All Time Top 1100 Albums (Aerosmith - Big Ones) P265

RobMCFC said:
This is me just trying to understand your point of view. Surely there are bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana that would fulfil your need for something loud, hard and heavy? I know it's each to their own and all that, but there's just such a lack of melody or empathy or anything on this that I struggle to understand how anybody could engage with it.
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It's hard for me to explain as I don't like the genre either haha!!

Nirvana and Soundgarden are superb and can provide that hard and loud sound. But if you want to push it harder, faster, louder, nastier and just plain angrier you get Pantera! It's difficult to explain but I think the the melody is there, but it's not obvious. It's in the riffs really but part of the hook is his OTT vocal which is partly why I think it's panto at times!

If you want to feel angry, vicious and fired up and want your head to get caved in, this album does it! I don't know why I like(d) it as I never got into fights, but it's fighting music haha.

If you were playing for City against United and it's 0-0 and we needed to win to win the PL....and we get a corner....you can pick a tune to listen to before you charge into the box at full pelt, this is what you go for haha!
 
crublue1 said:
Not to answer for Mr shin but sometimes we pick an album up early in our lives and it stays with us, however bad other people think it is.
I've got several, as I'm sure have many others
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Yes, I get that. If somebody were to say they liked Leo Sayer (random example) fair enough. Not my cup of tea, not my kind of music. But he can sing, knock out a nice tune, I get it. Let's take another example - Suede - can't stand them myself and Brett Anderson has got to be in with a shout as one of the 10 singers I'd put on my personal excruciating voices list. But again, I can understand why somebody might like their music.

But with a band like Pantera, it's music that is set up to disturb your ears. It's aggressive and unpleasant and I'd have a hard time listening to that kind of music for longer than a few songs.

I like a bit of aggression in the vocals sometimes and some heavy guitars, but surely it's got to be backed up with a bit of melody somewhere, otherwise what's the point?

I'm not having a go at Mr Goater, who's a thoughtful poster, just trying to understand the attraction, that's all.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
It's hard for me to explain as I don't like the genre either haha!!

Nirvana and Soundgarden are superb and can provide that hard and loud sound. But if you want to push it harder, faster, louder, nastier and just plain angrier you get Pantera! It's difficult to explain but I think the the melody is there, but it's not obvious. It's in the riffs really but part of the hook is his OTT vocal which is partly why I think it's panto at times!

If you want to feel angry, vicious and fired up and want your head to get caved in, this album does it! I don't know why I like(d) it as I never got into fights, but it's fighting music haha.

If you were playing for City against United and it's 0-0 and we needed to win to win the PL....and we get a corner....you can pick a tune to listen to before you charge into the box at full pelt, this is what you go for haha!
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Sorry, our posts overlapped. Thanks for the explanation. Maybe it's just that we all have a different level for how aggressive something sounds. Charging into the box at full pelt with Van Halen's "Jump", Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," Soundgarden's "My Wave" or a whole host of Midnight Oil would be enough for me!
 
RobMCFC said:
Yes, I get that. If somebody were to say they liked Leo Sayer (random example) fair enough. Not my cup of tea, not my kind of music. But he can sing, knock out a nice tune, I get it. Let's take another example - Suede - can't stand them myself and Brett Anderson has got to be in with a shout as one of the 10 singers I'd put on my personal excruciating voices list. But again, I can understand why somebody might like their music.

But with a band like Pantera, it's music that is set up to disturb your ears. It's aggressive and unpleasant and I'd have a hard time listening to that kind of music for longer than a few songs.

I like a bit of aggression in the vocals sometimes and some heavy guitars, but surely it's got to be backed up with a bit of melody somewhere, otherwise what's the point?

I'm not having a go at Mr Goater, who's a thoughtful poster, just trying to understand the attraction, that's all.
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it’s what makes Music great though

some people ‘get’a certain genre of Music. Others don’t.

I watched a few of Pantera’s concerts whilst studying this Album - their fans absolutely love them - rocking away, know every lyric and having the time of their lives.

that’s why I feel slightly uncomfortable when someone dismisses a artist/band on a first listen - a lot of these acts mean the world to people during their heyday.

first listen I was like ‘what on earth is this’ but more and more chances, I knew when the riffs and solos were coming and it just grows on you.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
it’s what makes Music great though

some people ‘get’a certain genre of Music. Others don’t.

I watched a few of Pantera’s concerts whilst studying this Album - their fans absolutely love them - rocking away, know every lyric and having the time of their lives.

that’s why I feel slightly uncomfortable when someone dismisses a artist/band on a first listen - a lot of these acts mean the world to people during their heyday.

first listen I was like ‘what on earth is this’ but more and more chances, I knew when the riffs and solos were coming and it just grows on you.
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Yes I get that, some of my favourite albums are the ones that took the longest time to fully appreciate.
But sometimes, not often, there comes along an album so bad that if you were left alone on a desert island with a gramaphone and just this LP for company, you'd use the gramaphone for firewood and the disc to eat your crab off.
 
crublue1 said:
Yes I get that, some of my favourite albums are the ones that took the longest time to fully appreciate.
But sometimes, not often, there comes along an album so bad that if you were left alone on a desert island with a gramaphone and just this LP for company, you'd use the gramaphone for firewood and the disc to eat your crab off.
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You could make an ashtray out of the disc. How many ashtrays do desert islands have? Or a frisby...although...not much fun on your own. Don't burn the gramophone though...sell that on eBay and buy some decent albums. oh...
 
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