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<p>First heard this song driving around NZ, the Rock played it fucking heaps. It's pretty cool i reckon. Some of their other stuff is ok, if a little "middle of the road"</p>
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<p>Wonder if these guys have ever listened to Tool.</p> -
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<p>Wonder if these guys have ever listened to Tool.</p>
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<p>So, while watching this vid on YouTube, I got interested in the music. Turns out it is by a company called Two Steps From Hell, and the track is "Freedom Fighters". Looked them up, they do all sorts of movie theme music and the like, so I bought their album and have been sitting here, working from home, loving that shit.</p>
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<p>Similar sort of thing with this promotional ski video for Telluride. Music is by Explosions in the Sky - I like some of their other music better, but I love this video. And, if you ski, go to Telluride - it's this good! </p> -
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<p>That made me go listen to it! </p>
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<p>First half sounds like a Tool homage/tribute - but the second half is good. Hell, sounding like Tool isn't a bad thing imo. Couldn't resist a troll through the youtube comments and plenty of 'Tool ripoff' saltiness! Ah the Internet, making folks dumber than a brick.</p>
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<p>Ran into this by accident tonight, dig me a bit of the Transplants</p>
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<p>Glad that Sweden one, was one of my top 3 songs</p>
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<p>Funny watching the Eastern European sites voting "12 points goes to Russia, now please release my family"</p>
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<p>My top 5 in no particular order</p>
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<p>Sweden</p>
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<p>United Kingdom</p>
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<p>Faith No More - Sol Invictus.</p>
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<p>If FNM is one of your favourite bands ever, and you enjoy a full diversification of music (i.e - me), you'll bloody love this album. I'm not sure they are going to win any new fans though. Superhero (below), is probably the friendliest song.</p>
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<p>I am loving "Cone of Shame" i think it's a ripper of a track</p>
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<p>break your leg and finish the set? legend. Still forced to cancel shows though, bloody doctors...</p>
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<p>break your leg and finish the set? legend. Still forced to cancel shows though, bloody doctors...</p>
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<p>Fuck those ACDC guys are old!</p>
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<p>Yep. But I saw the stones last year, and they were bloody good, so I'm hoping they can still hold their own.</p>
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<p>Opening riff of Back in Black at full tit in a massive stadium with loads of swedish gals... what can go wrong?</p> -
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<p>One of the great love songs.</p>
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<p>Opening riff of Back in Black at full tit in a massive stadium with loads of swedish gals... what can go wrong?</p>
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<p>Just dug out poster from first time I saw them in 1980.</p>
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<p>Those guys really don't look hard rock or metal -- at all. More like a band you'd see at a local tavern. Running shoes, for heaven sake!</p>
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<p>I saw the fourth date on that poster -- July 26 in Kitchener. A good friend of mine booked & promoted the show. (True story: He once also booked Led Zeppelin into the same auditorium, 11 years earlier on their first N.American tour. Clearly, I wasn't there, but I've heard & read the stories. 8,000 seat house, and 6,000 tickets went unsold. My buddy Joe was so desperate he took out newspaper ads day-of-show offering severely discounted tickets at 50 cents. He lost his shirt, and I like to joke to him how they'd now be a billion-dollar act and he's probably the only guy on Planet Earth who booked them into a 75% empty room.)</p>
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<p>What's significant about <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Black'>the date</a> of that AC/DC show is that it was exactly ONE DAY after the release of their new LP titled <strong>Back In Black.</strong> Nobody had ever seen or heard their new singer OR heard anything off the new record. Basically all most rock fans here knew was the song "Highway to Hell" and "Whole Lotta Rosie" which got some rock FM airplay, and if they knew anything else it was mostly that singer Bon Scott was dead. That's it.</p>
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<div><strong>Hells Bells</strong></div>
<div><strong>Shot Down In Flames</strong></div>
<div><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Sin City</strong></span></div>
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<div><strong>Bad Boy Boogie</strong></div>
<div><strong>The Jack</strong></div>
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<div><strong>What Do You Do For Money Honey</strong></div>
<div><strong>High Voltage</strong></div>
<div><strong>Shoot To Thrill</strong></div>
<div><strong>Whole Lotta Rosie</strong></div>
<div><strong>You Shook Me All Night Long</strong></div>
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<div>I vividly remember them opening in the dark with the big bell. Wasn't until they played "Sin City" (still one of my two fave AC/DC songs; the other being "Givin' the Dog a Bone" from that "new" record which I later discovered they <em>sadly</em> did not play on that tour date) that I went, ooh, I recognize this one!</div>
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<div>The LP would go on to be the most heavily played rock record in Canada the following 3-5 years. Interestingly the year it was released it peaked in the album charts at #47.</div>
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<div>Very similar to chart action in NZ where it peaked at #43 in 1980; #25 in 1981; #24 in 1982; and #31 in 1983. That's some serious legs when your album is selling more copies 3-4 years after it was released than the actual year it got released.</div>
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<div>For some perspective on how seriously l-o-n-g ago that show was still a FULL YEAR <u>before</u> Gary Knight was flour-bombed on the head.</div>
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<p>My only "before their time" story was going to watch the Dance Exponents in Hamilton with a crush as she was related to one of them.</p>
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<p>Bon Scott should could sing, but he sure as hell couldn't choose a pair of jeans.</p>
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<p>Would have loved to have seen them in the If you want blood, you've got it era.</p>
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<p>3 weeks to go til concert. Starting to get very amped - ironic thing is, that if the NZ tour dates had been announced, I would have gone home to watch them instead. Bogan central.</p>
