farlaff said:
I would not provide a "definition", merely my opinion: a "heavy metal" album toned in a production type that made it fit to be playable in discotheques, and some songs even in the dinner party one's grandma gives in her place. I feel like giving a bit of perspective below. To me, it has always seemed like a kind of a "follow the trend": a bit earlier, Smells Like Teen Spirits, a heavy song, was being played left and right in disco parties, fueling the dance of girls who would, not too long before that, puke at such an aggressive sound (and that was a good thing, mind you; made such parties bearable). I was 16 at the time and remember it vividly. Interesting fact: had some Metallica-fanatic friends that would literally cry over the Black Album. The fact that Maiden had Wasting Love, a true metal ballad with a hard theme, did not soften the blow to most of them, since it was not the tonic of Fear of the Dark, the Album. They were destroyed by the loss of their favorite band to the mainstream. |
So it was a more commercial album that appealed to more people? Is that not what Megadeth spent most of the 90s also doing? I could be wrong, but wasn't Youthanasia a conscious attempt to try and write an album that could get to number one on the charts?
