Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 1)

Nothing on that list moves me more than Sabbath's Sabotage. I've got Superztar in my head right now!

Additional 100 reviews are definitely not metal enough

Then I'm buying it today! :)

You should track down Miss Daisy's Pizza Connection next!

Got a sealed copy for like a buck. Hated it. But I'll thank you for ever for Dust and Sir Lord Baltimore.

And yet you didn't care for Bang! Oh well, whatevs.

kjb dont like metal

you're gonna hate the Nirvana reviews, Kevin.

I refuse to participate in this one, as all it'll do is make me say something dismissive about Kix and Teena Marie, and then I'll get all nostalgic for the mid-2000's, when I took this ILX crap more seriously.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I still listen to 1984. A lot.

Various Artists: Nuggets, Volume One: The Hits

was 'babes in arms' only released on tape?

By the time Stairway came out, probably yes. But I've got a CD of it copywrite 1998.

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Tuomas's fave metal album wins!

What's weird is that nobody ever really whines about Funkadelic being in the book, even though they're in there way more than Teena Marie or the Osmonds (both of whom people whine about all the time.)

I played Crazy Horses for a few of my metal friends one afternoon and told them to guess who it was. Sabbath, they said. Oh yes they did.

ILM hates metal, Sabbath get a free pass, film at ten.

Crazy Horses is the sweetest song ever devised but the vocals sound not one shit like Ozzy.

Maggot Brain has screaming guitar solos, Teena Marie and the Osmonds don't.

Have you HEARD Crazy Horses?

And Teena Marie?

Yeah, I was gonna say -- The guitars in "Crazy Horses" and "Lips 2 Find U" sure as hell aren't whispering. (And if extended solos were a requirement, metal fans never would have accepted Motorhead.)

knew someone was gonna jump on me for that. probably should've known 3 people would jump on me for that.

Funkadelic rock, have screaming guitar solos and are fucking awesome. Hurrah for Funkadelic winning!

hey, where are all of ilx's Hysteria fans??

voted Rocks, myself. wish i had voted Toys in the Attic now (my fave record in da whole wide world when i wuz 14).

xps

the Teena Marie pick has always made a lot more sense than the Adverts pick for me, tbh; '80s hair-metal riff-raff and hooks vs. '70s My Bloody Valentine as fronted by a Mick Jones sound-alike? (j/k, btw)

the adverts album is one of my fave albums ever.

I played Crazy Horses for a few of my metal friends one afternoon and told them to guess who it was. Sabbath, they said. Oh yes they did.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 00:15 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OK, how old can anyone be that likes Sabbath and has never heard Crazy Horses?

Younger than you I guess. Crazy Horses was out the year before I was born. I don't remember hearing it until late 80s/early 90s.

probably around the time I first heard Paranoid.

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the Adverts = '70s My Bloody Valentine as fronted by a Mick Jones sound-alike

Wow, if you could remotely convince me of this, I might actually turn out to like MBV. Except the Adverts had so many things MBV didn't -- great hooks and great songs and a great singer, for starters. (Not sure though why MBV shouldn't be in a metal book. They've certainly influenced enough metal by now. And they had loud noisy guitars. The reason they wouldn't have made Stairway isn't 'cause they weren't metal enough; it's 'cause they weren't good enough. Just like Iron Maiden. I did put a Jesus & Mary Chain album in there, though -- and they do sound like MBV with hooks.)

"What's weird is that nobody ever really whines about Funkadelic being in the book, even though they're in there way more than Teena Marie or the Osmonds"

Because Funkadelic actually played some metal, whearas the other two didn't. Standing on the Verge is metal, and Super Stupid from MB is one of the great metal songs of all time. Kix wouldn't know Rock if one was thrown through its tour van's windshield.

gotta love bill magill

JaMC WAY more metal than MBV, imo! the hooks make all the difference.

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Kix were about as metal as early-Kinks, so no problem there.

Kix are as metal as girls aloud but who cares anyway

The American Idol episode I unfortunately watched last night is as metal as Kix.

Kix are as metal as The Lex.

i said nothing when they came for Kix...

Kix the breakfast cereal is more metal than Kix the band.

OK, how old can anyone be that likes Sabbath and has never heard Crazy Horses?

I was well into my twenties when I first heard Crazy Horses. By contrast, I had an (atypical?) Sabbath-drenched youth. In fact, I was so young when I first heard Sabbath that I thought the spooky gal on the cover of the debut was my sister.

I thought you grew up listening to the village people