latentsea47 minutes ago

I didn’t like the cover of the Zeppelin crashing and burning on that first Led Zeppelin album so I never listened to it. I’m just not into that type of thing... Who spells lead like that? So unrealistic.

Jad Scout47 minutes ago

If he listened to the last song till the end he would be blown out by the ending ...

desert lobster48 minutes ago

!Crap music!

Ron Sterud52 minutes ago

I love your list. I can clearly see the influences. Great compilation. Missing for me would be stranglehold, chuck berry, and more Clapton. I really enjoyed your list.

cgraugaard54 minutes ago

Always on the Run

Scott T56 minutes ago

OMG - yes Gish!

David GooseyHour ago

Super locrian played as arpeggios sounds bitter sweet.

Robert HenricksonHour ago

Michael Schenker...

Michael CameronHour ago

Ricks borrwed heavily fro the original The original is b etter than all 3 though Good bit of fun thouugh

James LeeHour ago

The fall of the Berlin Wall, The Gulf War and all these albums in 91 and hip hop and we all recorded mix tapes from the radio on blank cassettes than LA Riots. That small three or four year era from 89 to 92 was interesting

Ad Hoccer's WingsHour ago

Snarky Puppy, Okvsho, Igorrr, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Tool, Meshuggah, Woongi, Leprous (especially the older stuff), etc. smaller and bigger bands - they're not dead, they're just not mainstream anymore (most of them). They've moved to USlikes and Bandcamp and elsewhere since the radio is what it is. But why is modern radio the way it is? Maybe people nowadays don't invest their brain cells to listening to music; instead they want relaxation, and simple music. Maybe people of today are overwhelmed by the amount of "stuff" so they want simple entertainment as a counterbalance

Steve LuebHour ago

In the Fall of '91, I saw Candlebox, The 4 Horsemen, Alice N Chains, Stu Hamm & Michael Bruce Band in Phoenix during their 1st South by Southwest Showcase. The 4 Horsemen & Candlebox were heads & shoulders above everyone. In spring of '91 the record company stopped all support for the 4 Horsemen. These Guys were IT! I saw their last show in Houston at Backstage. They were the Raw Emotion of what a Real Rock Band Should Be...

The DriveHour ago

Was waiting for "From the begining.".. ELP

Brishear.70Hour ago

They both sound like garbage to me

Toby TownrowHour ago

Sounds like a Baba O’Reilly to me.

96NismoZHour ago

thumbs down for all the ads

John AdorjanHour ago

There is only one 1 for me ; David Gilmour on Kate Bush’s “Love and Anger”.

MOYLATOID VideosHour ago

Thanks Rick. I am not versed in Joe’s music. He is a fun interviewee, very open, with a vast knowledge of the business and a crushing self criticism. Wicked fun. We can see the kid in the candy store in your face all through this post. Priceless. Cheers!

Chad HargisHour ago

Awesome!!! Best video ever!

Chris RoweHour ago

Gotta watch Steve Terreberry how to be Billie eilish

Limit Bass FishingHour ago

While not on this list, one of the greatest modern guitarists was born this decade. Brian Haner Jr. (born July 7, 1981), better known by his stage name...Synyster Gates, of Avenged Sevenfold.

Pedro Vallejo OviedoHour ago

Any of Iron Maiden.

Piero GrazianiHour ago

Che cagata pazzesca....

Jiii PiiiHour ago

hope john mayer next 🙂

The Hessmo ShowHour ago

Achtung Baby is the best album of that year. Ground Breaking.

ebsimanHour ago

Dude.... I’m 68 and play bass with a cars tribute band.... The Stolen Cars, out of northern CA. You hit all of the little nuances of the song that makes it so enjoyable to play. You nailed it.

Toby TownrowHour ago

Not enough of a mention in the comments about how influential Faith No More were to the scene. Huge.

L LHour ago

Could you do a top 10 review of this years Triple J’s hottest 100? It’s on the 23rd of Jan, this year & it the largest music poll in the world for best songs of previous year. Not so mainstream either.

Brad ArdHour ago

This is whining.

Yvonne DivaHour ago

That is a great effin' song! Classic!

Bob DobalinaHour ago

Just waiting for John Bonham to come slammin' in with his sledgehapper drumsticks.

Ad Hoccer's WingsHour ago

"Smashing pumpkins right" is one of my favourite bands

Mitchell WeinerHour ago

I would love to know,after seeing this video,what year in music was the best in your opinion. You’ve mentioned 1978 and 1991 being breakout years. But,I’m curious to get your take on the ultimate year in music,according to you!

Bob DobalinaHour ago

This album WAS my junior year of high school. May it endure forever. Rock on 70s!

James LeeHour ago

This is kind of a brutal comment but I have to give it to Cobain, he was legitimate, he LITERALLY rather kill himself than sell out. I was 9 in 91

Bob DobalinaHour ago

"Oh, that song was made on a laptop". . . . And it shows. I'll take Led Zeppelin any day. I'll take a song made buy four dudes from England , over a laptop any day.

MrEmbangweniHour ago

I remember that I had a very loud stereo that fall, and the GnR UYI I&II blasted alot. And then a couple of months later, around christmas, on a road trip for a ski camp somebody had the Nirvana casette, and that was my introduction to that. It was a time with some great music, for sure

DullaHour ago

plugin versions of amps, is making those tones accessible to people like me, who literally live in an appartment that have a bedroom that is literally 4m x 3m (im not exaggerating, i measured it) and not only do i not have money to buy vox ac30, or a fender amp or whatever which i really want, but i still wanna record music without annoying my neighbors or even practice, so plugins being accessible, kempers, although i didnt really look up on the topic, i know that its a midway of amps and plugins, not fully digital, and not fully amps, and i feel like the next thing for kempers, is to get it implemented digitally or maybe get the technology to work more intuitively and not make it so hard and time consuming to let it work the way it should, amps will never die, but you cant say that everyone likes to take their expensive heavy amps, to shows, and to studios every week, its just inconvenient.

Elizabeth HazelHour ago

As I'm playing catch-up with your "What Makes this Song Great" videos, the sheer sophistication of this Rush song (melodic, harmonic, rhythmic) makes me wonder - why the hell would I be willing to dumb down and listen to contemporary pop songs with 4 chords and a drummer in a can? We grew up with the very best, most amazing music possible. I refuse to apologize for keeping my musical standards high. It's one thing to sell crap pop to 14 year olds, but where the heck is the awesome stuff for mature people who like great new music? (OK, there's some out there, but it's definitely not mainstream)

Hernan UgarteHour ago

I have to say you did a master class and show how beautiful music is ... thanks

Migs RamirezHour ago

The Smashing Pumpkins’s Gish was also released on 1991 (May 1991) which was also then a groundbreaking album.

Pat MeyerHour ago

Yup... people listening to pop and here I am blasting Skater Polly and King Giz records :P

jay007djHour ago

Nice boxes though :)

JoeDocMusicHour ago

The Geezer bass MAKES it! Thanks for that Rick :D

DullaHour ago

i want more of these, just you three, talking about one topic

Ai ViraHour ago

I don’t know why but I never like Grunge music or period Grunge except RHCP !

PTM ProductionsHour ago

The ending riff of the Frampton solo is spot on! Fun video, great job by all the players.

Meditation MayhamHour ago

This is very similar to Rappers who can rap fast. Are you capable of slowing down?

Canadian CommieHour ago

god dammit they snuck the lick in there

TerryCollins_TCPHour ago

This should of been the list... #1: Live Forever - Oasis #2: Supersonic - Oasis #3: Listen Up- Oasis #4: Bring It On Down - Oasis #5: Cloudburst - Oasis #6: Stay Young - Oasis #7: Flashback - Oasis #8: Fuckin' in the Bushes - Oasis #9: Go let it Out - Oasis #10: Who Feels Love - Oasis #11: Where Did It All Go Wrong - Oasis #12: Turn Up The Sun - Oasis #13: The Turning - Oasis #14: To Be Where There's Life - Oasis #15: The Nature of Reality - Oasis #16 to 20: Live Forever - Oasis Biblical. Your Welcome - LG

KC BondurantHour ago

I was 20 that year. I remember being stuck in the 80s with more new age and people like Enya or Clannad and Tangerine Dream. Resistant to what I called heavy metal I refused to give any other genre a chance. Not wanting to venture out from my comfort zone until I went to a lazer show in NYC back in 93' that showcased that music. Wow was I blown away. Couldn't avoid it anymore and went on a spree of collecting the 'alternative' music. I started collecting albums from Silver Chair to Seven Mary Three, to Bush, Soundgarden, (accidentally purchased Savage Garden album I was ordering so fast without even paying attention) . Had all the Stone Temple Pilots and Alice in Chains plus the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins albums. Bought them all. You name it... Metallica, Our Lady Peace, Sevendust, Atreyu, Korn, Type O Negative, Red Hot Chilly Peppers. (a lot of these bands aren't considered 'alternative' but I mention them anyway) I was covering the more popular songs of these bands in the South West region of Virginia in the late 90's to early 2000's. I was hooked and still hooked to this day. What happened? Why did such a great thing die. The movie 'This is 40' kind of touched on the death of alternative rock and it depressed me.

John JohnHour ago

Lol!! none of it would i waste a moment listening to, when there is just so much better music, past and present in all genre's to liten to. It just sounds like cheap manufactured dead/fake 'music/muzak?'. In a word 'SCHLOK'.

buk kukHour ago

So much fusss about primitive 'Soda-commercial' .. ?!? .. -) .. Fleetwoods needs more money ? Or what ? .. Idiocracy is here .. -) ..

mtnbikerva1Hour ago

I have most of Joe Bonamassa albums. And I enjoy them. I also enjoy bluegrass, punk, new wave, all rock & R&B mostly all before the early 2000, melodic jazz, Country Western.

Toby TownrowHour ago

Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 are terrible, awful records. Guns and Roses died as soon as Izzy left. Someone said at the time that they’d turned from being the Sex Pistols into the Rolling Stones, and I thought it was bang on the money. All the others in that group are brilliant.

Die Zwei ZockenHour ago

I would put hole hearted on this list by extreme

mike kohneHour ago

incubation....this is what allowed the grunge scene to nurture bands and create following...fast forward to now, everything happens instantly....

Malcolm OHour ago

you've made the big time! there were ads every five minutes during this video.

The InfidelHour ago

I was 21 in '91 and from the U.K,whilst everyone around me was listening to the likes of Oasis i was heavily into Nirvana,Pearl Jam and Soundgarden,in fact i still am,a golden age.

larriveemanHour ago

live sweet jane off the rock and roll animal album

Snacker FlappinHour ago

Chris Cornell is no doubt the greatest singer anyone will ever hear.

fuck uHour ago

u the best man

Christian SigfredHour ago

black dog?

NeilHolmes72Hour ago

My sophomore year of college, damn, what a year!

Papa JohnHour ago

Rick, you should really know better that a good pop song is more than just some kind of chord progression. This is all copy and paste music. Thank god it does not bother at all.

buk kukHour ago

Autotune playlist .. wow .. These pop-stars know their music s..cks .. so they try to be more .. 'indy' .. and 'jazzzy' .. -) .. Yeah .. all that 'big-star-artists' wannabees are gona be rememberd in music-history as modern .. Led Zeppelin or .. sth .. !?! .. -) ...

Steve RagoHour ago

I like your analysis of songs/music. I find it very interesting. Keep it up Rick!

Colin TrendHour ago

I was 17 years old in 1991. I obviously didn't realise what a privilege it was to be that age at that time and be able to experience this. Now at 46 years old, I definitely do.

Yoshikage KiraHour ago

Plot twist: he was looking at flash cards the whole time! 🤯

Night_Fiend6Hour ago

Nothing really inspiring. Pop music was better in the 80s in that while there was a lot of bad stuff there was still quite a bit of good stuff. Good music is still being made it just isn't on the pop charts.

Lorenzo BHour ago

Does the 2nd sound like ACDC's "You shook me all night long" only to me?

Casey HughesHour ago

We have a 99x here in East Texas also. The difference is it plays only classic rock that was a hit. They only play 2 or 3 songs from maybe a hundred bands, of course y'all already know which ones. The same songs they played 20 years ago. Plus every commercial is cashing in on the covid19 "we're in this together" line.

Elizabeth HazelHour ago

Rick, honey, if you're a 1962 baby, you're NOT a Boomer - you're part of Generation Jones. It gets overlooked but it is a distinct and unique demographic generation (1958 to maybe 1972) followed by Gen X. I think the phrase you were hunting for is "Perfection is the hobgoblin of small minds," chopped down from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." As you pointed out, contemporary pop is harmonically bland and over-produced. A listener can't tell if a singer can actually singer or not! Having studied Wiki's "Top Selling Female Artists" list, I decided the denizens of the list are split between top selling "performers" who rely a lot of choreography, catchy hooks and canned studio noise, versus "chanteuses", women who can actually SING and don't need to pimp lame-ass hooks in scanty clothing. Don't get me wrong, I like Rihanna and Taylor Swift well enough, but can they actually SING? Don't know, can't tell. And do their production companies actually let them choose repertoire that showcases their talent, or are the songs that get produced solely and entirely dedicated to what will turn a buck? I'm sure you know more about that than I do, but the range of singers' repertoires seems to be skinnier than a tobacco lobbyists conscience these days.

BenjaminGesselHour ago

Wow Rick, you're pretty complementary here.... I'm quite a bit less forgiving than you are with these "songs"...

Leif-Ulrich NeuländerHour ago

"F**k me til the daylight", DISCUSTING!!!!😤😤😡

Raphael PecoraroHour ago

I love when you do this pls keep doing this. I feel entertained in a way like I can somewhat relate. I'm a teenager born in this generation and I don't like music today, I listen to rock n roll and which I love. I thinks its very cool to see and be curious of whats up with the update of music these days. And with that, your personality and ideas are splendid. They surely are agreeable and they're very kind and relatable. Thank you rick and take care! Peace~ -RP

Luther NolanHour ago

It was such a fun time! So many concerts to go to! I listen to just about everything. I was like a kid in a candy store at 20 yrs old!

Peter PavlonisHour ago

No musician can deny that, that is some of the greatest music in history.

Kristján SigurleifssonHour ago

It would be interesting to hear your opinion on why you think that the songs that have nothing special to them still make it to the charts. I so agree on nr.5, not interesting arrangement and the composition is poor, still nr.5....why? is it money behind the artist or charm/persona?