Best Music Moments of 2018
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The key members of Judas Priest are in their 60s and they still rock. Rob Halford is 67, and his voice sounds pretty good.
Their best album since Painkiller, and it's easily a top 5 Judas Priest album.
Hell yeah! Metal will never die!
Yup, I loved it. This is coming from a Queen fan. The person playing Freddie was amazing and so was the man playing Brian May. Can I also just add that the guy playing Roger Taylor in this movie was hotter than hell?
Really good movie.
I highly recommend it.
First Bob Dylan won the Literature Nobel Prize, now Kendrick won the Pulitzer Prize. It's awesome that worldwide, people are becoming more open-minded and also consider sections that aren't part of traditional expectations but are publicly acclaimed.
As far as I know, he's the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Yes, it was great that Demi survived, but it was also very unfortunate that she overdosed in the first place. I guess that is being negative, but that's how I see it.
I'm not a big fan, but she does have a good voice, so I'm happy.
I don't mind her, but it's good that she survived.
Finally, my second favorite band of all time!
This was a big victory for their fans, especially because they've been eligible since 1990. It's also a victory for prog rock in general because the Moodies are seen as one of the most important acts in its development.
I love the Moody Blues, and I waited so long for this. Each year, my sister and I would quote the Spotted Elephant: "Looks like we're forgotten again." Now, the Moodies got in...sigh of ecstasy...
They are much more deserving of this honor than Bon Jovi.
The Recording Industry Association of America certified the album 38-times platinum, meaning it has sold 38 million copies worldwide. The Eagles had held this honor before, but Michael Jackson's death increased the demand for his album "Thriller" and temporarily knocked the Eagles out of the No. 1 spot.
Well, the Eagles are back. Symbolically, rock music is back too. I know that's good from my viewpoint though because I prefer rock over pop. But I also know that many people prefer pop over rock, so...
One point to clarify: the reason the certification increased is not because the Eagles' album suddenly sold millions of copies or because the certification was greatly out of date before. The reason was because there was allegedly a huge number of sales that had not previously been accounted for.
The Newcomers
A very depressing album, considered by many to be his masterpiece.
This is her 26th studio album, and she still sounds great at 72. The album features covers of ABBA songs.
Time to add my personal favorite music moment of 2018... at #22.
"Stripped," "Back to Basics," and now "Liberation" are her masterpieces. Perfect pop music. Great vocals, good songwriting, varied, and ultimately catchy enough to still work within a pop context.
That album cover even has a Sonic body pillow where he does the "come here" finger while laying down.
2018 Eminem was good, but Fack was stupid.
For me, this is the most important music moment of 2018.
It broke the record for 'Most viewed music video in 24 hours' (if that's what the record is called).
The German superstar came in eighth place, right behind Rihanna, and earned more than Céline Dion and Britney Spears.
It's not just because an album I liked peaked at number one, but because it was this album. After the Echo scandal, it felt absolutely necessary.
The biggest music award show in Germany, often called the German Grammys, awarded the title of Best National Hip-Hop Album to Kollegah and Farid Bang's Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 3 from the previous year. It was a blockbuster that sparked a number one hit and saw all its songs enter the German Top 50. It was also pretty damn good (although, in my opinion, both Cro and SpongeBozz had even better albums that year). Campino, the lead singer of the legendary German punk band Die Toten Hosen, held a speech directed at the two rappers. According to him, they crossed the line of what's acceptable, referring to Farid Bang's line, "My body is more defined than that of Auschwitz inmates," from the bonus track "0815" off the deluxe edition (although the standard edition received the award). This caused significant public backlash and anti-hip-hop statements from celebrities and even politicians, leading to the eventual shutdown of the Echo awards.
Why was this a stupid move?
Imagine the Grammys being shut down because Eminem won with an album where, in character as Slim Shady, he rapped a homophobic line. The line in question was neither antisemitic nor hateful in intent. It was undeniably stupid and far below the level each of the rappers are capable of. It was a provocative lyric made within the context of battle rap, never intended for a mainstream audience. In German hardcore hip-hop, pretty much anything is allowed. Both rappers and hip-hop fans understand this, and shock-value lines like this - which, by the way, were neither a racist insult nor a glorification of the Holocaust, just a tasteless comparison of muscle outlines - are treated as throwaway lyrics designed to sound crass. These rappers are essentially performers, much like wrestlers, putting on an entertaining and exaggerated show for their... more