When I was a teenager, I bought and listened to hard rock recordings almost exclusively---Sabbath, Nugent, Zep etc. However, most of the girls I dated were in to soft rock, pop and disco.
So I had to keep a small stash of cassettes in my room by artists like Bread, K.C. & the Sunshine Band etc., for when I had female friends over or I went on a date. God forbid any of my buds I hung out with would've found out. I would've never lived it down.
However, some of those pop and disco recordings now bring back a lot of good memories for me, so I actually enjoy some of them. I still think pop and disco generally suck, but I've got to admit there were a few good tunes there.
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"Paranoid is just like an anchor. It really secures everything about the metal movement in one record. It's all there: the riffs, the vocal performance of Ozzy, the song titles, what the lyrics are about. It's just a classic defining moment."
--Rob Halford of Judas Priest
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