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Rolling Stone's Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time
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My man
Morrigan Stark
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Says the guy who put Metallica's s/t above the rest? How can you be so right about Priest and Maiden and so wrong about the rest?
karmaforgotme
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Orion is a masterpiece while Escape is bad, but also I wouldn't trust anyone who put Metallica's black album anywhere close to a top 10 or above Metallica's 80's albums.
pretty done
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Rust @ 19 lmao
List is free and reads like a generic 50 year old dad list. Motorhead :lol
List is free and reads like a generic 50 year old dad list. Motorhead :lol
Skiptastic
Member
Says the guy who put Metallica's s/t above the rest? How can you be so right about Priest and Maiden and so wrong about the rest?
:lol I had this same thought.
BTW, there is perhaps no reason for Disposable Heroes to be so long, but goddamn if I don't love every second of it.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Glad to see so many people throwing up Master of Reality. That is easily the best Sabbath album, if only for Children of the Grave.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Indeed. Fuck The Black Album. I hate it more than St. Anger.
FairFriend
Member
Eh.
BTW, list is as predictable as it could be, but not entirely wrong. It works better as "the top albums to listen to if you want to get into metal". Personally I would have chosen other albums to represent the bands mentioned, for instance:
Black Sabbath -> Heaven & Hell
Iron Maiden -> Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest -> Painkiller
Metallica -> Ride the Lightning
Megadeth -> Rust in Peace
Phobophile
A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
I would argue that Ozzy Sabbath is easier to get into than Dio Sabbath but I ain't gonna give someone guff for trying to listen to Neon Knights
Hmm, I'm not so sure. Though it's quite possible that my hate for Enter Sandman is enough to pull the entire album down that far.
Chained Prometheus
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Preach! I get why they went with the Ozzy albums, but Heaven & Hell (and the whole Dio-era of Sabbath in general) is my favorite from the band. It's actually what first got me into metal, after stumbling onto a live video of the band performing the title track in 1980 on YouTube about 10 years ago.
Are you me? Preach, brother.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Wow, somebody actually agrees with me...somewhat.
Usually, when I tell them I hate their S/T arguably more than St. Anger, it's met with extreme anger.
Chained Prometheus
Member
Right on, brother!
They say that life is just a carousel, spinning fast you gotta ride it well- It's Heaven and Hell!
I think Koloss is their best album
1. Koloss
2. Nothing
3.Obzen
4. Violent Sleep Of Reason
5. Chaosphere
6. Destroy Erase Improve
7. Contradicions Collapse
8. Catch 33
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
I can't argue with anybody who likes the album, so whatever.
For me.....Chaosphere>Obzen>Destroy Erase Improve>Nothing>Catch 33>Violent Sleep of Reason>Koloss>Contradictions Collapse
All of them I give a 10/10...except Collapse. Album is 7/10 at best.
Metallica's Lars Ulrich: My 15 Favorite Metal and Hard Rock Albums
Omg Limp Bizkit! Korn!
edit:
Judas Priest's Rob Halford: My 10 Favorite Metal Albums
HOWEVER!
Omg Limp Bizkit! Korn!
not really
edit:
Judas Priest's Rob Halford: My 10 Favorite Metal Albums
HOWEVER!
Andrew Korenchkin
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Actually a pretty solid list....especially with UNLEASHED IN THE EAST!
Is that Priest' best album overall? Perhaps. It's probably my favorite, now that I think about it.
Chained Prometheus
Member
Same. The only thing missing from Unleashed in the East imo is Beyond the Realms of Death imo. It's a masterpiece as is, but it's be perfect if it had that song on there.
TheGameshark
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I'm glad Sabbath are where they are. Although I would put master of reality above the first album.
They're in there but they put them in for the crappy cut up version of Dopesmoker which isn't even called Dopesmoker lol.
I don't like s/t that much. In fact it's my least liked album from them. Which sounds even stranger considering how much I like Load/ReLoad.
TheGameshark
Member
The groove on into the void is what does it for me. Just masterpiece of an album. Basically invented my favorite sub genre.
What? That's dumb. At least it's technically on there, I guess?
Holy Mountain deserves to be in there, too.
Also, totally agree with MoR above Paranoid as well.
Ristifer
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Holy shit, no. Even Hetfield hates Escape.
But, opinions. I've always found Ktulu fairly bland on the album. It's the S&M version that gets me pumped up. That version makes the song epic.
Usually, I would agree if a song overstayed its welcome, but Master of Puppets (the song, at least) is the definition of needing every single second of its running time. It's jam packed with goodness. Same goes for the entire album. There's never a point where I want a song to end because it's not wrapping things up. On Justice, I can see your point there. But not on Puppets. Not for me, at least.
Summer Haze
Banned
Should be a bannable offense imo.
They played it this year and it was incredible.
https://youtu.be/i9fxUlTMRz8?t=2m19s
Rob's bass hnnngh
Zelenogorsk
Banned
My man
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Would you say people are... madly in anger with you?
>.>
Why should anyone care about Hetfield's opinion on anything?
PS: S&M sucks
Lovin' that this is a controversial opinion. I had no idea it was, but the tears are delicious.
I think the idea that any Metallica song (at least from those beloved first albums) is worse than Escape would be controversial.
Morrigan Stark
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Never understood the sheer hate for that song. It's fine. It's not great, but it's OK, and decently memorable, doesn't overstay its welcome. As far as "filler" songs go it's inoffensive at the worst. Orion is even duller and goes on for fucking ever, as do the filler Justice songs.
Agreed. Outside of Catch 33 and I, I find it kinda hard to get into Meshuggah.
themagicalkitsune
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I guess this is the Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time If You Stopped Listening to Metal Around 2000.
Also not a single power metal album in sight. Fuck sake these guys need some Kai Hansen to bring them deliverance
Also not a single power metal album in sight. Fuck sake these guys need some Kai Hansen to bring them deliverance
Andrew Korenchkin
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Escape is a great, agreed that it doesn't deserve the hate.
2000? Almost sounds like me. Well more like the mid 2000s. I don't even know what's hip now. Just buy Amon Amarth albums when they come out. Seems they are doing well and not playing the shitty clubs I used to see them at.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
As far as Metallica goes, No Remorse is possibly my favorite, or at least pretty much perfect. Love that under the radar song.
Bitanator
Member
Yup, best song they ever made.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Honestly Holy Diver should've been number 1, or Heaven or Hell.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Glad to see I'm not alone! Greatest song they've ever done? Sure, I can get behind that.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Of course a magazine as ignorant about music as Rolling Stone would miss the brilliant Running Wild.
Conkersbadfurday
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You. I like you.
The Bookerman
Member
Unfortunately for you I disagree. It's timeless... BUT it's only my opinion. everybody is entitled to their own.
Ristifer
Member
It is pretty laughable. Orion has sheer power in its songwriting. Escape is a run of the mill 80's metal song. Enter Sandman and Load are better than that shit.
Ristifer
Member
I mean, even without the ranking, the comparison doesn't make any sense. It would be more of a comparison between Ktulu and Orion as instrumentals. So, the comparison is already odd enough. And Orion > Ktulu in that case, too.
Spectral Glider
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Master is greater than Ride and Escape is average at best.
