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

There's quite a few on here who like rock - be it heavy metal, soft rock, grunge, prog, whatever. But I'm 100% with Foggy on this one. Purely based on the Pantera album we are reviewing, it's very easy to take a dim view of them. It sounds like one-directional, monotonous, untrammeled noise. Slippery When Wet might not be for everyone, same goes for Superunknown or Physical Graffiti or Nevemind or 1984. To me, these albums have a few things in common that the Pantera album doesn't: 1. They have a variety from track-to-track, 2. There are some songs that I like on those albums and some that I don't. 3. They are not screechfests.

Just a personal opinion, no more or less valid than anybody elses, but I felt a little uncomfortable listening to Vulgar Display of Power.
 
Seeing this Pantera album can only make me think RIP Dimebag Darrell.

Shot and killed onstage at a club at which I actually worked security for shows. Was gone and on to better things for several years before that happened.

This was a pretty rough place. At the end of a shift those of us working the show would tally up how many knives we took off the patrons. The tally was usually pretty high.

That club was just torn down this past summer I believe.
 
RobMCFC said:
There's quite a few on here who like rock - be it heavy metal, soft rock, grunge, prog, whatever. But I'm 100% with Foggy on this one. Purely based on the Pantera album we are reviewing, it's very easy to take a dim view of them. It sounds like one-directional, monotonous, untrammeled noise. Slippery When Wet might not be for everyone, same goes for Superunknown or Physical Graffiti or Nevemind or 1984. To me, these albums have a few things in common that the Pantera album doesn't: 1. They have a variety from track-to-track, 2. There are some songs that I like on those albums and some that I don't. 3. They are not screechfests.

Just a personal opinion, no more or less valid than anybody elses, but I felt a little uncomfortable listening to Vulgar Display of Power.
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I just think it’s easy to have a narrow focus when said focus can get hapless angry young men to pour out every aggression in a collective setting and you can make a crap ton of money doing it over and over again. It’s just formulaic. It’s the male musical equivalent to the romance novel. It’s not that it’s inherently “bad”, though aurally I am not the biggest fan. It’s just not especially complicated nor challenging to the artist nor the audience. Do I like “Walk” better than “Dancing Queen”? No. Do I like “Mouth for War” better than “Mamma Mia”? Yes. And neither matter because they’re both the same — mindless. Sometimes one wants mindless entertainment — a soundtrack to something else. But when stacked up against mindFUL entertainment — which is what you do here when critiquing records — mindlessness is usually gonna lose. Unless, that is, there’s some other element of the art that is wowing (melody ala Abba, untrammeled skill ala Rush, creativity and experimentation ala They Might Be Giants, e.g.).
 
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RobMCFC said:
There's quite a few on here who like rock - be it heavy metal, soft rock, grunge, prog, whatever. But I'm 100% with Foggy on this one. Purely based on the Pantera album we are reviewing, it's very easy to take a dim view of them. It sounds like one-directional, monotonous, untrammeled noise. Slippery When Wet might not be for everyone, same goes for Superunknown or Physical Graffiti or Nevemind or 1984. To me, these albums have a few things in common that the Pantera album doesn't: 1. They have a variety from track-to-track, 2. There are some songs that I like on those albums and some that I don't. 3. They are not screechfests.

Just a personal opinion, no more or less valid than anybody elses, but I felt a little uncomfortable listening to Vulgar Display of Power.
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I have several comments on this, but time for only one: there is no track on Nevermind I don’t like. :)
 
Onholiday(somemightsay) said:
Name names Robbo.......... ;-)
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You know what, I might have to be big enough to admit a I might be wrong. It’s many years since I’ve listened to the whole album, but I’ve just quickly sampled those I remembered as being the worst offenders: Breed, Territorial Pissings and Lounge Act. Maybe it’s having listened to Pantera, but suddenly they don’t seem so shouty anymore!

Going to give it a full listen again tomorrow.
 
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