Totally agree!I was torn between Hurry Sundown and Highway Song.Originally Posted by trurl
Not to get stupidly o/t, but The Outlaws spank MH and Blackfoot
(Rossington Collins anyone? - can one of you Rebs start a new thread so we don't totally derail this one?)
Immediately after this photo shoot he was admitted to hospital for a groin hernia
Nothing about The King of Elfland's Daughter - the cover, the artists, the concept - prepared me for the absolutely dull bluesy rock of the album.
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
How about Bloodrock and their later jazzier period? That's a disconnect. Any band named Bloodrock should be the scariest, gnarliest thing ever recorded. It should sound like Slayer
Funny, I was going to mention Budgie in my original post. Since I added Buckethead and Budgie to my iPod at the same time I was listening to them at roughly the same time too. What prompted this post it that if I expected anything, I expected Budgie to sound like Buckethead and Buckethead to sound like Budgie.Budgie with the Roger Dean covers.... I did NOT discover a new Yes!
Also, because of their history, storied drug use and time and place they flourished in I thought the Grateful Dead would be an acid rock band.... maybe along the lines of Jefferson Airplane or even Hendrix. Boy, was I ever surprised when I got In the Wake of the Flood as a young teen!
Yea, that Greatful Dead band, I think that's false advertising...
Exactly. Both inside and outside the album.
BTW, thanks for the entertainment. Even the southern rock sub thread is good. I remember my brothers having roughly the same argument in the seventies. I think the Outlaws won.
The only WA studio album that I don't own. I just couldn't bring myself to buy it.
GAH! Even Ted Nugent would have rejected that cover.
Well, the working title for Pirates was "Butt Pirates," so the photo made sense then.
I posted this same one on another thread recently. I could never tell if that was supposed to be a man or a woman. I still don't know.
Back in the mid-80s Celtic Frost might have deserved such a cool, harsh sounding name and evil looking album covers, but now their "classic" sound seems far from extreme.
I’m surprised there aren’t more albums listed featuring cool, “proggy-looking” cover art when the contents are anything but. Spring Suite by McKendree Spring and the Dschinn album immediately pop into my head.
In the other direction, Mind Exploding by Lucifer’s Friend comes to mind. The title and cover suggest early heavy metal, but the contents are actually hard rock/prog/jazz.
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
"Siento que debemos saber para el sueño de quién brillará esta luz
o consagrar una propia estrella" --Alberto Felici
N.P.:“The Bells of Notre Dame”-Eloy/Power and the Passion
Is that guy or chick.I don't care.The only WA studio album that I don't own. I just couldn't bring myself to buy it.
Actually i hope it's a guy because he knows already what i like.
Rubbing your bone on a knife?
dead can dance - never expected that type of music based on the name
Alice Cooper. They even picked that name precisely because of the irony in the first place.
I'm partial to Monsters and Robots myself.
How about album titles that don't match the music?
Wim Mertens - Maximizing the audience
i don't think the opening song really helps to maximize the audience.
This one was reportedly returned to record stores by lots of old women who were surprised by the music. I think they added the band name and title later, which probably helped. They were apparently expecting classical music instead of "Power, Corruption, and Lies.":
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This is definitely not what I expected after it was promoted on the Lawrence Welk show! Damned hippies.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
I for one didn't expect The Fresh Beat Band to look like this. Did you?:
Well, they chose the name Grateful Dead in 1965. At that time, "heavy metal" as we know it didn't exist. Jerry Garcia and company can hardly be blamed for not knowing that people in the future might mistake them for a band that played a style of music that didn't exist yet.
The funny thing about the Dead for me is, somehow I never made a connection with the name to heavy metal. Maybe that's because I saw pictures of Jerry Garcia in Guitar Player and Guitar World way back when, and I always thought he looked like a country musician.
Oddly enough, I also remember someone saying he didn't like Jerry's Tiger and Rosebud guitars, because "they look like heavy metal guitars". I guess that's because the horns were shaped similar to a BC Rich Warlock, though I think Tiger predated the Warlock by several years.
Love this! I just got done watching every episode of Downton Abbey, reminds me of the old lady on the show.This one was reportedly returned to record stores by lots of old women who were surprised by the music. I think they added the band name and title later, which probably helped. They were apparently expecting classical music instead of "Power, Corruption, and Lies.":
Where's the cereal they are advertising? They forgot to put the box in the promo picture.I for one didn't expect The Fresh Beat Band to look like this. Did you?:
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