Social Distortion
The Voice of Reason
I think it's safe to assume your a fucking idiot. I'm more metal than you'll ever be.
Took a long road trip, listened to all John Bush era albums
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I think it's safe to assume your a fucking idiot. I'm more metal than you'll ever be.
Thrashard
Whistler's father
nice fillers IMO, i hope they'll put out an album filled with fillers like ADI/THOIA (the speed part is AMAZING!!!) or IMITATION OF LIVE (one of my fav. Thrax tunes), ONE WORLD is also nice, i can listen to every Thrax-album from FOM to SOE + SOWN without getting bored.
So "Refuse To Be Denied", "Nobody Knows Anything", "Strap It On", "Taking The Music Back", "Think About An End" and "WCFYA" are the greatest songs in Anthrax history? cheers!
Jono
Hail Satan!
I never considered any anthrax heavy or thrashy. All the "thrashy" stuff comes off as more punk than anything else. I still love it though.
Social Distortion
The Voice of Reason
No. I'm talking about the whole album, not individual songs. It's a great album from start to finish.
spacebeer
Thrash Bastard
for me WCFYA is about all filler,maybe what doesn't die is ok, but that's it for me....
ok caddilac rock box is a fun song but it's as far away from anthrax sound as you can go.
mrthrax
riffer madness
love all your thoughts on bush era,the only productive thing i could add is bush era stuff sounds way damn better live,its really does the songs justice,ive never seen a crazier moshpit than the one i saw in sydney australia for stomp tour,random acts tore the place apart.
Deege
Member
I personally love the Bush era albums. Yeah, they aren't thrash metal...but it's solid songwriting and jamming riffs. And great vocals. Though Stomp 442 doesn't get much play by me...half of the album I could do without...but the production is pretty killer.
Thrashard
Whistler's father
Deege
Member
Not because of Bush. The songs just don't stand out to me on that one, not sure why. Just don't really care for "Nothing," "American Pompeii," "Drop The Ball," or "Tester." The rest I dig. And I love SOWN, Vol. 8, and WCFYA from front to back.
I could do without a large chunk of Joey era stuff too though. The songs they've been playing for years and years are great...but some of the other random album tracks just arent very good...with a few exceptions (and I hate the vocals on most of em anyway, though I can appreciate the songwriting).
Would like to know which songs from Stomp and Volume 8 are considered "Great vocals?". I like John Bush. He has a good voice for what he does. But some of the vocals on those albums are just well terrible. Some of the riffs are decent but often times they are ruined by the horrible vocals. That is what I notice when I listen to it. John Bush is very monotone and most of his vocals sound the same. Very little diversity in his voice. Which is fine, but the sound of many of his vocals on these albums just aren't good.
I would also like to see where the 'solid songwriting' is. I think these are the worst written songs Anthrax has ever done. Go listen to Among The Living and POT. Those are well written. Even SOWN is a well written album. Everything else after that is not very well written. And that has nothing to do with the vocals
Matt Bello
Sexiest Member
The weakest link on Joeythrax album, is Joey himself (especially live). Joey has a voice so much 80's hard rock hair band. If Bush was in the band on that period, they probably be as bigger (or not too far) than Metallica today.
I think Bush was the strongest link during the Bushthrax years, but he sucked singing Joeythrax. Conversely, Joey did fairly well with "Only" for having barely practiced it. That alone proves who the better singer is.
Thrashard
Whistler's father
Thrashard
Whistler's father
danaholica
Danazig
In the 90's Anthrax went the road of groove metal. Stomp is a great example, Thrash doesn't always translate to heavier music.A song doesn't need 18 changes to be a great song.Anthrax have grown as song writers over the years with much better lyrics and melodies. I think this next record with bridge the gap between all the haters....I prefer anything Anthrax did in the 90's over 90's Metallica.
Thrashard
Whistler's father
disagreed! i think they lost their songwriting-abilities somehow, somewhere between SOWN and Stomp. Please help them finding!
better lyrics perhaps but where are the better melodies???
Thrashard
Whistler's father
Thrashard
Whistler's father
If a song doesn't have good riffs, metalheads won't care that its lyrics are good and that it has a nice vocal melody in its chorus. This is what Anthrax did in the 90's: (1) alienate their metal fanbase, (2) attract a handful of POP music fans who are mostly interested in personal lyrics and saccharine vocal melodies, and (3) treat their singers like used diapers.
