AlSymerz

Mystik - Mystik

Feel like I'm closer to Al Bundy lately!

It's when they didn't pay rent and just disappeared that sucked. Thankfully I never ended up holding the ball because my name was never on any lease but I had a few mates left holding the ball when everyone pissed off.

The only two worth having are the beer one and the headbanging one. But they are very outdated and boring.

If only they were headbanging goats

A year younger than you, but don't tell anyone! I didn't have the space to store things, I had a collection of shit like clothes, some music, a stereo, bike etc which I kept at my parents place, but when I moved out it was into short term rentals, share houses etc and there wasn't room for collections. Any music, stereos etc were communal and either no one claimed them or the last one left paying the house claimed them.

I remember reading somewhere decades ago, ages after the movie came out and any sensible person knew it was a spoof, that something like 70% of people who saw it were convinced it was a doco. It may have been some re-release party thing about the time the song Majesty Of Rock was released. It may even have just been the media talking up things to try and get more people to see the film, but it was one of those 'metal-facts' that mags trotted out when they had nothing else to talk about. The fact that they then released an album in 92 I'm pretty sure helped the media (and Rob Riener) run the 'real band' 'real doco' theory for a bit longer. They did it again in 2009 when they released their 3rd album, but I think less people were interested in feeding the story and accepted the movie was a spoof and any actual music was released as an addition to the story. Chistopher Guest once said the band that inspired the movie was Saxon because Harry Shearer toured with Saxon. Saxon also claimed this to be true, (which is good of them). But then in 2017 Guest changed his mind and said there was no specific inspiration but there was many who helped. As good as Spinal Tap was Comic Strip did it better with Bad News.

Billy Thorpe was an Aussie rocker from the 60's who blew Ozzy and Ian Gillan's minds when they toured here and saw him for the first time. His music isn't at all heavy but his stage presence was huge and the way he rocked around the stage was clearly emulated by Ozzy and Gillan in the mid to late 70's. I've gone back and collected a heap of older records over the years. I certainly didn't have much of a record collection until the mid 80's, but throughout the late 90's and early 00's where my disposable income was large enough to enjoy things I pumped a shit load of cash into older albums. Like today's album some of them only have one or two good songs on them, and those songs are often put on best of albums or other such collaborations, but I've still kept the albums and bought more over the years. Unfortunately most of them are on vinyl and I don't listen to them because my turntable isn't connected.

METAL!!! <headbang emoji that doesn't exist on this forum>

If Kerrang said so it must do true. Kerrang wouldn't lie to us

I remember Marillion being all over the place back then. I never heard them but I remember their logo being in nearly every magazine so I presume it was for an album. No idea what they sounded like or what happened to them but I reckon I stopped seeing the logo by the late 80's. That album list is kind of weird, no Metallica, no Judas Priest, both of whom released albums that people today still call classics. Don't remember the last time I heard someone refer to a Animalize as a classic. Wasn't their too many people still arguing over whether Spinal Tap was real or made up for it to be a top movie in it's year of release?

I don't have heaps and heaps from every year prior to the 80's but when bands like Deep Purple, Led Zepp, Motorhead, Pink Floyd and AC/DC etc were releasing albums every few years, plus less heavy bands like CCR, Janis Joplin, Billy Thorpe and The Who had done the same it doesn't take much for me to form a list.

Bummer

Given it's not just a list of metal albums I didn't have any real trouble filling years prior to the metal explosion years. I don't know that I could be bothered going back before then but by 82 my list would be mostly metal, even if it's softer metal, and I think 83 would be all metal. I don't remember what year I got up to in the '10's and I can't be bothered looking back but I think I got up to 2020.

Rush was never a band I really got into, but of course they are metal. Let's not forget Jethro Tull won the first ever metal Grammy!

Saw this posted somewhere today, it's the Kerrang Readers Poll of 1984. It was obviously a different time for music in 1984 but even so how does Deep Purple come second in the best new band category in 1984?

Sacred Reich - Independent

Looking above I forgot to keep going after 81

Wow I think that's the closest we've been in just about every year. I own 7 out of those 10.

I think that's because you're thinking more deeply than I am capable of at the moment. My theory was simple, if we are all dissenting we doing the same basic act, therefore by definition we were the sheep. At least that's what I think I was thinking. No one wants to be friends with me because I listen to thrash but yes I agree prolonged exposure to some people makes it easier to read between the words. I'm sure we all still get it wrong occasionally but it does help. We've seen it happen here as recently as the Ice Nine Kills thread, I don't think anyone was being entirely serious, or trying to offend, in that thread but the result is the dude rage quit calling us old. How fucking rude!! I kind of don't care who I do all that with, within reason. Most of the time I will pick the audience, like you do, but there is occasional times I'll just throw my 2 cents worth in for the sake of entertaining me. But usually those sort of conversations are better had with people that you have a rapport with. Meatheads? Fucking meatheads? Now you've really fucking offended me!

Cosmic Psychos - Oh What A Lovely Pie

It seems that you've broadened my half arsed thought of no substance to something with more depth and that made my brain hurt. I didn't assume we'd follow the same path of music appreciation, but if we are all doing the same thing we are essentially sheep. Although I have to say, anyone who has tried to heard sheep before knows the stupid little fuckers do not follow each other, so really doing the same thing but walking different paths is the exact definition of what sheep do. I do agree with the rest of what, I think, you're saying though. There is no need to be offended by what is said anywhere, real world or internet world, words are just words and they don't need to hurt. To me, someone who is being a deliberate dick and trying to offend people is not really any different to the person who gets offended by a word they don't like and has to make a scene. But that doesn't mean everyone should stop using such words. The worst part of being free with word, letting loose, having a go, throwing some shit, call it whatever suits ones terminology, is that on the net it's often difficult to tell when someone is offended or upset. It's easy to say that I don't get upset by what others say therefore others shouldn't get upset when I say the same things, but that's not a real world scenario, there will always be someone who doesn't see things the way I do. I'm sure we've all mistakenly thought someone else was upset by what we said when they weren't and vice versa. Likewise we've probably all upset someone without knowing it. To me that's life, I'm not going to get cut up over it, I'm not going to run away crying, but if someone else does that's their choice. NP: Nothing because that load of dribble took so long the music stopped.

Dissent, mild disagreement or outright love and fuzzy feelings, forums exist for people to post shit to. The alternative is a hundred posts all saying "this place is dead". Dissent all you like you grumpy bastard but if you ever pick on my pink hat and purple polka dotted shorts you're off the Christmas list. However the thought does occur that if we all do follow down the same path of dissenting malcontents are still not all sheep just of a different breed? Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Marcabre - Carnival Of Killers

John Wick's biggest problem is John Wick. No1 was good, No2 was okay but not really anything startling and No3 was pretty much just rinse and repeat.