Songs and bands that sounded great until you listened to them

[dragster]

The DARKNESS

 

[Satanstoenail]

I agree Angus Young and Bon Scott are very good musicians but i can't tell if tey are misguided because I have heard very little of their newest material.

I never said they were misguided, I said the notion of them being talentless was misguided.

Master of Puppets was/is a very good album. It opened up a lot of musical ideas for heavy/thrash/bands, and probably others. It was a very influential metal album. However, influential does NOT mean good/great. In being honest and of course this being my opinion, the songwriting was good, not phenominal. The vocals are average. And the musicianship also average. Strong rythm guitar work, good bass playing, but here for me it gets weak, the drumming for a "huge" metal band at the time is just fuckin' below average. Listen to the album again, Ulrich could have been more creative in his fills and rolls. Hammet displays a decent talent on guitar, but completely over uses the "whammy bar" on this. Decent leads at times, but IMO, uses the bar to cover up his inadequacies as a real player. All that said, I still listen to it every now and then. In 1984 "MOP" was a shot in the arm. People wanted metal to be muscular and thick, and this album succeeded in doing that. People stood up and took notice. "Ride the Lightening" was a better album musically.

Ulrich & Hammet are definitely the two lesser musicians in Metallica, but I think they were at their peaks on Puppets & Justice For All. After that Ulrich went four on the floor and Hammet discovered the wonders of the wah-wah pedal. The songwriting on Puppets is Metallica at their best IMO. There's not a weak song on the album. Songs like Battery, Disposable Heroes, Sanitarium and of course the title track are flawless imo. Also Puppets came out in 86, Ride The Lightning came out in 84.

 

[Ice]

ZZ Top is great. I've seen them live twice. Amazing show both times.

I agree ZZ Top is awesome.

 

[v2kv]

Whats songs "They come to snuff the Rooster" ? That was a goood song

"Rooster", and yeah I agree...great song

 

[Vimana]

When I listened to MOP (the song, not whole album) I thought it was alright, but it seemed to be lacking something huge but I didn't know what.

Most Industrial bands people introduced to me I didn't like at all. And the people introducing them said they were awesome.

And Junkyard Saints, they're a kind of Jazz, Blues, Rock band from Baltimore, I saw them at the park near my house because it was free. And they were awesome (at the performance), so I got one of their albums, it was nowhere near as impressive as the songs they performed, there were a couple good ones (the ones they performed) but the others weren't good at all.

 

[headbanginblazed]

MOP was a decent album. Sanitarium,Battery,and Leper Messiah are the best songs, although Battery is the best one imo

 

[cholo11]

Battery is still a fucking sweet song. Probably my favorite Metallica song

Very true, It may be simple but it fucking awesome.

 

[cholo11]

Btw the first time I mentioned MOP I was referring to the song not the album. I like the album but I don't like MOP song very much, everyone says its awesome and things like that but I just find it good. I even like more some Trivium version of MOP song even though I think Trivium is fucking gay.

 

[Vimana]

Tool, and the song Creep by Radiohead. And Loser by Beck.