Year of Our Riff Lord
1987
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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
1987. That sounds like a very long time ago, but here’s a few events that will provide some perspective. 1987 marked the time of the Black Monday stock market crash, the FDA approval of Prozac, the first sighting of The Simpsons on television, WrestleMania III at the Pontiac Silverdome, and the release of Guns N’ Roses debut album, Appetite For Destruction. Additionally, many of us were deep in the throes of our own budding pubescence (and/or pube-essence) in 1987.
1987 also marked a time when the popularity and intensity of thrash began to grow ever more popular, clawing its way to the top of the mountain as one of the most transformative and powerful subgenres in all of heavy metal. And in 1987, our heavy metal horizons were just beginning to blossom and expand, gradually guiding us towards heavier, faster, and darker metal music than we had ever experienced before.
Go check out some of the bands mentioned in this Episode
#Savatage HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING
#BlackSabbath GLORY RIDE & ETERNAL IDOL
#Destruction RELEASE FROM AGONY
#Metallica THE WAIT
#OzzyOsbourne BELIEVER
#Pentagram WHEN THE SCREAMS COME & EVIL SEED
#CelticFrost (“Oooh!”) MEXICAN RADIO & INNER SANCTUM
#BloodFeast MENACING THUNDER & KILL FOR PLEASURE
#GrimReaper ROCK YOU TO HELL
#UDO ANIMAL HOUSE
#Sodom NUCLEAR WINTER
#Overkill POWERSURGE
#Necrodeath …AGONY/THE FLAG OF THE INVERTED CROSS
#SuicidalTendencies WAR INSIDE MY HEAD
Discover the most perfect example of a “flan” from 1987 and listen to the sexiest backmasking you’ve ever heard in your life (courtesy of the “hi-fidelity ghosts” that haunt Bunkerpoon Manor). It’s time to take out your “squid dentures” and get “razor tight” while learning about our “guilty pleasures”, including the reasons why $18 is (sometimes) too much and there’s no such thing as “free bags” in the less fortunate parts of the planet. Get ready to know our “third favorite ‘South Paw’ guitarist”, come hang out with your wang out and JOIN US in The Bunkerpoon Retro-Lounge as we celebrate The Year of Our Riff Lord: 1987.
Show Notes:
(00:01): “Steady bone…” / #donttouchtherail / “It was that…” / “That’s what colds are…” / “I died all 3 times…” / #hifighost / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / #thisepisodesclinkyoftheepisode #thekraken #blackroast / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST WITH NO ANESTHESIA!!!*** / #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #Ironshield #everythinghesaid #sevenpercentABV #MollyHatchet / “My mouth moves faster than my brain sometimes…” / #goodfoundationbeer / “Technically yes, but…”
Beer of the Episode
Iron Shield WARHAMMER
(06:11): ***IF YOU WANNA GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN DO SO AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #TheVoicemailSegment #DariusASMR ***What are your #guiltypleasures with regard to other genres of music that are not metal? *** / #markthetime #bobbinandnoddin / “Sometimes…when I can’t listen to the screaming anymore…”/ #PinkFloydKaraoke / #RussellsReflections and #WeddingMemories in Jersey / “Where are the bags?”/ #nofreebags / “For ONE pack!?”/ “Witnessing a #viralmoment from #Paramore …” / #Bleachers (not buh-leech-ers) / “I just bored the fuck outta myself…” / #RussellsReflectionsCountryClubEdition #minibeefwellingtons (“Rock the #cashbar…”) / “It’s like a buffet…” / #thepastatable / “We went to the Rocky stairs…” / “It was exhausting…and offputting…and irresponsible.” / “I think I’m done.”
(25:00): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS THE YEAR IN METAL: 1987 / #magicalpieceofpaper / Hearing about all these underground metal bands in 1987 as children…and the profound effect it had on us. / “It could be #bolth” / #Savatage HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (“It’s like #dungeonmetal”) / ***Go check out the plethora of episodes we’ve covered from 1987!!!*** / #BlackSabbath GLORY RIDE (“Fuzzy but crispy…”) / “This is not evil…” / ETERNAL IDOL (“It sounds like #DioSabbath”)
(35:45): #Destruction RELEASE FROM AGONY #squiddentures #1987ThrashMetal / “Razor tight.” / #Metallica THE WAIT (“I wish they would produce EVERY album like this!”) / “Do you send somebody a #HallmarkCard for…#bolth of those things?” / #OzzyOsbourne BELIEVER / “Man, I wore that album OUT in ’87!” / #Pentagram WHEN THE SCREAMS COME & EVIL SEED (“Real American hero…”) / “NOT fucking in the basement…” / #CelticFrost (“Oooh!”) MEXICAN RADIO #allthecokelines INNER SANCTUM (“This…just sounds like #WREKage”) / The ever-elusive search for the Celtic Frost song that can be remembered yet somehow can never found / “That would be terrible…” / #killeropener #softintro #BloodFeast MENACING THUNDER & KILL FOR PLEASURE (Very #TheAccused ish) / “That’s definitely ’87…”
(56:05): #GrimReaper ROCK YOU TO HELL / “He’s like my third favorite…” / “This is more hair than happy…” / #UDO ANIMAL HOUSE (“Right into the sclera…”) / #dontdenythepowerof / “It’s fun to learn new things…” / People underestimate the power of influence Metallica has had on the metal purchasing public / #MCTentacleChoice #Sodom #killeropener NUCLEAR WINTER (“Exactly!”)
(1:04:06): #Overkill POWERSURGE (“That’s fucking 1987!”) & IN UNION WE STAND (Thrash plus power metal) / “We’re in the record store, it’s 1987…what are we getting?” / #Necrodeath #killeropener …AGONY/THE FLAG OF THE INVERTED CROSS #allthecokelines / “Should we finish strong?” / #honorablementions / “Crust punk stench core…” / #hotranch / “Your imagery…can ruin someone’s day.” / #SuicidalTendencies WAR INSIDE MY HEAD / “What do you think the TOP song was in 1987?” / “I can’t hear that song without thinking about #AmericanPsycho” / “We zigged and zagged at the same time…” / ***THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US FOR THE TRIP BACK TO THE YEAR OF OUR RIFF LORD, 1987! *** / “Before that it was just a feeling…”/ #untilthenext ***BE SURE TO STOP BY THE BUNKERPOON GIFT SHOPPE TO PICK UP YOUR #MetalNerderyPodcastOuterwear at metalnerdery.com/merch *** / #outroreel (cream, cocaine & shiny dicks)