Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: HEAVY METAL (DAZE) Message-ID: <175@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:38:17 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.175 Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:38:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:43:34 EST References: <558@aluxe.UUCP> <181@water.UUCP> <569@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 > > > > Let's put the ball in the headbangers' court. How do you distinguish the > > kind of music you like from the kind put out by the Who, Led Zeppelin, Rush, > > Van Halen, or Queen (in some of their incarnations, anyway)? Or would you > > include any of these bands in the heavy metal area? > > > > Jim Tubman > > University of Waterloo > > OK, I tend to classify heavy metal into two categories: good bands, and lousy > bands. Some examples from both categories are in order: > > Lousy: Huey Louis, Twisted Sister, AC/DC, etc. > > Good : Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Mountain (any fans out there??), > Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen (at times). > Let us not forget the greatest, longest lived and most punctual HM band in history, Spinal Tap! Marcel "I myself am into listening to airplanes taking off at close range" Simon