Author Topic: Big Hath's Top 50 Albums v. #1: -.---.----.. (Read 64296 times)

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #490 on:** January 15, 2013, 11:42:55 PM »

Images and Words

Zydar · « **Reply #491 on:** January 16, 2013, 12:21:00 AM »

Quote from: DebraKadabra on January 15, 2013, 11:42:55 PM

Images and Words

black_biff_stadler · « **Reply #492 on:** January 16, 2013, 12:40:32 AM »

Sure ain't no When Dream and Day Unite.

Cyclopssss · « **Reply #493 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:03:18 AM »

You know, I had EXACT the same experience! A collegue of mine was playing a tape of I&W at work, and although I liked what I heard, it didn't hit me.
Then I got a short relationship with a gf who introduced met to bands like DT, Savatage and Psychotic Waltz. She played WDADU and I&W like mad, and still, it didn't completely did it for me.

Years later, after hearing Pull me under and Another Day, I went out and bought I&W, SFAM and Awake. BAM!! SFAM hit me first, though. Never looked back since.

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #494 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:34:33 AM »

Quote from: black_floyd on January 16, 2013, 12:40:32 AM

Sure ain't no When Dream and Day Unite.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #495 on:** January 16, 2013, 05:26:31 AM »

It's my #1 of all time, so clearly I approve .

He does too.

Elite · « **Reply #496 on:** January 16, 2013, 05:38:44 AM »

I do too.

Lowdz · « **Reply #497 on:** January 16, 2013, 07:41:11 AM »

Greatest album of all time? Could be.

Zydar · « **Reply #498 on:** January 16, 2013, 07:42:16 AM »

Quote from: Lowdz on January 16, 2013, 07:41:11 AM

Greatest album of all time? Could be.

Definitely in my Top 5.

Dr. DTVT · « **Reply #499 on:** January 16, 2013, 10:48:18 AM »

If I&W is #4, it better also be #'s 3, 2, and 1.

Big Hath · « **Reply #500 on:** January 16, 2013, 10:54:38 AM »

hah! That is why we all get a chance to do our own.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #501 on:** January 16, 2013, 12:49:19 PM »

Quote from: Zydar on January 16, 2013, 07:42:16 AM

Quote from: Lowdz on January 16, 2013, 07:41:11 AM
Greatest album of all time? Could be.

Definitely in my Top 5.

nicmos · « **Reply #502 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:16:07 PM »

Quote from: Man-Erg on January 15, 2013, 12:15:58 PM

Quote from: DebraKadabra on January 15, 2013, 11:55:39 AM

OH yeah.

PW is my favorite Rush album (don't get me wrong, I dig the shit out of Moving Pictures but PW just hit it out of the ball park IMO).
Am I the only Rush fan who doesn't really like Moving Pictures? I like Tom Sawyer, YYZ and Limelight, that's it.

Late to the party on this one, but Vital Signs is one of my absolute least favorite Rush songs. ugh. so you're not alone at least on that count. Witch Hunt is a good song but I never look forward to listening to it. The live version on A Show of Hands is quite good though.

Images and Words though, you can't argue with that. Listening to this when it came out when I was 16 changed the course of my musical taste. What a transformative experience...

crazyaga · « **Reply #503 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:29:10 PM »

Album is okay in my opinion.... I never understood the hype towards it though.
I actually bought it because of all the hype and got hugely disappointed

Unlegit · « **Reply #504 on:** January 16, 2013, 07:51:12 PM »

Classic. Easy choice!

Orthogonal · « **Reply #505 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:17:19 PM »

I&W is a very special album. Not only was it my first DT album, but it was my first exposure to Prog. Wow, what a roller coaster it was. I couldn't even process what I heard the first few spins, but I knew I loved it and it started a musical journey of incredible discovery. Good times.

Big Hath · « **Reply #506 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:28:35 PM »

#3 - Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

Metallica's greatest achievement and the best heavy metal album ever made in my opinion. I actually don't think this album was a huge jump from Ride the Lightning (especially considering RTL's improvements over Kill Em All) and it is actually interesting to compare the two albums song for song as there are a lot of similarities. However, it takes the Lightning formula and improves it in almost every way. Better songs, better production, better/more mature singing from Hetfield, and a darker atmosphere. Pretty soon after Metallica hooked me with "One", I got this album and RTL. RTL was an immediate success for me, but this one took its time to grow and eventually become my favorite album for several years before my musical palate expanded.

The bookends of "Battery" and "Damage, Inc" are pure thrash mayhem. The title track is simply a great thrash metal anthem. "The Thing That Should Not Be" is a great brooding monster story. Then we get to the patented Metallica ballad "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" with its instantly recognizable opening notes. "Disposable Heroes" and "Leper Messiah" are brilliant angry diatribes against hypocritical authority. With the penultimate track, we get a bright shining star of "Orion" that seems almost optimistic and positive amidst the sea of brash, aggressive malevolence that has come before and will come after. Alas, this was also the last album on which Cliff Burton would appear. Great bassist, and a creative force for the band which drew on a wide array of inspirations. Those "Orion" solos are superb. He was, and is, truly missed.

"Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you"

Orthogonal · « **Reply #507 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:30:55 PM »

Another solid addition. Love MoP. With the exception of the Jazz albums, our Top 50's are nearly identical, it's kinda scary.

Big Hath · « **Reply #508 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:33:57 PM »

sounds like you need to get on board with the jazz then!

Unlegit · « **Reply #509 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:41:31 PM »

Great album!

DebraKadabra · « **Reply #510 on:** January 16, 2013, 11:56:12 PM »

I got that on cassette for my 16th birthday from a good buddy of mine down in Houston. Ah... those were the days...

Onno · « **Reply #511 on:** January 17, 2013, 01:25:58 AM »

Metallica

Ruba · « **Reply #512 on:** January 17, 2013, 01:54:15 AM »

My all-time favourite. Great choice to top 3

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jjrock88 · « **Reply #513 on:** January 17, 2013, 02:37:33 AM »

My favorite Metallica disc!!

jingle.boy · « **Reply #514 on:** January 17, 2013, 05:20:08 AM »

Never could get in to this album. Too trashy for me.

Big Hath · « **Reply #515 on:** January 17, 2013, 07:19:50 AM »

trashy or thrashy?

jingle.boy · « **Reply #516 on:** January 17, 2013, 07:21:19 AM »

Quote from: Big Hath on January 17, 2013, 07:19:50 AM

trashy or thrashy?

Yeah, the latter. Missed a letter - or Apple auto-correct unfixed it for me.

Big Hath · « **Reply #517 on:** January 17, 2013, 08:01:19 AM »

You blindman!

Dr. DTVT · « **Reply #518 on:** January 17, 2013, 09:23:32 AM »

jingle.boy, you just failed more than a 5 year old with a concussion taking a quantum mechanics exam.

nicmos · « **Reply #519 on:** January 17, 2013, 09:45:58 AM »

Metallica nailed this album. I have to say, they haven't come close since. Clearly it was the influence of Rush that made it so great, as noted in the liner notes

Big Hath · « **Reply #520 on:** January 17, 2013, 10:45:12 AM »

the riff underneath "Fear of living on, natives getting restless now . . ." in "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" mirrors the Tom Sawyer riff

Ryzee · « **Reply #521 on:** January 17, 2013, 10:49:14 AM »

That it does. I think that was Cliff's deal, he was the big Rush fan if I recall correctly. But yeah, great album obviously. Got it when I was 12, changed my life. What more can be said that hasn't been said.

Quote from: jingle.boy on January 17, 2013, 05:20:08 AM

Never could get in to this album. Too trashy for me.

jingle.boy · « **Reply #522 on:** January 17, 2013, 11:15:16 AM »

Quote from: Dr. DTVT on January 17, 2013, 09:23:32 AM

jingle.boy, you just failed more than a 5 year old with a concussion taking a quantum mechanics exam.

Quote from: Ryzee on January 17, 2013, 10:49:14 AM

Quote from: jingle.boy on January 17, 2013, 05:20:08 AM
Never could get in to this album. Too trashy for me.

Knew I was gonna get flamed for the comment. Sorry, wasn't my thing in the 80s, and not really my thing in the mid 00s when I went back into musical discovery mode. If I'm being honest, 80s Metallica was kind of hit-and-miss ... FOR ME.

Musical tastes: Goddamn why does everyone have to have their own!!!! You should all just love what I love!!

Ryzee · « **Reply #523 on:** January 17, 2013, 11:30:10 AM »

Tastes are tastes, it's all good my brother from another mother. I don't think

is flaming, it was more my reaction to a comment that I could not comprehend. Like if you'd said "I am Klytos from the planet Zarton, my mother is a tree and my father is a horse" my reaction would be the same:

Actually, I guess it would be more like:

.....that's cool man

so I'll fix it:

Quote from: jingle.boy on January 17, 2013, 05:20:08 AM

Never could get in to this album. Too trashy for me.

.....that's cool man

jingle.boy · « **Reply #524 on:** January 17, 2013, 12:00:40 PM »

It's all good Ryzee. Perhaps I used the term 'flamed' inappropriately. I interpreted it the way you intended. And I know Mason still envies my musical tastes, even though Bat Out Of Hell wasn't his thing.

News: Video of online chat between fans and members of Dream Theater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8cLlXnHpA&feature=youtu.be (*no chickens were harmed during the filming of this chat)

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