What were they thinking?

Metallic Blaze wrote:

That Motley Crue S/T album is one of their best.

but I know many don't agree with me.

That is my favorite Motley Crue album.

You're not alone, that's a great album. Vocally Corabi is way better then Vince and I like MC with Vince.

Judas Priest - Dumbolition

Wargod50

Dangerous Toys-The Rtist formerly known as Dangerous Toys

What the Hell was this piece of crap supposed to be?

Thrasher73 wrote:

Dangerous Toys-The Rtist formerly known as Dangerous Toys

What the Hell was this piece of crap supposed to be?

Ooooooo yea, that one's a doozie. That's the very definition of "What were they thinking!?!"

ultmetal wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

mr.electric39 wrote:

Queensryche - Rage for Order......



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this isn't heavy metal.... from Queen of The Ryche how the mighty fell.....

???? That is an awesome album!!!! The only WTF song is "gonna get close to you" on the album.

Two more - Iron Maiden's blaze albums. What was steve harris thinking when he hired blaze?

I agree. I thought Rage for Order was fantastic when I first heard it and still do. It's certainly not a 180 degree stylistic turn from The Warning or something so poorly recorded, like St. Anger, that you honestly wonder "What the heck were they thinking?"

As for Maiden with Blaze, well, Blaze is a good, charismatic singer. Unfortunately he didn't have the best material to sing over, or he may not have been the right fit for the band. However, listening to his post-Maiden material, he certainly is no slacker, which tells me it was more about the songs than the singer himself.

I bought new back then and was hoping for a heavier sound like the EP/The Warning and I got.... 'Gonna Get Close to you"..... CRAP !!!!! synthezied drums!!! 'Screaming in Digital'..... CRAP!!! I thought 'Walking in the Shadows' was a good tune,but the next tune had this long accoustic intro which just killed the momentum for me, but this album and that crap Look.... Metal??? 'I Will Remember,' ' The Killing Words,'

no.... I may re-visit this disc again if I can find it for a $1... but 'Mindcrime' was light years and more Metallic in my book.... The hooks I thought were way too subtle and it was boring....

Ryche continued to change too much and too often for me.... The Warning was great it was heavy but Rage went out into left field out beyond pluto for me..... I don't care for ballads and I don't buy metal albums for ballads...

Yeah so in my book.... What were they Thinking!?!!??

I love "Rage for Order".

I just thought of the perfect album for this thread.

The L.A. Guns ~ American Hardcore




WTF was this band thinking? They must have been cracked up on all kinds of drugs to release this POS album. I keep it in my collection simply because I'm a completist. Otherwise I would have gotten rid of this one years ago.

manny wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

That Motley Crue S/T album is one of their best.

but I know many don't agree with me.

That is my favorite Motley Crue album.

It's in my top 3!

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I love "Rage for Order".

I just thought of the perfect album for this thread.

The L.A. Guns ~ American Hardcore




WTF was this band thinking? They must have been cracked up on all kinds of drugs to release this POS album. I keep it in my collection simply because I'm a completist. Otherwise I would have gotten rid of this one years ago.

Never heard this one myself, but word of mouth and crap-tacular reviews told me to keep away. And I'm a big LA Guns fan.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I love "Rage for Order".

I just thought of the perfect album for this thread.

The L.A. Guns ~ American Hardcore




WTF was this band thinking? They must have been cracked up on all kinds of drugs to release this POS album. I keep it in my collection simply because I'm a completist. Otherwise I would have gotten rid of this one years ago.

Never heard this one myself, but word of mouth and crap-tacular reviews told me to keep away. And I'm a big LA Guns fan.

I love early LA Guns. But trust me dude. This album is comparative to them sitting in an outhouse and making their music that way. Total POS album. I know Toho agrees with me too.

I've never met anyone who likes this album.

This album makes Scorpions' "Eye II Eye" sound good. It makes "St. Anger" sound good dude.


I think they were trying to be 'gangstas' or something.

That LA Guns reminds me of another. This may top my list. To make it worse, you know exactly what they were thinking.

Lynch Mob - Smoke This

jstate wrote:

That LA Guns reminds me of another. This may top my list. To make it worse, you know exactly what they were thinking.

Lynch Mob - Smoke This

I've not heard that one. Pretty bad huh?


Oh another one came to mind:

Guardian - Bottle Rocket (I know Ult will agree with me on this one)

The first few that come to mind:

TNT - Transistor
Fates Warning - Inside Out ( I like this cd a lot, but still said, WTF?)
Great White - Rising (especially after how good BttR was)

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I love early LA Guns. But trust me dude. This album is comparative to them sitting in an outhouse and making their music that way. Total POS album. I know Toho agrees with me too.

I've never met anyone who likes this album.

This album makes Scorpions' "Eye II Eye" sound good. It makes "St. Anger" sound good dude.


I think they were trying to be 'gangstas' or something.

i liked American Hardcore, Eye II Eye, & St. Anger.

When 'Smoke This' came out, Lynch did a bunch of interviews slamming Dokken even more than usual as wimpy 80's stuff, and saying that he's always been 'more of a rhythm guy' and, so, thus, it makes perfect sense for him to ascend into a hip-hop influenced atmosphere, and he always tried to tell the fans and interviewers he loved rap but the record company wouldn't let him.

mc666 wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:

I love early LA Guns. But trust me dude. This album is comparative to them sitting in an outhouse and making their music that way. Total POS album. I know Toho agrees with me too.

I've never met anyone who likes this album.

This album makes Scorpions' "Eye II Eye" sound good. It makes "St. Anger" sound good dude.


I think they were trying to be 'gangstas' or something.

i liked American Hardcore, Eye II Eye, & St. Anger.

No offense MC. I liked the samps I heard from "Eye II Eye" and I like "St. Anger" to a degree too.

Just can't seem to get into "American Hardcore" though. I'll give it another spin sometime.

Master's Hammer - Slagry

Okay, to be completely honest... I actually like this album. But seriously, what the hell where they thinking??? Here they abandoned the obscure occult black metal from the first two LPs, and made a combination of err... house, black metal, circus music, classical music, TV and radio jingles, and 1950s rock and roll. So it's kinda weird if you get my drift.

holy CRAP. CANNOT believe I forgot this.




now I know there must be some people who like, even love this. and I just want to politely ask 'why'? Ok, I like 'Pearl'...I think that's an OK song. I don't abhor the absence of Ole on clean vocals, the Lengsel guy has a cool voice too, and I like Lengsel more than Extol. The production is good. But this thing is a mess. The clean vocal melodies are these attempts at being... I don't know... they're like dissonant in a sloppy, random way, as opposed to being rock solid (see: WatchTower for one example).....the guitars do nothing most of the album..the screams have turned into this horrible pinched screamo stuff.......... what the heck??? I wonder if they will ever return. I'm not completely positive why they folded/took a break/whatever, but I hope they don't ever do something like this again.

I've had that experience with Motorheads March or Die album.

I'm a huge Motorhead fan but that was their only album that i felt like throwing out the window.

I don't like Motorhead at all. But I know I'm in the minority on that one.

I also have a lot of respect for Lemmy as a person.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

holy CRAP. CANNOT believe I forgot this.




now I know there must be some people who like, even love this. and I just want to politely ask 'why'? Ok, I like 'Pearl'...I think that's an OK song. I don't abhor the absence of Ole on clean vocals, the Lengsel guy has a cool voice too, and I like Lengsel more than Extol. The production is good. But this thing is a mess. The clean vocal melodies are these attempts at being... I don't know... they're like dissonant in a sloppy, random way, as opposed to being rock solid (see: WatchTower for one example).....the guitars do nothing most of the album..the screams have turned into this horrible pinched screamo stuff.......... what the heck??? I wonder if they will ever return. I'm not completely positive why they folded/took a break/whatever, but I hope they don't ever do something like this again.

x2. I dont know why i still own this cd...

Not an album per se, but I will also like to add I will never forget first hearing a groove-breakdown in a Nightwish song. I thought I was aurally hallucinating.

What were they thinking?

Thats the problem

They weren't lol

Addy wrote:

What were they thinking?

Thats the problem

They weren't lol

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

Not an album per se, but I will also like to add I will never forget first hearing a groove-breakdown in a Nightwish song. I thought I was aurally hallucinating.

I am a huge Nightwish fan and for the life of me can't figure out what song you are referring to. Hmmm ...

I don't think of 'groove metal' when I think of Nightwish for some reason.