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

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!

274
Motörhead · Overkill (1979) (220 Points, 5 votes - ONE #1)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/3/6/936.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5bZg8FCOmr6K8NvxMFp4ME

^boo! waaayyyyyy too low.

273
Judas Priest · Sin After Sin (1977) (221 Points, 7 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/3/3/433.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4xs2NRWIFeoO6mXLlKhb5u

272
Andrew WK · I Get Wet (2001) (222 Points, 7 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f170/f17046oouct.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2CIrcCUymw9t2AfqQPdUjn

lol falsers

well we got all of that out of the way while I was sleeping. AWK isn't false!

but Sin After Sin is sinfully low.

271
Om · Conference of the Birds (2006) (225 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh300/h308/h30883szrq8.jpg

Psyched for number 270

You should be, it's a big album, it's a big ILM album too.

a 'conference of birds' doesn't seem very hard or heavy to me -- sounds cute, like little birds in suits around a table worrying about the bottom line, chirpin' and squawkin'.

you didn't vote for it though
xp

When I woke up, the Viceroy told me "I get Wet" as at 272, but I misheard him. "Number two, that's the right place for it."

270
Blue Öyster Cult · Agents of Fortune (1976) (270 Points, 7 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f556/f55634nqxa6.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2GFqzKAp611yhl0i1N45yg

This can only mean that Secret Treaties will grace the 100.

Gish wz one of my favourite albums back when I wz in high school, but actually it's prolley one of the only SP albums I can't listen to all the way through...still love Rhinocerous though...

Deep Purple In Rock is pretty good. Child in Time was a huge song with me and my friends. I had friends who stayed up all night on a coke binge and listened to that song, like, 80 times in a row...

I like Spine of God, and my favourite song off it--Ozium--was in my tracks ballot, though I didn't vote for this Monster Magnet album...

Presence is prolley my least favorite Zep album, and yet I still feel it's too low...

Number 270 delivers!

I might have voted for Agents of Fortune...that album IS way too low. ETI, The Revenge of Vera Gemini, This Ain't the Summer of Love...Reaper's not the only great track on there...

you did

well, I'm proud of myself.

Disconcerted to see Presence so low. Not that I like it much, but it has a couple of killer tracks. In Through The Out Door had better not lose out now.

Surprised at the low showing for Agents, but I can blame myself because Im almost certain I didnt vote for it, even though I like it a lot.

in @ #270 w/ 270 points

woah! o_0

xgau weighs in:

Agents of Fortune [Columbia, 1976]
Just when I figured they were doomed to repeat themselves until the breakup, they come up with the Fleetwood Mac of heavy metal, not as fast as Tyranny and Mutation but longer on momentum, with MOR tongue-in-cheek replacing the black-leather posturing and future games. I wonder how long it took them to do the la-la-las on "Debbie Denise" without cracking up. B+

A question for you metaller's. Judging by the tracks & album results so far, there appears to be lots and lots of sub-genres sub-sub-genres and micro-genres. Metal appears to be even more splintered than say, indie or even electronica/dance music. is that the case? I'm told that this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres is not even definitive. Why is metal more open to a cross pollination of other genres? It looks as though it's always evolving. Anything I hear now sounds completely different to what I heard in the 90s, or the 80s and 70s metal I've heard (while a lot of indie music is stuck in the 60s, at least here in England), even commercially, yet older genres are still going strong too. Is the famous elitism part of this as when a band or genre gets popular, they all get into another one to remain cool? or is it just a progressive genre where boundaries are always broken?( a bit like pop music absorbing everything and anything).

Also what is the best "metal" for a non-metaller to start with? Apart from Led Zeppelin,Black Sabbath, Kiss, Guns 'N Roses,Metallica,Iron Maiden. I don't like Sunn o))). I do quite like Opeth and Porcupine Tree and I heard an Enslaved albums I liked the sound of on none listen a good while ago at a friends house.

269
Metallica · ...And Justice for All (1988) (233 Points, 6 votes - ONE #1
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d661/d6612377qv6.jpg

luv that om album

Paula I would say it is both a progressive and a reactionary genre. Metal is schizoid.

...and Justice for All = Legend-of-Zelda-metal

none of the Metallica albums are be on spotify, I checked last night.

*are going to be

Unless somehow "The Blackest Album" made it in LOL

Anyone want to respond to paula?

Pity Smithy wont see it, it's his kinda thing (the first part anyway)