GREATEST METAL ALBUM CUP - Winner: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son!
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Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
It sounded like Celtic folk influence regardless of the band’s home country, but I see your point...An Irish band is certainly more Celtic than a Finnish one, but it is what it is you know.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
Is it because it’s in German? ‘Cause that’s why I can’t decipher it.
Reise, Reise is a fine enough album for Rammstein, but I will take even a mediocre Iron Maiden album over it. Note: I would have picked Sehnsucht over Dance of Death.
Rush bias, of course.
Primordial, this was a really, really, really good album and I want to thank @Magnus for nominating it.
Rush. Waves, to be precise. Early Rush's lyrics are extremely offputting to me in places (Neil Peart might be a genius, but Ayn Rand wasn't), and I greatly prefer the sound they evolved into as they grew as a band.
Rush bias, of course.
Primordial, this was a really, really, really good album and I want to thank @Magnus for nominating it.
Rush. Waves, to be precise. Early Rush's lyrics are extremely offputting to me in places (Neil Peart might be a genius, but Ayn Rand wasn't), and I greatly prefer the sound they evolved into as they grew as a band.
Midnight
The Ever-Present "It"
Jacob's Ladder is a low?
Magnus
Pica Serdica
My pleasure. Pity it looks like it's game over for it.
Shmoolikipod
Stranger to the Light
Maiden
Primordial - this one was much much better than "Where Greater Men Have Fallen". I liked it a lot
Primordial again. Amorphis just don't grab me.
Hemispheres. Because I'm biased towards lengthy epics
Primordial - this one was much much better than "Where Greater Men Have Fallen". I liked it a lot
Primordial again. Amorphis just don't grab me.
Hemispheres. Because I'm biased towards lengthy epics
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
References to Rand's philosophy can be found in his early lyrics, most notably "Anthem" from 1975's Fly by Night and "2112" from 1976's 2112.
Unrelated to Hemispheres and lots of other seventies Rush.
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Despite Peart's protestations otherwise, I believe The Trees was quite clearly influenced by Randian thought.
It's just a funny story about bickering trees that somehow descends into anti-egalitarian-socialism-is-evil-rhetoric, I don't see where you would get that idea from.
Yeah, I don't know either...
KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
Dunno about you but I think those lyrics are great.
I always saw The Trees as the last limb of Randian Rush lyrics. To his credit, it’s probably better executed than, say, Anthem, but it’s still a bit heavy handed.
Permanent Waves is where Peart’s lyrics really start to mature and contains some of his best work.
Permanent Waves is where Peart’s lyrics really start to mature and contains some of his best work.
They are piss poor
JudasMyGuide
Ancient Mariner
Well, I'd say it would be certainly possible to come to The Trees outview from somewhere else than Rand... but it's Neil Peart, so I don't think that's the case.
That said, while I despise Rand and everything connected to her with a passion, I can somewhat accept The Trees' lyrics. Possibly because I'm as much of an anti-socialist as an anti-individualist and from that point of view (and excluding the fact it was most likely inspired by Rand) I'm fine with the song.
That said, while I despise Rand and everything connected to her with a passion, I can somewhat accept The Trees' lyrics. Possibly because I'm as much of an anti-socialist as an anti-individualist and from that point of view (and excluding the fact it was most likely inspired by Rand) I'm fine with the song.