What Are You Listening To?

[IMissMattStover]

It seems like this forum is overrun with metal fans.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='IMissMattStover' timestamp='1328756988' post='989968']

Ok. So tell me then more about the vocals for Iron Maiden. I like the higher pitched guy voices, and I cannot stand female voices. Vocals make or break a band for me. Thats why even though I am a metal-head, I love Journey. Steve Perry, imo, is the greatest vocalist of all time. Also, I always subconsciously avoided Iron Maiden because the name, being derived from the medieval torture device that was a poster child for the cruelty of humanity, was always a little creepy seeming to me, and so I stayed away from them.
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lol yes their albums are pretty scary. But the band is not crazy or anything. They are actually a drug free band actually. Anyway about the vocals. In the early days they had a guy who had a more punk voice but they fired him because of his bad live performances and drug use. The bassist(creator of the band) wanted a singer who would fit better. So they got a pilot and fencer but also a singer named Bruce Dickinson. According to most people he is considered a opera like tenor. He can really get up there. Today he is a bit lower but still pretty high. He proably is the best sounding in the album "Powerslave". In the early 90's he like got a little raspier in singing but went back to his normalness after his pretty good solo career. If you like high vocals listen to them.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='IMissMattStover' timestamp='1328757249' post='989976']
They look like gender-uncertain serial killers with dietary problems.
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thats what most of their songs are about lol!

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='IMissMattStover' timestamp='1328757445' post='989982']
It seems like this forum is overrun with metal fans.
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we should make a heavy meatl thread so we don't swamp up this music thread which carries topics of all music. I mean i see hip hop songs on here the most lol.

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1328757601' post='989985']
lol yes their albums are pretty scary. But the band is not crazy or anything. They are actually a drug free band actually. Anyway about the vocals. In the early days they had a guy who had a more punk voice but they fired him because of his bad live performances and drug use. The bassist(creator of the band) wanted a singer who would fit better. So they got a pilot and fencer but also a singer named Bruce Dickinson. According to most people he is considered a opera like tenor. He can really get up there. Today he is a bit lower but still pretty high. He proably is the best sounding in the album "Powerslave". In the early 90's he like got a little raspier in singing but went back to his normalness after his pretty good solo career. If you like high vocals listen to them.
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They sound pretty good. I'll check them out. Drug free? Thats surprising. I was also surprised to learn that one of my favorites, CCR, was anti-drug. Proud Mary was about a riverboat, not drugs. Lookin out my back door was about a children's book, not hallucinating.
Your comment about crazy brings to mind a Crue story i find entertaining. I read in Tattoos and Tequila that they bought cap-guns. They would ride the tour bus down the road and shoot at bicyclists who would fall of their bikes in fear. They also had a cap gun war in a hotel lobby where they overturned sofas to make forts and they fought with each other. Pretty ballsy.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='Ed_Reed20' timestamp='1328757390' post='989978']
Listened to some Rammstein before and watched some of their live shows. Weird stuff...
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lol have you seen the white foam cannon that is shaped in a certain way?
They love to use fire too.

[cursona pirate]

[quote name='IMissMattStover' timestamp='1328757826' post='989992']

They sound pretty good. I'll check them out. Drug free? Thats surprising. I was also surprised to learn that one of my favorites, CCR, was anti-drug. Proud Mary was about a riverboat, not drugs. Lookin out my back door was about a children's book, not hallucinating.
Your comment about crazy brings to mind a Crue story i find entertaining. I read in Tattoos and Tequila that they bought cap-guns. They would ride the tour bus down the road and shoot at bicyclists who would fall of their bikes in fear. They also had a cap gun war in a hotel lobby where they overturned sofas to make forts and they fought with each other. Pretty ballsy.
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my father has that book which i have been waiting to read. I need to steal it from him one of these days.
BTW that sounds fun to have a cap gun war!

The Iron Maiden albums that don't have bruce on are:
Iron Maiden
Killers
The x factor
Virtual IV

The last 2 above have Blaze Bayley who is an okay singer. He is more of a bariotne bass dude lol.
The first 2 were the first 2 albums with Paul D' ainno who was just bizarre. I like the music but not the vocals on those. Bruce does better versions of the songs on all these 4 albums.

Iron maiden has been related to Rush a lot. So if you like Rush...

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1328757958' post='989998']

my father has that book which i have been waiting to read. I need to steal it from him one of these days.
BTW that sounds fun to have a cap gun war!
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I just got The Dirt(Whole Band), The Heroin Diaries (Nikki) and Tommyland (Obvious.) Tattoos and Tequila is a great book. And album. I love Vince's cover of Who'll Stop the Rain.

[Ed_Reed20]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1328757851' post='989993']
lol have you seen the white foam cannon that is shaped in a certain way?
They love to use fire too.
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Sure have. lol

Yep. I heard them for the first time in the Vin Diesel action flick [i]xXx[/i].

[IMissMattStover]

[quote name='cursona pirate' timestamp='1328757958' post='989998']

my father has that book which i have been waiting to read. I need to steal it from him one of these days.
BTW that sounds fun to have a cap gun war!

The Iron Maiden albums that don't have bruce on are:
Iron Maiden
Killers
The x factor
Virtual IV

The last 2 above have Blaze Bayley who is an okay singer. He is more of a bariotne bass dude lol.
The first 2 were the first 2 albums with Paul D' ainno who was just bizarre. I like the music but not the vocals on those. Bruce does better versions of the songs on all these 4 albums.

Iron maiden has been related to Rush a lot. So if you like Rush...
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Love Rush. I also made a metal thread where we can get away from the "hipsters" lol.

[Ravenslifer]

[quote name='chesapeakeaviator' timestamp='1328675529' post='989149']
Skynyrd - Free Bird

Hard to remember a day gone by where I didn't listen to that one at least once.
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That's the one song I can't listen to on the radio if they play the whole solo. I'll be in a 35 mph zone, then the solo comes on and by the end of the thing I'm doing 80.

[chesapeakeaviator]

[quote name='Ravenslifer' timestamp='1328790639' post='990190']

That's the one song I can't listen to on the radio if they play the whole solo. I'll be in a 35 mph zone, then the solo comes on and by the end of the thing I'm doing 80.
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Hahahah I feel ya there!

[Bltravens]

I anybody likes slower style music, the new City and Colour album "Little Hell" is pretty good. Theres more than a few songs on it that I listen to.

[Purple Nurple]

RATM : Live at the Grand Olympic. Wow!!!

[ghost1986]

Science is Violence by The Rifles

[FYF86]

[quote name='RavensAllTheWay' timestamp='1328582500' post='987764']
I just listened to that a couple of hours ago myself, lol.
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Its a great song lol!

Currently listening to "Girls Own Love" by Andrew W.K

[codizzle]

[quote name='Bltravens' timestamp='1328813671' post='990410']
I anybody likes slower style music, the new City and Colour album "Little Hell" is pretty good. Theres more than a few songs on it that I listen to.
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I like city and colour

[bauer77]

[quote name='Bltravens' timestamp='1328813671' post='990410']
I anybody likes slower style music, the new City and Colour album "Little Hell" is pretty good. Theres more than a few songs on it that I listen to.
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I downloaded a few of their songs on my phones, "Waiting..." and "Coming Home" are pretty good.

[cursona pirate]

Zombie-The Cranberries
Yes i listen to them. I'm cool.

[Ed_Reed20]

Flatbush Zombies. They're not bad.

[Purple Nurple]

Aaaaand I had to listen to White Zombies "welcome to the planet, [i]<deleted>[/i]" to complete the trifecta. Thanks OCD!!!

[IMissMattStover]

No one Together, Kansas.

[Ravens Beast]

.....Adele.....

[IMissMattStover]

Out of the Cellar, Ratt

[cursona pirate]

Down With the Sickness- Disturbed

[JO_75]

Right now my heater lol.


No but seriously I was listening to Cult of Personality on my Ipod by Living Colour before I turned my Ipod off, thus I only hear my heater.

[IMissMattStover]

Speed King - Deep Purple

[ghost1986]

Boyz N The Hood by Dynamite Hack

[IMissMattStover]

gag. Rap? Id rather listen to opera than rap....

[cursona pirate]

Opera is pretty good. Rap is not music.