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It has been a long while since I last had a recommend me thread.
This time around I want some introductions and recommendations with Yngwies music. I have listened to his songs from time to time but I haven't bought any of his cds and now I just realized that I have been delaying that for too long.

So... It's your turn now.

I only have Relentless and Angels of Love.

Relentless is his classic style. Angels of Love is more acoustic based. Both are super!

Songs like Black Star and Far Beyond the Sun are what made him recognizable.

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My favourite albums are Alchemy, Trilogy and Rising Force. Oddyssey is pretty good too, generally more commercial-sounding album but some real quality tracks on there.

Eclipse!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJwULQZvTK8

I suggest you step on your garden and hear the birds sing beautifully. And then you grab the very same bird to fuck it in the middle of the garden while it sings beautiful melodies of peace and love between your hands.

NeonVomit wrote:My favourite albums are Alchemy, Trilogy and Rising Force. Oddyssey is pretty good too, generally more commercial-sounding album but some real quality tracks on there.

that is the shit right there, everything else Malmsteem had done over the years is merely a re-visit of this classic albumns

I have enjoyed Relentless A LOT. I like a lot Malmsteen's works. Just listen to everything.

RazielSR wrote:I have enjoyed Relentless A LOT. I like a lot Malmsteen's works. Just listen to everything.

Listening the whole Yngwie discography is only good for extreme fans of arpeggios shredding.



I gonna let you know my least favoriest YJM records
- The 7th sign is boring.
- eclipse....boring hell
- Fire and ice....boring the boring hell out

Why listen to Malmsteen? SOO many better musicians out there. Only stuff I like from him are the first three albums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJy0YAMwBKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5rraru ... re=related

im in the camp that thinks he has great melodies in the verse and chorus sections. as for his solos, his vibrato is great

icecab21 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJy0YAMwBKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5rraru ... re=related

im in the camp that thinks he has great melodies in the verse and chorus sections. as for his solos, his vibrato is great

Malmsteen is great and is an absolutely and fantastic composer and guitarist. Guitar god.

adrian9 wrote:

RazielSR wrote:I have enjoyed Relentless A LOT. I like a lot Malmsteen's works. Just listen to everything.

Listening the whole Yngwie discography is only good for extreme fans of arpeggios shredding.

Well, I am

Balu wrote:Why listen to Malmsteen? SOO many better musicians out there. Only stuff I like from him are the first three albums.

is a matter of taste, but I agree his first 3 records are amazing., I think everything YJM did in the 80s is awesome, from the 90s onwards he kind of repeated the formula too much.

icecab21 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJy0YAMwBKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb5rraru ... re=related

im in the camp that thinks he has great melodies in the verse and chorus sections. as for his solos, his vibrato is great

yeah totally !! he should play a little slower more often, his melodies are amazing, sometimes the feelin get lost within the bunch of notes he plays.
and his vibrato should be the best ever.

I think I own four or five Malmsteen records. Let me see... in no particular order...

The Collection *****
Alchemy ****
Electric Suite in E minor ****
Relentless ****
Facing the Animal (on tape) ****

Ones I should still get are: Rising Force (the classic), Live in Leningrad, Odyssey, Eclipse, Magnum Opus et cetera. You can't really go wrong with Malmsteen. It's all great stuff.

I love Yngwie's song writing too. In my book, he's the only one who is able to convincingly mix blues, flamenco and baroque music. It's all there in this big ballad. Pompous? Yeah, but it's great when played loud!

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Cheerio,

Damien

adrian9 wrote:

Balu wrote:Why listen to Malmsteen? SOO many better musicians out there. Only stuff I like from him are the first three albums.

is a matter of taste, but I agree his first 3 records are amazing., I think everything YJM did in the 80s is awesome, from the 90s onwards he kind of repeated the formula too much.

It sure is.. but to me, his composing abilities are mediocre (especially since the 90s). Well, at least compared to my favorites (even within metal). :>

mediocre is not a word that fits YJM,... he opened the gates for shred, he started the whole shred thing from the 80s (with the first Steeler and alcatrazz album) everything you hear now was probably done by yngwie in the 80s. (in the power metal scene I mean)

things to google.

Shred. Mike Varney. Sharpnel Records.

adrian9 wrote:mediocre is not a word that fits YJM,... he opened the gates for shred, he started the whole shred thing from the 80s (with the first Steeler and alcatrazz album) everything you hear now was probably done by yngwie in the 80s. (in the power metal scene I mean)

things to google.

Shred. Mike Varney. Sharpnel Records.

His TECHNICAL abilities are amazing, the composing, not so much. I mean, he has some nice tunes, but is he really comparable to, let's say.. Devin Townsend, Christofer Johnsson or Asis Nasseri (to name some of my favorites)?

adrian9 wrote:he opened the gates for shred, he started the whole shred thing from the 80s

Say what?

Don't listen to Yngwiener Mulletstain. If you want to hear somebody wank, listen to Tony Macalpine or something.

Just two words:rising force

robocop656 wrote:Don't listen to Yngwiener Mulletstain. If you want to hear somebody wank, listen to Tony Macalpine or something.

That'll show him!

Sorry, I hate that egomaniac with every bone in my body. I find it hard to believe people like the sound of neck pickup noodles and wanky wank fests.

robocop656 wrote:Sorry, I hate that egomaniac with every bone in my body. I find it hard to believe people like the sound of neck pickup noodles and wanky wank fests.

At least he didn't announce a contest where fans should make a stone sculpture of himself and put it up in the city center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvH4ClqQk9w

1974. Bitch.

Rebel wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvH4ClqQk9w

1974. Bitch.

ritchie blackmore was neo classical inspired,but there is also a little blues and rock and roll sound, awesome guitar player, and surely ynwgie has ripped him off quite a bit, but to me, that is not shred as we know it today.,
then also you´ll have to credit Uli roth (scorpions)
you can probably say that Eddie van halen was the first shreeder in 1977.
please dont cry because i dont think blackmore started the whole thing.

and to balu, yeah we are talking about technical abilities, YJM lyrics are corny, sometimes stupids and crap.

adrian9 wrote: and to balu, yeah we are talking about technical abilities, YJM lyrics are corny, sometimes stupids and crap.

Actually, I don't think technical and composing abilities are the same.. :>

Edit because post below.

adrian9 wrote:

Rebel wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvH4ClqQk9w

1974. Bitch.

ritchie blackmore was neo classical inspired,but there is also a little blues and rock and roll sound, awesome guitar player, and surely ynwgie has ripped him off quite a bit, but to me, that is not shred as we know it today.,
then also you´ll have to credit Uli roth (scorpions)
you can probably say that Eddie van halen was the first shreeder in 1977.
please dont cry because i dont think blackmore started the whole thing.

and to balu, yeah we are talking about technical abilities, YJM lyrics are corny, sometimes stupids and crap.

*sigh*, your understanding of music fails to extend past the most famous 2-3 artists in the genre, and doesn't take into account the actual innovators of music. As far as other early "Shredders"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY
Django is the most important, being soley responsible for inspiring Tony Iommi to get back into guitar, as well as being a huge influence on Blackmore (The two forefathers of metal).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg
That's actually off Budgie's third album, in 1973, but they'd been around since 1967. They were Rush before Rush knew what being Rush meant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLyqdzu-F4k
More Ritchie, because, let's be honest year, no matter what YJM says in interviews about Hendrix, his entire career has been trying to rip off Ritchie Blackmore, from the clothes, to the hairstyle, to the guitar playing, to the actual guitar that he plays, and its color. It's kinda funny, kinda pathetic too...

Titties

Rebel wrote:

adrian9 wrote:

Rebel wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvH4ClqQk9w

1974. Bitch.

ritchie blackmore was neo classical inspired,but there is also a little blues and rock and roll sound, awesome guitar player, and surely ynwgie has ripped him off quite a bit, but to me, that is not shred as we know it today.,
then also you´ll have to credit Uli roth (scorpions)
you can probably say that Eddie van halen was the first shreeder in 1977.
please dont cry because i dont think blackmore started the whole thing.

and to balu, yeah we are talking about technical abilities, YJM lyrics are corny, sometimes stupids and crap.

*sigh*, your understanding of music fails to extend past the most famous 2-3 artists in the genre, and doesn't take into account the actual innovators of music. As far as other early "Shredders"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iJ7bs4mTUY
Django is the most important, being soley responsible for inspiring Tony Iommi to get back into guitar, as well as being a huge influence on Blackmore (The two forefathers of metal).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg
That's actually off Budgie's third album, in 1973, but they'd been around since 1967. They were Rush before Rush knew what being Rush meant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLyqdzu-F4k
More Ritchie, because, let's be honest year, no matter what YJM says in interviews about Hendrix, his entire career has been trying to rip off Ritchie Blackmore, from the clothes, to the hairstyle, to the guitar playing, to the actual guitar that he plays, and its color. It's kinda funny, kinda pathetic too...

Titties

funny stuff.

Django is playing an acoustic guitar (did you notice that?) , the word SHRED and the SHRED SCENE im talking about (i say "I" beacuse im pretty sure you are not reading my entire post) is limited to rock or metal only.fucks sake.
obviously diminished arpeggios werent invented in 1974 .

then, Budgie is a proto heavy metal stuff, and they are often tagged even as the first heavy metal band ever, and for that time, nice guitar playing, but there is nothing to do with shred here.

and I already said that yngwie ripped off ritchie, why are you repeating that . of course today I would really doubt ritchie will play and electric guitar while Yngwie is still rockin. match point to YJM.
now, that candance is hot...Deuce.

I think Yngwie is really underrated.