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Bruce Dickinson
The Chemical Wedding
1998
Full Length
Air Raid Records
Heavy Metal

Ever since the discovery of Iron Maiden, they have been my personal favourite band of all time. However, 1994-1998 marked some of my least favourite years of the band, not only with the departure of guitarist Adrian Smith (which resulted in the delayed listening to No Prayer for the Dying and Fear of the Dark), but also of the iconic voice of the band, Bruce Dickinson. The years without Bruce Dickinson saw the band release the disappointing The X Factor and Virtual XI. Fortunately, the same period of time saw Bruce Dickinson releasing some of his strongest solo materials, in particular The Chemical Wedding.

Unlike the increasing progressive and overtly dark direction that Maiden had been taking over the years, The Chemical Wedding sees Bruce Dickinson presenting some…

Last Saturday, I discussed the issues with the current similar artist formula...especially Metallica being top 10 in similarity with The Offspring (like what?).

Well, since then, I put my programming skills to work and well, I built a little program to test to see it would work with other artists. Results were noticed on several bands/artists as their similar artists over went a make over. However, it did lead to new problems as I tried testing it out super-mainstream acts including our favorite band...Radiohead.


Rage Against the Machine showed up as a similar artist.


...well, apparently. Radiohead's top 250 similar artists currently are all over the place in random genres. A bigger batch of similar artists would be needed to get the best results, but the question is...is my new formula better. I'm going to show you some examples of artists top 25 similar artists...before, and after. You guys make the decision.


Oh, you don't remember the formula? Very well...time for a quick summary
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It was a good year. A really good year. Finishing my novel, driving license, new music uncoverings, my first gig... so I would like to sum it up in some statistics:

Plays in 2011: about 24000

Most played artists:
1. Scorpions - 2299 plays
2. Iron Maiden - 1296
3. Uli Jon Roth - 823
4. Alice Cooper - 782
5. Slayer - 720
6. Black Sabbath - 702
7. Kat - 554
8. Megadeth - 527
9. Ozzy Osbourne - 471
10. Turbo - 454

Most played tracks:
1. Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow - 125
2. Scorpions -We'll Burn The Sky - 88
3. Scorpions- In Trance - 72
4. Uli Jon Roth - The Night the Master Comes - 61
5. Kat - Legenda wyśniona - 57
6. Scorpions - Holiday - 50
7. Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death - 45
8. Scorpions - Hour I - 44
9. Scorpions - Speedy's Coming - 43
10. Bruce Dickinson - Tatooed Millionaire - 40
11. Iron Maiden - Ghost of the Navigator - 40

Most played albums:
1. Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
2. Scorpions - In Trance
…

Abrasive Wheels - When The Punks Go Marching In!
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock We Salute You
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
AC/DC - Black Ice
The Adicts - Songs Of Praise
Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning/We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
Anthrax - Attack Of The Killer B's

Bastards - Studio 27.11.-2.12.82

The Clash - The Singles
CMX - Aurinko
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
Alice Cooper - Brutal Plan et
Alice Cooper - The Definitive Alice Cooper
The cosmic goblins - 11 Feet From Nowhere To The Golden Dawn
The Cult - Sonic Temple
The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles 1984-1995

The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Danzig - Danzig
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
Dingo - Nimeni On Dingo
Dio - Sacred Heart
Di'Anno - Nomad
The Doors - Waiting Fot The Sun
The Doors - A Collection

Ebba Grön - We're Only In It For The Drugs!
Eppu Normaali - Aknepop

Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (cds)

GBH - City Babys Revenge
GBH - Midnight Madness And Beyond
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i must be bored

1. How did you get into 29?
Ramones - uuuhm. There was a clip of em in some tv show document thingy and i though they sounded coool. So i bouht a "greatest hits" album of some kinda and so on

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Running Wild - i really dont remember. i think it was Rivalry or Privateer

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - iasfidsfjs i dont know. too tired to think

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Devin Townsend - right now its Ki

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Joe Satriani - uuuhm, 7

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Stray Cats - Rock This Town

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Elf - well... yyeeeah i could say so. Happy (dats dat good ol irony, mate)

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Anthrax - I Am The Law, Madhouse, Indians

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Judas Priest - Blood Red Skies

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1st track: (14 Aug 2010)
Sonata Arctica - I Want Out
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/33933883.jpg1000th track: (29 Aug 2010)
Metallica - Whiplash
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5968893.jpg2000th track: (16 Sep 2010)
Scorpions - Sly
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/125233.jpg3000th track: (27 Sep 2010)
Arakain - Apage Satanas
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/23744709.png4000th track: (15 Oct 2010)
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/14112707.jpg5000th track: (28 Oct 2010)
Alice Cooper - How You Gonna See Me Now
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/20102957.jpg6000th track: (08 Nov 2010)
Anthrax - Antisocial
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/53984807.jpg7000th track: (22 Nov 2010)
Stratovarius - Rebel
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/15029593.jpg8000th track: (05 Dec 2010)
John Lennon - Imagine
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/240107.jpg9000th track: (19 Dec 2010)
Sabaton - Swedish Pagans
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Well, all Bruce Dickinson albums sounds so good, but, if I have to put them in a Best-to-worst... This is the list:

1. Accident Of Birth
2. Chemical Wedding
3. Tyranny Of Souls
4. Scream For Me Brazil
5. The Best Of Bruce Dickinson
6. Balls To Picasso
7. Tattooed Millionaire
8. Skunkworks