tobi is an animal

 

I like myself some Dimebag personally.

 

 

Album sounds good to me, prefer it to Kings In The North overall; though Set Me Free is the best song from both albums.  

 

 

As far as vocal performances go, no one has ever sounded as good as Bach did across those first 3 Skid Row albums IMO.

 

 

 

14 hours ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

I'm tapping on the image, tryna increase the ranking of Higher. 

yea, that one caught me off guard as well. 

11 hours ago, Geoff said:

Compilation album? Not sure I'd be calling it that. A compilation of all their early demos, you mean? 

I just never thought of it as a true studio album.

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased.

 

Compilation albums[edit]

• The Best Of Harem Scarem (1998)
• B-Side Collection (1998)
• Ballads (1999)
• Rocks (2001)
• The Very Best of Harem Scarem (2002)
• The Early Years (2003)
• The Essentials (2005)
• This Ain't Over – Best of the Avalon Years (2009)
• Harem Scarem - The Ultimate Collection (2019)

 

On 9/8/2022 at 7:39 AM, Geoff said:

Point of interests is that 'The Early Years' is in my top 3 Harem Scarem albums and its absence is a massive oversight. After the fact or not, it is almost like an unofficial true debut album. An essential piece of their discography. 

Also, I spent about 5mins looking for 'Believe,' before I remembered it was released as 'Karma Cleansing' in parts of the world, and amazingly, as I just discovered then, does not feature the album's best song, 'Staying Away.' So ignore my 'Karma Cleansing' placement and pretend that is correctly so, 'Believe.' 

Early Years was omitted because it's a compilation album. 

I never even considered using Believe, as I've always thought of that album as Karma Cleansing. Staying Away is good, but Rain(sans full band) followed by The Mirror and Morning Grey would be the best songs on that album for me.  

 

I'm liking the 3 singles released so far, a def improvement over the last album.  Wig Wam is back.

On 12/5/2022 at 4:41 AM, Geoff said:

Yeah, Karpetface mentioned that too and I gave him a laugh emoji response as I thought he was taking the piss. But I assume you guys are actually serious. Fair enough. To each their own. Not personally a fan of this really obviously computer generated artwork myself, but that's cool.  

I was under the impression he was joking as well, either way the album cover is abysmal IMO.

2 minutes ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Yeah, but surely they care about money. 

I guess having the same in house writer/producer for most of the albums would save on costs.  I can't see many of their releases being a high revenue stream.

1 hour ago, KarpetRydOFunk said:

What? Who the fuck wants this?

I don't think frontiers puts much stock into that particular question with the majority of their releases.  It would seem, that any record label that has a quota of 500 songs per annum, penned by the same individual;  couldn't care less what people might actually want. 

On 1/4/2023 at 10:22 AM, Glen said:

So out of interest, aside from Geoff, what does everyone else think of the latest Kissin Dynamite album?

My take on it is songs like Not the End, Only the Dead, Yoko Ono, Hallelujah, No One Dies, Defeat It, Voodoo Spell were all awesome slabs of melodic rock and miles better than virtually any other song they'd ever released??

Add to that 2 great ballads in Gone for Good & Scars and you have a consistently great melodic rock album.

So guys, am I right. or am I the only twat liking this thing?? 🤔 

 

 

The album was lauded by most on here, but I thought it was just ok.  

On 1/31/2023 at 10:23 AM, tts42572 said:

This is really hard and it's probably splitting hairs between most of these put something together quickly off the top of my head.  I also wanted to keep my top 10 to one album per artist.

1. Def Leppard - Hysteria
2. GNR - Appetite for Destruction
3. Warrant - Cherry Pie
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
5. Tesla - Mechancial Resonance
6. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
7. Poison - Flesh & Blood
8. Skid Row - S/T
9. Firehouse - S/T
10. Dokken - Back for the Attack

Next 10 in no particular order, some of which could easily be in my top 10:

Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Warrant - Dog Eat Dog
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh
Tesla - Great Radio Controversy
GNR - Use Your Illusion I & II
Def Leppard - Adrenalize
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Dokken - Under Lock & Key
Tyketto - Don't Come Easy

The next 10 in no particular order which gets me to 30 total:

Warrant - DRFSR
Wildside - Under The Influence
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Judas Priest - Turbo
Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming
Slaughter - Stick It To Ya
Dangerous Toys - Hellacious Acres
Firehouse - Hold Your Fire
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Trixter- S/T

I'm sure I'm forgetting something but the general idea is there.

Solid list.  I like 23 out of 30. 

1. Def Leppard - Hysteria
2. GNR - Appetite for Destruction
3. Warrant - Cherry Pie
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
5. Tesla - Mechancial Resonance
6. Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
7. Poison - Flesh & Blood
8. Skid Row - S/T
9. Firehouse - S/T
10. Dokken - Back for the Attack

Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Warrant - Dog Eat Dog
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh
Tesla - Great Radio Controversy
GNR - Use Your Illusion I & II
Def Leppard - Adrenalize
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Dokken - Under Lock & Key
Tyketto - Don't Come Easy

Warrant - DRFSR
Wildside - Under The Influence
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Judas Priest - Turbo
Shotgun Messiah - Second Coming
Slaughter - Stick It To Ya
Dangerous Toys - Hellacious Acres
Firehouse - Hold Your Fire
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Trixter- S/T

 

On 1/30/2023 at 4:05 PM, Glen said:

85-95 is a v odd range lol. Surely everything after 93 is shit

 

It's all subjective of course, but I was able to come up with a solid top 20 for myself using only 94 and 95.

On 12/30/2022 at 10:43 PM, AlphaMale said:

Pitbull!!!!!

I don't know If I've heard a Ptibull song, if I did I didn't know it. 

On 1/20/2023 at 8:08 AM, Captain Howdy said:

Hate is a strong word, and I am quite eclectic in my musical tastes so for me to really dislike an artist it's not necessarily due to their genre.

The Darkness (fuck those vocals)

Coldplay (make me wanna kill myself they are so boring)

U2 (like a few of their earlier songs but overall I dislike them)

Mariah Carey (squeaky voiced annoying bollocks)

That cunt who sang Dance Monkey ... I cannot even be bothered look her dumb fuck name up

 

The Darkness never clicked for me the few times I've tried them. 

I've never heard a Coldpay song I liked. 

As for U2, I like When Love Comes To Town and I don't mind One.

Mariah Carey is pretty useless as far my musical tastes are concerned.

I don't know if I've heard that Dance Monkey song.

 

On 1/1/2023 at 3:41 AM, Geoff said:

I can't think of anyone I hate because I wouldn't hate someone just because they make terrible music. But if I hear Red Hot Chilli Peppers on the radio I get squeamish and my ears begin to fold in on themselves. They'd have to be my most hated, musically, artist that I can think of.  

I'm not a big RHCP fan but I don't mind a few songs.

do you think the chorus of this song is quite catchy? 

 

Alanis Morissette vocally speaking I can not handle, seems like a nice person otherwise.  Ironic is the most annoying song of all time followed closely by You Oughta Know.  

Oasis is also very annoying, Wonderwall always hated that song. 

On 1/27/2023 at 10:22 AM, Kristian said:

Impossible task for me to narrow it down to just 10. I think maybe somewhere between 50-100 albums from that period are all equally good to me.

 

yea, I fleshed it out a little further and the rankings after 20 are pretty interchangeable depending on the day. 

On 1/27/2023 at 5:14 PM, KarpetRydOFunk said:

Well, Believe was released after 1995. 

I do prefer Voice Of Reason to Karma Cleansing none the less. 

7 hours ago, Geoff said:

What an intriguing list. Humans could discuss and analyse it until the cows come on your home, but who can dispute one's personal choices? For me, the Cinderella album sticks out and I'm thinking maybe something sentimental with it? Or, you just really, really like it, lol. 

yea, I've always just loved that Cinderella album, nothing sentimental with it.   

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