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MindGoneHaywire
11-17-2009, 09:21 PM
not safe for work


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37yhT_ndLfw

3LB
11-18-2009, 05:40 AM
I think its fine family entertainment

nobody
11-18-2009, 06:47 AM
Yeah, never did like Butt Metal.

Stone
11-18-2009, 08:24 AM
So bad it's good.

Finch Platte
11-18-2009, 10:07 AM
See also: Parody Rock.

dakatabg
11-18-2009, 10:36 AM
That is a great clip!

poppachubby
11-18-2009, 01:14 PM
Nah....much prefer Manowar. They've been at it for years, and they're not kidding!

"Wearing leather, on a horse of steel I ride..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPi73A0IBH4

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SdSzwh7IhpI/AAAAAAAACW8/t5vOIb3QA-M/s400/manowar1.jpg

Finch Platte
11-18-2009, 02:45 PM
I had to look at this post one more time so it would read 6 posts and 66 views. 666. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast)

Oh, wait, but if I post, it'll be 7 posts.

What to do, what to do. :frown2:

Finch Platte
11-18-2009, 02:56 PM
Yeah, never did like Butt Metal.

Death to all BUTT metal. Only took me about 2 months to get that.

Damn, I'm slow. :blush2:

MindGoneHaywire
11-18-2009, 05:11 PM
The Anvil documentary, by the way, is great. Highly recommended.

I've gotten more enjoyment out of metal in the past couple of weeks than I have in probably the past couple of decades.

poppachubby
11-18-2009, 06:08 PM
The Anvil documentary, by the way, is great. Highly recommended.

I've gotten more enjoyment out of metal in the past couple of weeks than I have in probably the past couple of decades.

Saw that as soon as it hit theatres.

Back in highschool some friends and I decided to start listening to Manowar as a gag. After about 3 weeks, the gag was on us because we realised we were having wicked fun. Their shtick is awesome, no irony whatsoever. They just bend you over and give you the metal 10 inch.

How can you not like:

"Time to burn! You losers never learn,
no one controls our god damn lives!
We do just what we feel, riding horses made of steel,
we're here, to burn up the night!"

Finch Platte
11-19-2009, 09:09 AM
Saw that as soon as it hit theatres.

Back in highschool some friends and I decided to start listening to Manowar as a gag. After about 3 weeks, the gag was on us because we realised we were having wicked fun. Their shtick is awesome, no irony whatsoever. They just bend you over and give you the metal 10 inch.

How can you not like:

"Time to burn! You losers never learn,
no one controls our god damn lives!
We do just what we feel, riding horses made of steel,
we're here, to burn up the night!"

Lol. I've got one of their more recent (well, 2004) DVDs (got it at Borders for a buck). It's a metaliscious laff riot. If you want to check it out, let me know.

http://hardrockheavymetal.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/manowar-hell-on-earth-part-2-fire-and-blood.jpg

poppachubby
11-19-2009, 09:25 AM
Lol. I've got one of their more recent (well, 2004) DVDs (got it at Borders for a buck). It's a metaliscious laff riot. If you want to check it out, let me know.

http://hardrockheavymetal.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/manowar-hell-on-earth-part-2-fire-and-blood.jpg

I'm so there! I think Jim Clarke might be joining our club, gave him the requirements anyhow...

poppachubby
11-19-2009, 09:44 AM
"The Gods made heavy metal and they saw that it was good,
they said to play it louder than hell, we promised that we would.
When losers say it's over with, you know that it's a lie,
the Gods made heavy metal and it's never gonna die!!"

Stone
11-19-2009, 10:06 AM
I had some good friends who were metalheads. One of them was into Manowar and got me interested. I still have a couple of their dubbed albums on cassette. The song that has stuck with me is "HAIL AND KILL!"

poppachubby
11-19-2009, 10:19 AM
I had some good friends who were metalheads. One of them was into Manowar and got me interested. I still have a couple of their dubbed albums on cassette. The song that has stuck with me is "HAIL AND KILL!"

...nice. We are all finding out that deep in our souls we love Manowar.

Stone
11-19-2009, 01:24 PM
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Troy
11-19-2009, 01:36 PM
Death to all butt metal" was a parody and "Manowar" isn't, right?

And I have to take crap for being a prog fan around here?

poppachubby
11-19-2009, 01:48 PM
Death to all butt metal" was a parody and "Manowar" isn't, right?

And I have to take crap for being a prog fan around here?

Right you got it, Phish are a parody, woops, I mean Steel Panther. Manowar fully believe the things they are singing about about Troy. You'd best stay outta there way, unless you want metal up your ass today...

Finch Platte
11-19-2009, 02:16 PM
Death to all butt metal" was a parody and "Manowar" isn't, right?

And I have to take crap for being a prog fan around here?

Well, that's cuz you listen to garbage like Morglbl and Transatlantic. :ciappa:

Troy
11-19-2009, 03:42 PM
Right you got it, Phish are a parody, woops, I mean Steel Panther. Manowar fully believe the things they are singing about about Troy. You'd best stay outta there way, unless you want metal up your ass today...

Nope, the only thing I want up my ass are my own turds.


Well, that's cuz you listen to garbage like Morglbl and Transatlantic.

Oy, that transatlantic is like eating a whole boston cream pie. The first couple of bites are delicious, but by the time your're halfway thru you're kinda nauseous. By the end I was in a coma, covered with vomit.

poppachubby
11-19-2009, 05:39 PM
Ahhhh Morglbl, great band, super tight and super fun until they open their mouths.

3LB
11-19-2009, 05:56 PM
Oy, that transatlantic is like eating a whole boston cream pie. The first couple of bites are delicious, but by the time your're halfway thru you're kinda nauseous. By the end I was in a coma, covered with vomit. That...or a hotdog eating contest. I sure hope you post that on PE. Best description/analogy of that album I've read so far. Neal and Stolt have truly lost the ability to write epics. Sad actually. Oh well, we'll always have SMPTe.

MindGoneHaywire
11-19-2009, 11:58 PM
Death to all butt metal" was a parody and "Manowar" isn't, right?

And I have to take crap for being a prog fan around here?

The thought did cross my mind to post this on yr FB page and not here, seriously...

:7:

Troy
11-20-2009, 09:22 AM
That...or a hotdog eating contest. I sure hope you post that on PE. Best description/analogy of that album I've read so far. Neal and Stolt have truly lost the ability to write epics. Sad actually. Oh well, we'll always have SMPTe.

Actually, I posted a full review on it at PE yesterday, but I didn't use the pie analogy. I'll stick it here shortly.

Finch Platte
11-20-2009, 09:32 AM
Actually, I posted a full review on it at PE yesterday, but I didn't use the pie analogy. I'll stick it here shortly.

Got a linky?

Is that rendering of the America/Beatles song the farkin' worst?

Look up 'saccharine' in the dictionary, and there's the song, rat thurr.

fp <--------- color him disappointed.

Never mind, I found it.

copy of this jumped into my hands recently.

Wow, it's more bloated than Kathleen Turner! Seriously, the only thing longer and more rambling is this damn thread.

Just overall statements:
Man, can these guys play or what? Seriously excellent rif***e and 15-fingered arpeggiating by everyone. Yeah, it's all a pastiche of '70s prog sounds and flavors, just as obvious an homage as XTC as The Dukes of Stratosphere and their loving rehash of psychedelia. For me personally, I just don't get tired of how big and fat TA sounds.

Too bad none of them can sing a lick. Nope, that's certainly not new information, Stolt has always has a peculiar delivery, so flat and honky. But the guys that don't sing in their regular bands? They shouldn't sing here either, it sounds like Karaoke.

The album itself:
There are elements to the first disc that I'll hang onto, mainly the "Overture" which really gives me everything I need. I need to take that into an audio editor and fade it out at 6:45 before "Whirlwind" starts. I can easily lose the first 1:30 too. Near as I can tell, you hear that, you've heard the album. There's a few other tracks that I like well enough, but every song at 6 or 8 minutes feels like it needs to 4 or 5 minutes without wearing out it's welcome. End the song already! If I want to hear that part one more time, I'll just play the song again. I won't be cluttering up the iTunes with much of this.

See, this band needs to understand that not every prog fan thinks going on for so long, beating these themes into the ground for hours at a time is a good thing in and of itself.

My take on the lyrics:
No, not as overtly religious as Morse's recent solo works, but they're still loaded with "giving yourself to faith" and "Follow this path to be Right" and "pre-apocalypse hysteria" overtones. It's all so simplistic and obvious. Cliched. Strident. Utterly devoid of irony or self-awareness. I won't go so far as to call it preachy, but it really does fly the "THIS IS SERIOUS" banner too strongly.

The other disc:
Hogweed's a total gas. And Soul Sacrifice. Easily the best things on the entire set. Thinking back on the all the covers they've done on previous albums and DVDs and how much I enjoyed those, it seems to me that being a covers band is why these 4 guys got together in the first place-to have some larfs and rip up on these kinds of classics. It's totally what these guys do best. I'd buy a whole double album of these guys doing covers before I'd buy one with original songs. That said, their version of I Need You is like an aural toothache for me. Someone hide the microphone from the drummer!

So to encapsulate my thoughts on this album:
This would easily be an album of the year for me if it was instrumental and if they worked it down to a single disc's worth of material, even with a couple of covers (but only Morse and Stolt can sing those). As it is now, there's probably 30 minutes of music that I'd like to hear again from the 2:15 on both discs.

A disappointment? No not really. It is what I thought it would be.



Nice. Good job, my man.

Troy
11-20-2009, 09:33 AM
Got a linky?

Is that rendering of the America/Beatles song the farkin' worst?

Look up 'saccharine' in the dictionary, and there's the song, rat thurr.

fp <--------- color him disappointed.

I just posted it here. Yeah, that number was particularly lame.

bobsticks
11-26-2009, 09:31 PM
Death to Brittney Spears...., lol...

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Finch Platte
12-01-2009, 04:32 PM
Death to Brittney Spears...., lol...

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Why does the CoB frontman spit into the air? Doesn't it land back on him? :shocked:

Lame gimmick.

bobsticks
12-01-2009, 08:00 PM
Why does the CoB frontman spit into the air? Doesn't it land back on him? :shocked:

Lame gimmick.

You know they're from Finland, right? I'm just sayin'.....

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Swish
12-02-2009, 08:31 AM
You know they're from Finland, right? I'm just sayin'.....

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...but I understood what he was saying.