HoldenSSV wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 4:16 am

Love_Industry wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:34 pm What do you think about Wake Up to the Real World and Kingmaker?

Disappointing.

Makes sense as you don't like RH&H and FW. Those are more in line with their early albums.

Planet Panic and Undress Your Madness may be your thing then.

Valid point, in five years all these nostalgia acts will be dead. Eagles, Coop, Stones, Priest, enjoy it while you can. Either that or they’ll be all scabs and sons of the main guy. Don't count on it. The Stones are still touring and the only exception I can think of, a huge band that stopped witho...

Maybe so but he's fucking Biff Byford so I'm cool with it. Better than trying to screech notes he can't reach... Isn’t he a total deadbeat dad? Yes, Biff had 2 kids and was married and divorced when he was between 15 and 20 years old. The kids must be in their mid 50s now. Think someone here mentio...

Pretty Maids. Pandemonium (2010) and Motherland (2013) specifically. I thought their 80s and 90s stuff sucked so I wrote them off until recently. I will give them a listen. I, too, thought they sucked Wow. Someone who thinks Future World and RH&H suck but Pandemonium and Motherland are great, t...

Speaking of ex-Skid Row singers, Erik Grönwall got up on stage and sang Cherokee with Europe in Stockholm yesterday Thursday. Europe were great by the way, they are usually good live but this was the best of the 5 shows I saw in the last 10 years. Local band so they play here a lot

One of my favourite Poison songs. Flesh and Blood is their most consistent album overall. Agree. Can't believe how huge they must have been in the US. F&B was their peak in Europe too, Unskinny Bop got quite some rotation on MTV and Every Rose was a hit before that but they never made it bigger...

I remember seeing the video once. Not sure which channel but it was on a metal show as VVI Boyz Are Gonna Rock came on right after. First time I saw those videos. Maybe Power Hour on Sky?

One of the big bands I could never get into but I can make a top 10 of really good tracks:

In and Out of Love
Tokyo Road
Livin' on a Prayer
You Give Love a Bad Name
Lay Your Hands on Me
Born to Be My Baby
Bad Medicine
Keep the Faith
Dry County
Blaze of Glory
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Why would you want to see such a previously virile and potent band full of wild feral energy reduced to this? Seriously. They sound like absolute dogshit, the stage is boring, corporate, dated, the setlist is utterly predictable, ticket prices are insane, what's left of the band are reduced to a sh...

UFO Thin Lizzy Really? I don't think UFO is underrated at all, in any incarnation! They always rock! And Thin Lizzy? Really? Jailbreak is one of the best albums of all time! There's no one on this planet that doesn't love The Boys Are Back In Town, and nobody who doesn't know it! And the rest of th...

let's not act like Phil has ALWAYS been there. He wasn't there for their commercial peak from 1983 to 1994 Wasn't most of the time Phil was away their commercial low point? Between the peak of HTH-BIB-FTATR and the revival with Razors Edge (which he wasn't on but still?) But yes, legal issues plus ...

I give the nod to 1980 as the greatest year in popular music, and I was 16 years old. The greatest year in popular music is always the year when you were 16... That would be 1999 for me. Definitely not! Lol Ok, it may be a generational thing then. If your 16th year was between say 1962 and 1992, it...

Dyslexicheart wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 2:51 am
I give the nod to 1980 as the greatest year in popular music, and I was 16 years old.

The greatest year in popular music is always the year when you were 16...

The 80s weren't all that great. Instead of ludes and free love, we got the War on Drugs and AIDS. Fuck Reagan. Add to that the Cold War in full swing and the post- Harrisburg/ Chornobyl nuclear panic. Not that great a decade but at least the economy was better than in the 70s. That said, those were...

Jason Jennifer Leigh wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 12:21 pm Brian sounds great!

Thanks.

Wait, what? Is that what goes for great sounding Brian these days? Maybe it's the recording but it sounds like he lost most of his power. Not comparing to 80s Brian, big difference even from 2010.

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:22 am The year Van Halen added keyboards.

That would be 1980, sir.

"And the Cradle will Rock" had Eddie playing a Wurlitzer piano through his Marshalls.

She’s Catholic and eats squid, octopus and lamb every week … she also likes custard … but no bacon. She also hates Ukraine. There is a love/hate thing with Ukraine in Poland. In general, Ukrainians are rednecks who come to take our jobs and women and should just sod off back to the USSR, but now wh...

Jason Jennifer Leigh wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:07 pm My girlfriend in Poland hates the Jews but she refuses to eat bacon. WTF?

Sounds like she is Muslim. There's a native minority in Poland. Or she just doesn't like smoked, salty meat.

Jason Jennifer Leigh wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:14 pm They eat a lot of seafood and lamb in Poland.

Not really. Seafood is not a Polish thing. Pork and beef it is. Only Jews and Muslims don't eat pork in Poland.

Also, Polish food is really bland. Like German food without spices.

Yeah, in my experience Zeppelin was never that big here in Europe (as compared to how they were received in the US). Deep Purple and Black Sabbath seemed a lot more popular than Zeppelin. I think that is the case here even today... I think Zep was huge in Europe too in the 70s, too young to remembe...

I've seen most of the bands/artists i want to. And they are not getting any better live! This. But if I have to list some that are still active/touring, I would pay to see Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Def Leppard. Depending on setlist and recent performances of course. The ones I would travel for....

Around 700 and counting. Had a few years where I almost didn't buy cds due to streaming and downloads and got rid of some cds but noticed I listened a lot less to music using Deezer and Spotify so I went back to buying cds. Had almost the same amount of vinyl but there I never really started buying ...

GoodJudge wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 10:23 pm
Their biggest song before Alone, Barracuda, couldn't be more Zeppelin if it tried.

Umm.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64

Yeah I know, it's a cover. So Barracuda probably sounds like Joni Mitchell.

My wife is asian from the Philippines. Funny thing, she didnt believe when I told her India is part of Asia. She said she does not consider them asians. Do people from India consider themselves Asian? I know many from there, but I have never asked. Geographically, they may be, but I doubt they do. ...

All I know is I saw them open for metallica and they got pelted with toilet rolls. Dutch Metallica fans couldn't give a fuck about Bonhams kid. Yeah, for European metalheads in 1989 Zeppelin was a half forgotten dinosaur band like Uriah Heep or Bad Company. Zeppelin didn't tour or release new mater...

Asian is a race, Oriental refers to a fucking rug 😀 Asian means from Asia, Oriental means from the Orient, European means from Europe. Neither is a race. Despite what I wrote earlier, Asia and the Orient are the same, the Orient apparently also includes the Middle East and the subcontinent. At leas...

Dave Muffstaine wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 5:18 pm

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 1:47 pm Maybe the reason that Asian women won't date you is because you call them "Orientals".

Asian is a race, Oriental refers to a fucking rug

On the other hand, Indian and Middle Eastern women are technically Asian too but it sounds like that's not what he meant.

Looking at some locations, seems you can live like a king in some places for a small portion of the cost it takes to retire in the US. Anyone else looked into this and if so, what are your thoughts? From those you listed, Malaysia may be a good option, and also India and Sri Lanka are affordable an...

By far the most stupid bandname in music history. I never could get past the name. Songs are meh, although they are considered to be the second coming of the Beatles by some on here. Cinderella has to be the worst name ever. Nailed it. WTF were they thinking? The label should have asked them to cha...

1 album per artist ... and no bands that had a career before the 80s... sorry VH, Heart etc Dokken - Under Lock and Key Queensryche - Rage for Order Icon - Night of the Crime Pretty Maids - Future World Electric Angels - s/t GnR - AFD Def Leppard - High'N Dry House of Lords - Demons Down Heavens Ed...