My 10 Favorite Metal Bands Quiz
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urbpanI almost made this a friends-only post because it's so totally irrelevant to the "Urban Pantheist," but I wanted my most metal friends Tim E. and Pat H. to have a chance to see it. As true metal fans they will no doubt be horrified by my very mainstream, even campy, choices. There's no accounting for taste.
Some of my choices are vulnerable to the charge of not really being metal. My criteria were the subjective qualities of wailing guitars, long hair, and symmetrical and pointy logos. If you can come up with a better way of telling if a band is truly metal, please post it on your weblog. (That's your weblog.) If you need a topic for discussion, consider this: Van Halen with David Lee Roth is a metal band, but Roth by himself is not; Inversely, Sammy Hagar by himself is a metal performer, but with Van Halen, is not. (Songs for reference: "Runnin' with the Devil," "California girls,""Heavy Metal," "Dreams.")
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My 10 Favorite Metal Bands Quiz
Match the descriptions of the bands below with the correct key metal lyrics from each band.
A. Metal's early experiment with pop music derived its considerable energy from the seething hatred between the virtuosic musicians and their buffoonish lead singer, without whom, time has proven, the band sucked.
B. Metal's first, and possibly only, multi-media superstars proved that, with enough swagger and fireworks you could wear clown make-up and still score chicks.
C. The hubris to include "METAL" in the band's name had better be backed up with insane chops and undeniable passion This band (check, and check, by the way) alienated all but the most devoted metalheads with their symphonic masterpieces. Midway through a successful career, they put out an album that at once dismantled their considerable cult following but made them a household name.
D. The symptom of morose lyrics and the primary risk factor of the Pacific Northwest caused this band to be misdiagnosed as "grunge."
E. Punks and metalheads could set their fashion statements aside to agree on this band, warts and all. If you've ever seen "Decline of Western Civilization part 2: the Metal Years," you must agree that the front man of this band came off like a reasonable intelligent man compared to his younger idiot lunatic peers.
F. Why shouldn't one of the best metal bands of all time be an Australian blues band? While any metal act can survive a drummer's death, it takes a special group to let the lead singer die and bounce back with bigger hits.
G. Metal goes public about its heroin problem, but still hides its receding hairline beneath bandanas and top hats. Also wins the "Ethyl Merman sound-alike" award for lead vocals.
H. Named for a Boris Karloff movie, a generation of parents mistook this band's politics for satanism. Today the singer's family is a kind of reality show American royal family (of tragic jesters).
I. In my opinion, if metal is taken too seriously, it loses all of its power. That's why some of the most important metal songs ever were written by "Lenny" from "Laverne and Shirley," Harlan Pepper from "Best in Show" and Reverend Lovejoy from "the Simpsons."
J. This band and music video proved to be a good match for each other, as the photogenic but accident-prone band cemented the bikinis-and-fireballs motif for metal videos and beyond. They quite gracefully adapted to the situation that left them with twice the drumsticks that they needed.
K. Sounding like AC/DC and dressing like pre-revolutionary French nobles may not have made this Boston band a household name, but they sure are fun to go see.
Match them to:
KEY METAL LYRICS
1. Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead
2. Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death’s construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
3. We're gettin' funny in the back of my car
I'm sorry honey if I took you just a little too far
I told the fellas out behind the bar
So let me tell you honey just how fine you are
4. They say there's people starving
Droppin' down dead in the street
The lazy slobs, they ain't got jobs
They say they ain't got enough to eat
Well, let them eat rock.
5. I am the lord of the wastelands
A modern day man of steel
I gather darkness to please me
And I command you to kneel
6. You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever
7. You're hot, you take all we got
Not a dry seat in the house
Next day, we'll be on our way
Tonight I'm gonna rock you Tonight!
8.So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
9. Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity
10. Ya get nothin' for nothin'
If that's what ya do
Turn around bitch I got a use for you
Besides you ain't got nothin' better to do
And I'm bored
11. Rise up! gather round
Rock this place to the ground
Burn it up let's go for broke
Watch the night go up in smoke
Some of my choices are vulnerable to the charge of not really being metal. My criteria were the subjective qualities of wailing guitars, long hair, and symmetrical and pointy logos. If you can come up with a better way of telling if a band is truly metal, please post it on your weblog. (That's your weblog.) If you need a topic for discussion, consider this: Van Halen with David Lee Roth is a metal band, but Roth by himself is not; Inversely, Sammy Hagar by himself is a metal performer, but with Van Halen, is not. (Songs for reference: "Runnin' with the Devil," "California girls,""Heavy Metal," "Dreams.")
Thanks to
aimees_zoo for putting a certain band's songs in my head, causing me to start writing this. Thanks also to belen1974 for causing me to finish it. Now maybe I can write something of pertinence. My 10 Favorite Metal Bands Quiz
Match the descriptions of the bands below with the correct key metal lyrics from each band.
A. Metal's early experiment with pop music derived its considerable energy from the seething hatred between the virtuosic musicians and their buffoonish lead singer, without whom, time has proven, the band sucked.
B. Metal's first, and possibly only, multi-media superstars proved that, with enough swagger and fireworks you could wear clown make-up and still score chicks.
C. The hubris to include "METAL" in the band's name had better be backed up with insane chops and undeniable passion This band (check, and check, by the way) alienated all but the most devoted metalheads with their symphonic masterpieces. Midway through a successful career, they put out an album that at once dismantled their considerable cult following but made them a household name.
D. The symptom of morose lyrics and the primary risk factor of the Pacific Northwest caused this band to be misdiagnosed as "grunge."
E. Punks and metalheads could set their fashion statements aside to agree on this band, warts and all. If you've ever seen "Decline of Western Civilization part 2: the Metal Years," you must agree that the front man of this band came off like a reasonable intelligent man compared to his younger idiot lunatic peers.
F. Why shouldn't one of the best metal bands of all time be an Australian blues band? While any metal act can survive a drummer's death, it takes a special group to let the lead singer die and bounce back with bigger hits.
G. Metal goes public about its heroin problem, but still hides its receding hairline beneath bandanas and top hats. Also wins the "Ethyl Merman sound-alike" award for lead vocals.
H. Named for a Boris Karloff movie, a generation of parents mistook this band's politics for satanism. Today the singer's family is a kind of reality show American royal family (of tragic jesters).
I. In my opinion, if metal is taken too seriously, it loses all of its power. That's why some of the most important metal songs ever were written by "Lenny" from "Laverne and Shirley," Harlan Pepper from "Best in Show" and Reverend Lovejoy from "the Simpsons."
J. This band and music video proved to be a good match for each other, as the photogenic but accident-prone band cemented the bikinis-and-fireballs motif for metal videos and beyond. They quite gracefully adapted to the situation that left them with twice the drumsticks that they needed.
K. Sounding like AC/DC and dressing like pre-revolutionary French nobles may not have made this Boston band a household name, but they sure are fun to go see.
Match them to:
KEY METAL LYRICS
1. Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead
2. Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death’s construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
3. We're gettin' funny in the back of my car
I'm sorry honey if I took you just a little too far
I told the fellas out behind the bar
So let me tell you honey just how fine you are
4. They say there's people starving
Droppin' down dead in the street
The lazy slobs, they ain't got jobs
They say they ain't got enough to eat
Well, let them eat rock.
5. I am the lord of the wastelands
A modern day man of steel
I gather darkness to please me
And I command you to kneel
6. You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever
7. You're hot, you take all we got
Not a dry seat in the house
Next day, we'll be on our way
Tonight I'm gonna rock you Tonight!
8.So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
9. Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity
10. Ya get nothin' for nothin'
If that's what ya do
Turn around bitch I got a use for you
Besides you ain't got nothin' better to do
And I'm bored
11. Rise up! gather round
Rock this place to the ground
Burn it up let's go for broke
Watch the night go up in smoke
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Date: 2005-12-01 08:06 pm (UTC)A gem of lost music. It also has what is probably Cheap Trick's best song, "Reach Out," as well as great songs by Donald Fagen, Stevie Nicks, and a good band that's all but forgotten, Riggs.
>It's post-ozzy sabbath, no?
Yep, with Ronnie Dio on vocals, and he just fucking nails it.
>Except that Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions
>to Hold Us Back" is the greatest rap album of all time.
Hard to argue with that one, no doubt PE is the best rap act of all, but I also really love De La Soul's 'Stakes Is High,' Guru's first Jazzmatazz album, Chino XL's 'Here to Save You All' and others by Goodie Mobb, Killah Priest, Ice Cube...