Heavy Metal Poll

[Claus]

hi folks... what are your favorites???

AC/DC : Highway To Hell
Black Sabbath : Sabotage
Deep Purple : Machine Head
Metallica : Master Of Puppets
Ozzy Osbourne : Diary Of A Madman
Rainbow : Rising
Scorpions : Lovedrive
Van Halen : Van Halen

Well, eight all-time-favorites...

[YaQuin]

Rush - Signals

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz

Scorpions - Love At First Sting

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Armored Saint - Raising Fear

[SVL]

Well, keeping it one album per band, in the general "hard and heavy" category I'd say (in no particular order):

Deep Purple Machine Head
Led Zeppelin IV
Rainbow Long Live Rock'n'Roll
Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Scorpions Fly To the Rainbow
AC/DC Back In Black
Queen A Night at the Opera (stretching the category even further, but I just had to include that:))

[Sckott]

"Why haven't they called a major devistating tornado "the First Four Black Sabbath Albums"?? - Henry Rollins.

[PsychFan]

If Zeppelin counts as "heavy metal" (not sure myself), I say ...

Led Zeppelin II all the way.

[Holy Zoo]

I don't really know if these are Heavy Metal or not... seems like that terms had changed over the years. Anyways, here's my fav hard rock albums:

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Van Halen - S/T
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Led Zep - Presence
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - 2112
Alice In Chains - Dirt
AC/DC - Back in Black
Nirvana - In Utero
Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left To Lose

[Claus]

Okay, Rush do not play Heavy Metal, but I like their progressive Hardrock from the 80's... particulary Hemispheres, Moving Pictures. Can't wait to hear their upcoming new record in summer.

[Dave]

Ah Ha! I was waiting for this posting.

I'll just put the ones that no one else has yet.

Black Sabbath: Paranoid
The Cult: Sonic Temple
Def Leppard: Hysteria
Judas Priest: Screaming For Vengance
Metallica: S/T
Motley Crew: Shout At The Devil
Rush: S/T
Van Halen: 1984

[MikeD]

Originally posted by Sckott
"Why haven't they called a major devistating tornado "the First Four Black Sabbath Albums"?? - Henry Rollins.

That's a good one, Sckott. Too bad Rollins is such a blowhard. And he meant the first SIX! Sabotage and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are ahhhsome.

Claus - Lovedrive! You Europeans know your 70's metal. And Holy, Dirt is as heavy as some heavy stuff!

Before I do my list, I thought you guys would enjoy this recent Yngwie quote about Deep Purple. I pulled the link from melodicrock.com

You know, I don't like saying this, but they could do a lot better than what they have now. Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two are not good. I don't want to say it like this, but if they (Deep Purple) could have got me in that band they would have a performance that would blow people's head off. Even now I can play from the beginning of "Made in Japan" to the end. I can do it right now without missing a note.

Is he saying Americans shouldn't used humbuckers? lol


http://webpages.charter.net/cynthias/Burrn2002.htm

[Andy]

AC/DC Back in Black
Van Halen 1984

[Highway Star]

Getcha' motor runnin'...

[MikeD]

OK here's my list. I wouldn't count the Foo Fighters as heavy metal, but since Jeff included them, so will I, because it's one of my 90's faves! :D

AC/DC - Powerage
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Foo Fighters - The Colour & The Shape
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Swans - Children Of God
Thin Lizzy - The Peel Sessions
Tool - Aenima
UFO - Force It
Van Halen - Fair Warning

[Dan]

Here's mine after just a quick glance at the collection.

Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath-Mob Rules
Metal Church-Metal Church
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Rainbow-Rising
Fist-Thunder In Rock
The Rods-The Rods
Van Halen-Women And Children First

[Patrick M]

I'll go with:

Sabbath - Paranoid
Metallica - Puppets (or anything before the black album)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace (why didn't anyone mention this?)
Death Angel - Act III
Maiden - Piece of Mind
Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Ozzy - Blizzard
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
RATM - s/t

That's 10.

For the record, I don't consider Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Van Halen, AC/DC, etc. to be metal. I'm also not including prog-metal, like Dream Theater, King's X, Spock's Beard, etc.

Re: Yngwie, at one time or another, he has insulted everyone. He usually claims that everyone else plays out of tune, then he insults his detractors. He is still big **** in Japan. I once said Japan was 10 years behind the US in musical taste, and I was told Japan was, in fact, a "cultural magpie." They still love Mr. Big. You be the judge.

[Holy Zoo]

I have this weird definition where "heavy metal" is is a lighter version of "metal".

I have no rhyme or reason for this, it's just the way I feel. :)

Therefore, I think of Led Zep as being Heavy Metal, while I think of Megadeath as Metal.

[MikeD]

That's funny. I guess you have to come up with your own definitions. Mine are "hard rock" and "heavy metal". Which I guess I would differentiate on the basis of the screaming type vocal. Megadeth, Metallica, Judas Priest would be heavy metal, whereas Zep or Bad Co. would be hard rock. I guess heavy metal would also be lacking that bluesy or soulful feel. Or something. :rolleyes:

[Patrick M]

I think of it primarily in terms of guitar, playing and tone.

Metal -- lots of 5th chords/barre chords. Most riffs can be played on the top two strings. :)

Hard rock -- more blues-based, call and response.

The definitions make sense in my head, but I'd be hard pressed to explain them. I don't have a lot of trouble characterizing most bands as one or the other.

[Grant]

All Van Halen albums except VHII, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, Live, and Balance

AC/DC-Back In Black, For Those About To Rock

Ratt-Out Of The Cellar, Dancin' Undercover

Def Leppard-Pyromania

Aerosmith-Pump

Metalica-The Black Album

if Led Zepplin is metal, Led Zepplin II

Guns & Roses-Appetite To Destruction

Green Jello (Jelly)-Cereal Killer

Spinal Tap

[Grant]

Originally posted by Patrick M
I think of it primarily in terms of guitar, playing and tone.

Metal -- lots of 5th chords/barre chords. Most riffs can be played on the top two strings. :)

Hard rock -- more blues-based, call and response.

The definitions make sense in my head, but I'd be hard pressed to explain them. I don't have a lot of trouble characterizing most bands as one or the other.

I think this is one of the few times you and I actually agree on something.:)

[pigmode]

I guess we're not sure what Heavy Metal is...

Queensryche--Rage For Order
Queensryche--The Warning
Black Sabbath--Heaven And Hell