Welcome. Glad to have you here. Bees are pretty cool but, like KillaKukumba said, FUCK wasps. Little suckers serve no purpose beyond stinging the shit out of me and then dying.
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....just a few random observations.....
1. Voltaren commercial? (I like the way you move!)
2. Now I know what Patton Oswalt will look like at 70
3. Fat HALFORD
4. Oompah Lumpah quartet in tuxedos
5. Sweet Swiffer mop action
6. Is the mop bucket the amp or is the amp in the mop bucket?
7. End credit scroll is an odd choice
8. Was waiting for QUEEN guitar guy to appear as the night shift supervisor
......can't wait for the cover version of "Fat Bottom Girls".......
Iron Maiden
Tank
Warfare
Tygers Of Pan Tang
Venom (NWOBHM for me is not a style, it was a movement. So, if Venom is metal, it was new and British, they were part of NWOBHM).
Virtue
Traitors Gate
Cloven Hoof
Blackmayne
Interesting topic Marky Mark and I'm not sure why hard rock doesn't get mentioned more often around here, other than I guess the tender young age of so many of the members here who probably weren't raised on hard rock like you and I were. Funny you posted this today as just this morning I had myself a little Bad Company marathon where I listened to their first 5 albums in order. Not something I do very often.
I started reading your list and right away the gears started turning as I wondered what some of my favorite hard rock albums would be. Not sure I can play your game by your rules as it seems you and I have vastly different ideas about what constitutes hard rock. You said you've excluded some stuff that you consider to be metal that I might think of as hard rock, but then you've also gone and included some Sabbath albums that I would consider to be metal. I myself could never include Sabbath albums on a hard rock list, even though in my mind they started life as a hard rock band, but they shifted to all metal by MoR. Their best album is Sabotage btw. I'll also say you're deffo not the first person I've seen citing LZ1 as their favorite Zep but it's certainly not mine.
Not sure why stoner is OK (as a lot of it borders on metal) as is "grunge" and "alt" stuff like Ministry and NIN and Jane's Addiction, but "garage rock" and "punk rock" are not OK. If I were to make a "hard rock" list I can tell you a good portion of it would be stuff that falls into the garage rock or punk rock category. Like the Hellacopters or Supersuckers or Nashville Pussy or Zeke...stuff like that. Because to me that punk attitude is what makes them such great hard rock albums. And when you get right down to it I feel most of those bands have a lot more in common with old school hard rock bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith, or even grunge bands like Soundgarden than they do with actual hardcore punk or even first wave punk rockers from 40 years ago like the Ramones, Pistols and Dead Boys or something.
I'm also gonna have some southern rock on my list too, I know you're not a fan of southern redneck bands (as I've seen you refer to Molly Hatchet) but that stuff was a huge part of my high school days in the 70's for me, bands like Hatchet, Skynyrd, Blackfoot and ZZ Top. And that's because there was no metal yet back then besides Sabbath so I had to make due with whatever was readily available.
So if you'll indulge me I might work up a list using my own personal criteria for "hard rock" if you don't mind. And I'll assume you won't mind since we're such good friends and all. The hard part is going to be ranking them. I'm not even going to bother ranking them or I'll be here for 3 days. I'll just type them down as they pop into my head. They're all good or they wouldn't be on my list. I'll stick to my usual one album per band formula.
In absolutely no order whatsoever:
HARD ROCK
Supersuckers - The Evil Powers of Rock & Roll 1999
Mud City Manglers - Heart Full of Hate 2000
Peter Pan Speedrock - Buckle Up and Shove It 2014
2 Headed Dogs - The Engine is On 2021
Monster Magnet - Power Trip 1998 (really hard to pick a fave from Dave, I love them all)
Zeke - Kicked in the Teeth 1998
Circus of Power - S/T 1988 (could have gone with any of their first 3)
Nashville Pussy - Let Them Eat Pussy 1998
Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 1975
Bad Company - Bad Co 1974
AC/DC - Highway to Hell 1979
Fastway - Fastway 1983
Riot - Born in America 1983
Social DIstortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell 1992
Stooges - Raw Power 1973 (hard to pick a fave of theirs)
Iggy Pop - Instinct 1988
Good Rats - Rat City in Blue 1976
Molly Hatchet - Flirting With Disaster 1978
ZZ Top - Degüello 1979 (almost went with Tejas)
Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy 1977
The Rods - S/T 1981
Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning 1983
Montrose - Montrose 1973
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs 1974
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced 1967
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.M.R.C. 2001
Paul McCartney - RAM 1971
Mott - Drive On 1975
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic 1973
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 1974
The Cult - Electric 1987
My Sister's Machine - Diva 1992
VH1 1978
There you have it, that didn't take as long as I thought. Could have put on Appetite and Superunknown because I absolutely loved these records back in their respective days but they've become so played out I try to avoid them even now all these years later. I was also quite smitten with R&R Over back in '76 when I was 15 but Kiss in general hasn't been in the rotation for 40 years now, I see it as a childhood infatuation. Really wanted to get Lords of the New Church and Cosmic Psychos on here but I figured they were both a bit too punk to be just hard rock.
Fantastic your getting back to full health.
The man who would not die is an album I like a lot so I bet that title track was amazing live. I'm listening to X factor again. Still I'm loving it. You was well lucky to see blaze live and the shows with audience participation is what I like too👍. I'm going to have to get on the mailing list as I want to see him live more so than iron maiden. What a voice and the tickets cost bit less too😉 I reckon very good going to get the autograph stuff. Well done. When I meet famous people I just shake there hand and walk off or just think there a look alike😁