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Good Time to be a metal fan with a turntable

What a great time it is to be a metal fan. In the past two months I have picked up Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets remastered at 45 rpm, Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same re-done by Jimmy Page,Iron Maiden Somewhere Back in Time: 1980-1989, Ac/DC Let There Be Rock, Rush Permanent Waves re-mastered(with Moving Pictures coming out in the fall), amd The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bullocks(yeah I know they we're technically punk but this album should be in any metal heads collection).

So my question is what would you guys like to see re-issued?

I know for myself I would like to see re-issues of the first two Ozzy albums, and Judas Priest-Screaming for Vengeance.
nrostov
maril555
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I don't think metal bands really have to adapt much lower standards of sound reproduction, just because "they are metal". That's like saying- metal fans must suffer listening to their favorite music (it's plenty of suffering even without the artrocious sound quality)
nrostov OP
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Maril,

You totally lost me on your reply. What are you talking about?

First off I saw a lot of metal bands during the 80's and they sounded amazing. Second some metal bands albums didn't sound great because they didn't have a lot of money. A perfect example is Ride the Lightning. That is why the re-issue is so great.

All I was saying is this post is about metal and I don't consider Jethro Tull a metal band.
maril555
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What I meant to say is this- to me music is music, no matter the genre, hence I do apply the same standards to everyone.
Classic rock, metal, hard rock, "big-hair rock", grange, punk rock- all these "classifications" sound a tad artificial to me.
Whether one makes good music, or doesn't- that's all that matters.
I've been trying to get my point across to my nephew and his friend, who would not listen to anything, but metal, but has not been succesful so far.
I honestly listened to many samples of current metal bands, and had to throw away quite a few of CD-Rs- literally.
"Metal is the audio version of WWF"- I'm with Audiofeil on this one.
nrostov OP
199 posts
 
Maril,

A. I agree with what you are saying. My collection includes rock, jazz, classical, funk, country, blue grass etc.

B. I don't think that is a fair thing to say about Metal. There are a lot of garbage metal bands(and I agree about the new ones), but there are/were a lot of talented ones as well like Metallica. Saying they are like the "WWF" is insulting to what they have done musically.
maril555
619 posts
 
OK, I'd give you that- they are not all alike, but the limitations of the genre do limit the range of the musical ideas to be expressed by an artist.
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