Posted on 09/27/2011 5:32:43 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
10) Kiss - Music From "The Elder": There comes a time in every young man's life where he must confront the fact that some bands aren't meant to evolve, because when they do, they're worse. New drummer Eric Carr showed up just in time to be part of the worst album in the KISS catalog. It's a concept album, based on an idea from the man who would put his name on anything if it generated a buck, Gene Simmons. Before Loutallica, Lou Reed co-wrote three of the songs here. I guess, even crappiness takes practice!
Purchase instead: Kiss, Hotter Than Hell, Dressed to Kill, Alive!, Alive II, and a KISS pinball machine and/or coffin.
9) Def Leppard - Slang: The 1980s were over. Just as big hair looked kinda dumb and dated while everyone was flyin' the flannel, so, too, did big super-precise productions sound ill-fitted for the new decade when everyone whined. So, after Adrenalize sounded tired, Def Leppard went back to basics. Even drummer Rick Allen used an acoustic kit. But no one buys Def Leppard albums for their natural tone. Metal dudes buy them because their girlfriends like them. And their girlfriends miss the grand productions like they secretly miss their big hair! Be who you are!
Purchase instead: High ‘n' Dry and a case of Aqua-Net hairspray.
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Disposible Heroes and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Two of the best War Heavy Metal Songs ever. Well can’t forget any of the Maiden War Sons. Where Eagles Dare, Tail Gunner. Bruce Dickison was a lyrical genius with the War War two knowledge..
Flight of Icarus, Wasted Years...
I live in NYC and saw them a few years ago. Amazing concert! Maiden is simply amazing on many levels.
I have so much respect for Maiden it’s not funny.
High N Dry was much closer to AC/DC. Pyromania was more glam.
Metallica - One
slayer - mandatory suicide, ghosts of war, angel of death
megadeth - holy wars
Maiden has a knack of making classic songs. The new stuff sounds classic to me. I think Steve Harris said something like “Yeah, we are really good at the 7+ minute song.” And they are.
Freegards
I am more of an American Thrash Metal guy ala the Big 4, but maiden is incredible.
Live After Death is probably the best live metal album of all time.
hey made that song Mother Russia and I was shocked how well they captured the historical feel, ambiance, and context.
same w Paschandale song they did.
Hey if you want an amazing album based on USA history that is pounding - check out Iced Earth - Glorius Burden.
Tea Party anthems in that album.
You know, if you just borrow your neighbor’s wheel chair for the night, the venue will shove you up front to the dis-abled area. That’d be a metal thing to do, right?
I agree completely. I chose it for my screen name because I love the album so much.
I guess you haven't heard their globull warming song, yet. (Another Way to Die)
Otherwise, yeah, they have some admittedly great tunes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_Inc.
I will personally bitch slap anybody who says their candy-assed version of “Astronomy” beats BOC’s.
He cut his hair.
Samson wept.
Alice Cooper just keeps getting better.
“Along came A Spider” doesn’t have even one ‘bleah’ song on it and Welcome 2 My Nightmare goes back to his 70s garage band roots.
The mad man is immortal.
Like The Talisman and When The Wild Wind Blows.
Check this out for a great song with Alice Cooper singing part of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uOP8JdJ1d0
“I’m the master of toys
and all you girls and boys
are welcome to my wonderland”
Oh, how wonderfully clever, dear Malice.
[but that wonderland’s a nightmare....]
;D
Thanks for that...it made my day!
[am I the only person who’d like to see Alice star in another *good* remake of “Willy Wonka”?]
Oh thanx - I never thought of that - love the idea and will let you know how it works...but I won’t get shoved into a mosh pit, would I? But then, maybe I’d get someone in my lap...
;-)
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