Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 7)

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

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Husker Du: Zen Arcade	8
Minor Threat: Out Of Step	3
Metallica: Kill 'Em All	2
Black Flag: The First Four Years	2
MX-80 Sound: Hard Attack	2
Randy Holden: Population 2	1
Blue Oyster Cult: Spectres	1
Died Pretty: Free Dirt	1
Motorhead: No Sleep At All	1
Kiss: Dressed To Kill	1
AC/DC: 74 Jailbreak	1
Halo Of Flies: Garbage Rock	1
Hawkwind: Doremi Fasol Latido	1
Cheap Trick: One On One	1
Beck, Bogart And Appice: Beck, Bogart & Appice	1
Ministry: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste	1
Saint Vitus: Born Too Late	1
Captain Beyond: Captain Beyond	0
Mountain: Nantucket Sleighride	0
The Germs: (G.I.)	0
Lucifer's Friend: Lucifer's Friend	0
The Headhunters: Survival Of The Fittest	0
Silverhead: 16 And Savaged	0
Von Lmo: Future Language	0
Void And Faith: Void/Faith	0
The Accursed: Up With The Punks	0
The Dictators: Bloodbrothers	0
Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes: Tooth Fang & Claw	0
Robert Plant: Shaken 'N' Stirred	0
The Music Machine: Best Of	0
Last Exit: Last Exit	0
Uriah Heep: Uriah Heep	0
The Count Bishops: The Count Bishops	0
MX-80 Sound: Out Of The Tunnel	0
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry: Smashed Hits	0
Ted Nugent: Ted Nugent	0
Lord Tracy: Deaf Gods Of Babylon	0
The Celibate Rifles: Quintessentially Yours	0
Hard Stuff: Bolex Dementia	0
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Jungle Cowboy	0
The Mighty Groundhogs: Who Will Save The World?	0
D.C.3.: The Good Hex	0
Ursa Major: Ursa Major	0
Belfegore: Belfegore	0
Various Artists: Back From The Grave, Volume 1	0
Flamin' Groovies: Super Grease	0
Dragonfly: Dragonfly	0
Move: Shazam	0
Big Black: Racer-X	0
Meat Puppets: Meat Puppets	0

― Ioannis, Monday, 11 May 2009 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

I'd like to hear that Lord Tracy album again. I recall it being kinda cut and pastey, a big surprise amongst my brother's constant rotation of Winger and Tesla. Was utterly obsessed with finding Von Lmo until I heard a record he/they did in the 1990s (was I dreaming this?). Still haven't heard Saint Vitus though not for lack of trying. Still trying to find out the value of my copy of the Lucifer's Friend album mispressed with Neu! music on it.

Hmmmm. I guess I'll go for Motorhead here to make up for snubbing Orgasmatron earlier.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

Seeing Shaken 'n' Stirred in the book always amused me (love "Too Loud' and "Sixes and Sevens").

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 May 2009 13:30 (seventeen years ago)

Was utterly obsessed with finding Von Lmo until I heard a record he/they did in the 1990s (was I dreaming this?)

Nope, you weren't: Cosmic Interception, 1994, Variant Records. Actually sounded more listenable than Future Language to me when I played my copies back to back a couple months ago. But of course FL is still the truly mythical one. (Label on my CD copy of that, which may well be of dubious legality, is listed as flemishmasters.org.)

Definitely lots of records -- like, way more than half of them -- on this list I haven't heard, or even seen, in a long long time. Never "saw" the Randy Holden or Dragonfly in the first place; they'd been home-taped by other people. My gut says go with MX-80's debut (which I've got on CD), so I what the heck. Though I might switch the vote to Celibate Rifles if I ever find a copy of that again someday.

― xhuxk, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:35 (seventeen years ago)

Oh wait, there's two MX-80 LPs up there, I just noticed. Guess I'll have to flip a coin.

― xhuxk, Monday, 11 May 2009 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

whoa, i've only heard eleven of these (just counted). guess i'll go with Kiss then. (btw, somebody ought to make an mp3 blog project outta the book(s) dammit.)

― Ioannis, Monday, 11 May 2009 14:09 (seventeen years ago)

The Husker Du, Celibate Rifles, Dictators, and Died Pretty have all been my favorite record at one time or another. I always look for the Accursed when I'm in a punk store, but I never see them.

― james k polk, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

Kevin, you can get St Vitus on iTunes. Wasn't as awesome as I remembered, but I'm not 15 and stoned anymore but that's my fault not St. Vitus's.

Can I just vote for all the bands beginning with M? Meat Puppets, Metallica, The Move, Minor Threat, Motorhead, Music Machine & Mountain? (never heard the MX-80 or Ministry)

― Brio, Monday, 11 May 2009 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

st vitus fucking rule, though it seems the reformation isnt going to last long http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=10621

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 11 May 2009 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

ending already?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:05 (seventeen years ago)

I didn't even know there was a St Vitus reunion!

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:07 (seventeen years ago)

@ Roadburn

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 11 May 2009 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

Gee, wonder what I should vote for? [/sarcasm]

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 08:45 (seventeen years ago)

Died Pretty, metal? Uh... 0_0

― 65daysofsugban (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 09:46 (seventeen years ago)

i think that comment has been made about a lot on this list

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

randy fuckin holden.

― ian, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

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

― System, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Woohoo, Hard Attack tied for third!

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

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