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

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.

In so much as I would still listen to it all the way through.

bleh

281
Deep Purple · In Rock (1970) (207 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d572/d5725720i01.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2bjTVISSsvwia7uxrrEsuQ

^ this has Child In Time on it, an awesome slab of heavy greatness.

I can't believe skipping things was the solution so I'm glad you abandoned it. I have to go away for the weekend and will miss the countdown which is a much better personal solution.

Sad to see some of these so low (Killer, 1984, Bad Reputation, Tres Hombres, Ghost Reveries), but as I only threw points at one (Opeth) I can't complain.

Keep on truckin' and I'll catch up somewhere into the top 100.

Happy Birthday to Colonel Poo!
and here is your present!

280
Discharge · Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (282) (208 Points, 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d248/d24892i1l68.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7tlh0UNHCkENgoMm7NEizn

Aw, I quite liked seeing 'to be announced', but as I have less at stake than the rest of you (as I didn't vote in this one) I don't mind it being revoked.

Don't think I'm going to get a chance to finish the tracks listening until post-weekend, sadly, but I will do it, as I promised.

279
Bad Brains · I Against I (1986) (210 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f341/f34116utdmf.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0btkVh2TIc79B4ERtH5rWt

Have been wanting to hear that Discharge record for ages, now's my cue!

you wont be disappointed

278
Judas Priest · Stained Class (1978) (212 Points, 6 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/3/4/434.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/15gzdgyhKXr1K0faea4ImN

277
Nirvana · Bleach (1989) (213 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c718/c718495x6ae.jpg

276
Monster Magnet · Spine of God (1992) (215 Points, 7 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d125/d125532817m.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5fdS4ZLVCdPHgIxRPnsRb1

the amg review btw

The metal album for people who hate metal albums. A glorious and unapologetic celebration of pure indulgence, Spine of God is the ultimate stoner goof, a brilliant satire of headbanger culture so pitch perfect that it's almost tempting to take it at face value. Bearing the warning "It's a satanic drug thing...you wouldn't understand," the record is a complete mind-f*ck -- the production is positively viscous, a hallucinatory sludge of echo-drenched vocals, bone-rattling drums, and reverbed guitars which seem to stretch on into infinity; frontman Dave Wyndorf is like a shamanic idiot savant floating in a sea of bongwater, growling proclamations like, "If Satan lived in heaven, he'd be me" in the midst of deadpan fantasy freakouts which name-check every teenage metalhead staple, from Led Zep to Playboy to whippets. (There's even a toweringly psychedelic ode to everyone's favorite room deodorizer, "Ozium.") Monster Magnet's genius is that their music speaks directly to the audience it's poking fun at -- Spine of God's sheer sonic intensity is brain-warping stuff even without chemical additives, and its themes of sex, drugs, and evil are so hilariously over the top that it's impossible not to be charmed by the absolute mindlessness of it all. No matter what, proof positive that the road of excess leads anywhere but the palace of wisdom.

^ the most hawkwind inspired album, and it's bloody brilliant too. Deserves to be waaaaaaaay higher.

275
Led Zeppelin · Presence (1976) (219 Points, 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f931/f93182zhvt1.jpg

LJ wont like alice cooper beating Opeth

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Im not happy the Cooper album didnt destroy Opeth. Some of these (Killer, In Rock, Tres Hombres) are wayyyyyyy too low!