Scruffy The Janitor

Just one album today folks: Seven Mary Three's Dis/location 8/10 I've only just got this album, and have only given it one listen so far. But from what I have heard I have really liked. This album, released in 2004, is a completely different band than in the 1995 album "American Standard", which I reviewed earlier in the thread. Gone is the vocalist that pretty much defined the last album, being replaced by a very generic rock vocalist. However one thing that hasn't been replaced is the great song-writing. Song's that just pull you in and make you enjoy. The band behind the vocalist has grown as musicians and learn't how to play their instruments more. As much as I enjoyed "American Standard", and have rated it higher than this album, I think the Seven Mary Three from this album is just a more-well rounded band. It is no longer just about the vocalist, it is about the music. This album is reccomended, but realize that you will be listening to a completely different style of music than the Seven Mary Three that everyone else knows. I've also got 3 more Seven Mary Three albums coming to me, including one by the old strong vocalist, so It'll be interesting to listen to them both and see which ones I enjoy. Tracks to look out for: Settle Up, Blue Letter, Dislocated, Subway Tunnel Microphones. Tracks to perhaps skip: No songs jumped out to be bad on my first listen.

HOF.

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Classic. Sounds like it would be a great b-grade flick, but I think it would stink a dick as a blockbuster. Oh and they could have added some more groups into the mix, Witches, Inccubi, Succubi, oh and emos. (oh and for the record, I have no idea what Inccubi, and Succubi are so they are probably already covered in the list:P)

Haven't heard that one, but I love the Earth Crisis version of it. Another Bodom one would have to be their version of "She is Beautiful".

I'm getting so amped for "Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster is Loose", that I thought I'd review a couple more non Jim-Steinman Meat Loaf albums (as in essence that's what Bat Out Of Hell III is going to be)..,..So here goes: Meat Loaf's Welcome To The Neighbourhood 7.5/10 This album, mainly famous for the song "I'd Lie for You (And Thats The Truth), is Meat Loaf more going into pop-rock, instead of his operatic-rock backgrounds. Released two years after "Bat Out Of Hell II", in 1995. The problem with this album, isn't that it is a bad album, it's just a letdown after the larger than life Bat II. This album infact contains two songs written by Jim Steinman (but not "Id Lie For You", for some reason everyone thinks thats done by Steinman), but these tracks weren't produced by Steinman, and aren't the greatest versions of these songs. They are however probably the high points of this album. Welcome to the Neighbourhood, is Meat Loaf's slow ballad album, and is a good album, but his voice is a bit raw after Bat Out Of Hell II, and all the touring that went along with that. Add in that, all though the songs are good, most of them are pretty forgettable and you get a good album, but in no way one of Meat Loaf's best. Tracks to look out for: I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth), The two Steinman tracks (Original Sin & Left in the Dark), Martha & Where Angels Sing. Tracks to perhaps skip: Where the rubber meets the Road, Not a Dry Eye in the House (a weak knock off of Original Sin, the track it follows on the album), & the two tracks that Meat Loaf does not feature in (45 seconds of ectasy & Fiesta De Las Almas Perdidas). Meat Loaf's Blind Before I Stop 8/10 One of three forgotten Meat Loaf '80s albums. (If anyone says Dead Ringer is a forgotten '80s album, I will have to kill them. It is the forgotten Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf collaberation, and Meat Loaf's best album! And will be reviewed at a later date. Now actually getting back to the album I am reviewing). Blind before I stop, is probably my favourite of the forgotten albums. MTV's artist page says that "Blind Before I Stop" should have been a hit for Meat Loaf, and I agree whole heartedly. There is not a weak track on this album, and Meat Loaf's voice has seemingly fully recovered from the damage down by the Bat Out of Hell touring. They have also gone to go completely away from Jim Steinman's style of song, which was the best thing to do for Meat Loaf as well. Another album full of of ballads, but unlike "Welcome to the Neighbourhood", these ones you will be humming in your head for the rest of the day. If you are to buy a non Jim Steinman Meat Loaf album, this one should be high on your list. But their is one caveat, that it doesn't sound much like a Jim Steinman album unlike most non Steinman works (however as much as I love Steinman, I think this is a plus. The only person who should be doing Steinman, is Steinman) Tracks to look out for: Execution Day, One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade), Standing on the Outside, Special Girl & Rock'n'Roll Hero Tracks to perhaps skip: nil

I follow release dates of my favourite artists majorly (Absolutely waiting for Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell III, and 8 Foot Sativa's Poison of Ages). But for bands I haven't heard of I'll usually pick up a torrent of an album, and decide whether or not I'm gonna buy the album off that. I pick up one to two cds a week. I'm notoriously bad for picking up bands cd's at events when I see them opening for other bands. I have to stop doing this cos some of these really suck (aarrrghhh Frankenbok I hate you). I'm also more likely to buy a New Zealand cd, than to download it, because the size of our country and music scene its hard enough to survive even if people buy your cd.

This is from Last.FM, and is therfore my overall top 25, but I haven't been using Last.FM for long, so It's pretty much me now: 1: Seven Mary Three – Punch In and Out 2: Drowning Pool – Sermon 3: Seven Mary Three – Devil Boy 4: 8 Foot Sativa – Breed the Pain 5: Stone Sour – Bother 6: Seven Mary Three – My My 7: 8 Foot Sativa – Escape From Reality 8: Slayer – Flesh Storm 9: The Black Dahlia Murder – Elder Misanthropy 10: Lamb of God – Redneck 11: Seven Mary Three – Roderigo 12: Seven Mary Three – Cumbersome 13: Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey 14: Grateful Dead – Hell in a Bucket 15: A Perfect Circle – Annihilation 16: Seven Mary Three – Water's Edge 17: Grateful Dead – When Push Comes to Shove 18: Hilary Duff – Come Clean (remix 2005) (Dont laugh ) 19: The Black Dahlia Murder – Paint It Black 20: Slayer – Jihad 21: Grateful Dead – West L.A. Fadeaway 22: Grateful Dead – Tons of Steel 23: Grateful Dead – Throwing Stones 24: 8 Foot Sativa – Fuel Set 25: Lamb of God – pAtHeTiC

Throw another couple of albums into the mix 8 Foot Sativa's Hate Made Me 7.5/10 The debut album for 8 Foot Sativa, and unfortunatly you can tell it's a band in their early stages. Justin "Jackhammer" Niessen had just joined the band, after the previous vocalist disspeared and his vocals are no-where as strong as in "Season For Assault". This was also the only album to feature Peter Young on drums. Sam Sheppard replaced him right after this album was released. Sam Sheppard is counted by many as one of the best drummers in New Zealand, where Peter Young is pretty weak on the drums, and you can tell in this album. However this album isn't bad by any respects, it's just nothing to compare to "Season For Assault", and "Breed the Pain". And is a must hear because you can hear where the band started off, and this album has quite a few songs that have become anthems in the New Zealand Metal scence (songs like the self-titled 8 Foot Sativa, Hate Made Me, to Believer and Fuel Set that appeared in New Zealand film "The Locals") However does have the throwaway track "Cocktease" which just feels like it was put on to fill up the album. Tracks to look out for: Hate Made Me (however a better version with Sam Sheppard drumming appears on Season For Assault), Fuel Set, It's All So Real (most people dont like this track, but I thourougly enjoy it), & 8 Foot Sativa. Tracks to perhaps skip: Cocktease Meat Loaf's Couldn't Have Said It Better 8/10 Seeing as we are on the road to Bat Out Of Hell III, I have been listening to my Meat Loaf discography to get in the mood for it. Couldn't Have Said It Better is Meat Loaf's last album from 2003. I remember waiting to buy it from the store the day it came out. I swear I listened to it like a dozen times that day. It's a suprising good album from start to finish with only a weak spots. Meat Loaf's voice however iis a bit of a mixed bag in the album, as he has worn out his vocal chords many times over. (However when I saw him live later that year, his voice was nothing less than amazing.) This album attempts to have some epic larger than life songs, like the Jim Steinman/Meat Loaf collaboration albums, and this album pulls it off decently. It was never going to be a Bat Out Of Hell, or a Bat Out Of Hell II, but it does a good job of giving the listener something a bit different well keeping true to Meat Loaf's roots. A track which is a must to listen to is "Man Of Steel", which in itself is a great song, but is probably more famed for the last minute and a half where Meat Loaf duets with his daughter-in-law Pearl Aday. "Do It" is for sure a skip, as they try to get Meat Loaf to rap and it really doesn't work. Tracks to look out for: Couldn't Have Said It Better, Did I Say That?, Man Of Steel, & a Bob Dylan cover in Forever Young. Tracks to perhaps skip: Do It, perhaps Tear Me Down, because it is a pretty gimmicked song. EDIT: gaah, correcting some formatting. I suck at using formatting on this forum.

Beatles w00t!!!!!!!! And im waiting for the flames about GreenDay (I agree however they dont deserve to be on the top 5, let alone the top 100).

A couple of albums today: Jim Steinman's Bad For Good 8/10 Ask any of my friends and they will tell you I am a Jim Steinman fanboy. I find him to be an amazing composer/song writer. He is definatly my favourite Songwriter of all time. I love his work with his other children (Meat Loaf/Bonnie Tyler/Fire Inc/Pandora's Box/anyother artist he's down a few songs with). This album usually gets run-down for as great as his songwriting is, his voice isn't the greatest. He definatly doesn't have a strong voice, but he has an emotional voice, and I don't think it is as bad as people put it out to be. This album, originally meant to be recorded by Meat Loaf, is extremely strong and goes from strong point to strong point. In fact, by the end of the year (when Bat Out of Hell III is released), Meat Loaf will have covered all but two songs on this album. It is very 80's style Rock'n'roll, with Jim Steinman bringing in his own style of Operatic Rock that only Jim Steinman can. If I was rating this album on song-writing alone, it would be 10/10, but as Jim Steinman's voice isn't as strong as say Meat Loaf's covers of these songs, it drags it down a couple of points. It is still a highly recommended album, and a Rock'n'Roll Classic. Tracks to look out for: Bad For Good, Love & Death and An American Guitar (if you have Bat II, it is the exact same version that is called "Wasted Youth"), Rock'n'Roll Dreams come through & Left in the Dark. Tracks to perhaps skip: The Storm, and 50/50 on Lost Boys and Golden Girls (some times I can stand it, sometimes its on skip) Seven Mary Three's American Standard 8.5/10 The first time I listened to this album, I was utterly suprised by the strength of the vocalists voice, and the amazing song-writing of the band. I gather Seven Mary Three are bigger in America than they are in New Zealand, but the only way I got to hear this album was because my brother had it imported from the USA, and was not at that point avaliable in music stores here in NZ. I find this a forgotten gem in Rock history. From the classic's like Water's Edge & Cumbersome, to the slow plodding style of Roderigo, and Lame, to the slightly faster Margaret, and Devil Boy, to the marching style of Punch In and Punch Out, there is not a letdown track on this album. Highly Recommended! I'm having trouble at getting other albums in the Seven Mary Three discography, and have resorted to importing some more albums from America, and I will review them when I get them and listen to them. Tracks to look out for: Water's Edge, Roderigo, Lame & Punch in and Punch Out Tracks to perhaps skip: nil More albums to come (Y)

The only song I've ever liked was that "I'm like a bird" or whatever it was. I hadn't realized she had changed...lol.

Forrest Gump 10/10 I did cry. I am Man enough to admit it.

Big jumps for Blink-182. They are good, but I personally am suprised to see them in the top 10. They've broken up haven't they? Have they released any albums this year? It just seems like a really big jump.

When I download, I download full albums, and even when I find I only like one song from an album, I always end up playing the whole album. I used to be into making random playlists, but I have over the last year started listening through whole albums like religiously. And many bands (I reckon) make their albums in a way that one song is supposed to lead in from another. For quite a few albums, I believe you don't get the whole feeling for the songs if you don't listen it through from the start to the end. In fact I have all my music sorted out into albums in foobar2000 (my media player). Then I have it play random albums, where it picks an a album, plays the whole album, then pick a new album, and then play the whole album.

Adding in some movies I love. The Last Man on Earth (awesome Vincent Price Movie, about Zombies taking over the world, and he is the only one alive in the city to kill them all) The Abdomanble Dr Phibes. (another Vincent Price movie, he kills the doctor's that he believed killed his wifes, each themed out as one of the seven sins, highly recommended, and the sequel Dr Phibe's strikes again isn't bad either) Theatre of Blood (again another Vincent Price movie , I seem to have a thing for him, a semi piss-take on Dr Phibes, as Vincent Price is Edward Lionheart, who has been overlooked for a prestigious award for his stage acting one to many times, and starts to kill the seven judges all themed out as Shakespeare's best murders/near murders. ) Also The Corpse Vanishes (featuring Bela Lugosi) Bowery at Midnight (feat. Bela Lugosi) the old 1930's version of Dracula (feat. Bela Lugosi) Scared to Death (the only color Bela Lugosi flick). You can get most of the Bela Lugosi movies of archive.org ,as they have passed their copyright. All in all in my dvd collection I have 13 Vincent Price movies, and 10 Bela Lugosi movies. I just find both actors extremely entertaining and they both have amazing voices (espically Vincent Price). I am infact going to go watch these movies, so you'll probably see them pop-up in the "What Films did you watch today?" thread.

I took the day off work so I knocked off a few albums: 8 Foot Sativa's Breed The Pain 9/10 8 Foot Sativa come out with a new vocalist Matt Sheppard(the brother of Drummer Sam Sheppard), and give their music a much harder black metal feel to it. Recorded at Studio Underground omSweden, it really shows a distinct maturity in the band and Guitarist Gary Smith pulls out some mean axe work. Matt Sheppard's vocal's are a lot deeper than Jackhammer's from the previous two albums, and perhaps are the reason from the slight slip from the 10/10, however his vocals have grown, and were a lot better Live, and in the first Sinate album that follows. The Punishment within, the second to last track, is the only track that drags as it doesn't introduce any new sound to the album, and just seems to rehash what has already been played in the album. However, they do pull it back in the final track, Genetic Treason, the most brutal track on the album. Tracks to look out for: Perputual Torment, Altar of Obscenity, Human Abbatoir, & Genetic Treason Tracks to perhaps skip: The Punishment within Blindspott's Blindspott 5.5/10 Kiwi-rocker's Blindspott's debut album. Very slow hard rock. Gets incorrectly labelled as Metal by the main-stream media. The tracks all blur into one, except for the occasional song, that are known to the New Zealand public as their singles. It really is an album that was released with A-quality Singles, and the rest was just lumped in B-quality shit to pad it out into full album length. A couple of the songs (probably the best example Nil By Mouth), use both clean vocals, and a little bit of basic growling in the chorus. Unfortunatly I really didn't like this album much, as their is to much time between good songs, and really is just an album you play in the background. Tracks to look out for: Mind Dependancy, Nil By Mouth, Phlex, and maybe Ilah (Silent War) Tracks to perhaps skip: Pretty much the rest of the album. The Grateful Dead's In The Dark 8.5/10 After hearing so much about the grateful dead, and about the dead heads, I had to get my hands on an album and give it a listen. I am very grateful(bad pun!) I did. I apparently got my hands on one of the last studio albums, and the album that really finally gave the Grateful dead their real billboard hit success. All through this album, is just mellow rock, which after a few listens you can't help but sing along. Perhaps the only song which I don't think should be on the album is West L.A. Fadeaway, and that is not because it isn't a good album, it just isn't up to the caliber of the rest of the album. As I'm new to the grateful dead, and as they have such a big discography (13 Studio Albums, about 3 times that in Live Albums, and hundreds of concerts free to download off archive.org), I would really like someone to push me in the direction of what Grateful Dead music I should get my hands on, because if it's anything like this album, I wanna hear it. Tracks to look out for: Touch of Grey, Hell in a bucket, When Push comes to Shove, Ton's of Steel(espically, I Love this song), Throwing Stones, Black Muddy River (okay I named all the songs on the album but one ) Tracks to perhaps skip: West L.A. Fadeaway. More reviews to come.