CureTheSane

7 hours ago, Glen said:

another pointless cover. Need this pandemic to be over now 

Yep, big MEH from me as well.

I remember when I first heard this song.
You'd sit between the speakers and hear the 'stereo effect' of the noise after the word abracadabra.
Missing in this version

22 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

That was kinda my reaction, too. Though I don't think an album of "All Lips n' Hips" would do nothing. I just don't think they could ever write songs like that again. 

This album is a grower for me. Great musicianship all round. 

What I was kind of getting at is that an album of songs in the vein of All Lips N Hips wouldn't go down the same way today as it did then.
I have a bunch of band who I got into and ignored earlier albums, and then when I went back to those albums, some of them with songs that people froth, I haven't been able to get into the album or the songs.
White Lion, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns, Dokken, Winger, Great White, Europe. Couldn't do any of the first albums from those bands, even though I loved albums 2 onwards.
Then you have other bands I got in to late, like Harem Scarem, whose first album was easy to love.
I got in to Electric Boys after they reformed. To me All Lips N Hips is an ok, song.
I much prefer their later stuff.
I'll get 4 or 5 keepers off this new album, which is a win for me.

21 hours ago, nyoilers said:

Of course I'm gonna use these figures.Why not use facts.Let's go over these.

We all agree that the unemployment rate was 4.7% when trump took office.

There is no point discussing figures with you.

If you're going to hold Trump to account for the increase of unemployment that OCCURRED AFTER COVID HIT, then it is a futile discussion.

I have no allegiance to either side of US politics, I care more about how what you do affects me.
Arguments here are mostly controlled by which side people follow,

What's I'd say, from an outsiders point of view, is that Trump was HEAVILY slammed for not doing enough to lock shit down during covid. The main commentary was that he cared too much about keeping the economy churning at the detriment of the public and at the cost of many lives.
How the hell can anti Trumpers now come out and suggest that he didn't do enough to resist unemployment growth?
You can't have it both ways.

Here are two things I will guarantee.
1. Unemployment will reduce. This would have happened no matter who was in power as the country recovered.
2. Biden and his supporters will assume 100% credit for this. And there may be good reason for this. Remains to be seen.

in the meantime, Google "US unemployment rate"
Here is what appears....
The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% from 6% as more Americans sought work. The labor force, defined as the number of people working or looking for work, grew by 430,000 people last month.

7 hours ago, nyoilers said:

When Trump took office in 2017 unemployment rate was 4.7%.

When Trump left office in 2021 unemployment rate was 6.7%

Right now unemployment rate is 6.1%

Pretty obvious when you look at the figures.

I really don't give too much of a shit about this dumb argument, but damn, are you seriously presenting those figures for any kind of use at all?
Let me edit....

When Trump took office in 2017 unemployment rate was 4.7%.

covid hit and bent every country in the world over and fucked them in the asses

When Trump left office in 2021 unemployment rate was 6.7%
which would have been far worse if he had locked shit down more. I actually think he should have locked everything down more. This would have made unemployment far worse, but he didn't want to screw the economy that much so didn't. But rightly or wrongly, unemployment when he left office WOULD have been far hight had Biden been around then.

Right now unemployment rate is 6.1%
You think a few months of Biden has changed that?
Aside from the residual changes from the Trump administration that flow through to the next, there is a natural recovery as the country recovers.

thos stats you posted mean nothing. Nothing at all.

People want more lips and hips?
Same as a song they made in 1988?
Guarantee if they released and album like that now it would do nothing.

This is a great release.
Tumblin' Dominoes sounds like an Angels song with Doc singing.
 

Cool.
Very nice $1000 clip, shows a great idea can be better than an expensive production.
I like the song. I like the tame gang vocal thing, like the bridges, like the chorus, song changes around enough, some nice melodies and hooks.
Ticks all the boxes, like this band always does.

Meh to this whole album and vibe.
This is the kind of thing I'll play on spotify at work because it's something customers will dig and the versions are rockier than the original.
Listening to it that way would be ok, but as individual songs, they're just pop/rock covers.

For the record, I have never complained, nor would I.
Maybe there needs to be more emphasis on introductions.
Maybe opening discussions for new people on fav bands etc to make them a bit more comfortable.
Can be hard to jump into a group and it often appears more cliquey than it is at the start.

I've had Walk the Walk - Get Busy Livin' in my head for like the last 3 days.
And not the good bits, I've got the whoooaa, whoooaa, whooooaa shit eating away at my brain

I actually think this board is run pretty well.
I expected a clamp down during the political stuff, but was happy it didn't happen, and it ran its natural course.

I think I may be in the Mafia page on Facebook.
I'm in a few, but don't really participate, the format is not conducive to a discussion like a board like this.

I guess people are here for different reasons. Primarily I am here to find new music.
Haven't be on as much as before, but that's because business has been really good and just haven't had the time.

The problem with Stryper is they talk up the album and being heavy and "no ballads" and balls out, and this puts me off.

They Stryper I don't like is the high end Michael Sweet screeching, and I like their ballads and more melodic stuff.
When I eventually get to an album I'm usually pleasantly surprised and it's better than I had thought.

But yeah, that first song, lol

Big truck keeps on rollin' Love me some Trucker Diablo.
These sound a little more mellow and refined than usual.
I'm liking them a lot.

I miss some of the better threads
Upcoming releases
Album reviews where people gave the stoopid ratings
The nude girls thread
etc

So I'm listening to Stryper - God Damn Evil for the first time.

All I heard during the first son was "Chicken in the bus" rather than Take It To The Cross.
Yep, that song is ruind for me forever now.
Lucky it was a pretty shit song.

On 4/24/2021 at 5:39 PM, Glen said:

I bet all those poor bastards in India would currently let them jab anything in their arm right now.

 

 

100%
If you could be bothered looking back at early posts on this, one question I asked was why India had been so unaffected.
I've been there, and it just didn't make sense.
The huge amounts of people in close living spaces, the poverty, etc
Sadly they caught up and are pretty fucked right now.
I deal with people in Brazil and they are also doing it pretty tough. They tell me stories about graves being dug up to make room for more people.

Here in Australia, we were looking at manufacturing 50 million astrazeneca doses by the end of the year.
Now we have followed suit with some of Europe etc and have ceased giving the shots to anyone under 50.

So hopefully they still manufacture and we are able to export them to a country who would desperately take anything, like India.
Also saw the UK demonstrations on TV tonight. Looks like some people are pretty fed up with lack of freedom.
There is a serious possibility that unless this gets nailed fairly soon, there will be more of a worldwide decision to start living again and risk-it-for-the-biscuit and hope they avoid covid...

On 4/22/2021 at 11:41 PM, heavyharmonies said:

Short-term testing, yes. But we know nothing about long-term side effects or interactions. You can't truly simulate that; you have to see what actually happens.

You can say the same thing for every fucking vaccination.
nobody knows any long term side effects, but they can make pretty good assessments due to how much they are in line with 'like' vaccines.

Stop eating junk food, nobody knows the long term side effects.
Stop using your mobile phone.
Cancel 5G
Etc
Etc

At some point everyone is taking a risk and not considering long term affects of something.
Given the virus and what it does to you, surely blind freddie can see that the extremely low risk VASTLY outweighs the consequences if you don't get it?

23 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

None of the vaccines have been adequately tested. Yet. We are the test. It's all live data. So I'm gonna wait a year, or so, and see what comes of this. See what super powers y'all develop, and then choose which one I want. 

I call BS on that.
These have been the most tested vaccines ever.
 

Regardless, I'm going to wait for Pfizer if I can.
Not because of the extremely rare blood clotting issues, but I see Pfizer as the better vaccine.
Unless I get to travel after any vaccine, then jab me with whatever you have and I'm off.

So I was thinking the other day, that DLR solo shits all over his VH stuff.
Fight me and prove me wrong

I saw Warrant/Firehouse/Trixter concert from Lafayette in 1991 (it's on YouTube)
Pete Loran was pretty fucvking bad for me.
And they were in their heyday, at least Vince was shit at the end of his career.
I mean Trixter were 8 years old here, he should have been far better than he was.
Smacked of someone who sung out of his natural  range and screwed himself when trying to replicate it live, like Sammy did with Dreams...

I like BVB.

Not sure about this one. May take a few listens

On 4/15/2021 at 3:28 AM, Paul Alfery said:

Still shooting for hooks and layered harmony vocals.

 

Keep doing that and all of us here will stay on board.
Sad to hear about Jason, wish you the best with a new album.

I used to think religion was necessary in society to help contain the feeble mind of those who could not deal with their mortality.
I figured that if all religion suddenly disappeared, that people who all go nuts and there would be chaos, and therefore it helped regulate them and keep them all in a safe and warm place, with Jesus or (insert relevant deity here) leading them to heaven (or valhalla, or whatever)

Over time I've come to see the damage that it has done and is doing to society and I think that it really isn't needed or protecting the weak.
Further to that, I would suggest that with our fucking woke, PC life that we all have to live now, it won't belong before promoting any religion ios outlawed.
All it takes is a few people to voice 'their truths' about how the words hurt them.
Would be nice if this happened.
As much as I hate the ability anyone has to effect ridiculous change in the name of PC, would be nice of it did something good for a change...

Keepers from this

Somebody New
Strange
Looking For Me
War
Heart Tattoo
End Of The Road

On 8/20/2018 at 1:03 AM, kourosofsteel3 said:

Angra - Time

Ted Poley - Time

Helloween - Time

Royal Hunt - Time

 

Amaze Me - Time