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indysmith

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« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2007, 03:07:12 PM »
this whole 'so terrible it's great' thing has to be something you guys have got past by now...? I thought it was funny too, for about a week
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« Reply #31 on: November 16, 2007, 03:12:58 PM »
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this whole 'so terrible it's great' thing has to be something you guys have got past by now...? I thought it was funny too, for about a week


some things are so terrible they're awful, some things are so terrible they're good! it's personal judgement.

i think a lot of us here were into the eighties/ early nineties rock bands when every album had at least one overblown ballad.  some of them, like the album version of November Rain (the old acoustic demo is much better) are so overblown they're just cr@p!  and if, say the Spice Girls had done Every Rose Has It's Thorn we'd have hated it! but this was the music of our youth, and that makes it exempt from any taste or judgement we've developed since!  :)
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« Reply #32 on: November 16, 2007, 03:14:31 PM »
i can understand that. blink182 are kings
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« Reply #33 on: November 16, 2007, 03:16:37 PM »
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i can understand that. blink182 are kings


see what i mean?  my now finely honed taste and judgement goes Bleauh!!! at the very thought of them!!  :lol:
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« Reply #34 on: November 16, 2007, 03:23:42 PM »
some of them maybe cheesy or cringeworthy - but damn, i'm not ashamed to say i like them!

its true the suggestions went in a pretty downhill direction, but there been some great tips... for example the thin lizzy track. pretty sweeping to say they're all bad.
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« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2007, 03:43:06 PM »
Don't Believe a Word.

Metaphor and Come Clarity by In Flames are pretty good.

To rid the Disease and In my time of Need by Opeth.

Peepshow by Sikth.
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« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2007, 04:11:03 PM »
Televators - The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium (the saddest song EVER! Screw your Gloomy Sundays this is depressing stuff)
The Spirit Carries On - Dream Theater - Metropolis 2000 (the most uplifting song ever!)
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« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2007, 04:59:43 PM »
Ozzy Osbourne - mama I'm comin home

maybe Def Leppard  - to late for love

Whitesnake - Here I go again!!!
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« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2007, 06:04:30 PM »
Spinal Tap's Just Begin Again is truly cringeworthy.
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« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2007, 06:51:51 PM »
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hey stop slagging def leppard!

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oh, i remember you by skid row is a good one.
heaven by warrant.
more than a feeling by boston.
miles away by winger.
more than words, extreme.
hold the line by toto.
most van hagar songs.
mr big, to be with you.
wait by white lion.
alone again, dokken.
two steps behind, when love and hate collide, have you ever needed someone so bad, def leppard (love bites has already been mentioned, haha).
don't cry, g n r.

probably a bunch of other obvious ones.


Agreed on all those. Respect, brother.

I'd like to add:
WHITESNAKE
-Here I Go Again
-The Deeper the Love
-Is This Love?
-Crying in the Rain
-Now You're Gone
-Sailing Ships (one of my favourite songs ever)

Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune

Mr Big - Just Take My Heart, Nothing But Love

Alice Cooper - Might Aswell Be on Mars, Only My Heart Talkin' (this man really is underrated as a songwriter)

Firehouse - Love of a Lifetime

Dream Theater - Another Day
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« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2007, 06:55:38 PM »
Another Day has a great opening but then dies on it's arse IMO.
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« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2007, 07:09:10 PM »
Ahh man. It has one of Petrucci's best solos ever.  :(
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« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2007, 08:29:37 PM »
Any Def Leppard ballad.

Hollow by Pantera is great.

Song for love and More than words by Extreme.

18 and life, Skid Row.

Heaven, Bryan Adams.

Who wants to live forever, Queen
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« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2007, 08:32:48 PM »
18 and life by Skid Row is untouchable.
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« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2007, 08:46:09 PM »
^ Yes it is. I guess I just didn't think of classifying it as a ballad.

Also,
Yngwie Malmseen - Save Our Love, Like an Angel
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