Your fave Rock albums IN the '80s, and still ok?

Nice list

David_D wrote: Cristi wrote: David_D wrote: Cristi wrote: Then call it "Danish metal". it's more accurate.  I can't call Sea Sun and A Wish of Life for "Danish metal".  I was talking about Mercyful Fate and you knew that...  And I was talking about the whole Danish Rock genre broadly understood.

Logan wrote: Certainly I am no metallurgist and it may be best to have a devoted topic on this, but I have considered Heavy Metal to be a form of rock, and an outgrowth/ development from hard rock. So it would not be weird for me to see that Heavy Metal album listed with some other bands' albums under a general rock label. Metals come from ore, and ore can come from rock, and I think that makes sense both for music and geology. By the way, I once had someone tell me that rock and metal are completely different, and I could not understand the reasoning (especially as it was not given), but that does not seem sensible.

Logan wrote: Cristi wrote: nah, he's just cheeky.  I don't believe so in this case, but we do need a cheeky emoji at this site. (‿|‿) Now you got me wanting to discuss Wyatt's Rock Bottom, which is both rock AND bottom, could add some metal to it with a Steely Dan.

Edited by Cristi - September 26 2024 at 10:08

Logan wrote: By the way, I once had someone tell me that rock and metal are completely different, and I could not understand the reasoning (especially as it was not given), but that does not seem sensible.

David_D wrote: Even in the '80s, I was mostly into mainstream Rock and different kind of much Pop-influenced music, I also liked much and listened to other kinds of music. For instance the Danish Before's A Wish of Life on my list here, which I today find to be some of the very best Post-Punk ever, with influences like Joy Division, The Doors and the Greek proggers, PLJ Band.  Here's the title track from this album - powerful and very emotional stuff:

verslibre wrote: Logan wrote: Metals come from ore, and ore can come from rock, and I think that makes sense both for music and geology. Time for your ore bands poll!

Oredinarily I might, but the polls section is so inundated with my polls that I feel that to make another now would be bang out of oreder. :)

Iron Maiden
Iron Butterfly
Led Zeppelin
Golden Earing
Silver Apples

No alloys allowed

Cristi wrote: In the last 3-4 decades or so, metal started to stand on his own, growing on its own, so much than even its subgenres got its own subgenres.  So yeah, Mercyful Fate is not a rock band.  https://metalstorm.net/bands/band.php?band_id=224&bandname=Mercyful%20Fate

Whether the music of Melissa is Heavy metal, metal, a form of hard rock, all of those, riff-busting reggae, whatever...

This is good stuff...

The title track from "Melissa"



That track sounds like rock and metal (heavy metal) to these ears, but again I am no expert.

It's a Black Sabbath influenced band and I also have been told by some metal people that classic heavy metal is not true metal (they differentiated heavy metal from other metal music). I like plenty of Heavy Metal while not being much of a metal fan. I do like heavy music (heavier than metal, I might say).

Maybe a good debate for metal music archives. I had a debate there about classification in its early days on the topic of hard rock, heavy metal and metal. I don't see the level of separation that some propose between genres. and I also like to focus more on the music of an individual album or track rather than generalisations of genre about bands with various albums which has been a source of some differences in opinion.

Edited by Logan - September 26 2024 at 16:29