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

24 The Obsessed · The Obsessed (1990) (818 Points, 21 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/9/0/8/4908.jpg

between 21 and 20 this will switch from interestingly mixed to ceaseless 'classic metal'

you shoulda voted then (not that you would have influenced much in the top 100 i suppose)

Really hope that Boris - Pink pushes its way into the top 10-15 albums. I'd expect to see it sooner than later, but what a fucking great surprise it would be for that album to ravage the top ten.

Harvey Milk, Converge both really great albums, btw!

24 Iron Maiden · Iron Maiden (1980) (818 Points, 21 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f174/f17437f6sv4.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5J5fnu7PEwhgzdkiBBtblw

What a surprise if every Boris album but that one made it in.

Well in that case we'd still have about 15 to go...

There's still room!

the falsest album in the list coming up. Why ilxors shouldn't be allowed to vote?

23 Iggy and the Stooges · Funhouse (1970) (821 Points, 16 votes - SIX #1 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f627/f62739fj2wb.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3FTcomSFg2zWSqWLRgBYpv

great album, but very much the choice of the ilxors who didn't vote more much (or any) metal.

Your fault for keeping it in the nom'd list, my friend.

Also:

SIX NUMBER ONE VOTES!!!!!!

Fuck the claims of falseness. Funhouse is heavier than 80% of whatever else is on this list.

If there was an ilx jazz poll or a reggae poll it would likely win it, lol. It's the archetypal ilm canon album. I better check the results to check steely dan & my bloody valentine aren't 1&2

As one of those #1 voters I'll just step in and note that this has always been called a Hard Rock and Metal poll.

still, it's a great album, and if it makes johnny fever happy, im happy!

heh, if you want to get pedantic, you're wrong, it was a Heavy Rock and Metal poll :P

i stand corrected

I bet everyone's glad MBV & Sonic Youth got vetoed from the nominations list. EZ Snappin & Bill would have gone postal!

so would I to be fair

I mean I'm all for a broad definition of metal but srsly now

I think if they are lower down, i don't care if something that's loosely metal gets in, i welcome it, but I can see why people don't like that kind of thing higher up. Hence me not voting funkadelic in the poll. Despite them being my fave band.

Anywhere but ilx (where its total canon) i'd totally welcome it in the top 100.

anyway, noones ever gonna be happy 100% with a poll, so just enjoy the albums you do like and check out the ones you don't know! That is the reason I like polls.

22 Queens of the Stone Age · Queens of the Stone Age (1998) (836 Points, 21 Votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d397/d39747oilk2.jpg

There are definitely a few albums I like that have shown up in this poll (of 300 results, ffs!), but I'm still sour that '80s pop metal is not only not represented but pissed all over and called false. Aggro metal bands are every bit as funny as hair metal bands, except there's a serious lack of self-awareness there.

\m/ Q O T S A \m/

It's not a Metal poll

Johnny, that is nothing new. Hair metal has been despised since forever. Half those bands even denied being metal anyway so they could appeal to more people.

We've had a bit of hair metal! I don't believe in false metal, fuck tha h8rs

I mean I don't believe in the concept of 'false metal', even if

But Hanoi Rocks still made it, and they influenced pretty much all of what followed, and the drummer was killed because of a singer in one of the most famous ones!

I don't either. Even if the term is being thrown around half jokingly in this poll, I still hate it. xp

it's all jokingly, no-one here believes in the concept of false metal (those that do refused to vote in the poll)

Hanoi Rocks, as influential as they were, still are kind of sucky. People who stan for Hanoi Rocks do it because they read somewhere they were supposed to...not because they actually like them.

Rubbish

total nonsense

your beloved gnr even ripped off one of their songs!

the drummer was killed because of a singer in one of the most famous ones!

You know and I know that situation could just as easily have happened in reverse. All those dudes were wasted 24-7-365.

People who stan for Hanoi Rocks do it because they read somewhere they were supposed to...not because they actually like them.

Careful Johnny - you can't point out the emperor has no clothes. See also, Manilla Road.

heh
http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/06/28/terrorist-vince-neil-still-trying-to-kill-innocent-people/

I really hate vince neil

My belovedness of GNR is restricted to 1987 only. After that, they became Axl's Traveling Circus.

if the stooges weren't metal neither was sabbath. (my #1, btw)

Johnny here's some hair metal reading you may or may not enjoy
http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/07/23/question-of-the-week-which-hair-metal-band-from-the-80s-best-stands-the-test-of-time-in-2010/

21 Nirvana · In Utero (1993) (841 Points, 18 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f601/f60137fzop0.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ozt8BNkA5dxJOSMnusmEX

Dan, could you change the thread title to 20 instead of 50 please? I don't think jj is around.

Some of those metalsucks people are completely delusional, especially whoever it was that thought Cinderella could cough up a hit single these days. As for bands who can still make an album that's a worthy successor to their heyday discography, Dokken and Ratt have done so recently. It's one of the few musical subgenres where I in no way want the bands to grow musically and expand their color pallet. I want albums that sound exactly like the albums I was hearing 25 years ago.

with or without the vile ballads/power ballads?

I love power ballads! Well...good ones.