Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

  • Total voters
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SixesAlltheway said:
What I meant with carefree is simply that now my favorites are out of the game I don't have to try and protect them anymore, doesn't mean that I won't find new darlings amongst those remaining...
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Alright. I hope you're still open for unknown albums.
SixesAlltheway said:
And "if you like something less, then that also means that you know it less"

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. I can know two albums equally well and like one of them more than the other?
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Yes when you know the band in advance and are curious to hear everything by them.
When you don't know an entire band or only heard one song which you disliked, it's possible that you'd never try anything else by them anymore.
Check these differences in style:
Same band! :)

So, I thought you might not know many later albums because you have very strong negative opinions on certain groups and music. Sorry if I was wrong, but this is the impression you sometimes give when you slag off bands (often it sounds like you don't know the artists well in such negative cases). But I can be dead wrong of course. Actually, awesome that you know Manticora. I think you are more subtle with music than you initially show. Who on earth could have guess you know this (pretty different) band after you talk so generalizing about power metal? Unexpected but again: cool.
 
It's 97-99 Foro not 96. I agree though, there's tons of albums I love from that period but I could never see them standing up in this community, certainly not against Bruce albums. I'm not that fussed about Last Command even amongst WASP's works but obv my favourite album got knocked out with I think the most votes in its round, and Last Command has most votes in this round too so it certainly seems WASP is not a band that will sit well on this forum, regardless of how much I like some of their material. I would expect similar results from many albums I enjoy too. Much as it's always nice to nominate things I am not going to nominate ones that I don't think will stand a chance really.
 
Looks like I brought confusion here. Sorry, but the Tool album has to go. My apologies, I could swear I saw 1996/1999. :/
 
It's 97-99 and the poll will close around 10 p.m. Friday, Pacific Standard Time.
Looks like I didn't change the default to two days before I posted.
 
Hearts On Fire does suck. I walked out of the venue when they were about to play it the last time I saw them live :)
 
Forostar said:
Yes when you know the band in advance and are curious to hear everything by them.
When you don't know an entire band or only heard one song which you disliked, it's possible that you'd never try anything else by them anymore.
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Yeah this sounds familiar in some cases. If I don't find anything I like in an album the chances are less than zero that I'll go out of my way to pick up something else by them. That is just natural though I would say. You can often tell what kind of a band you're dealing with. If it is a band that only does one style of music (sadly many power metal bands) or if it is a band like The Gathering that pushes themselves and develops from album to album. You don't really need to go through everything in a band's discography to make up your mind with certain bands. So if I check out another album by a band I initially don't like also depends on the band and the music they play and what I hear from others about them.

Say for example a band like Dragonforce, if I don't like Inhuman Rampage, I'm pretty sure I don't have to buy all of their 5 albums to establish that I don't like Dragonforce :p

Forostar said:
So, I thought you might not know many later albums because you have very strong negative opinions on certain groups and music. Sorry if I was wrong, but this is the impression you sometimes give when you slag off bands (often it sounds like you don't know the artists well in such negative cases). But I can be dead wrong of course. Actually, awesome that you know Manticora. I think you are more subtle with music than you initially show. Who on earth could have guess you know this (pretty different) band after you talk so generalizing about power metal? Unexpected but again: cool.
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Yeah, there's a lot of awesome groups that play within that power metal category, like Manticora that I like because they're unique and actually good, unlike those Hammerfall clones in power metal! :D
 
I don't think power metal is cheesy nonsense and I can certainly discern differences. But to my ears, the music sounds far more dramatic than anything from Born To Run except Jungleland. Oh, wait, maybe Meeting Across the River, too. So I suppose it comes down to how you yourself define overdramatic. To me, dynamics define drama. And impacts. So I find metal more dramatic than standard rock. But I suppose you see it as when something's more evangelical. Would you consider Coming Home more dramatic than, say, Man of Sorrows? If so, then I see your point about Springsteen clearer.
 
Turbo (worst Priest album ever)
Slippery When Wet (the only Bon Jovi albums that deserve to be in this survivor are Keep the Faith and These Days, imo)
Walls of Jericho

I haven't heard a lot of these, so I'll just leave it at those three.

Oh, and voted against Stormrider. Sorry, Foro. :p

+1 for Hatebreeder
 
I see both Bruce S and Coming Home as more gospel/Hallelujah like than both Man of Sorrows and Power metal.
 
Voting for Walls of Jericho is even a bigger sin!

Ride the Sky, Phantoms of Death!
Victim of Fate! Warrior! Murderer! Judas!​
 
Speaking of overdramatic. Go and watch the new video Night Prowler posted in the Blaze Bayley thread. Don't you agree that Blaze is rather overdramatic in his lyrics AND deliverance? I mean - its a song about some of his fans in Russia o_O Not exactly a topic of great magnitude or life and death or anything.
 
Feels more like he associates certain topics from past and present with the current Russia. This delivery was very heartfelt and well done.
 
Mob Rules
Sabotage
Epicus
Last Command
Slippery When Wet
Walls
Countdown
 
Walls Of Jericho is one of the worst albums on the list.

Nominating:
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy and Twilight in Olympus(not likely but worth a try!)
Judas Priest - Jugulator
Liquid Tension Experiment - 2
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
 
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