--- NOMINATIONS THREAD for ILM's Alltime Best Metal/Heavy Rock TRACKS Poll---. - Nominations end 11.59pm UK Time July 16th

John J has kindly volunteered to tabulate the results so we are going to have an ILM Alltime Best Metal/Heavy Rock tracks Poll & ILM's Alltime Best Metal/Heavy Rock Albums Poll.

This is the thread to nominate the tracks. No limit on nominations for now but that may change.
As regards to "alternative" stuff, Grunge obviously counts, janes addiction count(jane says too because if that doesnt count then neither does the metal ballads, which would be silly) , but not sonic youth or dinosaur jr type stuff. If you're not sure ask on thread, someone will comment for sure!
We can discuss and veto tracks on this thread. But make sure you do, no moaning when results are in.

So onwards with your nominations.

Will start with a few obvious ones.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pearl Jam - Alive

now lets go..

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Aerosmith - Nobody's Fault
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Slayer - Raining Blood
Van Halen - Panama

This is going to be great.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

Oh, that reminds me:

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

This is going to be great.

I sure hope so.

I have the distinct pleasure of nominating the following:

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Motörhead - No Voices In The Sky
Slayer - Angel Of Death
Aerosmith - Sick As A Dog
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen

Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Metallica - One
Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Converge - Fault and Fracture
Deftones - Change
...
I'm guessing punk/hardcore stuff doesn't figure in here?

Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
the Beatles - Helter Skelter
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Iron Maiden - Flash of the Blade
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Van Halen - Runnin with the Devil
Metallica - Enter Sandman

I'm not against it but others might.
Nominate stuff and if people wish to veto it we can. Or we just add "punk" to the thread title if there's loads of demand hehe.

But I think certain punk belongs and some dont. I think Anarchy In The UK prob should be nommed. I think Kick Out The Jams and I Wanna Be Your Dog type stuff should be too. The line between metal/punk/hard rock has long blurred. No Television or Blondie though...
I guess Green Day can since most of their fans are "kerrang" type. I think most know here which punk metal fans like and so on.

But will leave the decisions to the majority on this thread.

HAIR METAL ALERT

Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Dokken - It's Not Love
Accept - Love Child
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
KISS - I Was Made for Loving You (← challops?)
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Guns 'N Roses - Rocket Queen
Van Halen - Unchained
Wendy O. Williams - It's My Life
Living Colour - Cult of Personality
Black Flag - Loose Nut
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Megadeth - Hangar 18

I'm sure I'll think of more...

Does Cromagnon - Caledonia count? Because if so, I might actually vote in this poll.

I dont see why not. Its a great heavy track. But I dont think ballots of 1 or 2 songs/albums will be accepted! But i know you have a secret teenage metal past anyway..

melvins-Boris
sonic youth-expressway to yr skull
led zeppeline-kashmir
janes addiction-three days
my bloody valentine-when you sleep
spirituelized-cop shoot cop
qotsa-better living through chemistry
deep purple-black night
ministry-just one fix
foetus-hammer falls
high on fire-bastard samurai
ratm-bullet in the head
faith no more-epic
black sabbath-sweet leaf
mudhoney-in 'n' out of grace
the jesus&mary chain-reverence
jimi hendrix-voodoo child(slight return)

ooh, a few more. sorry.

Ratt - Wanted Man
Ratt - Round and Round
Ratt - Slip of the Lip
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Van Halen - On Fire
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
Faith No More - Digging the Grave
Helmet - Unsung
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Ministry - Burning Inside

I dont see
sonic youth-expressway to yr skull
my bloody valentine-when you sleep
spirituelized-cop shoot cop
the jesus&mary chain-reverence

as metal or hard rock, sorry. And i love all 4 bands. But I really dont think they belong in this poll. Sorry.
No probs with the rest.

I'd agree. (I love those bands too.)

lol johnny, im dreading all the votes for hair metal, but that was kinda the reason for the tracks poll, they kinda more belong in one than the albums (with some exceptions.

BUT FOR FFS

YOU LEFT OUT HANOI ROCKS

I dont see why not. Its a great heavy track. But I dont think ballots of 1 or 2 songs/albums will be accepted! But i know you have a secret teenage metal past anyway..

Ha, not at all! I'm one of the few people I know who didn't go through a metal phase. I was a grunge kid, but along the Nirvana/Sonic Youth/Dinosaur Jr lines rather than Alice In Chains/Soundgarden.

On the other hand, I do love Sabbath and Hawkwind. I could put together a ballot of just them. But I probably shouldn't - all the real metallers will hate me for ruining their poll.

Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy

emil.y dont be silly. If you like enough to make a ballot then do it. This is an ILM poll not a terrorizer poll anyway!

No doubt a lot of grunge will make my ballot anyway. It was my way in.

Its going to be a fucking nightmare limiting my ballot to 50 albums though.

Hanoi Rocks - Don't Never Leave Me

Hanoi Rocks - Until I get You

YOU LEFT OUT HANOI ROCKS

On purpose. I always thought they were shit.

Hawkwind - Silver Machine

aaaaaaaaaaand...

Spermswamp - Fermented Anal Nectar

Couple more, then I'll stop.

Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
Mötley Crüe - Wild Side

Oh, and

Mötley Crüe - Live Wire

AC/DC - Jailbreak
Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychick Wars
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
System of a Down - Toxicity
Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Meshuggah - I
Voivod - The Unknown Knows
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
Nirvana - School
Scale the Summit - Sargasso Sea
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
Caina - Willows and Whippoorwills

Does The Who count? Because they should.

The Who - Baba O'Riley
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

YOU LEFT OUT HANOI ROCKS

On purpose. I always thought they were shit.

― Johnny Fever,

that's when i reach for my suggest banolver ;)

You nominate shitty hair metal yet dont like Hanoi Rocks???? !!!

I just noted that I was nominating hair metal. Not that it was shitty. You're a pretty judgmental fuck, haha!

Tool - Schism

You can nominate all you like johhny. But hanoi rocks will beat most of it :P

Now I know how Tuomas feels when he gets razzed for talking about dance music in year-end threads. I'm being marginalized!!!

I really wish tuomas would nominate some metal/heavy rock songs he liked.
I can see plenty of people voting for tracks but not albums actually.

btw johnny, i bet half of the tracks you nominate get in the poll results easy

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Alice In Chains - Would

Heh, I nominated "Jesus Christ Pose" already.

bad me, i was too busy marginalizing poor johnny! ;)

Does 'Heart Shaped Box' really count as Metal/Heavy Rock? I mean, I can see 'School' working within the remit, but not ALL Nirvana songs. What next, 'Molly's Lips'?

damn right it does. and it will be bloody high in my ballot too. ( Heart Shaped Box)

Its heavier than bon jovis 80s hits that i have no objection to being nominated as its still heavy rock.

Kreator - Impossible Brutality

As I said before metal/heavy rock bands still made lighter songs that are still songs made by metal/hard rock bands. I'm not a fan of metal/hard rock ballads, I despise many of them, but they're still classed as metal/heavy rock songs.

Black Sabbath - After Forever
Electric Wizard - Wizard in Black
Judas Priest - Victim of Changes
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
King Diamond - Abigail
Thin Lizzy - Whisky in the Jar
Thin Lizzy - Fighting My Way Back
Venom - Black Metal
Venom - Countess Bathory
Venom - Buried Alive

and then here's some maybe more controversial picks:

Nightwish - The Kinslayer
Manowar - The Power of Thy Sword
Gamma Ray - The Heart of the Unicorn
Meatloaf - Life is a Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)
Disturbed - Land of Confusion

Boris - Pink
Boris - Statement
Black Sabbath - Supernaut
Electric Wizard - Vinum Sabbathi
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Ministry - Jesus Built my hotrod
Sepultura - Territory
Sleep - Dragonaut
Spooky Tooth - Better by you, better than me
Sunn O))) – Aghartha
Testament - Over the Wall
The Sword - to take the black
Witchcraft - Samaritan Burden
Zior - I really do
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

Mastodon - Crusher/Destroyer
Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants

The Who? Really?

I think the parameters of this poll may be fatally ill-defined.

I think the definition is clear its just a wide category. I don't really see how Led Zeppelin or BOC could be accepted but The Who rejected.

Will leave it up to thread participants to decide on what gets in or not.

Anyone else says the who shouldnt be allowed (obv theres a difference between 60s and 70s who) speak up

i object to "Under the Bridge" by RHCP being on the nom list
dont know the blind melon song but i object to it in principle

just want to point out that Wikipedia lists Linkin Park as nu-metal

kid rock is legit, just remember that i will be tallying the ballots so i will know which of you dicks vote for it

i've been super procrastinating on brainstorming for tracks noms, what time is the deadline tomorrow?

For full list of album and track nominations, please refer to the full lists in the voting thread.

Albums: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

Tracks: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

[mod edit]

midnight UK time. But we are now being REALLY STRICT on nominations.

i object to "Under the Bridge" by RHCP being on the nom list

so do I

my own track suggestions will be last-minute. well, excepting the ones I think of right now, offhand.

Kayo Dot - ___on limpid form
Deathspell Omega - The Repellent Scars Of Abandon And Election
Esoteric - Circle
Shit And Shine - Toilet Door Tits
Mr Bungle - My Ass Is On Fire
Agalloch - Not Unlike The Waves <--- best Agalloch song by like 9,000,000,000 miles
Shining - Blackjazz Deathtrance <--- best song of 2010 so far
Lapsus Linguae - The Terse Crimp

so dan can stop nominating stupid shit, john & I have decided to be strict.

um look at the entire thread; I have not actually nominated a ton of stupid shit, jerkface

admittedly I have laughed at some apparently arbitrary rules that are not helping me understand what "metal" actually is, but the only thing I nominated on this list as an outright joke was the Eskimos & Egypt song

admittedly I have laughed at some apparently arbitrary rules that are not helping me understand what "metal" actually is, but the only thing I nominated on this list as an outright joke was the Eskimos & Egypt song

well thank you, ILX glitch

ilx is being well slow for me tonight, anyone else getting that?

would also like to nominate a Devin Townsend track but JJ has thrown me for an absolute loop regarding which one I choose - will probably play it safe and go with

Ocean Machine (Devin Townsend) - Bastard

anything else?

oh yeah, shit haha

The Wildhearts - Sky Babies
The Wildhearts - Pissjoy
The Wildhearts - Do The Channel Bop

and uh um uhhh

Neurosis - From The Hill
Neurosis - Enclosure In Flame
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

and

Ayreon - The Earth Extinction

I've overdone it haven't I

Oferchrissake only one Free and one Steppenwolf track?

Free - Walk in My Shadow
Free - Mr. Big
Free - Fire and Water
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
Steppenwolf - Monster/Suicide/America
Robin Trower Band - Bridge of Sighs
Robin Trower Band - Too Rolling Stoned

are people really going to be voting for more than 1 or 2 tracks by bands? I can see why with sabbath,zep,metallica etc. Cuz I'd expect them to place.
But oh well, I'd rather people voted for their top 50 (ranked) tracks ever than tactical voting.

For full list of album and track nominations, please refer to the full lists in the voting thread.

Albums: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

Tracks: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

[mod edit]

John no more vetoes for you then?

Perhaps you could please change the title to Nominations end 11.59pm UK Time July 16th ?

tactical voting is false metal xxxpost

truth be told i am suffering from a rampaging hangover after discovering that my bloody mary mix was greatly improved by the addition of heroic levels of vodka and experimenting to find the perfect balance by making uh like 6 of them? so i might need to search through once again with a clearer head

lulz.

Cheers for changing the title.

For full list of album and track nominations, please refer to the full lists in the voting thread.

Albums: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

Tracks: ~~~ VOTING THREAD : ILM ALLTIME METAL/HEAVY ROCK ALBUMS/TRACKS POLL~~~ VOTING CLOSED

[mod edit]

If you want to stan for tracks meanwhile please head over to YOUTUBE Companion thread for ILM METAL/HEAVY ROCK TRACKS POLL

I can't go on that thread as it makes my computer have seizures, but if you could put this on I'd be grateful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXmz_AphfGs

Oops. I didn't realise it would do that without url tags. Sorry!

Maybe a mod could remove that?

add the Kid Rock nom, jerkface!!!

also: no Prince or Teena Marie? y u brake xhuxk's <3, man!??

I thought Purple Rain might have got nommed actually

do you all want sex pistols in or out? majority wins.

Sex Pistols IN.

emil.y i'll post that youtube for you, but it's bloody awful.

I assumed Prince would be vetoed, but ok then:

Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - When Doves Cry

I'd accept Purple Rain but would veto When Doves Cry on the basis that anything sampled by MC Hammer can't be Metal/Heavy Rock.

I think Prince has some heavy rock tracks of which Purple Rain is one, however he is not a heavy rock artist, and not everything is eligible.

And If people veto it its vetoed.

Not allowing when doves cry

Pistols OUT. Of everything, from now until forever.

Right, scratch When Doves Cry and give me:

Prince - Fury

pfunk pestered me into giving this a go after stating in the albums nom list I didn't really want to. Did a top 10.

Its a min of 15!

then throw it out.

Or I bequeath 5 to J. Fever so we can maybe get some poodle tracks on.

Prince?

POODLE TRACKS!

you can make 15, i have faith in you!

Fever, drop me an email and tell me what your top 5 nominated poodle rock songs are. I'm not kidding!

Sent.

poodle rawk rulez! the rest is for fules!

Poodles have been added. The hair spray is burning my eyes, but I managed to reach 15 with the requested help.

HOORAY

50 mins left to add noms

Neil young - hey hey my my
Neil young - like a hurricane