Stairway to Hell: The 100 Best Heavy Metal Albums of the '90s (pt. 4)!

still can't believe you didn't like Fluffy more, Chuck.

actually thought that boredoms was 80s. but anyway, that probably. the afghan wings song is great, but there's something a little sneaky about voting for a single.

Would love to vote for Thee Hydrogen Terrors, on the basis of "Radio to Saturn vs. Hackamore Brick", but nothing else on the record meets that even halfway. Went with Soul Discharge, which though it got a wide US release in 89, seems fair for inclusion due to being an on-the-cusp type thing. Doubt that many actually heard it during the year of release. House of GVSB is a runner-up, along with Death to the Pixies. But that gets into the whole reissues and best-ofs thing...

Nah, the Whigs thing was an EP -- mainly included for their version of TLC's "Creep," though it also had their version of "If I Only Had A Heart" from Oz.

I'm voting for Thee Hydrogen Terrors. I still listen to the whole album!

I played Jet Circus a couple months ago, too! Could also easy see listening to Young Gods, Cinderella, or Cobra Verde sometime soon.

Soul Discharge came out in 1990 in the States; not sure about Japan. (They had a couple earlier 7-inches, too, right? I used to own those. Probably should have kept them, for an investment if nothing else.)

Voted for The Upper Crust cos I like novelty music

G*V*S*B

Ioannis, do I get royalties for your sign-in name?

Death to the Pixies...gets into the whole reissues and best-ofs thing...

Wait, so do you hate best-ofs in general (which would be silly, since sometimes they're the best album a band has -- and it's not like I avoided best-ofs in the main part of the book), or do you just object to inclusion of older music among '90s albums? (The Pixies seem '90s enough, I would think, even if their first EP did come out in 1987.)

wurzn't me, Judgie...wurz dhat udder guy, shee?

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I'm fine with best-ofs and reissues, I just don't like comparing greatest hits comps with "regular albums". Seems unfair, somehow. And I don't normally consider reissues representative of the era of rerelease, unless they went basically unheard in the 1st place. I mean, I love Flipper, but don't consider Generic the best record of the 80s, 90s and 00s -- just the 80s.

I think I limit things that way just to keep myself from going insane.

"I'm voting for Thee Hydrogen Terrors. I still listen to the whole album!"

Man, I just thought about buying this at Amoeba, like a week ago, because it was $1. I only put it down (put everything down, actually) because the line was like 20 people deep, and I figured I'd better come back when I'd remembered to bring my store credit with me.

It's good, though? How's their other stuff? It looked nuts, and there was a whole bunch in the clearance section.

soul discharge is so good

still haven't heard the darn thing. :-/

why is Mission Of Burma: Signals, Calls, And Marches on this list?

It got reissued in the 90s by Rykodisc I guess?

Yep. And actually improved, via inclusion of their "Academy Fight Song"/"Max Ernst" single. Hence, all the Mission of Burma anybody needs to own.

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Cobra Verde (and their post-"Stairway" albums were even better).

Don't know a lot of these. I went with GVSB.

Hence, all the Mission of Burma anybody needs to own.

I have a Ryko promo called Catalog Sampler which does the trick for me. It's only missing "Max Ernst."

I realise I'm the only person to say Young Gods, but fuck it, them. Despite maybe the best songs being on L'eau Rouge this is the album of theirs I dig out the most.

i love the young gods

and they get my vote too

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hmm it didnt record one of the young gods votes

not that it would have made any difference