YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

I don't post albums by big bands that you might have thought could possibly grace a top 100. These albums wont be announced until the end to preserve your suspense.

I'm glad I didn't find out sooner, because my dumbstruckness would've been prolonged instead of just being a new thing I'm dealing with tonight.

jj, glenn,neil s, ilxor,viceroy all thought it was the perfect solution.

it just depends on how many there are. if its a sprinkling of TBAs that will be suspenseful indeed, if its like half of the 300-100 range thats just nonsense.

I can abandon it and just post everything if people want. Doesn't bother me either way. I love it when people shout "too low" or "im glad that's out of the way"

the next one is a big band/album

I vote for abandoning it, because I honestly can't see myself caring much what #294 was when this thing is all over.

yeah i have to agree

You're going to have to abandon it after about 150, at any rate, otherwise you'll be skipping more than you'll be listing.

ok ok nm!!!

well ok, but if ez snappin or emily get upset i'll direct them in your direction

i was only trying to keep people happy

294 was Rush - Permanent Waves.

Im saying nothing on rush, i had my say on the tracks poll

a mod can edit it and remove these posts

292
Van Halen · 1984 (1984) (166 Points, 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f574/f57436uz4zk.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/09J3CXHt6yRkNtOzrBdUAN

Might I suggest posting them two at a time for while? I know I argued against that very thing in the tracks poll, but that was a top 100. In this context, it might just be nice to see the juxtaposition of things (and it would speed up the process).

xp TOO LOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at least johnny will like that^

xps lol

i'll post a bit more often then

look at it this way johnny, by doing a 300, an album you love got in.

LOL I agree - this is the VH album with SYNTHS man!!!

too low

I devalued 1984 on my ballot, but that album opened up a whole new world to me when it was new.

I was 1 year old when it came out.

My dad probably played it a lot during my most formative months of my life.

291
Thin Lizzy · Bad Reputation (1977) (167 Points, 4 votes)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f657/f65740sojco.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1oWJB8OeVLqpsmNZwZUXb0

Like, it came out when I was 10 and my weirdo parents still wouldn't allow me to listen to anything secular (they've relaxed greatly over time). Anyway, I heard it blaring out the back of some guy's Chevy Blazer at one of my dad's company picnics and I just kind of stayed close, behind a tree, while the whole album played two times through.

Rush was arguably my primary gateway band into metal, and I'd rather see them on this list than anything grunge!

xpost: I was puzzled by Van Halen's non-performance on the Tracks poll, too. Unfashionable now, maybe, but in terms of influence on the historical course of metal, VH were as important as just about anybody short of Sabbath. And I say that as somebody who has never bought or even downloaded a single Van Halen song.

Thin Lizzy were robbed on Tracks, too. "Black Rose"! It's enough to almost make me wish I'd voted.

Hey I've never actually listened to the entirety of Bad Reputation... but no doubt its amazing.

Yeah too much Thin Lizzy vote splitting I think on the tracks list.

289 TIE
ZZ Top · Tres Hombres (1973) (170 Points,5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d666/d6667310n33.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Em8m9kRctyH9S3MTXAHvY

289 TIE
Morbid Angel · Altars of Madness (1989) (170 Points,5 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/9/1/191.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2vWHACnDiSnFM52octEvY0

poor, poor Tres Hombres. It got knocked from the top 100 of the alt 70s poll because of an accounting error, and now it's fallen just inside the top 300 of the all time metal/rock poll. Sorry, dudes.

Posting two at a time: awesome when it produces juxtapositions like that!

I can do 2 at a time if you really want. That was a mistake heh

288
Deep Purple · Machine Head (1973) (174 Points, 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f621/f62139cuku1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2LaCtZxJ9pqS2lRKTlu8hx

287
Tool · Undertow (1993) (180 Points, 4 votes - ONE #1 Vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e395/e39521clcz2.jpg

I approve of both of these.

Machine Head is kind of overrated, but Highway Star is a great keyboard-wizard song, and Never Before is terrific. I also remember really liking Sway and Space Truckin also, and I played Smoke on the Water when the 100-year-old grist mill in town burned down.

Tres Hombres is great, too. Hidden gem = Hot, Blue, and Righteous (sounds like Love Hurts though)...

really want to hear Wonderful Rainbow and TV Sky. Like a lot.

286
Def Leppard · Hysteria (1987) (180 Points, 6 voters)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f600/f60034r9k0d.jpg

285
Obituary · Slowly We Rot (1989) (200 Points, 7 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/7/1/8/718.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7H5MWoD8M6dEQoSj3SMHP7

voted for Slowly We Rot...great stuff, esp. the title track!!!

YES, HYSTERIA!!!!!!!!! (59 of those points are from me.)

I love Obituary, they didn't make it onto my ballot unfortunately.

284
Opeth · Ghost Reveries (2005) (200 Points, 8 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/5/1/7/85177.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/54nOmn8SzWheUvl1YHe240

283
Alice Cooper · Killer ( 1971) (201 Points, 6 votes)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TJiDVSyTggI/R_EMxbeD7-I/AAAAAAAAAZM/9_MTNbOZcMQ/s320/a-killer1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5H55ey6ihbSppmVyK1gqVz

Killer is cool. I know nothing about Opeth. But Killer is REALLY cool.

LJ wont like alice cooper beating Opeth

I'll post the last 2 for the night shortly.

ghost reveries has the baying of the hounds on it which SLAYS SO SO SO SO SO MUCH

worth it for that song alone

282
Smashing Pumpkins · Gish (1991) (203 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d097/d09751ia7ug.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3JultJIT4wt05dFtuaY37j

I still think that's their best record.