January 27, 2025 • 66 mins
After years of collecting vinyl records, I found myself on a musical journey that led me to the top 10 essential albums everyone should experience. Join me as I reflect on what makes an album essential and distinguish it from personal favorites. From the transformative power of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "To Be True" to the soulful shift of David Bowie's "Young Americans," we explore the lasting impact of these records and their influence on music culture. Through this exploration, I invite you to reflect on your own essential picks and how they have shaped your musical journey.
Get ready for a trip back in time as we dive into the musical gems of the 1970s and 1980s. From the vocal prowess of Teddy Pendergrass in Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "To Be True" to the overlooked brilliance of David Bowie's "Young Americans," we celebrate the artists who left an indelible mark on music history. We can't forget Sinead O'Connor's unique Irish rock sound in "The Lion and the Cobra," which finally gained posthumous recognition for its incredible artistry. Through these albums, we explore the timeless appeal of music and its ability to transport us to different eras and emotions.
Join me as we take a deep dive into the power of music to evoke moods. From the timeless charm of Frank Sinatra's "September of My Years" to the moody brilliance of The Smiths' "Meat is Murder," we explore albums that have left a lasting impact. Technical difficulties may have interrupted our live stream, but the passion for sharing great music remains strong. We celebrate albums like Public Enemy's revolutionary "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" and Nico Case's atmospheric "Blacklisted," showcasing the importance of these records in my personal list. Despite the challenges, I cherish the opportunity to connect with you through the iconic albums that have shaped our musical journeys.
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Scott McLean (00:07):
Well, here we are, episode 170.
170 episodes of Milk, cratesand Turntables, yeah, and
tonight I don't know how this isgoing to go.
I think it's just me and I'mgoing to be talking about my, my
(00:36):
10 essential albums thateverybody should listen to
before they go up to that greatturntable in the sky.
So sit back, relax, enjoy mylist of my top 10 essential
albums.
It's pretty eclectic, I gottasay.
I gotta say maybe you'll agree,maybe you'll disagree.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We'll find out 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All engines running Liftoff.
We have a liftoff.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The KOFB Studio presents Milk Crates and
Turntables.
A music discussion podcasthosted by Scott McClain.
Now let's talk music.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Enjoy the show.
Scott McLean (01:34):
What's up everybody?
Welcome to the podcast.
What's that Hold on?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I've got a song for you right now called LB's Truth,
and don't you ever forget it.
All right, I won't forget itAll right, this is paid,
sponsored.
Scott McLean (01:48):
Alright, sounds interesting, but you know the
name of the podcast, I'm notgonna say it.
Streaming live right now overeverything, coast to coast, all
around the world.
What do we got here?
(02:12):
I'm down with the get down.
Shit, I'm down with the getdown.
What do we got?
Oh shit, one, two, three, ohshit, oh shit, oh, okay, that
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got cut off pretty fast.
Get rid of that.
Picked it somewhere and leftoff.
What, what?
Yeah, this is the laid-backcountry picker.
This is the laid-back countrypicker.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
When old James Brown rolled into town he brought the
funkiest sound and everybody gotdown.
The Stanley Bros went nose tonose.
They played a million shows andkept them on their toes.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Ah shit.
Scott McLean (03:38):
This is some get down music right here.
Start this motherfucker off.
Good yeah, right here, Stopthis motherfucker off.
Good yeah.
Toad to Red Sprocket.
Big Head Toad to Red SprocketSays I'm here entertaining Blah
blah blah.
(03:58):
Yeah Said, I'm down with theget down.
What else we got here?
What, what?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What, what?
When Jimmy H took me to thatplace Up in outer space, I still
see his face.
The motorhead put them all tobed, but, like Lemmy said,
they're all dead.
Scott McLean (04:23):
Yeah, all to bed but, like Lemmy said, they're
all dead.
Yeah, it's the mood I'm intonight.
Yeah, it sounds homemade.
Cause it's raw, this is someraw shit.
Because it's raw, this is someraw shit.
(04:48):
Yeah, that's LB's Truth, liveat the Down Home Grill.
You don't know nothing aboutthat.
You don't know nothing aboutthat.
That's some raw, gritty shitright there.
Yeah, lb's true.
(05:10):
Thank you, my friend jammingtonight.
Yeah, well, uh.
So, like I said, welcome backmy friends to the show that
never ends.
I'm so glad you could attend.
Come inside, come inside again.
We're streaming live overeverything.
Uh, blah, blah, blah.
Same stuff every week, just adifferent topic now.
Speaking of topics, uh, patty,patty, yossi, our number one fan
(05:34):
.
I would say that might insultbig head todd the wet sprocket,
but I don't care.
She said I thought you weredoing underrated singers.
Well, I did too, did too.
But nah, I reserved the right.
I changed it up.
Tonight I'm doing like I saidmy, my, what I think are top 10
(06:00):
essential albums you shouldlisten to before you go to the
big record store in the sky.
And again, this is alwayssubjective.
People are going to say, huh,what?
And you know.
So what is an essential album?
Right?
What's an essential album.
(06:21):
Essential album, basically,let's see what.
Let me see.
You know what.
I'm going to do it this way.
I'm going to see what AI thinksan essential album.
Let's see what AI says.
(06:51):
Essential albums typically onethat has made a significant
impact on music culture,influencing artists, genres and
listeners over time, genres andlisteners over time.
These albums often showcaseartistic innovation, lyrical
depth and musical excellence.
For example, the Beatles, sgtPepper's lonely hot club band,
(07:18):
michael Jackson's thriller,nirvana's Nevermind, are
considered essential because oftheir groundbreaking
contributions to music and theirlasting legacy.
Let me move this over.
Let me get the chat up on theboard here so everybody can see
their chats.
There you go.
The definition can vary basedon let's get that out of here
(07:43):
based on personal taste,cultural background and musical
genre, but the common thread istheir importance to the music
landscape.
So that is an essential album.
So, basically, essential albumscover.
They cover some ground.
It could be what the industryand what the general public
think is essential or what thelistener thinks is essential,
(08:07):
and in this case it's thelistener.
But although some of thesealbums may be widely considered
an essential album, I don't know.
You make the call, though,throughout the show, for the
people that are watching thelive stream.
Now, there's a difference.
There's a difference betweenyour favorite album and an
(08:29):
essential album.
Your favorite, like thePretenders debut album, is one
of my favorite albums.
I don't think it's an essentialalbum.
I don't think it changedanything album.
I don't think it changedanything.
It's a classic album.
But Essential is and I again, Ihave 10 albums here that are
(08:59):
totally, pretty much totallydifferent albums.
So my thought process onEssential is something that
covers.
These albums cover a wide range, so are essential albums.
Could they be considered yourdesert island albums?
You know, your 10 desert islandalbums Could be, could be, we
don't know.
It's all up to you.
It's all up to you.
(09:22):
Marie Martin says Library ofCongress has a lot of them.
They certainly do.
Big Head Todd DeWitt Sprocketsays hey, where's Jack?
And I'm going to say I don'tknow.
I don't know, let me see.
Yeah, so that's what?
Ai, which we, by the way,because of our current president
(09:43):
, which we, by the way, becauseof our current president, the
United States, is going to bethe world leader in AI
technology.
That's very important.
Believe it or not, it's veryimportant.
So let's get ahead of thatcurve.
Now I have a whole that couldbe a whole episode on on the, uh
, the pros and cons of AI.
(10:06):
Let me see.
Marie Martin says Americana isthe first thing that I think of.
Okay, absolutely, that could behow you consider it an
essential album.
Now, a lot of people might notthink Thriller is an essential
album.
Thriller I think I had ToddWitt's rocket commented.
(10:29):
In essential albums, you meanlike Don Johnson's heartbeat
they say, listen, if that's inyour collection of essential
albums, I'm all for it.
If you can explain to me whythat's the key.
How do you explain why?
You know it's now the.
Why does it have to be this?
In depth, you know, deep diveinto what makes this an
(10:53):
essential album.
Again, essential covers, it's,it's.
I think what it boils down to,is what I think you should
listen to.
These are 10 albums that Isuggest that I think are
essential because of the quality, the production, the time it
came out, what was the shiftgoing on at that time?
(11:16):
And I'll play a couple tracks,at least one track from each
song.
I'll kind of give you a littledabble of what's in there.
Now, you're not going to likesome of these.
I know that already.
I already know You're not goingto like some of these albums
(11:38):
Just because it's not your thing, because it's not your genre or
your taste.
Like I said, it's my essentialalbums.
What?
I think you should listen to and, being an extremely
well-rounded music listener andI'm big into diversity, is that
(12:04):
dead now?
Is that word dead too?
I have a very eclectic we'llsay eclectic taste in music.
So that's what I think.
If you were going to listen,like I could give you, you know,
some people could say, oh yeah,essential albums Led Zeppelin 1
(12:24):
, led Zeppelin 4, you know, youcould just name off 10 Led
Zeppelin or five of those.
Well, that's your choice.
I think it should be spread out.
I think it should be Give you awell-rounded view.
So, with that said, let's jumpin.
And these are not in anyparticular order because
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Essential Albums.
It's not a top 10.
It's a my 10.
There's a difference there also.
So let me line this up firstand, like I said, youtube puts
copyrights on these things now,because I play music, but they
(13:09):
never take it down.
So that's good.
So far, so good.
I haven't had any copyrightstrikes against my channel and
YouTube I mean Facebook.
I don't even know what they donow.
I don't know what they do.
I don't know what they do.
(13:34):
So the first album that I'mgoing to say is an essential
album in my list is the 1965album by Frank Sinatra called
September of my Years.
This is a fucking pure perfectalbum.
Now, a perfect album doesn'tnecessarily make it essential.
(13:56):
Again, I'm going to reallypress that because people are
going to say, oh, that's not, Idon't care.
Some of these are perfectalbums, and a perfect album to
me I've always said this is analbum that you can listen from
the first song to the last song.
Now, remember, we're talkingalbums here Back in the day.
If you had an album most ofthem you're not listening to
(14:21):
every track, you jump, you haveto get up, move the needle to
the next song, jump over twosongs to get to that song Very
few of us would sit through analbum that we're just not really
into.
You know a quarter of the songs, so yeah.
So September of my years.
It's also an extremely poignantalbum too, because it does
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cover your life.
It covers a young man's life.
It really tells a great story.
The whole album tells a story.
This, though, this is the song.
Now, I don't know about you,but I can relate to this.
I really can.
This might be a song where youthink of your dad.
(15:12):
You think of your dad back inthose days.
I don't know.
As a young man, I could putmyself in a lot of these, but
the song that I'm taking offthis album is uh, this one
definitely getting a copyrighthit on this.
(15:34):
It's a fucking perfect song too.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
When I was 17.
Right, it was a very good year,it's amazing it was a very good
year For small town girls andsoft summer nights yeah, I'll
(16:06):
end up listening to the wholething.
Scott McLean (16:07):
and soft summer nights yeah, I'll end up
listening to the whole thing andI can't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We'd hide from the lights.
Scott McLean (16:12):
Yeah, go listen to this album On the village green
.
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
When I was 17.
Scott McLean (16:24):
Let's get into this one.
This is the title cut.
It's the first song in thealbum and it's called September
of my Years.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
One day you turn around and it's summer.
Next day you turn around andit's fall, and the springs and
the winters of a lifetime.
Scott McLean (17:01):
Yeah, essential album, absolute, essential album
.
Go listen, listen to it, takethis list down.
I'll probably list this onfacebook anyways, I'll probably
throw the list and get you know,of course, ridiculed, because
nothing on facebook goes withoutgetting ridiculed, does it?
Yeah, so that's my first album,1965's September of my Years,
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by the late legend you can'teven say great the late legend,
frank Sinatra.
I'll do a 10 to 1, but, like Isaid, it doesn't mean that this
is anything.
I'll just say my second.
I'll say my second album,essential album that I think
(17:46):
everybody should listen to iscalled, or it's by, and it's
actually the name of the album.
Let me line it up first so I cansegue right into a song.
A, uh, a song.
(18:07):
You gotta find it here.
Here we go.
It's harold melvin and the bluenotes featuring featuring
theodore Theodore Pendergrass,later to be called Teddy
(18:27):
Pendergrass, and the name ofthat album Is To Be True.
Another perfect album HaroldMelvin and the Blue Notes,
featuring Theodore Pendergrass.
The album is called To Be Trueand this is one of the Best
songs on the album.
Here we go.
This is a young TeddyPentegrass, oh my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, I have lots of fancy clothes.
Teddy fuck, Damn thatmotherfucker could sing yeah
(19:24):
Essential album.
Scott McLean (19:25):
Moving so fast yo, I didn't even have to worry
about paying my bills.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Something started changing my life started feeling
.
Scott McLean (19:35):
Let's see, get rid of that.
All the things I once had.
Yeah, such a great album, man,and this was again so.
Yeah, such a great album, man,and this was again so.
So what you had, this came outin 75, and what you had was
(19:56):
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, were Harold Melvin and the
Blue Notes.
Then they went deep and theygot this lead singer, they got
this young cat named Theodore.
It's not, I mean his voice, Idon't know.
I recently had a kind of aconversation with somebody and
it was like Marvin Gaye or TeddyPentegrast, and you know Marvin
(20:18):
, they say he's got the perfectvoice.
But I don't know, man, teddy, Idon't know I could lean in
Teddy's direction.
Just that voice, man.
Yeah, so that's my second album.
(20:38):
I think it's essential Onceagain, harold Melvin and the
Blue Notes featuring TheodorePendergrass, to be true.
Oh, my friend, I'm looking up,I'm looking up.
I mean this is upbeat music too.
This is some Philadelphia musicright there.
(20:59):
That's some Philadelphia music.
And Harold Melvin and the BlueNotes on their own Were fucking
good too.
But you bring Teddy into themix.
Well then, forget about it then.
Alright, now this album, mythird album on the list, is it's
(21:26):
actually it is on the list?
Is it's actually it is on thelist of one of my favorite
albums of all time?
I think it's, and you've heardme say this a lot of times.
I think it's David Bowie's bestalbum.
I think it's David Bowie's bestalbum.
(21:48):
This one came out in 75 also,and it's I'll just I'll just
play the title track.
(22:12):
David Bowie's Young Americangets so overlooked, absolutely
overlooked, absolutelyoverlooked.
It gets overlooked by ZiggyStardust, diamond dogs, aladdin
sane.
But the reason I say this is anessential album also is because
(22:32):
of the transition that he madefrom glam rock into this
blue-eyed soul type sound and henever went back to glam rock
again, never went back to glamrock again.
Like, never went back to glamrock again.
Like he did it, he peaked at it, he made it, he turned it into
what it was.
You know he was part of thatlittle group of glam rock
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legends T-Rex and a few othersbut when he did Young Americans,
I tell people you've got to golisten to this album again If
you haven't listened to it.
Probably some of you haven'tlistened to it in 50 years.
You know, let me see.
Yeah, so this album's 50 yearsold this year, jesus, so maybe
(23:23):
40 years you haven't listened toit, but it's definitely an
essential album that you shouldgo out and listen to.
You can't?
You can't go wrong.
I mean, this is one of my uh.
This this also has, of course.
So it starts.
(23:52):
The album starts off with youngamericans and the last track on
the album is fame.
Jesus christ, what the fucklike.
Could you have better bookendson an album?
Think about that.
Could you have better bookendson an album?
Start off with Young Americans.
You end with fame.
(24:12):
Really Fucking great as that,and it's great.
There's one song that I'm notreally keen on which stops it
from.
It's about a 99% perfect album.
He does this fucking version ofAcross the Universe that
doesn't fit in the album.
It doesn't fit.
(24:34):
This is like something thatshould have been on Aladdin Sane
or doesn't Fit.
It's a horrible cover.
But this is my favorite album,favorite song on the album.
(24:57):
It's called Win.
Tell you, this is a sad.
Like I said, this is where hiscareer just went in a whole
other direction and he neverlooked back.
So that's my third essentialalbum.
(25:17):
All right, now this fourth one.
It Doing this wasn't easy, likethinking of these albums and
trying to put them into aperspective of like essential.
This album turn that off.
(25:42):
This album came out of nowhere.
It really did and it launchedher career.
It's, to me, a perfect album.
Every song on it, from front toback, can be listened to.
It's a great driving album.
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A lot of people she's's onlyknown.
She's really known.
It's Sinead O'Connor.
She's known for.
Nothing compares to me, nothingcompares to you, and you know
that.
But this album the lion and thecobra is an absolute.
It came out in 87.
It's an absolute gem and it itit's that it's irish rock, but
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it's irish rock in a wholedifferent sense.
Like she stood out from thecrowd, she really did, yeah,
with all her her druthers.
Push all that shit aside.
You know, you can judge her allyou want, you know.
But the funny thing is, aftershe died, these fucking pieces
of shit all came out of nowhere.
Like oh, sinead, you were sogreat.
(26:50):
You know.
It's like fuck you, you knowwhat, fuck you.
You shit on her because whatshe tore up, a picture of the
Pope, yeah, america was upset.
You know, get over it.
And they did.
And then all of a sudden she'scrazy and she's bipolar and
she's doing this and people likenobody went to fucking help her
, like she could tell you that.
Well, she did say that.
(27:11):
So you know, the people arelike, oh, sinead, I feel so good
.
Fuck you, you know what.
This is a situation where Ireally truly believe only if
you're a true fan, you, you, youknow what I'm talking about.
It's like bandwagon, you know,if you didn't know anything
about her, and and then she, shedied, she kills herself and
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it's like she was so great yeah,well, she fucking was.
She really was Talented, butcrazier than a sprayed roach
that's the only way I can put it.
But let me see there's somefucking good songs on this.
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Let me see, this is the kickoffsong.
This is such a moody album.
It really is moody.
The production in it is fuckingtop notch and her voice, her
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voice was pure and she can hit afew octaves octave.
(28:49):
Yeah, real moody, moody album,but essentially because she
stood out.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah.
Scott McLean (29:10):
Great album, man.
Let me see it's one of thesesongs that really.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'll remember it.
Scott McLean (29:40):
Yeah, it's just a great album Dublin in a
rainstorm.
Go listen to it.
Go listen to it.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Sitting in the long grass in summer.
Scott McLean (29:49):
The lion and the cobra Keeping warm.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I'll remember it Every restless night.
Scott McLean (30:00):
This is like again , it just puts you in a mood.
That's another reason likealbums like this.
When an album can put you in amood, how fucking powerful is
that right?
All right, yeah, so that's mywhat's that?
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That's my fourth album.
So I have September of my Years.
Frank Sinatra, to Be True,harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
, featuring a young TheodorePendergrass, david Bowie's Young
American, sinead O'Connor, theLion and the Cobra.
That's what four.
All right.
(30:41):
Now the fifth one.
If you know me, you had to knowthat this was coming.
This group had to be in it.
They had to be in one of myessential albums, or I would not
do it justice, but the name ofthe album came out in 85.
So you start, you see thisright, you see Bowie and Teddy
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Howard, melvin and the BlueNotes.
Those albums came out in likethe 70s, 75.
I think they both actually cameout in 75.
Sinatra that album came out inthe 60s.
So I'm kind of building themnow.
This came up into the 80s, youknow, this one came out in 85
(31:29):
and uh, let me see uh, let mesee.
Hmm, let me see something.
Hold on one second, I don'tknow, this didn't come out right
(31:52):
.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So, all right.
Scott McLean (31:54):
Well, let's see, let's go over here and no, how
did that happen?
See, this is what happens whenyou do it live, right?
So, yeah, it's, yeah, it's.
(32:28):
Uh, I don't know why this isdoing this.
My laptop's acting up and Ijust got it back too.
Just got it back, fucking thinguh let me see no, I had it
right, I had it.
Yeah, let's go back over here.
Go back over here.
So this album came out.
(32:50):
It's the smiths.
Meat is murder, meat is murder,meat is murder.
And it's highly regarded.
And the Smiths are just soinfluential.
This is just the.
There's a toss up between thisand the Queen is Dead.
(33:11):
They're both.
All their albums are great, butMeat is Murder is one of those
standout albums.
You know this is the.
Let's see also has a greatalbum cover too.
(33:34):
Can't really see it my camera'snot going to focus on it too
well, plus, the screen on myphone is a little.
But Meat is Murder is the nameof the album.
Oh, I got kicked off ofFacebook.
(33:57):
Huh, let me see something.
Hold on, I was wondering whathappened.
I think I got kicked off ofFacebook.
Let's see your video's blocked.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah Spice wine cemented minds, Son, it's the
Jews jealous of you.
Same old suit since 1962.
Scott McLean (34:25):
No, I should still be on.
I'm watching it right now.
I got kicked off of Facebook.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
See, I'm on.
Scott McLean (34:33):
I'm on Facebook, but they must have dropped me
Because I was wondering whyeverything just stopped, so I'm
going to share it right now.
I'm on Facebook, but they musthave dropped me Because I was
wondering why everything juststopped, so I'm going to share
it right now.
I'm going to reshare this.
See what happens.
This is what happens when youplay music.
Big Ed, todd the Wits, brockenCity got kicked off of Facebook.
Couldn't find the show.
Now I'm live on YouTube, so letme see something.
(34:54):
Yeah, nobody's watching, noface.
I got kicked off.
I got kicked off of Facebook.
Oh, interesting, interesting,but I'm still watching it.
So I don't know what they did.
I don't know what they did.
Let me do something here.
(35:17):
Let me share it and see if itcomes up again, because all of a
sudden, I saw what they did.
Yeah, all of a sudden I saw.
Share it and see if that doesanything, because all of a
sudden, I just saw numbers justdisappear and I was like huh.
(35:38):
I didn't think the show was thatbad.
I think it was that bad, but Idon't know.
Let me, uh, let me try tocomment in on my own, my own
podcast.
Sorry for the interruption, butyou people seem to like when
shit goes bad.
Let me see comment next.
(36:00):
Let's see see if it comes up.
Nope, can't even comment.
Ah, okay, all right, so let'sdo this.
This is live streaming.
(36:25):
People, this is what happens.
Let me go to my channel Share.
No, not that one.
Cancel.
I'm going to fix this.
Fuck them my videos.
(36:48):
Let me see Trying to.
Let me see View all.
Trying to see the view all thisis interesting.
Sorry for the podcast listeners, but I just have this thing
(37:16):
where I get stuck in this.
So I'm live right now.
So'm gonna let me share thisFacebook share and see what
happens over there, see ifpeople pick it up over there.
Let me go over here with thebreak in the action.
This is like I was right.
I was halfway through, really.
So you know what I was itthrough really.
(37:36):
You know what else?
It was that fucking FrankSinatra song.
I bet you.
I knew I played too much of it.
All right, well, here we go.
So I'm going to go back to theshare over there.
Facebook Post it, all right,we'll see what happens.
See if people pick it up on.
Not that it matters, halfway,halfway there, all right,
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pressing on, pressing on, allright.
So that was my number fiveessential album.
Now it's going to get a littlecontroversial because people
aren't going to like this, butagain, I have to cover all the
bases.
I have to cover all the basesand this was an album that
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changed a genre, so to speak.
This album by Public Enemy cameout in 1988.
I remember when it came out Iwas in the Philippines.
This shit just was like yeah,this changed rap actually, and
(38:53):
again, people aren't into it.
But to me this is an essentialalbum because of the impact that
it had, had a big impact.
And let me see what do I wantto pull out this song right here
.
This is the fucking jam righthere yeah I want everybody
(39:25):
another good album cover tooyeah, a ballad behind bars.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Or you could say, real rock from the rock an
unusual place.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
That's a sample Suckers, suckers.
They wanted me for their armyor whatever.
Picture me giving a damn.
I said never.
Scott McLean (39:53):
Here is a land that never gave a damn the name
of the album is.
It Takes a Nation of Millionsto Hold Us Back.
This was a game changer.
Yeah, this was a game changerright here in the rap world.
I gotta get out what thatthought was, for.
They were just some seriousshit and they weren't in there,
(40:17):
you know.
They didn't have to swear, theydidn't have to say bitches and
hoes, they didn't do all thatshit.
They had a message.
They got it across effectivelyand uniquely.
And Public Enemy they'relegends in the rap world anyways
, but when this broke, that wasit.
Then you got this, so this songwas actually a cover with
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Public Enemy.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yo, chuck, these honey drippers are still
frontin' on us.
Show them that we can do this,cause we always knew this.
Ha ha, yeah boy.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Bass, how low can you go?
Death row?
Tell them that we can do this,because we always knew this
Ha-ha.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Yeah, boy Bass, how low can you go their throat?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
What a brother know.
Once again that gives theincredible rhyme animal.
Scott McLean (41:01):
So, if you remember, if you're a metalhead,
anthrax and Public EnemyAnthrax did a version of this
with Public Enemy, bring thenoise, the only listener right
now.
Yeah, well, you know this iswhat happens.
I knew something was going tohappen when I started playing
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these songs too long.
That's all right, it's allright.
It's about the podcast.
Anyways, people get lost inthis, thinking it's about the
live stream.
The live stream is fun, butit's all about the podcast
listeners.
I'm sorry they had to catchthat delay there.
Um, you know, you juggle a livestream and a podcast and these
things happen.
So, yeah, that's my uh sixthalbum.
(41:44):
Or is that my fifth album?
That's one, two, three.
Yeah, that's my sixth album.
Takes a nation of millions tohold us back.
Toby Keith shock, you Fuck.
There is no country on myessential list, that's for damn
sure.
The next one is a very eclecticpick and it's just a great
(42:10):
album and it's just so unique,essential in the sense of you
just got to hear it, you got tolisten to it.
Another moody, very moody albumby nico case, who was the lead
singer of the new pornographers,who had a little bit of uh.
(42:31):
They had a little bit of famein the 90s they had a nice
little run but she left and uh,she went out on her own and she
just has a great, great voice,great style and, uh, like this
(42:54):
song.
Again, it's just a great moody.
Another perfect album, and I'vementioned this album numerous
times.
(43:26):
Nobody wants me to put TobyKeith on the list.
I'm not doing that.
No, I'm not doing that.
So she does a great versionhere.
Doing that?
No, I'm not doing that.
So she does a great versionhere.
An Aretha Franklin coverAmazing, if you could pull off a
(43:47):
cover from an Aretha Franklinsong, you got some shit going on
Running out of fools.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, sing it.
Yeah, running out of food.
Scott McLean (44:20):
Yeah, when you can cover an Aretha Franklin song,
you got your shit going on, man.
I'm just saying that's anotherreason this is an essential
album.
But Nico Case Blacklistedlistedis the name of the album if
you're keeping track.
If not, that's fine.
These are all really reallygood fucking albums.
(44:41):
By the way, I don't, um, Idon't think I picked shit.
Now some people will think thepublic enemy pick was shit, and
a lot of there's people outthere that don't like the smiths
and that's okay.
That's okay.
Like I said, it's my essentiallist, it's not anybody else's.
Uh, you know so, but I suggestI suggest that these are albums
(45:04):
that you might want to justdabble in all.
Next one this is number eight.
I think this is my eighth album.
This is a classic and it's anessential because they were
never better.
This band was never better thanthey were with the Rolling
(45:28):
Stones, than they were with MickTaylor Mick Taylor on guitar
who took over after what's hisname?
died brian jones.
They, they were.
Now they wouldn't.
This, this was their, liketheir fucking launching pad.
When he was with them he, micktaylor, started with get your
(45:49):
yeah, yeahs out.
That was the first full albumhe did.
Sticky, sticky Fingers is thename of the album, the essential
album.
Sticky Fingers, not only one ofthe greatest album covers of
all time, also and I've saidthis in the past the unique
thing about these album covers.
It's a guy, it's a black andwhite guy from the waist down he
has like a thick leather, likea wide leather belt on, and the
(46:10):
album cover itself, the originalalbum cover, had a zipper, like
an actual zipper made into thealbum cover, and when you pull
the zipper down, there's it'sjust a dude's underwear like.
It's like a guy in hisunderwear.
That would, you would see ifyou know, you know, opened his
fly and looked right, uh.
But the thing is it's it'sextremely rare and extremely
(46:33):
hard to find one of these albumsin mint condition, like
absolute mint condition, theoriginal pressings.
Because when they were put out,because of the kind of
three-dimensional aspect of thealbum cover, with the zipper, it
would press, they would come inthese, you know, they put them
(46:54):
in boxes and as they get shipped, they would, you know, these
things would press up againsteach other and the zipper would
leave a dent, sometimes in theback of the album, in front of
it, you know, or it would kindof rub the inside of the the
sleeve, or however it play up.
But it's very hard to find amint condition original pressing
(47:19):
of sticky fingers.
There's been a number ofreissues.
This came out in 1971.
It's been a number of reissuessince then.
But uh, you get an originalpressing.
Which albums like that?
It's hard to get originalpressings and if you do find
them you're gonna pay for them.
But uh, just the anotherperfect album.
(47:43):
Uh, brown sugar, sway, wildhorses, can you hear me knocking
?
You gotta move, bitch.
I got the blues sister,morphine, dead flowers,
moonlight mile.
I mean front to back, top tobottom, left to right, perfect
fucking album.
Also, you know, I mean, come onthis right.
(48:07):
Come on, man, you got this.
Come on man, you got thisFucking some groovy guitars man,
(48:28):
this this this one which is myfavorite song on the album sway
(48:48):
baby sway, sway baby sway.
So that is my eighth essentialalbum, for reasons I probably
don't even have to state.
If you're a Rolling Stones fanor if you're a music fan of the
(49:09):
70s, if you've been around thatlong, if you know, you know
Sticky Fingers is a definiteessential.
I think that would be widelyconsidered an essential album.
Now the next album is I mean,some people would say yes, some
(49:32):
people would say no, some saythere's only a few good tracks
on it.
But the fact that it was a,when this album came out there
was nothing like it.
There was really nothing likeit.
Big Head Toddler with Sprocketsays the Pursuit of Happiness,
love, junk, perfect Album.
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
(49:55):
But the Clash, london Calling,came out in 79.
So you're right at the cusp of.
You know you're breaking into awhole new decade.
You end the decade with thisand with London Calling and a
few years later you come outwith Combat Rock.
I mean, this is again wherethey were at their peak.
And of course you know leadtrack, right, we all know that
(50:24):
one London Calling and this Singit baby.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Yeah, right.
Scott McLean (50:46):
Come on man, come on Right, you got this one right
here.
Great album.
Speaker 4 (51:08):
It's a two album set too.
Scott McLean (51:11):
Spanish bombs.
You got this Right.
I mean, how great, got thisRight?
I mean, how great is thisfucking album?
And it's an essential albumbecause it's a turning point For
them.
They actually this was thealbum, the album that really
launched them.
Get this.
It's insane how many good songssometimes is on one album clamp
(51:47):
down right and then.
So originally, originally, thisnext song was not listed on the
first pressing.
It got thrown on at the lastminute and by the time they
agreed that this was going onthe album the record company had
already sent out, the press hadsent out the cover art and the
(52:07):
albums were ready to be printed.
So the cover art was alreadydone and they were like, well,
well, we don't have that fuckingtrack on the, on the track
listing on the back of the album.
And the class were like, fuckit, put it on anyways.
Hidden track, right, hiddentrack, which is rare.
And it was this, the hiddentrack, the Hidden Track.
(52:38):
So, back in the day, back in theday, if you're not a boomer,
right, even if you're not a GenXer, if you are a Gen Xer, maybe
you do, maybe you don't know.
You know, we'd listen to thesealbums and we didn't have any.
We would stare at the albumcover, we'd read it, we'd
fucking memorize the album cover, right.
And so what was it?
(52:59):
What do you think it was likewhen you were looking at the
album cover and you're like,okay, last song is revolution
rock, right, okay, so, so this,this is kind of how it played
out.
So this is kind of how itplayed out.
So Revolution Rock right andsong ends.
Speaker 4 (53:19):
You're like all right , the Bongo Jazz Speciality.
Scott McLean (53:22):
All right, you're like, that's a good album,
fucking good album.
Speaker 4 (53:26):
You're like what?
Scott McLean (53:27):
Wait, wait, wait.
What Like what the fuck justhappened, right.
What like what the fuck justhappened, right.
Like well, where'd this songcome from?
And it's a fucking good song.
You're like it's a fucking goodsong.
(53:48):
Where'd this come from?
It was like Christmas, it waslike a late Christmas present
and again, it's a fucking greatsong.
It's not like it's like thisokay song.
You think the song's over andthen you start looking, you run
your finger down the.
You're like where it stops atthis, why is this here?
(54:09):
And then you think it's thecoolest thing in the world.
Then you go tell your friendsand probably some of your
friends could give a fuck aboutthe Clash.
They're like, yeah, great.
You're like no, dude, I'mlistening, like because a hidden
track is rare.
It's fucking rare.
They don't like doing that.
Record companies don't do thatshit.
(54:30):
You know, once it became athing, they maybe did it on
purpose at certain times, butthere are very, very few albums
that have hidden tracks on themand if they are, most of the
time it's a mistake and it getsfixed, because the second
pressing of this album has trainin vain as the last song on the
album.
(54:51):
So that's one of those things.
If you go, if you're a recordjunkie, you're a vinyl junkie
and you're out looking and youlook at the.
You go look for a clash album,right, go look for london
calling and see if that, if thelast song on the track is
revolution rock and if that'sthe last song on your london,
(55:12):
that pressing of london callingthat you're looking at, well,
get it, because there's thehidden track is on that one.
You know they only pressed somany of them but it's not worth.
Like I said, nobody's gettingrich off of their record
collection.
That was the thing and you'veheard me say this a number of
times over the last 170 episodesis vinyl became a thing,
(55:37):
probably around it.
It had a big revival somewherearound 2015.
I want to say it started tokind of it caught a little bit
of like oh, vinyl, and then thislittle resurgence happened and
people were like, oh, I have alot of albums and they start
(55:58):
thinking they're really worthsomething.
I always said it's not like afucking a Mickey Mantle rookie
card but you're gonna get, youknow, or a Nolan Ryan rookie
card which was like worth 1,800at one point.
No, they're fucking records.
There's nothing special inthere, it's just a matter.
(56:21):
Of what condition were they in?
And were you using them?
Right, so, were you using them?
No, then what are you going todo with them?
Right, you hoard them.
You're like, oh, I got albums,do you have a turntable?
No, you know.
Do you have a turntable?
No, I, I haven't had aturntable since 19, like you
know, I don't know 83, when I,when I graduated college, and I
(56:43):
got, yeah, because cds camealong, right, and all of a
sudden the 90s cds come alongand you don't listen to your
albums and you think they're notworth.
Then this little thing comes upand boom, here I am, I got
albums, and you know.
But there was a lot of smartpeople that said, oh, scott
listens to albums, I'll send himmy collection.
And I took them and I play them.
(57:04):
And yeah, yeah, and they'redisplayed.
They're not hidden in a closet,in a basement, in an attic.
You know, they're displayed.
People get to touch them andlook at them and look at old
album art and that's, that'sthat's what it is, right, all
right.
So that was my.
Uh, let me see, I have one left.
I have one album left.
(57:25):
You know this is going to takeme right up to an hour.
So I did an hour show.
Good, good and well.
About seven minutes of that wasme trying to figure out fucking
.
Well, I know why facebook tookme down.
It got claimed right away,right away.
But uh, this album right here,this was a tough one.
(57:51):
This was a tough one.
Like the Rolling Stones, likeBrown I mean, I'm sorry, sticky
Fingers.
I originally was going like mypick was Some Girls, because
that, I mean, that album reallylike took off.
That really changed theirdirection.
(58:11):
Also, they deviated from you.
You know, their traditionalkind of really hard bluesy rock
and they they had like miss youon there.
Miss you was kind of a discosong, right, but the whole album
was very raw, very strippeddown, very stripped down.
Some girls was uh, so I, butsticky fingers is the album,
(58:32):
it's the essential album, theircollection.
I think some might say, get youreyes out.
Some might say other things.
Now, if you notice, none ofthese albums are best ofs or
greatest hits.
That's too easy.
That's too easy.
Like I could do a list ofwhat's your favorite, uh, what's
your favorite greatest hits?
I actually think I did anepisode like in episode 20 or
(58:56):
something.
So was that 150 episodes ago?
Maybe I'll do that one again.
Uh, you took my top 10 favorite,uh, uh, best ofs or greatest
hits albums, which is basicallythe band that you like.
Right, it was like the top 10bands that you like.
But this album right here, uh,is it's a banger?
(59:21):
It's a banger and it's it's, uh, this, hmm, did this again.
So it's really hard to pick aLed Zeppelin album.
That's a set like they're allLed Zeppelin 1, led Zeppelin 2.
Now, maybe Physical Graffitijust has they have a lot more
(59:44):
songs and they're more polishedin this version.
But, you know, is every LedZeppelin album an essential
album?
Could I say that?
Is it safe to say?
Right, it's a question, it's aquestion.
So I don't know.
(01:00:04):
I don't know.
But this album, I teed itbetween one and two and I came
up with this one, and it's LedZeppelin, physical Graffiti,
which I think a lot of peoplewidely consider their best album
, and again, it's a two albumset, so there's a lot more to
(01:00:25):
choose from on it.
So, yeah, I got trampledunderfoot.
This one right here.
This is a banger right here.
(01:00:46):
This is a banger of a song.
This got a banger of a song.
This got funk.
It's got a funky sound to it.
This is like way off theirchart.
The Rover Like that could be ahip hop beat.
(01:01:13):
Think of that, that could be ahip hop beat.
Think of that, that could be ahip hop beat.
I could see this being sampled,but they never would.
Just that loop right, thereCould be a whole fucking hip hop
song.
But I think my favorite songOff this album and I always go
(01:01:34):
after, I always choose the notmost popular song because it's a
popular song and I do likethose songs I always look for
something different.
I always look for what's thatstandout song that stands like
it's just and it would be onphysical graffiti.
It would be this On physicalgraffiti.
(01:01:57):
It would be this Just thatbuildup, just that.
Plus, I love synthesizers, Ilove these organs In the light
(01:02:41):
Song.
One side, a disc.
Two, the second album.
Yeah.
So those are my top tenessential albums.
I hope you liked them.
Sorry for the little delay inthe middle of the show.
You know, juggling a livestream and a podcast, it's not
easy.
This shit happens sometimes.
You get these delays and I gotkicked off of my live stream on
(01:03:04):
Facebook.
I think I'm still on YouTube,so there's that, but yeah, so
that's it did my show, I went tochurch this is my church and,
(01:03:26):
uh, I look forward to it everyThursday evening.
It's always good to just getWhatever's going on in your life
, just fucking get in and talkabout music.
It's a beautiful thing,beautiful thing, and I get to do
it Every Thursday night andI've been doing it for 170
(01:03:47):
episodes.
That's fucking amazing 170.
Like you know, the averagepodcast doesn't last more than
six episodes For various reasons.
Yeah, but I never chase themoney on this.
I don't want to chase the moneybecause then it's not fun
(01:04:08):
anymore Because of business, andI don't want to do this as a
business.
You know, because of businessand I don't want to do this as a
business.
You know, I get enoughdownloads and I get enough
people listening where I couldprobably get a sponsor.
I don't want to do that anymore.
I used to do a sponsor on this.
It was a freebie, I gave it tothem for free and uh, it's cause
(01:04:28):
.
I thought, hey, what the hell,I don't care.
But uh, yeah, so thanks forcoming to church.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Bam Bam.
Scott McLean (01:04:46):
Bam, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Hey.
Scott McLean (01:04:52):
Right, it's a good song to go out on.
Well, everybody, thanks forwatching, thanks for listening.
I'm watching half the show.
The other half got shut down,but that's okay.
Thanks for listening.
I appreciate you, I appreciateyour time, I appreciate your
dedication, as I say, my cultfollowing for this podcast, you
(01:05:13):
know, as I always say, if youlike it, share it, subscribe.
If you're on YouTube, tellpeople about it.
I don't know, whatever, after170 episodes, do what you want
with it.
But thanks for listening and,as I always say, doing this show
for you, to quote my favoriteartist, morrissey.
Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
The pleasure always say doing this show for you, to
quote my favorite artist, marzithe pleasure, the privilege is
mine yeah, baby, show it, baby,ooh, we love to show.
Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah, let me show you .
Scott McLean (01:05:50):
Yeah, baby, show it baby.
Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Ooh, let me show you, yeah, all right, everybody,
I'll see you next week.
Scott McLean (01:06:02):
See you next Thursday night.
Hopefully it doesn't get shutdown again.
I just want to finish it withhim In the light I can do that.
That sounds just like him.
All right, everybody, see younext week.
Well, here we are, episode 170.
170 episodes of Milk, cratesand Turntables, yeah, and
tonight I don't know how this isgoing to go.
I think it's just me and I'mgoing to be talking about my, my
(00:36):
10 essential albums thateverybody should listen to
before they go up to that greatturntable in the sky.
So sit back, relax, enjoy mylist of my top 10 essential
albums.
It's pretty eclectic, I gottasay.
I gotta say maybe you'll agree,maybe you'll disagree.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
We'll find out 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
All engines running Liftoff.
We have a liftoff.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The KOFB Studio presents Milk Crates and
Turntables.
A music discussion podcasthosted by Scott McClain.
Now let's talk music.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Enjoy the show.
Scott McLean (01:34):
What's up everybody?
Welcome to the podcast.
What's that Hold on?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I've got a song for you right now called LB's Truth,
and don't you ever forget it.
All right, I won't forget itAll right, this is paid,
sponsored.
Scott McLean (01:48):
Alright, sounds interesting, but you know the
name of the podcast, I'm notgonna say it.
Streaming live right now overeverything, coast to coast, all
around the world.
What do we got here?
(02:12):
I'm down with the get down.
Shit, I'm down with the getdown.
What do we got?
Oh shit, one, two, three, ohshit, oh shit, oh, okay, that
(02:50):
got cut off pretty fast.
Get rid of that.
Picked it somewhere and leftoff.
What, what?
Yeah, this is the laid-backcountry picker.
This is the laid-back countrypicker.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
When old James Brown rolled into town he brought the
funkiest sound and everybody gotdown.
The Stanley Bros went nose tonose.
They played a million shows andkept them on their toes.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Ah shit.
Scott McLean (03:38):
This is some get down music right here.
Start this motherfucker off.
Good yeah, right here, Stopthis motherfucker off.
Good yeah.
Toad to Red Sprocket.
Big Head Toad to Red SprocketSays I'm here entertaining Blah
blah blah.
(03:58):
Yeah Said, I'm down with theget down.
What else we got here?
What, what?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What, what?
When Jimmy H took me to thatplace Up in outer space, I still
see his face.
The motorhead put them all tobed, but, like Lemmy said,
they're all dead.
Scott McLean (04:23):
Yeah, all to bed but, like Lemmy said, they're
all dead.
Yeah, it's the mood I'm intonight.
Yeah, it sounds homemade.
Cause it's raw, this is someraw shit.
Because it's raw, this is someraw shit.
(04:48):
Yeah, that's LB's Truth, liveat the Down Home Grill.
You don't know nothing aboutthat.
You don't know nothing aboutthat.
That's some raw, gritty shitright there.
Yeah, lb's true.
(05:10):
Thank you, my friend jammingtonight.
Yeah, well, uh.
So, like I said, welcome backmy friends to the show that
never ends.
I'm so glad you could attend.
Come inside, come inside again.
We're streaming live overeverything.
Uh, blah, blah, blah.
Same stuff every week, just adifferent topic now.
Speaking of topics, uh, patty,patty, yossi, our number one fan
(05:34):
.
I would say that might insultbig head todd the wet sprocket,
but I don't care.
She said I thought you weredoing underrated singers.
Well, I did too, did too.
But nah, I reserved the right.
I changed it up.
Tonight I'm doing like I saidmy, my, what I think are top 10
(06:00):
essential albums you shouldlisten to before you go to the
big record store in the sky.
And again, this is alwayssubjective.
People are going to say, huh,what?
And you know.
So what is an essential album?
Right?
What's an essential album.
(06:21):
Essential album, basically,let's see what.
Let me see.
You know what.
I'm going to do it this way.
I'm going to see what AI thinksan essential album.
Let's see what AI says.
(06:51):
Essential albums typically onethat has made a significant
impact on music culture,influencing artists, genres and
listeners over time, genres andlisteners over time.
These albums often showcaseartistic innovation, lyrical
depth and musical excellence.
For example, the Beatles, sgtPepper's lonely hot club band,
(07:18):
michael Jackson's thriller,nirvana's Nevermind, are
considered essential because oftheir groundbreaking
contributions to music and theirlasting legacy.
Let me move this over.
Let me get the chat up on theboard here so everybody can see
their chats.
There you go.
The definition can vary basedon let's get that out of here
(07:43):
based on personal taste,cultural background and musical
genre, but the common thread istheir importance to the music
landscape.
So that is an essential album.
So, basically, essential albumscover.
They cover some ground.
It could be what the industryand what the general public
think is essential or what thelistener thinks is essential,
(08:07):
and in this case it's thelistener.
But although some of thesealbums may be widely considered
an essential album, I don't know.
You make the call, though,throughout the show, for the
people that are watching thelive stream.
Now, there's a difference.
There's a difference betweenyour favorite album and an
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essential album.
Your favorite, like thePretenders debut album, is one
of my favorite albums.
I don't think it's an essentialalbum.
I don't think it changedanything album.
I don't think it changedanything.
It's a classic album.
But Essential is and I again, Ihave 10 albums here that are
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totally, pretty much totallydifferent albums.
So my thought process onEssential is something that
covers.
These albums cover a wide range, so are essential albums.
Could they be considered yourdesert island albums?
You know, your 10 desert islandalbums Could be, could be, we
don't know.
It's all up to you.
It's all up to you.
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Marie Martin says Library ofCongress has a lot of them.
They certainly do.
Big Head Todd DeWitt Sprocketsays hey, where's Jack?
And I'm going to say I don'tknow.
I don't know, let me see.
Yeah, so that's what?
Ai, which we, by the way,because of our current president
(09:43):
, which we, by the way, becauseof our current president, the
United States, is going to bethe world leader in AI
technology.
That's very important.
Believe it or not, it's veryimportant.
So let's get ahead of thatcurve.
Now I have a whole that couldbe a whole episode on on the, uh
, the pros and cons of AI.
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Let me see.
Marie Martin says Americana isthe first thing that I think of.
Okay, absolutely, that could behow you consider it an
essential album.
Now, a lot of people might notthink Thriller is an essential
album.
Thriller I think I had ToddWitt's rocket commented.
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In essential albums, you meanlike Don Johnson's heartbeat
they say, listen, if that's inyour collection of essential
albums, I'm all for it.
If you can explain to me whythat's the key.
How do you explain why?
You know it's now the.
Why does it have to be this?
In depth, you know, deep diveinto what makes this an
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essential album.
Again, essential covers, it's,it's.
I think what it boils down to,is what I think you should
listen to.
These are 10 albums that Isuggest that I think are
essential because of the quality, the production, the time it
came out, what was the shiftgoing on at that time?
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And I'll play a couple tracks,at least one track from each
song.
I'll kind of give you a littledabble of what's in there.
Now, you're not going to likesome of these.
I know that already.
I already know You're not goingto like some of these albums
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Just because it's not your thing, because it's not your genre or
your taste.
Like I said, it's my essentialalbums.
What?
I think you should listen to and, being an extremely
well-rounded music listener andI'm big into diversity, is that
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dead now?
Is that word dead too?
I have a very eclectic we'llsay eclectic taste in music.
So that's what I think.
If you were going to listen,like I could give you, you know,
some people could say, oh yeah,essential albums Led Zeppelin 1
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, led Zeppelin 4, you know, youcould just name off 10 Led
Zeppelin or five of those.
Well, that's your choice.
I think it should be spread out.
I think it should be Give you awell-rounded view.
So, with that said, let's jumpin.
And these are not in anyparticular order because
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Essential Albums.
It's not a top 10.
It's a my 10.
There's a difference there also.
So let me line this up firstand, like I said, youtube puts
copyrights on these things now,because I play music, but they
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never take it down.
So that's good.
So far, so good.
I haven't had any copyrightstrikes against my channel and
YouTube I mean Facebook.
I don't even know what they donow.
I don't know what they do.
I don't know what they do.
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So the first album that I'mgoing to say is an essential
album in my list is the 1965album by Frank Sinatra called
September of my Years.
This is a fucking pure perfectalbum.
Now, a perfect album doesn'tnecessarily make it essential.
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Again, I'm going to reallypress that because people are
going to say, oh, that's not, Idon't care.
Some of these are perfectalbums, and a perfect album to
me I've always said this is analbum that you can listen from
the first song to the last song.
Now, remember, we're talkingalbums here Back in the day.
If you had an album most ofthem you're not listening to
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every track, you jump, you haveto get up, move the needle to
the next song, jump over twosongs to get to that song Very
few of us would sit through analbum that we're just not really
into.
You know a quarter of the songs, so yeah.
So September of my years.
It's also an extremely poignantalbum too, because it does
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cover your life.
It covers a young man's life.
It really tells a great story.
The whole album tells a story.
This, though, this is the song.
Now, I don't know about you,but I can relate to this.
I really can.
This might be a song where youthink of your dad.
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You think of your dad back inthose days.
I don't know.
As a young man, I could putmyself in a lot of these, but
the song that I'm taking offthis album is uh, this one
definitely getting a copyrighthit on this.
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It's a fucking perfect song too.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
When I was 17.
Right, it was a very good year,it's amazing it was a very good
year For small town girls andsoft summer nights yeah, I'll
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end up listening to the wholething.
Scott McLean (16:07):
and soft summer nights yeah, I'll end up
listening to the whole thing andI can't.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
We'd hide from the lights.
Scott McLean (16:12):
Yeah, go listen to this album On the village green
.
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
When I was 17.
Scott McLean (16:24):
Let's get into this one.
This is the title cut.
It's the first song in thealbum and it's called September
of my Years.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
One day you turn around and it's summer.
Next day you turn around andit's fall, and the springs and
the winters of a lifetime.
Scott McLean (17:01):
Yeah, essential album, absolute, essential album
.
Go listen, listen to it, takethis list down.
I'll probably list this onfacebook anyways, I'll probably
throw the list and get you know,of course, ridiculed, because
nothing on facebook goes withoutgetting ridiculed, does it?
Yeah, so that's my first album,1965's September of my Years,
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by the late legend you can'teven say great the late legend,
frank Sinatra.
I'll do a 10 to 1, but, like Isaid, it doesn't mean that this
is anything.
I'll just say my second.
I'll say my second album,essential album that I think
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everybody should listen to iscalled, or it's by, and it's
actually the name of the album.
Let me line it up first so I cansegue right into a song.
A, uh, a song.
(18:07):
You gotta find it here.
Here we go.
It's harold melvin and the bluenotes featuring featuring
theodore Theodore Pendergrass,later to be called Teddy
(18:27):
Pendergrass, and the name ofthat album Is To Be True.
Another perfect album HaroldMelvin and the Blue Notes,
featuring Theodore Pendergrass.
The album is called To Be Trueand this is one of the Best
songs on the album.
Here we go.
This is a young TeddyPentegrass, oh my friend.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yes, I have lots of fancy clothes.
Teddy fuck, Damn thatmotherfucker could sing yeah
(19:24):
Essential album.
Scott McLean (19:25):
Moving so fast yo, I didn't even have to worry
about paying my bills.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Something started changing my life started feeling
.
Scott McLean (19:35):
Let's see, get rid of that.
All the things I once had.
Yeah, such a great album, man,and this was again so.
Yeah, such a great album, man,and this was again so.
So what you had, this came outin 75, and what you had was
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Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, were Harold Melvin and the
Blue Notes.
Then they went deep and theygot this lead singer, they got
this young cat named Theodore.
It's not, I mean his voice, Idon't know.
I recently had a kind of aconversation with somebody and
it was like Marvin Gaye or TeddyPentegrast, and you know Marvin
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, they say he's got the perfectvoice.
But I don't know, man, teddy, Idon't know I could lean in
Teddy's direction.
Just that voice, man.
Yeah, so that's my second album.
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I think it's essential Onceagain, harold Melvin and the
Blue Notes featuring TheodorePendergrass, to be true.
Oh, my friend, I'm looking up,I'm looking up.
I mean this is upbeat music too.
This is some Philadelphia musicright there.
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That's some Philadelphia music.
And Harold Melvin and the BlueNotes on their own Were fucking
good too.
But you bring Teddy into themix.
Well then, forget about it then.
Alright, now this album, mythird album on the list, is it's
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actually it is on the list?
Is it's actually it is on thelist of one of my favorite
albums of all time?
I think it's, and you've heardme say this a lot of times.
I think it's David Bowie's bestalbum.
I think it's David Bowie's bestalbum.
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This one came out in 75 also,and it's I'll just I'll just
play the title track.
(22:12):
David Bowie's Young Americangets so overlooked, absolutely
overlooked, absolutelyoverlooked.
It gets overlooked by ZiggyStardust, diamond dogs, aladdin
sane.
But the reason I say this is anessential album also is because
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of the transition that he madefrom glam rock into this
blue-eyed soul type sound and henever went back to glam rock
again, never went back to glamrock again.
Like, never went back to glamrock again.
Like he did it, he peaked at it, he made it, he turned it into
what it was.
You know he was part of thatlittle group of glam rock
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legends T-Rex and a few othersbut when he did Young Americans,
I tell people you've got to golisten to this album again If
you haven't listened to it.
Probably some of you haven'tlistened to it in 50 years.
You know, let me see.
Yeah, so this album's 50 yearsold this year, jesus, so maybe
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40 years you haven't listened toit, but it's definitely an
essential album that you shouldgo out and listen to.
You can't?
You can't go wrong.
I mean, this is one of my uh.
This this also has, of course.
So it starts.
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The album starts off with youngamericans and the last track on
the album is fame.
Jesus christ, what the fucklike.
Could you have better bookendson an album?
Think about that.
Could you have better bookendson an album?
Start off with Young Americans.
You end with fame.
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Really Fucking great as that,and it's great.
There's one song that I'm notreally keen on which stops it
from.
It's about a 99% perfect album.
He does this fucking version ofAcross the Universe that
doesn't fit in the album.
It doesn't fit.
(24:34):
This is like something thatshould have been on Aladdin Sane
or doesn't Fit.
It's a horrible cover.
But this is my favorite album,favorite song on the album.
(24:57):
It's called Win.
Tell you, this is a sad.
Like I said, this is where hiscareer just went in a whole
other direction and he neverlooked back.
So that's my third essentialalbum.
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All right, now this fourth one.
It Doing this wasn't easy, likethinking of these albums and
trying to put them into aperspective of like essential.
This album turn that off.
(25:42):
This album came out of nowhere.
It really did and it launchedher career.
It's, to me, a perfect album.
Every song on it, from front toback, can be listened to.
It's a great driving album.
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A lot of people she's's onlyknown.
She's really known.
It's Sinead O'Connor.
She's known for.
Nothing compares to me, nothingcompares to you, and you know
that.
But this album the lion and thecobra is an absolute.
It came out in 87.
It's an absolute gem and it itit's that it's irish rock, but
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it's irish rock in a wholedifferent sense.
Like she stood out from thecrowd, she really did, yeah,
with all her her druthers.
Push all that shit aside.
You know, you can judge her allyou want, you know.
But the funny thing is, aftershe died, these fucking pieces
of shit all came out of nowhere.
Like oh, sinead, you were sogreat.
(26:50):
You know.
It's like fuck you, you knowwhat, fuck you.
You shit on her because whatshe tore up, a picture of the
Pope, yeah, america was upset.
You know, get over it.
And they did.
And then all of a sudden she'scrazy and she's bipolar and
she's doing this and people likenobody went to fucking help her
, like she could tell you that.
Well, she did say that.
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So you know, the people arelike, oh, sinead, I feel so good
.
Fuck you, you know what.
This is a situation where Ireally truly believe only if
you're a true fan, you, you, youknow what I'm talking about.
It's like bandwagon, you know,if you didn't know anything
about her, and and then she, shedied, she kills herself and
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it's like she was so great yeah,well, she fucking was.
She really was Talented, butcrazier than a sprayed roach
that's the only way I can put it.
But let me see there's somefucking good songs on this.
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Let me see, this is the kickoffsong.
This is such a moody album.
It really is moody.
The production in it is fuckingtop notch and her voice, her
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voice was pure and she can hit afew octaves octave.
(28:49):
Yeah, real moody, moody album,but essentially because she
stood out.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah.
Scott McLean (29:10):
Great album, man.
Let me see it's one of thesesongs that really.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I'll remember it.
Scott McLean (29:40):
Yeah, it's just a great album Dublin in a
rainstorm.
Go listen to it.
Go listen to it.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Sitting in the long grass in summer.
Scott McLean (29:49):
The lion and the cobra Keeping warm.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I'll remember it Every restless night.
Scott McLean (30:00):
This is like again , it just puts you in a mood.
That's another reason likealbums like this.
When an album can put you in amood, how fucking powerful is
that right?
All right, yeah, so that's mywhat's that?
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That's my fourth album.
So I have September of my Years.
Frank Sinatra, to Be True,harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
, featuring a young TheodorePendergrass, david Bowie's Young
American, sinead O'Connor, theLion and the Cobra.
That's what four.
All right.
(30:41):
Now the fifth one.
If you know me, you had to knowthat this was coming.
This group had to be in it.
They had to be in one of myessential albums, or I would not
do it justice, but the name ofthe album came out in 85.
So you start, you see thisright, you see Bowie and Teddy
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Howard, melvin and the BlueNotes.
Those albums came out in likethe 70s, 75.
I think they both actually cameout in 75.
Sinatra that album came out inthe 60s.
So I'm kind of building themnow.
This came up into the 80s, youknow, this one came out in 85
(31:29):
and uh, let me see uh, let mesee.
Hmm, let me see something.
Hold on one second, I don'tknow, this didn't come out right
(31:52):
.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So, all right.
Scott McLean (31:54):
Well, let's see, let's go over here and no, how
did that happen?
See, this is what happens whenyou do it live, right?
So, yeah, it's, yeah, it's.
(32:28):
Uh, I don't know why this isdoing this.
My laptop's acting up and Ijust got it back too.
Just got it back, fucking thinguh let me see no, I had it
right, I had it.
Yeah, let's go back over here.
Go back over here.
So this album came out.
(32:50):
It's the smiths.
Meat is murder, meat is murder,meat is murder.
And it's highly regarded.
And the Smiths are just soinfluential.
This is just the.
There's a toss up between thisand the Queen is Dead.
(33:11):
They're both.
All their albums are great, butMeat is Murder is one of those
standout albums.
You know this is the.
Let's see also has a greatalbum cover too.
(33:34):
Can't really see it my camera'snot going to focus on it too
well, plus, the screen on myphone is a little.
But Meat is Murder is the nameof the album.
Oh, I got kicked off ofFacebook.
(33:57):
Huh, let me see something.
Hold on, I was wondering whathappened.
I think I got kicked off ofFacebook.
Let's see your video's blocked.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah Spice wine cemented minds, Son, it's the
Jews jealous of you.
Same old suit since 1962.
Scott McLean (34:25):
No, I should still be on.
I'm watching it right now.
I got kicked off of Facebook.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
See, I'm on.
Scott McLean (34:33):
I'm on Facebook, but they must have dropped me
Because I was wondering whyeverything just stopped, so I'm
going to share it right now.
I'm on Facebook, but they musthave dropped me Because I was
wondering why everything juststopped, so I'm going to share
it right now.
I'm going to reshare this.
See what happens.
This is what happens when youplay music.
Big Ed, todd the Wits, brockenCity got kicked off of Facebook.
Couldn't find the show.
Now I'm live on YouTube, so letme see something.
(34:54):
Yeah, nobody's watching, noface.
I got kicked off.
I got kicked off of Facebook.
Oh, interesting, interesting,but I'm still watching it.
So I don't know what they did.
I don't know what they did.
Let me do something here.
(35:17):
Let me share it and see if itcomes up again, because all of a
sudden, I saw what they did.
Yeah, all of a sudden I saw.
Share it and see if that doesanything, because all of a
sudden, I just saw numbers justdisappear and I was like huh.
(35:38):
I didn't think the show was thatbad.
I think it was that bad, but Idon't know.
Let me, uh, let me try tocomment in on my own, my own
podcast.
Sorry for the interruption, butyou people seem to like when
shit goes bad.
Let me see comment next.
(36:00):
Let's see see if it comes up.
Nope, can't even comment.
Ah, okay, all right, so let'sdo this.
This is live streaming.
(36:25):
People, this is what happens.
Let me go to my channel Share.
No, not that one.
Cancel.
I'm going to fix this.
Fuck them my videos.
(36:48):
Let me see Trying to.
Let me see View all.
Trying to see the view all thisis interesting.
Sorry for the podcast listeners, but I just have this thing
(37:16):
where I get stuck in this.
So I'm live right now.
So'm gonna let me share thisFacebook share and see what
happens over there, see ifpeople pick it up over there.
Let me go over here with thebreak in the action.
This is like I was right.
I was halfway through, really.
So you know what I was itthrough really.
(37:36):
You know what else?
It was that fucking FrankSinatra song.
I bet you.
I knew I played too much of it.
All right, well, here we go.
So I'm going to go back to theshare over there.
Facebook Post it, all right,we'll see what happens.
See if people pick it up on.
Not that it matters, halfway,halfway there, all right,
(38:03):
pressing on, pressing on, allright.
So that was my number fiveessential album.
Now it's going to get a littlecontroversial because people
aren't going to like this, butagain, I have to cover all the
bases.
I have to cover all the basesand this was an album that
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changed a genre, so to speak.
This album by Public Enemy cameout in 1988.
I remember when it came out Iwas in the Philippines.
This shit just was like yeah,this changed rap actually, and
(38:53):
again, people aren't into it.
But to me this is an essentialalbum because of the impact that
it had, had a big impact.
And let me see what do I wantto pull out this song right here
.
This is the fucking jam righthere yeah I want everybody
(39:25):
another good album cover tooyeah, a ballad behind bars.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Or you could say, real rock from the rock an
unusual place.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
That's a sample Suckers, suckers.
They wanted me for their armyor whatever.
Picture me giving a damn.
I said never.
Scott McLean (39:53):
Here is a land that never gave a damn the name
of the album is.
It Takes a Nation of Millionsto Hold Us Back.
This was a game changer.
Yeah, this was a game changerright here in the rap world.
I gotta get out what thatthought was, for.
They were just some seriousshit and they weren't in there,
(40:17):
you know.
They didn't have to swear, theydidn't have to say bitches and
hoes, they didn't do all thatshit.
They had a message.
They got it across effectivelyand uniquely.
And Public Enemy they'relegends in the rap world anyways
, but when this broke, that wasit.
Then you got this, so this songwas actually a cover with
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Public Enemy.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Yo, chuck, these honey drippers are still
frontin' on us.
Show them that we can do this,cause we always knew this.
Ha ha, yeah boy.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Bass, how low can you go?
Death row?
Tell them that we can do this,because we always knew this
Ha-ha.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Yeah, boy Bass, how low can you go their throat?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
What a brother know.
Once again that gives theincredible rhyme animal.
Scott McLean (41:01):
So, if you remember, if you're a metalhead,
anthrax and Public EnemyAnthrax did a version of this
with Public Enemy, bring thenoise, the only listener right
now.
Yeah, well, you know this iswhat happens.
I knew something was going tohappen when I started playing
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these songs too long.
That's all right, it's allright.
It's about the podcast.
Anyways, people get lost inthis, thinking it's about the
live stream.
The live stream is fun, butit's all about the podcast
listeners.
I'm sorry they had to catchthat delay there.
Um, you know, you juggle a livestream and a podcast and these
things happen.
So, yeah, that's my uh sixthalbum.
(41:44):
Or is that my fifth album?
That's one, two, three.
Yeah, that's my sixth album.
Takes a nation of millions tohold us back.
Toby Keith shock, you Fuck.
There is no country on myessential list, that's for damn
sure.
The next one is a very eclecticpick and it's just a great
(42:10):
album and it's just so unique,essential in the sense of you
just got to hear it, you got tolisten to it.
Another moody, very moody albumby nico case, who was the lead
singer of the new pornographers,who had a little bit of uh.
(42:31):
They had a little bit of famein the 90s they had a nice
little run but she left and uh,she went out on her own and she
just has a great, great voice,great style and, uh, like this
(42:54):
song.
Again, it's just a great moody.
Another perfect album, and I'vementioned this album numerous
times.
(43:26):
Nobody wants me to put TobyKeith on the list.
I'm not doing that.
No, I'm not doing that.
So she does a great versionhere.
Doing that?
No, I'm not doing that.
So she does a great versionhere.
An Aretha Franklin coverAmazing, if you could pull off a
(43:47):
cover from an Aretha Franklinsong, you got some shit going on
Running out of fools.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, sing it.
Yeah, running out of food.
Scott McLean (44:20):
Yeah, when you can cover an Aretha Franklin song,
you got your shit going on, man.
I'm just saying that's anotherreason this is an essential
album.
But Nico Case Blacklistedlistedis the name of the album if
you're keeping track.
If not, that's fine.
These are all really reallygood fucking albums.
(44:41):
By the way, I don't, um, Idon't think I picked shit.
Now some people will think thepublic enemy pick was shit, and
a lot of there's people outthere that don't like the smiths
and that's okay.
That's okay.
Like I said, it's my essentiallist, it's not anybody else's.
Uh, you know so, but I suggestI suggest that these are albums
(45:04):
that you might want to justdabble in all.
Next one this is number eight.
I think this is my eighth album.
This is a classic and it's anessential because they were
never better.
This band was never better thanthey were with the Rolling
(45:28):
Stones, than they were with MickTaylor Mick Taylor on guitar
who took over after what's hisname?
died brian jones.
They, they were.
Now they wouldn't.
This, this was their, liketheir fucking launching pad.
When he was with them he, micktaylor, started with get your
(45:49):
yeah, yeahs out.
That was the first full albumhe did.
Sticky, sticky Fingers is thename of the album, the essential
album.
Sticky Fingers, not only one ofthe greatest album covers of
all time, also and I've saidthis in the past the unique
thing about these album covers.
It's a guy, it's a black andwhite guy from the waist down he
has like a thick leather, likea wide leather belt on, and the
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album cover itself, the originalalbum cover, had a zipper, like
an actual zipper made into thealbum cover, and when you pull
the zipper down, there's it'sjust a dude's underwear like.
It's like a guy in hisunderwear.
That would, you would see ifyou know, you know, opened his
fly and looked right, uh.
But the thing is it's it'sextremely rare and extremely
(46:33):
hard to find one of these albumsin mint condition, like
absolute mint condition, theoriginal pressings.
Because when they were put out,because of the kind of
three-dimensional aspect of thealbum cover, with the zipper, it
would press, they would come inthese, you know, they put them
(46:54):
in boxes and as they get shipped, they would, you know, these
things would press up againsteach other and the zipper would
leave a dent, sometimes in theback of the album, in front of
it, you know, or it would kindof rub the inside of the the
sleeve, or however it play up.
But it's very hard to find amint condition original pressing
(47:19):
of sticky fingers.
There's been a number ofreissues.
This came out in 1971.
It's been a number of reissuessince then.
But uh, you get an originalpressing.
Which albums like that?
It's hard to get originalpressings and if you do find
them you're gonna pay for them.
But uh, just the anotherperfect album.
(47:43):
Uh, brown sugar, sway, wildhorses, can you hear me knocking
?
You gotta move, bitch.
I got the blues sister,morphine, dead flowers,
moonlight mile.
I mean front to back, top tobottom, left to right, perfect
fucking album.
Also, you know, I mean, come onthis right.
(48:07):
Come on, man, you got this.
Come on man, you got thisFucking some groovy guitars man,
(48:28):
this this this one which is myfavorite song on the album sway
(48:48):
baby sway, sway baby sway.
So that is my eighth essentialalbum, for reasons I probably
don't even have to state.
If you're a Rolling Stones fanor if you're a music fan of the
(49:09):
70s, if you've been around thatlong, if you know, you know
Sticky Fingers is a definiteessential.
I think that would be widelyconsidered an essential album.
Now the next album is I mean,some people would say yes, some
(49:32):
people would say no, some saythere's only a few good tracks
on it.
But the fact that it was a,when this album came out there
was nothing like it.
There was really nothing likeit.
Big Head Toddler with Sprocketsays the Pursuit of Happiness,
love, junk, perfect Album.
Yeah, I agree, I agree.
(49:55):
But the Clash, london Calling,came out in 79.
So you're right at the cusp of.
You know you're breaking into awhole new decade.
You end the decade with thisand with London Calling and a
few years later you come outwith Combat Rock.
I mean, this is again wherethey were at their peak.
And of course you know leadtrack, right, we all know that
(50:24):
one London Calling and this Singit baby.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Yeah, right.
Scott McLean (50:46):
Come on man, come on Right, you got this one right
here.
Great album.
Speaker 4 (51:08):
It's a two album set too.
Scott McLean (51:11):
Spanish bombs.
You got this Right.
I mean, how great, got thisRight?
I mean, how great is thisfucking album?
And it's an essential albumbecause it's a turning point For
them.
They actually this was thealbum, the album that really
launched them.
Get this.
It's insane how many good songssometimes is on one album clamp
(51:47):
down right and then.
So originally, originally, thisnext song was not listed on the
first pressing.
It got thrown on at the lastminute and by the time they
agreed that this was going onthe album the record company had
already sent out, the press hadsent out the cover art and the
(52:07):
albums were ready to be printed.
So the cover art was alreadydone and they were like, well,
well, we don't have that fuckingtrack on the, on the track
listing on the back of the album.
And the class were like, fuckit, put it on anyways.
Hidden track, right, hiddentrack, which is rare.
And it was this, the hiddentrack, the Hidden Track.
(52:38):
So, back in the day, back in theday, if you're not a boomer,
right, even if you're not a GenXer, if you are a Gen Xer, maybe
you do, maybe you don't know.
You know, we'd listen to thesealbums and we didn't have any.
We would stare at the albumcover, we'd read it, we'd
fucking memorize the album cover, right.
And so what was it?
(52:59):
What do you think it was likewhen you were looking at the
album cover and you're like,okay, last song is revolution
rock, right, okay, so, so this,this is kind of how it played
out.
So this is kind of how itplayed out.
So Revolution Rock right andsong ends.
Speaker 4 (53:19):
You're like all right , the Bongo Jazz Speciality.
Scott McLean (53:22):
All right, you're like, that's a good album,
fucking good album.
Speaker 4 (53:26):
You're like what?
Scott McLean (53:27):
Wait, wait, wait.
What Like what the fuck justhappened, right.
What like what the fuck justhappened, right.
Like well, where'd this songcome from?
And it's a fucking good song.
You're like it's a fucking goodsong.
(53:48):
Where'd this come from?
It was like Christmas, it waslike a late Christmas present
and again, it's a fucking greatsong.
It's not like it's like thisokay song.
You think the song's over andthen you start looking, you run
your finger down the.
You're like where it stops atthis, why is this here?
(54:09):
And then you think it's thecoolest thing in the world.
Then you go tell your friendsand probably some of your
friends could give a fuck aboutthe Clash.
They're like, yeah, great.
You're like no, dude, I'mlistening, like because a hidden
track is rare.
It's fucking rare.
They don't like doing that.
Record companies don't do thatshit.
(54:30):
You know, once it became athing, they maybe did it on
purpose at certain times, butthere are very, very few albums
that have hidden tracks on themand if they are, most of the
time it's a mistake and it getsfixed, because the second
pressing of this album has trainin vain as the last song on the
album.
(54:51):
So that's one of those things.
If you go, if you're a recordjunkie, you're a vinyl junkie
and you're out looking and youlook at the.
You go look for a clash album,right, go look for london
calling and see if that, if thelast song on the track is
revolution rock and if that'sthe last song on your london,
(55:12):
that pressing of london callingthat you're looking at, well,
get it, because there's thehidden track is on that one.
You know they only pressed somany of them but it's not worth.
Like I said, nobody's gettingrich off of their record
collection.
That was the thing and you'veheard me say this a number of
times over the last 170 episodesis vinyl became a thing,
(55:37):
probably around it.
It had a big revival somewherearound 2015.
I want to say it started tokind of it caught a little bit
of like oh, vinyl, and then thislittle resurgence happened and
people were like, oh, I have alot of albums and they start
(55:58):
thinking they're really worthsomething.
I always said it's not like afucking a Mickey Mantle rookie
card but you're gonna get, youknow, or a Nolan Ryan rookie
card which was like worth 1,800at one point.
No, they're fucking records.
There's nothing special inthere, it's just a matter.
(56:21):
Of what condition were they in?
And were you using them?
Right, so, were you using them?
No, then what are you going todo with them?
Right, you hoard them.
You're like, oh, I got albums,do you have a turntable?
No, you know.
Do you have a turntable?
No, I, I haven't had aturntable since 19, like you
know, I don't know 83, when I,when I graduated college, and I
(56:43):
got, yeah, because cds camealong, right, and all of a
sudden the 90s cds come alongand you don't listen to your
albums and you think they're notworth.
Then this little thing comes upand boom, here I am, I got
albums, and you know.
But there was a lot of smartpeople that said, oh, scott
listens to albums, I'll send himmy collection.
And I took them and I play them.
(57:04):
And yeah, yeah, and they'redisplayed.
They're not hidden in a closet,in a basement, in an attic.
You know, they're displayed.
People get to touch them andlook at them and look at old
album art and that's, that'sthat's what it is, right, all
right.
So that was my.
Uh, let me see, I have one left.
I have one album left.
(57:25):
You know this is going to takeme right up to an hour.
So I did an hour show.
Good, good and well.
About seven minutes of that wasme trying to figure out fucking
.
Well, I know why facebook tookme down.
It got claimed right away,right away.
But uh, this album right here,this was a tough one.
(57:51):
This was a tough one.
Like the Rolling Stones, likeBrown I mean, I'm sorry, sticky
Fingers.
I originally was going like mypick was Some Girls, because
that, I mean, that album reallylike took off.
That really changed theirdirection.
(58:11):
Also, they deviated from you.
You know, their traditionalkind of really hard bluesy rock
and they they had like miss youon there.
Miss you was kind of a discosong, right, but the whole album
was very raw, very strippeddown, very stripped down.
Some girls was uh, so I, butsticky fingers is the album,
(58:32):
it's the essential album, theircollection.
I think some might say, get youreyes out.
Some might say other things.
Now, if you notice, none ofthese albums are best ofs or
greatest hits.
That's too easy.
That's too easy.
Like I could do a list ofwhat's your favorite, uh, what's
your favorite greatest hits?
I actually think I did anepisode like in episode 20 or
(58:56):
something.
So was that 150 episodes ago?
Maybe I'll do that one again.
Uh, you took my top 10 favorite,uh, uh, best ofs or greatest
hits albums, which is basicallythe band that you like.
Right, it was like the top 10bands that you like.
But this album right here, uh,is it's a banger?
(59:21):
It's a banger and it's it's, uh, this, hmm, did this again.
So it's really hard to pick aLed Zeppelin album.
That's a set like they're allLed Zeppelin 1, led Zeppelin 2.
Now, maybe Physical Graffitijust has they have a lot more
(59:44):
songs and they're more polishedin this version.
But, you know, is every LedZeppelin album an essential
album?
Could I say that?
Is it safe to say?
Right, it's a question, it's aquestion.
So I don't know.
(01:00:04):
I don't know.
But this album, I teed itbetween one and two and I came
up with this one, and it's LedZeppelin, physical Graffiti,
which I think a lot of peoplewidely consider their best album
, and again, it's a two albumset, so there's a lot more to
(01:00:25):
choose from on it.
So, yeah, I got trampledunderfoot.
This one right here.
This is a banger right here.
(01:00:46):
This is a banger of a song.
This got a banger of a song.
This got funk.
It's got a funky sound to it.
This is like way off theirchart.
The Rover Like that could be ahip hop beat.
(01:01:13):
Think of that, that could be ahip hop beat.
Think of that, that could be ahip hop beat.
I could see this being sampled,but they never would.
Just that loop right, thereCould be a whole fucking hip hop
song.
But I think my favorite songOff this album and I always go
(01:01:34):
after, I always choose the notmost popular song because it's a
popular song and I do likethose songs I always look for
something different.
I always look for what's thatstandout song that stands like
it's just and it would be onphysical graffiti.
It would be this On physicalgraffiti.
(01:01:57):
It would be this Just thatbuildup, just that.
Plus, I love synthesizers, Ilove these organs In the light
(01:02:41):
Song.
One side, a disc.
Two, the second album.
Yeah.
So those are my top tenessential albums.
I hope you liked them.
Sorry for the little delay inthe middle of the show.
You know, juggling a livestream and a podcast, it's not
easy.
This shit happens sometimes.
You get these delays and I gotkicked off of my live stream on
(01:03:04):
Facebook.
I think I'm still on YouTube,so there's that, but yeah, so
that's it did my show, I went tochurch this is my church and,
(01:03:26):
uh, I look forward to it everyThursday evening.
It's always good to just getWhatever's going on in your life
, just fucking get in and talkabout music.
It's a beautiful thing,beautiful thing, and I get to do
it Every Thursday night andI've been doing it for 170
(01:03:47):
episodes.
That's fucking amazing 170.
Like you know, the averagepodcast doesn't last more than
six episodes For various reasons.
Yeah, but I never chase themoney on this.
I don't want to chase the moneybecause then it's not fun
(01:04:08):
anymore Because of business, andI don't want to do this as a
business.
You know, because of businessand I don't want to do this as a
business.
You know, I get enoughdownloads and I get enough
people listening where I couldprobably get a sponsor.
I don't want to do that anymore.
I used to do a sponsor on this.
It was a freebie, I gave it tothem for free and uh, it's cause
(01:04:28):
.
I thought, hey, what the hell,I don't care.
But uh, yeah, so thanks forcoming to church.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Bam Bam.
Scott McLean (01:04:46):
Bam, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Hey.
Scott McLean (01:04:52):
Right, it's a good song to go out on.
Well, everybody, thanks forwatching, thanks for listening.
I'm watching half the show.
The other half got shut down,but that's okay.
Thanks for listening.
I appreciate you, I appreciateyour time, I appreciate your
dedication, as I say, my cultfollowing for this podcast, you
(01:05:13):
know, as I always say, if youlike it, share it, subscribe.
If you're on YouTube, tellpeople about it.
I don't know, whatever, after170 episodes, do what you want
with it.
But thanks for listening and,as I always say, doing this show
for you, to quote my favoriteartist, morrissey.
Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
The pleasure always say doing this show for you, to
quote my favorite artist, marzithe pleasure, the privilege is
mine yeah, baby, show it, baby,ooh, we love to show.
Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah, let me show you .
Scott McLean (01:05:50):
Yeah, baby, show it baby.
Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Ooh, let me show you, yeah, all right, everybody,
I'll see you next week.
Scott McLean (01:06:02):
See you next Thursday night.
Hopefully it doesn't get shutdown again.
I just want to finish it withhim In the light I can do that.
That sounds just like him.
All right, everybody, see younext week.
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