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CharlieBarley
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- Posted: 01/21/2024 15:06
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Cheers
Will check that out.
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CharlieBarley
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- #1542
- Posted: 03/19/2024 04:02
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| Repo wrote: | | CharlieBarley wrote: | This is a great thread. I have only checked the first and last few pages but this is great.
Any thread that starts with Donovan and Bert Jansch bodes well.
I've never been a Metalhead but I have always loved Sabbath and Iron Maiden so there is hope for me yet! |
yeah! this thread took quite the detour from The Mellow Zone to The Repo Zone! Check out that Candlemass album ....
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Epicus Doomicus Metallicus by Candlemass
I think it's a good place for someone who loves Sabbath to delve into 1986 metal. |
Hey Repo,
I just got round to listening to this Candlemass album.
It's very good. Not the usual sort of thing I would listen to but hey it was pretty epic.
Thanks for the rec!
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- #1543
- Posted: 03/19/2024 17:27
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| CharlieBarley wrote: | | Repo wrote: | | CharlieBarley wrote: | This is a great thread. I have only checked the first and last few pages but this is great.
Any thread that starts with Donovan and Bert Jansch bodes well.
I've never been a Metalhead but I have always loved Sabbath and Iron Maiden so there is hope for me yet! |
yeah! this thread took quite the detour from The Mellow Zone to The Repo Zone! Check out that Candlemass album ....
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Epicus Doomicus Metallicus by Candlemass
I think it's a good place for someone who loves Sabbath to delve into 1986 metal. |
Hey Repo,
I just got round to listening to this Candlemass album.
It's very good. Not the usual sort of thing I would listen to but hey it was pretty epic.
Thanks for the rec! |
Oh good! Glad u liked it! 
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- #1544
- Posted: 03/19/2024 17:41
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Hey loyal Repoans!!!
Sorry I haven't posted in a bit. I've been in a bit of a rut. BUT, I will get out of it. I do feel like I need to shake things up a bit and take a different approach to get things flowing again. So I'm going to approach this a little differently and radically shift to something I know near to nothing about while still sticking with metal <+ hard rock since I'm old! lol.  >
So I'm going to jump from 1986 to 1999 Metal <+Hard Rock >. I'm going to make my reviews shorter and instead of coming up with an ultimate grand Top Ten list where I would survey every conceivable record I could find, I'm just going to be content with finding ten to twenty albums that I consider "Great!", which translates to a Pitchfork score of 8.0 or higher essentially. <I think. What should be a 4 out of 5 stars when I was growing up essentially.>
So if u have any Metal/Hard Rock/Heavy Psych/Prog records from 1999, please send them my way. I'll also try to come up with a similar Punk/Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk list for 1999 so feel free to give recs in that vein as well.
The main thing is just to get writing again WITHOUT feeling the need to listen to everything as I've tried to do in the past.
I'll force myself to post something later tonight just to get this rolling!
Peace!
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dihansse
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Age: 60
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- #1545
- Posted: 03/19/2024 20:05
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| Repo wrote: | Hey loyal Repoans!!!
Sorry I haven't posted in a bit. I've been in a bit of a rut. BUT, I will get out of it. I do feel like I need to shake things up a bit and take a different approach to get things flowing again. So I'm going to approach this a little differently and radically shift to something I know near to nothing about while still sticking with metal <+ hard rock since I'm old! lol. >
So I'm going to jump from 1986 to 1999 Metal <+Hard Rock >. I'm going to make my reviews shorter and instead of coming up with an ultimate grand Top Ten list where I would survey every conceivable record I could find, I'm just going to be content with finding ten to twenty albums that I consider "Great!", which translates to a Pitchfork score of 8.0 or higher essentially. <I think. What should be a 4 out of 5 stars when I was growing up essentially.>
So if u have any Metal/Hard Rock/Heavy Psych/Prog records from 1999, please send them my way. I'll also try to come up with a similar Punk/Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk list for 1999 so feel free to give recs in that vein as well.
The main thing is just to get writing again WITHOUT feeling the need to listen to everything as I've tried to do in the past.
I'll force myself to post something later tonight just to get this rolling!
Peace! |
Hi Repo, hope things are better now for you...
1999 is not really the year I link to metal either. The highest ranked real metal album in my chart is S&M of all albums and not very high ranked either so I fear I can't be of much help here. But I'm looking forward to some recs so we can both fill in the blanks.
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- Posted: 03/20/2024 01:52
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| dihansse wrote: |
Hi Repo, hope things are better now for you...
1999 is not really the year I link to metal either. The highest ranked real metal album in my chart is S&M of all albums and not very high ranked either so I fear I can't be of much help here. But I'm looking forward to some recs so we can both fill in the blanks. |
Thanks, dihansse!
AND, I think I have the perfect rec for you & me. Everyone else probably always know it as it was a HUGE record in the metal-verse in 1999...
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Still Life by Opeth
What can I say. I'm an idiot. How else to explain my lack of knowledge of this album that has wowed me almost immediately. So many disparate threads of disparate genres coming together on this one. It'll take a bit of time and many more listens for this to sink in, but I'm incredibly impressed. I'll come back in one week and give it the proper Repozoan write-up it deserves, but man, this is an album that could easily take over one's life with its lore and world-building. Highly impressed!
It also reminded me that I'm no longer inclined to keep this thread to just metal. BUT, it's these kind of albums -living, breathing beings with a gravitational force to create their own world - that I want to be delving into.
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LedZep
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- Posted: 03/21/2024 03:31
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| LedZep wrote: | | I was doing a rough sketch of the best 90s metal songs (much like the 80s variant we did here), and The Moor is top 3 in every metric I can think of. Still Life is fantastic, but not one of my fave Opeth records overall. |
Interesting. BUT, I really don't know much about them. Gonna cue Still Life up again in a bit. What's your favorite favorite Opeth album?! Do u have a ranking?!
Thanks for the recs!!!
edit: What's amazing to me is how parts of songs like "Face of Melinda" and "Moonlapse Vertigo" reminds me of those two "folk metal" EPs cut by Alice In Chains in the early 90s. And yeah, "The Moor" is just epic!
That Sap EP may be favorite thing that Alice In Chains ever cut. AND I adore Alice In Chains.
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Sap by Alice In Chains
I may be alone on my own little limb here, but I wonder if Mikael (of Opeth) was at all influenced by AIC? 
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LedZep
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- Posted: 03/21/2024 09:32
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| Repo wrote: | | Interesting. BUT, I really don't know much about them. Gonna cue Still Life up again in a bit. What's your favorite favorite Opeth album?! Do u have a ranking?! |
Blackwater Park, My Arms Your Hearse and Morningrise are my top 3. Then again, most people would put Still Life right at the top, so there are no wrong answers really.
Here's something about AiC. Turns out they were a huge influence on Mikael, well spotted Repo. Btw Jar of Flies and Sap are also my fave AiC releases, glad to have that approved by a metal guru
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge...s_day.html
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Finally updated the overall chart
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Repo
BeA Sunflower
Location: Forest Park
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- Posted: 03/21/2024 22:46
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| LedZep wrote: | Blackwater Park, My Arms Your Hearse and Morningrise are my top 3. Then again, most people would put Still Life right at the top, so there are no wrong answers really.
Here's something about AiC. Turns out they were a huge influence on Mikael, well spotted Repo. Btw Jar of Flies and Sap are also my fave AiC releases, glad to have that approved by a metal guru
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge...s_day.html |
Wow! Great little read. I wish I had had this angle years ago. I most likely would have explored Opeth's stuff earlier. BUT, then again, I haven't really listened to latter day AiC either. 
I might have to geek out on '90s Opeth for a bit now that I've got a taste. Maybe I'll just start going backwards with My Arms Your Hearse next and then try to make some comparisons.
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