Lists by Syk
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Why These Are My Favourite Albums: Avant-80s Selections From Perfect Or Near-Perfect Works
Here they are, in order of year, and order of personal preference within each year. My utterly favourite songs from pre-1980 classics, rendered in my never-really-humble opinion, as everything should be.
Yes,…
Yes,…
| 1. | Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple |
| 2. | Neil Young - Neil Young |
| 3. | Jethro Tull - This Was |
| 4. | Cream - Wheels of Fire |
| 5. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland |
| + 21 more |
Good Things Take Time
Essentially I composed this list as a note-to-self not to take my negative first impressions so seriously. Most of these tend to be works I initially rated a couple points (/10) lower, because the music…
| 1. | Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies |
| 2. | Anthrax - Stomp 442 |
| 3. | Cathedral - Kingdom of Ends |
| 4. | Hypocrisy - Catch 22 |
| 5. | Intruder - Psycho Savant |
| + 14 more |
Love It All - 30 Fave Releases Since Y2K
Howzat, two of my all-time fav releases recently turned 10 and 5 years old. They should get anniversary reissues. Make those great bands some more dough, among other things...
Numbers 10 and 28 on this…
Numbers 10 and 28 on this…
| 1. | Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R |
| 2. | Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R |
| 3. | Eidolon - Nightmare World |
| 4. | Eidolon - Nightmare World |
| 5. | Muse - Origin of Symmetry |
| + 25 more |
Please Stop Feeding Crap to Your FOC
In the last several hours, I have (as is rarely the case) had a good, big breakfast + dinner.
I feel great.
...as is rarely the case. So - what have I consumed, to put this diamond-in-the-rough smile…
I feel great.
...as is rarely the case. So - what have I consumed, to put this diamond-in-the-rough smile…
| 1. | Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription |
| 2. | Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery |
| 3. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 4. | Death - Scream Bloody Gore |
| 5. | Entombed - Left Hand Path |
| + 5 more |
Really Wucking Fish I Had a Drum-Set
Apologies, of the most sincere kind, for the Spoonerism. It's really not my style, but some could argue it was necessary...
| 1. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 2. | Deadfall - Ordeal by Fire demo/EP |
| 3. | Dãm - The Difference Engine |
| 4. | Neil Young - Mirror Ball |
| 5. | Slayer - Reign In Blood |
| + 15 more |
Worship at the Altar of Demos
No, I haven't yet really checked out MS' own 'Clandestine Cuts' demo-highlighting series. Lemme know, if you will, which ones might be the aces in the holes - and what's the best…
| 1. | Anacrusis - Manic Impressions Demo |
| 2. | Deadfall - Ordeal by Fire |
| 3. | Testament - Demo:1 |
| 4. | Vektor - Demolition |
| 5. | Ackros - Ackros |
| + 24 more |
More Of The Best Music Ever Made: Non-Fatally Flawed Favourites Of The Frightful Nineties
Pretty much my top 5 of each year, 1990-1999. It may have been black metal's finest hour, but for the most part I don't care for the genre - check some other lists for recoms there.
As if I…
As if I…
| 1. | Anacrusis - Manic Impressions Demo |
| 2. | Anthrax - Persistence Of Time |
| 3. | Forbidden - Twisted Into Form |
| 4. | Pantera - Cowboys From Hell |
| 5. | Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare |
| + 46 more |
My To-Tab List
by 15/10/14 these 4 should move to my 5th list and be replaced by <10 others
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| 1. | Anacrusis - Annihilation Complete |
| 2. | Altar - Until Heaven Forbids |
| 3. | Usurper - Diabolosis |
| 4. | Usurper - Threshold Of The Usurper |
Some Of The Best Music Ever Made: Syk's Picks Of Les '80s
They were the best of times, they were the worst of times. Then thrash kicked glam out of the way, and once again, it was the best of times. Haha. Def Leppard's debut came close. Box of Frogs may…
| 1. | Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden |
| 2. | Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations |
| 3. | Jeff Beck - There and Back |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Killers |
| 5. | Neil Young - Trans |
| + 23 more |
Top (and/or unduly passed-over) Power Metal (?)
With the express exclusion of Na, Mg, K, Ca, Cr, Fe, Cu, W, Hg, etc.
EP, full-length albums, & single song picks from a Guy Who's Not Really into PM... Yeah, I should have put up Viron's…
EP, full-length albums, & single song picks from a Guy Who's Not Really into PM... Yeah, I should have put up Viron's…
| 1. | Eidolon - Nightmare World |
| 2. | Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi |
| 3. | Brainstorm - Soul Temptation |
| 4. | Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera |
| 5. | Nightwish - Wishmaster |
| + 9 more |
For to Listen Yet Again (bespoke, unfunny subtitle: 21 mostly fantastic songs in 2 hours)
Because I'd sooner spend an hour-and-a-half with Pokemon than a mindless action movie. I know you know what I'm talkin' about. ...No, not that. Honestly - some people...
(Seriously though,…
(Seriously though,…
| 1. | Alien Ant Farm - Anthology |
| 2. | Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown |
| 3. | Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps with Angels |
| 4. | Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera |
| 5. | Immolation - Providence |
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Had to Play Today (Order Doesn't Mean Terribly Much Here)
Bunch of good songs, here. Gonna compile a list or seven of the songs I can competently play on guitar. I might be happy to teach these, or at least provide some tabs
1June:actually was playing these…
1June:actually was playing these…
| 1. | Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age |
| 2. | Mastodon - Blood Mountain |
| 3. | Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age |
| 4. | Mastodon - Blood Mountain |
| 5. | Metallica - Load |
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Just, Great Songs, Part III
A good many of these also had promo videos. If you've got a[n in]decent sense of humour I'd like to point out http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/videos.php?band_id=116 (Bark) and http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/videos.php?band_id=383…
| 1. | Cathedral - Metal Gear Solid |
| 2. | Dio - We Rock |
| 3. | Cathedral - Hopkins |
| 4. | Dio - We Rock |
| 5. | Graveyard - Goliath |
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Like Bass like This
A few important ones missing, I know... 8 Foot Sativa, Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Kataklysm...
| 1. | Artillery - The Mind Factory |
| 2. | Dismember - Indecent And Obscene |
| 3. | Judas Priest - British Steel |
| 4. | Mortal Sin - I Am Immortal |
| 5. | Motörhead - Ace Of Spades |
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