Doctor Doctor is one of my favorite hardrock tracks ever especially the versions where they stretch out the intro which then goes on to define the whole song. This kind of “wankery” is maybe the other side of the extreme metal/hardcore punk genre bending you were talking about and indeed not even metal but hardrock.
What's your favorite UFO album besides the obvious...
I love that that's Genesis P. Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti on the cover of that album.
No way!!! I did not know that! That's perfect!
Turns out that cover art was pretty controversial when it came out with all the "faucets" in the bathroom a pun for the album title "Force It". The cover art was done by
hipgnosis who did a slew of killer classic covers back in the 70s...
Doctor Doctor is one of my favorite hardrock tracks ever especially the versions where they stretch out the intro which then goes on to define the whole song. This kind of “wankery” is maybe the other side of the extreme metal/hardcore punk genre bending you were talking about and indeed not even metal but hardrock.
What's your favorite UFO album besides the obvious...
In my youth I used to have a cassette (taped from an LP of a friend) of Strangers In The Night and played it until it nearly broke (next to a few Pink Floyd albums the other live hardrock ones were of course Tokyo Tapes and Live from Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, With that same friend I even have done a hardrock project for school where I did the speech and he played the music (since he owned the LP's, I only taped them to cassettes)).
Back to UFO I must admit that I now only have a greatest hits album; so another one of those bands of which I should absolutely check out their regular albums and will certainly come to that. Unbelievable that they already started in 1970.
You could point to any number of reasons why this album was such a success. The album that instantly transformed them into legends in the metal underground. The album that is considered the gate post to seemingly every branch of metal. Black Metal. Death Metal. Even Doom! One reason, as Tom G. Warrior (TGW), Celtic Frost's guitarist and vocalist, points out is that they played slowed-down, heavier versions of Venom songs. Before rehearsals, they would play Venom’s In The League Of Satan at 45 RPM instead of 33RPM just to make it that much heavier. And that became their goal. To sound like that.
Or as another reason, (and I just love this quote from TGW), “We weren’t good enough on our instruments at the time to emulate something more sophisticated, so punk was within the realm of the achievable”. TGW continues “…Discharge, which to me was a revolution, much like Venom. When I first heard the first two Discharge records, I was blown away. I was just starting to play an instrument, and I had no idea that you could go so far. Discharge totally opened my eyes.”
So they were heavy. And they were primitive. But, what throws them over the top, what makes them until this very day gods of extreme metal, were the riffs. The heaviest riffs imaginable completely on par with even the mighty Sabbath!
And of course, TGW’s creative ear. They may have changed their names from Hellhammer to Celtic Frost because they yearned to play better, but cutting to the chase, they still couldn’t really play their instruments. But, it didn’t matter! They had an ear for this shit. Like Venom before them, they were metal visionaries. They saw potential that people even with (or should I say especially with!) classical training just couldn’t see. Instead, TGW used his whammy bar and production overdubs like a weapon. Distorting notes in ways others said couldn’t work. As TGW said… “Most classical musicians would say ‘You cannot do that’ or ‘You cannot overdub that’ – just every possible denial. It was always a huge struggle to get them to do what we wanted to do, but at the end of the day everybody was always fascinated that it actually worked.” Amen to that!
The Best Extreme Metal Albums of The 80s (listed chronologically)
1981: Venom - Welcome To Hell
1982: Venom - Black Metal
1983b: Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
1983a: Slayer - Show No Mercy
1984c: Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil
1984b: Bathory - Bathory
1984a: Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
First set of inductees into my Hall Of Fame. Metal albums that became part of the cultural fabric of their day and have stood the test of time. I will typically try to limit this to five albums, but 1980 just had way too much goodness. If you think something is missing, I want to here about it! If you think something doesn't belong? Again, I want to hear about it. This is ranked (in order) by how much I love them. But, they're all obviously awesome or they wouldn't be here. Let me know what you think!
No band better understood and capitalized on suburban high school burnout culture than Van Halen in the late 70s/early 80s. Total classic sleaze rock as only they could do.
The one album that every self respecting burnout/metal head bought in 1980. British Steel comes in a distant second closely followed by Heaven & Hell. AC/DC's Back In Black was just an album that everyone bought! lol.
I love Maiden's first two albums (s/t & Killers) MORE than anything that came next. Their lead vocalist Paul Di'Anno and his punk background is the big reason why. Essential Maiden in my book.
Mach II of the greatest metal band of all time. Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules sounded completely different than Mach I Sabbath but were every bit as good!
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