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12 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Interesting academic discussion but in the end who gives a flying fuck. Vinyl should be dead and buried.

I've given all mine away 5 years ago now because I have no more use for it. But if someone can derive enjoyment out of my old vinyl then I see no reason to bury it. But they should probably stop making more of it because in the end it's a shit format and a waste of space. But...I give a flying fuck Doc. Having used that shit format for two decades and knowing several people who use it to this day I'm interested in how it works, even though I have no plans to ever use it again myself.

 

 

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30 minutes ago, Dead1 said:

But I likes my vinyl (and my CDs).

You're such a fucking hyper-individualist 😛

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11 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I see no reason to bury it. But they should probably stop making more of it because in the end it's a shit format and a waste of space.

I meant metaphoric burial as you well know. I'd like to sell/give away my vinyls but I agree there will always be niche interest in it. You can lead a horse to water, apparently.

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Your collection is probably so ecclectic and weird that it would be considered rare. If a new release vinyl is $50-60 in this country you could be sitting on a gold mine!

I'm sitting on an empty mine, there might be 200 LP's there but they are all albums that most metal heads already have,

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17 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

The best Queen album that I can listen to and enjoy most of it without having to skip over too many tracks is Sheer Heart Attack with its 4 outstanding rockers. Still have to at least skip Killer Queen, Lily of the Valley and Leroy Brown though. Rooty tooty fresh and fruity. 

Now you on the other hand were only just born the year Night at the Opera was released, which means you must have had to go back at some point in the late 80's or 90's after heavy metal and thrash metal and maybe even extreme metal had already come into your life to seek out those old 70's Queen records. To each his own as always, but I just don't get that man.

Queen II is heavier, pound for pound, than Sheer Heart Attack, I think. Queen I has Son and Daughter which might be my favourite song. For the record, I was born in March '74, a few weeks after Queen II was released. (Wikipedia says they finished some recording in January, then mixed/mastered and RELEASED by 8 March)

It was when Highlander came out in 1986, which Queen did the soundtrack for, when I really got into them and went back to discover the 70s. They also did the Flash Gordon soundtrack (most of it is terrible), and I had seen that movie in the cinema in 1980. The outro credits roll with the song "Hero" which was pure rock.

I think the track "Gimme the Prize" from A Kind of Magic might be singularly responsible for kick starting my entire interest in heavy metal. I had dabbled before that with Twisted Sister and was quite into it, but it was gimmicky and the hook was hilarious music videos as much as the music. It could have been a phase that passed.

Which is why I have this bizarre affinity to Queen. I like the silly piano bits, ukulele, honky tonk  and guitar noises as much as the rockers. To me the ebb and flow/variety of the albums was key. I am still that way. A relentless attack for 40 minutes usually bores me.  It's why I like Black Sabbath so much too. Those early albums have massive variety on them, albeit darker overall than anything Queen did.

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43 minutes ago, Serpentboi1992 said:

Necronomicon - Necronomicon 1986

Heavy Load - Stronger Than Evil 1983

I had both of these records back in the day so for once I don't even have to try to read the crazy band logos, I know these covers. The Swedes do sound a bit cheesy to me these days but they're still good for a spin maybe once a year. But man that Necronomicon album is seriously underrated, or unknown at least, flew right under most peope's radar. Grabbed that in 1986 just on the strength of the cool cover, had no idea what I'd find inside. Turned out to be one of my favorite German thrash albums from that period, raw af, razor sharp guitars, sorta veered into black/thrash territory before that was really a thing. I thought it was easily as good or better than anything from the more well known German thrash bands. Unfortunately none of their other releases ever quite lived up to the promise of their self-titled imo. Their third album Escalation's worth a spin though.

 

Necronomicon - S/T 1986

 

Necronomicon - Escalation - 1988

 

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14 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

Queen II is heavier, pound for pound, than Sheer Heart Attack, I think. Queen I has Son and Daughter which might be my favourite song. For the record, I was born in March '74, a few weeks after Queen II was released. (Wikipedia says they finished some recording in January, then mixed/mastered and RELEASED by 8 March)

It was when Highlander came out in 1986, which Queen did the soundtrack for, when I really got into them and went back to discover the 70s. They also did the Flash Gordon soundtrack (most of it is terrible), and I had seen that movie in the cinema in 1980. The outro credits roll with the song "Hero" which was pure rock.

I think the track "Gimme the Prize" from A Kind of Magic might be singularly responsible for kick starting my entire interest in heavy metal. I had dabbled before that with Twisted Sister and was quite into it, but it was gimmicky and the hook was hilarious music videos as much as the music. It could have been a phase that passed.

Which is why I have this bizarre affinity to Queen. I like the silly piano bits, ukulele, honky tonk  and guitar noises as much as the rockers. To me the ebb and flow/variety of the albums was key. I am still that way. A relentless attack for 40 minutes usually bores me. It's why I like Black Sabbath so much too. Those early albums have massive variety on them, albeit darker overall than anything Queen did.

Bands moved quickly back then. Their debut was July '73, Queen II March 8th 1974, (my little sister's 10th birthday) Sheer Heart Attack November '74 and then their breakout album A Night at the Opera November '75. 4 albums in the space of 29 months. Pretty sure I bought SHA first and then went back and got the first two records.

I remember Highlander, my roommate taped it off the cable tv on VHS and we watched it countless times. There can be only one. His other movie was Sid & Nancy, we had to watch the two of them on repeat, he even slept with them playing. He used to throw both of them on a lot at night with the sound turned off so we could play music. naturally I recognized that Queen did the Highlander soundtrack because no one sounds like Freddy, but by '86 I was already well down the thrash rabbit hole and I didn't really care about 70's rock dinosaurs like Queen anymore.

I clearly have issues because a relentless attack for 40 minutes is the goal, and what I search for to this day. Have little tolerance for intros, interludes, ukuleles, silliness or frivolity. Just rip my face off please.

 

Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac, Ottawa Canada 1983.  I've been wanting to hear this since Deadly posted it yesterday. Would personally say this was my favorite metal album of 1983 narrowly edging out Melissa and Show No Mercy. Iron Dogs eat the city!!

 

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