For me the big hitters are Blackout, Love At First Sting and Face the Heat, particularly Blackout is my all time favorite I think. I also like 2010's Sting in the Tail.
But basically every album from like, Lovedrive up will have at least one radio hit you've probably heard at some point.
To add to this, while I love their full on Arena Rock days from the early 80's to now, their 70's output (with guitarist Uli Jon Roth) has some amazing cuts that barely get much rotation:
Ohh I had listened to Scorpions then! I realise now that the stylistic change from the 70s to 80s made me think they were a different group.
Yeah, once Uli left and Matthias Jabs joined Rudolph Schenker and Klaus took over most of the songwriting duties and they went to a straight ahead blues based sound and lost the more prog elements Uli loved to throw in. He wound up doing some eclectic fusion albums in 80's and then switched up to classical and romantic pieces on the batshit insane 28-35 fret (he wanted the top end of violin range on an electric) Sky Guitars he had built and continues to dress like a pirate while doing it:
I can honestly tell you I have never heard a single One Direction song and I know nothing about them other than Harry Styles is now The Boy Who Lived out of the group but hot damn this song is real smooth
if i had a heart id love you if i had a voice id sing
If my wife got killed by gangsters or something, this song would play during the climax of my brutal vengeance, as immortalized in Death Wish For Real, my biopic.
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What y'all grabbing for bandcamp Friday? So far I snagged the new Kikagaku Moyo but am eyeing some stuff on Transylvanian Records and Transcending Obscurity Records
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Currently all I've got in my cart is catching up on some bands that I've known about for ages and should really just get some of their music at this point (PUP and Charly Bliss)
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What y'all grabbing for bandcamp Friday? So far I snagged the new Kikagaku Moyo but am eyeing some stuff on Transylvanian Records and Transcending Obscurity Records
I just discovered their 2020 EP a few days ago and fell in love with the brutal "This is how Sabbath sounded to church people in 1970" sound, so I picked up the full length.
Currently all I've got in my cart is catching up on some bands that I've known about for ages and should really just get some of their music at this point (PUP and Charly Bliss)
My recommended starting points for them would be Morbid Stuff and Guppy, respectively, for whatever that's worth
The band I cared most about (and felt most seen through their music) as a teen
Celebrated my last days of high school by going to what wound up being their last show in the state before the breakup
Announced a greatest hits with a bunch of unreleased demos and their then-last brand-new song when I was starting college
Announced the reunion the week I started my current (and first financially-comfortable) job
Now they release their first new song as I'm recovering from an illness/health scare during a point in time when that's never been more of a concern for me (in more ways than one, between COVID and depression)
Not at all an exaggeration to say MCR has been there for me always when I've needed it. When I've been happy and when I've needed to be happy, when I've been comfortable and when I've needed to be comforted, when I've been scared and unsure and when I've been more confident than ever; they just always found a way to know either way. And to show up for it, for each new chapter of my life, each time in some capacity
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Yeah, once Uli left and Matthias Jabs joined Rudolph Schenker and Klaus took over most of the songwriting duties and they went to a straight ahead blues based sound and lost the more prog elements Uli loved to throw in. He wound up doing some eclectic fusion albums in 80's and then switched up to classical and romantic pieces on the batshit insane 28-35 fret (he wanted the top end of violin range on an electric) Sky Guitars he had built and continues to dress like a pirate while doing it:
https://youtu.be/WkNKf3j1XV0
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-O236KrJE
https://youtu.be/Qfm6nfz1QNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3OzncHmfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNDdIfKbkw
The youngest current member of this band is 55 and Klaus is freaking 73.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/album/rogue-legacy-2?from=fanpub_fnb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dJyRm2jJ-U
if i had a heart id love you if i had a voice id sing
If my wife got killed by gangsters or something, this song would play during the climax of my brutal vengeance, as immortalized in Death Wish For Real, my biopic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONj9cvHCado
Butt I haven't listened to Rammstein in years
I found Evergrey quite early, back when Inner Circle came out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9xLi8zuDs
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q2PIg8qkeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poyLs-5gNGI
Unrelated tracks I’ve visited to in the passed hour.
It’s the first of May.
Indeed, sadly I couldn't find a man with a tan shar-pei
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx3K3g4CtoQ
PSY - 'Celeb' MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg6Iq_Es3Wk
https://youtu.be/2WGu7dEjPsg
Give it 40 seconds to kick in.
Fuming Mouth's The Grand Descent
https://youtu.be/UwDyH9jRsHg
Doom by way of death metal
I just discovered their 2020 EP a few days ago and fell in love with the brutal "This is how Sabbath sounded to church people in 1970" sound, so I picked up the full length.
My recommended starting points for them would be Morbid Stuff and Guppy, respectively, for whatever that's worth
https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/london-pirate-radio-adverts-1984-1993-vol-2
Just a heads up, the new Oceanator album, Nothing’s Ever Fine absolutely fucking rips.
And you can snag it on Bandcamp today: https://oceanator.bandcamp.com/album/nothings-ever-fine
Edit: fuck it, one more, for the Chris Farren artwork and Jeff Rosenstock sax solo
https://youtu.be/jiRGU4Oss8c
https://youtu.be/4bamaq5D3_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbj48Cw87BQ
https://youtu.be/Hm1eWYDNSNk
Yannis continues to be musical cheat code.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch9z382fOU4
Sound the alarms, there's new MCR!
AN OLD MAN
Celebrated my last days of high school by going to what wound up being their last show in the state before the breakup
Announced a greatest hits with a bunch of unreleased demos and their then-last brand-new song when I was starting college
Announced the reunion the week I started my current (and first financially-comfortable) job
Now they release their first new song as I'm recovering from an illness/health scare during a point in time when that's never been more of a concern for me (in more ways than one, between COVID and depression)
Not at all an exaggeration to say MCR has been there for me always when I've needed it. When I've been happy and when I've needed to be happy, when I've been comfortable and when I've needed to be comforted, when I've been scared and unsure and when I've been more confident than ever; they just always found a way to know either way. And to show up for it, for each new chapter of my life, each time in some capacity
Steam
full album just dropped btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvNSXS4x9nc