ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time - Presented By Our Host, Henry, ILM's Favourite Heavy Metal Dog! THE END IS NIGH! (FIN)

I had no idea about Stargazer, didn't even know it existed. Very very impressive song.

The first two Rainbow albums are quite good and filled with a bunch of classic tracks (search: The Man on the Silver Mountain). I think the first is better but not by a huge margin.

can I just say that the ppl whining about this list are the worst ppl on earth

Really? Worse than child molesters or serial killers?

STICK THAT BOOT IN A BIT FURTHER DAN I'M NOT QUITE DEAD

p.s. it's not a bad or unexpected list and I'm cool w/it as long as the albumz poll delivers

I think basically what this tracks poll establishes is: a) a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread, b) Supernaut and Ace of Spaces are rock-solid heavy metal exemplars, c) Metallica used to be good.

That's all. After that it's more or less a 100-way tie for 5th, and it trails off from there. There were two tracks in the top 20 that only beat the Osmonds by 4 votes, so complaining about placings is pointless. Too few voters, too little consensus.

Statistically speaking, the album side is quite a bit more coherent: maybe a top 50 or so with actual collective weight.

As entertainment, anything with Henry is fine with me.

Nicely put Glenn.

Great job guys, Herm, JJ, Henry everyone else who helped and voted.

Top four songs fucking rock, and its poetic justice that an RJD song wins!

Last and least: fuck the haters. Mark iv, that's some bullshit to run this thing down. I bitched a lot during it, but it was fun, so fuck you.

I was out drinking and am too lazy to scroll up; what song were you guessing for #1, Bill?

Supernaut. You'll see midway through I wavered on it, based on the way things were going, but I cant complain about #1.

All in all, this was a lot of fun, and checking in on it all the time cost me some serious productivity at work-but its worth it.

It sure was. Good fun all around.
Thought there might still be more chat on what just missed out etc.
We still have emil.y's not quite live blogging to finish off too!

Check what just missed out! esp johnny & ez

Funny that I'm such a listoholic when it comes to albums, but when I contemplate ranking songs, my brain seizes up. I didn't get a song ballot in, but knew it was in capable hands. A fun, diverse list, thanx!

Only one other person voted for "Rock You Like a Hurricane". ;_;
Only one other person voted for "Nobody's Fool". ;_; ;_; ;_;

Oh wait, I essentially voted twice for those, because they were on EZ's ballot. Never has the message been clearer to me that I am an island.

I think basically what this tracks poll establishes is: a) a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread, b) Supernaut and Ace of Spaces are rock-solid heavy metal exemplars, c) Metallica used to be good.
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Nicely put Glenn.

Yes. That was the Stargazer of post-poll wrapups.

132,The Osmonds - Crazy Horses,241,8,30.125,0

This was my #1 so...um...er...

wait if you are serious i need to check if something went wrong here

would your ballot be under the name kevin john bozelka or kjb or what?

also did you get a confirmation email?

email me if you dont want your ballot name out in public or whatever obv

It was under Kevin John Bozelka as far as I recall. pfunkboy even castigated me for including Kid Rock, etc.

wait and this was a tracks list?

i show an album list from you, but no track list at all.

let me check further and get back to you

Yup. Track list sent on 7/21/10 at 6:12pm CST.

a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread,

That may be the case, then they discovered a real treat. My memories of it go back to Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show all time tracks pollin the early 80s where it would always finish in the top 3 with 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Thanks to all for organising, looking forward to the Spotify playlist and of course the albums poll!

but this list is rather reactionary, no offence *shit-eating grin*

What does this even mean? Reactionary because there's very little god-awful prog rock, a genre that is arguably horribly reactionary itself? In other words, unless you have something positive to contribute, maybe try something new and keep it shut.

^

'twas a lot of fun, thanks v much guys

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This list is fucking bonkers but if it was like a Spotify playlist round someone's house w/ a bunch of beers I'd be completely fine about listening to it

I didn't vote but I almost never vote in ilx polls

word. shocked (and delighted) by the winner, fwiw.

kjb , will need to get glenn to check the results, but we definitely got your ballot, i dunno what happened. fuck

Definitely no KJB tracks ballot in the spreadsheet, and thus none in Needle. Obviously no technical problem with adding it now, but no doubt riots would ensue if it changed the winners. So maybe declare martial law briefly before updating?

glenn, im on googlechat, will chat to you when you get on.

osmonds till wouldnt make it btw. a couple of songs would move up a bit.
kjb im really really sorry, i dunno what happened.

Great that a song I've never heard of before won it. But it wouldn't have won if Ronnie James hadn't popped his clogs this year, would it?

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle. But in the end, I learned about a few much more basic bands that I should have been paying attention to anyway.

they dont vote, but albums list will be more to your (and maybe their) liking.

Well yeah, I know they don't vote, but like, shadowy images of them or something.

: )

I don't think you will be disappointed by the results

An army of miniature Roxy- and John-shaped demons that pour out of that hole in the backyard where the tree fell down after the lightning strike.

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle. But in the end, I learned about a few much more basic bands that I should have been paying attention to anyway.

This is what I was expecting, too.

Shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4h3suwonk

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle.

So glad it wasn't like that!

lol

It was a Metal AND Heavy Rock poll after all

I feel tempted to do a straight glam/hair metal poll, since that genre seemed to almost completely get the shaft.

It's my honest hope however, that after this ILM will have sated itself on polls.

For a while, at least.