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Back to SearchMotley Crue - "Dr. Feelgood"- The Album That Almost Killed Them… and Made Them Legends
Episode 90
We break it all down:
The brutal rehab stories that changed everything How producer Bob Rock helped craft their biggest sound ever The riffs, the ho…2 months, 1 week ago
Michael Jackson- "Thriller" - The Greatest Album Ever… or Just Overrated?
Episode 89
OUR SEASON 4 PREMIERE!
This week on Classic Rocktails, we dive into Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, and ask the question: is Michael Ja…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Weathervanes" - is this the greatest album you've never heard?!?
Episode 88
Our Season 3 finale!
This might be the greatest album nobody is talking about.
No hype. No machine.
Just elite songwriting.
Weathervanes deserved way…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Metallica - "Metallica" - masterpiece or kind of a sell-out?
Episode 87
Is Metallica (The Black Album) the greatest metal album ever—or the moment Metallica sold out?
Doc and Mac break down the riffs, the risks, and the m…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Duran Duran "Rio"-- is this the most fun album of the 80's?
Episode 86
They were living the high life... “Rio” video filmed on a real yacht in Antigua. Champagne, models, Caribbean locations. Cemented their “luxury fanta…
3 months ago
Fleetwood Mac- "Tango In the Night" - a band on the edge of collapse makes a... masterpiece?
Episode 85
30 million albums sold.
A band on the verge of collapse.
And somehow they made this shimmering masterpiece.
Tango in the Night (1987)
Masterpiece… or…
3 months, 1 week ago
Queen- "Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack"- why did this hit so big? ($900M)
Episode 84
“Bohemian Rhapsody” made $900 million worldwide.
A movie about a 1970s rock band.
With no superheroes.
Let that sink in.
Why did this film hit such a…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Def Leppard - "Pyromania" - Did Pyromania perfect 80s hard rock… or sterilize it?
Episode 83
Grab the cocktail, listen to the mini-playlist (Tasting Flight) and then join the Classic Rocktails Pyromania Party!
When rock became precision-built…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Styx - "Paradise Theater and Grand Illusion" Too theatrical for their own good?
Episode 82
This week on Classic Rocktails, Doc and Mac go double-feature after accidentally prepping two different Styx albums—The Grand Illusion and Paradise T…
4 months ago
Arctic Monkeys- "AM" - in 2013 they were the future. Did it arrive?
Episode 81
Arctic Monkeys — in 2013 they were the future. Did it arrive?
AM was carried by “Do I Wanna Know?”-- was it the last great rock crossover?
#ArcticMon…
4 months, 1 week ago