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

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AC/DC · Let There Be Rock (1977) (256 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f868/f86889arnrp.jpg

Too low. That album crushes.

Let there be light, and there was light
Let there be sound, and there was sound
Let there be drums, there was drums
Let there be guitar, there was guitar, ah
Let there be rock

And it came to pass...

Aenima's pretty great, but for some reason (out of all the ones I heard), Opiate is my favorite Tool album.

I shoulda mentioned I realized much of the false metal talk was tongue in cheek. Guess it was just gettin old. New jokes please!

How many guitar players does it take to change a light bulb?

not screw in a light bulb?

How Many Guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Opiate is my favorite Tool album as well xposties

Henry posting the next one?

I am joking whenever I accuse something of falseness... I mean I voted for More than A Feeling on the tracks poll.

Is Henry back?

I waver between Opiate and Undertow, usually settling on Undertow

but I listen to The Thirteenth Step more than anything else

Henry and I are enjoying a very short moment on the interwebs while i speed eat and then return to work in mere moments, so pfunk prob should just keep rolling them out and we'll see if he is available later for comment

259
Hawkwind · Space Ritual (1973) (264 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e717/e71715d60hw.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7wH3vXQZgy9a6PUvMXLayk

Would definitely have voted for this. Should be higher!

why didn't you vote!

There were only about 8 albums that I had any real passion for. Thought it would be better to leave this poll to the real metal dudes.

258
Napalm Death · From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988) (266 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f018/f01838zmoj4.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4veFj7IvUM9q3Z0S0A4y0F

yaaaay this list is pretty sweet so far. i mean i haven't heard a lot of these albums, but based on the quality so far the top 100 is going to be a goldmine of goodness.

As the ancient proverb goes, if you leave things to the "real metal dudes" you get Iggy Pop and the Osmonds, and some obscure logic that explains how Darkthrone are actually the best band ever even though hardly anybody likes them.

(I didn't vote, either, because I would have needed to nominate the things I would have voted for, and I was too busy to deal with nominating when it was happening.)

That album is great! I asked my friend once what Napalm Death album I should get first as good introduction and he immediately led me to this one.

what exactly a real metal dude? Do they like bongs, wizards, and watching fantasy movies? Or is that a different kind of dude?

No one can describe a real metal dude, because they never come outside.

lol

From Enslavement is unbelievably low, however, see my assertion on the other thread that basically me and the good Colonel like grindcore and nobody else.

257
Boston · Boston (1976) (266 Points, 7 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d133/d133119w9v1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1SmDvdTqzLfzPgt6vSDfBC

The cover is in the top ten, the album itself... I guess is 257.

I said it on the last thread: Foreplay is a beast.

Third Stage never gets love.

256
Swans · Children of God (1987) (268 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f516/f51691d6i1l.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2cSinKwYUcWncoYZPBVrYZ

I guess the options for the guitar player joke are well covered in that thread!

Boston is not a bad album, but I'd have vetoed it had I noticed it in the nom thread. I mean, what next, Kansas? Styx? REO Speedwagon?

When I "graduated" from middle school, in 1981 in Texas, my parents asked me if there was something special I wanted as a congratulatory present. There was: the then-imminent third Boston album.

They did, indeed, buy it for me. In Boston, in the fall of my sophomore year of college, when it finally came out...

I think Boston just about count as heavy rock, as does early REO Speedwagon in fact. Why? RIFFS.

Swans may well be actually the heaviest band on this list.

WTF Children of God down here. So much for me thinking my albums looked like they would do well.

xp to Aldo I like a bit of grindcore too, and voted for Scum in this poll.

yeah, i like grind (death and black) metal, too. i just like late-'60s - mid-'80s metal more.

255
Ufomammut · Snailking (2004) (270 Points , 11 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/8/3/8/58381.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1awI80Pyq4B7Zs0EAiAyls

Yeah, sorry to both of you. I guess I'm still butthurt about Police Bastard. Xposts

nah it's cool, in fact here's a good opportunity- recommend me some good grindcore that's not Napalm Death. Electro Hippies? Nuclear Assault?

PS like that Ufomammut record, their new one's dead good too.

nice another album i voted for placed!

Screw the light bulb in (DAMN YOU TO HELL)
Screw the light bulb in (DAMN YOU TO HELL)

Okay this should cover all grindcore bases (sorry non UKers!) http://open.spotify.com/album/4fGLsHHXw8QpVOp3V7opda

I would say anybody looking into grindcore needs the first two Carcass albums, In Battle There Is No Law by Bolt Thrower, the Earache sampler Grindcrusher, at least one Pig Destroyer (Prowler In The Yard certainly) the latest Cattle Decapitator record and selective picking in the Anal Cunt catalogue. Also consider Heresy, Doom and Amebix for Crust goodness, although some of this might get too far into D-beat for you. SOB from Japan provide a really good link back into hardcore. Grindcore Madness At The BBC is essential.

That's exactly the comp that Spotify link points to. Thanks for all the advice, I will check it!

254
Borknagar · The Olden Domain (1997) (271 Points, 9 votes(
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/8/8/3/1883.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/36WKhV4QSz2CnP7yTL8KxF

Agorophobic Nosebleed worth checking out in the modern era as well.t

253
Ministry · The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1988) (274 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c842/c84203lw527.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ixpEu6UGlOAXY1d3F3rMM

One of my students drew a very bitchin' and precise reproduction of that Boston s/t album cover on her desk.