Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 6)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Redd Kross: Teen Babes From Monsanto	5
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation	4
Ramones: Ramones	3
Kiss: Kiss	2
Dinosaur: You're Living All Over Me	2
Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties	1
Sonny Sharrock: Black Woman	1
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis: Bold As Love	1
Trust: Trust	1
Deep Purple: In Rock	1
Sonic Youth: Sister	1
Big Black: Songs About Fucking	1
Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat	1
The Reds: The Reds	1
ZZ Top: Tejas	1
Last Exit: The Noise Of Trouble	0
Rose Tattoo: Assault And Battery	0
Accept: Balls To The Wall	0
Teenage Jesus And The Jerks: Teenage Jesus And The Jerks	0
Deep Purple: Machine Head	0
Half-Life: Half-Life	0
Point Blank: Point Blank	0
Patti Smith Group: Radio Ethiopia	0
Metallica: Garage Days Re-Revisited	0
The Leather Nun: Alive	0
Cheap Trick: Dream Police	0
Bo Donaldson And The Heywoods: Farther On	0
Run-D.M.C.: King Of Rock	0
Budgie: Bandolier	0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Electric Ladyland	0
Black Pearl: Black Pearl	0
Rhys Chatham: Die Donnergotter	0
Various Artists: Back From The Grave, Volume 2	0
Miles Davis: Pangaea	0
The Runaways: Queens Of Noise	0
The Chocolate Watchband: The Best Of	0
Budgie: Budgie	0
Amon Duul: Experimente	0
Hapshash And The Coloured Coat: Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids	0
White Witch: A Spiritual Greeting	0
Voivod: Rrroooaaarrr	0
Last Exit: Iron Path	0
White Lion: Big Game	0
The Left: It's The World	0
Cream: Disraeli Gears	0
Various Artists: Less Than Zero	0
Thin Lizzy: Fighting	0
Uriah Heep: Look At Yourself	0
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts: I Love Rock 'N Roll	0
Stray Dog: Stray Dog	0

― Ioannis, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:59 (sixteen years ago)

no P-Funk record to vote for this time out? an outrage, i say. an absolute outrage!

― Ioannis, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:02 (sixteen years ago)

Kurt Cobain wrote all their albums, I reckon.

― dada wouldn't buy me a bauhaus (aldo), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

Daydream Nation obviously.

And now's a perfect opportunity to bitch about a line in that review that has always bugged me: "The only teenage riots conceivable by 1988 would've come from crack-fried neo-Panthers or domehead neo-Nazis." (124) A member of neither of those demographics, I was at the very heart of a well-reported 1990 riot in Chicago which occurred immediately after a PE and...wait for it...Sonic Youth concert and I was...wait for it...a teenager at the time. --30--

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:19 (sixteen years ago)

How the hell is that obvious??

Secret Treaties.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:30 (sixteen years ago)

Obvious to anyone who knows me. I'll email you my top ten tonight, BM.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:33 (sixteen years ago)

Ha ha, I was so cranky back then. (Though being a teen in a riot isn't the same as a riot primarily involving teens. On the other hand, if you were rioting in 1990 over SY and PE albums not being half as good as they used to be, I totally empathize.)

Speaking of Daydream Nation, Kevin recently pointed out something to me I'd somehow never noticed -- its final track is called "Eliminator Jr." only year after I'd wisecracked in a Voice review (later reprised in Stairway) that Sister was "Afterburner to Evol's Eliminator." Coincidence? You decide.

I'm voting for The Reds. Obviously.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

Obvious to anyone who knows me. I'll email you my top ten tonight, BM.

^I understand.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:09 (sixteen years ago)

I had a tough time deciding between ST and In Rock.

― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

wait, so you're saying that you're neither a "crack-fried neo-Panther" nor a "domehead neo-Nazi," KJB? well, there's yet another of my most cherished delusions brutally shattered on the marble-laden steps of rationalism. sob.

oh, and it's Sister, obviously.

― Ioannis, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, not sure how I rated DN higher than Sister (which is clearly the band's best album.) Guess I was just thinking wishfully at that point.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

huh, i thought it was because you thought Sister was basically an inferior retread of Evol at the time.

― Ioannis, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

Well yeah, that too. (Turned out to be a superior retread in retrospect, though.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Voted Deep Purple, but i could easily have duplicated Kevin or Bill's votes. Or gone for Half-Life, just to honour the MX-80 fire.

Also, special mention to "Look At Yourself" since the writeup contains my favourite of xhuxk's yuks (the one about the "dope-dazzled Heepie" marveling at his own face on his heroes' album cover)

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 8 May 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

Voted Trust, which I just picked up in a nifty box set of five of their albums when I was in France. Really loving the quirkiness and catchiness of the first album, although subsequent records seem to fall into a midtempo rut.

― don't cry, emo hamster (J3ff T.), Friday, 8 May 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)

Black Woman FTW but a lot of great music on this list.

― Sundar, Friday, 8 May 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

― System, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

wow

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 9 May 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

I like Redd Kross and I like their covers. Still, given the other albums here, a Redd Kross covers album at #1 is pretty wild.

― Sundar, Sunday, 10 May 2009 01:17 (sixteen years ago)

An Alex In NYC approved Redd Kross album though

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 10 May 2009 01:18 (sixteen years ago)

REDD KROSS - Best Album/EP: The Re-Run

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 10 May 2009 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

a Redd Kross covers album at #1 is pretty wild.

And a Redd Kross covers EP at #1 is even wilder.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 10 May 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

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