Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 9)

have only heard these in their entirety = I R FAILED METUL KID! :?(

King Crimson: Starless And Bible Black
The Who: Live At Leeds
Aerosmith: Done With Mirrors
Metallica: …And Justice For All
Led Zeppelin: Presence
Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
Cream: Best Of Cream
Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf
AC/DC: For Those About To Rock We Salute You
Divinyls: Desperate
Circle Jerks: Group Sex
Various Artists: Repo Man
Dream Syndicate: Days Of Wine And Roses
Ted Nugent: Double Live Gonzo

Oooh here things take a definite turn for the crap-diddly-dappy. There's nothing here I love. I guess I'll go for Sabbath out of sheer laziness.

did i miss part of this thread? 'cause i didnt see
blue cheer - vincebus eruptum
ac/dc - d. deeds done d. cheap
gordons - gordons
sir lord baltimore - kingdom come
black sabbath - master of reality
sleep - sleep's holy mtn
ted nugent/amboy dukes - tooth fang & claw
budgie - never turn yr back on a friend
among other i'd've thought predictables

yeah, some of those options were on previous polls.

Voted Pagans so they get one vote

AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video

Was under the impression this is generally considered to suck - care to dispute this Chuck/anyone?

yeah, that's always been my impression as well. i'll probably end up voting for the other AC/DC album here, tho.

Nice to see Chuck was ahead of the curve with Gore. So I'm gonna vote for that.

Primitive Organs? LOLOLOLOL

^improved title imo!

Chrome Chrome Chrome Chrome Chrome

Still yet to hear the Moving Sidewalks.

Winners for me: Sabbath, Chrome, Dream Syndicate, Pagans, Brownsville Station, Circle Jerks

What is this: Flaming Lips: Flaming Lips?

I'd be tempted to vote Pagans as well but swayed by Dream Syndicate, Circle Jerks, Chrome & maybe even Prong and some others... hmm

oh duh and Black Sabbath obv

Moving Sidewalks has been reissued recently-ish under it's original title of Flash (99th Floor is a single tacked onto the end which is their best known track appearing on Pebbles etc) - it's not a bad album although 99th Floor is probably the best song on it.

It's their 1st EP, Waynes brother was still in the band then.
Bagfull of Thoughts is on it.

How the fuck could this be anything but Sabbath?

It's ILM is the answer.

love the Sab album, Bill, but side two is kind of uneven.

it kills man, Wicked World, the Wizard, Sleeping Village. Side 2 is flawless.

The most unfamiliar stretch of the book so far - I've only heard a little more than half of these. I've not had the occasion to vote for Led Zep in any of the previous polls, so no better time than now to give it to 'em. And no better album than their most radio-unfriendly and un-unplugged LP ever. (Bonzo FTW!)

Also considered: Sabbath, Grand Funk, Chrome, Tony Williams. And I wouldn't mind hearing David Roter and Gore someday.

It's ILM is the answer.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, I forgot. So one of the most influential albums ever recorded will probably lose to something horrific like Done With Mirrors. I forgot the crowd we were dealing with.

The Divynals? Dream Syndicate? FLAMING LIPS?????????? Thats some pretty heavy fucking metal right there.

NB my picks have nothing to do with being the best heavy metal album, re Dream Syndicate etc. You should be well familiar with xhuxk's disregard for genre boundaries by now!

I am, and I appreciate the flexible definition, but this is "Black Sabbath" we're talking about here, the album that started it all.

even when up against Killing Joke?

chrome v sabbath.

ill decide later

How's that Last Exit?

I forgot the crowd we were dealing with.

You did. Chrome and the Pagans? Eesh. And I'm someone who likes those records.

I'm not saying I consider the Pagans a heavy metal band but they don't strike me as being the sorest of thumbs in this top 50, let alone the whole 500

LOL I totally didn't realize he had Riot albums in there. I just looked it up, and I love how 2/3 of the "Fire Down Below" review is an anti-baby-seal screed.

Apparently Riot puts a baby seal on ALL their album covers!

That Riot album is really officically called Fire Down Under though, right? (Pretty sure I went with the Bob Seger title version because of a hilarious mistake on the spine of my vinyl copy; anybody have a copy around that they can check with their own eyes?)

And yeah, Blow Up Your Video is probably fairly mediocre, though probably not all that much more mediocre than anything else AC/DC has done since 1981. (Couldn't get into their album last year, sorry.) I kind of heard Blow Up as their return to boogie at the time, fwiw.

Done With Mirrors is real good though (at least better than anything else Aerosmith have done in the past quarter century), I don't care what anybody says. (A Done With Mirrors vs Night In The Ruts vs Rock In A Hard Place poll might well be educational.)

Almost definitely worse that Blow Up Your Video: The Lita Ford and Gone albums listed above, not that I've listened to them lately.

Ones I'd be curious to hear again (and which I'd probably be disappointed by if I did ever heard them):

Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh: Berlin
The Mortal Micronotz: The Mortal Micronotz
Lone Star: Firing All Six
Hades: Resisting Success
White Zombie: Psycho-Head Blowout
Gore: Mean Man's Dream
Various Artists: Deep Six
Primal Scream: Volume One

Of those, Lone Star probably have the most legitimately "metal" potential. So what the hell, I'll vote for them.

The Who -- Leeds

You've no idea how many guys were struck dumb by the attack and brutality on that original vinyl. That was a sound hardly ever duplicated.

(Pretty sure I went with the Bob Seger title version because of a hilarious mistake on the spine of my vinyl copy; anybody have a copy around that they can check with their own eyes?)

yep, mine says "fire down below" on the spine, too.

I just listened to Live At Leeds a few days ago, first time in years. I'd never heard the extended edition. The version of Heaven and Hell that opens it is thick and sticky, especially. But it's all so good. Chrome is tempting though.

Whats THIS For is one of my favorite albums of all time. Gotta go with it.

just listened to Live At Leeds a few days ago, first time in years. I'd never heard the extended edition. The version of Heaven and Hell that opens it is thick and sticky, especially. But it's all so good. Chrome is tempting though.

― bendy, Friday, 4 September 2009 10:20 (Yesterday) Permalink

Heaven and Hell wasn't on the vinyl reviewed for Stairway. So bring it back and relate to the original.

The extended version has nothing to do with the real world as Leeds was released. In fact, the deluxe version dilutes the savage punch of the original. I have both.

Comparing Chrome to the Who live on record is like asking to believe a high school football team was like Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

this is a great book btw -- just found my copy the other week. loads of terrific, funny writing.

One vote for Heart. It was me.