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

the viler the better i always say.

In fact, there's a couple bands who should probably not exist otherwise if it weren't for their power ballads (Skid Row and Great White come to mind, because their heavier, rockier stuff was completely dire).

Please tell me you dont rep for Warrant.

I like "Down Boys," but that's about it. I liked "Uncle Tom's Cabin" when it was new, but it definitely hasn't aged well at all. And yes, Warrant made TERRIBLE power ballads.

Skid row had mayb3 3 songs i liked, otherwise i couldnt see the fuss (2 obvious from the 1st and the title track of the 2nd)

if you discount gnr,def leppard & hanoi rocks, motley crue were the only decent one, even then only briefly. Later 80s stuff sucked.

and into the top 20 we go

20 Black Sabbath · Black Sabbath (1970) (843 Points, 18 votes - THREE #1 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f572/f57261abwgi.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/57CAarkoPZ13Ifbq0o2LCA

Crue was never ever really a good albums band, but could write the hell out of a single every couple years. Def Leppard excelled in both areas, by quite a gigantic margin.

ok i guess i'll follow this thread now despite knowing fairly little about METAL. i hope to be educated@!

leppard and hanoi rocks both made this poll so far btw

it's ILM, Johnny, you could do a poll of the Most Fun Hook-Filled Guitar Rock Albums of the 80s and something like The Cure would win

Okay you jokers - 20th place for the album that kicked it all off? Piss off. Don't call me, I'll call you.

I had much more hair metal in my tracks ballot. The albums I used to love haven't held up that well.

Why do I always view ILM people as far more open-minded until poll time comes around? We talk about all kinds of stuff openly and pragmatically around here, until it comes time to vote. Then everyone goes back to their own weirdo corners.

oh chill out ez snappin and just enjoy the poll for what it is, a bit of fun.

ONLY CLASSIC METAL FROM NOW ON YOU GUYS I CAN SENSE IT

Dude, how is there not a wikipedia article about "Down Boys"? What was up with the trenchcoat guy in the video? What is a "down boy"?

lj & ez are polar opposites.

Prolly a bunch of stuff from 1995-present that I've never heard of and would likely hate, and then some Zep, Sabbath, and maybe something I'm not expecting but will be happy about. xps

Black Sabbath Black Sabbath was scientifically determine to be the first modern metal album last night.

I heard once that "down boys" were male prostitutes, so make of that what you will.

i never understood the 'record that invented (genre) is the best because it was the first' stance, like would you expect 'rapper's delight' to win a rap songs poll?

WELL, CLASSIC METAL AND 'PINK' BY BORIS WHICH HAS 'FAREWELL' ON IT, THE ULTIMATE FALSE-METAL HIPSTER CHOON ^_^

LJ's fave boris tune btw

i never understood the 'record that invented (genre) is the best because it was the first' stance, like would you expect 'rapper's delight' to win a rap songs poll?

happens a lot in metal. Though pretty much every genre suffers from it.

i never understood the 'record that invented (genre) is the best because it was the first' stance

sooooooo much this

Black Sabbath don't sound THAT heavy in the context of what's come since

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hahahaha whoops

on ILM metal seems to be split into pre 90 and post 90, and those who only listen to one of those camps are missing out BIG STYLE imo

uh-oh, Bill's gonna go mental (and quite possibly medieval on your asses). pray to whatever dark gods you cower to that Master of Reality may come up top, o lowly-bred infidels!

LJ is The Lex of metal.

Johnny Fever is a younger Homer Simpson Chuck.

For Homer Johnny http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/07/23/metalsucks-and-bring-back-glam-present-the-ten-best-must-have-glam-metal-albums-the-final-countdown/

xp: Johnny Fever, did you vote for Foghat in this poll?

Maybe I am like Chuck in the way that I champion what I truly like, but I honestly think I have better taste. LOL

we all champion what we truly like, I know I do.

19 Metallica · Master of Puppets (1985) (845 Points, 22 votes -TWO #1 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d778/d77804sbbed.jpg

too low

As far as post'90 '80s style metal goes, I was into Saigon Kick for their first couple albums. But then they kind of imploded after a tiny mtv hit (which of course was an acoustic ballad in the wake of "More Than Words").

We're in the top 20, anyone who says too low from now on gets their bollocks smeared in gravy,tied up and left dangling for Henry.

awesome album, always been a close second to ride the lightning for me though

This poll is just too metal for bill.

^Screw you Herm. YOu know where I was last night. A FUCKING SLAYER CONCERT. You can take your Borises,Sleepy Bananas Gorilla Shit Museum, Slough Fegs, Nirvanas and Black MEtal dorks and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS. What i saw last night was fucking pulverizing and kicks the shit out of the 90% of this list that isnt Sabbath.

The dudes in Banana Sleepy Gorilla shit would be cowering in fear if they had to share the stage with fucking Slayer.

too high imo

While Bill and I probably don't see completely eye to eye on what's good and what's not, we are unified in disgust of this list as a whole.

metal is all about verse-chorus thrashing w/ pentatonic melodic sensibility and guitar solos

that is what metal is and we have ruined it

rip metal

this list is severely lacking in KISS imo

REAL TALK

lol
xp quadruple lols