speaker 1:The Outfield Play Deep. It's the debut album. It was released on August the 12th. It's again the debut album from this British trio, the trio of Tony Lewis on lead vocals and bass, john Spinks on lead guitar and vocals and Alan Jackman on drums. I knew nothing about these guys and one time I'm watching MTV one of the many times I would spend hours watching MTV and this video comes on.
Speaker 1:Say it Isn't so. It's the opening track on the album. It was their first release, the first single they released on the album. It's an awesome song. It might be my favorite song on the album among 10 fabulous songs. This band deserves so much more than what they got. Unfortunately, their shelf life was not long. I mean well, they lasted for a while. You know. They went on hiatus for a bit, especially in the 90s. Coming back together late 90s, early 2000s, put together some more releases but never were able to regain the traction that they had. Off of this debut album, play Deep.
Speaker 1:John Spinks wrote all the songs. Tony Lewis, of course, sang lead on I think nine of the 10 tracks and I think on the second album their second album, bangin'. I think John does lead vocals on one song, so I think he takes a lead vocal on one song on each of the albums, at least on one of the first two albums, but the second single, your Love. That's the band's biggest song ever. It's a huge song. Every 80s compilation album that is out there contains this song. You can't go anywhere listening to any 80s music and not hear your love. It's a great song. Not my favorite song on the album, but it is still a great song. You know it. Josie's on a vacation far away. Come on, you guys know it. You know it. Don't make me do that. Great song, great musicianship from these guys. Really, honestly, great, great production and it has just a great crisp sound to it. The album itself does.
Speaker 1:I can't talk highly enough about these guys. You know, the unfortunate thing is the outfield is no more. They will never, ever be again. Because, sadly, john Spinks passed away. I think it was about 2014. He had, I think, liver cancer and then mysteriously I don't want to say mysteriously, it was just never divulged Tony Lewis. He passed away in 2020, I think it was late 2020, somewhere around there, 2019, 2020, 2021, somewhere right around there might've been 2021. Um, and it wasn't. Yeah, it was never disclosed as far as what his cause of death was. So I don't think it was anything foul play or anything like that. It's just mysterious, nobody knows. So that's unfortunate, because these guys, I absolutely love these guys. I had the opportunity, the pleasure, the privilege to see them perform live one time and it was an absolutely dynamite show, killer show Sounding so so good. And this album itself, it just holds a special place in my heart. It is that good.
Speaker 1:If you only know the outfield for your Love, or Josie, as everybody calls it, then go check it out. Yeah, then go check it out. Yeah, just go check it out. It is just so good. You know, when you have lyrics like 61 seconds is all it takes for the nine to five man to be only one minute late. Come on, come on. Who does that? It's so good, it's so good. And you know, as I said, they had three singles. The first two say it isn't so your love or Josie, right? And then I think all the love, or all the love, like the long title of it is all the love in the world. But the song is just titled all the love. Good stuff, absolutely good stuff, just dynamite. So check it out.
Speaker 1:Um, I'll leave you with that. Yeah, I, I did leave the outfield for last, on purpose, because last week trying to talk about them while inebriated was unfair. I actually listened back to the show and I'm not going to go long on this because we've got more business to tend to in a little bit after this episode's up. But man, to watch yourself, drunk man, that was not good and shame on me. In my mind I kept saying Tony Lewis, but I know I said Tony Spinks like three times. But in my head I was trying to be cognizant of it and I kept saying Tony Lewis, I mean Tony Spinks, and in my head I was saying Tony Lewis. So just a dummy Anyway. So I guess, just really quick, I'll run them down just real fast. The album's turning 40 this year and go check them out. If you're not familiar with them, go check them out, go If you. If you're not familiar with them, go check them out. Good stuff, we'll run them down real fast.
Speaker 1:Motley Crue's, Theater of Pain. Aerosmith, done With Mirrors. Phil Collins ginormous album no Jacket Required. Heart, the self-titled 1985 album Heart Big stuff. John Fogerty, centerfield Another huge album right here.
Speaker 1:John Cougar at Mellencamp, scarecrow Great 80s hard rock from Rat. Invasion of your Privacy I think I'm skipping past. Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting. I'm going to mention it because he deserves a mention, but I forgot to print the album cover. Acdc Fly on the Wall Another absolutely ginormous album. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Great, great, great album, fabulous.
Speaker 1:Mr Mister, welcome to the real world, check it out. Good stuff, oh good, so good. In excess, listen like thieves. Simple minds, once Upon a Time, kiss Asylum another great album. It truly is. It really is Great Kiss album. And then, last but not least, the Outfield Play Deep Dinah might album and really turned into a great list of albums here. All 15 really just turned into a great list. So, um, I didn't mean it to happen that way, but it did. I'm glad it did. I hope you enjoyed it. Um, thanks for being here, thanks for checking it out, thanks for spending some time. I hope that you will go and seek out and give a listen to some of these albums, if not all of them, if you're not familiar with them. So we're done. It's a wrap here.
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