Heavy Metal...

[Claus]

What are the most important Heavy Metal (incl. Hard Rock) records in the music history?

I would like to compare your postings with my list... maybe I can add some titles!

Thx... Claus

[Dave]

Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Nazareth, Ozzy, Metallica, Triumph, Rush.......Oh yeah! Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin.....

[Reader]

The Stooges "Fun House" for sure. The Rhino Handmade box is incredible. If you haven't tried the Stooges first 2 LPs you're missing something! The first 3 Hendrix LPs and Band of Gypsys also.

[Grant]

Originally posted by Claus
What are the most important Heavy Metal (incl. Hard Rock) records in the music history?

I would like to compare your postings with my list... maybe I can add some titles!

Thx... Claus

Bear in mind that i'm no expert in metal or hard rock but I know what I like. So having said that, some of my choices would include:
any Jimi Hendrix
Led Zepplin
Led Zepplin II
Santana-Abraxas
Deep Purple-Live In Japan
Boston
Van Halen
Alice Cooper-Bilion Dollar Babies
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Van Halen-5150
Kiss-Destroyer
Fishbone-Truth And Soul

[KLM]

Here's a couple off the top of the old noggin...

Van Halen; Van Halen
Queen: Sheer Hear Attack
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin
Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf
Living Color: Vivid
King's X:Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
AC/DC: Back In Black
Rush: Moving Pictures
The Who: Live At Leeds
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced?
MC5: Kick Out The Jams
MotorHead: Ace Of Spades
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Yardbirds: Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Freaky Styley
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
Nirvana: Nevermind
Pearl Jam: Ten
Mudhoney: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres
Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic
Guns N Roses: Appetite For Destruction
Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune
The Clash: London Calling
The Ramones: Ramones
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
The Guess Who: American Woman
Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak
Def Leppard: Pyromania
Grand Funk Railroad:
T Rex: Electric Warrior
Bad Comapny: Bad Company

[ericpeters]

These are only important to me:

Deep Purple: In Rock, Machine head and Made in Japan.
Van Halen (the first)
Led Zeppelin II
The beatles White album, only Helter Skelter..
ACDC Let there be rock, If you want blood you've got it
Rush moving Pictures (is this hard rock?)
Jimi hendrix, cornerstones (it made me appreciate jimi)
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
Rainbow - On stage, Difficult to cure, Rising


Together with some Saxon, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Michael schenker group, Gillan, Santana, UFO these records and groups completed my dedicated hard rock period.

Before this I listened to the Beatles, CCR, Elvis and the Police.

After this I had a Dedicated Funk/Soul period until I realized that you can listen to any good music.

[Mike]

Here's some that haven't been mentioned:

Faith No More - The Real Thing
Montrose - Montrose
Tool - Aenima
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
Meat Puppets - II
Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Swans - Children Of God
UFO - Force It

[joachim.ritter]

Just my favourite albums:

Van Halen - s/t
Rage against the machine - s/t

Regards, Joachim

[Claus]

good selections folks... but I'm surprised nobody have mentioned Iron Maiden or Judas Priest. Both groups are one of the most important Heavy Metal groups in the 80's

[realjem1]

forgot to mention Metallica Black Album, Guns and Roses , Appetite For Destruction, Who's Next, Aqualung, Emerson Lake and Palmer

[TommyTunes]

To me there is a difference between Hard Rock and Metal, I would never consider Hendrix Metal however to play this game.

Steppenwolf - 1st
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Pink Faries - Never, Never Land
Stooges - Fun House
Led Zeppelin - II
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple - In Rock
Alice Copper - Love It to Death
Lucifers Friend - 1st
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Kiss - Alive
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity

[Edge_88]

Metallica
Led Zepplin
Black sabbath
ACDC "Back in Black" one of my favs from them
Iron Maiden 7th Son of 7th Son

[GoldenBoy]

Heavy Metal and/or Hard Rock, well, here goes my list, in no particular order:

Led Zeppelin: I, II, and Led Zeppellin [IV]
Black Sabbath: Paranoid; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Metallica: Master of Puppets; Ride the Lightning
Slayer: Reign in Blood; South of Heaven
Velvet Underground: VU and Nico; White Light/White Heat; Loaded
Iggy and The Stooges: Raw Power
AC/DC: Highway to Hell; Back in Black
Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
Judas Priest: British Steel; Screaming For Vengeance
Van Halen: Van Halen; Fair Warning; 1984
Jimi Hendrix: all of them
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation; Sister; Goo
Nirvana: Nevermind
Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Motley Crüe: Shout at the Devil
Radiohead: O.K. Computer; Kid A
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk
Jane's Addiction: Nothing's Shocking
Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Pearl Jam: Ten
P.J. Harvey: Dry
The Pixies: Doolittle
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Tool: Lateralus

and that's all I can think of at the moment.