Well this is my last Guest Post for this month as I’m taking a wee break! Actually I basically took this whole month off as I let Blog Nation take over and I hope you all dug these Post’s! Next December I will feature a batch of other Blogger’s posts so stay tuned!
I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and as always Thanks for reading!
Hailing from North Carolina is the fantastic Blog ‘2loud2oldmusic’ written by John T Snow. John’s site is one of my early am go to’s before I start my day off especially on Fridays as he always posts what the new releases of the week are. Sometime’s new stuff comes out that I have no idea about but thanks to John he’s covering all bases!
John as well goes beyond and above, that extra mile as when he reviews an album or song sometimes he ranks a bands whole catalogue from ‘Worst to First’.
For John’s entry I went with RATT…Check it out and Follow Mr Snow!
Ratt – The Albums Ranked Worst to First
Half Arsed Rock Reviews 
Thank you Deke! I really do appreciate the shout out! Can’t wait for your break to be over so I can read your post first thing in the morning like I normally do. December has been missing something for sure.
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Thanks John. It’s been fun posting all these different blogs and featuring the excellent writing of everyone. Next December I will do another round of everyone I missed this year…
Fret Not December 27th I post my Top 10 Studio albums of 2018 followed by my Top 10 Live albums of 2018 a few days after..the 29th I think…
January its back to normal around here….
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Cool. All my lists start on the 26th and go for four days straight.
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Nice..look forward to your lists…
Back in the early to mid 80’s I always bought Creems Readers Poll results which was always a great read as David Lee Roth for about 5 years running won the Most Pathetic Award as well as Best Frontman..haha best of Both worlds I think Roth said at one time..
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Creems 1983 Poll Results…
Top Group: 1) Def Leppard 2) Police 3) Van Halen 4) Duran Duran
Top Live Group: 1) Def Leppard 2) Police 3) Van Halen 4) Quiet Riot
Best Male Singer: 1) Joe Elliott 2) Robert Plant 3) Sting
Best Female Singer: 1) Pat Benatar 2) Stevie Nicks 3) Joan Jett
Best New Group: 1) Quiet Riot 2) Big Country 3) Fastway
Worst Group: 1) Culture Club 2) Van Halen 3) Journey
Best R&B Singer: 1) Mick Jagger 2) Michael Jackson 3) Prince
Best R&B Group: 1) Rolling Stones 2) Gap Band 3) J. Geils Band
Most Valuable Player: 1) Eddie Van Halen 2) Sting 3) Pete Townshend
Best Guitarist: 1) Eddie Van Halen 2) Steve Clark 3) Andy Summers
Best Keyboard: 1) Nick Rhodes 2) Jonathan Caine 3) Geoff Downes
Best Bassist: 1) Rick Savage 2) Sting 3) John Taylor
Best Drummer: 1) Rick Allen 2) Stewart Copeland 3) Neal Peart
Best Horn Player 1) Clarence Clemmons 2) Rindy Ross 3) Greg Ham
Best Producer: 1) Robert John “Mutt” Lange 2) Steve Lillywhite 3) Dave Edmunds
Best Songwriter: 1) Sting 2) Joe Elliott 3) Jagger/Richards
Disappointment: 1) Undercover 2) David Lee Roth 3) Duran Duran
Hero/Heroine Of Year: 1) David Bowie 2) Joe Elliott 3) Pat Benatar
Comeback Of Year: 1) David Lee Roth 2) Kiss 3) Robert Plant
Most Pathetic: 1) Boy George 2) David Lee Roth 3) Ozzy Osbourne
Rip-off: 1) Record/Tape Prices 2) Concert prices 3) CREEM
Critic: 1) Rick Johnson 2) J. Kordosh 3) Robert Christgau
Rock Photographer: 1) Lynn Goldsmith 2) Neil Zlozower 3) Mark Weiss
Fad: 1) Flashdance fashions 2) MTV 3) Union Jack shirts
Album Cover: 1) Def Leppard-Pyromania 2) Police – Synchronicity 3) Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
Fashion Plate: 1) Boy George 2) David Lee Roth 3) Duran Duran
Best Tour: 1) Police 2) Def Leppard 3) David Bowie
Sex Object: 1) Joe Elliott 2) Sting 3) Boy George
Best Rock&Roll Movie: 1) Risky Business 2) Flashdance 3) Let’s Spend The Night Together
TV Show Of Year: 1) Cheers 2) Dynasty 3) Friday Night Videos
Couple Of The Year: 1) Eddie Van Halen/Valerie Bertinelli 2) Billy Joel/Christie Brinkley 3)Slim Jim Phantom & Britt Eklund
Punk Of The Year: 1) Billy Idol 2) Wendy O. Williams 3) Joe Strummer
Street Phrase Of Year: 1) Fuck you 2) Fuck off and die! 3) Hey dude! 4) Fer shur
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Def Leppard and Roth were both huge in these polls…good or bad.
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1983 was a huge year for Leppard so u can see why they dominated the polls…They were everywhere ..Circus Magazine/Hit Parader they were always on the cover…..
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Top 10 live albums too? Someone has his priorities straight
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I quite like John’s multiple rating system, with the keeper tracks & overall album scores!
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Yeah me to Geoff….
Ace Frehley’s Spaceman record I went totally by John’s rating.
Between him and Mikey they have the rating system locked up…
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Thanks for the series, dude. You got your finger on the pulse of the music blog universe. Hope your holidays kick ass.
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Thanks for the kind words Jeff! It was fun featuring some fantastic Blogs!
I wish you also a Kick Ass Holiday as well!
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Another great blogger in the Community and you said it all, Deke! Wahoo! Have a great holidays, man, you and your family deserve the very best of everything!
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Thanks Mr Books…u as well!
Take Care and I’m sure your house will be rocking so don’t bother knocking!
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Well it’ll just be getting family together and (probably) eating too much. Sounds great to me!
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Great summation of the Ratt era and stoked to see Detonator at number 1.
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It’s one of life’s mystery that why in the year of 1990 when this stuff was selling this album tanked by RATT standards!!
Too bad some real solid material and a total upgrade over the previous Reach for the Sky album…
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I think it was the competition for people’s attention. When Out Of The Cellar was selling, Jovi and Whitesnake were not selling. In 1990, these bands were selling.
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Than a year later in 1991 none of those acts were selling…haha
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So true
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Another solid recommendation, Deke! I also like his Meme posts on Tuesdays!
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Mr Snow likes to shake it up….Great stuff!
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I respect a man who does Worst to Firsts. it’s not an easy task, especially with bands like Iron Maiden
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