Kiss is still cool though

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Kiss is still cool though - Lemmy.World

Back in the early/mid 90s I had just bought Death Spiritual Healing, Malevolent Creation Ten Commandments, and Nocturnus The Key from a video rental place in my home town.

Me and a buddy listened to all of the metal I just got and decided to see what else we could find. Then we saw it, it had to be the holy grail of heavy metal! There was a motorcycle blasting out of hell and this awesome bat in the background. The album was Bat Out of Hell and the band was so metal their name was Meatloaf! This was going to be soul crushingly heavy…

Well, you were lucky anyway, MeatLoaf fucking rules
When you are expecting something along the lines of the other tapes I had just got, Meatloaf is weak sauce.
It’s just different, but he certainly didn’t lack energy

Bat Out of Hell

Banger album tbh. Plus, not many artists make something like that.

Knights In Satans Service?
If the only goal of Satan’s servants is merchandise and weak music, then yes.

that pedo band?

Christine Sixteen:

don’t usually say things like this to girls your age
But when I saw you coming out of school that day
That day I knew, I knew
I’ve got to have you, I’ve got to have you

It is creepy, not pedophile.

I know for most people this seems like hair splitting but there is a stark contrast between beeing attracted to a 16 year old (which only based on physical appearance is very normal) and being attracted to prepubescent people.

Acting on attractions is a whole different book.

they’ve always been musical posers/sellouts. that’s sort of their shtick I guess?

to be so gloriously average but pretend to be cool but end up looking fabulously gay.

and their SOUND! sooo …average.

I was about 12 years old when they were popular, and I was in the market for posers with an average sound.
Nothing’s average to you when you’ve barely listened to anything. Many of us started their musical journey with bands we don’t enjoy anymore because we now know better ones.

“KISS doesn’t get the joke, man!”

…Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something the character does not.

Literally most 80’s and 90’s “hair metal” bands.

Then there’s Steely Dan who goes the opposite direction. He looks and sounds middle of the road, but the lyrics are dark as fuck. Used to only know of him because of jokes about his music being soft as shit, and then I took the time to actually listen to it and I was blown away.

Steely Dan isn’t a person, it’s two main artists and a bunch of other session musicians. The band’s name came from a steam-powered dildo named Steely Dan in a book from the early 60’s I believe.

They made some fucking amazing music!

Fair. I do the same with Tom Petty, even though I mean Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Hootie Hootie Hootie!
Darius Rucker: “For the last time, my name isn’t Hootie!”
There’s that one song about boning his cousin that weird me out big time
It’s ok. You’re not alone. Other people have ugly cousins too.
And now we’ve got Ghost. It’s all cycles, man
I was actually surprised when I first heard Ghost, it was so calm it could almost work as elevator music. You’d never expect that from their looks