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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jun 25, 2021 10:55:38 GMT
Btw, there should be a word for when something makes you think of something else, when there isn't a genuine connection, just a very vague similarity which would only spark the connection in a mistaken kind of way. Neo-liminal melliflua, something like that. That happens to me a lot! Last week I had one of Quaco's songs going 'round my head while I was walking to work, and something else kept nudging at it and was driving me quite bonkers until I realised there was a shared similarity to a Waterboys song. The only problem is that I didn't do a side-by-side comparison as soon as I could, and I've completely lost whatever confluence had occurred in my head at the time. I at least know it was the Waterboys, so I'm sure I'll be able to narrow it down to the specific song, but it seemed so minor at the time I doubt anyone else would give a shit. Anyway, Number of the Beast is magnificent, and the drum part is especially fuckative.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jun 25, 2021 17:53:02 GMT
This is absolutely epic and joyous, isn't it? If you don't like it, you've got to be partially dead inside, surely? Worked at a large steak house when this was first released, so each night after business was done and clean up left. The sous would jump atop the main work table cranking Number as he hoisted his 12" chef knife in the air and drank from a bottle of Jack, Baccardi's, 151, etc., which he would spit/spray into 16 burner commercial stove, 1;16 minutes into the song which would erupt into flame as Dickinson screamed. Adrenalin raised, tunes shaking the building, we'd motor thru cleaning and closing.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jun 25, 2021 20:10:39 GMT
i don't mind some NWoBHM in the right environment. one of my work mates was into it and we used to go drinking after a work in the 'royal george' off charing cross road and 'the intrepid fox' in wardour st. some strange characters in both places but we always had a good time. i also went to see judas priest with him. this is brilliant just because it's so absurd. I had never heard of them when they opened for Zeppelin in Oakland. Hard rock bands didn't have singers that looked like Rob Halford. I thought it was weird he had short hair. He came on stage on a Harley, which was cool and made up for it.
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Post by DayoRemix on Jun 25, 2021 23:52:35 GMT
Don't mind the occasional Maiden/Dio/Priest single..Not sure I could take entire albums from these type acts, but they did do singles well..And at least they weren't Glam Metal..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2021 18:45:40 GMT
Stumbled across Judas Priest very recently and bought a few albums.
I read a decent interview on Apple Music with Halford where he explained that "Breaking the Law" was inspired by the unemployment crisis of the time. It's kind of weird thinking a band as strange and as heavy as Priest were ever in contact with the 'real world". Iron Maiden on the other hand were more about devils and death but in their own way very entertaining; the vocals are clear and tell a story. The singers and musicians come across (at least in their music) as thoughtful and interested in the world. It's artists expressing themselves because they NEED to even if the medium they are using is ROCK music (whatever that is).
It's kind of sad where metal ended up really when I think about it, the glam stuff that on the whole is just awful save a few songs (if even that), the tech shred stuff (Satriani etc) that is even worse, the screeching death metal satanists dragging us all through hell with their dirges (Disturbed, Deicide) and of course the wannabe in my biker gang genre of Zakk Wylde, late era Metallca beloved by tv producers.....
Worse still is the all that HIPSTER METAL where the lyrics are made unlistenable by the vocals that are ether screaming or mumbling over drone chords. I find bands like Sunn 0))) and High on Fire intolerable.
It's the old metal for me everyday of the week.
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