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Great Albums.

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Hell yeah!
 
TylerW said:
I don't think that David Gilmore's lyric writing chops are anywhere near as strong as Roger Waters - though I like the sound of Gilmore's voice more than Waters's. I think Gilmore is a really under appreciated guitarist, and musically the later stuff is outstanding. But the lyrics just shift it to the level of stadium dad rock.
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I've never cared much about lyrics, I like the music.

I like Pearts use of language, and, sure the "message" resonates with 20 year olds, but now I find them tedious and preachy. The music is still good. The Anarchist on Rush's last album is great. Snakes and Arrows was a very, very dark album compared to the bright light of the previous Vapor Trails.

And Clockworks Angels, I mean, geez, we get it. We got it 30 years ago and since then. But it's a really good album, and was one of the best concerts I've seen from any band.
 
berth said:
I've never cared much about lyrics, I like the music.

I like Pearts use of language, and, sure the "message" resonates with 20 year olds, but now I find them tedious and preachy. The music is still good. The Anarchist on Rush's last album is great. Snakes and Arrows was a very, very dark album compared to the bright light of the previous Vapor Trails.

And Clockworks Angels, I mean, geez, we get it. We got it 30 years ago and since then. But it's a really good album, and was one of the best concerts I've seen from any band.
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That’s what’s so funny. Those of us in the analog age bracket couldn’t understand half the lyrics anyway given the fidelity issues of transistor radios and various record players. I have learned more lyrics of old songs in the last 20 years, than the previous 40.

We might have been talking about Once Upon A Time in Hollywood here recently, but I love the movie. One of the things Tarantino does is to never introduce digital fidelity to the old songs so its sounds very familiar to those times. Either that or they re-slopped it up by wizardry. But the songs really do sound like the radio or home record players.
 
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Bay Arean said:
That’s what’s so funny. Those of us in the analog age bracket couldn’t understand half the lyrics anyway given the fidelity issues of transistor radios and various record players. I have learned more lyrics of old songs in the last 20 years, than the previous 40.

We might have been talking about Once Upon A Time in Hollywood here recently, but I love the movie. One of the things Tarantino does is to never introduce digital fidelity to the old songs so its sounds very familiar to those times. Either that or they re-slopped it up by wizardry. But the songs really do sound like the radio or home record players.
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'Scuse me while I kiss this guy?
 
Some that come to mind,

The Narcotic Story -Oxbow
Headhunters -Herbie Hancock
The in Sound from the Way Out -Perrey and Kingsley
Germfree Adolesents -X-Ray Spex
The Modern Lovers -The Modern Lovers
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -Bryan Eno + David Byrne
Black Sabbath -Black Sabbath
Brown Rice -Don Cherry
Kill Em All -Metallica
 
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I just about wore this record out listening to it in high school. I wonder how it sounds now…
 

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TylerW said:
I like the theatrics involved in putting a record on. I remember going to a woman's house to cook dinner for her when we were dating for a brief bit, and she put a record on and it felt like an event.

But I'm with you. I want my music to be accessible to me any time, anywhere. That's so much more important to me than any fidelity that I blasted it of my ears when I played in punk rock bands with no hearing protection.

Super down for your list. I imagine it's pretty obscure too me but I know our tastes have some overlap.
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I'll thrown down a few, I guess. Not super obscure or anything if you're into metal at all. These all have killer tracks all the way through. In no particular order:

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Obituary - Cause of Death
Death - Spiritual Healing
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Goatwhore - Carving out the Eyes of God
Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
 
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Slayer - Reign in Blood
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I need to get that album, it reminded me to add Kill Em All to my list of great albums, another pivital album in metal!

Saw Slayer at the, "Clash of the Titans" tour in 91ish, and they killed it! Probably the height of popularity for thrash metal in the U.S., Anthrax was extemely good as well, Megadeath was meh, but Alice in Chains surprisingly put on the best performance of all, especially since I was predisposed to Boo them off the stage for not being Thrash.
 
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Abacinator said:
I'll thrown down a few, I guess. Not super obscure or anything if you're into metal at all. These all have killer tracks all the way through. In no particular order:

Slayer - Reign in Blood
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Really? When I was a teenager, I used to carry every single Slayer album around with me in a duffel bag on Cassette and CD, in case one type of player was unavailable.

I guess it is easy to listen to all the way through since the whole album is like 28 minutes. :laughing I think the average track length was like 2 minutes of thrash. Even so, that was not even my favorite album back then. I would take Seasons or Show No mercy over that one, maybe even Hell Awaits.
 
Reaching back a few years...

Procol Harum - Procol Harum, '67

Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain, '69

It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird, '69

Ten Years After - A Space In Time, '71
 
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Frisco said:
I just about wore this record out listening to it in high school. I wonder how it sounds now…
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Mind, I've never been a KISS fan myself, but I did go to one of their concerts. It was in the early 2000's, full makeup, the whole kit.

And there were two malfunctions that happened during the concert. The first, Paul Stanley was on a cable being taken out to a pedestal in the middle of the crowd, and he didn't quite make it before they took him back.

But, worse, Gene Simmons was being lowered to the stage, in front of the huge KISS sign and...stopped, a foot off the stage.

And all I could think about was Spinal Tap. Whether they were trolling the crowd or not, I couldn't say, but it actually kind of ruined the concert for me. Because all I could think of was Spinal Tap.
 
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Mind, I've never been a KISS fan myself, but I did go to one of their concerts. It was in the early 2000's, full makeup, the whole kit.

And there were two malfunctions that happened during the concert. The first, Paul Stanley was on a cable being taken out to a pedestal in the middle of the crowd, and he didn't quite make it before they took him back.

But, worse, Gene Simmons was being lowered to the stage, in front of the huge KISS sign and...stopped, a foot off the stage.

And all I could think about was Spinal Tap. Whether they were trolling the crowd or not, I couldn't say, but it actually kind of ruined the concert for me. Because all I could think of was Spinal Tap.
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Yeah, they were probably like 70 years old when you went to that show?

Past 50, I think you better skip the wire work, Bub.

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The Chieftains, “The Long Black Veil”… really good. Sting, Mick, Knopfler, Van Morrison…

Blind Faith.
Camel, “The Snow Goose”
The Bobs, “My I’m Large”

And that was just a peek at my collection.

The Chieftains, seriously. Saw them at The Fox in Redwood City. Oh my.
 
Eldritch said:
Really? When I was a teenager, I used to carry every single Slayer album around with me in a duffel bag on Cassette and CD, in case one type of player was unavailable.

I guess it is easy to listen to all the way through since the whole album is like 28 minutes. :laughing I think the average track length was like 2 minutes of thrash. Even so, that was not even my favorite album back then. I would take Seasons or Show No mercy over that one, maybe even Hell Awaits.
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I like Show no Mercy and Seasons better, but Reign got way more play time :laughing South of Heaven is probably my favorite album by Slayer.
 
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