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La Villa without hesitation. Without mercy.

1. Animalized (totally under rated)

2. The Elder

3. Lick It Up

4. Asylum

5. Unmasked (catchy as hell )

6. Crazy Nights (way over-polished production, but has good songs)

7. Creatures Of The Night (way over rated IMO, 3 great songs, the rest unmemorable)

8. Hot In The Shade (RIP Eric Carr)

1. The Number Of The Beast

2. Seventh Son

3. Piece Of Mind

4. Powerslave

5. (tie) Somewhere In Time/Killers

 

1.Phantom Of The Opera

2. Aces High

3. Hallowed Be Thy Name

4. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

5. Caught Somewhere In Time

All great albums, but some just a little better than others...

 

1. Brave New World

2. The Final Frontier

3. The Book Of Souls

4. Dance Of Death (Maiden's most under-rated IMO, besides maybe NPFTD)

5. A Matter Of Life And Death

Unlike some, I'm a big fan of the Hagar stuff. But my vote goes to the debut. How many bands had a debut this strong? They hit you with everything right out of the gate. When I look at the track listing, I always think to myself "this is a debut? Most bands need to get to their third, fourth or fifth release before they're this good".

 

Still mind blowing 40 years later.

 

Yup! Can't stand the Van Hagar stuff. Love the guitar work of course.

 

I will say when I was back in high school I played 5150 a hundred times over the summer. Loved it. Even saw the tour. BTO opened! Cow Palace.

5150 was the first concert I went to--early Summer of '86 when I was 13. Later that summer I saw Ozzy and then David Lee Roth. 1986 was rite of passage for me!

 

Brilliant memories my friend!! CHEERS TO ROCK AND ROLL!

 

I saw the "Eat Em And Smile" Tour and "Skyscraper" Tour. Both of those tours blew VAN HAGAR AWAY! JMO!!!!

In Spokane, Hagar destroyed DLR, who couldn't even fill the arena. I had been a Hagar-hater, but he won me over that year.

Both camps were at their very peaks on these tours. VH was pretty much always a well-oiled machine with Hagar live until Eddie went off the rails with meth in the mid-90's, but even DLR stepped up big early in his solo career because he had something to prove. He also had one of the best bands ever assembled and he was still physically and vocally capable of doing all his crazy shit live. He still talked too much on the EEAS Tour from what I remember, but seeing him do 'On Fire' and doing all the 720 deg jump spins between verses was f***ing nuts.

I dig The Elder. This just isn't the kind of album a band like KISS would be permitted by fans and critics to release without a lot of push back. Especially after releasing 2 pop albums previously, everyone was waiting for a return to form. I think if The Elder was released later in their career it would have been better received. It's a good album in hindsight and The Oath might make it into my Top Ten KISS Songs. I even like The Elder more than Creatures Of The Night--COTN is over-rated; at least half of the songs are very stale and unmemorable, IMO.

Unlike some, I'm a big fan of the Hagar stuff. But my vote goes to the debut. How many bands had a debut this strong? They hit you with everything right out of the gate. When I look at the track listing, I always think to myself "this is a debut? Most bands need to get to their third, fourth or fifth release before they're this good".

 

Still mind blowing 40 years later.

 

Yup! Can't stand the Van Hagar stuff. Love the guitar work of course.

 

I will say when I was back in high school I played 5150 a hundred times over the summer. Loved it. Even saw the tour. BTO opened! Cow Palace.

5150 was the first concert I went to--early Summer of '86 when I was 13. Later that summer I saw Ozzy and then David Lee Roth. 1986 was rite of passage for me!

It's awesome Rick & Morty is signed on for 70 new episodes, but I can't believe they will keep up the quality with that kind of demand from Cartoon Network. They will have to get even more outside writers and undoubtedly there will be some subpar episodes, even whole seasons. I didn't catch on to the show until halfway through Season 3 so the wait hasn't been as big of a deal for me. Kind of like the Game Of Thrones novels--I didn't start reading them until four years ago (and I refuse to watch the show until maybe the novels are complete). I couldn't imagine being one of the fans who started reading the series 22 years ago--Hell, I've already given up on the idea Martin will finish the 7th novel. I digress! Rick and Morty is even better than the first two seasons of Venture Bros! Probably better than Family Guy! Up The Mortys!

1. Rush (Moving Pictures)

2. Iron Maiden (Number Of The Beast)

3. Van Halen (VH1)

4. Slayer (Reign In Blood)

5. Metallica (Master Of Puppets)

1. VH1

2. Fair Warning

3. VH2

4. 1984

5. Diver Down

6. Women and Children First

7. 5150

8. A Different Kind Of Truth

9. OU812

10. Balance

11. F.U.C.K.

12. VH3

In Bruce's bio he said they lacked criticism after Seventh Son. It seemed that their formula couldn't fail, and they could have used some advice for No Prayer.

 

I'm possibly the only person who likes No Prayer better than Seventh. :)

 

Seventh is very good, I like every Maiden album except the Blaze ones (which I have to revisit. I have to listen around Blaze. It's not Bruce-centrism, I like Paul's work. Just don't think Blaze fit well. The Clansman is excellent, though). No Prayer is really uneven and I don't like every song, so arguably it's worse than Seventh even for me. But it's high points are better than Seventh's as well.

It's not one of my favorites, and it doesn't hold a candle to SSOASS, but No Prayer is Maiden's most under-rated album. It's definitely better than Fear Of The Dark. The songs are just plain better overall and it sounds fresher. It's a shame they have completely forsaken playing Tailgunner, Public Enema, or anything from that album live. The Legacy Of The Beast Tour would have been the perfect time to dust off a song from that album and stop playing FOTD for at least one freaking tour!

Appetite is better than anything AIC has put out (or most bands for that matter), but GnR pretty much shit the bed after that. I have much more respect for AIC and Axle is a colossal douche bag so I'll pick AIC over GnR any day.

Michael Caine wept like six too many times in The Dark Knight trilogy. Blubber blubber blubber. Meanwhile Hopkins kills it as Odin. Actually not for this reason at all, I still go A-Hop.

I like how there was a heavy focus on Piece Of Mind. Aside from Maiden's 2005 Early Days tour, they have skimped over this album pretty much since Somewhere In Time 86-87. I'm not the biggest fan of playing both The Clansman and Sign Of The Cross. I'd like to see them play something from No Prayer For The Dying--not that it's their best by any means, but because they haven't played anything from this for decades and it's criminally under-rated IMO. And for Christ's sake, lose Fear Of The Dark for at least one tour! It's a great song, but has totally warn out it's welcome--it aint no Hallowed. But on another positive note, I'm almost shocked they finally dusted off Flight Of Icarus--and the flamethrower was dope. I'd give this set list an A-, but because FOTD is still being played, I give it a B+. I'm sure this will keep Steve Harris up at night.

RIP Big Vinnie. :guitar:

I'm not a big TV viewer, but Anthony was one of the few personalities that instantly grabbed me and I became hooked on the first few seasons of No Reservations. I kinda lost track of his career but would check in on him now and again. Really sad. RIP man. :martini:

God there are a lot of quotable lines from this franchise, and I hear myself quoting Clubber, Drago, Paulie and Sly a lot...but when I read through these the one that really reasonated with me was when Apollo told Rocky 'Do everyone a favor and knock this chump out'. It's the first time in the franchise Apollo begins to become a relatable figure. #CarlWeathersIsTheShit

1. Sound Garden

2. Alice In Chains (almost a tie w/SG)

3. Pearl Jam

4. Stone Temple Pilots

5. Nirvana (always considered them a bit overrated for what they were)

Fates Warning is awesome. I saw them front row on the Parallels tour and they were spellbinding. Just superb.

I know there are some other bands that could have been on here (Smashing Pumpkins, Janes Addiction), but I wanted to stick closer to the grunge vein in this poll.

They should have dropped Turbo Lover, that's had a very long run in the setlist.

 

They should indeed, but I've given up on that ever happening. The casual fans still respond to it and I imagine the band likes having easy songs mixed in with Sinner, Freewheel and the like.

Unfortunately, Turbo Lover is like Maiden's 'Fear Of The Dark'. They are both good songs and great live, but they have worn out their stay. They need to be dropped to work in other true classics or forgotten gems. There is no reason these bands should still be playing these two songs on every tour since their inceptions.

No order after Levee:

 

1. When The Levee Breaks

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

Bring It On Home

Stairway To Heaven

The Song Remains The Same

Over The Hills And Far Away

The Rover

Trampled Under Foot

Ten Years Gone

Carouselambra

 

I think I may have left off some good ones. :P

Christ, for a minute I thought your post said 'Carlos Cavazo' Killed By Giraffe '. I expected to see a video loop of the Quiet Riot guitarist being headbutted by the animal while Bang Your Head was playing. I'm glad none of that happened, but that's unfortunate for the film maker. RIP, dude.

“Anytime the headliner can’t hold their crowd, they shouldn’t be headlining.” - Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath in response to opening act KISS blowing them off the stage, Aug 2nd 1975

 

Sabbath circa 1975 wouldn’t have gotten blown off any stage by anyone.

True, but I could imagine the crowd being taken off their feet by the sheer energy of KISS back in the day--remember, people hadn't seen anything like that before. Just watch those first tours on Kissology Vol 1. They really were one of the best live acts of all time.

All Rush albums deserve a medal damn it!

 

Gold:

Moving Pics

Hemispheres

2112

Permanent Waves

A Farewell To Kings

Permanent Waves

Power Windows

Clockwork Angels

Fly By Night

Signals

 

Silver:

Vapor Trails (that's right!)

Rush

Caress Of Steel

Counterparts

Presto

 

Bronze:

Hold Your Fire

Snakes & Arrows

Test For Echo

Roll The Bones