Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 4)

Gotta be the Coop.

Here's where the stink starts to settle in (how much does that Black Heat album go for nowadays?). I voted for The Sweet even though there are better greatest hits comps out there.

But I have to pay my respects to Sir Lord Baltimore. Pretty much the only way I'm going to dig thud is if someone like the gloriously preposterous John Garner revs the camp factor up to the rafters. "Hell Hound" really is a remarkable performance rivaled by nothing else in music (although Jerry Lewis topped it as Frink's father on The Simpsons).

I think "Pumped Up" or possibly "Ain't Got Hunt On You" may rival it, but I commend you all the same, KJB! Kingdom Come FTW

Between Jack Johnson and Tyranny and Mutation.

Cheap Trick. but it could have been Oi!

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(how much does that Black Heat album go for nowadays?)

Rhetorical question, I know, and I have no idea what the answer is, but fwiw there was a 2-disc double-CD reissue of Black Heat's two albums called Declassified Grooves that came out in 2001. The Left, Human Zoo, George Brigman, and the Godz have also had extremely welcome CD reissues this decade (Brigman's had a couple), fortunate for me since I got rid of all their vinyl a good long time ago.

My gut feeling says that Killer might actually be the most essential album up there, and Rose Tattoo the one I actually play the most. But fuck that, I'm going to vote for mysteriousness this time. Sooooo.....The Accursed it is, obviously.

(SRC pretty mysterious too, come to think of it. But in a significantly more boring way, somehow.)

Best album title: Roky's Teo, which I think I more or less made up.

Good '00s Roky CD comps too, obv. And I probably was just showing off by not going with the domestic version of that album, The Evil One. Wish I still owned both of them. Or at least one of them.

"Supposedly if you fix your pupils long enough on the sleeve then stare into the sun you'll see God, but I'm an anger on stick, so I wouldn't know," may be my favorite quote in the entire book.

An AGNOSTIC. Although I do like "anger on stick."

Jack Johnson, easy.

just out of curiousity, what non-funky jazzbo album up there do you even like?

Wonder if Funkadelic's reign will end here - Hardcore Jollies is one of their least popular joints.

where ilm's Rush fans at then?

xp

thanks, Jeff!

hardcore jollies is ok but its not better than a lot of those albums so im not even voting for it!

"where ilm's Rush fans at then?"

This one is wondering why 2112 or Farewell to Kings isn't on the list instead of Permanent Waves

not metal enough maybe?

I realize Chuck has a pretty interesting definition of "metal", but I think those are heavier. That's why I'm curious.

wondering why 2112 or Farewell to Kings isn't on the list instead of Permanent Waves

Because they're not as good.

I voted Permanent Waves just cause I've listened to it more than Jack Johnson. "Jacob's Ladder" and "Natural Science" are ridiculously good. The first two songs are really catchy too.

man this is super hard...

I also voted Permanent Waves. So there is no shortage of Rush fans here.

"Because they're not as good."

Uh, I don't know about that.

I voted Tyranny.

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lol miles davis joint winner(i think i voted for that)

hah!--Funkadelic still almost won? also, i wonder how many or the Red Cross votes were of the lol sort? voted for Rush, as i figured Jack Johnson would take it.

how many or the Red Cross votes were of the lol sort?

Why? Because the record has funny songs on it??

Sir Lord Baltimore: Kingdom Come 0

What the hell?? I must've forgot to click 'vote'

Wait, is that the same band as Redd Kross?

(whom I like a lot)

yes

they were made to change their name

Oh, crazy. I just knew of this record as Redd Kross' Annette's Got the Hits!

(I mean, it wouldn't have changed my vote anyway.)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1384786-1215031630.jpeg
Tracklisting:
A1 Cover Band
A2 Annette's Got The Hits
A3 I Hate My School
B1 Clorox Girls
B2 S & M Party
B3 Standing In Front Of Poseur

http://i41.tinypic.com/zyg039.jpg

Yeah, that's the same tracklist I have for Annette's Got the Hits.

Why? Because the record has funny songs on it??

nah, its coming out on top is just somewhat surprising is all. (didn't these dudes release Neurotica later on?)

Yeah, three records later. Each less good than the previous (though Neurotica was still pretty good.)

Anyway, it's no weirder at the top than Jack Johnson (which is really good, but to the day I die I'll never understand why so many people consider it the peak of '70s Miles, while On The Corner and Get Up With It are out there. Neither of which sounded "metal" enough to me to qualify for this book, but I'll take them over the three Miles albums that did qualify any day.)

wondering why 2112 or Farewell to Kings isn't on the list instead of Permanent Waves

Cuz they aren't as good as Rush's terse, New Wave-inflected, eighties power pop?

Do you want to take this outside?

Kidding, obviously. I like some of the power pop Rush, but Rush for me is really the debut up to Moving Pictures.

Well, the debut did make the book (which, fwiw, is subtitled The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums In The Universe, not The 500 Heaviest Heavy Metal Albums In The Universe, though for some reason lots of folks still have trouble understanding that.)

(And Moving Pictures made the book too, of course.)

You prefer the debut to Farewell to Kings?

is the debut really better than 2112 and Hemispheres or just heavier, tho (always wondered if you discounted their late-'70s stuff as too "prog" for the book, xhuxk)?

xp

hah

xp Well, I did then anyway. Remember, I wrote this book a million years ago. Always liked the idea of Rush as a not entirely de-bluesified early '70s style sludge metal band, and I'd always kind of hated "Closer To The Heart." Not sure whether I'd stand by that these days or not, though.

Basically, I liked them more as a rock or new wave band than a prog band, I guess. (Which doesn't mean I disliked all prog; just wasn't crazy about theirs. I mean, c'mon, "2112" is a chore to get through.)

no, that's legit. the King Crimson albums you included were way "heavier," anyway. (Red should have definitely made it in, tho.)

btw, i won't put up pt.5 until Monday, probably (oh, the wait).

2112 a chore? I think it kicks all sorts of ass.

i like the rush 80s stuff best cuz that's what i heard first

they were hella in love with the police for sure

I brought out 2112 on a date once. Oh no, oh no, oh no... :' (

instant castrato-rock!

Ha ha, well, if you're having girl problems I feel bad for you son but I'm married to a much bigger Rush fan than myself who's been known to sing "Limelight" at metal karaoke nights. So I wouldn't know.

I'll admit that Geddy turned on the helium for 2112.