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This means, of course, that Atsali's next t-shirt needs to be DEATHMØLE.Opus the Poet wrote: According to my acquaintance Jeph Jacques, Mogwai is metal (Excuse me METAL)
Born?? nope you need to be around 15 or 20 then, for the *classic* METAL bands!!Leak wrote:I get the feeling I am the only one here that doesn't care about heavy metal at all, despite being born in 1977...
If I want noisy guitar I'll take Christian Fennesz, Mogwai, Giardini di Mirò or Tocotronic over metal.
reformed 84!! 
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help me out guys...
Excuse ME, but it's Weird Al Yankovic.as363 wrote:It could be worse - she could start doing parodies from Weird Al Yankovitch - don't think I could handle that !
My inner pedant strikes again.I was born in 74, and tell you the truth, the best bands were formed when I was a baby... and a little before hand too. (Except the Doors, sorry...)illiad wrote:Born?? nope you need to be around 15 or 20 then, for the *classic* METAL bands!!Leak wrote:I get the feeling I am the only one here that doesn't care about heavy metal at all, despite being born in 1977...
If I want noisy guitar I'll take Christian Fennesz, Mogwai, Giardini di Mirò or Tocotronic over metal.
Iron maiden formed 77, Def Leppard formed 77, Motörhead formed 75, deep purple started 68, 'had a rest' from 76..
led zep were biggest band in 71 - 75..
Meh, they weren't the original, but they were the ones that made it main stream. I have always thought the Beatles always were given too much credit... their songs were good, but honestly they were standing on the shoulders of everyone else before them... and those people had now been forgotten.
Metallica has two eras, Alcahollica, when they were at their best (and so broke that their drug of choice was Jack Daniels) and Metallicop, marked by debut of Load and Lars Ulrich leading the charge against filesharing sites like Napster. The Black Album, (Enter Sandman, etc.) is the clear dividing line. Still good, still pretty hard, but cleaned up and shortened for MTV and radio. Everything after that is hit or miss. Load and Reload almost make one good album if you put them together. I bought listened to and gave away St. Anger in 36 hours.Cyberpawz wrote:
As for later bands, Metallica was good until they came out with a "soft version" of themselves, but again, it's a personal taste. Motley Crew, AC/DC, White Snake, Rob Zombie, it all depends on your tastes...
For today's groups, Avenge Sevenfold has potential...first time I heard them I thought it was Metallica going back to their roots... I mean I like other groups out there today, but it's hard to find a good rock band that reminds me of the old groups...
With just one song (and hardly their only important one) the Kinks had almost as much influence on the future of rock as the Beatles career.Cyberpawz wrote:Meh, they weren't the original, but they were the ones that made it main stream. I have always thought the Beatles always were given too much credit... their songs were good, but honestly they were standing on the shoulders of everyone else before them... and those people had now been forgotten.
Fairportfan wrote:With just one song (and hardly their only important one) the Kinks had almost as much influence on the future of rock as the Beatles career.Cyberpawz wrote:Meh, they weren't the original, but they were the ones that made it main stream. I have always thought the Beatles always were given too much credit... their songs were good, but honestly they were standing on the shoulders of everyone else before them... and those people had now been forgotten.
Most of the Beatles' innovations were basically improvements to existing forms and norms ..."You Really Got Me" was such a blast outta left field that the record label called them up and said that the tape was so distorted they couldn't release it and did they have a better copy.
Three chords and a sound that required the near destruction of an amp to get.
And it's still echoing through rock, power pop and punk forty years later.
Bands have built whole careers on what Ray and Dave created in that one song.
Well, according to my buddies Wikipedia and Discogs Mogwai are post-rock, and I'm pretty sure I haven't noticed them being metal despite having all their albums either...Opus the Poet wrote:According to my acquaintance Jeph Jacques, Mogwai is metal (Excuse me METAL)Leak wrote:I get the feeling I am the only one here that doesn't care about heavy metal at all, despite being born in 1977...
If I want noisy guitar I'll take Christian Fennesz, Mogwai, Giardini di Mirò or Tocotronic over metal.
Oh, i'd hardly say the Beatles are overrated - more that i think that the Kinks are way underrated.Cyberpawz wrote:Finally, someone who actually agrees with me. You can't believe how long it's taken me to find someone to actually say that... it seems every time you say the Beatles are over-rated it's like you are saying the Bible is a lie to a die hard Catholic... in English, duck...Fairportfan wrote:With just one song (and hardly their only important one) the Kinks had almost as much influence on the future of rock as the Beatles career.Cyberpawz wrote: Meh, they weren't the original, but they were the ones that made it main stream. I have always thought the Beatles always were given too much credit... their songs were good, but honestly they were standing on the shoulders of everyone else before them... and those people had now been forgotten.
Most of the Beatles' innovations were basically improvements to existing forms and norms ..."You Really Got Me" was such a blast outta left field that the record label called them up and said that the tape was so distorted they couldn't release it and did they have a better copy.
Three chords and a sound that required the near destruction of an amp to get.
And it's still echoing through rock, power pop and punk forty years later.
Bands have built whole careers on what Ray and Dave created in that one song.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/161214325375DilyV wrote:Two things I'd like to see...
Atsali in a Rush shirt
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This pose of atsali as she is now... good lord... I imagine that statement would really work now!
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