Eh, I slept on it and no, I still don't like latter-era Priest - Battle Cry is not the worst and I recall being somewhat disappointed they didn't play it live on the album tour (although the setlist was probably demonstration enough that they themselves didn't think the album was one of their best), but although I'm far from my Amon Amarth mood currently, Twilight of the Thunder Gods is a well-deserved classic.
In the next match, I'm torn because I'm not sure if I prefer a somewhat lesser song by a beloved band or a really good song (for their standard) by a band I like less. And no, I'm not talking about band bias, these are kinda on a similar level for me. Cemetery Gates is a great song and I think Pantera deserve more love on this forum and in this game in general, but I decided in the end I'll go with the currently losing underdog and vote for one of my favourite 90s bands - Alice in Chains. I was obsessed with the Dirt album, back in secondary school, much more than I ever was with anything Pantera ever put out.
We already had this discussion, right?
JudasMyGuide said:
Cult of Personality is such a ridiculous epitome of 90s I can't help but find it unintentionally hilarious. The sound is just an aural representation of an old poster with birds in bikinis inviting you to a 93 rave in a blocky, graffiti font, that has been forgotten in a remote corner of a beach and has been bleached by the sun to a degree where it's almost half purely white.
Type O Negative is one of the bands I really like and if @Diesel 11 picked a song that wouldn't be this pettily blasphemous, it would probably get my vote in 99 % cases (and it did the last time around). What makes me happy is that since Steele converted back in the final years of his life, he probably had second thoughts about this. Well, at least I like to think so, because of him, mostly.
Anyway, I have huge nostalgia towards GTA: San Andreas and Living Colour are exactly that, a perfect representation of the atmosphere, of the Zeitgeist, just like Cutting Crew, Mr. Mister or Jan Hammer were for GTA: Vice City.
Diesel 11 said:
Funny ‘cuz it came out in ‘88 lol.
JudasMyGuide said:
Appetite for Destruction was released in '87, Ultramega OK in '88 and Bleach in '89.
It is what it is, you know.
Yeah, I still stand behind that, it's definitely 90s nostalgia for me, but although I voted for the song before, no friggin' way am I voting against Angra, especially against a song from Holy Land, are you mad?
Ah, another match where I'm put between a rather good song by a somewhat lesser band (though I quite like Anthrax) and one of the lesser songs by a band I love dearly (SOAD, yes, you must already know by now). Though this time it's maybe just because BYOB is so overplayed. Now Dreaming on the other hand... that one I would vote for until the bitter end.
That said, BYOB is still better, the combination of the whimsical idiocy and oh-so-serious-commentary, the almost Zappaesque musical mess, the Eastern influences, Tankians idiosyncracies... Yes, it's overplayed, but kinda for a reason. SOAD it is.
I like Scorpions, even the post-Uli ones, but Master of Puppets is Master of Puppets. Yep, that song is overplayed too. I like others more (gimme Battery or Ride the Lightning or Blackened or...) But still. Man, seeing this live, Lars or no Lars, it was an incredible thrill.
And because third time's the charm, I once again am confronted with an artist I genuinely like-slash-love who has a great moment vs. one of my favourite bands of all time with their overplayed and frankly, somewhat boring first (and only) single. Yeah, Pull Me Under is incredibly overrated, overplayed etc. And yet. I'm voting for it. Because there was a time when it was fresher than it seems now and because despite the terrible sound (which is present on the entire album, OMG, the drums) and despite it not being quite to my liking, as far as my love for DT is concerned, it's still Dream Theater.
