Songs You Bought For Your Girlfriend.

[frank_spencer]

1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I was always of the opinion metal would never die, but I didn't realise fully how touch and go it was around the turn of the century...

Some absolute dross knocking about, Kerrang! was always Smash Hit-sy but they should be ashamed. All those New Kids on the Block with guitars bands and names like 'Standing Edge Black Lake' should be swept into oblivion.

Reprieve 'Bat Out of Hell' Barrabas style if necessary.

Awful, awful shite.

Given they are/were part of the same company it stands to reason, Metal Hammer was the superior mosher mag anyway.

[Youri McAnespie]

5 hours ago, Spider said:

That's twice in as many weeks that Bat out of Hell has been shone in a positive light on here.

It needs to stop.

I can feel the bile rising just thinking about it.

It's just to emphasis how badly I regard; Emo, nu-metal, post-hardcore etc. that I'd give Bat Out of Hell's berth in Room 101 to it...

My other sister (handful) was 'courting' some lad in the mid 80s, their only common ground musically was that abomination, so it soundtracked their petting sessions ad nauseam on a deceptively loud 'entertainment system' (the predecessor to the 'stack').

Even though I was a nipper it enraged me musically and insulted my intelligence that (going off the back cover) two long haired ugly fuckers, one fat (Meatloaf) and one skinny (Steinman) had the temerity to make a whole LP about shagging girls...

I snuck when she was out and snapped the vinyl in two, stuck it back in the sleeve, then panicked and chucked it behind her wardrobe.

This was a gamble as she probably only had about twenty LPs and it was sure to be missed.

She only found out about its fate about a year ago. 😀

Regarding smasing records, a few 'stages' later, when I got my hair cut, ditched the leather/lumber/basketball boots look and widened my musical repertoire some ten or so years from this - I began smashing some of my own vinyl.

I had wall shelving for records and there was limited space. I 'blamed' metal in part for enforced celibacy, so every time I brought home a new bit of vinyl (techno, indie, new wave etc.) I'd make room by dispatching a cheesy 'sake buy' death/thrash/black metal item(s) with my GAT gun, then sling it out the window onto the garage roof for later binning.

Fast forward to about ten years ago, and it's all the rage again, vinyl and extreme metal. I'd trashed what would've been worth thousands...

Their replacements (house, indie etc.) the majority can be sourced for pretty much the same price paid then, save for the odd rarity.

I wish I'd left Meatloaf alone, it was karmic I reckon'.

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Spider]

6 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

It's just to emphasis how badly I regard; Emo, nu-metal, post-hardcore etc. that I'd give Bat Out of Hell's berth in Room 101 to it...

My other sister (handful) was 'courting' some lad in the mid 80s, their only common ground musically was that abomination, so it soundtracked their petting sessions ad nauseam on a deceptively loud 'entertainment system' (the predecessor to the 'stack').

Even though I was a nipper it enraged me musically and insulted my intelligence that (going off the back cover) two long haired ugly fuckers, one fat (Meatloaf) and one skinny (Steinman) had the temerity to make a whole LP about shagging girls...

I snuck when she was out and snapped the vinyl in two, stuck it back in the sleeve, then panicked and chucked it behind her wardrobe.

This was a gamble as she probably only had about twenty LPs and it was sure to be missed.

She only found out about its fate about a year ago. 😀

Regarding smasing records, a few 'stages' later, when I got my hair cut, ditched the leather/lumber/basketball boots look and widened my musical repertoire some ten or so years from this - I began smashing some of my own vinyl.

I had wall shelving for records and there was limited space. I 'blamed' metal in part for enforced celibacy, so every time I brought home a new bit of vinyl (techno, indie, new wave etc.) I'd make room by dispatching a cheesy 'sake buy' death/thrash/black metal item(s) with my GAT gun, then sling it out the window onto the garage roof for later binning.

Fast forward to about ten years ago, and it's all the rage again, vinyl and extreme metal. I'd trashed what would've been worth thousands...

Their replacements, the majority can be sourced for pretty much the same price paid then, save for the odd rarity.

I wish I'd left Meatloaf alone, it was karmic I reckon'.

 

You did the right thing.

You can’t take money with you when you go, but you can take a sense of moral achievement. Maybe.

As for celibacy, it’s definitely true that by joining a fraternity as narrow as the metal one, you were limiting your romantic options dramatically.

I got away with it and ended up with a blonde girl who has superb knockers but was, it transpired, so utterly mental that I had to call it off.

In general though, metal girls were mucky but in fairly short supply.

[Youri McAnespie]

33 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

Given they are/were part of the same company it stands to reason, Metal Hammer was the superior mosher mag anyway.

I used to buy (or pinch, or slip it in a broadsheet and buy that) Kerrang! for years, often for the tiniest article on Morbid Angel or sommat. I never knew that though - about them sharing a publisher. Every day's a schoolday, it does make sense actually now, an interview with Kreator could read like they had spent the day with Brother Beyond.

Metal Forces was the best UK mag...

They briefly brought out a more extreme-related mag called 'Thrash 'n' Burn' which morphed into Terrorizer. I had all the early issues but they'd have been worth fuck all as I mutilated them for photos etc. for my 'zine.

I believe it's only relatively recently Terrorizer stopped publishing isn't it?

I used to see it in Asda, usually with some egregious shite like Good Charlotte on the front cover.

Bah!

[Youri McAnespie]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

You did the right thing.

You can’t take money with you when you go, but you can take a sense of moral achievement. Maybe.

As for celibacy, it’s definitely true that by joining a fraternity as narrow as the metal one, you were limiting your romantic options dramatically.

I got away with it and ended up with a blonde girl who has superb knockers but was, it transpired, so utterly mental that I had to call it off.

In general though, metal girls were mucky but in fairly short supply.

I was very in demand with the girls in my first couple of years at secondary - no Bros 7"s required. I was quite full of myself - fate it seems is not without a sense of irony...😀 As I got twatted with the puberty stick, metal called around the same time and a chicken and egg scenario happened in regard to my presentability as a suitor.

Once we had to take photographs of each other in art - I was not impressed with my resulting scowling 'full metal' image so wazzed it underneath a huge stack of sugar paper.

There must've been a run on the stuff as a mate whose form room was the art room delighted in telling me a few weeks later my photo was discovered - by a big group of girls, who spent the form period discussing it, mainly how 'fit' I had been and what the fuck had happened, and what a 'dog' (or some other term) I was now (then).

I put on a brave face and stayed metal, probably even more entrenched, but those cruel second-hand words stayed with me.

That's why I'm a terrible hateful misogynist now (although long back to pre-puberty levels of handsome bastardness) - and why I destroyed fuckloads of crap but rare/expensive vinyl.

Popsike and Discogs are never used for owt but business, they are not pleasant reading.

You're right about metal girls, a rare lot back then and could take their pick really, a buyer's market for them.

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[frank_spencer]

Fit rock girls were a plenty during my time going to rockworld/Jilly's twice a week. I realized young Frank had the sexual magnetism of a damp cabbage so was more interested in getting smashed and dancing.

Knew a few goth guys who liked to talk the talk making on like they were Trent Reznor meets Marilyn Manson and oh so much smarter than most of the world. And yet all the fit goth birds went home with the hardcore blokes.

Maybe the dudes floor punching to Biohazard and Madball in basketball vests got them wetter than a bloke in a leather trenchcoat shuffling back and forth to closer or trying to recreate Mazza's body contortions.

[Youri McAnespie]

@frank_spencer

I used to very occasionally go to Rockworld/Jillys mid-noughties - just to accompany others into 'alternative' stuff.

But I'd much more often be in the Music Box next door for The Electric Chair or Tangled etc.

There was a strange and pleasant mixing of tribes outside after the smoking ban.

I remember once I got talking to a very pretty girl who had a black denim jacket full of patches of old school 'Relapse' bands; Derketa, Incantation, Nuclear Death, Rottrevore etc. I thought she was just wearing it as a fashion statement, but no, she was really knowledgeable and into it...

I would've asked if she fancied coming to mine to listen to my (now depleted) collection, but I was at a techno night and dressed as such, plus being about 29 around ten years older thus dirty old man territory.

I was quite aggrieved on my younger self's behalf as she wasn't a total rarity, there were many similar girls I later discovered.

Where were they about fourteen years previously?

Well, Infant Two, but where were their counterparts back then..?

Wasn't one of Biohazard married to Tera Patrick, the porn queen? Perhaps they met in NYC's version of Jilly's?

Edited May 4, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[frank_spencer]

59 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

@frank_spencer

Wasn't one of Biohazard married to Tera Patrick, the porn queen? Perhaps they met in NYC's version of Jilly's?

Evan Seinfeld who himself was in mucky vids.

He's now married to another former porn girl Lupe Fuentes.

[Youri McAnespie]

I wonder if the music in any of these vids was that quirky twangy slap bass tune?

 

 

 

 

Not because he's a bassist, because his name's...ah, forget it. 😀

Edited May 4, 2021 by Youri McAnespie