Load and Reload are fine for what they are - middle-of-the-road “gateway to hard rock” albums for kids getting in rock and roll and hardcore Metallica fans. Not worth of any critical acclaim, but they get the job done.

Kind of like 70s Kiss, except a few of the songs are good.

drugs/alcohol/personality

They have two songs - some festival dates and maybe a show or two in New York has gotta cover the demand from TS IN 2025.

Let me guess.... "I hate Templeman's production on our successful records" "I hate my guitar tone on our successful records" "I hate the music videos from our successful records" "I hate the successful cover songs we did on our successful records" And further ...

Oh wait, you said "good." Nevermind.

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Yeah. Everybody gets into dealings with Trump because they think they're too smart to be screwed over. Then: -Trump gets everything he wants -Trump doesn't give the other person anything they expected to get -Trump drops them -If they complain Trump goes nuclear and turns his cult against them Elon ...

Best selling album in the USA of all time. 38x platinum.

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 05, 2025 5:48 pm I can see Eddie saying "I will never play on the same stage as Yngwie Malmsteen," but not for the reasons he thinks.

He got what he wanted from DOGE, now he needs to sell cars again. He hasn't got anything - Losing the EV and energy subsidies would be catastrophic for Telsa. All he would have gained out of getting involved with politics would be devastation to his company if this bill passes - which is what start...

Sell all that shit.
Buy a quad cortex/helix/headrush.
Join a band that plays casinos/nicer bars/private events.
Enjoy playing for the sake of still playing.
Have fun, meet people, enjoy your life.

I Want a Woman is certainly one of the big reasons "Hair Metal" went by way of the 8-track tape. Nirvana was the final nail, but without Poison and Warrant kicking their legs in unison like the Rockettes and once respectable bands like RATT coming out with this drivel, Nirvana may not hav...

I think it's more either/or.

You have guys like Paul Gilbert that are very schooled and got where they got from hours of disciplined study (and probably autism).

Then you have guys like Ed that are are just freaks, maybe come from a musical family and just pick it up (and probably autism).

Ed was so weird that I believe some of this.

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/yngwie-malmsteen-intimidated-eddie-van-halen “I never said a bad word about him. I never will. Because I think he was amazing,” he says. “But I used to know a guy that worked in the grocery store where Eddie would shop, and the guy would ask him: ‘Hey, ...

Named after a Beatle, like everyone else whose Mom was a teenager in 1964.

Never heard of these guys until Sludge for a good reason.

Singer doing a bad Axl Rose imitation over some of the most paint-by-numbers LA rock. Terrible.

:cry: Would you rather it be Ashba? Yes. He should have been IMO. Better fit, has already worked with then. I wonder why they didn’t pick him? After the MC "farewell" tour, I think Sixx planned to make Sixx:AM a legit fulltime band. Ashba left GNR right around the time the MC farewell tou...

Tracii was selling Nikki’s gear on eBay for him because he was hard up after a divorce. Nikki felt like Tracii was skimming off the top or stealing or some shit.

In what universe did the songs from Hysteria disappear? Not the one we live in :lol: Spotify numbers: Pour Some Sugar On Me - 544 million plays Hysteria - 250 million Photograph - 164 million Love Bites - 142 million Animal - 115 million plays Only one song in their top five most listened to ISNT fr...

Probably doesn't need to be said again, but it will anyway:

Blue Murder.

If they were a real band ....Traci guns But as long as they play to a click it doesnt matter Back in the Brides of Destruction days that might've been a possibility. I remember Eddie Trunk asking Vince about that and he said "No. Not while I'm alive". Yeah I remember an article in RIP aro...

No. The songs are embarrassing and hearing Dave singing them is a joke. Half the songs were written with their manager, who was not a songwriter. :lol: Ain't got no job, ain't got no smoke Ain't got a car, his life's a joke Living on the skids, thinks the world's just fine Forgot what he did, dancin...

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Great verse, tuneless NIN-sounding chorus. Guitars sound like some parts were recorded years after others.

Mess of a song. 4/10.

If we're gonna talk Van Halen, the glaringly terrible career decision is Ed not cutting an instrumental album in the mid eighties.

There was never a bigger demand that was not met in the history of rock and roll.

Could have cut the thing in a week at 5150 and just printed money.

Also... who the fuck decided it was a good idea to put Ratt in a spaceship?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqH34jNQVGg

Sleek wrote: ↑Wed May 28, 2025 11:07 am You could put literally any words in there and 20,000 people are still going to sing the chorus louder than the band. "Ohhhh, Marmots are great....!"

Maybe English people. Song flopped in America.

Dont Look Back in Anger is one of the most offensively bad songs I've ever heard. You should be executed by firing squad for writing this shit: [Verse 1] Slip inside the eye of your mind Don't you know you might find A better place to play? You said that you'd never been But all the things that you'...

Kind of apples to oranges with the music styles here... Agreed. Feels weird to compare the two. It's not we're talking about Roxy Blue and XYZ. I saw Hall and Oates about a decade ago and Tears for Fears was opening, so clearly Hall and Oates had way more hits. I remember thinking this was a perfec...