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Why These Are My Favourite Albums: Avant-80s Selections From Perfect Or Near-Perfect Works

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Syk
Created
January 12, 2012
Entries
26
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3
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,…
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
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Good Things Take Time

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Syk
Created
January 06, 2014
Entries
19
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2
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
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Love It All - 30 Fave Releases Since Y2K

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Syk
Created
April 07, 2012
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30
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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…
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
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Please Stop Feeding Crap to Your FOC

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Syk
Created
January 23, 2013
Entries
10
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2
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…
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
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Really Wucking Fish I Had a Drum-Set

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Syk
Created
June 15, 2012
Entries
20
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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
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Worship at the Altar of Demos

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Syk
Created
December 22, 2013
Entries
29
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2
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
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More Of The Best Music Ever Made: Non-Fatally Flawed Favourites Of The Frightful Nineties

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Syk
Created
March 09, 2012
Entries
51
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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…
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
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My To-Tab List

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Syk
Created
July 06, 2012
Entries
4
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1
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

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Syk
Created
February 10, 2012
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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
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Top (and/or unduly passed-over) Power Metal (?)

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Syk
Created
December 01, 2012
Entries
14
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1
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…
1. Eidolon - Nightmare World
2. Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi
3. Brainstorm - Soul Temptation
4. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
5. Nightwish - Wishmaster
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A Touch of Prog / Evil Underachievers

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Syk
Created
December 14, 2013
Entries
22
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1. Exence - Tabula Rasa
2. Guillotine (IND) - The Cynic
3. Akaname - Akaname
4. Rex Mundi - Balance Between Madness And Hope
5. AraPacis - So Many Leapers
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For to Listen Yet Again (bespoke, unfunny subtitle: 21 mostly fantastic songs in 2 hours)

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Syk
Created
November 24, 2012
Entries
21
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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,…
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)

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Syk
Created
June 01, 2012
Entries
22
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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…
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 list by
Syk
Created
January 21, 2014
Entries
28
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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 list by
Syk
Created
February 18, 2014
Entries
15
Endorsements
0
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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