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If you ask me, yes. If you ask another Angra fan down the road, you might get the answer Holy Land. They are two very different albums....Holy Land featured original Angra singer Andre Matos who...

I love The Damned...really want to see that doc. I find their early punk years far superior to the bands of the time that they get lumped with, and Phantasmagoria showed that they had a lot more...

I've used them several times, both direct and through Amazon...I find them reliable and they often have the best prices on import items.

These are two that I always quite enjoyed (The Cure probably doesn't qualify as a synth band, but worth including here nonetheless):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAvaFZ_gT0

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Another band that comes to mind (and I don't know if they're still around or not) is Jackdaw4. I don't know a ton about them, but I've got a couple of their albums and find them quite enjoyable, and...

I'm a big fan of the first fun. album Aim and Ignite. While they became *huge* with their second album and the single "We Are Young", the first album is a much more organic pop gem.

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Absolutely agree that it was the best thing Yngwie has done. And I always love me some Graham Bonnet (who actually has some new decent-sounding music out). The album with Vai, Disturbing the Peace,...

I like the Monster brand USB drive. The gold plating and Tuscan marble handle really help limit signal degradation and there's way less static and a much brighter, more accurate sound than I got...

Well, I think they might be on par w/ McCartney. And I only say that because the guy has truly sounded like ass for years now, and nobody ever seems to say anything. I guess he's earned a pass or...

Unless Axl has gotten his act (and voice) together, there's no way I'd consider paying serious money for this. I consider myself lucky to have seen them twice in small venues back before Appetite...

In S1, there are definite references to things that happened in the past. I don't remember exactly, but I believe that Lou (in S1) references the "massacre at Sioux Falls" on more than one occasion...

So how are these in terms of sound quality compared to the originals? Honestly, these aren't albums that I thought needed any remastering treatment.

While I understand that the Crue can't be taken all that seriously, they certainly had/have their place. Tommy Lee is a very good drummer and Nikki Sixx definitely has song-writing talent. The...

Looking forward to this one; I've got the previous two albums which I like quite a bit. I love the vocals and guitar tone.

Any info/opinions on these bands? I'm not familiar with either.

Actually, Maiden has done quite a few covers; they traditionally do a cover or two as a b-side or extra track on their singles (at least back in the day when those were such a thing), and I think...

I dig Graveyard...saw 'em on the Lights Out tour and quite enjoyed the show. But for some reason they are a total hipster band here in the States. The vast majority of the crowd was guys in their...

Sparks is one of the coolest bands on the face of the planet. There are so many different eras of Sparks...it's no surprise that folks on this board give love to the early albums (and I count...

I think the first four Aerosmith albums are a basic bedrock of American hard rock...so great and influential. My personal favorite, and one of my favorite albums of all time, is Rocks. IMO, it's...

Fabulous live act...I've seen them a few times and they've never disappointed.

I still scratch my head about why a band this talented is still so far under-the-radar. And I'm tired of talking...

Well, NIN was the first thing that came to mind for me, but I'd say the anger only lasts through Downward Spiral (ok, maybe Fragile). Once angry, drug-addled Trent became buff, healthy Trent, the...

Anybody complaining about a lack of dialogue or plot is pretty much missing the point. This is a sledgehammer (actually, maybe more of a jackhammer) of an action movie.....a completely visceral...

I only have a passing interest in the whole 2-tone sound, but I do think that I would probably put "Ghost Town" in my top 50 songs of all time....just a great, great song that captures a time and...

One of the first that came to mind was Axl Rose....when GnR first came out I was amazed at how different he sounded on something like "Mr. Brownstone" vs. the higher-pitched "Welcome to the Jungle"....

Last night, I went to see my personal guitar hero Michael Schenker...this time touring with Doogie White on vox, and ex-Scorps Francis Buccholz and Herman Rarebell (which I was excited about for...

He could certainly be considered the primary songwriter, but the other members of the band also write a lot of the material. In fact, my fave Maiden tune is credited solely to Dickinson...

Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) put out a solo album a couple years back....although it probably would have been best if he hadn't bothered. Very bland, under-cooked hard rock.

Screeching? Methinks you're clearly revealing your bias.

Of the myriad shows I've attended over the years, there's only a couple that truly stand out on either end of the spectrum:

The good: Roger Waters. Actually, every time I've seen him (3 regular...

Sounds like the OP is into heavy modern radio-oriented rock....which is fine.

I highly recommend checking out the band Breed 77. They are criminally unknown (at least in the States) and should be...

I was hoping! Beauty Stab is a great, great album.

Up until the end, I thought they were just using some really elaborate and clever tracking and crane process (though the logistics of that still boggle me). But the high altitude shot really threw...

Looks like Chris Shinn is their singer now....he's really good. He was in the band Unified Theory (with two former Blind Melon members) who put out one incredible album. He also had a solo project...

I highly recommend the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. I think fans and detractors alike would at least be entertained by it. It really gave me a new appreciation for her.

Count me as one of the Marillion fans that never warmed up to "Hooks in You".....for me it always felt forced and out of place. As far as the OP's list, I'd put those four songs in the same order,...

Glenn is very hit and miss for me; interestingly no one has mentioned the two projects that I think are his best work: Hughes/Thrall (just a great heavy AOR album), and his stint with Black Sabbath...

Well, as far as being a true "singer", this is probably true. But Gillan is the iconic and definitive voice of Deep Purple.

I haven't ordered from DD in quite a while, but over the years have placed orders without issue. That said, it seems to me the OP didn't really handle things correctly. Vendors typically have an...

Sorry, no matter how many pretzels you try and twist yourself into, there's absolutely zero justification for Tull being nominated (much less winning) in a "metal" category. Anybody even casually...

QFT.

A few that I came up with in a quick scan of my CD list:

D.A.D. - Helpyourselfish
Alias Eye - A Different Point of You
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Blaqk Audio - Cex Cells
Deep Purple -...

I like TE quite a lot....it's a bit inconsistent, but then I think that's the case with most Sabbath albums. For my money, "Gypsy" is one of the Sabs' top 10 songs.

I certainly believe Rush fits the category/genre that the OP intended (and I am one that tends to argue that they belong on the "metal" side of the ledger). You wouldn't have to twist my arm too...

You're probably already more than familiar with it, but Metallica's Black Album is widely considered the gold standard as far as sound quality. Bob Rock knows what he's doing.

Production-wise,...

1970 - Paranoid (BS)
1971 - Who's Next (The Who)
1972 - Lonesome Crow (Scorpions)
1973 - Montrose
1974 - Phenomenon (UFO)
1975 - Sabotage (BS)
1976 - Sad Wings of Destiny (JP)
1977 - Foreigner...

Pull is indeed a good album, but the last two albums that Winger put out when they reunited, IV and Karma, are really outstanding....truly top-notch hard rock with great songwriting. If you haven't...

Rock Candy is a cool label and I've been very pleased with any of the releases I've picked up from them. I'd dearly love it if they would get a hold of the Stone Fury and Starz catalogues.

The...

It sounds like you're asking about his complete discography, not just his MSG/solo output. Given that, the answer on the very first thing to pick up is UFO's Strangers in the Night, which is simply...

The solo album that Blaze put out after he left Maiden, Silicon Messiah, is actually far better than either of the albums he did with them. Faint praise, but it's still a decent album.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I think "Royals" is a cool song....or at the very least, it's quite an earworm.

I'd also make a comment about Lorde's looks, but she's only 17 so I don't want to...

Well, for me....Marillion, by a long shot.

Something about LaBrie's voice rubs people the wrong way. And I count myself among those people. I think the timbre of his voice is whiny and unpleasant....I really dislike him. And the first...

I wasn't familiar w/ Joe Cocker's version...just went and listened to a clip. Same song, but Aerosmith's version is more in line with the original '50s torch song.

Sigh. Literal much?

"Cry Me A River" was on Rock in a Hard Place....so I can understand a lot of people aren't too familiar with it. Actually, I think that's an underrated album...there's some...

I can't get on board with the last two because I prefer to pretend the soulless-Diane-Warren-Movie-Soundtrack version of the band never really existed and that it was all a bad dream. But I'm with...

The "Best" list isn't complete without mention of Klaus Meine. Scorpions always had some of the best ballads, from the '80s power ballads like "Still Loving You" to the cool '70s stuff like "Yellow...

That's three more songs than most bands have. Therefore....not unsung.

Ugh, yes, that was him. He was an average singer at best, and the only notable thing about the Steeler record is that it marked Yngwie's debut. It was cool at the time because of the guitar...

Wait, why are you trying to get this thread back on track? Don't you know you're interrupting all of the big babies who are senselessly arguing over squishy labels? C'mon man, get with the program!...

Yeah, Ron Keel won't cut it vs. Graham Bonnett no matter how great the guitar playing is....