Metal & Rock Music Recommendations

Mrd00d · 07-25-2011, 08:57 AM

Also, yes you should get Offspring's Americana, SoundgardenRocks, but I can't say the same about Green Day's American Idiot...

Blarobbarg · 07-25-2011, 09:04 AM

Operation Mindcrime is a fantastic album. I don't know if I would call it metal, per se, but it is amazing. And a great example of how a super polished album can still sound good, for those of us who like raw, unpolished production.

From Green Day I only really enjoy "American Idiot" and some of "Dookie." I seem to be in the minority.

Unknown Soldier · 07-25-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Operation Mindcrime is a fantastic album. I don't know if I would call it metal, per se, but it is amazing. And a great example of how a super polished album can still sound good, for those of us who like raw, unpolished production.

Bands like Van Halen and DEF Leppard were putting out polished metal back in the early 80`s and even bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest followed suit for a while. Bands like Queensryche just continued from where these bands left off and also added additional prog elements to the mix. They basically made metal albums with production values normally associated with bands like Journey etc.

Is it metal? Most definitely so! Just because it sounds polished, there is no reason to say its not metal.

djchameleon · 07-25-2011, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

From Green Day I only really enjoy "American Idiot" and some of "Dookie." I seem to be in the minority.

Why only some of Dookie? other than that I agree with you and have the same sentiment.

Blarobbarg · 07-25-2011, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Bands like Van Halen and DEF Leppard were putting out polished metal back in the early 80`s and even bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest followed suit for a while. Bands like Queensryche just continued from where these bands left off and also added additional prog elements to the mix. They basically made metal albums with production values normally associated with bands like Journey etc.

Is it metal? Most definitely so! Just because it sounds polished, there is no reason to say its not metal.

Yeah I know all that but the polished quality is not what makes me not consider Queensryche metal. They just seem like really good hard rock to me.

For that matter, so does Van Halen. And I hate Def Leppard, although I wouldn't consider them metal either.

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Why only some of Dookie? other than that I agree with you and have the same sentiment.

Meh, I've just never been able to get into Dookie. Not a huge fan of pop punk anyway.

Unknown Soldier · 07-26-2011, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg

Yeah I know all that but the polished quality is not what makes me not consider Queensryche metal. They just seem like really good hard rock to me.

For that matter, so does Van Halen. And I hate Def Leppard, although I wouldn't consider them metal either.

I can see where you`re coming from here and I`d say especially in the 70`s heavy metal and hard rock were often synonymous which each other. One still blues influenced and the other supposedly far less so, but I`d say that was a very basic way of assessing it and there were other factors at work here as well.

Van Halen are a great example really of the above, they were metal in demeanour but had real pop sensibilities and a glam approach which put them in the rock camp, which made them very different to their British NWOBHM counterparts of which DEF Leppard were actually one. DEF Leppard just went down the Van Halen path, rather than staying with the rawer metal that they started out with.

BastardofYoung · 07-25-2011, 12:22 PM

I will just say it "Panic Song" > all of "Ixnay..."

Naptan · 07-25-2011, 09:30 PM

What do you guys think about Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, 'The Death Of You And Me'?
It was just released yesterday...

Howard the Duck · 07-25-2011, 10:37 PM

i didn't like Insomniac much - time for a re-evaluation?

LoathsomePete · 07-25-2011, 10:42 PM

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i didn't like Insomniac much - time for a re-evaluation?

Well I also listened to Insomniac before Dookie and it was my first Green Day, so there's probably some nostalgia factor distorting my opinion, but regardless I still think it's the stronger of the two albums. I would say give it another listen.

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07-25-2011, 09:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
Blarobbarg Do good. Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Posts: 2,065	Operation Mindcrime is a fantastic album. I don't know if I would call it metal, per se, but it is amazing. And a great example of how a super polished album can still sound good, for those of us who like raw, unpolished production. From Green Day I only really enjoy "American Idiot" and some of "Dookie." I seem to be in the minority.