Priest or Maiden ?

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  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    there are still lots of Hippy Zepplinisms on Paranoid



    Same goes for early preist, too....but i do agree that Preist were the first total package Metal Band.
    The Archtype, if you will.
    When George Clooney wants to make a movie about 80's metal, who does he model it after? Not Maiden...thats for sure.

  • PlantweedPlantweed 394 Posts
    but no balls in a vice screaming nor leather and spikes

    Metal doesn't need high screaming and clothing is irrelevant. Paranoid melted the granny glasses off hippies, nothing hippie about it.

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    but no balls in a vice screaming nor leather and spikes

    Metal doesn't need high screaming and clothing is irrelevant. Paranoid melted the granny glasses off hippies, nothing hippie about it.

    come on, Ozzy was a huge hippy...most of the lyrics on "Master of Reality" are VERY hippy, god-is-love and shit like that...Sabbath were HUGE hippies...

  • PlantweedPlantweed 394 Posts
    Lyrics were written by Geezer, not Ozzy, and for every positive-sounding pro-JC lyric there are three songs with lyrics like

    So I found that life is just a game
    But you know there's never been a winner
    Try your hardest, just to be a loser
    The world will still be turning when you're gone

    or

    I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
    I've seized my soul in the fires of hell
    Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
    I simply try, but he wants me to fail

    They were West Midlands rust-belt, blue-collar scurvs. Ozzy was a failed burglar. Iommi worked in a factory (where he cut off his fingertips). I saw an interview with Ozzy where he described the lyrics "If you're going to San Francisco wear flowers in your hair" as bogglingly alien to them at the time, they couldn't relate.

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    I thought Ozzy started writing lyrics on MOR, I knew Butler did the 1st 2...Ozzy created a Pop culture icon of himself flashing peace signs over his head, he was a hippy...granted not a SF hippy, and yes their street thug upbringing contributes a toughness about them, Im not disputing that...but as far as God loving, peace and love stuff...they were hippies.

    The Stooges destroyed more hippydom than Sabbath ever did

  • PlantweedPlantweed 394 Posts
    No, Ozzy wrote very little, most of it was Geezer. I don't agree with the hippie thing but that's OK.

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    check out at 7:13...club DJ Neal K breaks Maiden to the metal crowd at his heavy metal disco!

  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    Maiden

  • pknypkny 549 Posts
    Di'Anno-era Maiden > Priest up to and including "British Steel" > Dickinson-era Maiden > Post-"British Steel" Priest

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Di'Anno-era Maiden > Priest up to and including "British Steel" > Dickinson-era Maiden > Post-"British Steel" Priest

    yes

  • Danno3000Danno3000 2,851 Posts
    "Madonna can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. She's a Dick!"

    "Heavy metal rules! All that punk shit sucks. It doesn't belong in this world, it belongs on f*cking Mars!"

    HMPL for ever!



    Heavy Metal for ever!




  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    I think its safe to say that everyinbe posting in this thread is at least in thier 30's...right?

    Frod vs Chevy
    Beatles vs Stones
    Preist Vs Maiden
    Metallica vs Slayer
    East Coast vs West Coast

  • "Madonna can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. She's a Dick!"

    "Judas Priest is Number one, and who's after that?

    .....Iron Maiden."

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    I think its safe to say that everyinbe posting in this thread is at least in thier 30's...right?

    Frod vs Chevy
    Beatles vs Stones
    Preist Vs Maiden
    Metallica vs Slayer
    East Coast vs West Coast

    Chevy
    Beatles
    Maiden
    Metallica
    West Coast

    mini-einSTEIN post...

  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    I think its safe to say that everyinbe posting in this thread is at least in thier 30's...right?

    Frod vs Chevy
    Beatles vs Stones
    Preist Vs Maiden
    Metallica vs Slayer
    East Coast vs West Coast

    Chevy
    Beatles
    Maiden
    Metallica
    West Coast

    mini-einSTEIN post...

    You sound young.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts

    Chevy
    Beatles
    Maiden
    Metallica
    West Coast

    mini-einSTEIN post...

    You sound young.
    I'd rather push my Chevy than drive a Ford.
    I don't really care betwixt Beatles and Stones, I guess it's a "U pick'em" on that one
    MAIDEN
    Slayer only has three songs.
    Born on the beach.

    I'm a manchild.
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