Next up.......... my brilliant idea
OK................I wanted to run this by you guys before I go ahead and do anything. The last thing I want to do is rush off and do this and take the site to the point of overkill in terms of lists etc.......and just bore everyone to death.
I had the idea while checking out one of the Discography threads the other day. I think they're fantastic and appreciate all the hard work involved etc..... but to be successful/worth the trouble they really need to cover bands that have a large following on DTF. Bands like Rush, Led Zep and Iron Maiden and the like are ideal candidates.
When I thought about whether I might like to do one in the future , it was pretty clear to me that the vast majority of bands I seriously like would really only be of interest to the half dozen or so diehards that follow this thread. And so it really wouldn't generate much value for the time involved. And so I got to thinking about how we could do something in this thread that is far less time consuming for the author (and the reader!) while still generating some good discussion.
I thought that each of us contributing some Top 10's lists to this thread could achieve that goal. I'm prepared to do all of the organising and cover more than my fair share of the content . I am hoping that some others will put up their hands to cover a few bands etc.......
The main focus for now is to come up with lists of the Top 10 Essential Tracks from various bands with the idea that the list should include songs that you consider "required listening" - effectively your own 10 track Best Of........ It's then opened up for discussion , others can respond with their own version if they like....... If we ever exhaust that side of things then you could then move onto other Top 10 ideas.
The only requirement for bands mentioned in these lists is that they are generally considered hard rock or classic metal. Prog metal is out for the most part as it's been done to death elsewhere, although I think bands like Queensryche and Crimson Glory have enough "classic metal" in them to be included. Hair metal is all fine. It's pretty clear that certain bands might need to be broken down into eras - for example Black Sabbath , Judas Priest (perhaps), KISS (70's/80's),
I would aim for us to do 2 lists per month (1st and 15th of the month as a rough guide) and set up a roster in the initial post with links to the relevant thread pages.
Potential Contributions: For starters I'm happy to handle Van Halen, Ozzy, Savatage, KISS (70's/80's), WASP, Talisman, Malmsteen etc.......
No pressure on anyone but I thought some of the following might work well:
TAC: Accept, Dio
wolfking: Judas Priest (70's), Black Sabbath (Dio years)
lowdz: UFO , Dokken
jingle.boy: Triumph , Tesla
JJ : Primal Fear?/ Judas Priest (80's-)
and so on................
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Let me know what you guys think - if it's all too much and I'm wasting my time , then let me know and I'll drop it and no offence taken. I thought it'd be a cool way to generate the sort of discussion we see in the Discog threads for the bands we like with a whole lot less work involved.
So do we push ahead with it or do I shut the hell up?
PS While I'm getting the main idea organised I wouldn't mind running through the years (Top 10 albums of 19xx...........) from 1980 to 1995 to get us started. I could do a year each few days over the next few weeks.