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Metallica (Black Album)

  • @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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    Green Day - American Idiot. It’s not that I dislike what came after, but 21st Century Breakdown feels disjointed, the Trilogy has really low lows, and they stopped being ambitious after that and just put out two “pretty good” albums and one awful one.

    Also even if you don’t like their '00s sound, I seriously don’t get why Dookie is more well-liked than Nimrod beyond “it had more hits and I heard it first.”

    • @wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net
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      21st is a mix of B-Sides from American Idiot and Cigarettes and Valentine’s, put together to make it’s own album, I don’t see it as disjointed but I can understand why. For me it comes across as an aged Warning.

      Uno-Tre was their way of screwing over their record label because they were contracted to do 3 more albums. So considering they pulled out 38 songs in that timeline. I’d say listening through 21st and the songs through Uno-Tre, it’s pretty clear to hear the difference in production of the songs complexity. 21st has tons of diverse, almost orchestral elements supporting the background of the songs. Uno-Tre are generally a bit more simple in their compositions (as are Rev Radio and FOAMF)

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    Claude Debussy - Claire de Lune

    The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium

    Weather Report - Heavy Weather

    Rush - 2112

    Mr. Bungle - California

    Dr. Dre - The Chronic

    Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

    Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers

    Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique

    Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

    Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

    Getz/Gilberto/Jobim - The Girl from Ipanema

    Mozart’s Requiem (good place to peak!)

    Metallica - Master of Puppets

    Cynic - Focus

    Death - Human

    Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

    Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

    Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare

    Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force

    John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

    Radiohead - Kid A

    Deftones - White Pony

    Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons

    Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

    The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East

    Michael Jackson - Thriller

    Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

      • @demesisx@infosec.pub
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        41 year ago

        Yeah. But I’m just naming ones I can think of where the album was never eclipsed. It just so happens that that is the case for those guitar players…and it’s not like we’re going to hear Yngwie or Johnson somehow suddenly reinvent themselves this late in their careers.

        For example, I’m a HUGE fan of Khruangbin and Julian Lage but….what will Julian Lage or Khruangbin give us in the future? We may never know if they have peaked until that time has passed.

    • Metallica - Master of Puppets

      Thank you for correcting the original poster on this one.

      Once they went from metal to hard rock, it was over for me.

      • @demesisx@infosec.pub
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        61 year ago

        It’s bizarre to hear anyone mention anything other than Master of Puppets. As an old school death metal guitar player turned jazz geezer, Master of Puppets is, by a wide margin, unanimously considered the best metal album of all time by most metal musicians who know their shit.

    • shuzuko
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      101 year ago

      The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

      Bruhhhhhhhh

      White Album? Abbey Road? I mean, even if you aren’t a big fan of Yellow Submarine or Magical Mystery Tour, how can you say freaking Abbey Road is a comedown from Sgt Pepper’s?

    • @0ops@lemm.ee
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      Hard disagree on Rush’s 2112 being peek, if anything that album was the start of one of the greatest streaks in music history. They did like 4-5 excellent albums after that. Personally if I were to rank Rush albums, I’d put Farewell to Kings above 2112, maybe hemispheres too if only for La Villa Strangiatto. Not that I don’t love 2112, but relative to the other albums in that streak I think it’s a little tiny bit overrated

      • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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        21 year ago

        Agreed. Peak Rush is Hemispheres (Circumstances is possibly the best rock song ever written) for me, but really I love almost everything from Fly by Night to Grace Under Pressure. That’s 8 albums I can easily listen to front-to-back.

        Whelp. As I typed I realized I forgot about Caress of Steel. I suppose that says something…

    • @batmaniam@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Man, if you liked deloused I get why you’d be disappointed by what comes after, but Francis the Mute is something else. It’s structured way different, it’s a damn opera, but 20 years on that is my all time favorite album.

    • Ace T'Ken
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      41 year ago

      This is exactly what I was coming here to comment. This album was fucking astounding, complex, beautiful, intense, musical, destructive… Every single noise in that album was intentional and meant something. Trent was making music at the time that was so far above and beyond what anybody else was doing or has done since.

      Then Atticus Ross joined. Now they make background music for movies. It is fucking heartbreaking.

  • @Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m not saying Minutes to Midnight was Linkin parks zenith. But I thought it was fine, it was different for sure. But not bad at all IMO.

    After that however, I don’t think they released a single song i liked.

    • shuzuko
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      91 year ago

      I know a lot of people didn’t like it because it was a departure from their earlier style but I honestly think A Thousand Suns was their peak. I don’t even like all the songs on it, but each one was so obviously crafted with care and intent, and you could tell they were really all-in on it. I think the exploration of their talents through a post-apocalyptic concept album really challenged and brought out the best in them.

      I miss Chester still :(

  • BiggestBulb
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    51 year ago

    This is gonna be a really spicy take - Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold. Pretty much every song is a banger and Save Me is a masterpiece. The singing is on point. I debated Waking the Fallen, but sadly I feel that some songs on that album just aren’t up to the same quality (and Nightmare is much more approachable).

    As for albums after Nightmare, Hail to the King was okay, The Stage was good but flawed (we got so many songs, but the mixing wasn’t very good imo) and Life Is But A Dream is… Just not good - again, in my opinion as a long-time fan.

    Before Nightmare, self-titled was okay (certain songs like Unbound kinda pull it down for me, but they’re not straight SKIPS per se) and City of Evil was amazing but not quite Nightmare quality in my opinion (just because of Matt’s nasally singing, especially in songs like Seize the Day). WtF I’ve already went over, and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet honestly only had a few good songs in my opinion.

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        31 year ago

        If you like Save Me, I also highly recommend I Won’t See You Tonight Part 1. It’s very solid and pretty ubiquitously referred to as one of their best songs

    • Kovukono
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      31 year ago

      I could definitely see that. I heavily disagree with you on the self-titled album just being okay, but as for a creative peak, it kind of feels like they’ve been phoning it in after Nightmare. There’s excellent songs on all the albums, but Nightmare was the last one where it felt that the majority of the tracks were ones where you really didn’t want to skip.

  • rebul
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    151 year ago

    Girl You Know It’s True- Milli Vanilli

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      Idk if I would say they “fell off” but Demon Days was fucking AMAZING and Plastic Beach was really good. Plus all their stuff from before that ranged from good to great too. Everything that came after Plastic Beach was…. Mediocre at best and this is just my own subjective opinion obviously as is anyone’s opinion on music but like I grew up listening to all sorts of electronic music and I just don’t like any of their newer stuff it’s experimental though which aligns with their style I’ll give them that

      • @omgarm@feddit.nl
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        31 year ago

        Side note: as a fan of electronica/electronic music I HATE how “EDM” is now the blanket term used. Not all songs by Gorillaz are EDM.

  • Jeena
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    At the drive in - Relationship of Command
    Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come Tocotronic - Digital ist besser

  • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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    61 year ago

    Double Nickels on the Dime, Minutemen. Also probably the best power trio record ever made. Granted, they only made one more record before D Boon died, but as legendary as he is, Mike Watt has still never done anything as good since.