/int/ - certified time wasters

On the surface, Maggie Rogers embodies everything I loathe about modern female Pop. She's a progressive poster child who stumps for the Democratic Party, cites feminist theory like scripture and serenades a liberal middle class audience hellbent on transforming America into a political monoculture. My inner Carl Schmitt demands the friend/enemy distinction, but I sheath my sword for her. Beneath the activism lies something rarer than ideological alignment: raw humanity.

Surrender sounds like a private journal blasted through stadium-sized hooks. Energetic and upbeat songs like "Shatter", "Want Want" and "Overdrive" hit with fuzzed adrenaline while "Be Cool" exhales into groove-cooled calm. Other songs like "Anywhere With You" and "Begging for Rain" drip with melancholy without being maudlin. Nothing stagnates; even the quiet tracks stay in motion.

Maggie's resonant purity inspires building futures or collapsing into into the arms of someone who loves you after a brutal day. All told, it may be the most unapologetically human album ever to breach pop radio's

There is no Heavy Metal without Ozzy or Tony Iommi.

Black Sabbath's first six, from Black Sabbath through Sabotage, built the foundations for Heavy Metal and later Doom Metal. Every forboding riff, evil trill and down‑tuned chug still crawls out of Ozzy era Black Sabbath.

If only your solo years could've produced anything half as good. Even the prime albums, while great, don't hold a candle to Ozzy era Sabbath or even Dio era Sabbath.

[i]Sorcerers of madness selling me their time
Child of God sitting in the sun, giving peace of mind
Fictional seduction on a black-snow sky
Sadness kills the superman, even fathers cry

Of all the things I value most of all
I look inside myself and see
My world and know that it is good
You know that I should

Superstitious century, didn’t time go slow
Separating sanity, watching children grow
Synchronated undertaker, spiral skies
Silver ships on plasmic oceans in disguise

Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories and feel their warmth
And know that they are good
You know that I should

Watching eyes of celluloid tell you how to live
Metaphoric motor-replay, give, give, give!
Laughter kissing love is showing me the way
Spiral city architect, I build, you pay

Of all the things I value most of all
I look upon my earth and feel the warmth
And know that it is good
You know that I should[/i]

For me it's Children of the Grave from Master of Reality.

It was also the first Black Sabbath album I ever listened to. I got it from a hot teacher - we were supposed to choose some songs and talk about them, and she had prepared different "sets". I got the one with Black Sabbath and Slayer (After Forever and The Antichrist, respectively).
She brought both albums (Master of Reality some regular CD version and Slayer was the Decade of Aggression live album with some, as I later found out, special cover that was only printed for a limited time).

I convinced her to give me the CDs (that she herself had only borrowed from a friend) to rip them
>don't you mean "listen to them"? ;^)
>yes, of course ;^)
Good thing I was such a good and trustworthy student, so she actually gave them to me. It goes without saying that I returned them the next day in the same condition I received them, but I have been listening to Black Sabbath and Slayer ever since. Thank you, Frau D.

>>24971
>Decade of Aggression

Based beyond all belief.

Slayer's influence on Extreme Metal's development cannot be overstated. Of the Big Four of Thrash Metal, Slayer simply has no equal. While Metallica and Megadeth are both legendary bands who wrote catchy riffs, Slayer defined a type of Thrash that would echo globally with their blistering tremolos tearing through your ears like machine guns exhausting entire belts of bullets into enemies. Their edgy lyrics bleed with violence and gore without crossing over into the comically gratuitous or desperately trying too hard to be something they're woefully incompetent at. Put plainly, Slayer inspired whereas most at best copied.

This album features choice songs from Slayer at their peak played live with, as the insert boasts, absolutely no overdubs. The production here is clean but not sterile, so the tone has a great boost while still maintaining its ferocity. Among live Metal albums, Decade of Aggression stands as one of the absolute best.

>>24972
Yeah, that live version of The Antichrist is still my favorite one.
I also saw them live like 20 years ago and I was amazed at how good their sound was.

This is it, btw.
Please note that I ripped this a good 20 years ago, so everything was 128 kbps because it had to fit on a 256MB memory stick mp3 player.

>>24971
Wait, they have albums other than "Paranoid"?
I read Ozzy's autobiography as a naive teenager and still it was obvious to me that he (or his ghostwriter) is a bullshitter. He couldn't take so much drugs and alcohol.