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

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.

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!