Great Sounding Heavy Metal?

[Iving]

52 minutes ago, Confused said:

@Iving was brave enough to mention the arguably off topic Nirvana, which gives me an excellent excuse to post about a personal favorite of mine, which is the album Nirvana  MTV unplugged in New York.  Not exactly metal, in fact it pretty much genre defying, but it is a great sounding album, surprising good in fact.

 

Here are a couple of snippets:

(For those that might be interested, the entire album is available on YouTube)

 

 

 

 

As you (may) know I'm incorrigible when it comes to the history and evolution of music. Iggy Pop's "Raw Power" is often cited as "punk before punk was punk" etc, but is also regarded as *having helped build the foundations of Heavy Metal* e.g. http://metalmofos.com/albums-that-built-the-foundation-of-heavy-metal-iggy-and-the-stooges-raw-power/. Sure Nirvana is a bit left field in this respect - but I chose the tracks off of "Incesticide" deliberately. It's how your ears/brain register "genre" and its parameters. Very subjective! I'm a die-hard Rockabilly fan. I get all oodled up when people describe music as Rockabilly when it just isn't! In my Library, with my own genre tags, I have Rock 'n' Roll and Rockabilly as two different evolutionary branches. I'd get into the ring with anybody on Rockabilly - but I'm no Heavy Metal aficionado and won't hold forth about it any longer. P.S. That Nirvana "Unplugged" Album is off-the-scale fantastic all the way thru - but not Heavy Metal imho!

[sphinxsix]

Quite many MTV Unplugged albums sounded great, eg Clapton's.

I can't recall any of them being sensu stricto metal.

Maybe because they are ..well unplugged..

[Iving]

29 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

Quite many MTV Unplugged albums sounded great, eg Clapton's.

I can't recall any of them being sensu stricto metal.

Maybe because they are ..well unplugged..

 

true

 

come to think of it - what defines Heavy Metal is the guitar head

 

top second from right

 

just maybe bottom second and third from left

 

that's it

 

ok missed the sg bottom left

[sphinxsix]

14 minutes ago, Iving said:

what defines Heavy Metal is the guitar head

 

Noooo... it's all about guitarist's head. And it's not true he has to wear trousers.

 

 

BTW 

 

[Iving]

6 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

 

Noooo... it's all about guitarist's head. And it's not true he has to wear trousers.

 

 

BTW 

 

 

HM stereotypically (and actually in a historical perspective) has machismo leanings. A Google search of "Heavy Metal" and "transvestite" brings up a surprising and interesting plethora of results - which by no means are all derogatory or comic - imo a very good thing.

[fas42]

How about,

 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

19 minutes ago, fas42 said:

How about,

 

 

 

This guy is fun, the problem with him is - his all covers sound more or less the same.

[fas42]

Fair enough ... first time I've come across him, 🙂.

[clipper]

[cjf]

Ahh, my most favorite musical genre. I've got several I could add but I'll start with these 3 for the moment:

 

 

 

[cjf]

Ahh, cant just leave only 3 🙂

 

 

 

[Jsmith]

@cjf Type O Negative is a solid choice.  Their cover Cinnamon Girl is one of my top cover songs.

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

13 hours ago, cjf said:

Ahh, cant just leave only 3 🙂

 

 

 

 

Listening to Kingdom Come right now!

[Confused]

Having drifted slightly off topic yesterday, I shall offer this:

 

 

 

And for the above, I can say "I was there" - see if you can spot the audiophile in the audience ....  (no social distancing back then)

 

Second billing on this event went to Metallica.  At the time (August '91, when I was very young) Metallica's Enter Sandman was in the UK charts.  What was amusing though is that one of the proceeding lower billed bands arrived on set, played a pretty much immaculate copy of the first one minute of Enter Sandman, then stopped and apologised for not being Metallica, then carried on with their own set.  I cannot recall which band pulled off this moderately amusing stunt, but it would have been one of Motley Crue, Queensryche or The Black Crows.

 

I would say that this one is defiantly on topic:

 

 

[cjf]

9 hours ago, Jsmith said:

@cjf Type O Negative is a solid choice.  Their cover Cinnamon Girl is one of my top cover songs.

 

 

Yeah thats a good tune for sure.

 

I think all their earlier albums are impressive in terms of content and SQ but it seems they started to get a bit sloppy towards the later albums in terms of SQ where too much compression started to be thrown in. Seems like the same story for all Artists and their later albums, unfortunately.

[cjf]

 

 

 

[cjf]

 

 

 

[cjf]

I'll stop here for now. So many to choose from.

 

The stuff you hear from some folks about Metal not having good SQ is a bunch of hot air.

 

 

 

 

[cjf]

I lied...

 

 

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

44 minutes ago, cjf said:

I lied...

 

 

 

 

I wore out that Ratt cassette back in the day. 

[cjf]

14 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I wore out that Ratt cassette back in the day. 

Ha..I hear you there.

 

The first cassette I ever bought waaaaay back in the day at the age of 10 or so was Def Leppard Pyromania. I still own it but its seen better days and is as warped as a shitty piece of lumber. I break out my legacy Kenwood cassette deck I have and listen thru some of the surviving tapes on occasion.

 

Too bad the Tape desk is only RCA Analog Out or else I would rip them to .wav.

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 minute ago, cjf said:

Ha..I hear you there.

 

The first cassette I ever bought waaaaay back in the day at the age of 10 or so was Def Leppard Pyromania. I still own it but its seen better days and is as warped as a shitty piece of lumber. I break out my legacy Kenwood cassette deck I have and listen thru some of the surviving tapes on occasion.

 

Too bad the Tape desk is only RCA Analog Out or else I would rip them to .wav.

I remember buying the Pyromania cassette as well. One of my first. Listened to it the whole way home in my dad’s station wagon. 

[sphinxsix]

Young music lovers and their parents.. Remember going for holidays by car with mine after I had discovered Judas Priest and Saxon as a kid!   I'm still impressed they didn't mind such a dose of metal in the car. Thank you mom, thank you, dad! 

[Confused]

11 hours ago, cjf said:

I'll stop here for now. So many to choose from.

 

The stuff you hear from some folks about Metal not having good SQ is a bunch of hot air.

 

 

 

 

I was intrigued that you included The Cult here, and nothing wrong with that, as it happens I was listening to "Love" maybe two weeks back.  I guess they might generally be considered "Gothic Rock" rather than Heavy Metal, although the OP did state that the genre can be a little undefined.  When I think of The Cult, my mind usually drifts to the Sisters of Mercy, although I note that the Sisters of Mercy typically use a drum machine, whereas The Cult use the real thing.  Some maybe The Cult are one side of the genre dividing line and the Sisters of Mercy drift the other?  (or maybe It's all Rock and Roll, as Lemmy would say)

 

 

[Confused]

As an aside, both @cjf and @clipper have recently both posted examples of albums that I like, together with albums I have either never heard of or never listened to.  For the latter, I shall give them a try, so thanks for the music discovery service!