The Rolling Stones are playing Anfield tonight. I can’t believe I’m not going.
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Adding these to the second playlist.
FIFY
Did see Iron Maiden , Metallica , Pain of Salvation , Opeth , Megadeth live in India but JP hasn’t toured yet. I don’t have much hopes that they will but will be kickass seeing them in India.
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And what I love about JP is that they’ve continued to innovate unlike some other bands that I could name. Their music is fresher right now than the bands which came later and probably gained more mainstream acceptance.
JP is probably the most influential metal band of all time. I don’t count Black Sabbath as a metal band. There’s a thin line between hard rock & heavy metal and I believe Black Sabbath (despite it’s obvious influences on the metal genre) comes under the former.
Well, Black Sabbath is metal in my book (or more like “metal is Black Sabbath”), even though they don’t it admit and even though some earlier songs of theirs leaned towards folky side (then again, Priest had songs like Last Rose of Summer or Before the Dawn back then). Stuff they did in their days with Ozzy, especially once their downtuned their guitars… My opinion is that those albums built the foundations of metal music, while Priest built the roof - other metal bands are just the bricks between them, even though I love Type O Negative more than any other band in the world (and late Peter loved Sabbath and Priest, although you won’t hear any Priest influence in their music). A lot bands had to start writing Satanic and gory lyrics or burn churches in order to reach that level of darkness and heaviness in their music!
Regarding Priest and their continual evolution, that is precisely one of the reasons I love them so much. Guitar work especially, you can just hear how they moved with the times (not that I’m a fan of following trends, otherwise I wouldn’t be a fan of all sorts of metal music, but you can easily hear the technical evolution in their guitar work that peaked with Painkiller - those solos are unplayable and I don’t know how they came up with some of them). I love Iron Maiden, for example, but you always know what you’re going to get from them, for better or worse. With Priest it’s different - also for better or worse. I only wish Andy Sneap produced Nostradamus and Redeemer of Souls, the former especially had a lot of potential that wasn’t realised.
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I guess i would agree. The sound was pretty much metal from mob rules onwards. I look at the more blues rock roots of the early albums and that i guess plays a part in my view of the band.
My metal listening journey started with Iron Maiden and Queensryche. The problem with Iron Maiden (especially the Bruce Dickinson era) is that you could swap around the songs across albums and it would still be sounding roughly the same.
I think Harris is a terrific bassist and a good songwriter (very predictable in themes but still). Bruce has a very unique voice and does some things very very well. I personally think Mcbrain is a very underrated drummer. Smith has good feel about his guitar playing. Dont really rate either Murray and Gers. But they got a formula and milked it for all its worth. Good for them as they still have a sellable brand even when no one listens to metal anymore.
Rather similar to AC/DC.
On hindsight , i just might have pissed off both English and Aussies here.
Anyway , the playlist works. Did a 47 min 10km. On track to shave a couple of minutes off of that time.
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Lol , the thing for me w.r.t music and running is that i actually measure how out of breath i am by singing along to those songs (in some cases , even playing the chords etc). The above playlist that way is perfect.
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And its pretty easy to play the iron maiden chords considering they are all in E-Minor
We can do one more playlist (for spotify / geezer) etc if there are more people game for this.
Dont need to restrict yourself on genre. Just great songs combined together to make a great playlist.
Ill add in some of my eclectic choices here as well.
Depending on how many people are game for this. We can see if there are iterations required. Suggestions on total playlist length are welcome but i would suggest 2 hrs be the optimum thing
If the purpose of the music is to shave some time off your runs…
Why not just play the Benny Hill tune through your headphones… :0))
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Nah haven’t pissed off this Aussie. I don’t care if bands have a catalogue of similar sound. Case in point Accadacca. Meat and Potatoes rock and you just turn up the vol.
As Angus said…”I’m sick of people saying we have made 11 albums that sound the same….in fact we have made 12 that sound the same” !!! and the one released last year was epic Accadacca.
And you change the sounds and the fans revolt. Muse or Priest Turbo etc
Anyway I’m off to crank up Piece of Mind the best Maiden album.
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On a different note to the metal stuff, I went to see Paul Heaton and Jackie Abbott last week. Been too long since I saw them. Deacon Blue were the support. Man alive that was a fantastic outdoor gig.
Great mix of their new stuff, Beautiful South stuff and more appealing to me, Housemartins stuff. Almost 2 hours on stage.
If you get the opportunity to see them don’t pass it up.
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I would still say powerslave , seventh , notb … Wait they all sound the freaking same.
anyway , coming back to topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtorYolc-Cc
probably one of the best vocal performances in rock/metal. pity Tate turned out to be such a dickhead.
and he did replicate this live