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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
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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)

...And Justice For All was my #1.

Skot or unperson around? chuck? (chuck has a loose definition of metal, try asking him).
Have you seen his Stairway To Hell book?

Alice in Chains maybe? (as a starting point)

My definition is basically based on bands being influenced by other bands or sounding similar. Also if a band insists they are metal, I'll take them at their word. Not so much if they insist they aren't metal though...

Motorhead say they arent metal

exactly my point.

They even invented the metal ballad - see "1914"

i seem to remember a few hair metal bands in kerrang saying they were metal but then on MTV saying they weren't heavy metal they were heavy rock to not put people off.

anyway more false metal coming up

268
Rush - Moving Pictures (1981) (237 Points , 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c862/c86263fbc07.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4tYzvNBYBh3vFbLdFMplWT

lol 1916 i mean... forgot when the great war started I guess.

Not the Rush album I voted for but I'm glad to see it on the list!

so many great Rush albums

Red Barchetta is such a great song. Hard to pick a favorite on Moving Pictures though, they're all great.

omg i just got that stupid visual pun on the rush album

Wait, really?

Lol

oh god that's one bad pun

but then again, would expect nothing less from Rush

267
Pearl Jam · Vitalogy (1994) (237 Points , 5 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d870/d87020fx956.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3ZJplfadDFMU8oV5IpvGtI

oh dear now this is some serious falseness.

great album even if false

266
266
Saxon · Wheels of Steel (1980) (238 Points, 6 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d819/d81901d6xa8.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6EGEGr4oY0PsV6yGBxeQ8J