Best Goth
This is the 21st Anniversary of Cure's masterpiece.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love the heavy vinyl."
"It's THE CURE!!!!"
"The vocals, keyboards, etc all are given their own space to breathe and it makes for a better listening experience."
"The Cure is the best band of all time."
"What an album!"
"Great and incredible album."
"I've had this album for decades, and only recently bought it on vinyl."
Standing on a Beach (AKA Staring at the Sea) includes the catchy "Boys Don't Cry" and "The Walk", The Cure's response to New Order's early attempts at electronic dance music.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This was the first Cure record I bought when I was in high school."
"I would recommend it to anyone looking into buying there first Cure lp."
"The Cure are a timeless band transcending time and sound."
"Sometimes greatest hits albums are albums in themselves."
3 Fallen
Vocalist Amy Lee has the kind of voice that can cause weeks of insomnia, but on songs like "Tourniquet" and "Haunted" she belies the musics sinister mood with evenhanded spirituality, thoughtfully letting some light shine through the tempest.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The album explores both amped up rockers and dark somber love scorned melodies and Amy's tones are strong and genuine....you can feel what she's trying to sing...the pleading, the sadness, the yearning...its all in there !! Anyway, the guitars are powerful and use the "drop in" timing element (made famous by Linkin' Park) to create effect, but they improve on what others of the day are doing because they don't stomp on the distortion pedal, preferring the raw, neat and clean sound to back-up the lovely sprite at the helm !!"
"Most of the other people's songs I've heard are like they sang to you, but Evanescence's songs feel like they are coming out of you, like you burst out your soul with every lyrics, beat, rhythm instead of absorbing them. You want to hear depressing music, go hear Avril Lavigne's second album; it has TONs of depressing stuff in it."
"Most of the other people's songs I've heard are like they sang to you, but Evanescence's songs feel like they are coming out of you, like you burst out your soul with every lyrics, beat, rhythm instead of absorbing them. You want to hear depressing music, go hear Avril Lavigne's second album; it has TONs of depressing stuff in it."
"If they keep up the good work, Evanescence will become one of the most popular musical groups ever to hit the music scene."
"If you're something like me, then you're probably getting kind of tired of the same syrupy teeny-pop/rock stuff that seems to pervade the airwaves. What you have here is solid slabs of guitars, strong yet beautiful female vocals, backed intermittently with male vocals (which happen to be my biggest gripe...the male vocals sound too boyish, like a refugee from a Linkin-Park audition, and don't contribute to the strength of the album)."
Best Finnish Music
The Finnish symphonic metal band's sophomore album comes with four pieces that didn't appear on the original issue: The previous Japanese-only track 'Nightquest', an alt version of 'Sleeping Sun', 'Swanheart' and 'The Pharaoh Sails to Orion'.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Nightwish is ALWAYS SUPERB."
"Thanks, great album my only disappointment is the cover had been poorly handled as it has a bend in it."
"When I saw Yes in concert last, they eschewed their popular, well-known numbers for a lot of back-catalog lengthy solo prog rock. (I also don't care for fully half of Led Zeppelin's music for the same reason, so you can see my sophistication here.). Bottom line, if you like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but wish they did something other than Christmas music (aside from Beethoven's), then Nightwish is the next best thing."
"The most amazing music album, of all time."
"My 16 yr old son got me listening to Nightwish...I was not looking forward to it at first you know how kids are nowadays."
"beyond all i can imagine.i am interested in power meatal for a long time!the most beautiful album!so perfect!the song"stargazers" is absolutly my favourite song!"
"Great album to get if you're interested in listening to classic Nightwish, this is the album that defined their older style."
"The eclectic combination of genres from ballad, movie, pop, rock, metal, and even opera is masterful far surpassing the simplistic music of top 100 groups heard on radio today."
Best Scandinavian Music
ABBA GOLD (JEWEL BOX).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"However, my memory has softened and I need to hear ABBA and the BeeGees, and Donna Summer and Karla Bonoff once in a while."
"Was deliberating on getting one of the Mamma Mia soundtracks, and then figured it would be better to actually purchase this greatest hits album which contained all of those songs and more."
"Great memories from my teenage years listening to this music."
"I got this in preparation for seeing Mama Mia!"
"A great album with all of Abba's hits."
"This is the perfect round up of all your favorite abba songs!"
"Friends gave me an old CD I could not get to transfer to my Kindle, so I purchased this so I could enjoy this delightful collection on-the-go."
"Abba Gold - Their Greatest Hits all on Lp Album."
Best Industrial
Decidedly Teutonic and militant in sound and lyrics--they sing in German and their commanding semi-industrial metal is compelling--Rammstein garnered rock-radio airplay for the catchy sing-along "Du Hast," which translates here as "You Hate" and bears a striking musical resemblance to the Golden Earring tune "Twilight Zone." Decidedly Teutonic and militant in sound and lyrics--they sing in German and their commanding semi-industrial metal is compelling--Rammstein garnered rock-radio airplay for the catchy sing-along "Du Hast," which translates here as "You Have" and bears a striking musical resemblance to the Golden Earring tune "Twilight Zone."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I LOVE this band!"
"There is quite a bit more use of synthesizers and keyboards in Sehnsucht, but that is definitely not a bad thing, the use of these instruments makes all the songs on this album sound so innovative (despite having been used perfectly on Herzeleid already). Other tracks like engel, du hast and bück dich start off much lighter and full of synthesizers, only to lead into heavy riffs and pounding drums."
"One of my top fav."
"Great album!"
"Awesome album for any Rammstein fan."
"In your Face no BS jamming Great for Long dives in the canyons."