Originally posted by Trapped
First one is gay, aside from What Tomorrow Knows, CBF and Garden...
POE is their masterpeice.
DHIADW just plain blows.
Based on what you've written above I'm not sure if I'll like POE. Because if you think DHiaDW "Blows", then I would venture to guess our musical taste are highly divergent.
Here's a little background on my musical tastes/history:
At 7 I was exposed to "The Hottest Band in the World!! KISS" (that was in 1977 btw). I immediately enlisted in the KISS ARMY and proceeded to "wallpaper" my room with everything KISS. I bought every KISS LP from "The Originals" through Lick it Up. They were my favorite band until.....
In 1979 my best friend bought me Highway to Hell. We mourned the day Bon Scott died and couldn't believe AC/DC could go on without him. Yet Back in Black may in fact be their Masterpiece. AC/DC was tops until....
1982-1983...."Ozzy bit the head off a WHAT??!!" Blizzard and Diary didn't leave my turntable. Even went back and bought some Sabbath stuff but frankly it paled in comparison to Ozzy solo.
1983...The year that would define my musical identy for pretty much the rest of my life. My cousin plays an album that would define my musical world for a lot of my teenage years. Shout at the Devil is still one of my favorite albums. My brother picks up an album from on import bin because "it looked cool" From the openning note Geoff Tate sings on the EP, Queensryche hooked me.
1983-1986...Motley reigns supreme in my mind and on my turntable.
1986....Queensryche release their Masterpiece Rage for Order and entrench themselves as "The greatest band ever formed"...in my mind anyway.
1986 - 1994....Queensryche is far and away my favorite. However, 1986 - 1990 I also lived for "Hair/Glam Metal". I still love all those "80's bands". Poison, Cinderella, Dokken, Ratt, Warrant, Def Leppard, Y&T, Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses, Skid Row, Stryper, Tesla, hell even Slaughter and Winger found their way into my CD player. I still love these bands and listen to them often. However, I also was into "True Metal" bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Ozzy, and Dio. Forayed into the world of Thrash/Speed Metal with bands like Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, Venom, Exodus, etc but frankly they gave me a headache. Not my cup 'o tea at all.
1992 - 1994....Pearl Jam's Ten and Alice in Chain's Dirt don't leave my CD player. Still two of the greatest CDs in my entire collection. I never did connect with Nirvana or Soundgarden. <shrug>
1994 - 2002....Dream Theater awes and frusterates me with Awake and Images and Words. Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill captivates me. Tool absolutely floors me with Aenema. Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Gray shows that a 57 minute song can be amazing. Creed brings back memories of great hooks and I consider them the 90's version of Bon Jovi/Def Leppard. Most of the "Rap Metal" is lost on me except for Papa Roach. I am definitely "down with The Sickness" and love Disturbed's 1st release.
And finally there's Nevermore's DHiaDW.....I am loving this album and it is definately more "Heavy Metal" then I've listened to in a while. I hear elements of everybody from Pantera to Bruce Dickinson solo to Queensryche to Megadeth to Dream Theater. It quite and interesting mix and I'm actually a bit surprised I'm digging it so much.
So that should give you an idea of where I'm coming from musically.
Do you still think I'd like The Politics of Ecstasy?
Later
R93
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