The Hudson Valley Squares: Favorite & Least Favorite Title Tracks

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Join the Hudson Valley Squares as they discuss some of their favorite & least favorite title songs.
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  1. Best:
    Rock And Roll – Motörhead
    Overkill – Motörhead
    Iron Fist – Motörhead

    Worst:
    Invisible Touch – Genesis
    Generation Swine – Motley Crue
    Brothers Of The Road – Allman Brothers Band

    Honorable mentions:
    Toys In The Attic – Aerosmith
    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
    Back Where It All Begins – Allman Brothers Band (Where It All Begins album)

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  3. Great picks, gents! aside of the obvious:
    Favorites: DIO – "Lock Up The Wolves"; Magnum – "Lost on The Road to Eternity"; Ten – "The Robe"
    HM: Deep Purple – "The Battle Rages On"; Thin Lizzy – "Thunder and Lightning"
    Least Favorites: Alice Cooper – "Trash"; Heart – "Bad Animals"; Whitesnake – "Slip of The Tongue"
    Thanks for the show 🍺🤘!!

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  6. The first three that I thought of:
    Bal-Sagoth – Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule
    Gamma Ray – Land Of The Free
    Luca Turilli – Kings Of The Nordic Twilight (only "King" for the album title, but whatever)

    I can't think of any bad ones that weren't mentioned, at least not for good albums.

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  9. Hate to say it, but Love Gun came immediately to mind as a title track I do NOT like…or least not much. I know it’s a staple, but to me, there’s not much to the chord progression, and the solo always reminds me of a guitar scale exercise my instructor used to refer to as “ladders.”

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  10. Great show as ever gents!
    Faves: Hawkwind "Quark Strangeness and Charm" ; Black Sabbath "Born Again" ; Groundhogs "Thank Christ For The Bomb"
    Least Faves: Status Quo "In The Army Now" ; Queen " A Kind of Magic" ; Pink Floyd "The Final Cut"

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  11. Favorites
    1. UFO – Lights Out
    2. Aerosmith – Toys in the attic
    3. The Cars – Candy O
    Least Favorites
    1. Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengeance
    2. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
    3. Kiss – Lick it up

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  12. Doesn't seem like this one is solely focused on hard rock/metal, so…

    Megadeth – "Rust in Peace…" and "Killing Is My Business…"
    Tool – "Lateralus"
    Kiss – "Psycho Circus"
    The Beatles – "Please Please Me"
    Funkadelic – "Free Your Mind…"
    Sly & The Family Stone – "Stand!"
    Bob Dylan – " The Times They Are A-Changin' "
    The Clash – "London Calling"
    Joe Jackson – "Look Sharp!"

    Those are just some of many.

    Decided to leave off most progressive rock picks. Least favorites? Difficult.

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  13. First favorites comes to mind. Testament : Souls of black, Savatage : Guttet Ballet, Kiss : Creatures of the night. Least favorite : Lizzy Borden : Love you to pieces (not a bad song, but easily the weakest track for me when it comes to this great album) , Mercyful Fate : Melissa (same reason as previous), Exodus : Pleasure of the flesh (just too slow start, prefer more aggressive Exodus. But it is not bad bad)

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  14. Battle Hymn and Mr Universe were absolutely on my list – both exemplary songs, and Torme is so ahead of his time on Mr Universe with the soloing! 3 drop dead classics for for me are
    Scorpions – Lonesome Crow
    Bernie Marsden – Look at me Now
    Forefather – Ours is the Kingdom

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  17. Bad Reputation was the first song that came to mind for me. My other 2 are Demolition Boys by Girlschool though the album is just Demolition, and Steelyn Dan's The Royal Scam.
    Least favourites – Strong Arm Of The Law – Saxon, Wild Catz – Tygers Of Pan Tang, The Book Of Souls – Iron Maiden (though i could have went with The Book Of Souls or Dance Of The Dead).

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  19. Favourites: Tasty (Good Rats); Creatures of the Night (Kiss); Hair of the Dog (Nazareth); Point of Know Return (Kansas); Nothing's Shocking (Jane's Addiction); Next Position Please (Cheap Trick); Violation (Starz); Baby Snakes (Frank Zappa); The Grand Illusion (Styx); High Class in Borrowed Shoes (Max Webster); Fight to Survive (White Lion); Cuts Like a Knife (Bryan Adams); Bleed & Scream (Eclipse); Script for a Jesters Tear (Marillion); Sweet Music (Roadmaster); Purple Rain (Prince); Out on Bail (Legs Diamond); Help! (The Beatles)

    Least Favourites: A Kind of Magic (Queen); Psycho Circus (Kiss); Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Iron Maiden); Legal at Last (Anvil); Ram it Down (Judas Priest)

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  23. I couldn't pick any least favorites, so heres three of my favorites:

    Yes – Going for the One (1977)

    Supertramp – Crime of the Century (1974)

    Emerson Lake and Palmer – Trilogy (1972)

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  26. Kansas: Song For America, Point Of Know Return
    Supertramp: Crime Of The Century, Breakfast In America
    Steely Dan: Aja, Pretzel Logic, the Royal Scam
    Dire Straits: Love Over Gold, Brothers in Arms
    Bob Seger: Night Moves
    Eagles: Hotel California
    Styx: The Grand Illusion
    Boston: Don't Look Back
    Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
    Dan Fogelberg: The Innocent Age, Phoenix
    Al Stewart: Year Of The Cat, Time Passages
    Jethro Tull: Aqualung
    Jackson Browne: Running On Empty, Hold On
    Heart: Little Queen, Dreamboat Annie

    Don't really dislike any, but Gaucho(Steely Dan), The Long Run(Eagles)are mediocre

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  27. Favourite's (I'll go with five for fun):
    1. Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe
    2. Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
    3. AC/DC – Let There Be Rock
    4. Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
    5. Bolt Thrower – IVth Crusade

    Now these are just five of my favourites and they aren't ranked in order, just the order that they came into my head. Great songs that I've been listening to for many years and don't get tired of, even when I didn't listen to any AC/DC for almost a decade, I could still put on the title track "Let There Be Rock," and enjoy it.
    Honourable mentions:
    Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
    Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
    Caladan Brood – Echoes of Battle
    Corrosion of Conformity – In the Arms of God
    Devildriver – The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand

    Now for my least favourites, just going with ones off the top of my head that I can't stand:
    1. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
    2. AC/DC – Back in Black
    3. Annihilator – All For You
    4. Dream Theater – Octavarium
    5. Iron Maiden – No Prayer For The Dying

    Not a fan of any of these songs, and in some cases I'm not a fan of the albums either that they appear on.

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  28. Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell. – Epic, classic track that changed the whole trajectory of Sabbath.

    Motorhead – Iron Fist – not a great album overall, but The title track is great!!!!

    Megadeth – Peace sells who buying. So good, so heavy….

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  29. Some favorites that I don't think were mentioned:
    Headless Cross-Black Sabbath
    Metal Health-Quiet Riot
    Edge of Thorns and Hall of the Mountain King-Savatage
    Stalingrad-Accept

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  33. Chris Alo I have to disagree on Rust In Peace…Polaris. Christ, have you heard the last minute of that song?! The Polaris part is the best passage of music they have ever penned. So amazing, gets me looking up the tab every time.
    Great to hear Christian mention ‘How Will I Laugh?’ though. Glad to see you’re not snubbing that great band.

    Not sure which Chris on here is more of the real deal these days 🧐

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  34. Welcome Rob Lisanti to the Hudson Valley Squares Show; you were most enjoyable in addition to the other fellows.

    Glad he brought up "Paranoid", and I know he said it doesn't suck, that it was just the worst song on the album, but I think it does suck! Always hated that song.

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  35. My least favorites:
    Ceremoy – The Cult
    Saints of LA – Motley Crue
    Slang – Def Leppard

    More Cool Stuff
    Overkill – Motorhead
    Denim & Leather – Saxon
    Acid – Acid (cool female fronted band from Belgium)

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  41. This was hard for me. My favorites are many from many genres. For my least favorites, I had some help from other posts so, thank you in advance.

    Favorite Title Tracks:

    1. INXS : Listen Like Thieves – One of my favorite INXS songs, period!!
    Kick – My favorite album but my least favorite title track. But it's a damn good song!
    Full Moon Dirty Hearts – It's cool because it's a duet w/Chrissie Hynde.
    Elegantly Wasted – Not my favorite album or song but it's one of the best on the album.
    Underneath The Colours – Okay, people, they're my favorite band for a reason!!!!!!!!!!!!
    The Swing – See Underneath the Colours!

    2. U2: Unforgettable Fire – One of my favorite U2 songs.
    Zooropa – A great song to kick off the album.

    3. Michael Jackson: Thriller – Not my favorite MJ song but it's a good song. Killer album!
    Off the Wall – Love this song and album.
    Dangerous – See Off the Wall

    4. Prince: Purple Rain – My dad loved this song. I think of him every time I hear it.

    5. Whitesnake: Slide It In – Good song from a great album.

    6. The Rolling Stones: Emotional Rescue – The Stones do disco, cool!

    7. Def Leppard: Hysteria – One of my favorite Def Leppard songs. Don't laugh!

    Least Favorite Title Tracks:

    1. Michael Jackson – Bad (The title says it all! It sold half the copies Thriller sold and that's still too much!)

    2. Genesis – Invisible Touch (The song and album are a disappointment and a half. Why I still have this lame album, I don't know?!

    3. Whitesnake – Slip of the Tongue (The whole album pretty much sucks. It's the reason I stopped listening to Whitesnake for a while.)

    4. Warrant – Cherry Pie (Tacky song, tacky video. OMG, what a POS!)

    5. Ted Nugent – Cat Scratch Fever (A juvenile song from a juvenile man!)

    6. Duran Duran – Rio (I don't know why but I've always hated that song!)

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  43. Great show guys!

    Three cool title tracks I can think of are AC/DC's "Stiff Upper Lip," Whitesnake's "Saints an' Sinners," and Suzi Quatro's "Your Mamma Won't Like Me."

    Three title tracks I'm not a fan of are Metallica's "Master of Puppets," Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," and Bon Jovi's "Have a Nice Day."

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