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Who did she "borrow" from? I'm not a fan just curious.

Did you ever feel like you listened to far too many new releases this year? I'm all for discovering new music, but a list like this doesn't allow time to listen to the albums and really get to know them.

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I just think the whole bonus track thing has overstayed it's welcome by many years. When every album has bonus tracks what is special about having them?

Most of the streaming is older music because it's been around for decades and has had many years for people to become familiar with it and like the music. That doesn't mean new music is out of ideas. Bands today don't have radio and MTV to rely on to become huge like bands years ago did. A lot of bands today have to grow organically through consistently releasing good music and touring a lot. It takes bands longer these days for people to become familiar with them. Especially in rock and metal. So of course older, more familiar music is going to get more listeners. But there is still newer music that get really good numbers on the streaming services. But due to times being different people actually may have to put a little bit of effort into finding the new music that is out instead of always falling back on the old reliable stuff.

I don't understand bonus tracks. Either put the songs on the album or don't. Absolutely pointless.

At some point there's suppose to be a re-release of the Martin era albums. I read about it earlier this year. The Eternal Idol is the only one I think that has been available for a while. The rest of the albums with him are tough to find and aren't even on Spotify because the label they were on went out of business. So, there hasn't been any distribution of those albums since the late 90s. Maybe they're up on YouTube.

Dehumanizer is their best album with Dio. TYR is from the underrated Tony Martin era. Check out The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Cross Purposes(my favorite with Martin) and Forbidden if you want to hear more from his time with the band. Technically these are all Tony Iommi solo albums since he's the only connection to the old Sabbath on these albums except for Cross Purposes which Geezer Butler played bass on. Still, lots of good stuff. Iommi never ran out of awesome riffs. 13 was the reunion album with Ozzy and the bands final release. Have you listened to The Devil You Know from Heaven and Hell? This is the Mob Rules/Dehumanizer lineup of Sabbath. They couldn't use the Black Sabbath name anymore because of c*** Sharon Osbourne, so they went by Heaven and Hell and only played Dio era songs live. It's a very good album. The death of Dio put an end to it and that's why they got back with Ozzy.

Eddie Murphy is 62. If Axel is supposed to be the same age then it's possible he could still be in law enforcement in some way.

Ok, you're just making up band/song names at this point, right? 😄

He was fantastic in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I've seen him in other stuff over the years but that will always be the show I associate him with. Great actor. RIP 🌹

Have you heard Spiritbox's new EP, The Fear Of Fear?. It's really good. It tells a story of some kind. I don't really know because I rarely have a clue what most of Courtney LaPlante's lyrics are about even though I love her writing style. The new Within Temptation I think is great. I would only put The Heart Of Everything and Silent Force above it. As for Disturbed, I just got an urge to listen to them again. Not sure what brought it on. Maybe it's just because I haven't listened to them too much in the last few years. They were one of my favorite bands in the 2000s but I just feel off from listening to them for a while. Their first five albums still hold up well. I didn't like the two albums after that. Kind of felt to me like they were just mailing it in. Their newest album is good though. Kind of got a little bit of that aggressiveness back on a number of the songs.

Within Temptation, Spiritbox and Disturbed

Because Tai Shan is on a more well known and shorter album. People are more likely to listen to Hold Your Fire than Vapor Trails due to it being an older album that they might have fond memories attached to.

The songs weren't released publicly until this week. The only way to hear it before this was the audio book which not all fans had access to. Get your facts straight before you decide what constitutes being a fan.

Pretty good songs. Calling them "killer" is a bit much though.

I started going bald just because of age. The empty patch on my head was slowly getting larger over the last few years, so this summer I just shaved it all off. I'm growing it back in for the winter just to see how it comes back in.

Heresy is easily a better song than Out Of The Cradle. I can't stress enough how completely forgettable that song is. As for You Bet Your Life, you never wanted to listen and learn this part just so you can try and sing along to it anarchist reactionary running-dog revisionist hindu muslim catholic creation/evolutionist rational romantic mystic cynical idealist minimal expressionist post-modern neo-symbolist armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop lite-pop-metallist gold adult contemporary urban country capitalist

That's because it's a better song. Out Of The Cradle is just flat out blah. Anagram at least has a catchy melody that can bring you back to listening to it again.

Yeah, there was nothing scary about Michael Jackson. Well, at least in the 80s there wasn't.

I'm trying to remember if I've ever heard Thriller without watching the video. I think the video adds a lot to the song. I mean once you get past the fact that people who were dead for years were somehow able to gain the ability to dance just like Mike 😄