I think, for me, the reason I prefer SftW over HH is mostly nostalgia (I'd first listened to this album - my father's on LP! - when I was originally getting into fantasy fiction, and distinctly remember reading ERB's Warlord of Mars with this in the background. I also started some of my first D&D designs with this playing.) and partially due to content (Songs is very influenced by Celtic mythology, while HH takes a much more modern look at rural English life). Heavy Horses may be a better crafted and produced album, but Songs from the Wood IS AD&D and fantasy fiction for me.
As for Under Wraps . . . *shudders*. Bought that cassette (hate it except for the title track) the same day I saw The Terminator (love it!) in the theaters. Talk about an afternoon of conflicting emotions!
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An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
I think my "quintessential D&D album" is probably Iron Maiden's Live After Death which I had on cassette in 6th grade and played literally until I wore it out. I'd been into D&D already for a couple years before, but this was the time when I was first getting "serious" about it, and creating my own stuff. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son too, but that came out a couple years later (when I was in 8th grade).
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My favorite Maiden Album still has to be Piece of Mind.
I want to hear what you did in the dungeon, not the voting booth. Politics and rules minutia both bore me in my opinion.
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I can't pick a favorite Maiden album. Piece of Mind was my first (along with Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengence, these two were my first "metal" albums), but I think that #otB has some of their edgiest music and Powerslave has some of their best gaming music. I even love the first album with "Prowler" on it.
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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Tull rocked the hardest on Aqualung. Cross-eyed Mary and Hymn 43 can still get my blood a-pumpin'. I've heard the Aqualung cut too many times now for it to have much effect on me, but I still appreciate it.
Though not their best, by a longshot, Warchild is my sentimental fave, for being my first Tull LP purchase, and probably even within my first 5 LP purchases, period.
Though not their best, by a longshot, Warchild is my sentimental fave, for being my first Tull LP purchase, and probably even within my first 5 LP purchases, period.
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
I'm too familiar with Live After Death, so the studio versions of the songs from the earlier albums all sound too antiseptic to me by comparison and I've never really been able to get into any of them. Except for the first album, which I think I may still have the cassette of in my car right now. Yeah, Paul DiAnno kinda sucks, but there's an edge to that album that isn't there on their later, more technically perfect records. It's metal, but it's also kinda punk rock.Wheggi wrote:I can't pick a favorite Maiden album. Piece of Mind was my first (along with Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengence, these two were my first "metal" albums), but I think that #otB has some of their edgiest music and Powerslave has some of their best gaming music. I even love the first album with "Prowler" on it.
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Powerslave and 7Soa7S are definitely their "gamer"-iest albums.
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I've said a couple times that I'm apparently the only person in the universe who likes the Dianno Maiden albums better. IM and Killers are two of my all time favorite metal albums.
As for 70's bands, as a kid, I was a big, big time KISS fan. I'd say KISS and Love Gun were my favories, but any of their first 8 albums (including the two live ones) hold up pretty well.
I went through a major Deep Purple fixation for a while. All five Ian Gillan (again, including the live ones) albums are must owns. I'm not as big a fan of the earlier and later stuff.
Sabbath, obviously, is awesome. Paranoid through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are as good as metal gets. Their first album and Sabotage are just a step behind.
Blue Oyster Cult is another band that I loved. Secret Treaties might be my ultimate D&D album. (Michael Moorcock wrote some of their lyrics, although not for Treaties - that's pretty freakin' D&D!!!) Their first four albums (not including the live one, this time) are all incredible.
Judas Priest and AC/DC are two bands that I appreciate a lot more now than I did back in the day. Priest is one of the all time most consistant metal bands. You really can't go wrong with anything from Sad Wings through Defenders. AC/DC, while stinking up most of the 80's, also started out incredibly consistant... Their first six studio albums are all amazing.
Alice Cooper is still one of my all time favorite bands. Love it to Death is still one of my most listened to albums. Love It through Welcome to My Nightmare are all essential.
And then there's all the fantastic maintstream, punk, proto-punk, and glam...
New York Dolls' first two albums
Velvet Underground's Loaded
Pretty much everything Iggy, both solo and as part of the Stooges, ever committed to tape
The Stones' Sticky Fingers, Exhile (possibly my all-time favorite album), and Some Girls
Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers through the Hoople
TRex's Electric Warrior and the Slider
Television - Marquee Moon
The Sex Pistols
All of the Ramones's albums in the 70's
Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
Damned, Damned, Damned, Damned
Joy Divison
Wire
Skynard's first two
Little Feat's Sailin' Shoes goes on the list for "Got No Shadow" alone, although the rest of the album is fantastic
The Flamin' (Freaking) Groovies!!!! Without any hyperbole, "Slow Death" is the single greatest song ever recorded in the history of the known universe (that is prior to "Touch Me, I'm Sick" by Mudhoney)
Funkadelic
Where's my ipod? Screw that... Where's my gee-tar?
As for 70's bands, as a kid, I was a big, big time KISS fan. I'd say KISS and Love Gun were my favories, but any of their first 8 albums (including the two live ones) hold up pretty well.
I went through a major Deep Purple fixation for a while. All five Ian Gillan (again, including the live ones) albums are must owns. I'm not as big a fan of the earlier and later stuff.
Sabbath, obviously, is awesome. Paranoid through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are as good as metal gets. Their first album and Sabotage are just a step behind.
Blue Oyster Cult is another band that I loved. Secret Treaties might be my ultimate D&D album. (Michael Moorcock wrote some of their lyrics, although not for Treaties - that's pretty freakin' D&D!!!) Their first four albums (not including the live one, this time) are all incredible.
Judas Priest and AC/DC are two bands that I appreciate a lot more now than I did back in the day. Priest is one of the all time most consistant metal bands. You really can't go wrong with anything from Sad Wings through Defenders. AC/DC, while stinking up most of the 80's, also started out incredibly consistant... Their first six studio albums are all amazing.
Alice Cooper is still one of my all time favorite bands. Love it to Death is still one of my most listened to albums. Love It through Welcome to My Nightmare are all essential.
And then there's all the fantastic maintstream, punk, proto-punk, and glam...
New York Dolls' first two albums
Velvet Underground's Loaded
Pretty much everything Iggy, both solo and as part of the Stooges, ever committed to tape
The Stones' Sticky Fingers, Exhile (possibly my all-time favorite album), and Some Girls
Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers through the Hoople
TRex's Electric Warrior and the Slider
Television - Marquee Moon
The Sex Pistols
All of the Ramones's albums in the 70's
Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
Damned, Damned, Damned, Damned
Joy Divison
Wire
Skynard's first two
Little Feat's Sailin' Shoes goes on the list for "Got No Shadow" alone, although the rest of the album is fantastic
The Flamin' (Freaking) Groovies!!!! Without any hyperbole, "Slow Death" is the single greatest song ever recorded in the history of the known universe (that is prior to "Touch Me, I'm Sick" by Mudhoney)
Funkadelic
Where's my ipod? Screw that... Where's my gee-tar?
"I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
A policeman knew my name
He said you can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away"
If we're going there, then hear the cry that goes up both far and near!
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
Okay, not Canadian, and this footage isn't from the '70's, but possibly the best concert I've ever seen:
Say hello to Quay Lewd!
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Say hello to Quay Lewd!
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The Twisting Stair
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
An old school role-playing game periodical with a focus on adventure design
Stephen Colbert: “What would you do, when coming up with your character you roll six rolls of three six-sided dice to come up with your character”
Joe Magliano: “There’s a new way now where you roll 4d6 and you take away the lowest.”
Stephen Colbert: “Really? That’s for children!”
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No you aren't.rogatny wrote:I've said a couple times that I'm apparently the only person in the universe who likes the Dianno Maiden albums better.
Bruce Dickinson is fantastically intelligent and talented -- singer, TV presenter, writer and novelist, pilot, world-class fencer and swordsman -- and Dianno is basically just some punk. But Dianno has the better voice.
Never liked Kiss, although I saw them live (supporting Maiden) a few times. Not my thing.rogatny wrote:As for 70's bands, as a kid, I was a big, big time KISS fan. I'd say KISS and Love Gun were my favories, but any of their first 8 albums (including the two live ones) hold up pretty well.
Yeah, Deep Purple rock.rogatny wrote:I went through a major Deep Purple fixation for a while. All five Ian Gillan (again, including the live ones) albums are must owns. I'm not as big a fan of the earlier and later stuff.
Ozzy's a very sad little man, but he makes great music.rogatny wrote:Sabbath, obviously, is awesome. Paranoid through Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are as good as metal gets. Their first album and Sabotage are just a step behind.
Tony Iommi writes amazing riffs, but should be prohibited by law from attempting a guitar solo of any kind.I vote Rogatny for official K&KA music critic.rogatny wrote:Much other wisdom