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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I'm actually coming back around to them. Though Down's first album is still better than anything they ever did. And I still have no idea how you can listen to Roots.
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A good album and usually liked whenever people talk about it, but I still prefer all of Pantera's classic run albums over it.
Roots still the best metal album ever released and I'm salivating just thinking about it.
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Originally Posted by Big Ears
Elf weren't very good and all credit to Blackmore for seeing Ronnie James Dio's potential.
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I'd totally agree with that.
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Originally Posted by Anteater
U.S., just thought I'd let you know you missed a "big" spot for '82. If you haven't experienced this gem yet, you really should.  |
The reason I hadn't included it was because I never knew it existed both album and band. But I listened to it for a first time and despite the Saxon and Deep Purple influences wasn't impressed, listened to it a second time and thought hey this is a good album but very much an acquired taste as this band has some real songwriting ability. Now guess what, the day after listening to it twice I still have the songs in my head, which means that the album has hit my subconsciousness............. which means I should be head over heels in love with the album in a few days.
Would I include it in retrospect now? Well if I saw it as a metal album with strong AOR influences then yes (as there are a number of bands included like this) but I noted that the AOR tendencies of the band were just as strong as their metal ones if not stronger. So for that reason its doubtful, because if I were to include Nightwing then I could be including Foreigner and a band like Night Ranger as well in these lists. In fact Night Ranger is a tricky one because if I was doing an AOR journal I would include them in it, but the group are also seen as a vital link in the early glam metal movement as well, which qualifies them for a metal list.