Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 3)

oops...that would be 101 - 150, rather.

So many albums I love here!

There is one on this list that should have been #1 overall. The greatest album of all time, metal or otherwise-Master of Reality.

of these, i'm still dying to hear Mondo Manhattan myself--anyone here know where one might acquire a copy?

I still have mine! (Though it may be a couple years before I want to sell it. How much is it worth now?)

Don't own Rock City Angels anymore, shamefully.

i have no idea, Chuck. what i'd personally like would be a digital copy, natch.

Voted Faith No More. I love Chuck's incredulity at actually liking the album. And I recently picked up that Young MC album out of the dollar bin entirely because of its mention in that entry.

thin lizzy

Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears

Kinda wish I still had this, too, if only to sell it on ebay. (Am I right in assuming it's probably legendary by now? Or did it just become so-what commonplace at some point? When it came out, some stores I frequented actually carried several copies, weird since I assume it wasn't a legit release.)

Sonic Youth Walls Have Ears RARE 2LP 1986 0 Bids $24.99 2d 23h 36m

you can purchase a legal digital copy of Chain Gang's Perfumed for 45 cents at Amie Street. http://amiestreet.com/music/chain-gang/perfumed/ there is only a some song overlap between that and Mondo Manhattan but it sound like the same kind of trash punk.

Yeah, I can definitely vouch for Perfumed -- really good 23-song career retrospective, came out on Matador in '93, worth getting whether you track down Mondo Manhattan or not.

In fact, I think I'll put on my copy now.

And I'm going to vote for Die Kreuzen, I think. For sentimental reasons (even though I wouldn't say it's even close to the best album up there. Not even the best '80s indie-rock album, really.)

awesome, James. thanks!

xp

Yeah, I'm going with Flipper here...still unlike anything I've ever heard (which doesn't mean it's the greatest thing to come 'round the bend...just sui generis).

I have the lovely keepsake Mondo Manhattan on vinyl only and am (still) not set up for vinyl-to-mp3 transfers. One day.

That Chambers Brothers record is a 12" single with a bunch of very bad b-sides.

And Walls Have Ears is one in a looooooooooooooong line of mythical-for-no-particular-good-reason bootlegs.

Most conventionally "metal" of the three polls so far - look at all those ZZ Top and Van Halen entries! I count at least a dozen A-to-A+ entries here but I gotta give it to P...P...AMS. A perfect fusion of sheer fucking around and actual songs that they'd never equal, and one of my four favourite records of the '80s.

Actually, I might've gone for Hendrix over the Buttholes, had xhuxk chosen the American AYE? rather than the UK version (inferior IMO).

ok, that does it--i'm voting for Walls Have Earz. so there. Chambers Brothers is damn good too, tho. wtf?

http://officialstairwaytohell.com/

what the hell???

How on God's Green Earth is Power in the Darkness a metal album? Chuck you are a very silly person indeed.

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Voted Faith No More. I love Chuck's incredulity at actually liking the album

Thing is, if I was smart, I would have been way more incredulous, and ranked it 473rd or something.

???

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/33406

Alex you cant vote Killing Joke then in the next poll as they're not heavy metal.

Never said they were.

I like to love these (and would love more if I knew them, I'm sure):

Queen: A Night At The Opera
Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power
AC/DC: If You Want Blood You've Got It
Boston: Boston
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti
Funkadelic: Cosmic Slop
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
The Who: Who's Next
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II
ZZ Top: El Loco
Heart: Dreamboat Annie
Glen Branca: The Ascension
Miles Davis: Agharta
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced

I'm leaning towards Hendrix but Joy Division, Miles, and Physical Graffiti are strong contenders. That's probably the most 'metal' (?) Branca, and I like it, but I think his later work is more impressive.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

led zep II just cant buy a vote in ilx polls

I listened to Walls Have Ears a few more times and read Greil Marcus' review of it in Ranters and Crowd Pleasers but remain unconvinced of its greatness. Maybe if it hadn't been recorded on the eve of their never again sucking I'd like it more. Then again, the live tracks on the Deluxe Edition of Daydream Nation do little for me. I mean, I dig how the post-no-wave splits the difference between lulling and spooky. But then there's a snippet of Madonna's "Into The Groove" and boy does the record ever perk up!

recorded on the eve of their never again sucking

More like (the eve of) the eve of their never again non-sucking, but whatever...

Missed this poll. Just as well: I'd probably have voted for TRB or something.

part 4?