LOL I agree - this is the VH album with SYNTHS man!!!
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
too low
I devalued 1984 on my ballot, but that album opened up a whole new world to me when it was new.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I was 1 year old when it came out.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
My dad probably played it a lot during my most formative months of my life.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
291 Thin Lizzy · Bad Reputation (1977) (167 Points, 4 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f657/f65740sojco.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/1oWJB8OeVLqpsmNZwZUXb0
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey I've never actually listened to the entirety of Bad Reputation... but no doubt its amazing.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah too much Thin Lizzy vote splitting I think on the tracks list.
289 TIEZZ Top · Tres Hombres (1973) (170 Points,5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d666/d6667310n33.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0Em8m9kRctyH9S3MTXAHvY
289 TIEMorbid Angel · Altars of Madness (1989) (170 Points,5 votes)http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/9/1/191.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/2vWHACnDiSnFM52octEvY0
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Posting two at a time: awesome when it produces juxtapositions like that!
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I can do 2 at a time if you really want. That was a mistake heh
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
288 Deep Purple · Machine Head (1973) (174 Points, 5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f621/f62139cuku1.jpghttp://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
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I approve of both of these.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Tres Hombres is great, too. Hidden gem = Hot, Blue, and Righteous (sounds like Love Hurts though)...
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
really want to hear Wonderful Rainbow and TV Sky. Like a lot.
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/7H5MWoD8M6dEQoSj3SMHP7
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
voted for Slowly We Rot...great stuff, esp. the title track!!!
― demons a. real (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
YES, HYSTERIA!!!!!!!!! (59 of those points are from me.)
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Obituary, they didn't make it onto my ballot unfortunately.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
284 Opeth · Ghost Reveries (2005) (200 Points, 8 votes)http://www.metal-archives.com/images/8/5/1/7/85177.jpghttp://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.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5H55ey6ihbSppmVyK1gqVz
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Killer is cool. I know nothing about Opeth. But Killer is REALLY cool.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
LJ wont like alice cooper beating Opeth
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll post the last 2 for the night shortly.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ghost reveries has the baying of the hounds on it which SLAYS SO SO SO SO SO MUCH
― let it sb (acoleuthic), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/3JultJIT4wt05dFtuaY37j
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I still think that's their best record.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 6 August 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
In so much as I would still listen to it all the way through.
bleh
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
281 Deep Purple · In Rock (1970) (207 Points, 6 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d572/d5725720i01.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/2bjTVISSsvwia7uxrrEsuQ
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
^ this has Child In Time on it, an awesome slab of heavy greatness.
― Without warning, a wizard walks by. (Viceroy), Friday, 6 August 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 6 August 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy Birthday to Colonel Poo!and here is your present!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
280 Discharge · Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (282) (208 Points, 5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd200/d248/d24892i1l68.jpghttp://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.
― emil.y, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
279 Bad Brains · I Against I (1986) (210 Points, 6 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f341/f34116utdmf.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/0btkVh2TIc79B4ERtH5rWt
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 11:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Have been wanting to hear that Discharge record for ages, now's my cue!
― Neil S, Friday, 6 August 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
you wont be disappointed
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
278 Judas Priest · Stained Class (1978) (212 Points, 6 votes) http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/3/4/434.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/15gzdgyhKXr1K0faea4ImN
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
277 Nirvana · Bleach (1989) (213 Points, 9 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c718/c718495x6ae.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
276 Monster Magnet · Spine of God (1992) (215 Points, 7 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d125/d125532817m.jpghttp://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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^ the most hawkwind inspired album, and it's bloody brilliant too. Deserves to be waaaaaaaay higher.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
275 Led Zeppelin · Presence (1976) (219 Points, 5 votes)http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f931/f93182zhvt1.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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!
― Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 6 August 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
274 Motörhead · Overkill (1979) (220 Points, 5 votes - ONE #1)http://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/3/6/936.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/5bZg8FCOmr6K8NvxMFp4ME
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
^boo! waaayyyyyy too low.
― Quo riff just isn't a suitable vehicle for interplanetary exploration (Ioannis), Friday, 6 August 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link