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The Waters Wake Up Call with Mike Waters · Thu Feb 22, 2024
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Hey there, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.
Thanks for listening.
Here is my podcast for Thursday, February 22nd, 2024.
Throwback Thursday this morning, we were talking about the 20 best-selling albums of all time.
There are quite a few people I talked to who were, well, not real pleased.
But remember, it's not best album, it's best selling.
album.
So keep that in mind.
Got a lot of calls this morning, so let's get to those.
And by the way, after I take my last call, I will give you the full 20 best-selling albums of all time.
So that's coming up.
Let's go to the phones.
I'm hoping it's like the Beatles, the Y-Album, or Pink Floyd, The Wall, but I'm assuming it's probably Michael Jackson, or... I hope the God is not Taylor Swift, but you never know.
That's some Twinkies, a pretty powerful entity out there.
Well, what do you think?
I mean, name the album you think is number one.
I think it's Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Yes, you're right.
Really?
Yes, your worst nightmare has come true, apparently, from what you said before.
Just such a monstrous album.
As much as I like Thriller, I agree with you, it should be the Beatles or Pink
Floyd.
Yeah, and it is good stuff.
At least it isn't Taylor Swift.
So thank God for
that.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
You're correct.
Number seven best-selling album of all time.
Right on.
And just like this, you can call anytime you like, but you can never hang up.
You just stay on the line.
I'll put you on hold for eternity.
How about that?
Hi, I think the best-selling album of all time is gotta be Thriller.
It is.
Number one.
That is actually the very first album I ever bought in my life.
Really?
Yes.
Well, it's a good one to get.
I mean, it's got so many good tunes on it.
Oh, yeah.
We play like 437 of the songs on that album.
Thriller and Billy Jean and, you know, the list goes on.
Good guess.
Number one, Michael Jackson Thriller.
You have a good day.
Have a thrilling day.
I
will.
Oh,
yeah, thank you for what you do
That's awesome.
Well,
thank you if I can if I can help a nurse my job's
done
Uh, Dark
Side of the Moon is the highest, so to speak.
Dude, Floyd.
That comes in at number four.
Let's see where the wall is.
That better be in the top 20.
I haven't seen the whole top 20 yet.
I'll tell you, some of these are just stupid.
They really are.
No.
Let's see.
I'm going beyond 20 now.
Shania Twain, are you kidding?
Celine Dion?
Yeah, it's like I say, it's just 27.
The wall
is a
27.
Well, that's good enough.
No, it's not.
Well, you know what?
If everybody loved my favorite music, I probably wouldn't love it anymore.
You know what?
That's a good point.
That's only for the cool kids.
Right.
That's it.
I sure appreciate your personality in the morning.
Well, thanks,
man.
Thanks, man.
I appreciate you calling.
Have a great day yourself.
All right.
You're talking about soundtracks.
I have your gifts upon those.
Yeah, go for it.
No,
not in the top 20.
No,
not in the top 20.
Yes,
number 10.
Nope.
You got one.
That's pretty
good.
Again, it's it's hard to stomach because it's the best selling, not necessarily the best.
You'd think that the best albums are the best selling albums, but it doesn't always go that
way.
The best all-time selling album was a double.
Okay.
Then by the nice guy of rock and roll, Peter Frampton.
Uh, you know, you would think, you would think that'd be in the best-selling albums of all time.
I know, I know, it's such a classic album.
Oh my gosh.
Well, and again, it's best-selling, not necessarily the best albums are on the list.
Oh wow.
I know, I know, it's tough, isn't
it?
That did not make my day.
You like it.
Do you own the album?
I do.
Okay.
Everyone he's made.
See, that's all that matters.
If you have the album, that's all that matters.
Okay.
So you know, you know what's going on.
You know what's good and what people should be buying.
They just happened not to be buying it.
They're buying like Shania Twain and Celine Dion and
It's a little disheartening, but I think we'll get over
it.
Yeah put it
in perspective come on now
It's
not on the best-selling list of top 20 albums.
There's no holla notes They're the most successful duo of all time you'd think they'd have an album in the top 20 best
best-selling albums of all time, but they don't.
Well, I wouldn't need the people that don't love them.
Well, let's call a meeting.
We should.
Yeah.
Huey Lewis?
Is he on
the list?
He's nowhere on the list.
As you say these great albums, I'm trying to tell people to buy them, and then we can bump them up the list a little bit.
Yeah, no kidding.
Yellow Brick Road has gotten to be in the top
20.
Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not in the top 20 best-selling albums of all time.
The whole
This isn't the list of the best albums of all time, just the ones that have sold the most units, that kind of thing.
As far as greatest albums, it absolutely deserves to be in the top 20
Oh yeah, Saturday night's all right for fighting, Benny and the Jets, goodbye Illybrook Road.
Throw some on the radio anyway.
I will!
You know why?
Because it's good music, that's why.
Yeah, Elton John always fits.
Yes, thank you.
Hi, I think the best selling album of all time.
It is.
Number one.
That is actually the very first album I ever bought in my life.
Really?
Yes.
Well, it's a good one to get.
I mean, it's got so many good tunes on it.
Oh, yeah.
We play like 437 of the songs on that album.
Thriller and Billy Jean and, you know, the list goes on.
Good guess.
Number one, Michael Jackson Thrilla.
You have a good day.
Have a thrilling day.
I will.
I'm a nerd.
I always do.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you for what you do.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for what you do, too.
It makes my morning start out happy.
That's awesome.
Well, thank you.
If I can help a nurse, my job's done.
All right.
Good morning, Mike.
Well, good morning to you.
What's happening on this throwback Thursday, my friend?
Yeah, the sun's coming up.
I know.
It's bright in here almost.
Yeah.
Brighter than I am.
Wow.
I know, it's pretty dim.
I know, I know.
You don't have to say it.
Well, I'm right there waiting.
Okay, good.
A couple of
dummies chatting.
This should be good.
Yeah.
I got a couple of offerings for you.
Okay.
How about the Grand Illusion by Styx?
Not in the top 20.
Great album though.
Boston, the original album.
Yeah, the self-titled.
Not
in
the
top 20.
Really?
Yeah.
Now we know they're really off their rockers.
Yes, most people.
Yeah, the people who have not bought those albums
you should really go out and buy them and maybe get them a little higher in the list.
Yeah, well I own them so.
Yeah, that's all that matters, right?
Exactly.
And I thank you for all the phone calls.
We should go through this list of 20 best-selling albums of all time starting at number 20.
It is a soundtrack.
for Titanic number 19 another soundtrack dirty dancing number 18 Celine Dion I don't know why but there she is name of the album falling into you 17 appetite for destruction guns and roses number 16 won by the Beatles their collection of number one songs that is the only Beatles album in the top 20 best-selling albums of all time number 15 you got the
backstreet boys Millennium number 14
Bob Marley the
Wailers, number 13, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette, number 12, Bad by Michael Jackson, number 11, Zeppelin 4 by
Let me check my notes.
Oh, Led Zeppelin.
That makes sense.
Number 10, Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack.
Number 9, Fleetwood Max Rumors.
Number 8, Shania Twain's Come On Over.
Again, I don't know why, but there she is.
Number 7, Hotel California by The Eagles.
Number 6, Nobody Called Meatloaf.
Bad out of hell.
Nobody guessed that one.
But it's number 6 for goodness sakes with 43 million sales.
Their greatest hit, 71 million.
Moon 75 by the Eagles.
That has been number one.
That was number one for a long time, actually.
Number four, the dark side of the moon, Pink Floyd.
Number three.
Whitney Houston's soundtrack for her big old movie, The Bodyguard, from 92, I want to say.
Number two is Back in Black by ACDC.
And number one, of course, is Michael Jackson's Thriller.
So there you go, the 20 best-selling albums of all time.
Thanks for the calls.
Thanks for listening, and I'll catch you on the radio or the flip-flop, whichever comes
Weekday mornings, 5.30 to
