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Perun said:
I was in a pub just now, wearing a Maiden shirt, as I do (this is an Iron Maiden fan forum, you should not be shocked), and as he left a guy at the neighbouring table spotted my shirt, and the exchange, for brevity's sake, was something like this:

Guy: See you at Waldbühne this year?
Me: Of course!
Guy: What song do you want them to play the most?
Me: Probably The Evil That Men Do
Guy: Cool choice! I stopped being a Maiden fan in 1987. I saw them at Waldbühne two years ago and they played this song I didn't know but everyone cheered at. I asked someone what it was and he looked at me weirdly and said it was called Fear of the Dark.

I'd like to point out that even one of my friends I was with, with whom I primarily share the interest of archaeology and who knows jack shit about heavy metal, smirked at that.
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Good that he's back on board now though :)
Edington said:
Why would he think The Evil That Men Do was a good choice if he stopped being a fan in '87? :blink:
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If he stopped being a fan "in 1987" then he didn't even stick around long enough to hear SSOASS. Maybe he did his homework after hearing FOTD and realising what he'd missed out on ...
 
So this morning I sat down to put on my shoes. Only that I realised I couldn't do it. Why? Because apparently, I always put on my left shoe first, and the hand movements are automatic from there. Today, for some reason, I was in the process of putting on my right shoe first, and I simply didn't know how to go about it. I had to take off that shoe and start again with the left one. I suppose had I taken a moment to think about it, this would have worked too, but I wanted this done quickly and thoughtlessly.

Funnily enough, until this point I never even realised I always put on my left shoe first. Had you asked me, I wouldn't even have been able to tell you there's an order in which I put them on.
 
Trying to log in to my university's grades website:
Username: this.that@blahblab.com
Password: blahblahblah

Expectation: successful login.
Reality: "login failed. Your username is this.that - please use it without @ and without extras. Also, the password you entered was correct".

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Perun said:
So this morning I sat down to put on my shoes. Only that I realised I couldn't do it. Why? Because apparently, I always put on my left shoe first, and the hand movements are automatic from there. Today, for some reason, I was in the process of putting on my right shoe first, and I simply didn't know how to go about it. I had to take off that shoe and start again with the left one. I suppose had I taken a moment to think about it, this would have worked too, but I wanted this done quickly and thoughtlessly.

Funnily enough, until this point I never even realised I always put on my left shoe first. Had you asked me, I wouldn't even have been able to tell you there's an order in which I put them on.
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#ThoughtlesslyFTW
 
Time to change jobs. This year I was given responsibility for 5 countries to run strategic advertising activities & analyses for local companies. With responsibility for annual goals in this area. Countries where marketing managers ask me, a supposedly supporting person, who sets the budgets.

Why? Because for 5 years I have been achieving >100% on the performance assessment year to year and for the last two years I have been substantively supervising marketing activities in 16 countries and we have exceeded the annual goals by ~40%.

What is the problem? A new position without a salary increase (even though I am responsible for 80% of marketing activities in 5 countries and my salary is currently at the lower end of the range for a similar position with regional reach), with the role of only a specialist and a clearly communicated message that 'this role does not provide a development path to a manager meaning - this is dead end position.

I guess this is how you lose competent people in companies.
 
Interesting question that my friend and I were discussing the other day; What artists have one album that really resonated with you, but nothing else in their discography managed to do the same?

This isn't to say "what's your favourite album by whatever band?", like, I wouldn't say Maiden are a "one-album band" because I rate Brave New World as their best, I still love nearly all their other albums in their entirety. These are bands where you only like one album and nothing (or little) else, and not for lack of trying. Maybe they experimented for one album and you really liked it, maybe they were refining their sound and it culminated in one particularly strong album, maybe a certain member only made an appearance on one album and they made all the difference for you.

I'd say Aerosmith with Rocks, Therapy? with Troublegum and Rush with Moving Pictures, though to a slightly lesser extent as I haven't dived that deep into their discography post-MP. Rocks is a dirty, raw, attitude-laden hard rock album, a sound refined by their previous efforts but before substance abuse crippled their creativity and they started getting outside songwriters to write them hit songs (not that there's anything wrong with those tunes). Troublegum is a punky alt-metal masterpiece brimming with short and sweet riffage (and depressingly relatable lyrics), other albums dipped a bit too much into noise rock and The Prodigy-esque rave beats. Moving Pictures never lost any of Rush's progginess, but is more accessible than what else I've heard from them, I also think it has a slightly darker tone to it that I dig.

Curious to see what anyone else would say!
 
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Probably Megadeth. I don't dislike a lot of their other material but nothing I have listened to outside of Rust in Peace has stuck in regular rotation. But Rust in Peace itself is a contender for the best Metal album for me.
 
Sorta, kinda Bullet For My Valentine for me. Their debut is a 10/10 imo, half of the other albums are super disappointing and a couple are quite good but nowhere near the debut.

Otherwise I'll go with Pearl Jam. Ten is a classic album, the rest have a few nice songs but they don't really work for me.
 
There are actually more bands where I really enjoy a single song but don't much care for the rest of their music than bands where I like an album but not the others, now that I think about it.
 
Edington said:
Interesting question that my friend and I were discussing the other day; What artists have one album that really resonated with you, but nothing else in their discography managed to do the same?
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These come to mind more or less immediately:


Obligatory Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime. A strange example as I tend to downright nearly hate the rest of the discography.

Green Day - American Idiot

Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth

Hard to say if they qualify, at first I was a fan of more, but over time Rush - Clockwork Angels is more or less the only album of theirs I'd be voluntarily willing to put on. Maybe Farewell to Kings or Hemispheres on a particularily bright day, but that's about it.

Theocracy - As the World Bleeds

Slayer - South of Heaven

Chick Corea - Return to Forever

The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (+ some singles, primarily Panic)

Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security

Stretching it to two ("parts"), but Avantasia Part 1 + 2 is pretty much the only thing by Sammett (Avantasia + Edguy) I'm interested in ... and two of my favourite albums at that.

Wu-Tang Clan (and all its members, affiliates etc.) - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
(Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle, since we're at the hip hop)

Boston - Boston

Clapton (outside Cream) - Derek and the Dominos / Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Carrie Underwood - the debut

Danzig - Earth A.D.

Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne

Chicago - the debut (the entire first era with Kath is mostly good, but the first album is phenomenal and no other is)

10cc - Sheet Music (+ cca 3 songs off The Original Soundtrack and its reissue)

Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing. A stupid, but well-crafted pop with an attitude and certain feisty charm. Other than that, I don't like anything she put out except for My Happy Ending.

Howard Shore's LOTR and Hobbit score is the best film score ever and the only film soundtrack that is in some ways comparable with actual classical. The rest of his work doesn't move me very much.


If I'm going to be brutally honest, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not announced one of the best bands ever and nothing else has really been up to that standard and we've been chasing the dragon ever since.
 
JudasMyGuide said:
If I'm going to be brutally honest, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not announced one of the best bands ever and nothing else has really been up to that standard and we've been chasing the dragon ever since.
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I'd say Arctic Monkeys too actually, but for the AM album. That's another one where you can hear the experimentation, maturing and refinement of their sound on the previous albums leading up to it. It's a great album, but it also has some of the experimentation and pretentiousness that led to Hotel Tranquillity and The Car on it, like Mad Sounds and No. 1 Party Anthem, which are some of my lesser favourites from AM.
 
I'll agree with Arctic Monkeys, that first record is brilliant. I found the second one enjoyable enough and AM would have been a killer sea change for them if they had managed to keep that quality and momentum going. But yeah, the only Arctic Monkeys album I ever return to is the debut.
 
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