Okay so lets break this down. You picked a bunch of queen songs that were all opera-inspired to prove that they didnt all do opera-inspired songs. Look I have the 3 disk best of queen set. I like all those songs. Theyre still all the same genre. That was my point.
Beatles switched it up.
and yes. Load and reload are good. They gave us fuel, where the wild things are, bleeding me, fixxxer, devils dance, I forgiven 2, until it sleeps, outlaw torn, the house Jack built, and to hell with it attitude is fun.
And you know what, you dont even have to like any of those songs. point was, Metallica has phases. They went basically punk (kill em all is 3 notes and speed), to slower metal (lightning), to inventing thrash (master), to basically prog metal (justice), to hard rock (black), to heavy blues (load/reliad), to an orchestra (S&M), to a purposely unpolished and disgusting sound (anger), to an acoustic album (helping hands), to basically a hybrid of every style in one (hardwired and 72 seasons). The only thing they havent done was a rap/rock hybrid in the 2000s. Or a techno-metal.
my point was that bands that keep changing have longevity. The mainstream, after 5 years, is sick of you. Doesnt matter how good you are, the mainstream moves on to the next thing. Those that regularly bring something new are the ones that get remembered by the mainstream as the best.
youre not seeing mainstream coverage of sengetsu by Iron Maiden. Youre not seeing of the newest Judas Priest album. Etc. Youre seeing mainstream coverage of Metallica doing an Elton John cover and people speculating if garage inc 2 is happening.
that and ace frehley because holy shit hes not dead and these songs are so much better than whatever kiss is doing right now with the avatar retirement thing. Its a perfect storm of people hating Paul and Gene and wanting the heart of the band to do well and that demos made from the 70-90s sound so fresh once again to modern music.
heck, I could throw kiss up as a band with longevity because they changed. They may be treated as a joke but theres a reason why they had the cruise, why they lasted so long, why they have people buying their merch forever and ever and ever. They went through very distinct eras. Original hybrid era (kinda rock, kinda jazz, kinda metal), to a disco hybrid, to an attempt to be prog, to more traditional metal at the time (creatures), to a hair metal band focused on ballads, to grunge, to acoustic, to the reunion tour of lies, to the nostalgia act. If kiss always sounded like 1973 kiss, theyd wouldnt have remained. Theyd have been a flash in the pan for 5 years and then dropped out after the elder and creatures initially bombed.
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