Anyone here listen to Billy Idol?

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Do you like Queensryche? I bet you would, at least their earlier stuff (pre-1991). Operation Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all time.

Oh yeah. Good stuff.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic here or not. If you are, I will find your house and come beat you up.

No, I wasn't being a dumbass, I was agreeing with you . Mindcrime is a great concept album, but many of their albums are awesome.

I like anything Mindcrime and earlier. I have Empire also and it's not too bad but I haven't heard anything later (except for a select song here and there and O:M2). Have you heard Mindcrime II? An awesome followup, even if it took them 20 years to make it.

And I like Black Sabbath with Ozzy or Ronnie equal, even though they don't sound the same.

I have more respect for Ozzy than I do for Dave, but because Heaven & Hell is also one of the best albums ever made, Ronnie James Dio is therefor the best.

I like BS with Ronnie as much as Ozzy. Plus, I am not ashamed to admit I like Dio. When I was a little kid, I had one of those black felt Dio posters (demon swingin' a chain, or something like that) ... I put it in a really old-skool, gaudy, gold plaster frame. It was awesome. Iron Maiden posters looked deflated next to it.

Cinderella, though, stomps all over Sabbath and Dio.

Hey, I ain't no[body's] fool!

Dio rocks.

[2X4]

Yes, and I also like listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Kiss, Van Halen, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, and Iron Maiden when I'm gettin fu%#ed up.

Also, Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead. Can never forget about them.

But you did.

Your musical tastes look to be quite similar to mine. So here's a couple questions for a fellow Halen and Sabbath fan... Hagar or Roth? Ozzy or Ronnie? Both groups put out some killer music regardless of who had the mic, but I'd have to go against the grain and say I like Hagar and Ronnie best. Sabbath's best album is clearly Heaven & Hell, hands down. In a similar vein, Van Halen was more "consistently" strong with Sammy Hagar. Not to mention I always prefer singers that actually have some vocal talent. Don't get me wrong: Paranoid and 1984 are two of my favorite albums, but....

Do you like Queensryche? I bet you would, at least their earlier stuff (pre-1991). Operation Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all time.

OZZY!  OZZY!  OZZY!  \\nn//

[Keranu]

Eyes Without a Face.

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For the VH question:  Gary Sherone.  Why you ask?  Because his live rendition of "Romeo's Delight" is one of the best live performed songs I've EVER heard.  I've been to hundreds of shows, and that was one of the most electrifed performances I have seen.

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For the VH question:  Gary Sherone.  Why you ask?  Because his live rendition of "Romeo's Delight" is one of the best live performed songs I've EVER heard.  I've been to hundreds of shows, and that was one of the most electrifed performances I have seen.

But Gary Sherone doesn't count because he was only in the band for 5 minutes.

I always thought his singing style with VH sounded like he was trying to imitate Sammy Hagar anyway (I used to own the album "Van Halen III").

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For the VH question:  Gary Sherone.  Why you ask?  Because his live rendition of "Romeo's Delight" is one of the best live performed songs I've EVER heard.  I've been to hundreds of shows, and that was one of the most electrifed performances I have seen.

But Gary Sherone doesn't count because he was only in the band for 5 minutes.

I always thought his singing style with VH sounded like he was trying to imitate Sammy Hagar anyway (I used to own the album "Van Halen III").

I always thought he sounded like Gary Sherone singing for Van Halen.  Eddie did a horrible job engineering that album.  I wish he would have let their long time engineer do that album too.  Balance and VH3 sound very disconnected and I kind of stopped following or listening to Van Halen after Sherone "left."

[nat]

To be fair, I've never listened to anything else he's done. So maybe he always sounds like he's trying to imitate Sammy Hagar.

Balance is an absolutely awesome album, but I know what you mean about the mastering. It has a much less "polished" sound than their earlier work. But I don't know, I kind of like it, it adds to the atmosphere of the songs.