The Playlist of Life --- Trollheart's resurrected Journal

The Batlord · 10-12-2014, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

How is it business as usual? I understand it's kind of the template for a lot of later Slayer albums, but at the time it didn't particularly sound like any of their previous albums.

Anyway, I agree, it's a great album. For me it's pretty much tied for first place in their catalog with Reign in Blood.

It basically took the last two albums and found a comfortable medium without really making a musical statement that they hadn't already made. They peaked with RIB, and while they were running out of steam as far as innovation was concerned with South of Heaven, they still went outside their comfort zone. Creatively speaking, I think Seasons In the Abyss was a bit of a bunt. A great bunt though.

Mondo Bungle · 10-15-2014, 11:30 AM

Damn, I was hoping you'd like motW more.

And you must not have seen my revised list, it replaces Mental Funeral with Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative (you would have liked that one way more I bet, gothic doom metal), and Pwerslave with Piece of Mind.

Trollheart · 10-15-2014, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Damn, I was hoping you'd like motW more.

And you must not have seen my revised list, it replaces Mental Funeral with Bloody Kisses by Type O Negative (you would have liked that one way more I bet, gothic doom metal), and Pwerslave with Piece of Mind.

Oh. Well don't worry, some surprise reactions coming up! You wanted Neurosis rather than At the Gates didn't you? I haven't got to those yet. Probably listen to them tonight, so just to make sure I listen to the right album.

Mondo Bungle · 10-15-2014, 12:41 PM

Yeah, Neurosis took the spot

The Batlord · 10-16-2014, 07:06 AM

First of all, you used the wrong album cover for Nightfall In Middle-Earth. That's the one to Imaginations from the Other Side.

Secondly, that wasn't me, that was Unknown Soldier. I suggested you listen to them, and US mentioned that you probably wouldn't like the singer.

And last, I have no idea how you've managed to go this long without listening to Blind Guardian. They're pretty much synonymous with power metal. Glad you've heard the light though.

Unknown Soldier · 10-16-2014, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

One of The Batlord's favourites, this is Hammerfall, with a track from their second album “Legacy of kings”, and “Remember yesterday”.

.. and one of mine.

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And last, I have no idea how you've managed to go this long without listening to Blind Guardian. They're pretty much synonymous with power metal. Glad you've heard the light though.

x2 and Imaginations from the Other Side is their best álbum song for song.

Isbjørn · 10-16-2014, 07:26 AM

Hey, just a little something I thought you should know: you got the Blind Guardian cover art wrong. The one you have is for the album Imaginations From the Other Side. I don't blame you, though. You're doing an awful lot of work.

EDIT: Didn't see Batty's post before now. Man, you can't catch a break.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 10-16-2014, 07:35 AM

Did Blind Guardian think This is Spinal Tap was a real documentary

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

There are historical inaccuracies in the lyric --- Lynott mentions "Hitler’s stormtroopers march/ Right across the Maginot Line”, but the French fortifications failed miserably as a deterrent to German invaders, who simply circumvented them by attacking through Belgium. Also he notes this as ”The year one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine" but the Germans moved against the French in 1940, not 1939.

I don't see it as a inconsistency.
He says he was in Berlin in 1939, he doesn't say he was at the Maginot Line in 1939.
Each other line in that verse is about a separate event, so is this.

Trollheart · 10-16-2014, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

First of all, you used the wrong album cover for Nightfall In Middle-Earth. That's the one to Imaginations from the Other Side.

Yeah I see that. Guess I hit the wrong link on Wiki. I had been deciding which album to listen to and I must have linked that by mistake. I'll sort it.

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Secondly, that wasn't me, that was Unknown Soldier. I suggested you listen to them, and US mentioned that you probably wouldn't like the singer.

It was you. You said something like "Wait, are you trying to tell me that you think Blind Guardian have death vocals??" and then you posted a video. Which I never listened to.

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And last, I have no idea how you've managed to go this long without listening to Blind Guardian. They're pretty much synonymous with power metal. Glad you've heard the light though.

Yeah, there's loads of power metal I haven't heard. Remember, I'm primarily a proghead!

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Originally Posted by Briks

Hey, just a little something I thought you should know: you got the Blind Guardian cover art wrong. The one you have is for the album Imaginations From the Other Side. I don't blame you, though. You're doing an awful lot of work.

EDIT: Didn't see Batty's post before now. Man, you can't catch a break.

Danger! Danger! Overload! Over--- pffft!

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Did Blind Guardian think This is Spinal Tap was a real documentary

I don't understand the reference?

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I don't see it as a inconsistency.
He says he was in Berlin in 1939, he doesn't say he was at the Maginot Line in 1939.
Each other line in that verse is about a separate event, so is this.

Well I do. If you were to say "I was hanging out in Dallas in 1962 and saw Kennedy assassinated", would that not be wrong? The date intrinsically links the event to it, otherwise why mention it? Also, do you accept that "Hitler's stormtroopers marching over the Maginot Line" is incorrect? Not that as I say it matters, but I just wonder what your view on it is?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 10-16-2014, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Well I do. If you were to say "I was hanging out in Dallas in 1962 and saw Kennedy assassinated", would that not be wrong? The date intrinsically links the event to it, otherwise why mention it? Also, do you accept that "Hitler's stormtroopers marching over the Maginot Line" is incorrect? Not that as I say it matters, but I just wonder what your view on it is?

If he's talking about the same event why add the part about being in Berlin when the Maginot Line is in France

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Isbjørn cooler commie than elph Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: In a hole, help Posts: 2,811	Hey, just a little something I thought you should know: you got the Blind Guardian cover art wrong. The one you have is for the album Imaginations From the Other Side. I don't blame you, though. You're doing an awful lot of work. EDIT: Didn't see Batty's post before now. Man, you can't catch a break. __________________ fast(ml) Hear me play the guitar Look, mom! I got a journal Last edited by Isbjørn; 10-16-2014 at 08:35 AM.

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