~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) RESULTS & DISCUSSION THREAD

I never got into SOAD but I remember having, for some reason, a live show of theirs recorded on a VHS tape; the a/v quality was atrocious, people were sort of amorhpus technicolor blobs, and somehow that necro version of a SOAD show made for an appealing watch.

*amorphous blobs, even

jute gyted again

The most amazing thing about Jute Gyte is that this, my #1, came out last year, but is no longer Jute Gyte's best album.

every day in every way getting juter and gyter

exactly. he is the (grey) king of music

that post on last year's eoy poll thread where someone called a track on this album "the Spagett of music" really stuck with me

He should've called the album Trigger's Broom imho.

lol imago wont like that

black metal on recumbent bikes

The only JG album I voted for, and not that high up either. Once the shock of the new wore off I realised I might have wanted to like him more than I actually did...

On the other end of the scale I was exactly the right age for SOAD and Toxicity is possibly one of the most influential records of all time for me; as such nostalgia placed it into my top ten.

The thorny depths of Ship of Theseus are vast indeed. I must have listened to this dozens of times through (my #4) and there are new intricacies and theories to be unearthed every time. Music to go mad with.

World Music is also pretty great

Once the shock of the new wore off I realised I might have wanted to like him more than I actually did...

Despite owning loads of the CD's I cant help but feel the same way

47 Warning - Watching From a Distance 2215.3 Points, 10 Votes, One #1
http://i68.tinypic.com/116rfjq.jpg
https://youtu.be/RGqUo7a7J_I

some day I'll give JG another try; a couple years ago I checked a couple albums -- one metal and one ... not -- and got that feeling that I get when I listen to something like Pink Floyd or King Crimson: this is very interesting but I think it's for other people

Now *this* is a brilliant album, its all about Pat Walkers voice.

This song in particularly brilliant. The way it picks up halfway through it is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=774GvRN2yKk

I think I like 40 Watt Sun more but either way his voice is out of this world

This bit especially

Here I am wide open, surrendering to your side;
I have laid down my armour,
I have no sword at my side.
I leave behind me the ruins of the fortress I swore to defend;
I leave behind me foundations;
I'll leave you a man I'll need you to mend.
And through all the battles around me
I never believed I would fight.
Yet here I stand, a broken soldier,
Shivering, naked, in your winter light.

Jute Gyte I appreciate for the out-there-ness, I guess I just wished he rocked more? Like King Crimson!

New 40 Watt Sun album out next month supposedly!

I have a friend who pretty much lives and breathes music (but who doesn't listen to anything metal-related) and who a few years ago messaged me with something like, 'why can't new music really hit me anymore,' so I linked him to 40 Watt Sun and got the msg back, NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, YEARNING, READY TO BURST

nickelback on horse

rubbish

you're talking a load of jute gyte :P

46 Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 2270.1 Points, 10 Votes
http://i64.tinypic.com/2mqkvx2.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/0M6dtfwL1drYAZUFXUrzDC
spotify:album:0M6dtfwL1drYAZUFXUrzDC

warning was on my to-check-out list but wasn't on spotify so i never got to it :/

yikes, listening to Warning for first time now and it sounds like REM. REM??????

the main thing I remember about Assassins is that I bought it at Best Buy, when you could still do that sort of thing

Best Buy don't do CD's anymore?

I remember a High On Fire album had a best buy exclusive with 2 extra songs so luckily j3ff t got me one and sent it over the ocean

the last time I went there, which was at least 3 years ago, their CD section had dwindled to like one or two aisles and nothing was out of the top 40 hits range

I have this nachtmystium album on clear vinyl I think. It was a really good album, judd's subsequent behaviour shouldn't take that away

before that they at least had Relapse/Nuclear Blast stuff

I think Suffocation's Blood Oath was the last CD I bought from there

What kind of store exactly is Best Buy?

consumer electronics/computers/appliances/TVs/video games/DVDs/candy

Ahh like Currys/Dixons over here

sans the sweets

and CD's obviously

45 The Goslings - Grandeur Of Hair 2271.3 Points, 10 Votes
http://i66.tinypic.com/29e0jmo.jpg
https://youtu.be/4vz-2nVlD1E

Supermarkets have been selling top 40 CD's for about 20 years now and that helped the decline of record shops before the internet which has been quite conveniently forgotten

Best Buy is probably an evil corporation, but they definitely had the cheapest new CDs when I was in college, so it was our first stop for new stuff, pre-Amazon.

xpost

electronics, appliances, music, movies

back in the 90s, when they first opened around here, their metal selection was pretty amazing, not quite like a Tower Records but still stocked. The CD's were all 11.99.

the best was Media Play, which also was a music/movies/magazines kind of place, and the size of a department store; I'd walk around with the latest Metal Maniacs issue digging gold out of the shelves. Most of my death and black metal came from there. They too went out of business in the mid 2000s.

Hooray! Have been waiting to listen to this. Hope it lives up to the hype I've applied to it.

The Nachtmystium album seems like high energy, easy-listening fun. I thought the first track of Watching from a Distance sounded at times like My Heart Will Go On.

I bought Beherit's Drawing Down the Moon at a Media Play. For a dollar in a bargain bin. Ridiculous.

44 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 2273.2 Points, 11 Votes, One #1
http://i64.tinypic.com/mkj01u.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/5yV2HG5etYWkVTp2P8rN9h
spotify:album:5yV2HG5etYWkVTp2P8rN9h

....huh

I seem to have forgotten Godflesh existed after Us and Them. Streetcleaner and Slavestate will always be winners, though. I should probably catch up.

Godflesh autocorrects to Fiddlesticks on my phone