WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Genre: alternative rock/"emo"
2006(https://img.cdandlp.com/2015/09/imgL/117585761.jpg)
Fuck the haters! This was the album where all my friends who had been like "MCR suck, fucking emo bullshit" ate their words and were begrudgingly like "This is alright actually". I love this band and this album was really important to me and was a big part to the soundtrack to my 2006. A great concept album, I was always destined for prog really :rollin
Need to relisten the whole thing, I haven't installed while.
Not familiar with anything so far, but I'm following. :tup
That's an awesome Sinergy album.
I remember I met Alexi after he and the singer broke up and the band was done, but I had noooo idea, so I kept asking him about it and he was just trying to evade answering without being rude. Dude was super cool considering I was (unknowingly) asking really rude questions.
But yea, great album. Marco's great on it too.
Nice, still haven't listened to that Down album but I'm looking forward to it :metal
Lucifuge is one of my favorite albums of all time... Danzig was basically a bridge to me getting into heavier music back in the day, thanks to a good friend who introduced me to them. When I read the line about your Blood and Tears tattoo, the chorus almost immediately popped into my head and I had to go and listen to the song :lol
NOLA is an incredible Down album. I love the band, but they really had something special on the first album.
The Sound of Perseverance was my first album by Death and I loved it from the start. I'd had the Control Denied album for about 10 years before getting into Death, but then went back and acquired their full discography and hold them among my favorite death metal bands. I think I listen to Symbolic more, since those songs have more hooks for me to dig into, but I will always love TSOP.
I haven't cared for Trivium since The Crusade came out.
1/12, I own Crack the Skye but I'm honestly not into Mastodon that much. Also someone sent me Trivium in the roulette, it was alright but I didn't check it out further.
Yep, with you on the first point.
I find it crazy you had Control Denied for 10 years before working back! I was totally the opposite. I started with the early Death albums well over 10 years ago and only got around to listening to Control Denied about 2 years ago :lol
With Trivium, have you ever listened to anything post The Crusade? Was it just because you didn't care for that album? Shogun is well worth a go if you ever liked anything about Trivium.
NOLA is an incredible Down album. I love the band, but they really had something special on the first album.
The Sound of Perseverance was my first album by Death and I loved it from the start. I'd had the Control Denied album for about 10 years before getting into Death, but then went back and acquired their full discography and hold them among my favorite death metal bands. I think I listen to Symbolic more, since those songs have more hooks for me to dig into, but I will always love TSOP.
I haven't cared for Trivium since The Crusade came out.
Yep, with you on the first point.
I find it crazy you had Control Denied for 10 years before working back! I was totally the opposite. I started with the early Death albums well over 10 years ago and only got around to listening to Control Denied about 2 years ago :lol
With Trivium, have you ever listened to anything post The Crusade? Was it just because you didn't care for that album? Shogun is well worth a go if you ever liked anything about Trivium.1/12, I own Crack the Skye but I'm honestly not into Mastodon that much. Also someone sent me Trivium in the roulette, it was alright but I didn't check it out further.
Can't think there is going to be a huge amount that you'd own in this list dude, probably only the odd power metal album. Do you remember what Trivium song you were sent?
I hated death metal growls in the 90's and early 00's, and only got on board with some of the melodic death bands like In Flames, Soilwork and Dark Tranquillity. In the mid 00's, I started getting more into straight-up death metal bands through discovering Bloodbath and some of the Swedish death/thrash bands like Darkane.
So I loved the idea of a band like Death with clean vocals on the Control Denied album back when it came out.
As for Trivium, I got into Ascendency and The Crusade, but just started to dislike Matt Heavy's singing. And The Crusade was cool, but the songs sound really wimpy versions of thrash when you put them next to stuff like Exodus and Death Angel. That album just didn't have the punch that it really should.
I was sent two of them (it was for the EP round), one of them was The Darkness of My Mind which I remember because I couldn't make out the lyrics in the chorus, and I think the second one was from also from Silence in the Snow. I've also checked out the title track from The Sin and the Sentence, which rocked, so I checked out the whole album and actually didn't make it past the fifth or sixth track.
>obsessed with computer games as a kid
>discover Metallica and Green Day in late teens around the turn of the millenium
>get massively into Linkin Park and lots of pop punk
>discover DT and prog metal a few years later
Bloody hell Luke, are you literally me?
Will be following this thread. Only in the honourable mentions and already a load of bands I like or even love (Sinergy, Foos, Mastodon, Machine Head, Chili Peppers, Frank Turner) and others I'm not particularly into but that fill me with nostalgia (Down! Alkaline Trio!).
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You guys! We're all roughly in our mid 30's right?
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You guys! We're all roughly in our mid 30's right?
34. Although I didn't get into Linkin Park. Offspring were my boys. Then Iron Maiden, Sabbath and Priest came slightly before DT, but DT just as influential to me.
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You guys! We're all roughly in our mid 30's right?
34. Although I didn't get into Linkin Park. Offspring were my boys. Then Iron Maiden, Sabbath and Priest came slightly before DT, but DT just as influential to me.
Yep The Offspring were a big deal to me too. Quite a few of their songs were on Crazy Taxi and I remember playing Americana so much when I was younger, that my younger brother snapped the CD in half :lol
Where you had Maiden, Sabbath and Priest I had Metallica, Led Zeppelin and Pantera
This sounds like me as well.>obsessed with computer games as a kid
>discover Metallica and Green Day in late teens around the turn of the millenium
>get massively into Linkin Park and lots of pop punk
>discover DT and prog metal a few years later
Bloody hell Luke, are you literally me?
Will be following this thread. Only in the honourable mentions and already a load of bands I like or even love (Sinergy, Foos, Mastodon, Machine Head, Chili Peppers, Frank Turner) and others I'm not particularly into but that fill me with nostalgia (Down! Alkaline Trio!).
This is pretty in line with my own development also.
This sounds like me as well.>obsessed with computer games as a kid
>discover Metallica and Green Day in late teens around the turn of the millenium
>get massively into Linkin Park and lots of pop punk
>discover DT and prog metal a few years later
Bloody hell Luke, are you literally me?
Will be following this thread. Only in the honourable mentions and already a load of bands I like or even love (Sinergy, Foos, Mastodon, Machine Head, Chili Peppers, Frank Turner) and others I'm not particularly into but that fill me with nostalgia (Down! Alkaline Trio!).
This is pretty in line with my own development also.
And I'm with you on By the Way, Luke. Best RHCP album by a long shot!
I still listen to Green Day, Offspring, NOFX and Bad Religion. Also went back to a bit of Sum 41 recently which was rather enjoyable.
Why can't I meet guys like you in real life?
Yeah I was surprised at how great it was actually. All Killer No Filler was obviously the breakout album and it still has some really fun tunes, but overall it hasn't aged all that well. Whereas Infected has if anything grown in my estimation.I still listen to Green Day, Offspring, NOFX and Bad Religion. Also went back to a bit of Sum 41 recently which was rather enjoyable.
Yea dude, I was listening to some old Sum 41 recently as well, 'Does This Look Infected?' is still great :metal
Yeah I was surprised at how great it was actually. All Killer No Filler was obviously the breakout album and it still has some really fun tunes, but overall it hasn't aged all that well. Whereas Infected has if anything grown in my estimation.I still listen to Green Day, Offspring, NOFX and Bad Religion. Also went back to a bit of Sum 41 recently which was rather enjoyable.
Yea dude, I was listening to some old Sum 41 recently as well, 'Does This Look Infected?' is still great :metal
As for Slipknot, Vol. 3 was great and the albums since have been solid enough, but I never could stand their first couple of albums and still can't.
I don't remember GR being Metal Hammer's album of the year but it's certainly possible!
I just realized it's been ten years plus since Watershed was released. Wow, where does the time go?
It gets worse, brotha. Wait until you see your granddaughter pull into the driveway in her new car! :lol
I'm a little bit older than most on here, so this is full of "young people's music" or as I call it "turn that bloody noise down and listen to some proper music instead, and while you're at it, get off my lawn!"
Anyway, my thought so far:
Foo Fighters - This band are everything I love, and I should love them, but I just don't. They've never quite gelled with me and I don't know why.
Down - Hell yeah. Great album, and Stone the Crows is a great tune, nice to see some love on here.
The Wildhearts - Double hell yeah. One of the best live bands I've ever seen. Also one of the worst live bands I've ever seen!
Machine Head - Man, I used to headbang to this back in the 90s. Not listened to it in years.
RHCP - agree totally, except Blood Sugar Sex Magic is their best album. I guess the best RHCP album is the first one you owned.
Slipknot - can't stand 'em, but I did like your explanation. A spot-on summary of how music is supposed to make you feel, goddammit. It's meant to rattle your bones and quicken your heart!
Opeth - Respect, good choice.
looking forward to the rest of your list!
if i had to say one thing about this, i'd say it's the 8th dream theater albumThat's a post.
I'll try to get #47 up tonight but at this point I've been at work for 14 hours and need to go to bed!
Hope you guys are at least being paid for your overtime. Our company cut down the amount of possible OT hours for each department severely and then bosses and management were surprised when people, me among them, started leaving exactly after our 8,2 usual hours a day. :facepalm:
Regarding the list, I quite like Watershed although Ghost Reveries is much better, in my opinion, if we're talking growly Opeth. Octavarium is great too, sure.
I'm ok with Octavarium being on your list :D it doesn't have many awesome songs but when played in full it is one of my favorites as well :tup
Really enjoy lots of stuff on your list (I knew I would ;) ) but Octavarium for me is still a great one! :tup
Hope you guys are at least being paid for your overtime. Our company cut down the amount of possible OT hours for each department severely and then bosses and management were surprised when people, me among them, started leaving exactly after our 8,2 usual hours a day. :facepalm:
Regarding the list, I quite like Watershed although Ghost Reveries is much better, in my opinion, if we're talking growly Opeth. Octavarium is great too, sure.
Good pick with the RHCP, that album made me fall in love with them. It was my first full album (like you I knew some singles before) from them that I got. I'd say I rate Stadium Arcadium as better, but one thing about By The Way that you mentioned and hits home to me:
"This is one of those albums that takes me back to a very specific time and place. It is the summer of 2002"
holy fuck is this true for me as well. That same summer my friend took me with his father and another friend to their vacation home for a week. It was actually the first time I ever smoked marijuana. The three of us would listen to this album all trip just chilling on the beach. It was such a memorable experience (I was 17 at the time) and everytime I hear this album I think of my time in Grand Cayman Island with these two dudes (neither of which I am really close to anymore).
Coheed is one of my favorite bands too. Their new album is pretty much all I've been listening to lately.
Ascension and Descension are both awesome, but I've always liked Descension more too. It has my favorite opener in their discography and is packed with some of the catchiest songs the band has to date. :tup
Yeah I know for sure this isn't the last time we're seeing Coheed :corn
Good album though, I'd rank this behind IKS and NWFT but that's about it
With their new album, I like it but I think, for the first time ever, I wish they'd made it a bit shorter and cut some of the middle songs. The beginning and end of the album are brilliant but there is a lull in the middle for me. Some of the songs are starting to grow each listen so we'll see what my thoughts are come next year; I'll probably love all of it :lol