Well, I hope you enjoyed live album week. Now it's back to normal to some extent. This week I hope to have the following out-
Reviews for:
Axtion-Look out for the night
Def Leppard-High and dry
Plus-
-Battle of the bands
-It came from Hit Parader (or maybe Circus this time around)
-Heavy Metal Memory
-The re-name game
Here's a question for you. Have you ever bought an album and not been too crazy about. Then maybe a few listens later it hits you and then you realize how good it is. For some reason it didn't hit you at first. Has this ever happened to you? If so then what album or albums was it?
For me I would say that these albums fit in that category.
WASP-The last command
At first I thought it was toned down too much from the debut. Then about three years later it hit me how much better the writing was than on the debut.
Van Halen-Women and children first
I liked it, but it always seemed to contain too many fragments and odd bits to really be great. Took me about eight years before it hit me as to how energetic the album was and the songs actually fit together pretty well.
Cinderella-Long cold winter
I dismissed it when I first came out then about four years later a friend was playing it and it sunk in. It was more about blues rock and classic rock influences and it sure was tight.
Dio-Dream evil
The departure of Vivian Campbell and the two not so great singles made my initial opinion of this album not too high. Years later I came to realize that the album was actually the shot in the arm that Dio needed. Craig Goldie's playing is sharp and vibrant. Probably my third favorite Dio album.
Long Cold Winter is one of mine, too. Same with Heartbreak Station, which I felt was too country-tinged at the time but then came to appreciate much more as time went on.
ReplyDeleteI'll also throw in Ratt's Out of the Cellar and Bruce Dickinson's Accident of Birth. Both failed to catch me for a long time but grew on me.
-- david
David-I always liked Out of the cellar, but Reach for the sky might fall into this category for me.
ReplyDeleteWebpirate-I will take a look, but I may be too far out of the loop to be a fair judge. As you can tell most of what I listen to was done between say 1970-1994. I keep up on news of current goings on in metal, but not like I did in the 80's and early 90's.
I think it all boils do what the individual likes. I enjoy the music because it's the style I enjoy. I am that interested in the artist's opinion of what they did, I go by my opinion. I don't care what others say about the music I like. I only have to prove it to myself and that's all that matters. If others don't respect it, so what?
ReplyDeleteI took a lot of crap for the music I like at time, but I gave it back to and never backed down on what I like. Anyone that judges anyone for the music they listen is really narrow minded.
ReplyDeleteMimi-Hi, thanks for dropping by.
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