Corey_Lazarus

But the fact that more people took Dime's style and than did, say, the styles of Hetfield or King or Mustaine, or any other of Dime's peers in the late 80's, has to say something.

Soo, sort of like Triple-H in 2000? Well, considering HHH in 2000 was one of the greatest heel runs in wrestling...yes.

Hrmmmm...I'd certainly say that Cap'n Crunch could stand a good fight, since you don't get to be the captain of a large vessel unless you are either a great warrior (pirates) or very honorable. Age has not done him good, however. I'm going to have to second Tony the Tiger. He's a fucking TIGER. A tiger that can outrun OLYMPIC ATHLETES. A tiger that is BIGGER THAN HULK HOGAN, both in size and in terms of how much capital has been made off of his stuff. So yeah...Tony would rip everybody else to shreds, though I see Cap'n Crunch and MAYBE, just MAYBE, the trio of Snap, Crackle, and Pop coming close. Though, of course, the Rice Krispies Triad would inevitably have to square off against each other after eliminating everybody else, as there can only be one winner...so I'd say Crackle would whip the other two into submission.

^Second best picture of a cat I've ever seen. Better than the overused one of a cat lying on its back in between couch cushions with a remote under its paw. Not as good as the picture of my girlfriend's cat sitting still with a can of Coors Light balanced PERFECTLY on its head.

Okay...now tab out the solo. And I put Dime in the same league as Hendrix and Van Halen in the sense of impact on the way guitar is played. Hendrix made use of the wah-wah and heavy distortion extremely popular (IMO, he did more for the use of heavy distortion than Sabbath did), and Van Halen brought two-finger tapping to the forefront of guitar solo's. How many guitar solo's since Van Halen broke big HAVEN'T used two-finger tapping? And Dime innovated the power-groove. Although very simple, it's amazing how few bands before Pantera used it, as it brings the heaviness that metal fans adore with a certain groove to get even non-metal fans into at least the guitar work. He basically combined elements of Sabbath and ZZ Top into one way of playing the guitar, which is something so few bands had done before him (well...there is that whole Exhorder history regarding Pantera going from glam to heavy-as-sin, but that's neither here nor there). Oh, and Tack? The proper tab is this: 0---0h1b--0--0h1b--0--0h1b--0 Etc. etc.

No, you're not. One of my favorite aspects of album art is the art on the CD itself. Many bands take advantage of this and place either their logo (be it one that remains intact, or the logo for that album) on it, a variation on the cover art, or just an interesting way to place the tracklisting. Something should be said about generic CD art, though, like most American Records releases. It gives the album a "classic" feel to it to see a somewhat generic logo with just the tracklisting and song lengths on it. Banky, I agree partially with what you say, about vinyl being the true original experience for bands that record with analog tapes, but with the digital age here, more and more bands record digitally. Plus, with digital editing to be placed onto a CD, bands can alter the sounds, volumes, and other things on the computer and get a crisper sound. Vinyl has its place for certain styles of music (I'd hate to hear old big band swing on CD, and punk/hardcore sounds MUCH better on vinyl than on a CD), but for styles of music where differentiating the different layers is key to the entire experience? The clearer sound with CD and digital recording is much better. As for why punk/hardcore bands still press 7", it's simple: it's actually cheaper to record a vinyl album than it is a CD, oddly enough. Vinyls sell for cheaper since the equipment is outdated, and since the equipment is outdated, that means it's cheaper to use than the modern digital equipment. Plus, as others and I have previously mentioned, punk/hardcore just sounds better on vinyl. That...and most people that listen to punk/hardcore (well, punk at least, and REAL hardcore, like Toxic Narcotic, not that generic Hatebreed-esque style that's popular with suburban kids these days) have less money to spend on albums, so buying vinyl ($5-$10 a pop) vs. buying a CD ($10-$17 a pop) proves to be a better financial decision.

...thus proving that you have no love for truly great wrestling, seeing as how Joe is one of the greatest North American workers in years. I wouldn't put him near Benoit or Guerrero status yet, but he's definitely on his way.

...who said Dime revolutionized music? I said he was one of the only guitarists to do something new in the last 20 years, and that's because of his innovation of the power-groove (which nearly every heavy band uses today). So, basically, Dime is on the same level as Eddie Van Halen (two-finger tapping), Jimi Hendrix (wah-wah and heavy distortion), and perhaps even Clapton (though I'm flat-out admitting that this is likely a stretch).

Czech...for once, I entirely agree with you. Some bands NEED that lack of flow to make the album fit their style (ie. most hardcore and grindcore bands), but most bands just don't think before compiling the tracklisting for their albums. I hate hearing the "epic" song a band puts on their album in the middle, as I feel the "epic" needs to come towards the end to help tie up the album. If it's not the last track, then have it be second to last, and the last track something to sing along to (if it fits the music). But yeah. ZA rules.

I'll have to listen to it again. I popped in the mix CD I made with "Unas..." on it because of the post this morning, and now that I know which part you're talking about I'll check it out. Oh...and I have to add anything by Zombie Apocalypse as great fight music. Pumps me up oh so much, and I just wanna mosh and beat the shit out of somebody whenever I hear so much as the intro to "The Dead In Queue" or "Breaking Off Fingers."

WCW/nWo Revenge, WWF WrestleMania 2000, and WWF No Mercy are the top of the line for N64 wrestling games from the States. For imports...ask somebody else.

Use the back of Mick Foley's first autobiography, Have A Nice Day. It lists every injury he had from the start of his career until the book was written by him in mid-99.

No, he doesn't, and that's the problem. I like him in the role of the badass, take-no-prisoners heel...but not at the top of the card, and not at the expense of others. There's a reason Jarrett was his most over in TNA from July '02 until April '03, and that's because his character was CHASING the belt. He wasn't about holding onto the belt by any means necessary, be it interference or purposeful DQ or whatever, but he was a fighting champion. When he turned face (which wasn't even intentional, as the Nashville fans started CHEERING him...even the HEEL SECTION loved JJ until Jarrett/Styles) he was a fighting champion. That's what I want JJ to be: a heel fighting champion. Subtle. I want JJ to be the kind of heel that you sit back and root against, but you know deep down that he's a bad motherfucker. He doesn't need to be angry all the time, or try to pass himself off as elegant: he needs to shut up, wrestle, and then rub it in everybody's face that he won the match. This risks the possibility of him turning face, but so be it if it means he's interesting again.

I'm agreeing, in full, with 2GOLD. SpikeTV isn't making the same mistakes it did with ECW when it was still TNN by not promoting the show at all, as they air commercials for Impact and gave TNA a fairly decent timeslot that won't be massacred by more popular shows running head-to-head with Impact. Spike COULD advertise TNA more, and Viacom as a whole could run advertisements for TNA on other stations (MTV, VH1, CBS, etc.) to ensure its ratings success (and to also get back at Vince for trying to fuck with them, as I do believe he did). BUUUUUT... TNA needs to hype themselves better. Have David Sahadi make a few newer video packages to use as commercials and ask Spike to run them at least once an hour during other programming (especially UFC programming). HYPE TNA's feuds and how much they, as a company, differ from WWE without going overboard (ie. show Ultimate X, now they have clips of the Barbed Wire match between Abyss and Sabu to use in the "you'll never see hardcore stuff like this in WWE" way, and run a clip of Christian saying he came to TNA because it was the place to be). HYPE the shows and do their best to make each one a can't-miss. HYPE the PPVs better so that each one seems like it's going to be the greatest PPV event of all-time, but not in the Tony Shiavone "this is the greatest night in the history of our sport" way.

Make it bigger. More definition on the colors, maybe adding a third. Make the design similar so that you can tell where it came from, but not identical. That way, it would stick with the whole "the future through innovation on tradition" way the company is run.

You're talking about the final breakdown where they go back to the most repeated riff in the song before the end, right?

I do believe the criteria VH1 uses to determine a one hit wonder is whether or not they've had more than one song in the Top 10 Singles. As influential and/or successful as many bands are, and as great as they are, a lot of them haven't had many Top 10 hits.

Every single Trivium song, but only when played live. Otherwise it's just above-average metal/metalcore. Oh yeah...and that band in my signature.

Well, the way it is now with the downloading of music, either for free or for a price (like iTunes and similar programs offers), I see CD sales sinking, but only for bands that are flavor-of-the-month and show little-to-no lasting value. Bands that consistently put out, at the very least, above average releases will still see their CD sales stay steady so long as they keep their fanbase happy and grow, but bands that just cash in on a trend (or the labels use to cash in on a trend) will have their sales plummet. As for vinyl vs. CD...it depends on the music. If the album is of a good length, as Banky said, about 40 minutes or over, and the arrangement of songs is done wisely, I'd certainly imagine vinyl is superior. But if the album is just the band's/performer's songs randomly thrown together with only a small sense of flow, then a CD would be better. I'm still kicking myself for never picking up that vinyl of Kill 'Em All I found a couple years ago at Newbury for $5.

Or because they wanted to play songs similar to the kind they loved at the time. As they grew older, they wanted to try more and more new stuff, and ended up revolutionizing the music industry like no other act could ever possibly dream of. You know, I'm with you in the argument that a higher percentage of Dime's fans were more hardcore than a certain percentage of Lennon's, but saying The Beatles were all about being mainstream is bullshit.

I do have to say that despite how shitty the song is, "Animals" by Nickelback reminds me of the fist-pumping classic hair metal tunes from the 80's.

I think the only true argument that has any merit is that a larger percentage of Dime's fans were more hardcore than Lennon's. Like, say, 85% of Dime's fans worshipped him, whereas, say, 65% of Lennon's fan were ready to kill for him. And I'm not saying that's because Dime reached people on a higher level than Lennon did, I'm saying it's because of the size of the fanbase. When your fanbase is huge, as Lennon's was, you're going to have much more fans that are just casual fans than you are "OMG I WOULD KILL FOR YOU" fans. Smaller fanbases tend to be more diehard and hardcore than larger ones.

Power-groove, man. Power-groove. Everything else he did was just the same old stuff, but how often did you hear the power-groove before Dime came along? He's generally the one credited with, at the very least, innovating it, and since almost every new heavy band in the past 5-7 years has used the power-groove, I'd say that's pretty damn influential.

As always, the people at the Grammys confuse "heavy music" with "metal." Best Metal Peformance: Ministry - "The Great Satan" Mudvayne - "Determined" Rammstein - "Mein Teil" Shadows Fall - "What Drives The Weak" Slipknot - "Before I Forget" Ministry is, and always has been, industrial. Mudvayne is hard rock. Rammstein is borderline industrial, borderline metal, so I can see them being nominated. Shadows Fall is metalcore, a subcategory of metal, so I definitely see them here. Slipknot is shitty radio-friendly hard rock, and always has been. ...so, of course, Slipknot is going to win this...so it won't be the first time a non-metal band wins the Best Metal Grammy. Meh...I shouldn't care about this shit anymore, but it still sorta bugs me that the people to nominate songs usually don't even listen to the category of music they're nominating artists in.

...I think I saw an F5 in that video...