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The Analog Cub

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  1. Sin After Sin is where things really start to take off for me. I know SWOD is a popular one but despite its importance, it's too much of a Queen imitation to me. Too much of the 70s cheese in these first few.
  2. I've decided to give Priest a proper discography run. Will take me a while given the size but you gotta start somewhere. Rocka Rolla is better than I remember it being. It's not the Priest I know, but for 70s hard rock it's surprisingly solid, at least the first couple tracks and Diamonds and Rust.
  3. Haken is a hard one to get aggregate reviews for because the albums are all very different apart from Vector/Virus being similar to each other. You can tell a lot about how someone's tastes are with Haken based on where they rate Affinity, I think. For me it's: Fauna Affinity Virus The Mountain Visions Vector Aquarius
  4. I go back and forth a bit between Stained Class, Painkiller, and Screaming for Vengeance. Depends on the day. I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of Priest like I am Maiden, but they scratch the itch.
  5. These guys impress me. Richie Faulkner saved this band. I'm enjoying this one more than a fair amount of their 70s material, to be completely honest. It's not their BEST album, but you could take a few from this, a few from Firepower, and maybe one or two from RoS and it'd be a top 5 Priest album.
  6. I'll also pick Death Magnetic from Metallica, I'd argue their "late career" started with that one in that their tours had started playing it safe with 80s + Black Album material.
  7. Maiden's last two were fantastic. Pink Floyd's Division Bell is one of their absolute best. Foo Fighters' But Here We Are is their best since Wasting Light.
  8. I'm a software engineer. It's literally the hottest issue right now. I've enough clout to tell my boss to leave well enough alone if he wants to keep me and he doesn't seem too keen on enforcing it anyway. If I go in, I'm on a Teams call anyways since we're global. Waste of time.
  9. Much like companies with their bullshit return to office policies, they'll try it again once they feel they can get away with it.
  10. Five Guys is expensive, and my location started skimping on them (by their standards), in that they aren't dumping another scoop straight in the bag. Just enough to fill the little fry container. It's not NY prices making it $18, either, it's stupid high in Iowa, too.
  11. I'm game for Maiden. The top 3 are untouchable for me but 4-9 are likely to shuffle depending on how I'm feeling. Seventh Son Brave New World Powerslave Somewhere In Time A Matter of Life and Death Number of the Beast Senjutsu Piece of Mind Book of Souls Things start to feel a little meh here but there are some absolute gems within Dance of Death Iron Maiden Killers X Factor These have very few redeeming qualities The Final Frontier - they just sound tired Fear of the Dark No Prayer for the Dying Virtual XI
  12. I wish there was an official live release of the 07-08 tour with Dave. The YouTube footage I can find is night and day better than that horrible live album. There were moments where he'd actually sing in key.
  13. Balance has one, maybe two decent songs (Aftershock and Seventh Seal), but the rest is pretty bad. My one defense of Truth is that Eddie and Alex sound fantastic. Some absolute fire on there, but Dave is cooked. There's a few good songs. Beats Workin, China Town, She's The Woman.
  14. Best full ranking shot at King Gizzard - this is f***ing hard! PetroDragonic Apocalypse Nonagon Infinity Polygondwanaland Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava Flying Microtonal Banana L.W. Omnium Gatherum Infest the Rats Nest Changes Gumboot Soup K.G. I'm In Your Mind Fuzz Butterfly 3000 Murder of the Universe ====== This is where they start to lose me ===== Fishing For Fishes Laminated Denim Float Along - Fill Your Lungs Quarters! The Silver Cord Sketches at Brunswick's East Paper Mache Dream Balloon 12 Bar Bruise Oddments Made In Timeland Eyes Like The Sky
  15. Starset 1. Horizons 2. Vessels 3. Transmissions 4. Divisions Divisions is just awful. Enjoying the band but, like Breaking Benjamin, they're incredibly formulaic. Horizons and Vessels just happen to do it very well
  16. Yeah I feel like if I get half a dozen new releases from bands I know and maybe discover a new band for my rotation that's a really good year. I simply wouldn't have the time or energy to devote that level of attention to much more, and I've got a desk job for a living.
  17. Haken - Fauna Tesseract - War of Being King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse Foo Fighters - But Here We Are QOTSA - In Times New Roman Never got around to the new Steven Wilson album. Still on my list. The new Porcupine Tree live album kicks some serious ass.
  18. Edited a couple entries after discovering some new discographies this year. Adding 2021-23 2021 1. Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World 2. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu 3. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim Honorable mention CHVRCHES - Screen Violence. It's synth pop but this particular group feels like a real band behind it all and it has this cold unsettling atmosphere that reminds me of Richard Barbieri work. 2022 1. Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation 2. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms, and Lava 3. Ghost - Impera Honorable mention Devin Townsend - Lightwork. I feel Devy is kinda winding down on the wow factor for me anymore but this was a pretty good effort. He needs to ditch the jovial choir shtick though. 2023 1. Haken - Fauna 2. Tesseract - War of Being 3. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse Honorable mention Foo Fighters - But Here We Are. Their best since Wasting Light, and one of their best overall. Fantastic album that just missed the cut because the metal albums this year were SO GOOD.
  19. Yep. Futile, Drown With Me, the entire Nil Recurring EP which could've been with FOABP. All of those are great but we're stuck with Halo, Creator Has a Mastertape, etc. on the actual albums.
  20. Assuming they didn't turn his guitar off, he actually learned the whole song, too. Jambi is a f***ing killer track
  21. Based on the way it's being advertised I'd say the set will be leaning harder into the Van Hagar albums and less into his solo stuff, Montrose, or whatever else he plays these days. Like, maybe they pull out stuff from Balance or F.U.C.K. that hadn't been played since the booze apocalypse in 2004 Time will tell if that's true though, or if he's just gonna keep playing the same half a dozen songs from Van Hagar mixed in with his solo hits
  22. That's totally fair. I suppose lyrically it's not exactly a walk in the park.
  23. DT 1. Six Degrees 2. Scenes 3. Black Clouds 4. Distance Over Time 5. Awake 6. A View 7. Images 8. ADToE 9. Train of Thought 10. Octavarium 11. Dream Theater 12. Systematic Chaos 13. Falling Into Infinity 14. The Astonishing 15. WDADU
  24. +1000 points for putting Distance over Time and A View towards the top -10000 for the Six Degrees slander!
  25. Idk if I'd call that one the worst, but it's definitely bad (on a much overrated album too if you ask me).
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