cakes wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:42 am Def Leopard

This keeps making my eye twitch buddy. And if I may, as someone who was balls deep in melodic hard rock/metal music at that time I never fully got into their earlier records. Pyromania, however, is top-tier pop-metal.

High School picks:

Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Mötley Crüe - Dr Feelgood
Alice Cooper - Constrictor, tho I continued to go to his concerts because they were rad and he only played like one or two modern hits with the rest being killer
RATT - Invasion of Your Privacy ALTHOUGH "Way Cool Jr." from a couple of records later is arguably their best single. Willing to fight on that one.
KISS - Animalize, saw them on the Asylum tour...completely lost interest soon after
Anthrax - Among the Living
Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Ozzy - No Rest for the Wicked
Metallica - The Black Album
Slayer - South of Heaven
The Cult - Electric
AC/DC - Flick of the Switch

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 9:35 am "When did Melvins fall off for you"

The Maggot was the last excellent one. Taco riffing all over it. Still great.

Hostile Ambient Takeover, shit, I can barely remember this one. I have all the 7ers that make up the album and maybe the cd. It's been ages.

Senile Animal & Nude With Boots fell pretty flat. The live album compiling them is a much better listen.

I miss JOE!

Krev wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:03 pm I like On Through the Night - especially Wasted and Rock Brigade - but I can never get in to High 'N Dry.

This is a total bummer.

LBx wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 5:58 pm

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 9:35 am "When did Melvins fall off for you"

The Maggot was the last excellent one. Taco riffing all over it. Still great.

Hostile Ambient Takeover, shit, I can barely remember this one. I have all the 7ers that make up the album and maybe the cd. It's been ages.

Senile Animal & Nude With Boots fell pretty flat. The live album compiling them is a much better listen.

I miss JOE!

Love me some Maggot. HAT or POTRE might be my absolute favorites.

GuyLaCroix wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 8:30 am

LBx wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 5:58 pm

GuyLaCroix wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 9:35 am "When did Melvins fall off for you"

The Maggot was the last excellent one. Taco riffing all over it. Still great.

Hostile Ambient Takeover, shit, I can barely remember this one. I have all the 7ers that make up the album and maybe the cd. It's been ages.

Senile Animal & Nude With Boots fell pretty flat. The live album compiling them is a much better listen.

I miss JOE!

Love me some Maggot. HAT or POTRE might be my absolute favorites.

I dug the Big Business albums but everything since has been pretty tired sounding.

These are the couple I can think of off-hand.
Nick Cave up to Lyre of Orpheus
AC/DC up to Highway to Hell
Kiss up to Love Gun
David Bowie up to Lets Dance
Rush up to Signals
Beastie Boys up to Hello Nasty

I've never been a fan, but they just came up recently in the confessions thread, and I have to take some sick thrill in that while the 90's singles are still in heavy rotation on the radio, Billy's later era Pumpkins records are so obscure that I don't even know how many there are, who plays on them, nor what they sound like. That's like 25 years of me not even trying to intentionally avoid them, but successfully doing so. Money.

unfortunately, Nels Cline. I've never been a Wilco fan, so checked out when he joined. Didn't realize until a few years back that he's not stopped with his outsider shenanigans. Slowly catching up.

PASTA wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 12:37 pm unfortunately, Nels Cline. I've never been a Wilco fan, so checked out when he joined. Didn't realize until a few years back that he's not stopped with his outsider shenanigans. Slowly catching up.

I still love the first 4 Wilco albums. I also love Nels Cline, so I was very excited when he joined. Caught them live between AGiB and SBS and loved what he added to the band. Then SBS comes out and I'm like, "You have Glenn Kotche and Nels fuckin' Cline in your band and THIS is what you came up with?" Was very disappointed. I saw them a few times since but none of the post-AGiB songs grabbed me enough to want to check out an album.

Additionally:

Melvins - Hostle Ambient Takeover would have been a great time to stop
Teenage Fanclub - Favorite band. After Gerard Love quit, hard pass.
Iron Maiden - Anything I have heard post-Fear of The Dark has been at a concert, and when they say "Our new album..." that is my cue to grab a beer. (I also think there is an argument that No Prayer For The Dying doesn't really need to exist either.)

Agree with Major RE: wilco. I really liked everything up thru AGiB also, then the soft record came out and it wasn't the right time for that and me to get along. Haven't checked in earnestly since.

I saw them at the fair park music hall after AGiB and they were stellar. My eyes were on Nels the whole time, but that whole band is terrific.

Probably incredibly obvious but Helmet after Stanier quit. Just not the same band.