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Iron Maiden and Opeth instantly came to mind, but I think Vol4 and Sabotage are uneven, and could do without SBS.
Meh. Problem with Metallica is #5 is Black, #6 is Load.
I'm really right there with you about Metallica. I like Slayer's later ones more than your average fan. That's also just off of the top of my head.
I love me some Opeth, but Still Life and Ghost Reveries are really the only albums anymore I love from start to finish (that fall under the metal banner).
As much as I like Priest, they never really had a long consecutive run of great albums; they tended to go up and down a bit.
Agreed. I think Sabbath Bloody Sabbath might be the best of the six, although it is hard to top Paranoid.
Nope. I will die on this hill and take most of you mamajamas with me.
That's fair. Opposite for me - probably the most listened to band in the last decade for me. I have 10 CDs of theirs in the car that I basically just cycle through.
I hear that. They were in heavy rotation for me for a long time, and I still bust them out here and there, but the albums that I tend to listen to the most now are Damnation and Pale Communion. I love the laid back, classic rock vibe of both.
I like most of your music takes - this is not one of them.
scatman and hatman.
You hate metal, so what. No reason to keep going on about something you have no appreciation for.
Not really. Actually, not at all, but I'm not sure they have an imgur meme to answer it.
I'm not a Maiden fan at all but have friends who swear by them. I've come to appreciate some songs by them.
That is probably a good description for myself as well. I have tried like heck, and based on other bands I like, I should love Maiden, but outside of maybe a dozen songs, I have no use for them.
Maybe it's to their detriment for some that they didn't try to expand their sound too much, but if you dig them IMO you can't argue much against how good and consistent their 80s output was. I also put them up there as far as older bands that are able to keep going and put out great late-stage music (again, maybe it's because they don't really expand too much). I have loved 4 of the 5 albums from 2000 on, and think Book of the Dead is right up there with some of their best albums in their catalog.
I still think you are giving the albums after the first 3 a little too much credit. I really dislike Changes, so keep that in mind. Sabotage is an album with a few brilliant songs, but couldn't put that album on and listen to it all. I check out about 1/2 way through Megalomania and Supertzar is the nail in the coffin.
I do not like Changes either, but the rest of Volume 4 is mostly excellent. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is amazing from start to finish. Sabotage does have 1 or 2 songs I can do without, but it has Megalomania (which I really like), Symptom of the Universe, The Writ and The Thrill of It All, four major winners. My ranking of the six is:
I guess this was my point about Iron Maiden. There is not one of those albums of the first 7 that I would put on even now and want to skip through songs. Same for me with Opeth. I can say that for 3 of the first 6 Sabbath albums.
Interesting. Aren't they in the hall of fame?
Do it.
Most all-timers for me do not have any skippers, but it does happen sometimes, and I don't think having one skipper (for me) is an automatic disqualification. To use another metal album as an example, even though the song Escape is totally forgettable, I would still call Metallica's Ride the Lightning great and an all-timer.
Not bad. My beef with the Sabbath original is that Ozzy didn't have the voice to successfully pull it off. And I loved some of their other mellow songs from those early days - I am a huge fan of both Planet Caravan and Solitude - but Changes was a miss for me.
Isn't this the theme song for Big Mouth on Netflix? Solid stuff. Also, great great great show.
Wow, boring is not even close. Sabbra Cadabra FTW on an album with some standouts.
It is known that Buck was the inspiration for The Wizard.
We get that they basically created it. But that has nothing to do with the quality of the albums and the question at hand.
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