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

any genre of music has racist or sexist or homophobic or plain old bigots. metal is no worse than others.

Betting it's worse than disco

Sleep = properly named band.

lol, googling "racist dance music" just brings up Das Racist and Mia Michaels

Am feeling pretty bad now - got my wires completely crossed about Enslaved to the extent to which they seem like the sort of band I'd really dig - really, really hating on whomever suggested they might be racist.

googling "racist hip-hop" is simultaneously totally expected and really, really confusing

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/04/07/man-slashes-dog-for-being-racist/

LJ have you heard Cynic?

btw Dan, I know you mentioned in the past, one of the reasons you hated metal was because of the people at your school who liked it (and why you were wary of jj at first), but were they into thrash stuff like slayer/anthrax/metallica/megadeth, hair/glam metal or iron maiden/priest stuff?

yes

all three of those styles were what 80% of the school listened to

not heard Cynic

the other 20% liked top-40 radio and country

that's what i was asking, which of the 3. But i guess it was all 3 then

really, really hating on whomever suggested they might be racist.

Bog blast them, to quote Geezer Butler

(I still maintain that all of the original metal albums are hard rock as I don't really see any direct link between the Black Sabbath I know and the Iron Maiden I know).

Did you vote in that poll? Either way, what would you vote for?

I remember the day I came to the realization that people my own age listened to country music. Up until then, I thought it was just my grandmother's music. When someone mentioned buying the new Randy Travis album, I thought they were completely kidding. And I was going to school in Alabama!

what hair metal was jj into before he got into heavier stuff?

LJ you might really like their recent album 'traced in air'

it's kinda more prog than metal though i suppose

neat, will follow that up

have YOU heard Animals As Leaders? Best metal album of 2009

would strongly recommend AAL to Dan, actually - really melodically intricate and arresting, the only thing he might baulk at is the lack of vocals

15 Kyuss · Blues for the Red Sun (1992) (863 Points, 24 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/6/1/2/2612.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7wXj8GxTkGAUU99DXR7n2f

I have this ^ in a box somewhere, but I haven't listened to it in 10 or 12 years.

a very important album, esp to ppl of my age

top 20 not going the way lj predicted btw

bill & ez snappin still in a huff otherwise

If you say so. xps

Sleep-Kyuss is a fantastic 1-2 punch going into the top fifteen.

are 15 min intervals between albums too fast btw?

keep at it

14 Mayhem · De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (1994) (890 Points, 21 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/5/4/254.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4AkjhNjVvEYXoHeP2ZczlG

Hahaha

oops that got ONE #1 vote

hilarious.

next?

Aldo what do you think of the poll?

Did you vote in that poll? Either way, what would you vote for?

I didn't vote in the "first metal album" poll because no one has ever actually explained to my satisfaction what metal is, so I couldn't decide what the first metal album was.

what hair metal was jj into before he got into heavier stuff?

lol afaik he was always into heavier stuff; we bonded over Anthrax shortly after we first met

The bands represented here that I voted for from the 70s/80s are bands that made it into my house via my older brothers and father (Aerosmith, Rush, Led Zepplin) or bands that my close friends turned me on to (Iron Maiden, Anthrax). Most of the kids in my school, due to the time period and to where we were, had WEIRD ideas about race and most of them spanned the gamut of albums represented on this poll (possibly not the most extreme end of things but that is likely because they didn't know it existed). Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest (btw never had a problem with JP, just didn't care one way or the other), Bon Jovi, Poison, Winger, Skid Row, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Cinderella, Dokken, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, Rush, Megadeth, AC/DC... all of these bands were very, very popular with a lot of kids.

would strongly recommend AAL to Dan, actually - really melodically intricate and arresting, the only thing he might baulk at is the lack of vocals

yeah, the dude who spent the years from 1994 through 2000 listening primarily to techno/rave/acid/dnb is REALLY gonna have a problem with instrumental music

mayhem are awesome for srs

have you enjoyed being wrong as usual, lj?

Bill did you vote for a slayer album made in the last 19 years?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, August 13, 2010 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^no. How is that relevant at all?

btw if anyone has last fm, you should join http://www.last.fm/group/ILX+Rolling+Metal+Group

I'm really surprisd, to be honest. My tracks listing had far more extreme records placing than the albums one (which I thought was pretty canonical), yet the album listing has been really, really varied.

Not that surprised at the amount of Boris placing (I'm not going to say Hipster Metal but you could see a lot of people you might not expect to vote in this poll doing so, and for Boris), but amazed by the amount of doom and BM doing exceptionally well. Would never have guessed at multiple YOB placings to be honest and thought I was probably the only one who voted for more than one Corrupted. And Grief! How did so many of their records place?

Maybe the strangest thing though is that the BM placings are actually intelligent i.e. it doesn't appear to be random ilxors skewing the votes, they seem to be in roughly the order (wrt which albums are better than others by the same band) as is generally thought. I don't think I voted for much BM if any, mainly because I don't think of it as truly great, just something I'm listening to and loving at the time, but stoked at how much is making it.

Mayhem at #14? this poll just reached the parody stage. I loved the songs poll, this one is not turning out well.

http://perso.wanadoo.es/thesentinel2002/entrevista_euronymous2.jpg

"Euronymous had this total Satan attitude. I didn't have that - he had that. He was such a devil worshipper you wouldn't believe it."

Why does serious metal hate the finer points of graphic design, btw? The logos and album art are the stuff of 14 year-old boys doodling on canvas binders with blue ink pens in history class.

because they are dorks. look at the picture before your post. dork.

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:99y7c32kIIkQgM:http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1653/panterametalmagic1983cdmz3.jpg&t=1

Michaelangelo by comparison, that.

Good point. Serious metal dudes are the chess team of music.

hahahahaha

lol pantera, while we talk about racist pricks in metal.