a 'conference of birds' doesn't seem very hard or heavy to me -- sounds cute, like little birds in suits around a table worrying about the bottom line, chirpin' and squawkin'.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
you didn't vote for it thoughxp
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
When I woke up, the Viceroy told me "I get Wet" as at 272, but I misheard him. "Number two, that's the right place for it."
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
270 Blue Öyster Cult · Agents of Fortune (1976) (270 Points, 7 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f556/f55634nqxa6.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/2GFqzKAp611yhl0i1N45yg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
This can only mean that Secret Treaties will grace the 100.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Gish wz one of my favourite albums back when I wz in high school, but actually it's prolley one of the only SP albums I can't listen to all the way through...still love Rhinocerous though...
Deep Purple In Rock is pretty good. Child in Time was a huge song with me and my friends. I had friends who stayed up all night on a coke binge and listened to that song, like, 80 times in a row...
I like Spine of God, and my favourite song off it--Ozium--was in my tracks ballot, though I didn't vote for this Monster Magnet album...
Presence is prolley my least favorite Zep album, and yet I still feel it's too low...
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Number 270 delivers!
― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I might have voted for Agents of Fortune...that album IS way too low. ETI, The Revenge of Vera Gemini, This Ain't the Summer of Love...Reaper's not the only great track on there...
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
you did
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
well, I'm proud of myself.
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Disconcerted to see Presence so low. Not that I like it much, but it has a couple of killer tracks. In Through The Out Door had better not lose out now.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 6 August 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Surprised at the low showing for Agents, but I can blame myself because Im almost certain I didnt vote for it, even though I like it a lot.
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in @ #270 w/ 270 points
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
woah! o_0
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
xgau weighs in:
Agents of Fortune [Columbia, 1976]Just when I figured they were doomed to repeat themselves until the breakup, they come up with the Fleetwood Mac of heavy metal, not as fast as Tyranny and Mutation but longer on momentum, with MOR tongue-in-cheek replacing the black-leather posturing and future games. I wonder how long it took them to do the la-la-las on "Debbie Denise" without cracking up. B+
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
A question for you metaller's. Judging by the tracks & album results so far, there appears to be lots and lots of sub-genres sub-sub-genres and micro-genres. Metal appears to be even more splintered than say, indie or even electronica/dance music. is that the case? I'm told that this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres is not even definitive. Why is metal more open to a cross pollination of other genres? It looks as though it's always evolving. Anything I hear now sounds completely different to what I heard in the 90s, or the 80s and 70s metal I've heard (while a lot of indie music is stuck in the 60s, at least here in England), even commercially, yet older genres are still going strong too. Is the famous elitism part of this as when a band or genre gets popular, they all get into another one to remain cool? or is it just a progressive genre where boundaries are always broken?( a bit like pop music absorbing everything and anything).
Also what is the best "metal" for a non-metaller to start with? Apart from Led Zeppelin,Black Sabbath, Kiss, Guns 'N Roses,Metallica,Iron Maiden. I don't like Sunn o))). I do quite like Opeth and Porcupine Tree and I heard an Enslaved albums I liked the sound of on none listen a good while ago at a friends house.
― paula (Minnie The Minx), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
269 Metallica · ...And Justice for All (1988) (233 Points, 6 votes - ONE #1http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d661/d6612377qv6.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
luv that om album
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Paula I would say it is both a progressive and a reactionary genre. Metal is schizoid.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
...and Justice for All = Legend-of-Zelda-metal
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
none of the Metallica albums are be on spotify, I checked last night.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
*are going to be
Unless somehow "The Blackest Album" made it in LOL
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone want to respond to paula?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Pity Smithy wont see it, it's his kinda thing (the first part anyway)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
...And Justice For All was my #1.
― more lunacy and witchcraft! (kkvgz), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Skot or unperson around? chuck? (chuck has a loose definition of metal, try asking him).Have you seen his Stairway To Hell book?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Alice in Chains maybe? (as a starting point)
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
My definition is basically based on bands being influenced by other bands or sounding similar. Also if a band insists they are metal, I'll take them at their word. Not so much if they insist they aren't metal though...
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Motorhead say they arent metal
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly my point.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
They even invented the metal ballad - see "1914"
i seem to remember a few hair metal bands in kerrang saying they were metal but then on MTV saying they weren't heavy metal they were heavy rock to not put people off.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway more false metal coming up
268 Rush - Moving Pictures (1981) (237 Points , 5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c862/c86263fbc07.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4tYzvNBYBh3vFbLdFMplWT
lol 1916 i mean... forgot when the great war started I guess.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Not the Rush album I voted for but I'm glad to see it on the list!
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
so many great Rush albums
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Red Barchetta is such a great song. Hard to pick a favorite on Moving Pictures though, they're all great.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
omg i just got that stupid visual pun on the rush album
― QUEEN LATFH (LOLK), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, really?
Lol
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god that's one bad pun
but then again, would expect nothing less from Rush
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
267 Pearl Jam · Vitalogy (1994) (237 Points , 5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d870/d87020fx956.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/3ZJplfadDFMU8oV5IpvGtI
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh dear now this is some serious falseness.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
great album even if false
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
266266 Saxon · Wheels of Steel (1980) (238 Points, 6 votes - ONE #1 vote)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d819/d81901d6xa8.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/6EGEGr4oY0PsV6yGBxeQ8J
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Herm, you dont like Rush, but you like Pearl Jam?????
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yup
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
my ballot is pretty false, but even I couldn't bring myself to vote for Pearl Jam (only grunge on it is Soundgarden). so far Presence and Bad Reputation are the only things from it that have shown up.
― some dude, Friday, 6 August 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't vote for them either
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link