The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread

Zer0 · 06-09-2012, 04:50 PM

I think the track listing is just fine. I've always liked 'Invaders' as an opening track, they sound like they mean business. My copy of the album has 'Total Eclipse' included after 'Gangland' and it does seem to fit in on the album pretty well. Was never a fan of 'Gangland' though I've always seen it as the weakest song on the album.

Unknown Soldier · 06-10-2012, 04:50 PM

Agree with Urban about Invaders, I like the song but its real B-side material and shouldn't have been the album starter. There are a number of songs on there such as Gangland which I'm certain were written with for Paul Di'Anno, in general the Steve Harris compositions that he wrote on his own are what makes the album great. Tracks like Children of the Damned, Run to the Hills and Hallowed Be Thy Name are some of the greatest metal songs ever written. The album without any doubt set a high-water mark for metal in the early 1980s.

The album draws parallels with Judas Priest's British Steel, as both Maiden and Priest fans are bonkers are the couple of albums that followed these, rather than the two albums that made those albums possible.

blackdragon123 · 08-01-2012, 05:58 AM

Revolver by The Beatles. It's boring, patchy and apart from "Here, There and Everywhere" is undeserving of the respect it is given....

Flyingpig437 · 08-01-2012, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by AmazingPurpleCat

I don't know why people say it's about that

I see it as just having overarching themes of life, death and experiencing life using Anne Frank as a device for this in some songs.

No one's mentioned the fact it's sung by someone sounding like a tone deaf mentaly handicapped retarded 3 yrs. old. having a bad day because it's mother isn't tit feeding it enough!

Flyingpig437 · 08-01-2012, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by blackdragon123

Revolver by The Beatles. It's boring, patchy and apart from "Here, There and Everywhere" is undeserving of the respect it is given....

No. It's not!

YorkeDaddy · 08-01-2012, 05:40 PM

Someone explain the draw to pretty much anything by Rush, please.

debaserr · 08-01-2012, 05:44 PM

I only like Moving Pictures, and I don't think I could explain why.

EDIT: Scroll down to Moving Pics - http://www.musicbanter.com/prog-psyc...tion-prog.html

duga · 08-01-2012, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Someone explain the draw to pretty much anything by Rush, please.

Out of all the prog bands of the 70s, they (along with maybe King Crimson) kept it genuinely heavy. I would be very surprised if someone who is a fan of prog and some crunchy rif***e didn't like Rush. Not only that, but they seem to really just love making music, all the while being incredibly talented and making very complex songs. I imagine that being very hard to do.

There's also the "Geddy Lee's voice" argument. If his voice annoys you, there is nothing anyone can do to convince you they are a great band.

YorkeDaddy · 08-01-2012, 08:24 PM

I think their songwriting is low-bottom tier out of all the prog bands, the lyricism and subject matter is often a joke, and Geddy's voice does indeed suck.

I just can't stand them, tbh.

Holerbot6000 · 08-02-2012, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Someone explain the draw to pretty much anything by Rush, please.

Well we used to smoke a lot of pot in the 70's; I mean a LOT, and Rush played nice long, complicated songs, so you didn't have to get up off the floor and flip the record over very often. You kids today have it so easy with your digital this and that, and your pot is better too....

06-09-2012, 04:50 PM	#951 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	I think the track listing is just fine. I've always liked 'Invaders' as an opening track, they sound like they mean business. My copy of the album has 'Total Eclipse' included after 'Gangland' and it does seem to fit in on the album pretty well. Was never a fan of 'Gangland' though I've always seen it as the weakest song on the album. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

08-01-2012, 05:58 AM	#953 (permalink)
blackdragon123 don't be no bojangles Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 496	Revolver by The Beatles. It's boring, patchy and apart from "Here, There and Everywhere" is undeserving of the respect it is given.... __________________ 'Well, I'm a common working man, With a half of bitter, bread and jam, And if it pleases me, I'll put one on ya man, When the copper fades away!' - Jethro Tull

08-01-2012, 05:44 PM	#957 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,467	I only like Moving Pictures, and I don't think I could explain why. EDIT: Scroll down to Moving Pics - http://www.musicbanter.com/prog-psyc...tion-prog.html __________________ Last.FM Last edited by debaserr; 08-01-2012 at 07:53 PM.

08-01-2012, 05:40 PM	#956 (permalink)
YorkeDaddy silky smooth Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Pangaea Posts: 4,079	Someone explain the draw to pretty much anything by Rush, please.

08-01-2012, 08:24 PM	#959 (permalink)
YorkeDaddy silky smooth Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Pangaea Posts: 4,079	I think their songwriting is low-bottom tier out of all the prog bands, the lyricism and subject matter is often a joke, and Geddy's voice does indeed suck. I just can't stand them, tbh.