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A "jukebox musical" featuring the music of a popular heavy metal band. In the grand tradition of "Jersey Boys," "Movin' Out," and "Mamma Mia," someone takes a bunch of songs by, say, Metallica, and strings them together using some kind of plot device. I don't enough metal to pick which band would be
best or which songs, or what kind of story one might make, but it would be LOUD.
And did I mention that it would probably make a lot of money?
We Will Rock You
http://en.wikipedia..._Rock_You_(musical)
Queen - Heavy Metal Musical [zen_tom, Feb 24 2009]
Tommy can you hear me?
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Tommy_(album)
Another rock-musical (Opera in fact) from way back in 1969 [zen_tom, Feb 24 2009]
Operation Mindcrime
http://en.wikipedia...peration:_LIVEcrime
[jaksplat, Feb 25 2009]
Experts explain the differences between metal and rock
http://answers.yaho...080411133414AAvB5ZE
"...rock is mellow, hard rock a little more exciting, heavy metal is metal, like death is metal, doom is metal...." - that pretty much covers it I think...doesn't it? [zen_tom, Feb 26 2009]
Lordi - Hardrock Hallelujah
http://www.youtube....watch?v=TdItwaLrv1U
Eurovision, 2006 - what can I say - if this is rock, then what's metal? [zen_tom, Feb 26 2009]
ITV: Mighty Boosh could pen Alice Cooper Musical?
http://www.itv.com/...ical-909068887.html
"Welcome To My Nightmare is basically about as close to a musical as you can get". Yep. [jutta, Feb 26 2009]
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You mean like "We Will Rock You" - the musical where a number of Queen songs are loosely strung together around the semblance of a plot? |
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[marked-for-deletion] widely known to exist |
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Pffft, those aren't heavy metal. I don't think this would go over well, anyway. It's just so...wrong. |
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Define 'heavy' metal - if you played Queen to someone from the 60's they'd say it was pretty heavy. Continual Heavy "inflation" since the end of the age of Glam has been working to relatively lighten all manner of rock-combos, and someone might easily protest along lines that Metallica aren't truly "heavy", touting bands like Bathory, Cancer, Napalm Death, Carcass or Cannibal Corpse as possible candidates. Your Pfft is noted. |
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//Your Pfft is noted.//
sp. "Pffft" |
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I stand corrected. Mentally replace my "aren't" with "are barely...by today's standards". |
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//sp. "Pffft"//
[citation needed] |
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// //sp. "Pffft"// [citation needed] //
See [Spacecoyote]'s first anno, above. |
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I consider it artistic license, unless you find a reputable source of a standard spelling. |
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Make it a Horror show, and I might be interested |
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Ooo, I feel a time-warp coming on. |
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While conceding that true metal affici - afician - enthusiasts would pooh-pooh Metallica as not heavy enough, I'd think that anyone much heavier wouldn't be able to attract folks to Broadway. I'd be surprised if one could build a viable vehicle around System of a Down or Tool... "OZZY - THE MUSICAL" maybe? |
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On the other hand, a stage version of SPINAL TAP could work.... |
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I think this would be a great thing to not do. |
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[zen_tom] Queen is nothing like Heavy Metal |
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Close but not exactly the same cigar: Zappa's Thing Fish. It was pitched as a Broadway musical, but no one bought it. The CD is great, IMHO, but true Zappa fans say that it is mostly just a compendium of Zappa works published in other albums. Still, I loved it and listened to nothing else for about a month after a friend gave it to me. |
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The first occurrence of heavy metal in the contemporary
musical context, it is said, is as a part of a lyric "heavy metal
thunder" in the archetypical rock song "Born To Be Wild",
written by Mars Bonfire and performed by the popular beat
combo Steppenwolf. But I don't think bands referred to
themselves as 'heavy metal' even up to the late 70s, but
rather, as 'heavy rock' - an entirely different substance. |
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[simonj] Oh yes it is!! How else would you describe the vast majority of "Flash Gordon" (apart from "very very silly") And anyway, wikipedia says so, so it's out of our hands - a higher authority has spoken. |
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If the differentiator (as Ian suggests) is the metal/rock vector - (heaviness being a general given) then we have to examine what it is that can be classified along the metal/rock axis - but what is that? |
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I think the life and works of Alice Cooper would be a prime candidate. |
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We'll know that metal has finally died when it hits Broadway. Therefore [+]. |
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Isn't Ozzy doing panto these days? |
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Tom of Zenland - perhaps the fidderentiator is that of irony.
If it's irony, or steely (dan) or even just a bit rustic, then it's
metal. If it's crystalline and igneous or sedimentary, then it's
probably wrock. |
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[gnomethang] I agree. Alice Cooper was one of my favorites. Very theatrical. |
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[jaksplat] - that's a huge coincidence - I was reliving one of my youths just the other weekend, and Queensryche was a huge part of that - I'm listening to "Suite Sister Mary" as I write this annotation. |
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[Ian] obviously, there has to be a certain level of ferrous metal - the best metal, in my opinion, contains a large ferrous component - and even if that leans towards the positively rustic, if it manages to exude an irony flavour (whether intentional or not) then it can't be all that bad. |
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Well, as long as it makes you happy. |
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Although Jethro Tull leans towards heavy wood. |
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