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Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime Hands down the best concept album in metal I have ever heard. This album, my lord, I think it's unbeatable!

Queensryche- The Warning Well, well, well...wow.

Aice Cooper Muscle of Love (8/10) I know a lot of fans don't like this and maybe it's true the highs aren't as high as BDB but it has some greats and is not as bad as it's made out to be Big Apple Dreamin' Never been sold Before Hard Hearted Alice (adore this!!) Crazy Little Child Muscle of Love Teenage Lament 74 sure i can agree it has filler......woman Machine, Working Up A Sweat, Man with the Golden Gun but damn it i like this album a bunch. no accounting for taste huh, lol Mick

Alice Cooper- Love It To Death Okay, this I can get into.

Meat Loaf- Bat Out Of Hell II Great album.

Queensryche- Rage For Order The growth of this band album to album in the early days, it's almost frightening.

There's a pro shot live video of Take Hold Of The Flame from Japan recorded during that tour. You should check it out. Tate pulls everything off vocally without a problem.

Queensryche- Queensryche EP Four tracks and you know what? It's sublime! QR came out all guns blazing, ready to take on the world. Listening to this is as fulfilling as the best of Maiden/Priest. This is GODLY.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Alice Cooper-Goes to Hell (9/10) I feel like he really expaded musically on this one. The disco title song. i'm the Coolest and give the Kid A Break are very frank Zappa like(funny cause he started on Zappa's Label, lol) soe beautiful balllads too I Never Cry Wake Me gently(kinda Jim Steinman like) I saw a list rank this at like 26th best and i stopped reading, lol. i love it. Mick

BOOOOOOOOOOOO

After having that big of an album most bands would try to repeat it with the follow up. But Promised Land is probably their darkest album and the theme deals with the downside of becoming so successful.

Half of Empire (Best I Can, Jet City, Another Rainy Night, the title track, Silent Lucidity and Anybody Listening?) were all huge hits.

Geoff Tate is a GODLY vocalist.

So, logically, if blackhawk weighs the same as a duck, he's made of wood...

Well, you see applicants are not required to fill in their species.

Well it's come from a very good home - it's house trained.

I agree but i also enjoy Working up a Sweat (quite a lot actually). I think Golden Gun is meh, but you got to respect the attempted bond song.. I bet if Alice were to take a stab at it today it wouldn't have been rejected

At the time Muscle Of Love came out I was a big Alice Cooper fan and had all their LP's to date. There was a big fanfare in the UK for this release after the massive commercial success of Billion Bollar Babies - Warner Bros went all out on the packaging - a weird cardboard box imitating a delivery package. A bummer to shelve with any other albums!! For me personally, I was a bit disappointed in the album - just not as dark as its predecessors and in a lot of ways signalling the end of the 'golden age'.

Alice Cooper-Welcome to my Nightmare(10/10) This album is like a demented floor show and i love it. i love the whole thing but my favs Title Track The Black Widow Some Folks (makes me want to break out a top hat and cane.....and JAZZ HANDS, lol) Only Women Bleed Department of Youth then it gets disturbing. you get that two-fer of Years Ago and Steven. Chills. Great record. Mick

You're a loony.

DENIED!!!! sorry i'm in a mood tooday, lol enjoy. Mick

I'm not your Grace, I'm your Elsie.

Dokken-Breaking the Chains. (5/10) this was boring. Now Alice Cooper-Billion Dollar Babies (9/10) Mick

Don't come the brigadier bit with us, dear, We all know where you've been, you military fairy!

There are people with guns out there, sir. Real guns, sir. Not toy ones, sir. Proper ones, sir. They've all got 'em. All of 'em, sir. And some of 'em have got tanks.

Their commercial peak with Empire was bigger than anything Maiden and Priest did. They were bigger than them at that time.

Oh okay! They are fast becoming one of my favourite bands (excluding the filler albums). I have the early stuff a passing glance a couple of weeks ago, today I'm doing a thorough listen. Exceptional! In an alternate universe, Queensryche are as huge as Maiden/Priest.

I am still getting into QR. Right now, I am playing their debut EP. I'm actually knocked off my feet, it's absolutely sublime. The Lady Wore Black is an astounding song. But I have now worked my way through their post-PL discography. I didn't share my thoughts because one listen to those records involved a lot of skipping, some awful albums. A reason I never tried to take Queensryche seriously before is that I grew up reading negative reviews of new releases, and when the band divided a few years back, it was cringe. But now I'm diving in, it is so good to listen to such brilliant songwriting. QR and Savatage are terrific bands, I get a similar feeling from both even though they are different. But Queensryche after Promised Land is dead to me. Saying that, I really enjoyed the latest two albums.

Aerosmith -- Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

He was always regarded as one of the best singers in the metal genre. It's too bad the band's quality went down so much and he turned out to come off as a bit of a dick over the years. I don't think he's talked about as much as he should be due to that. But there was a time when he was spoken of in the same way Halford, Dio and Dickinson are for their vocal abilities. I feel sometimes people forget just how great of a singer he was.

I'm loving the live videos of these songs online. What an amazing singer Tate is!

Oh, I can't take like that. It's against regulations.

Zep/When The Levee Breaks

Knocking at Your Back Door -- Deep Purple

Looks like a lot of those old photos were hosted on Photobucket.com. Most of us used Photobucket back in the day. They had free accounts when they first opened, which most of us here used, and after a few years of people uploading hundreds of their favorite photos and memes to their website they got greedy and started charging a lot of money to keep displaying those images. Pay this new membership fee or your many images would no longer display properly. Most people didn't pay it, and what we're left with now are just a bunch of dead links.

Jellybelly - Smashing Pumpkins

Island of Domination - Judas Priest

So after scoring 20, the Brewers have their SuperAce, Corbin Burnes, on the mound today. Cubs 2 Brewers 0

Grinder -- Judas Priest

He thinks Winger and Nelson are among the best hair metal bands of all time. Don't take anything he says about music seriously.

Firepower - Judas Priest

Alice Cooper-Love it To Death (10/10) Mick

Blue Öyster Cult- Secret Treaties

that's true! Odd - maybe the boys got a bit into the Devil's Dandruff back then

Ugh. Give me a break. No one is breaking anyone's arm, making them check out books that they are not interested in. I worked in a library for a long time, don't get me started