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keefriff99
See, that's why the whole genre nitpicking annoys me. If you listened to Sabbath's The Wizard without any context, you would think they were a heavy blues Cream ripoff.
Then you listen to the song Black Sabbath or Into the Void off Volume 4. Mind. Blown.
That palm-muted chugging guitar is sort of the hallmark of metal, but many metal songs don't have that.
Like you said, Living After Midnight is a very happy hard rock song...but then these songs are off the same album (British Steel):
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Much heavier and harder, with more of that chugging guitar riff.
So even the same band on the same album can have more hard rock-oriented songs with heavier metal-edged songs.
Here's a Motorhead song from 2002 (Voices from the War):
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Is that rock'n'roll?
Damn! That was fun.
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hopkins
Intense; a lot of fascinating versions but for me maybe this the most original take; the version that more legitmately owns it in their own way.
Listening to it I got a different impression than the usual 'message' apparent in the lyrics. M&K's ironic admission/assertion, maybe representing the 'reality-based' pragmatism of 'compromise solution...'
With Rage's original interp; that 'siren' thing is haunting. the relative 'modernity' of the production approach and vision, compared to the classic original that inspired this performance......
...well i got the impression that Zack (in character) WAS/IS the street-fighter, and there's "no place' for him in their heirarchy, but he's still the street-fighter, more egging it on and declaring it, rather than backing off...
...well what would you expect from a band that covers MC5 Kick Out The Jams, and makes it work...
thanks for the tip; really got off on this version.