Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 2)

I hope Parliament wins!

really? i'm kinda pulling for the Dolls myself.

doesnt my user nick give it away?

d'oh!

My fave MC5 album deserves a vote though.

Wonder how many of these albums are on spotify. Someone could make a playlist

voted for sonny sharrock guitar -- one of those definition-stretching choices that i agree with

gonna be consistent with the last poll and vote for Kix again, although Purple Rain is tempting.

and when u run out of Kix albums to vote for?

i'll vote for something else?

aha.

I wonder if my local library still has this book.

Album misspelled above: Three Johns Atom Drum Bop

Albums I can't believe I got rid of: Michigan Rocks; Dust Hard Attack; Amon Duul II Dance of the Lemmings; Bad Religion Into The Unknown (the first album I ever got paid to write about, by the way.)

Not sure what I'll to vote for. Going by the what-I'd-want-to-hear-now rule, maybe the Vibrators or Suzi Quatro. Or something else.

What the heck, I'll go with Ubu I guess.

haha--i think i copied the list (spelling errors and all) from some unspecified site or other many years ago. maybe.

i would probably suggest ban half of ilm to hear that Michigan Rocks record.

Pere Ubu.

I'll vote for BOC even though its their least metal album.

Another one that I'm amazed that nobody ever seems to complain about me including: Meat Loaf. (I mean, I guess the LP cover looks metal, right?)

Stupidest selection above: Extreme, Pornograffitti.

These polls have persuaded me to order a copy of the book from Amazon, can't believe I've not done it sooner. Already curious to hear what Kix actually sound like...

Would probably go with Led Zep III or Meaty Beaty... of the ones I've heard here by the way.

you owe me a drink, xhuxk.

xp Vital Idol is a pretty weird choice nobody ever seems to mind much, too -- It's a remix album, for God's sake. Probably was just the closest thing to a best-of at my disposal at the time. (Now I've got a 2001 CD called Greatest Hits that would have made a little more sense.) Though I guess he went on to inpsire bands like Bang Tango, which I guess makes him metal enough for people.

Bryan Adams a weird one, too (despite the climactic dumpster solo), but that's a great album, so who cares. (Also, people do complain about it sometimes.)

you owe me a drink, xhuxk

Yeah right -- as soon as I get my first royalty check. (I estimate by the year 3000, maybe.)

didn't that one make it on a Kerrrang top 10 list once?

xp

i'll hold you to it.

I'll vote for BOC even though its their least metal album.

^^^^I'm ruling that one out for just that very reason, even though it's a stone ice-cold classic. Same deal with Parliament/Zep/Prince/The Who. In the end, it'll come down to Ubu or the Velvets.

As a whole, I love this second 50 more than the first, aside from the half-dozen I'm unfamiliar with. (I can't believe that Bad Religion album still hasn't been reissued)

I think Greg Graffin genuinely still hates it! It's his very own hair-metal-Pantera.

Meta Loaf and Bryan Adams were both Kerrang! regulars in the 80s/early 90s so it's not like Chuck was out there on his own

you post on ilx way too much

Meta Loaf is my new favorite typo.

Haha didn't notice that, it is now mine

xp errr "OK"

thanks!

dj mencap i was referring to the fact you said "meta" instead of "meat"

Who is really guilty, he who does notice or he who doesn't????? CONUNDRUM

where is dj martian these days?

Lotsa great stuff: Osmonds, Samoans, my two fave Motorheads (Orgasmatron never gets enough love), Dust, The Sweet (even though they're a singles act), etc. But I always gotta go for the greatest album of the 1970s: New York Dolls: In Too Much Too Soon.

I fell in love with Dance of the Lemmings once and have never been able to access that feeling again. Still don't get The Pink Fairies. And Myonga, how one earth is Osmium Parliament's least metal album??

P.S. Meta Loaf, please make an album.

lol how ON earth

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xxpost - Yeah, I coulda clarified that a lot better, couldn't I? Basically I was being lazy and quoting the term "least metal" to describe a scarcity of metal in general on Osmium (and those other albums) even thought it's surely their HEAVIEST. (Same goes for Purple Rain.) The fact that I included Led Zep III amongst them gave the false impression that I knew exactly what I was trying to say!

Really, though, it all comes down to finding imaginary excuses to eliminate perfectly wonderful LPs from contention just to make it easier to vote for one and-one-only. (And ultimately that one is White Light/White Heat.)

Lots of good stuff on this list. Live Rust deserves at least one vote, so that.

voted for sonny sharrock guitar [...]
― abanana

voted for Guitar as well.

great record. maybe Sharrock's best ever.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i like most of this stuff but something is so absolutely retarded about this list.

"look at me! i have interesting ideas about ideas about rock music." blurgggggghhhhhhhhhh

Matt P you've lost this battle before it's even begun.

Really, though, it all comes down to finding imaginary excuses to eliminate perfectly wonderful LPs from contention just to make it easier to vote for one and-one-only. (And ultimately that one is White Light/White Heat.)

yeah...voted Fun House in last poll, WLWH in this one.

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not bad

Extreme: Pornograffitti 2

Yikes.

haha--how much weight does pfunkboy pull around here anyway?

Phil (i presume) and i were the only Motorhead voters??? :(

haha--how much weight does pfunkboy pull around here anyway?

If Cosmic Slop wins poll #3 we'll know it's a conspiracy!

ok everyone vote Cosmic Slop in poll #3!!