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I don't think I've ever been as excited about an album as I was when A Matter of Life and Death came out. All the anticipation and tension just exploded when I first heard the album. I played it over and over again, I basically listened to nothing else between the point when it came out and the first gig I saw in November. The reason was that it was simply so extremely good. Every time I listened to it, I had a different favourite song, a different favourite moment, and a different experience.
The Final Frontier dropped out of my playlist after a month and a half, and by the end, I was really forcing it to stay in. I still listen to it every once in a while (like, right now), but it just doesn't occupy as much. And it never has. From the first play, I had my favourites, and they're still the same, more or less. I'm not saying it's a bad album or that I don't like it, but looking back, I guess I am a bit - whisper it - disappointed.

Of course, that doesn't count for Starblind and When the Wild Wind Blows.
 
Perun said:
*sigh*

No matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, no matter how often I play it, The Final Frontier just isn't as good as A Matter of Life and Death. I mean, Starblind is better than anything else, ever, but the album in total...
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I agree. The only two songs that stack up are Avalon and Starblind. It's a good album though. I like all the songs on it (except Talisman and the title track) which is less than AMOLAD, but as an album, it's just a masterpiece. I don't think they will ever top it. But who knows?
 
Perun said:
I don't think I've ever been as excited about an album as I was when A Matter of Life and Death came out. All the anticipation and tension just exploded when I first heard the album. I played it over and over again, I basically listened to nothing else between the point when it came out and the first gig I saw in November. The reason was that it was simply so extremely good. Every time I listened to it, I had a different favourite song, a different favourite moment, and a different experience.
The Final Frontier dropped out of my playlist after a month and a half, and by the end, I was really forcing it to stay in. I still listen to it every once in a while (like, right now), but it just doesn't occupy as much. And it never has. From the first play, I had my favourites, and they're still the same, more or less. I'm not saying it's a bad album or that I don't like it, but looking back, I guess I am a bit - whisper it - disappointed.

Of course, that doesn't count for Starblind and When the Wild Wind Blows.
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You pretty much described how I felt when The Final Frontier was coming out. Which is why I loved it so much in it's first few months but eventually I stopped listening to it too. I think I listened to it twice this year. There was no excitement for me for AMOLAD, because I wasn't listening to music much that year, in fact, I didn't get around to  buying that album until 2008. But when I did, it was in rotation until Final Frontier came out. And lately it has been working its way back in. I wouldn't be hard pressed to call it my favorite album.
 
Travis The Dragon said:
I have an overall equal love for The X Factor, Virtual XI(except TAATG), and every Bruce album except No Prayer And Fear Of The Dark.
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I liked TAATG, wait might as well not start anything here Dylan. To the blasphemy thread
 
Rust in Peace is awesome. The title track is my favorite Megadeth track.
 
Dityn DJ James said:
Wow, Rust in Peace was an awesome album!
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It's still an awesome album  ;)
I always thought Dave sings "next thing you know they'll take my gods away", and "massive killings", on the title track.  :D
Perun said:
Technology isn't built to last anymore. When I was a kid, I had a walkman that I got in Toronto, back in '94. It lasted all the way till 2002 or something, and the only reason I got rid of it was because all my tapes had worn out and I didn't have the equipment to record new ones. That, and the fact that MP3 players were starting to become available.

I also had a discman, but... my point exactly. My theory is that during the Cold War, technology had to last because it was an item of war, a proof that either side was able to outdo the other. Hence, both sides produced quality technology. I have a radio that was built in East Germany in the fifties or sixties that still works ace. After the Cold War, you had no-one to outdo, so you have to out-do yourself: Produce crap technology that needs to be replaced every two years, to keep the economic cycle going, because spending is better than mending. Case in point: My HiFi was made somewhere in the 70's, and from the sound of it, you would think it was state-of-the-art. As for laptops, I've had three within the last five years, one crappier than the other (the first one was great, the current one is shit). It would be much better for mankind to direct all the technological output and expertise to space technology, because that is an economic cycle that would go on forever. Here, we would actually benefit from groundbreaking innovations every two years. But no, the dollar isn't as quick, and therefore, the market is uninteresting.

/rant
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I also have a perfect example; ages ago i came with this approach of buying computers - in moment of purchase, spend around 1000 deutche marks (500 euros) on system base - processor, mainboard, memory. The first was Pentium 133 back in 1996. It's components never died. Slowly upgraded, then again bought Pentium 4 base, again 500 euros, in 2002. Memory chips bought with that died but that's easily replaceable. Then, again i 2008, 500 euro base, this time it's Core Quad + nVidia graphics. In two years, graphics card died, memory chips died and mainboard died.

It's always the same "market quality" - Intel boards are always known on the market for stability, build quality, etc. It's just that those terms mean different things as time passes by.

P.S. I still own my very first computer - Olivetti M19, with a 4.17 MHz processor  :D Built in 1986. In 2011 - you just hit the switch and it boots up. Even it's plastic parts look like they'd survive a bullet.
 
Zare said:
P.S. I still own my very first computer - Olivetti M19, with a 4.17 MHz processor  :D Built in 1986. In 2011 - you just hit the switch and it boots up. Even it's plastic parts look like they'd survive a bullet.
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Same for the really old Nokia phones.  They're like the AK-47s of communication: soak them in water/sand, throw them at a wall, drive a tank over them, and they still work.*  Compare that to my old iPod Touch, which broke after two years of use, in my pocket for no apparent reason.

*Only slightly exaggerated.  You really could drop them in water.
 
Perun said:
So Albie, decided on the Maiden gig(s) yet?
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Change of plan - I'm going. Time has been made available and I've just booked my tickets online. :D


Talk about last minute.......
 
Zare said:
It's still an awesome album  ;)
I always thought Dave sings "next thing you know they'll take my gods away", and "massive killings", on the title track.  :D
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That's not the title track, that's Holy Wars.  :smartarse:
 
Yeah sorry, the opening track.

In any case, I recently "rediscovered" Megadeth and they've been on constant rotation for the last month or so. Their 00's material is also good, and they, suprisingly for a metal band, have good promo videos. Right To Go Insane especially ;)
 
Dityn DJ James said:
Wow, Rust in Peace was an awesome album! Megadeth is like a grittier sounding Maiden.
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And I saw the entire album performed live last year on the American Carnage tour with Slayer who did the entire Seasons In The Abyss album! :rocker:
Megadeth has really had only one bad album IMO and that's Risk. A couple good rockers, but total non-metal crap other than that.
 
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