Soundtrack POLL: Heavy Metal

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Release: ??? 1981

Poll Results

Option	Votes
"Working in the Coal Mine" (Devo) (2:48)	4
"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" (Blue Öyster Cult) (4:48)	3
"I Must Be Dreamin'" (Cheap Trick) (5:37)	2
"Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" (Don Felder) (5:00)	1
"Crazy (A Suitable Case for Treatment)" (Nazareth) (3:24)	1
"The Mob Rules" (Black Sabbath) (2:43)	1
"Heavy Metal" (Sammy Hagar) (3:50)	0
"All of You" (Don Felder) (4:18)	0
"Prefabricated" (Trust) (2:59)	0
"Queen Bee" (Grand Funk Railroad) (3:11)	0
"Open Arms" (Journey) (3:20)	0
"Radar Rider" (Riggs) (2:40)	0
"True Companion" (Donald Fagen) (5:02)	0
"Reach Out" (Cheap Trick) (3:35)	0
"Heartbeat" (Riggs) (4:20)	0
"Blue Lamp" (Stevie Nicks) (3:48)	0

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 August 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man. This is way too hard. I absolutely love this soundtrack. I'm torn between "I must be dreaming," "Queen Bee," and "Prefabricated." Most of the other tracks are equally great, but a lot of them are available on other records ("Veteran of the Psychic Wars," "Heavy Metal [although the version on the soundtrack is by far the superior one],"). Whatever happened to Riggs, anyway?

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 9 August 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm abstaining because this has long been my vote for the very worst film of all-time.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

BOC- VotPW by quite some fucking distance.

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 11 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Journey's gonna kill in this poll, aren't they?

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 12 August 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 12 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Aww I shouldve voted. How could this movie be the worst when Heavy Metal 2000 exists? I think I like this movie. It's sexist as hell but it's so over the top you have to respect its audacity.

― filthy dylan, Monday, 13 August 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

This movie was significant because I don't remember anyone using the term "heavy metal" to describe music before that. It coined the name of a musical genre, or so it seemed at the time.

― Bimble, Monday, 13 August 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

Bimble, check out the lyrics to Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" from 1969 or so, maybe earlier.

Actually, I haven't seen Heavy Metal since the 1980s. At the time, it seemed like a Yes record cover come to life...for two freakin' hours (or so). NOT my idea of a good time. Or even a middling one. Or even an awful one. More like a fingernails yanked off my fingers sort of time. It MAY be slightly better than I remembered it. But hells no, am I gunna seek it out to make sure.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 13 August 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it was pretty bad, and I was the perfect age to have loved it when it was released. But then, I was never one of those swords-&-orcery-comics geeks. (I was a geek of a different stripe.)

Anyway, the soundtrack was certainly better than the movie deserved. BÖC
woulda gotten my vote if I'd noticed this poll at all.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 13 August 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck, how did I miss this? I already wrote a love letter to it here.

For me, it's a toss up between "Working In A Coal Mine", "Mob Rules" and "Reach Out".

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

...although "Prefabricated" rocks as well.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the movie was pathetic, of course (although pugilism would have ensued had you said that to me at the time).

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

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