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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Charger on October 16, 2019, 07:42:31 AM
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I thought we could celebrate albums of our favourite bands in this way as well saying happy birthday to them!
So a small introduction and maybe a short own opinion on the album in question...and ofcourse discussion.
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I'll kick things off with the last good Ozzy album which was released October 16th 2001.
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I remember when the album came out I was super excited about it and it didn't disappoint. And it has remained the last good Ozzy album and one that's right up there with the classics.
Stand out tracks are Gets Me Through, Facing Hell That I Never Had, Junkie and Black Illusion...but ofcourse this being an Ozzy album there has to be that one real stinker too and here it's Dreamer...talk about a cheesy overly commercial radio friendly piece of crap ballad...good lord. I remember the first time I heard it it made me want to puke...and it still does. The other obligatory ballad Running Out Of Time is much better.
There really are only 5 Ozzy albums I listen to anymore and this is one of them.
So HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY DOWN TO EARTH! Can't believe you're old enough to drive and buy beer already!
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I have no clue of the exact release dates of my favorites, so when I see someone else mention one of them, then I shall comment. :)
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https://drrockblog.wordpress.com/tag/albums-released-this-week/ looks like a good resource for this thread... :smug:
Hey, cool, two Three Dog Night albums came out on this day, a year apart.
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Happy 19th Anniversary to the first (official ;D ) Tony Iommi solo album!
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Tony found a great lineup of singers for this one eventhough he didn't use any "classic" singers from his own era so to speak.
Tracks with Peter Steele (RIP), Ian Astbury, Billy Idol (!!!) and Phil Anselmo are all killer...hell he even made Billy Corgan (of yucky Smashing Pumpkins) sound good!
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Today is also the birthday of 12x5 by The Rolling Stones. An excellent album, love their stuff pre-1967.
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HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY to one of my favourite non metal albums MELANIE C's NORTHERN STAR!!!!
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan but to me already back then Melanie was the one that I really liked and finding out she made a solo album was like a dream come true. And she didn't disappoint. She also went bit more rockier sound with few tracks which was brilliant eventhough she kept a certain poppy edge as well. But her voice is beyond sublime and she proved she can write stuff too.
Can't believe it's been 20 years though...
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
:rofl:
Hey don't judge...you like Nirvana!
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
:rofl:
Hey don't judge...you like Nirvana!
:doh: Your not going to seriously compare Nirvana and Spice Girls.
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
:rofl:
Hey don't judge...you like Nirvana!
:doh: Your not going to seriously compare Nirvana and Spice Girls.
Well no I won't...it would be an insult to Spice Girls. ;D
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HAPPY 6th ANNIVERSARY to Motörhead's AFTERSHOCK!
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This was around the time I really got into Motörhead as for some reason I hadn't gotten into them much earlier so I bought this right away. A great album. Very solid and Queen Of The Damned is one of their best tracks ever.
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
I'm more of a Heather Small and Adele man, myself.
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I was something of a Spice Girls fan ...
:o ??? :o
I'm more of a Heather Small and Adele man, myself.
Never heard of them, and probably don't want to. :smug:
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HAPPY 21st ANNIVERSARY to BLACK SABBATH's REUNION!
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Their first official live album with Ozzy.
This is a great live recording. I've always enjoyed it a lot...the raw sound of it, the lack of overdubs (you can actually hear when Ozzy loses a note or screws up) and the setlist was great. Spiral Architect, Behind The Wall Of Sleep and Lord Of This World! Songs that weren't played that much even back in the 70s.
The two new tracks weren't anything too special, but Selling My Soul still rocks though...Psycho Man still sounds like a throw away Ozzy solo track with incredibly silly lyrics.
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HAPPY 24th ANNIVERSARY to Savatage's second full concept album DEAD WINTER DEAD!!!
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This album was written about the Yugoslavian war that was going on at the time and about how people who basically grew up next to each other found themselves fight against one another.
One of the best concept albums ever done and one of Savatage's finest works. It's also the first album which features vocals from both Jon Oliva and Zak Stevens. Jon sang on two of the best tracks I Am and Doesn't Matter Anyway, it also features the incredible orchestral instrumental track Mozart And Madness.
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HAPPY 26th ANNIVERSARY to one of the very best DIO albums:
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This was a near perfect follow up to the perfect DEHUMANIZER album. Ronnie kept the heavy touch he found with Sabbath again and found the perfect heavy guitarist in Tracy Grijalva who was a mastermind when it came to heavy riffs...
Jesus Mary & The Holy Ghost has to be the greatest religion critical song ever made. Absolutely fantastic lyrics on that one.
The title track's incredible groovy doomy riff is something totally unique. Also tracks like Evilution, Give Her The Gun, Here's To You and Pain are right up there among DIO's finest.
Must be one of the most underrated album of Ronnie's entire career.
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Today's anniversary... J. Giles Band's album Freeze Frame.
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HAPPY 34th ANNIVERSARY to one of Thrash metal's finest records ANTHRAX's SPREADING THE DISEASE!
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Finding Joey Belladonna was to Anthrax what finding Ronnie James Dio was for Black Sabbath or Bruce Dickinson was to Iron Maiden. Their songwriting improved with the vastly superior singer. Fistful Of Metal had some great songs but Neil Turbin's vocals were pretty bad. But here the quality of the vocals more than match with the quality of music.
Songs like A.I.R., Lone Justice, Madhouse, Aftershock and Medusa are right up there with those all time thrash metal classics...and there is a reason why most of those songs are still live set list staples.
This was a great second coming and this solidified Anthrax as one of the all time greats.
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^^Great album. I remember hearing A.I.R. and Gung-Ho when it first came out on a little community radio stations 2 hour weekly metal radio show and being completely blown away by it before rushing out and buying from one of only two stores in Melbourne that imported such music. Still my favourite Anthrax album.
P.S. I think Sabotage is as great as Sabbath got as songwriters.
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Today is also the birthday of Jethro Tull's Living in the Past. Nice collection of outtakes, live tracks, and other such fun stuff.
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One of my favorites was a November 1 album: The Grateful Dead's classic, American Beauty
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I recall thinking what a stupid name for a band when this came out, but bought it anyway and the music was great!
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HAPPY 38th BIRTHDAY to the BEST BLACK SABBATH ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!
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Not much more needs to be said about this one....
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HAPPY 38th BIRTHDAY to the BEST BLACK SABBATH ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!
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HAPPY 38th BIRTHDAY to the BEST BLACK SABBATH ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!
:redcard:
:evillaugh:
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^^^^^^
Arguably the best Black Sabbath album with Dio as the singer, but that would be it. :whistling:
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HAPPY 38th BIRTHDAY to the BEST BLACK SABBATH ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!
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Not much more needs to be said about this one....
Easily the best Dio Sabbath album. IMHO it is the best album that Dio was ever on, an almost perfect offering!!
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Arguably the best Black Sabbath album with Dio as the singer, but that would be it. :whistling:
Well that would make it the best Black Sabbath album now wouldn't it as Black Sabbath was at it's best with Ronnie... ;)
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It's a great Black Sabbath album regardless of the era.
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Arguably the best Black Sabbath album with Dio as the singer, but that would be it. :whistling:
Well that would make it the best Black Sabbath album now wouldn't it as Black Sabbath was at it's best with Ronnie... ;)
Noooo . . . Tony Martin. ;) ;)
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Mob Rules isn't even Ronnie's best work let alone Sabbath's
Tony Martin shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the Ozzy or Dio era... ::)
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Tony Martin shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as the Ozzy or Dio era... ::)
Agreed. What do you think the 2 winks means? ;D
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Mob Rules isn't even Ronnie's best work let alone Sabbath's
:redcard:
:lol:
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We have heresy going on here...Watch it or my ban finger is gonna start to itch! ;D
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Mob Rules isn't even Ronnie's best work let alone Sabbath's
:redcard:
:lol:
For me Heaven And Hell is his magnum opus.
Rainbow Ronnie meets Tony, Geezer and Bill.
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We have heresy going on here...Watch it or my ban finger is gonna start to itch! ;D
Hardly an impartial judge, this guy. :naughty:
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We have heresy going on here...Watch it or my ban finger is gonna start to itch! ;D
Hardly an impartial judge, this guy. :naughty:
I am pot, and I'm saying hello to kettle! :lol:
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Today marks the 38th Anniversary of this amazing classic album. Ozzy's best work outside of Sabbath. Also Randy's final studio recordings :'(
Favourite song(s)? The bookends. Over The Mountain and the title track.
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Yup! Ozzy's crown jewel indeed!
I'd add Believer to the list of favourite songs.
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I would add You Can't Kill Rock 'n' Roll to the great tunes off of my 2nd favorite Ozzy album. 8)
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^^ They are all great tunes as far as I'm concerned. I take it Blizzard is your favourite then?
Can't go wrong with either choice ;)
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^^ They are all great tunes as far as I'm concerned. I take it Blizzard is your favourite then?
Can't go wrong with either choice ;)
That would be incorrect. :whistling:
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Alrighty then I'll go Ozzmosis ? 8)
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I bet it's Black Rain! :love:
Just kidding!
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Alrighty then I'll go Ozzmosis ? 8)
Wide left. :naughty:
I bet it's Black Rain! :love:
Just kidding!
And wide right. :twitch:
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Eh, maybe?
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^^^^^^
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. :zomg:
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HAPPY 38th BIRTHDAY to one of Motörhead's most iconic albums ACE OF SPADES!!!
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Got two great ones for 11 November:
The Faces: A Nod's As Good As a Wink...
Rory Gallagher: Tattoo
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HAPPY 18th ANNIVERSARY to the second ROB ZOMBIE album THE SINISTER URGE
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The second album might not have been as huge as The Hillbilly Deluxe was back in 98 but it gave more of what has now become the classic Zombie sound. And with killer rockers like Demon Speeding, Dead Girl Superstar, Never Gonna Stop and Scum Of The Earth showcased that Rob Zombie was the new king of horror metal!
But Rob also knew how to change things up a bit with the exeptionally groovy Go To California and the title song for his first horror movie House Of 1000 Corpses.
Also Ozzy Osbourne joined Rob for the track Iron Head which is among the albums finest.
Great follow up to the Hillbilly Deluxe but the best days of the ZOMBIE were still yet to come!
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Happy 15th anniversary to Nirvana's box set release. A band that made a huge mark for legitimizing grunge music, despite what one very stubborn moderator's inexplicable negative opinion of this band is. ;)
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...despite what one very stubborn moderator's inexplicable negative opinion of this band is. ;)
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Nothing inexplicable about it.... ;)
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...despite what one very stubborn moderator's inexplicable negative opinion of this band is. ;)
:D
Nothing inexplicable about it.... ;)
Then please explic. :smug:
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...despite what one very stubborn moderator's inexplicable negative opinion of this band is. ;)
:D
Nothing inexplicable about it.... ;)
Then please explic. :smug:
They pretty bad mmmmkay....
:problem: :awesome:
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HAPPY 46th to DEEP PURPLE's BURN!!
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Never been a big fan of Coverdale or Hughes but this album is brilliant! Heck it was the last brilliant Purple album until Purpendicular.
The title track, Mistreated (Although ofcourse the Rainbow version blows this out of the water), Sail Away and Just Might Take Your Life and Purple classics for sure.
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Excellent record, still enjoy it!
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Burn was the last DP album where Blackmore's focus was on the current project.
And Charger is right, Dio made "Mistreated" his own. But Coverdale totally owns "Burn". I like Hughes' solo version of the song, but Coverdale does it the best.
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But Coverdale totally owns "Burn". I like Hughes' solo version of the song, but Coverdale does it the best.
True that! I've heard some cover version of it but nothing has ever really matched the original. Coverdale is on top of his game on that one. In fact I'd go as far as to say it is his best vocal preformance I've ever heard.
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And while I really enjoy Burn, it's the live versions of those songs that I really dig the most. "You Fool No One" I first heard live from Made in Europe and was a little disappointed with when I later heard the studio version.
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HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY to one of the greatest concept albums ever written the amazing MAGICA by DIO:
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Wow, yeah... 20 years... wow...
I'm just now wrapping my head around it, because I can remember buying it new, and that memory seems only a few seconds old...
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Wow, yeah... 20 years... wow...
I'm just now wrapping my head around it, because I can remember buying it new, and that memory seems only a few seconds old...
Same here...it's almost unreal.
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Today is also the birthday of AC/DC's Let There Be Rock. :headbanger: It will be 43.
Tomorrow will be the birthday of Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast. :rockon: 38 years for that LP. Anthrax' Among the Living will be 33 tomorrow, as well.
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Today is also the birthday of AC/DC's Let There Be Rock. :headbanger: It will be 43.
Tomorrow will be the birthday of Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast. :rockon: 38 years for that LP. Anthrax' Among the Living will be 33 tomorrow, as well.
I have a signed Let There Be Rock vinyl. Bought it off a collector many many years ago who had fallen on hard times. Wonder what it’s worth now with two of the members no longer with us?
How ironic would it be if I have to sell it if my business gets hit hard with the current events and I fall on hard times ???
What a great trio of albums you’ve mentioned there btw
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This is a good weekend for metal, it would seem. :)
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An undeniable classic and one of the very best albums from 70’s turns 44 today
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Thanks for posting that Jack. Top shelf recording!
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Released 35 years ago today
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My second favorite Slayer album, just behind South Of Heaven, I can remember seeing it in a record store when I was much younger and bought it for the cover alone :death:
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Released 35 years ago today
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An undeniable classic and one of the very best albums from 70’s turns 44 today
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Two great albums, happy anniversary.
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Judas Priest’s Sin After Sin turned 43 yesterday and today this great album was released on this day 42 years ago. Not only was it Ronnie’s last album with Rainbow but it was also Rainbow’s last great album and probably Ritchie’s last truly great work.
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I think it’s also my favourite Rainbow album when it’s all said and done.
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Fantastic album indeed! I still prefer Rising but this is a masterpiece as well.
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I like Rising better as well, but the two albums go incredibly well together.
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Kinda changes with me in terms of what’s my favourite depending on my mood. For the longest time the debut was and at various times it’s been Rising and LLRNR but it’s fair to say all 3 are sublime. I like Down To Earth as well but then it went pear-shaped after that.
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I agree. I find that the Joe Lynn Turner era material just fades more and more as time wears on. "Eyes of Fire" can still hold up, but it's essentially "Gates of Babylon" heading towards "Perfect Strangers" and without either Dio or Gillan on vocals.
The JLT stuff even lost its sparkle to me when I was a kid. I did enjoy Difficult to Cure and Straight Between the Eyes a lot, but Bent Out of Shape... man, I *tried*, I *tried so harrrrrrrd* to like that album right after I bought it, unwrapped it, and put it on the turntable to give it a spin... and it just when nowhere for me. Since then, I've got less and less desire to revisit those albums, while I still get goosebumps for Rising/LLRNR.
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HAPPY 40th TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE!!!!!!
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HAPPY 40th TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER MADE!!!!!!
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A masterpiece and iconic album in the pantheon of music, not just metal.
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^^^^
Absolutely!
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Don’t wanna take anything away from Heaven and Hell but an unadulterated thrash classic celebrates its 35th anniversary today. Kinda fitting it shares every anniversary with Paul Baloff’s birthday.
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I honestly haven't gotten into that album yet. I've listened it few times but Paloff's voice is a bit of a turn off for me so I haven't given it the chance it musically deserves.
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I honestly haven't gotten into that album yet. I've listened it few times but Paloff's voice is a bit of a turn off for me so I haven't given it the chance it musically deserves.
I bought the album soon after it came out, same day I bought Killing Is My Business in fact which was fresh out at the time and it took me a little bit to get use to the vocals but the music was killer from the get-go and I eventually came around on the vocals. Very unique voice and vocal phrasing and his attitude was the epitome of a thrash frontman. Along with Kill ‘Em All Bonded By Blood is the greatest thrash debuts and right up there as one of the greatest thrash albums period as far as I’m concerned...Just love that album so much.
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I honestly haven't gotten into that album yet. I've listened it few times but Paloff's voice is a bit of a turn off for me so I haven't given it the chance it musically deserves.
I bought the album soon after it came out, same day I bought Killing Is My Business in fact which was fresh out at the time and it took me a little bit to get use to the vocals but the music was killer from the get-go and I eventually came around on the vocals. Very unique voice and vocal phrasing and his attitude was the epitome of a thrash frontman. Along with Kill ‘Em All Bonded By Blood is the greatest thrash debuts and right up there as one of the greatest thrash albums period as far as I’m concerned...Just love that album so much.
I've been away from Exodus for a little bit since I've been getting some new stuff lately, but I think the next Exodus album that I'm gonna buy is this one...I think I need to give it more of a chance.
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HAPPY 11th Anniversary to THE DEVIL YOU KNOW!!!
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What a comeback album! I can only imagine what the follow up would have sounded like....
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11 years? It's been that long? Goodness!
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Nope...it's been 12 YEARS now!
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Where does all the time go?
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It flies by at your age... wait 'till you're our age! ;)
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It flies by at your age... wait 'till you're our age! ;)
Time keeps on tickin', tickin', tickin' into the future!
45 years...
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It flies by at your age... wait 'till you're our age! ;)
Time keeps on tickin', tickin', tickin' into the future!
45 years...
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That album is old enough to be on its third marriage. :smug:
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HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY TO THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!
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https://loudwire.com/black-sabbath-anniversary-mob-rules/ (https://loudwire.com/black-sabbath-anniversary-mob-rules/)
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Aw, cool! That's a great anniversary!
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Black Sabbath's best live album just turned 15 years old yesterday!!!
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Wow...
There was some talk on facebook on how high the prices for this album have gotten and I had to check...and holy shit!
The cd version is on sale for 135€ and the vinyl for 379.90€!!
Sheesh!
I guess I should have bought two of each back in the day...but it is good to see I have something of value in my collections...CD #3699/5000 and LP 1025/3000... ;D
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That is truly one of the finest concerts they have officially released. I have the Mob Rules Deluxe with this as the second disc.
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Man, 15 years...
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HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY to one of my all time favourite Concept albums, SAVATAGE's epical THE WAKE OF MAGELLAN!!!
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HAPPY 50th (!!!!!) BIRTHDAY to this masterpiece of a live album:
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YES
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:wootwoot: One of the greatest live albums of all time :rockon:
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SPACE TRUCKIN' COME ON
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Happy 40 to the magnificent album that is Piece of Mind
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This guy does a nice 40 year retrospective of the album
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OK, that's the next one on my playlist today after Mob Rules.
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Not among my favourite Maiden albums BUT it does have one of my favourite Maiden songs TO TAME A LAND! That song is just SUBERB.
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It's my favorite Maiden album, I can put all of side 2 on repeat and be happy.
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For a long time my favourite Maiden album, but in recent years Powerslave has just edged ahead.
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40 years. <upchuck>
The music on that release is timeless. It was such a forward departure from TNOTB, which itself was significantly different than their first two. I believe Piece of Mind is where they firmly established their sound as a band.
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HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY to one of the most underrated heavy metal classics of the new millennium.
BLAZE BAYLEY's SILICON MESSIAH!
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HAPPY 40th to one of the greatest albums ever made!!!!!!
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Was playing that earlier today!
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Processed the pic I took of yesterday's Dio-fest. Or, at least, playing HD :)
This actually has a bit of import beyond simply the anniversary of the record. I broke down and bought a new turntable, which I am going to setup later today, and figured I'd send this one off with a solid bit of heavy metal. That record itself has been in several pictures over the years...from the time I bought it in '83 to yesterday, so that's kind of cool to me.
A couple of the people who are in some of the older pictures are no longer with us, so that makes it more poignant.
Straight Through the Heart!
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HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY to a modern metal MASTERPIECE!!!!
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Happy 25th Anniversary to a true modern metal classic ROB ZOMBIE's HELLBILLY DELUXE!
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Wow, 1998 used to be not that long ago...
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HAPPY 35th to the last great classic METALLICA ALBUM!!
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Even with the lack of bass this album is a killer with very little filler.
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Yeah no bass really threw me for a loop on that one.
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HAPPY 37th (!!!!! How can it be 37 already!? Yikes!) to a Thrash Metal Masterpiece!
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Oh and HAPPY 35th to another Thrash Metal Masterpiece!!!!
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1986 was a great year for the metals. :)
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Happy 47th to Sabbath's second worst album
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^^^
There's still some good stuff on their. But it's not their finest effort.
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I actually liked that record when it came out more than I do now. Usually it's the other way around for me lol. I think it had a lot to do with being stoked for the new Sabs release, and coming off of the monster that was Sabotage, it never occurred to me that they had pretty much lost the plot by that point. I recall looking forward to Never Say Die!, especially the buzz around it and the name. I figured they realized they almost stepped in it, got that out of their system, and were now back to form. Haha, nope, they went out left field and kept on truckin' until they fell in the ocean.
But I do agree with KDC that Technical Ecstasy had some sparks in it. But Sabotage, Part II it was not.
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I love technical ecstasy :yes:
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:disappoint:
:lol:
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Technical Ecstasy was number 7 in a 6-album greatness streak... :)
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HAPPY 35th Anniversary to this piece of heavy metal brilliance:
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Based purely on overall quality of the songs this is probably my favourite Ozzy album...although it doesn't have a masterpiece track like Diary Of A Madman, Suicide Solution or No More Tears the steady rock solid quality of the songs is what makes this stand out. There's really only one weak song on this and that is the only occurance in Ozzy's solo career that that's happened.
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Should probably say Happy 45th Anniversary to the WORST album Sabbath has ever released as well....maybe I shouldn't....it's not really worth it, but one shouldn't try to rewrite history nor erase it so gotta acknowlage the turds of the world as well...
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Naw, I think TE's worse than NSD.
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TE and NSD are for true music lovers and Sabbath connoisseurs.
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TE and NSD are for true music lovers and Sabbath connoisseurs.
And those who may not be quite right in the ol' noggin'!
Welcome back Jack!
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NQR in a good way though ;)
Cheers Vyn
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Happy 10th Anniversary to a thrash metal monster!!
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HAPPY 42nd to BLACK SABBATH's best album and one of THE greatest albums ever recorded!!!!
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^ :headbanger:
That is my favorite Black Sabbath album of all time.
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Mob Rules! Great album, surreal that it has been around for so long.
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Happy 40th Anniversary to Ozzy's first dabble into the real commercial sounding stuff of the 80s!
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I keep pondering had Randy not died what this album would have sounded like? Would Ozzy have gone with the more commercial keys oriented pop metal sound or would Randy have been pushing for the more rockier stuff?
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Randy was wanting to go classical, he may have left Ozzy on his own volition. We just don't know...
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HAPPY 15th ANNIVERSARY to one of THE best DOOOOOM METAL albums of all time!!
DEATH MAGIC DOOM by CANDLEMASS!!
And here's the crown jewel of the album and my favourite Candlemass tune of all time!
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First time I've heard that! I've heard/read about those guys, but never knowingly listened to them.
That song has a very Tony Martin vibe to it - thanks for posting it!
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Speaking of Tony Martin
Here he is singing with Candlemass!!!
This was before Messiah came back for the 2005 album they considered Tony...but Tony wasn't all too keen as he didn't think he was a good fit...but this song rocks and it's better than the version that made it to the album.
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54 years ago this week, Grand Funk Railroad's Closer to Home album got RIAA certified gold and the band got displayed in an ad on a Times Square billboard.
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HAPPY 25th ANNIVERSARY to MEGADETH's Turbo RISK!
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I remember when this came out I had been a Megadeth fan for about a year or so...not a big fan yet at that point but I did own few of their albums... Cryptic Writings being the top dog at the time for me.
I think Crush 'em was the first song I heard and I was like...okay...this is bit different...but I still kind of liked it. My (now a distant, but back then he lived very near me) cousin was a bigger Megadeth fan and he bought this album as soon as it came out and we listened to it together and were both bit in shock actually...What was going on? This isn't Megadeth is it?!? Surely not! But it was...
This has a lot in common with Priest's Turbo.... This was a totally uncalled, unnecessary and unwanted change in musical direction, towards more commercial and pop oriented sound. Priest did it with guitar synths Megadeth did it with adding techno beats and what nots...nobody asked for them and in the end nobody wanted them either.
Both albums now sound horribly dated and products of their time...granted Turbo bit more even, but it's not like Risk aged with grace either.
Crush 'Em is still the only song I can listen from the album without puking in my mouth a bit...kind of the same thing with Turbo and Turbo Lover...granted the latter being a much much much better song.
But even mistakes should be celebrated or we'll never learn from them, so Happy 25th RISK!
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HAPPY 40th ANNIVERSARY to IRON MAIDEN's magnum opus POWERSLAVE!
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This was the high water mark of Maiden and after this their slow but steady decline began which lead to Bruce's departure and Blaze breathing in new fresh life to the band.
Losfer Words (Big 'Orra) was the first Maiden song that I heard...and it was in MIDI format and it still rocked and got me hooked for life!
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50th anniversary of Burn, as I recall...
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Holy moses...
HAPPY 45th (!!!!!!) Anniversary to HEAVEN AND HELL!!
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Oh for god's sake. 45 years. I can't even believe it. Still recall when it came out, a friend had it on 8-track and we were riding in his van and he said, "Here's the new Sabbath without Ozzy".
And it rocked hard. Seems like yesterday.
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Wow, yeah, that's 45 years ago... and I'm not 12 anymore, but that album sounds totally fresh, even today.
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I was just getting into Sabbath in 1980... so it's probably only 44 years old for me! :D
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HAPPY 35th Anniversary to DIO's LOCK UP THE WOLVES!
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This is my least favourite DIO album but it still has some good tunes and the title track is a monster!
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Wow, 35 years...
I think I'll say that for every anniversary, to be sure.
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It may have escaped peoples notice, but it is the 50th anniversary of Sabotage today. :)
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I did notice that indeed!
I still think MEGALOMANIA is the high point of Ozzy vocally. That song just rips!
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Wow, 50 years...
I think I've had that album for like 40 years, maybe a bit more...
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HAPPY 50th to another LANDMARK album...
RITCHIE BLACKMORE's RAINBOW!!
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Even though this was just a hint of things to come it still has some undying proto-heavy metal classics like The Man On The Silver Mountain, Self Portrait and Sixteenth Century Greensleeves...and not to forget one of the best ballads ever made Catch The Rainbow!
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That was such a solid debut, yes the next two were better, but their best opener IMO!
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The Daily Doug reacted to side 2 of Sabotage tonight. So at 50 years and 1 week old...
It's safe to say he quite likes the album!
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HAPPY 30th ANNIVERSARY to the very first IRON MAIDEN album that I bought back in the day the SUBERB THE X FACTOR!!
I was getting more and more into metal music back in late 1997 and after discovering Black Sabbath a buddy of mine from school ( 7th grade) played me some midis (YES MIDI was the music format back in those days!) of Maiden including Losfer Words which I really really liked. Then I went to the local second hand record store (we even had one of those back in the day) and saw an Iron Maiden album for sale and the cover art was something totally insanely cool so ofcourse I went and bought it right away.
The album was THE X FACTOR and I still remember being totally blown away by the opening track...with that slow quiet chanting leading into that bass intro it wasn't like anything I'd heard before and then when the song sped up it was like magic.
The album grabbed me instantly. It was dark and powerful with it's lyrical content and being something of a loner some of the lyrics hit really close to home...still do.
If I'd be forced the make a Top 10 list of my all time favourite albums this one would most certainly be on it!
HAPPY 30th THE X FACTOR!!!
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