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

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pt. 3: 100-150

(best part of the book maybe. funniest anyhow.)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality 5
Funkadelic: Cosmic Slop 5
Miles Davis: Agharta 3
Flipper: Album Generic Flipper 3
Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti 3
The Chambers Brothers: The Time Has Come 2
Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 2
Buthole Surfers: Psychic…Powerless…Another Mans Sac 2
The Ramones: Rocket To Russia 2
Amon Duul II: Lemmingmania 2
Faith No More: The Real Thing 2
Celtic Frost: Into The Pandomonium 2
Queen: A Night At The Opera 1
Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak 1
The Sonics: !!!Here Are The Sonics!!! 1
Sonic Youth: Walls Have Ears 1
Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power 1
Dag Nasty: Field Day 1
The Who: Who's Next 1
The Troggs: Best Of The Troggs 1
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced 1
Die Kreutzen: October File 1
Glen Branca: The Ascension 0
Van Halen: Fair Warning 0
Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet 0
Poison: Look What The Cat Dragged In 0
The Runaways: The Runaways 0
Tom Robinson Band: Power In The Darkness 0
Anti-Nowhere League: We Are The League 0
Uriah Heep: The Best Of 0
Boston: Boston 0
Death Of Samantha: Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants 0
ZZ Top: Eliminator 0
Heart: Dreamboat Annie 0
Van Halen: Van Halen 2 0
ZZ Top: El Loco 0
Pink Faries: Kings Of Oblivion 0
Public Image LTD.: First Issue 0
Lou Reed: Rock N Roll Animal 0
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures 0
Rock City Angels: Young Man's Blues 0
Girlschool: Nightmare At Maple Cross 0
Billy Squire: The Tale Of The Tape 0
Van Halen: Women And Children First 0
Chain Gang: Mondo Manhattan 0
AC/DC: If You Want Blood You've Got It 0
ZZ Top: Deguello 0
Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin II 0
The Dictators: Manifest Destiny 0
Various Artists: Nuggets, Volume Six: Punk, Part 2 0


\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 15:26 (seventeen years ago)

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

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

So many albums I love here!

Sundar, Monday, 13 April 2009 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

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

Bill Magill, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

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

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

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.

xhuxk, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

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

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Kickstart My Heartwork (J3ff T.), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:46 (seventeen years ago)

thin lizzy

brewer and what (some dude), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

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.)

xhuxk, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

and captain (kingkongvsgodzilla), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

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.

james k polk, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

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.)

xhuxk, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

awesome, James. thanks!

xp

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Monday, 13 April 2009 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:45 (seventeen years ago)

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).

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:48 (seventeen years ago)

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

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://officialstairwaytohell.com/

what the hell???

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

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

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://isaiah4319.com/Highway-to-Heaven_1_.JPG

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

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.

xhuxk, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

???

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

\m/ metal oaf \m/ (Ioannis), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:52 (seventeen years ago)

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

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

Never said they were.

Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:00 (seventeen years ago)

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.

Sundar, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 17 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Saturday, 18 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

led zep II just cant buy a vote in ilx polls

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 19 April 2009 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

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!

Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 19 April 2009 11:42 (seventeen years ago)

recorded on the eve of their never again sucking

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

xhuxk, Sunday, 19 April 2009 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

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

Jeff W, Sunday, 19 April 2009 13:59 (seventeen years ago)

part 4?

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 20 April 2009 13:57 (seventeen years ago)


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