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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 3:38 pm
by The Knell
This and the Unchained EP are really good! The 70ies stuff is way too corny.

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 1:24 am
by xr2m
Great album from start to finish! The rest of his stuff is unfortunately extremely uneven in terms of quality, but "Only the Strong" is awesome.

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 2:38 am
by MetalizeR
Classic album of the god of thunder... THOR !

Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 3:23 pm
by Witchkiller
Great stuff on this lp. Ride Of The Chariots ,Thunder On The Tundra ,Let The Blood Run Red

...a great lp as far as i'm concerned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 2:53 am
by Avenger

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 4:34 pm
by mordred
Mighty footage

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 6:33 pm
by Sgt. Kuntz
Fantastic album, very catchy and surely their best, he was quite a character and a natural entertainer on stage. Which one of his other dozen LPs would you recommend? Any at all?

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 7:25 pm
by The Knell
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:Fantastic album, very catchy and surely their best, he was quite a character and a natural entertainer on stage. Which one of his other dozen LPs would you recommend? Any at all?
If you like corny 70ies Hard Rock then get "Keep The Dogs Away".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEGORSKXDE

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 7:33 pm
by mordred
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:Fantastic album, very catchy and surely their best, he was quite a character and a natural entertainer on stage. Which one of his other dozen LPs would you recommend? Any at all?
Devastation of Musculation is a real black sheep in his vast post 80's catalogue in the sense that it's actually really good. All the others are shit with one or two good songs at the most.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6vkFyanSI

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 7:36 pm
by Sgt. Kuntz
The Knell wrote:
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:Fantastic album, very catchy and surely their best, he was quite a character and a natural entertainer on stage. Which one of his other dozen LPs would you recommend? Any at all?
If you like corny 70ies Hard Rock then get "Keep The Dogs Away".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEGORSKXDE
Haha, very interesting what he's doing on that stage :lol:

Sounds more like TED NUGENT or so, i think i'll pass on that.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:17 am
by great_knuthulhu
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:
The Knell wrote:
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:Fantastic album, very catchy and surely their best, he was quite a character and a natural entertainer on stage. Which one of his other dozen LPs would you recommend? Any at all?
If you like corny 70ies Hard Rock then get "Keep The Dogs Away".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEGORSKXDE
Haha, very interesting what he's doing on that stage :lol:

Sounds more like TED NUGENT or so, i think i'll pass on that.
Nugent is pretty close, but to me it's more like The Sweet without the background harmonies. I like that kind of thing, but Only the Strong is definitely Thor's strongest moment.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:44 am
by Black Axe
great_knuthulhu wrote:
Sgt. Kuntz wrote:
The Knell wrote:
If you like corny 70ies Hard Rock then get "Keep The Dogs Away".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEGORSKXDE
Haha, very interesting what he's doing on that stage :lol:

Sounds more like TED NUGENT or so, i think i'll pass on that.
Nugent is pretty close, but to me it's more like The Sweet without the background harmonies. I like that kind of thing, but Only the Strong is definitely Thor's strongest moment.
He does try to imitate The Sweet there. But the music is much too weak and simple to come close to being Sweet.

I must say I still like the 70s video more than that boring 80s video Avenger posted. And no, I don't have any Thor albums.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:15 am
by GJ
I believe some people here should study both Sweet and Nugent more closely. Some of their stuff might be closer to eighties Pentagram, Raven or Anvil than you would think. Yup, Sweet can be pretty sinister at times and Ted Nugent just as ADHD-ridden as Lips and Mark Gallagher. Definitely important proto-metal acts, just as Sabbath, Priest or Rainbow.

On topic: need to pull 'em out of the shelves for relistening before talking. Thor seems one of them good guys anyhow.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:59 am
by Black Axe
GJ wrote:Definitely important proto-metal acts, just as Sabbath, Priest or Rainbow.
Sabbath and Priest are heavy metal, mister.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:09 am
by GJ
Black Axe wrote:
GJ wrote:Definitely important proto-metal acts, just as Sabbath, Priest or Rainbow.
Sabbath and Priest are heavy metal, mister.
Of course you're right! Well, partly so as none of them were completely "metallic" from day one. Then again, in the seventies they were working in a pre-metal context forming musical prototypes for future acts to relate to. (bound to confuse, I am)