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No doubt you miss some good stuff when it comes out. Much of what we like around here isn't mainstream and you might not find out about it until it's a few years old. I find most of what I like through recommendations here, but not every release gets a topic, or sometimes it gets missed. By the time you find it, it's not worth a new topic.

I just discovered Shakra's 2009 album "Everest" after hearing "Anybody Out There" on Last.fm and I'm loving it. If it were new, it would easily be my favorite release of '11. I just checked HH's "best of" list for '09 and it only made it as an "also ran". That's probably why I never listened sooner.

Find any older gems recently?

Yeah, too many to mention, to be honest. Tom Kiefer when he's screaming

 

I can handle Keifer and most anyone else when they're singing heavier songs, but guys like him, Axl Rose, Mark Slaugher and C.J. Snare really have no business singing ballads. They just don't have the right voice for it.

Couldnt disagree more. Some of my fave songs by those guys are the ballads, and some of those ballads are among my fave songs ever.

Some of my favorite songs too. I just don't think they have the right voice for it. Like the thread title says, I shouldn't like it, but I do anyway.

It's a couple of years old, but the band is still giving away their debut album as a free download.

http://thetyee.ca/Music/2009/06/11/Hollerado/

They have sort of a Hard Rock/Punk sound to them. It's a pretty decent album. If nothing else, I think it's worth it for the song "Americanarama".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whv1tLqKZig

I took notice after hearing it last night in the movie, "The Trotsky".

I love both of those songs. They were the main reason I bought the soundtrack.

He has a MySpace page with songs on it. Have you listened to any of those?

http://www.myspace.com/adampascal

This topic was also covered here:

http://heavyharmonies.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=25056

You'll find a pretty good list.

Yeah, too many to mention, to be honest. Tom Kiefer when he's screaming

I can handle Keifer and most anyone else when they're singing heavier songs, but guys like him, Axl Rose, Mark Slaugher and C.J. Snare really have no business singing ballads. They just don't have the right voice for it.

If there's two things I least want to see in my sexual fantasy, it's children and animals.

It's obviously a song about sex, and Lita looks pretty hot, all wet and dancing around in tight-fitting, skimpy clothing. Then... we gotta look at the kid? Why!?

The real mood killer comes at 2:29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmMlUg4MZo

If you're curious to see the liner notes that were included with the vinyl LP, I scanned them a long time ago and just uploaded them. The first side is photos with band and album info on a background of Jack Russell's parole report. The other side is lyrics.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/10/14/2142802/great_white-1984-liner_a.jpg

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/10/14/2142802/great_white-1984-liner_b.jpg

None of these older CDs need to be remastered. Mastering and Remastering by today's standards only means compressing (destroying) the dynamic range to make the softer sounds in the recording sound as loud as the highest peaks. Then the overall sound is raised often beyond limitations, causing clipping and distortion, only to make it sound "loud".

Here's an excellent demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

Also read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

I'd go on a longer rant, but Leykis101 pretty much summed it up earlier in this thread.

http://www.trellian.com/prophecy/cd.htm

http://heavyharmonies.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=26537&st=0&p=598279entry598279

so it is listed as Mark Torien . is this the Marq Torien from BulletBoys? if it is he has a real Steve Perry quality to his voice here. If not who is it?

I don't think I'd compare Marq Torien of the Bulletboys to Steve Perry after hearing his cover of "Faithfully".

http://www.myspace.com/mikkitwist/videos/video/23151621

I've been a fan since The Nature of the Beast, and have their whole collection. I prefer the newer stuff with "Frigate" an easy choice for my favorite. "Look Into the Sun" and "Driving With My Eyes Closed" are great tunes.

Ren - Rainy Day

http://www.trellian.com/prophecy/cd.htm

This is on Gallery and no other CD as far as I know. It's a great song and one of their best for sure.

Right. I've got the whole GW collection including imports. It's not on "Twice Shy + Live at the Marquee" as someone else had mentioned.

Interestingly, it was the "Gallery" CD that that reported bassist Tony Montana's death in the cd booklet despite him being alive and well.

Sad news. The Five Easy Pieces CD is one of my all-time hard rock favs.

As for TSO, my faves are Christmas Eve Sarajevo (played alot around the holidays)...

Definitely a classic. Note for note it's the same recording that appears on Savatage's 1995 "Dead Winter Dead".

I spent a good part of my Friday afternoon searching and couldn't find anything more than those 7. A good chunk of time was spent trying to find someplace to buy their '07 EP "Love Will Break Your Heart", but I couldn't find it for sale anywhere. I ended up buying used copies of the "Hills Have Eyes 2" and "Balls of Fury" soundtracks, but that only got me 3 of the 4 songs on it (missing "Dawn of the Dead"). Their 3 other songs appear to be available only on their Soundcloud and Facebook pages.

This page has more full-length samples that aren't on MySpace.

I like "In The Lion's Den", which is an obvious tribute to Leppard's "Women".

Good stuff. Can't wait for a full album.

Where is the electric drill dammit!?!??!

Kinda off-topic, but Daddy, Lover, Brother, Little Boy.mp3 got me booted from P2P networks many times - probably because I gave the album cover jpg the same title.

Any serious, english bands with a similar music style?

 

Are you saying they ARNT serious!?

I just meant the lyrics. Like I said in my last post... If I knew what they were saying, I probably wouldn't enjoy the CD as much as I do.

Any serious, english bands with a similar music style?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2PtOaYNyg

Smilek CD is pretty good. Just gave it a listen. I really like "Fields of Fire".

I'd never heard of them till I saw this thread. Gave both CDs a good listen, and I'm surprisingly impressed. That might not be the case if I understood the lyrics and knew that they were actually singing about things like hiccups, homework, and backyards, but ignorance is bliss. The music rocks.

I'm really liking "Neverland". Cool tune.

If you're running Windows, see if Exact Audio Copy (freeware) can read the track in Secure Mode. If it reports no errors, then it's a good indication that the disc was actually mastered that way. If there are errors, then the disc is defective.