I brought Led Zeppelin IV to work today. Stairway to Heaven is playing right now and I am officially not sick of it anymore. Years of classic rock radio abuse have worn off. I have not listened to this song in probably seven years. I always skip it when listening to the record.

If I bust out Shout at the Devil tomorrow I'm going to check myself into a clinic.

oh , would highly suggest breaking out 'shout at the devil' then move on to 'number of the beast'

rawk

I look forward to someday being able to listen to my Led Zeppelin, Boston, and Smashing Pumpkins albums.

I recently re-visited 'Siamese Dreams', and while 'Today' still is tired to me, i completely forgot how amazing i think the rest of the record is....

Geek USA, Spaceboy, etc.....WOW!

I couldn't agree more.

luckily i grew up in a remote town without any decent radio. so ive never had this problem. actually, ive never really been that crazy about radio in the first place. pretty much the only radio i listen to is the weekly lamacq live on the bbc.

the bar last night was rocking out on some hairmetal ala motley crue and whatnot and that shit is good drinkin' music.

The other day I listened to Bob Seger's-Night Moves and Elton John's-Captain Fantastic--The sounded like the best thing I ever heard for some reason.

Growing up in Oklahoma, you have Rock 100 The KATT. Every so often, they'll have a segment called "Get the Led out". They would play Stairway so much you would think it was the jingle for the station. They always called the month of October "Rocktober", and all of their contests allowed you to win a "Rock 100 dollar bill".

Unfortunately, another classic rock station came along that would play much better selections, lots of deep cuts from Zeppeling, Stones etc. so the Katt and all its cheesy glory resorted to Creed & Nu metal.

I knwo there's some Okla people on this board, I'd love to hear the state of OKC radio. I'm sure Stairway is cued up somewhere today.

i recently dl'd "shout at the devil" from a friend. i'm now shamelessly looking to acquire def leppard's "high 'n' dry" and ratt's "out of the cellar".

i havent stopped listening to SHout at the Devil, since 85...

umm, and this will probably get my flamed but i like the industrialized version of SHout they did for the 'genreration swine' cd better then the original.

Why the shame? I'm certainly not ashamed to say that I thoroughly enjoy those albums. While you're at it pick up Van Halen. These things didn't get on VH1 Classic for nothing, y'know. Also, paladisiac, you've got one too many "Shout"s in your post up above.

well Jimmy, there is this: http://www.radio-info.com/mods/posts?Board=oklahoma

(dorkiest website I visit by far)

BTW, refreshing to read of y'alls love for music that I consider essential.

Actually, I've just started listening to metal again.
Also, a full-circle for me. (Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were the first bands that were "mine" and not my parents'.)

Diggin' SOiL's debut (Scars). It's new, but not "Nü" metal. And pretty damn good.

yeah, i also already have some vh. i might be tempted to go pre-1984.

as for "shout...", that's how it's playing in my head.

Sweet holy fuckeroo.

Only recently did I dig up Gish. I think I need a few year more to tackle Siamese.

Haha, that's funny because I still can barely listen to that, but rocked Mellon Collie in all its glory about 2 months ago.

Jimmy -- There are TONS of stations that do get the Led out, and they all only play one of 5 songs.

There was a time when even I didn't understand the furor over The Stones, b/c all you ever heard on the radio was Sympathy, Miss You and Street Fighting Man (aside from Gomper, my least fave Stones track)

I have never understood why more stations don't do deep album cuts, etc...

That's not funny. Some things you just shouldn't joke about.

I've been listening to a lot of 80's style Metal myself...

I don't know what it is, but Labrynth just seems to make me happy whenever I put it on...