CureTheSane

No I did not realise how disrespectful my commenst were as I had no idea he had cancer. I wholeheartedly retract everything I said, and wish him the best.

Yes, I should have buried those opinions and played it nice and proper here I guess. Look at the clip, he looks like an idiot dancing with his mic stand. And he does look about 80. Holy shit! just googles him and he's only 57. Damn.

Sounds like you're speaking from experience there buddy....

I think everyone has seen that part of the oscars

Saw this the other day. Not only completely cringe the way he stands with his mic stand, he probably has reached the point where he'd be better off having actors only in his clips, or animated or whatever. He looks about 80.

Same thing everyone said when Slang was released. Now everyone loves it.

Will Smith should have won an extra award with his tearful speech laster on. Note he didn't apologise to Chris for his poor taste joke, but that's all it was. and had he taken the high road, Chris would have copped a lot of shit, and probably been cancelled. As it stands now, I think most people feel that Chris got kinda what he deserved, so has been punished, and gets to walk away without much future condemnation. Smith on the other hand just looks like a tool and will likely be raked over the coals.

Also, I found it less 'punky' than their other stuff, much easier to like more quickly

Gave this a listen and was instantly impressed. First 3 or 4 songs were excellent. After that more hit and miss, but will see after a few more listens

I like 'em and I like this. Wretched And Divine was an amazing album Set The World On Fire also very good

I mean as a Swans fan, it was cool to see, but kinda concerned that there were no dickheads doing any damage to him. Was kinda hoping it would happen next week so I could be there at Marvel Stadium. Good to get it out of the way, great start to the season with two wins over a semi finalist and preliminary finalist from last year Next week hope to top it off with a win over a grand finalist in the Dogs. Then we have Kangaroos and Eagles, so looking pretty sweet for a 5 win start. As to the predictions for the season Premier: Swans Brownlow: Isaac Heeney (I got him for 15 bucks at 67 to 1 so I have a vested interest here Coleman Medalist: Ben Brown Wooden Spoon: Eagles Improvers: North Melb

I dunno, the more I think about this it looks like the grass wasn't greener post HEAT and Erik was a bit lost. Then maybe one of the SR guys saw the American Idol clip and thought "why not? Adds a flavour to the band and will get some press" If that actually happened then props to them. Do what you gotta do to survive and move forward. But unless Erik comes out and says "SR were my favorite band, I feel like Ripper Owens" then it's probably just a phase.

I'm a bit different to most here. ST was great obviously STTG was much heavier but after some listens it has some killer stuff. After that they went off the cliff. I've tried stuff post STTG with Bach and other singers with an open mind. i like to think I am open to changes (love post Jani Warrant, post Jack Great White etc), but in the end, shit music is shit music. Having a good and in vogue singer ain't going to polish a turd, so hopefully he cam help with the songwriting and they can put out something good. I'll give it a listen. Bach has made some gresat songs post SR, mostly ballads for me, not sure what that means.

Hopefully it comes good for me. I guess for me it's kind of overshadowed by the other 2 albums, which I really dig.

Apparently she did pretty will here. Took it like a champ.

Also Miss Crazy - I'm Sorry December

Not sure how well known these guys are. Local Australian band. To be honest, I've don't bother too much with local bands. Guess that has to change now that my daughter has joined Ablaze. https://www.facebook.com/ABLAZEband/

Yeah, just checked and the one I'm listening to is Ghosts Of Graceland which I missed. Don't know how this one was regarded 6 years ago, and it if makes my comment above make more sense.

Been listening to this, Kissin' Dynamite and Treat and of the three, this one and Kissin' Dynamite are the easy stand outs. Which isn't a good thing for Treat I guess.

Also the offers in the magazines - 9 CD's for 9c or whatever it was. Great opportunity to just pick some stuff that might be great based on pics etc.

The Adam Project. About what you'd expect. If you think Deadpool and the Hulk being in it makes is a guy movie, think again, my wife loved it and cried like 4 times. The King's Man Nothing like the fantastic first movie and the average sequel. This for me was really boring. Losely touching on history trying to incorporate the secret society at the smae time. Just mind numbingly slow and boring.

Yeah, heaps. Especially early on, as we didn't really get much info on hard rock bands over here. There was Circus, and Metal Edge and Hit Parader, but as an 18 to 24 year old, I wasn't sitting in my room dissecting rock mags, I was out partying. So I'd see something and grab it and usually it was great. One that sticks out was Stryper - Soldiers Under Command. I'm like "whoa, look at these guys, yellow & black, guns, guitars," So I grab it and put it on and I'm doing other stuff, just with background music happening, not really paying too much attention, until I hear "Jeeeeeesuuuus, king, king of kings" and I'm thinking "what the actual fuck?" I read the lyrics and it's the first Christian album I bought. Which I guess is a good thing as I wouldn't have touched it otherwise, much like all the other Christian bands out there. Aside from that, I remember visiting Bali when I was maybe 19 or 20 and they were all over hard rock. So much music blasting from the music stores as you walked past. They were all about cassettes and I was pretty much only vinyl but they were so cheap there (copies) I bought like 50 and brought them home. Listened to them all and checked the duds and replaced the good ones with records. Even now when I hear a Hollywood Vampires, Zinatra, LA Guns etc track it still brings back memories of hearing these the first time walking the streets.

Cool, some nice new stuff for me there. Will look into them more when I get time. Keep em coming

and that is subjective

Same here. Why not? It works so go with it. Most people here (as already mentioned) want to hear Def Lep from the 80's. Blaming Viv Campbell for moving further from that sound? Yeah, that makes sense, new guy comes in and the band allows him to change their sound for shits and giggles?.... Same deal with Warant post Jani etc Lose the expectation, and those golden memories of growing up with a walkman, and just enjoy good music. Listen to is as if it's a new band and you may be surprised...