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- I decided when I was 14 that I would never hear anything better and I've always put this as my top record. and yes it defines the time and was an album of great comfort, power and joyous energy to me. Something that as soon as I heard the needle drop, little runoff and sudden burst of the first A chord smash, it felt like everything in the world was right. Highway to Hell holds a near spiritual power to me. When I finally saw Ac/Dc in 2015 and Angus rose from the stage to start the song I almost cried. Rarely do I feel so overwhelmed, but when me, out of high school and past that time, was standing there seeing Angus hit that opening riff I've heard so many times it was like...everything in my life, everything, everyone, that opening of the title track just...makes everything alright. It's...I can't describe it. Highway, the title track rolls in like it's careless and...Angus hits the opening chords. The slight reverb, then the second time Phil smashes in. It feels like we're on the road...then Bon "living easy, living free", it's a vibe like nothing else.
Highway to Hell on it's own is a top notch rock record, Mutt produces Ac/Dc well and helps to better craft and structure their tunes while keeping the band's rough power. Every song is great and it was sadly the last and brightest moment for late frontman Bon Scott. The record is amazing but I can't speak about it without talking about what it means to me. I can't. Music is more than some, oh I like that, thing. It is in a sense my world. Sometimes I take it too seriously maybe but these artists like KISS, Bruce and everyone, they are not normal artists. They are not like oh I like them...they are something on a higher plain. When I was younger and you insulted my favourite bands I defended them like they were my own. You insult KISS, Ac/Dc or anything else and it's personal. My outspoken passion was pretty annoying but I can't erase that and deny those feelings they stirred in me. Nowadays I just go whatever and I understand people a little better, but then...it felt like me and my bands against the world.
Have I heard albums better than Highway to Hell? Maybe on a technical level but nothing will ever be like that opening of the title track to me. The non stop assault of side 1...this album is more to me then a good rock record. I don't listen to it that often these days, but...Highway to Hell is no normal album to me. I can't fully describe it but...it wouldn't be right to put any other album above it. It's just vital, I sometimes wonder what my life would be like without Highway and without KISS. I would be the same most likely, base traits don't change from things like this. Maybe I'd find another interest and get super into it, but I would be different. I would not find that expression and that medium. I would not...I don't know. Highway to Hell is the best album for me, forever.
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Updated my list in a much better fashion and added some new albums. Just wasting some time don't tell me what to do Mom I can do whatever I want. It's weird to add albums like Horses since their still new to me but damn it's so good okay.
I was going to do top 20 artists with playlists but nah why waste time. Because why not, I do this for myself really it's just something silly to do you know. It's what you do when you like things a lot.
I'll list mah top 20 anyway. An awkward way of putting the pictures but I ain't fixing that now. Just look at the pic then name, otherwise you get some odd mix-ups.
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1. KISS
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2. Ac/Dc
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3. Bruce Springsteen
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4. Michael Jackson
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5. The Beatles
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6. Sonic Youth
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7. Bob Dylan
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8. Utada Hikaru
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9. Seiko Oomori
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10. Iron Maiden
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11. Katy Perry
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12. Yui
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13. Nirvana
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14. Carly Rae Jepsen
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15. Van Halen
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16. Elvis Presley
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17. Misfits
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18. Miles Davis
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19. Megadeth
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20. PASSPO
I recently re-did my top 50 list. Not going to do the whole thing but I'll post it anyway. A lot changed since my last list, mainly I got out of some things (not much) and realized the importance of other things. Lorde's Melodrama made a rapid jump to my top 10. It's iconic I love the hell out of the album, it feels important and a vital release that just does it for me. It's going to be an album I look back on and remember as one of the key records that came out in my "young adult" days. Emotion moved into my top 5 but at the end of the day there will never be a pop record better than Thriller. Because you need to make a better pop song then "Human Nature" first. Well Michael did that with in my option the best pop song of all time, Man In The Mirror, but you know. Thriller is a special album where it's a sum of all parts pop experience the likes of which has never been seen again.
Born To Run is my real #1 but Highway To Hell HAS GOT to be the top because it's so important to my life it can't move from that spot. But Born To Run has my top 3 songs of all time. Jungleland, the best song I've ever heard in my life yet out of every single song it's the best, there is no contest, Jungleland is the best song ever, I've never heard better, Thunder Road and Backstreets. I could live to 200 and never hear a better album than Born To Run. I am 100% confident it is the greatest album ever made by humans and there is NO BETTER. There is not even a single shred of doubt behind this statement. Born To Run is the greatest album ever made.
This list will change in like 2 seconds but ya.
THE MANIMAL'S TOP 50 ALBUMS DEC. 2018 UPDATE
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1. Ac/Dc : Highway To Hell
2. Bruce Springsteen : Born To Run
3. Michael Jackson : Thriller
4. Carly Rae Jepsen : Emotion
5. Sonic Youth : Daydream Nation
6. The Beach Boys : Pet Sounds
7. Bruce Springsteen : Darkness On The Edge Of Town
8. Elvis Presley : As Seen On TV Compilation
9. Lorde : Melodrama
10. Vince Guaraldi Trio : A Charlie Brown Christmas
11. Katy Perry : One Of The Boys
12. The Smiths : Hatful of Hollow
13. Bob Dylan : Highway 61 Revisited
14. George Harrison : All Things Must Pass
15. KISS : Alive!
16. Iron Maiden : The Number Of The Beast
17. Joe Walsh : But Seriously Folks…
18. Metallica : Kill ‘Em All
19. Miles Davis : Kind Of Blue
20. The Smiths : The Queen Is Dead
21. Sex Pistols : Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
22. My Bloody Valentine : Loveless
23. Iron Maiden : Powerslave
24. Seiko Oomori : Tokyo Black Hole
25. Yui : Holidays In The Sun
26. Van Halen : 1984
27. The Beatles : Rubber Soul
28. Sonic Youth : Sister
29. Van Halen : 5150
30. Elvis Presley : The Complete Sun Sessions
31. Sonic Youth : Washing Machine
32. The Clash : Give ‘Em Enough Rope
33. Eagles : Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
34. Perfume : Game
35. Bruce Springsteen : The Rising
36. Bruce Springsteen : The River
37. The Beatles : Revolver
38. Linkin Park : Hybrid Theory
39. Buddy Holly : The Buddy Holly Story
40. Katy Perry : Teenage Dream
41. Miles Davis : In A Silent Way
42. BAND-MAID : World Domination
43. Seiko Oomori : Sennou
44. W.A.S.P. : The Crimson Idol
45. Michael Jackson : Dangerous
46. Utada Hikaru : Deep River
47. Megadeth : Youthanasia
48. Ac/Dc : Powerage
49. KISS : Hotter Than Hell
50. Guns N’ Roses ; Appetite For Destruction
Gif of me telling everybody how good my current music interest are (circa every era of my life since 2009).
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While I'm at it here is my top 50 songs also!
No repeat artists, otherwise there would be...how many Bruce songs in my top 50...Jungleland, Thunder Road, Backstreets, Born To Run, The Promised Land, Waiting On A Sunny Day, All That Heaven Will Allow, okay a lot. So one song per artist. This list factors everything in my life since 2007 and it's weighted on importance and overall OOPFHM! and by what holds up and still has power as well.
THE MANIMAL'S TOP 50 SONGS DEC. 2018
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1. KISS : Psycho Circus
2. Bruce Springsteen : Jungleland (Best song ever made)
3. Katy Perry : Teenage Dream
4. Michael Jackson : Man In The Mirror
5. Bob Dylan : Like A Rolling Stone
6. Mikuni Shimokawa : Tomorrow
7. Sonic Youth : Teen Age Riot
8. Mami Kawada : Hishoku no Sora
9. Faster Pussycat : House Of Pain
10. Derek & The Dominos : Layla
11. Def Leppard : Hysteria
12. Utada Hikaru : DISTANCE
13. Seiko Oomori : I Kill The Time 4 You
14. George Harrsion : All Things Must Pass
15. Linkin Park : What I've Done
16. A Flock Of Seagulls : Space Age Love Song
17. Deadmau5 : The Veldt
18. Daft Punk : Digital Love
19. Elvis Presley : It's Now Or Never
20. Perfume : Love The World
21. Rush : Limelight
22. Van Halen : Why Can't This Be Love
23. Hatsune Miku : Proof Of Existence
24. Rita : Little Busters!
25. Carly Rae Jepsen : Run Away With Me
26. The Smiths : Still Ill
27. W.A.S.P. : Forever Free
28. The Beatles : Please Please Me
29. Yui : Summer Song
30. ClariS : Click
31. Flow : World End
32. Aya Hirano : White Album
33. Lorde : The Lourve
34. Ever : Sleepyhead
35. Cinderella : Coming Home
36. Gene Simmons : Mr. Make Believe
37. Wednesday Campanella : Sakamoto Ryoma
38. Ac/Dc : Gone Shootin'
39. Iron Maiden : Hallowed Be Thy Name
40. Metallica : Fade To Black
41. Led Zeppelin : Stairway To Heaven
42. Aerosmith : No More No More
43. The Replacements : Left Of The Dial
44. Nana Kitade : KISS
45. ChouCho : Kawaru Mirai
46. fhana : Relief
47. Funkist : Snow Fairy
48. The Clash : Lost In The Supermarket
49. Judas Priest : Bloodstone
50. King Kobra : Shake Up