Classic Rocktails
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Skid Row - (Self-titled debut) - Must hair bands be graded on a curve?
Skid Row - (Self-titled debut) - Must hair bands be graded on a curve?
About this podcast
Classic Rocktails serves up classic albums, sharp debate, and one perfect cocktail pairing each week.
Doc and Mac revisit the records you love, argue whether they still hold up, and mix rock history, barroom humor, and strong opinions into a podcast that goes down easy.
Episodes
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- Skid Row - (Self-titled debut) - Must hair bands be graded on a curve? · 60 minBig hair. Bigger riffs. And one of the most explosive debut albums of the 1980s. In 1989, Skid Row stormed onto the rock scene with a self-titled debut album that helped define…
- Gin Blossoms - "New Miserable Experience" - the tragic story behind the sunny songs · 1 h 2 min · Season 5 Episode 110Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience: the tragedy behind the sunny songs What happens when a band makes one of the best alternative-rock albums of the ’90s—and fires the guy…
- Pat Benatar – "Crimes of Passion": Hell Is for Children. Rock Stardom Is for Badasses. · 1 h 1 min · Season 5 Episode 109Before there was a Joan Jett anthem or a Madonna revolution, Pat Benatar was kicking down the doors of a rock world dominated by men—and she wasn't asking permission. This week…
- AC/DC - "Back In Black" - Triumph, tragedy, and the balls it took to make this album · 1 h 2 min · Season 5 Episode 108⚡ AC/DC: BACK IN BLACK ⚡ One of the biggest, loudest, most indestructible rock albums ever made. This week on Classic Rocktails, Doc and Mac dive into AC/DC’s 1980 masterpiece…
- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger" + "Vital SIgns" - Did Survivor do Survivor dirty? · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 107Survivor had the songs, the singers, the hooks—and somehow still managed to make their own road to rock history harder than it needed to be. This week, Doc and Mac dive into the…
- Bob Seger - "Stranger In Town" - a Murders Row of Bar Band tunes · 1 h 1 minBob Seger walked into 1978 and casually dropped: 🔥 “Hollywood Nights” 🥃 “Still the Same” 🎹 “We’ve Got Tonite” 🍺 “Old Time Rock and Roll” That’s not an album side. That’s a…
- Rush - "Moving Pictures" - Did Rush peak with Moving Pictures? · 51 min · Season 5 Episode 104Rush’s Moving Pictures is one of those albums where technical brilliance and huge rock songs somehow coexist perfectly. Doc and Mac dig into “Tom Sawyer,” “Red Barchetta,” “YYZ,”…
- Night Ranger - "Midnight Madness" - the perfect 80s album or just Sister Christian? · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 103Night Ranger’s Midnight Madness is pure 1983: huge guitars, huge hooks, MTV, arcade games, and one power ballad that became impossible to escape. This week, Doc and Mac go…
- The Doors- ("Self-titled") - Psychedelic? Sexy? Silly? · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 102🚪 In 1967, The Doors didn’t knock. They kicked the damn thing in. “The End.” “Break On Through.” “Light My Fire.” One debut album—and rock suddenly got darker, stranger, sexier…
- EMERGENCY EPISODE! NEW TRAIN ALBUM REVIEW · 19 min · Season 5🚨 EMERGENCY PODCAST! 🚨 We weren’t planning another episode this week—but then Train dropped Mad Dog in the Fog, and we had no choice. Is this really the band’s best album ever…
- Eddie Money - "Can't Hold Back" - Is Money Rock's Rodney Dangerfield? · 54 min · Season 5 Episode 101Was Eddie Money underrated… or exactly as big as he deserved to be? We put Can’t Hold Back on trial, revisit the hits, dig into the deep cuts, and probably start a bar fight…
- The First 100 Greatest Hits · 60 min · Season 5 Episode 100🏆 WELCOME TO THE CLASSIC ROCKTAILS FIRST 100 GREATEST HITS After 100 episodes, we’re looking back at the albums we loved, the takes we regret, the arguments we’re STILL not…
- Train - "Drops of Jupiter" - Is Train rock or rom-com? · 58 min · Episode 109Train’s Drops of Jupiter might be remembered as a big, glossy early-2000s rock record—but underneath the strings, hooks, and radio polish, is it actually rock… or a rom-com…
- Atlanta Rhythm Section - "A Rock and Roll Alternative" - an underrated Southern rock classic? · 46 min · Episode 108Hot take: Atlanta Rhythm Section deserves way more respect in the Southern rock conversation. A Rock and Roll Alternative has the songs, the groove, and the musicianship. Change…
- Saturday Night Fever - (soundtrack) - "More fun than Zeppelin with more good songs than Rumours!" · 1 h 0 min · Episode 107Saturday Night Fever: Disco, Delusion & Travolta’s White Suit Grab your gold chains, button that shirt down to your navel, and try not to fall off the light-up dance floor. This…
- Audioslave - "Audioslave" - What happens when Soundgarden and Rage have a baby? · 49 min · Episode 106Audioslave’s debut answered the question nobody asked: What happens when Soundgarden and Rage have a baby—and that baby refuses to use its indoor voice? This week on Classic…
- INXS- "Kick"- 🎸 Is INXS' Kick the greatest pop-rock album of the 1980s? · 54 min · Episode 105INXS' Kick had the hooks, the swagger, the videos, and Michael Hutchence at full supernova. This week, we ask: is this the slickest rock album of 1987? #80sMusic #RockPodcast…
- Emergency Episode: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey-- brilliant or boring? · 24 min · Episode 104⚔️ Emergency Episode: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey This week, Doc and Mac break from their usual classic rock format for a special emergency episode to tackle one of the…
- The Cars - "Candy-O" - Did The Cars avoid the sophomore slump better than anyone? · 57 min · Episode 103Did The Cars avoid the sophomore slump better than anyone? This week on Classic Rocktails, we take Candy-O for a spin — the sleek, strange, hook-packed follow-up that proved The…
- Lou Gramm - "Ready or Not" - is the peak Foreigner Mystery Album? · 50 min · Episode 102Was Lou Gramm’s "Ready or Not" the Great Lost Foreigner Album? Come on back to 1987! This week the boys dig-into this forgotten album. Should Gramm have gone solo-- or should…
