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Deine Lakaien - Dark Star & 2nd Star - definitely weird @FatherAlabaster, but I dig it. Thanks for the rec! The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth - one of my favorite lesser-known albums from the early 80's. The Cure - The Head on the Door Depeche Mode - The Singles (Greatist Hits comp) Kælan Mikla - Mánadans

On the playlist for today it goes.

Ooooh nice! I bought all of their previous releases after you mentioned them before. Good shit. This one goes in the cart for sure.

Sepultura - Morbid Visions Sadus - Swallowed in Black

Fireball is one of those frat boy/white girl sort of drinks I shouldn't like, but I do. Shit goes down way too easy. So I avoid it unless I'm in the mood to get absolutely wrecked. Had a couple of decent English Coffee Brown Ales from a local brewery and polished off the night with a couple of fingers of Eagle's Rare bourbon. Now that it's cold out, I think my bourbon stocks need replinishment.

Teres a place down there on the inner harbor I hit everytime I'm in Baltimore. Can't remember the name offhand, but you and Surge probably know it. Decent selection. Reminds me, I'll be up there for a week in May for work so maybe we can hook up. That place isn't the greatest, but decent enough. I make a point to hit stores in every larger town I visit. I have a regular spot in all my usuals. The place in Baltimore, Criminal & Fantasyland in Atlanta, Waterloo & End of an Ear in Austin, Sound Exchange in Houston, Zia in Vegas, Wuxtry in Athens...a couple local places here. They're all good, but pale in comparison to the good old days of Camelot and Sound Shop at the local mall. Or Record Bar. Or a cool local spot if you lived in the right place. You guys all had the spot where you went down on Saturday and blew your lawn mowing money on a couple badass records. The kids these days are really missing out and don't even know. As cool as digital is, it will never be as good as that. These days I have the money I wish I had back then, but not the time and the selection isn't as good. Story of life I guess.

Maybe only once every other year here. Didn't have much except classic rock, pop, and other mainstream genres. Mostly over priced to. The 4 I got averaged $20 each, which is reasonable. Most everything was $30-45 with some being in the $100+ range. Sorry, just not worth that.

Record fair downtown today, picked up a few. Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather AC/DC - Powerage Rush - Grace Under Pressure All first presses. Poison Idea - The Fatal Erection Years (Pick Your King EP/Record Collectors are Pretentious Assholes EP)

Tool - Opiate Rush - Caress of Steel

Casket Cassette - s/t

Have to agree here. Cinderella's first 2 are good hard rock albums. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks John Coltrane - Blue Train Greg Graffin - Cold as Clay

Of course. Who the hell would eat the actual food? Greasy slop from a truck stop outshines this crap, but the analogy stands. Crappy Wendy's burger over shit McD's. I don't want either, but if I have to choose one.... And Motley Crue sucks balls. One notch above Poison.

They do. I have performed my public service for the day. You've never lost a stupid drunken bet to a buddy before? Yeah, neither band is up your alley, hell they're not even stuff I listen to but maybe once a blue moon but I can still judge the comparative quality. It's like McDonald's vs Wendy's. Both suck but Wendy's has a better menu.

Ratts first 2 are superior, but over a 4 album run, Dokken bests what is admittedly weak competition.

Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From The Move This came up with the guys today with my good buddy stating he had no idea who they were and heard them on XM. Thought it was great. It's exceedingly rare he recommends anything much less that strongly. Keep in mind 2 things. 1) I would actually die for this guy. One of my closest friends. His music tastes are slightly less goaty than mine but essentially the same 2) he's the biggest KISS fan I know. So, I checked it out. I mean he just won $20 from me this summer over a hair metal debate (who was the best - I said Ratt, he said Dokken. Challenged me to a first 4 album listen-off, and well I paid up). I wouldn't be had again, but that MFer got me. This is the worst 80's crappy KISS imitation I can imagine. Just awful. Can't believe I just wasted part of my weekend on it. I feel dirty, like long hot shower dirty. Reminds me of the time I recommended "The Crying Game" to my red-blooded, meat and potatoes, John Wayne loving, 'murican grandfather as the best movie I'd ever seen. Needless to say he didn't speak to me for a month. Maybe it's karmic retribution.

One thing Aussieland and Florida have in common, the fauna is much more likely to kill you than not if you're not paying attention. Not everything mind you, but enough of it to warrant knowing what that bug/snake/aquatic animal is before you go fucking with it. I don't mind outside spiders for the same reason as Surge, cut down the annoying bugs (which will also kill you). Most are harmless anyway. We do have the odd recluse or widow, but I've only ran across a few in my time. I mainly dispatch them indoors because my wife doesn't usually see them until I'm dead ass asleep upon which she commences screaming as of she's being murdered. Not conducive to sleep, so I do the advance work.

Outside spider = friend. Live and let live. Inside spider = unholy abomination on the eyes of the universe. Must die. Those rules extend to all bugs.

Tis a dumb name

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - The Harvest - UK doom. Dig it. Fuzzy, chunky, decent yet minimal vocals.

I always figured it was because of production of physical media, but if we've learned anything over the past couple of years, the whole idea of the physical and digital media coming out at the same time isn't really valid anymore.

Yeah, I knew I was forgetting something. That Queen album deserves a spot on the list. I will say, I do have a problem with Unleashed in the East - it sounds too thin. I much prefer the sound on Priest Live, but the song selection is a touch better on Unleashed. I agree that Hell Bent for Leather is a better closer. For Live After Death, I usually only listen to the Long Beach portion of the show and treat the Odeon set as a different disc altogether. It does make it a bit incongruent, but sides 1-3 are just the tits. I've always preferred the VHS versions. Seeing the band is better IMO and it's a better representation of the set.

There is only one correct answer to that question: Iron Maiden - Live After Death I don't even think I would have Metallica in my top 5 live albums. I'm not sure it could compete with any of these: Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East Rush - A Show of Hands Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Motorhead - No Sleep til Hammersmith Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (although some days I would have World Wide Live here) So maybe I'd put it at 7-8.

It was a snarky comment at best directed at the regular posts on the site, not the EOTY lists. But, I was thinking that he was asking if these sites reflect what people on this site listen to. I'd say that's predominantly a no. Do they reflect what the larger community of metal heads listen to, somewhat. Like you said, they have to represent a little from every facet. Not a bad thing since if they were just focused on blackened-progressive-folk thrash from Lithuania, they never would have gained any sort of "metal mainstream" traction. At this point, I think they mainly review or write up what they are sent by labels and artists rather than hunt things down, but that's just my speculation. And Undeath-Frozen Soul-Squishabugg-200 Stab Wounds are all the same band. Saw them all on the same bill this year and besides the backdrop on the stage, I couldn't tell them apart. All decidedly mediocre at best.

It does make me feel better that I'm not walking into a "Crying Game" level ambush. Phantom Spell - Immortal's Requiem - I dunno man. I generally like the sort of "Adventure Rock" subgenre. Stuff like Hallas. This fits into that category to my ears, and I've seen it on a bunch of EOTY lists, but I'm just not really feeling it. Tis very good. I think I've come to expect so much from the Chasm that I didn't give this one enough credit, but it's probably going to top my very short list of DM albums this year.

Well that's about as strong an endorsement for weird shit I've seen out of you so I'll give it a go, but methinks it's a trick. Bassoons and french horns too. Christ.