You know they aren't bad, but it has a 70's feel, like if the BTO, or the backing band for James Brown on "Hell" did a side detour. They've got some B.J. Thomas to them, a hint of steely dan.

Thoughts on Morphine?

Saw them live once in Portland. Like almost anybody I have a positive impression of Cure for Pain

Codeine was a good band, too lol

oof @ the bolded...

The Bad Plus is indeed tight as **** though. I saw their drummer Dave King play in the Chris Speed trio and he took it to the next level.

Hammerfall are my **** and I'm pretty lukewarm on most Children of Bodom, aside from Hate Crew Deathroll which is an all-time fav album.

@Frown. Oof because of their music, or because they wrote Soldiers of the Wasteland about the posters here? Kidding.

@Bats - HCDR is the only album I own, so I guess I just meant that album.

And since I haven't mentioned it in a while, and if you haven't tried them, Moon Hooch is always a jam


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwBhxBBa7tE

Because Dragonforce are terrible and only know how to write one song. Admit it. You never make it through an entire Dragonforce album do you? Stratovarius is the cultured man's choice.

I'm not as much into the weedly weedly power metal stuff anymore so you might be more into their first three albums than I am. They're not terrible at all, they just kind of blow by me without leaving much impression much of the time. Hate Crew Deathroll has this kinda unique cock rock swagger to it that gives it more personality to me

I haven't made it through an entire DF album but honestly, I can't say that about many bands. I think the album is an artificial metric we've been told we must appreciate. But I grew up buying 18 track CDs for $23 because a marketing team said that if it has more songs they can charge more.

Albums are a conspiracy by Big Label and I refuse to accept it.

Yeah but aren't you a Communist?

I mean ja, they're standard because of the music industry and physical limitations that are now largely irrelevant, but when an artist does incorporate the album format into their creative process it can make that **** ten times more impactful.

I doubt I’ll ever buy another album in my life.