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Metal Church - A Blessing In Disguise

See I can't even post gifs and shit. I don't even know what gif means??

Hahaha awesome!! I love how accommodating you lot are, willing to change thread titles just to suit our silly little complaints. This instance makes perfect sense to me though as it has been pointed out that almost nothing can be considered to be completely and truly 100% without flaws.  And I know that makes people exclude things that they love but maybe they see some tiny little flaw there that they think disqualifies it. Which is of course nonsense. Because at the end of the day who's really to say what's a flaw and what's a feature?
 
One of my all time favorites by a German band that never gets mentioned:
Morrigan- Celts
 

I took it as "favorite albums of all time". That's what these topics always end up being.
I'll add G'N'R - Appetite for Destruction. Definitely the best debut for a hard rock band that I was there for. Never topped it with the albums that followed however. Use Your Illusion could have been fairly equal if they would have combined the 2 and had a decent editor.
Best song: Rocket Queen

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and Conspirators - Apocalyptic Love (album)

Guess not super original but quite enjoyable. Energetic riffy death/thrash.
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay in Hell
 
 
 

I clicked through this thread and realised that I haven't posted in here, largely because the definition of flawless for me I think means I might have never heard a flawless release.  I need to think on this but I can't see me being able to put that much in here, surely the more I put in the more I am diminishing the flawlessness of the releases I do put in here?  Although, I am constantly discovering new music so I suppose the concept of finding something new to sit alongside an existing example of a genre/sub-genre isn't exactly alien.
Threads that make me think are not my favourites.  I am off to the Forum Games section to post spurious band names, loosely related words, album titles in alphabetical order (although if I keep ending up on X, Y or Z that can fuck off) and the endless playlist that is my existence whilst I ponder this thread some more.

I just finished Neal Stephenson's Fall (or, Dodge in Hell). I loosely sort of knew it would be a follow-up to Reamde. I didn't realize it would wrap up pretty much everything from Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle books too. I liked Reamde but I didn't feel as much of an attachment to the characters as I did with the other books, and I was surprised to see them become the vessel for the big conclusion. It was great; a sprawling epic with a lot of big ideas, different people having all kinds of different experiences in weird surroundings, converging and overlapping plot lines written in different narrative styles, funny, dark, sad, engaging. Classic Neal Stephenson. I was happy to read it, happy to see something on this scale come together again after his last few self-contained books. But I also didn't realize it would be the end when I started it. I've re-read most of his books a few times over the years, and now I feel like I just had to say goodbye to some old friends. Enoch Root gave a straight answer to a simple question. Still processing.

Trench Rot - Tyrant
Sodom  - Tapping the Vein

Antiverse - Under The Regolith

Haha I really dig FGTH The Power of Love song is the bomb.
Permanent 
Permanent Vacation was one of my first rock albums that my Dad bought me

Don't do it.... Wait wrong game
Vacation
 

Great... a Marko, a Marky, and an indeterminate quantity of Johans who may or may not be called Johan. I'm going to have to start handing out numbers. Welcome to the forum.

I thought this was your favorite song
 

Those are some of my favorite songs of all time 😟

Marko!! Glad you stopped by brother. 
But dude they don't know me as Whitenoise over here, to these folk I'm just the Goatmaster.
I don't lie, I embellish. There's a difference.
You know thinking back on my pooftah days of the late 70's and early 80's now it really seems surreal, like that all shit happened in another lifetime. It was 40 years ago, I should get a do-over.  But I do think I have an old video lying around here someplace of me back in my high school days circa 1978 though. Had to fight off Carmine's advances after the shoot because my faux satin pants got him all worked up.
1979, my senior year, I penned this one for Kiss because they were on the decline at that point and desperately needed a hit. I still get royalty checks in the mail.
 
This was 1980, a year after I graduated, I call this my headband phase.
 
 
Then this is one I did a few years later. They had to bring in Richard Simmons to give me prancing lessons. If you ask me I think I fucking nailed it.
 
And then I finally hit the bigtime with this megahit in '86
And who could forget this Whole Lotta Love rip-off in '87
This was one of the last ones I did in '91 when my daughter was just a baby. Hung up the spandex and hairspray for good after that and got a real job.
 

Dead (c'mon you saw that one coming from me right?)

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 

It occurs to me a lot Finnish metal uses Finnish mythology as subject matter and so did Sibelius-there's my official metal tie-in. 

Isn't Finland metal enough that it needs no further justification? 
On that note, NP: Demilich - Nespithe

Thanks for the rec. I found a good price on Amazon....listening right now...beautiful piano music

And now for something else...FINLAND-land of a thousand lakes and a lot of forking great extreme metal and, uh, one major classical composer of note-Sibelius (1865-1957)-as I make my way though the major composers-i come to a name I've long heard but have never actually listened to.....getting dangerously close to my lifetime...but this is no post modernism. 
Sibelius/Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis-seems to be a well respected cycle....a bit like Brahms looking backwards to the classical era....pretty good after 4 discs.

...I would also add "Flip Your Wig" to that HUSKER list as well....
 
...SST Records from 1980- 1987 was virtually unmatched in quality releases....
MEAT PUPPETS
MINUTEMEN
FIREHOSE
SACCHARINE TRUST
BAD BRAINS
DAS DAMEN
OVERKILL L.A.
WURM
BLAST
GONE
DC3
ST. VITUS
PAINTED WILLIE
....and obviously BLACK FLAG and HUSKER DU....
...I have every single release from SST through 1996...and most after that....great label....

I get none of that vibe from the unfuckwithable Teitanblood brother - they have always been straight war-black-death-goat sadists in my book. But they do some funky shit here and there.
I am DIGGING this Darkspace III that I got from your BC, btw! 

Here are 5 I like....maybe 6......
HUSKER DU - New Day Rising
MILES DAVIS - Tribute To Jack Johnson
STORMCROW - Enslaved In Darkness
NEUROSIS - Times Of Grace
KRAFTWERK - Autobahn
G.I.S.M - Detestation
 
......and a bunch more.....