Best Songs Ever

BSMSMSTMSPHD

Sorry. I admire your passion, but in the realm of progressive hard rock, Neil Peart will always be the best drummer.

Gelsamel Epsilon

Neil Peart is good and he has won many awards but none dealing with Progressive drumming.

"Mike Portnoy has won the following Modern Drummer magazine Reader's Poll awards;

* Best Up & Coming Talent (1994)
* Best Progressive Rock Drummer (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
* Best Recorded Performance (1995 for Awake, 1996 for A Change of Seasons, 1998 for Falling Into Infinity, 2000 for Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory, 2002 for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence)
* Best Clinician (2000, 2002)
* Best Educational Video/DVD (2000, 2002)
* Hall of Fame Inductee (2004)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_T...d_certificates

turbo

How about the best drummer ever? The most powerful and definitive member of Led Zep was Bonham. I am a guitarist and lead vocalist who played rock and blues for many years, and Bonham was the key to that band!

BSMSMSTMSPHD

Okay, you've got me on the progressive thing. But awards, especially reader's choice awards are basically popularity contests. Popularity does not necessarily ensure goodness (just listen to any pop station for 3 minutes).

But then, everyone's experience is subjective, so who's to say either of us is wrong.

By the way - I'm a total metalhead too. Going to see Godsmack/Rob Zombie next week and Gigantour at the end of the month.

And I'm a 30 year-old married father-of-two PhD candidate in mathematics. I'm listening to Iron Maiden right now as I work on my Abstract Algebra HW.

Gelsamel Epsilon

Awesome - I'm 18 and I love physics - hopefully going into a decent uni course next year (if I get the required ENTER - I don't do any homework at all but I still top the class - which just promts me to not do any homework even more :( ). I love metal and somewhat like classical and I wish more metal bands toured in Australia (especially Dream Theater).

BSMSMSTMSPHD

Ever heard of Opeth? They are my new favorite band.

And I think Gigantour is coming to Australia later this year - yep Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney at the end of October.

18 huh? I teach kids your age... Man, I'm getting old!

TuviaDaCat

but the acceleration may be different than 0, therfor your answer- wrong.
the right answer is - a constant accelration, and it may accelerate in 0.

Gelsamel Epsilon

Yeh I heard a bit of Opeth, and I've definately heard of them. But I don't have any of their Albums - actually I don't have many albums of many bands because really I'm content with what I have at the moment.

APC
Arch Enemy
Chimaira
Dark Tranquility
Deicide
Devil Driver
Dimmu Borgir
Dream Theater
Emperor
Ensiferum
In Flames
Judas Priest
Meshuggah
Metallica
Nightwish
Nile
Norther
Rammstein
Rick Wakeman (Odd one out =p)
Strapping young lad
Susperia
Testament
Yngwie Malmsteen

Thats about all I have - and some of those bands while I listen to them frequently I only have singles of (lol, only some of them though, most I have whole albums).

Edit:

The question was "How does an object acted on by a constant net force move?" but my gripe was that a object with a constant net force wouldn't always be moving (this is Novice questions here so don't bring relativaty into this - the other questions were so easy that you could do them in your head so the question can't use relativity as an excuse). I was going to put down "Moves with Constant acceleration" despite the fact it could be 0 - but then I realised that would be wrong since it wouldn't "move" - and if it already WAS moving then "Moves with constant Velocity" is correct for F = 0. So there would be no definate answer.

TuviaDaCat

gramps, opeth is great, i loved "harvest", and the whole album damnation, but i just cant listen to their heacy stuff...
btw it odd to hear about someone old who knows new bands... ussually old people dont try new things in music...

BSMSMSTMSPHD

Nice list - a lot of good bands there (and many that I've seen live).

Get some Opeth. Please. Try Blackwater Park or their new one Ghost Reveries for starters. Their two best albums are Still Life and My Arms, Your Hearse, imo.

Also, you might want to check out this set of forums: www.ultimatemetal.com

A couple of your bands have forums there.

TuviaDaCat

well, moving is after all a word with no solid defenition, like all words which does not concern math or sciense... so i wont discuss the difference between not moving, and having starting velocity of zero and accelerating in 0.

BSMSMSTMSPHD

Okay, FIRST of all... I'm not THAT old. It's what I grew up on. I was listening to Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Sepultura, etc. back in the late 80's when I was a teenager. I still am (though Metallica has gone south in a big way).

When I picked up Blackwater Park (the one with Harvest) I too thought that I would hate the death metal vocals. For a month or so, I wouldn't listen to it. Then, slowly, I started to like it. Then, I loved it.

Now, I listen to them pretty much every day. I've seen them three times live in the past 3 years and they're in Gigantour this year.

Gelsamel Epsilon

Will do. I also need to get some Illdisposed (which I recommend to you, especially the 1-800 Vindication CD).

Also if you didn't know already; www.metal-archives.com is good for information on metal bands etc.

TuviaDaCat

favorite:

metallica
megadeth
pain of salvation
evergrey
ayreon(try "the human equation")
arcturus
angra
agalloch
apocalyptica
dead soul tribe
led zeppelin
pink floyd
jethro tull
dream theater
haggard
iron maiden
the old dead tree
orphand land(it funny, its the only israeli cand i actully care about, yet they sing in english, like all metalists..)
porcupine tree
shadow gallery
sonata arctica
symphony x
tool
winds

turbo

I've always been a fan of James Taylor, and here he is, featuring Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks on his signature tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwoZBIKgKA4

and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0lo_TN1k

Gelsamel Epsilon

Dimmu Borgir sings in Norwegian sometimes, it's freakin' awesome =p.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bonWoVAS9kQ <---- Damnit how cool is that sweet *** statue thing in the background.
\m/ Vredesbyrd \m/

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La oss bestride
Den tanke fra vår lend

xD


Edit:

Back to the topic (lets not overun this topic with general Metal discussion considering that not everyone listens to it)


Dream Theater - These Walls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG5F-Th4UEw

TuviaDaCat

here's a sad one http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZwD0qLeldg