 popular demand here on The Metal Voice 1982. Oh, we're gonna go back and see our revisit our top 10 albums from back in the day. Back to where it all started. Where were you in the 79 when the band began to break? Right, Saxon, right? So we did a few years and everybody's, you know, we meet people, hey what are you gonna do the other years? We're okay. So here we are with 1982. These are getting harder to these list, Jim. 83, 84, 85. It's a big trouble. Big trouble. We're getting right to the heyday, right to the start here in North America. We can argue all day how it started in Europe or in England. New album. And now it's coming here to North America and we're getting our feet wet. Back in 82, we're starting to see some momentum happening, Jim. So where are you gonna start off with? Number 10 of 1982. Number 10, Creatures of the Night Kiss. An album at the time really didn't didn't really do much with the exception of Love It Loud, right? A war machine. A war machine, but you've got to understand at the time when this album was released, Eric Carr, very low on the radio release release out of the band, but people don't realize it's out of the band. After the great album that I like to call The Elgin. Everything went the hell. So Kiss goes we're gonna return to this hard rock and metal sound. So we're gonna return back to the metal sound and this was like their return even though it didn't really make a dent on the billboard charts, but over the years the kids have all grown up by this point, right? The kids have all grown up and you were a pariah if you like Kiss at this stage. You really wanted to hear I Love It Loud. It was a pretty good song. It was just a great video. So for me, I'm not a huge Kiss fan. I admit it. What's Eric Carr's drumming on this album for you? To me that that is the song Love It Loud. That I Love It Loud is the bottom behind the beat, big power drums. That is the song that defines Eric Carr in the album. And of course War Machine. It's just so many great tracks. A return to hard rock heavy metal for Kiss. And it's the album that is very endeared and loved over the years. It wasn't loved at the time, but over the years people have said man that's a damn good song. Who plays guitar on it? Well it was an adhesive. I mean you got I mean with the exception of the guitar solo you know like Bob Kulick. We just call Bob Kulick whenever we need somebody. But we won't credit him. Alright here we go. So that's number 10 Kiss Creatures of Night. A well-respected hard rock metal album. I'll let you have that one. Nine. Nine here. Okay well you'll let me have this one. That Y&T Black Tiger. Yeah. You know they got some momentum going after years of years slugging the clubs over there in LA with Earth Shaker. Yeah. And now they came, went over to see our friend Chris Tangirides. Maybe you're resting in peace. Yes. And does Black Tiger with some classics that are still played to this very day like forever. And you've got Wins of Change right there. That's all they had to release was just a song Wins of Change. That's all. But no you get Barroom Boogie. Come Hell or High Water. My way or the highway. Alan this is a band that never truly got their respect. They've always been cracking out the albums, cracking out the shows, but they never got that respect. Open fire. They opened for years with that song. And of course the very syrupy and poppy. Don't wanna lose you. Don't wanna break that. You know? Don't wanna lose you. I mean that was Dave. And back in the time what turned me a slightly off about Y&T which I have the utmost respect for today. I know. It's a summertime girl. No it was Dave. Dave was getting a little frustrated and all these bands coming up Motley, Crew, etc. Yeah. Yeah. We're opening for Y&T and all of a sudden Y&T finds themselves opening for these bands that were a year before we're opening for them. And I remember reading a circus or hit parade at the time Dave's like we're the best band in LA. We're the greatest. And I thought it was a little arrogant on his part. It's probably coming out of frustration. Now we've interviewed Dave. Yes. A nicer guy you will never meet. No. I've witnessed them perform live in recent years and they are unbelievable. Towards the end of the 80s they were known as the most underrated band that never made it. Yeah. Right? Because they never achieved the level of excess of many of their peers. Unfortunately. And now I go back and I revisit all those albums and Dave's to this day is still one of the greatest guitar players to come from that era and nobody ever talks about him. Yeah. So not only he's got a great voice, he's an unbelief. So Winds of Change. There you go. And Forever. Those that are two for me and a great album cover. Let's wrap it up there, Alan. We're going to get this list forever. Number nine. No. Number eight. Yeah. Probably. Number eight. Number eight. Triumph. Yeah. Never surrender. Not one of the not their strongest album, the catalog for me, but classic songs on there. And the lights go down. Never surrender. World of fantasy. Never surrender. And they got great lyrics. And that's when this album I really appreciate Gilmore as a vocalist with songs like Battle Cry. He's really falling to his own. You know. And so they got some shows, the songs on there that they played for years. Yeah. And they're still classics to their this day. And the lyrics is like writing on the wall or too much thinking, which was a Reagan era about nuclear war, the threat of nuclear war. You got to put yourself back in the day. This was a real threat with the Cold War between Reagan and Gerberchev at that time. Gerberchev. Yeah. So they really nailed it. Lyrically, you know, what I like about Triumph is they always have uplifting lyrics. They're always positive, you know, fight the good fight. Yeah. And this one, they really Canadian power trio. They tackle some of the issues of the day. So it's interesting to listen to years and decades later. And you know, they're coming out with a documentary. Bangor film is doing a documentary on Triumph. Why? Why? Why? Why? She signed me up. Give us a call. I talk to hours. I can talk days about Triumph. Triumph. Well deserved. Just like why ain't they well deserved. Canadians finally, hey, by the way, they just got into the rock and roll. Something or another. Something here in Canada. Not the Hall of Fame. They're already in the Hall of Fame. That's it, are they? I don't know. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Number seven, you know, here's a bad. Okay, I like talking about that. It's a lot of hidden mistakes. Hey, step right. Pay attention. Step right. Bring out your striper, step right. Because it's bad on black metal. Black metal. Look, here's a band that hit and miss on a lot of albums. The first three albums are monumental. But this album, this album sort of redefined, you know, we'll call it aggressive metal and death metal and black metal. So it's sort of redefined a whole genre. So it's well deserved to have, especially the song, it just the words black metal is sort of the sort of the beginning of it all. Right? So you can't you can't discard them. You have to say that these guys are well deserved in the 1982. Here's my impression, black metal. The production is like the worst ever. The production is like turn that off. Turn that off. I introduced that band by my great friend, our great friend, Stiffrod. Stiffrod. So back in the day, I could just not lift a needle, put that over there. That's right. But but love them and hate them. They spawned. Spawned. Thousands of other bands. Apparently. With bad production. Many, many people like that a lot more than I did. Okay, there we go. Let's leave it at that. All right. So number number, no, we know we did seven or number. I got your number six, Vandenberg. Thanks for letting me put that one on. No problem. The first out. It's very scientific by the way. Yeah, this is you know, the European Van Halen, as far as I'm concerned, you got a great guitar player, great drummer. The vocalist is not quite as charismatic as Mr. Roth. But great songs from start to finish plus a great ballad burning heart. Yeah, the strongest album by far by far. Yeah. The other ones were much too commercial for me. I barely gave them a listen heading toward the storm and alibi. But this album, I actually own it twice on vinyl. This is one of the few that I actually own twice. Because I was scared of wearing the grooves out on the first one. So I bought a second copy. Justin did. That's how much I like this album. And thanks to my good friend Mark, who bought it just based on that great logo on the front cover. Yeah, that's the only reason he bought it. In fact, that's the only reason where he bought Black Tiger too, because he loves Galvenko. He loved that one covers that guy. Anyway, he introduced us and great, great album. I listened to to this day. It's one of the top 10 that if I was stuck on an island somewhere, I'd need that with me. Yeah, it's good. It's a good choice. Number five are buddies. Anvil, metal on metal. You think they actually took a manhole cover with the hammer. We're hitting the manhole cover. That's what that sound is. Good old Anvil, guys. Another show we're talking about Anvil, but rightly so. A lot of people think that their genre defining their career began and ended with this album. Wrong. Right? I mean, there's still there's got a new album coming out. We've got an interview. That's it. The name has not been released still top secret. But they told us we know what it is. And we're feeling throwing the key away. We know what the label and metal on metal. Jim, for me, my friend, Craig, says you got to listen to this and it's like okay, then you got Madra. Talking about speed metal. This is the bass you were talking about Venom. How many people were influenced by this? You know the first song that I like the best of this is actually a song called Stop Me. Scenery. Me too. Then Rob keeps the bass going. Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner. That's all we have to say. What else? It's everything you need to know about this album has been said and done ever since the DVD came out. Yeah. And it was a it was a genre changes for lots of people. Yeah. Yeah. And here we go. And you think about it. 1982. This is like before Metallica, right? Before Metallica. This was before the Exciters and the Metallica and all that speed metal. This was sort of you had New Wave of British Heavy Metal. You had Anvil and then you had Speed of the Flash. But don't forget, this is their second album. Hard and heavy. Hard and heavy. That's right. Hard and heavy. Leanswoods, you know the cover Pain in Black. More towards the hard rock. They were developing their sound. It was leaning more towards the the heavy heavy stuff which was you know unknown here in in North America. Yeah. And then metal and metal was right and even Lips was saying well I don't want to do a spoiler alert here but Lips was saying hey they were opening for our maiden. They go we got a song called 666. Well what was that? Oh yes. What was maiden? What was maiden making run it up? The number of the beast. So yeah it got overshadowed. Right. So it just goes shows how there's a synchronicity, how people it was starting to come together, right. All these influences out of the 70s and punk rock. It was formed this new thing and Anvil. Canada's own Anvil was there at the forefront. But it's a shame because usually the guys at the forefront usually get less credit than the guys right after, right. So like the maidens. So because they were so ahead of their time you know they usually say people ahead of time. It's never get that as much success. But back then Anvil was pretty big. Saw them and open up for maiden. People were going well. They won over that crowd. They opened for Aerosmith. They won over the crowd. They were like on fire and I mean they converted so many maiden fans that night and it was it was truly they're still a great band and back then they were a great band. They've always been a great band. They're still playing on a good show. All right number four. All right Alan here we go. Number four. You ready for this? All right here we go. Number four. Accept. Restless and wild. Restless and wild. Game changer Jim. Game changer. High knee high no high na na na. Scream double bass drum speed metal. There you go. There you go. And you know you got these neon knights. Neon knights. Neon knights. And princess. Princess. Okay but then you got some leftovers from the earlier for me like Flash Rocking Man. Flash Rocking Man. Don't go stealing my solo way leads more to the previous stuff. Yeah. Whereas you know Restless and Wild. What else we got here? Dita. Dita producer. A little more. A hint of the pack. I would say this is more of their a little more of a raw sounding album compared to like the newer or the you know the the newer albums. And a year later. But it fit in well that's Rossi. Shake your heads. I mean that's what they're talking about right and you know Denim and Leather. Saxon was talking about the crowds outside it. And these guys talk shake your heads what they're seeing and they were part of that movement as well. Princess of the dog. You know. Yeah. Great great. Yuto's voice was a you know. Screamer on this one. Screamer. It was a it was a great album and the game changer like you said. Game changer. We we I bought that album first out of our gang. We were religiously going out six or seven of us buying four or five albums a week right. One quarter a week putting it away. I put that on and people were like what the hell's that right. And then then everybody became known as the Heidi Heido album right. Heidi Heido guys. And and I mean by the time you know that year was over you know a hundred people knew that album. Yeah. Because it was so catchy. So there we go. Great album. Our buddies had except. All right. Number three. I mean to me this is another. Number three already. Number three. This this is to me this is a career defining album by the Scorpions. I'm going to cheat. Blackout. Blackout. Blackout. Blackout. Blackout. For me. I know your thoughts on this. No one like you. No one like you. This is when they've hit American North American mainstream. They hit it hard. They hit it hard. They're building. They're building right. They they got on to magnetism. But this is you know. Yeah. Mercury and they started and they're the animal magnetism. The zoo. Okay. Oh yeah. We got some radio play there and now we got to black. You know what people forget this. Don Dawkins was almost a singer. That's right. So there was a clown. Yeah. Clows. Clows. Money. Rhymes with money. Has the vocal the famous vocal notes. Michael Starr. Yeah. Pretty sexy. Michael Starr. Still panther just spoke about vocal notes. Didn't know if he was going to be out. He had like a dog caller and he was getting zapped. He didn't even know if he was going to be able to. So Don Dawkins and I mean I always wanted all the basic tracks. Where are these tracks. Let's hear these tracks. We use them for backing vocals. We asked Mattias about this. He has jobs. Yeah. We go where are these tracks. I don't know. Nobody knows. Nobody knows where these don dogs are. Clows is back and we're happy. So put that away. But anyways. Thank you. Jim you know for me I bought that album the same time as and I'm going to cheat here. I'm sneaking in another one. Coney Hatch debut album. Coney Hatch 1982. Okay. I know what you're both at the same time. I know you don't like to sound because it's repetition. I'm dying to lie. You're dying to lie. He's dying to lie. I can't live without you. Can't live can't live without you. But despite the way it was out there. That's kind of like the zoo. That's about it. But when the walls came falling that was the last song. Smoke. When the smoke. When the smoke. When the smoke. When the smoke is going down. I can't remember. Anyway. Great closer. Great closer. We don't know what it's called but great closer. Bottom line is for me this is that my favorite Scorpions album because this is their metal album. This is their hard rock and pound in metal and this was an explosion and break from the friggin from the the forks and the eyes to the glass breaking. This is everything. It sets the tone for the whole album and to me this works. Blackout. The and it still is my favorite album. Blackout. Really? I really had to play it. It's the one that got there. North American door jam. All right. Here we go. Number two. Number two. This is like a no brainer. This is like a no brainer. No brainer. Judas Priest. Scream of Revengeance. Scream of Revengeance. Wow. You know what? This was my introduction to Judas Priest. 1982. We went back. We bought the Defenders of Faith and you know like we did then we went about about the back catalog. Right? If Martin Popov if you were a true Judas Priest fan with Martin Popov like him this is where they turned off and said I'm not listening to Judas Priest anywhere. Yeah. We were introduced to Judas Priest in this album saying oh my gosh greatest album of all time. This is unbelievable. Right? From the devil's child. Oh my god. Riding the wind. Yeah. Yeah. Oh riding around the wind. It's not my favorite Judas Priest album. That would be the one after but this is a monumental album. You're talking about a game changer here in North America. Yeah. You could not go anywhere without here. You've got another thing coming which was we need another song. One of those famous we need another song. Well I got this thing that goes down. Right. And look at it. Off the charts. Strange enough that was so on. It didn't fit on the album in a sense right because the rest of the album was sort of more harder. Devil's Child. But it's a great song. You bring me pain but you give me pleasure. Right. Great. Monumental. Probably one of their biggest albums today. Most loved albums today. Beautiful album cover. The Hellion. Hellion. And I gotta say that is the best. Like there's a lot of intros out there. Two songs right. That is to Electric Eye. That is the best. The Hellion going to Electric Eye is the best intro moving into the song. It just sets the whole mood and that is probably just a phenomenal song. You listen to Electric Eye and he It's got that Ozzy. He starts with the vocals. Like a machine gun. And he's singing high. Who is this? What is this? Blowing your mind. There you go boys and girls. 82 introduction to Judas Priest for most of North America. Thanks to you've got another thing coming. And unfortunately a lot of the more Judas Priest traditionalists might have switched off. They were very disappointed with Point of Entry and they weren't impressed with this comeback. So there you go. It might have been the the breaker for Judas Priest which we're saying number two album of the year. Or it might have been that's the last nail in the coffin for Judas Priest. That started with British Steel and ended with Scrooge for vengeance. Let's do this Alison. Number one. Oh here we go. This is without a doubt. No big surprise. This is you can't not put this as number one. I made it the number on the beast. Can it like right off writing the writing you know killers is going up there building up that the grounds while Bruce Dickinson the human air raid sirens first album with the boys. With the exception of Clive Burr. Clive Burr is still playing. He's still with the guys playing those unbelievable beats and run to the hills. Is that Vincent Price? Wait a second that's a clone but whoa to you. Everything. For me Children of the Dam was an early highlight. And he said that it's supposed to be similar to Children of the Sea. That's kind of what the prisoner. The prisoner. They brought back an old Adrian Smith song from his previous band in 22 Acacia Avenue. Yes. Shout out to Harley. Tell him my name. You might even get it for free. And then of course run to the course run to the hills which played that whole summer. A whole estate was you couldn't go anywhere without hearing that song. And it's funny because Judas Priest was they had that brief moment when Sabbath kind of you know and Zeppelin because of the death and and then Judas Priest started coming up and then they were made and quickly surpassed and they had a very short time at the top Judas Priest because Maiden came along with this and then then it was Maiden for the rest of the eight. It was unbelievable. And you know what 15 million albums sold worldwide probably even more than that. This was this was broke in every country. It wasn't just North America. It was like global. This was like on a global scale. You know like you said you saw them do this tour. It was a more smaller sheds. Yeah. And then this album allowed them to do peace of mind at the bigger arenas and they were a true headliner by then. Yeah. Four albums in. Yeah. But this is the one that broke them in North America. First one with Bruce. And like I said this is the one I'm you know we were guys that went down. Okay you buy that one I'll kind of tape it from you. You know you're not supposed to do that. And then but this Maiden everybody wanted Maiden. There was nobody who weren't taping it is or boring a copy from your friend. Yeah. This was I but that's my copy I own that. It's your own. It's the friggin' artwork. Eddie was a big part of that. That's it. Eddie was a big part of that. There you have it. Top 10 metal albums of 1982. Stay tuned for 1983.