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Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time
The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone
Man this list has it all, it's at times cringe inducing, obvious, surprising, and perplexing. Every time I see an oddball choice I have to wonder if the author(s) just popped over to RYM's Top 100 albums under the metal tag when they thought the list was just a little too obvious, and then had to overcompensate for that by throwing in another album to negate the obvious choice. Anyways here's a tl;dr for the full list Spoiler for The Full List:
No real point to this thread, I've just noticed a lot of hostility lately and figured we could have a big ol' laugh taking the piss out of a publication that was never really relevant to the metal scene to begin with. |
How many people these days honestly think Blizzard of Oz is an all-time metal classic? It might have had it's place in 1980, but it's truly far from an essential album, even if "Suicide Solution" is a ****ing banger. It just seems like list makers don't want to rock the boat too much and so they just throw it in in their top 10 cause it's easy.
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I think its status as a metal classic has more to do with it being his debut solo album. I dunno, I think it's a bit cheeky to put that in the top 10 alongside two Black Sabbath albums.
EDIT: So I was just curious and was looking at the Top 100 Metal Albums according to RYM and it's uncanny how similar the lists are. I mean #1, #2, and #6 are the same https://rateyourmusic.com/customchar...one&countries= |
It's not so much cheeky as it's just expected. You gotta have an Ozzy album in the top 10, or at the very least in the top 20, and it's gotta be Blizzard of Oz.
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Pantera do not belong anywhere near a top ten list of anything.
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Top 10? No. Top 20? No. Top 30? No. But they have a place somewhere in there, even if Vulgar Display of Power is hella overrated. I'd be satisfied if the only Pantera album on the list was Far Beyond Driven and it was somewhere on the backend of the list. I guess I wouldn't be offended by Vulgar either.
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I'm surprised it's Vulgar honestly. I always thought Cowboys From Hell was the most celebrated album by mainstream media.
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British Steel is overrated. Saxon's Wheels of Steel and Strong Arm of the Law are far better albums.
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Doesn't work on mobile for me.
I suppose None So Vile, Obscura and Filosofem are not included though, so **** that ****. |
Why is Jerusalem on there instead of Dopesmoker? Jerusalem is the one that is all chopped up.
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Master of Reality is the best Sabbath album imo. I'd have picked that before the other two.
British Steel is great but that's not JP's best album either imo. lol at me posting in a metal thread. |
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It's honestly not the worst list ever. It's just so safe that it's irrelevant, and those little nuggets of bull**** sprinkled throughout just make it a decent Rolling Stone list. But it's fun to **** on Rolling Stone.
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I've edited the original post with the full list so people who can't view the link on mobile devices can join in around this barrel and have fun with the rest of us shooting these fish.
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*checks the list*
I'll get the pineapple, you get the battery acid. |
I'm curious why that Bathory album. I know it's awesome, but people generally talk about Blood Fire Death or the debut first. I'd like to think that people assigned to this job would have at least LISTENED to ****ing Bathory, so I'm curious if that was a rare personal opinion?
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From my personal experience, people overwhelmingly people prefer the debut.
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It's a decent list.
They covered their bases. I don't think they have any business pretending they know something about Pig Destroyer but ok. |
It appears to be a decent list, at first glance anyways, I've seen a lot worse.
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Fair Enough) 2. Metallica - Master of Puppets (Not my favourite Metallica album but understandable) 3. Judas Priest - British Steel (I am assuming that AC/DC isn't considered metal on this list, so this is their attempt to substitute Back in Black) 4. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (Have to keep the Maiden fans happy) 5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath??? This is the first one I have a problem with. Yes it's considered to be the first heavy metal album by many, and the first track will always be a haunting classic, but outside of that, a lot of the album is wanky improv. It should not be in front of Reign in Blood! 6. Slayer, 'Reign in Blood' (This should be in the top 5) 7. Motorhead - No Remorse (fair enough) 8. Megadeth - Peace Sells (My personal favourite, I like it much better than their so called progressive thrash metal classic; Rust in Peace) 9. Ozzy - Blizzard of OZ (As long as there are a large contingent of guys over 40 who wore jean jackets with Led Zeppelin iron ons, and smoked lots of pot back in the early 80's. Then this will forever be on the list.) Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil is far superior to this classic rock relic though. 10. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (I suppose they are on here because they spearheaded much of the commercial sound of heavy metal during the 90's? I suppose they're a better option than Limp Bizkit or Korn. They still suck though! |
Why are Rage Against the Machine and Helmet on a metal list?
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Why isn't RUN-DMC?
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Little surprised by the lack of love for British Steel. |
Is this list supposed to be a joke?
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All sorts of problems start showing up, Too Fast for Love before Shout at the Devil? Iron Maiden self titled before Powerage? Volume 4 before Master of Reality? Diary of a Madman in the top 20??? It looks like they're trying to be hip and trendy instead of listening to what albums actually sound better. |
Nah, Too Fast for Love is better than Shout at the Devil. Just. It doesn't have as good and dark production, but it's got more energy and more diverse songs. "Live Wire" is the most speed metal they ever got, "Starry Eyes" is their best ballad, "On with the Show" is one of the very few Motley songs to have honest emotion, and "Piece of Your Action" is pretty much glam metal wannabe hacks like Warrant all the way back in 1981. Easily a top 10 metal album for me. It's so ****ing fresh and youthful and fun.
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Oh ****, gonna start slipping Indecent Vibrations and Lizard of Ox into every metal list.
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I also think that Volume 4 is better than Master of Reality but they're different enough that either choice is cool.
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I don't agree but whatevs. |
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