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  1. This one's kind of difficult to do just because their catalogue is very consistent quality wise Blind Guardian 1. Imaginations From The Other Side 2. Nightfall in Middle Earth 3. A Night at the Opera 4. Beyond the Red Mirror 5. Tales From the Twilight World 6. Somewhere Far Beyond 7. The God Machine 8. A Twist in the Myth 9. Follow the Blind 10/11 - tie for Edge of Time & Battalions of Fear.. ^ these are the only albums of theirs I don't really enjoy much. whenever i give them another try it feels like a chore and I'd rather be listening to any of their other albums instead.
  2. I'll have to listen to Dire Straits a lot more before deciding on a ranking I'm comfortable with for them, but I'm pretty sure "Love Over Gold" will come in first..
  3. Sonata Arctica 1. Silence (perfect album and still to this day a one-of-a-kind accomplishment in power metal) 2. Reckoning Night (see above, only now they start to steer more towards prog metal - and have lost the old keyboardists' Mikko's touch...) 3. Winterheart's Guild 4. Ecliptica (strong debut album but they were still a bit too much of a stratovarius knock-off, and too young of a band to have grown into their own yet. they got it right on the next album - silence) 5. Unia (still their most controversial album, still great anyway) 6. Pariah's Child (perfect blend of "classic" and "new" sonata) 7. Clear Cold Beyond (though they tried to recapture the classic power metal song they kind of failed for the most part. I blame Elias more than anything else) 8. Stones Grow Her Name (probably their most creative endeavor next to Unia, and a lot of the time it works out for them) 9. The Days of Grays (too heavy on the symphonics) 10. The Ninth Hour (a few songs on here are amazing but the rest are terrible misses. it could have great as an EP ;) ) 11. Talviyo (absolute blunder)
  4. Haken 1. The Mountain (pretty much perfect) 2. Vector 3. Virus (3.5 - Henshall's solo album the Cocoon is ranked around here) 4. Aquarius 5. Affinity 6. Visions (some of their best songs are on here, but as a whole the album kind of drags and you can't have that in a concept album - that's why this is so low) 7. Fauna (i only really enjoy the singles)
  5. Mr. Not

    The Worst of Rush

    I really didn't want to put Hand Over Fist on there (more than any other I added which I personally disagree with), but it was the least voted for song of off Presto so I went with it.
  6. A couple of really funny scenes. Being completely honest -- if it weren't for the fact that it was a mid-budget foreign film I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as i did
  7. Mr. Not

    The Worst of Rush

    Instead of a "best of" album, it's the "worst of" Using some polling data sourced from - Totem Polls - The Rush Forum & also going off my memory of what people have said here over the years Disc 1: The Early Blunders 01. I Think I'm Going Bald 02. Take a Friend 03. Best I Can 04. Making Memories 05. The Twilight Zone 06. Madrigal 07. Chemistry 08. Tai Shan 09. High Water Disc 2: The Later Stinkers 01. Dog Years 02. Hand Over Fist 03. Roll The Bones (Rap Portion Edit) 04. You Bet Your Life 05. The Speed of Love 06. The Color of Right 07. Resist 08. Stars Look Down 09. Sweet Miracle 10. Good News First 11. BU2B2 idk I'm bored
  8. It definitely seems like she was for a while, he made an album with her and then promoted it on his Instagram, but it didn't seem to do so well... Then she completely disappeared.
  9. Weather Report - Black Market Weather Report - Heavy Weather No matter how many times I give these guys a try I only really enjoy Birdland. And i keep giving them a lot of tries because I really like Birdland.
  10. ^ tempted to try that out for a bit -- April Fool's is coming up.
  11. What if someone made all of their forum posts like this
  12. I can't stand stuck-up bodies of water. It's like, 'Get over yourself, Lake Superior'.
  13. A man in France tried to rob a bank using underwear as a mask, the cops put him in jail right after a quick debriefing.
  14. damn i'm really going to get suckered back into playing minecraft aren't i?
  15. I listened to Halloween 81 recently in two separate sittings and it was quite the listening experience, 6 hours... A lot of repeating songs though. Honestly I'm so bummed they never really performed the better half of You Are What You Is. There's still a lot of Zappa I haven't listened to, if we're counting the post humous works then i've probably only been through about half of his discography, but I've mostly gotten the meat and potatoes covered, I don't think there are too many gems left to discover. I want to revisit Civilzation Phaze III, it's the perfect type of album for Zappa to go out on, and was one of the first full albums of his I ever listened to after I got interested
  16. It bridges the gap between new Sonata and old Sonata imo - similar to how Pariah's Child did, but in a more direct way. Aside from the speed and some of their classic power metal song structure motifs coming back, along with some faster solos... It really can't pass as "classic" Sonata Arctica. Silence was the gold standard imo, and i am the typical fan who does believe their first four albums are their best work and always will be. You're lucky you went into this blind. For months now Tony has been in dozens of interviews, many with small youtube channels even, promoting that "Old Sonata is back" and saying stuff like "I regret Unia and everything following it, I was ignoring the fans"... But as I've said before, Elias/Henkka cannot do what Jani/Mikko did, they can tap upon it with songs like "First in Line" and "Rise a Night" for example, but they still cannot, or refuse to, do what Jani/Mikko did for the sound of the band, which was easily half of the magic. Elias's playing on this album is still obviously Elias's and not Jani's, he's stubborn with his aggressive guitar tones and in your face riffs, rather than working with the rest of the band to make a complete atmospheric sound. Same goes for Henkka with his keyboards, the band sounds more fragmented now than it does unified, and that's been a problem they've had for a while now. Anyway, I wouldn't be so critical of the album if it weren't for the fact that they heavily pushed the idea that it was going to be old Sonata - but I'm not disappointed either because I didn't fully buy in to that narrative, I knew it wasn't possible. It's a great album for what it is. 4 of the songs might need some warming up to (I'm not enjoying Cure For Everything & Angel Defiled much, and the last two songs on the album sound very "Talviyo" which is an album I hardly enjoyed at all...), but other than it's a great, brief album.. I got more than I would have ever expected from them at this point.
  17. Not saying you're low IQ if you don't like minecraft, that's just the reason this guy I know doesn't like it
  18. I know a guy who's too low IQ to appreciate the intricacies of minecraft
  19. I'm away on a little trip for the weekend so while I was getting ready for work this morning I packed my suitcase and backpack in addition to packing my tools, lunch, boots, etc... So I was taking several trips out to my car and then back into my "studio" flat. I live in a little house on a hillside out in the country and there are two tenants (a couple) who rent the 2 bed 1 bath above me, we have a shared hallway/staircase, but obviously I never use the staircase. Since i was taking four trips back and forth (usually i take one or two) I decided to leave my door open so I wouldn't have to keep opening/closing + it was 4:30 am so it's a courtesy thing as it reduces my noise pollution. Anyway, on my fourth trip back I turned out my lights, and as I picked up my suitcase my clothes fell out because I hadn't zipped it up (because I'm stupid), so I started gathering my clothes back into the suitcase using the shine from the outdoor deck's sensor light to see. It's a motion activated light, and on a timer, so before i finished loading my clothes the light went out and my eyes were taking a while to adjust to the dark. I continued to reload my suitcase only using my sense of touch, and as I was zipping it up i heard some "shifting" or "crinkling" behind me, as if someone on the far backside of my room was moving. I got up with my suitcase half-zipped and quickly closed and locked my door, which is around the same time I realized it was just the wind coming through the window and rustling the blinds. I like to keep my windows cracked just a couple inches when I'm away for fresh air, and I keep the blinds mostly closed - i lock them at about three inches above the windowsill. Just my mind playing tricks on me, my imagination always freaks me out a lot if I ever allow it to whisper things into my ear.
  20. It's their shortest album to date, so it leaves a little to be desired... But other than that pretty good. Not a return to the golden years like they so heavily advertised, but then again I didn't buy into all that noise that much anyway. Definitely one their better post-Jani works... :(
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