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Top 100 Heavy Metal and glam rock acts from the MTV era - it's still real to me (1 Viewer)

zamboni said:
Punky Brewster’s real life brother (Meeno Peluce) as the delivery boy.
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🤣🤣🤣

love it. I’m friends with meeno. He’s still rocking the same hair. Awesome throwback to the pre football game locker room. Had to get pumped up!  

 
plinko said:
4. Iron Maiden
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Could have been 1 on this list, probably would have had them between 1-3 depending on the day you ask me. 
I got into Maiden via Live After Death, possibly my all time favorite live album by any band, then I started digging through the catalog. 7th Son was the first new album from them I purchased and still holds up to me as one of their finest as well.

An all time favorite due to the live visuals and 250,000 people singing the melody- Fear Of The Dark- Live (Rock in Rio)

 
My parents moved to West Virginia after when I was about 30.  When I went to visit them there for the first time, I learned that not only did one of the guest rooms have all my books from middle school (the Hobbit) up through college textbooks, but that also they had hung up the Eddie poster I had in my bedroom from 9th grade.  So I guess my folks missed my Maiden stage too (I remember working out how to play the chorus to Run to the Hills on my tuba) too.

 
I go back and forth between who I enjoy more, Maiden or Priest. I'm probably in the minority but I do think Priest can go toe to toe with Maiden in terms of quality, just two amazing metal bands. 

 

 
Sorry to take us back a few spots, but one of my lighting designer friends just posted this in a discussion on Facebook regarding the nightmare set piece that was used by Rainbow. It may have been a nightmare to transport and build each show, but It was pretty damn impressive technically for ‘76. Rainbow- Live 1976

 
Public Enema Number One  :lol:

7th Son is my favorite album of their's as well.  I appreciate but don't love the debut. I would put their Killers --> 7th Son run of albums up against any band/artist, any genre.   The next 4 albums were mostly trash.   Their last 23 years of music has been damn good too, a true return to form.  Epic band.  

 
plinko said:
4. Iron Maiden

How many people knew Iron Maiden were from Maryland

Oh, popular theories you got me again.
The things we learn when reading about Iron Maiden

The birthplace of Maiden, (Steve Harris and a bunch of whodats), mid-70's

I'm a fan of the early Di'Anno work.  I'm a fan of all of it really, albums 1-7, no gaps.

Phantom of the Opera

Purgatory

Di'Anno couldn't get off the horse and was replaced by Bruce Dickinson, who had been in Samson along with drummer Clive Burr.. who was promptly replaced by Nicko McBrain, who doesn't really look like most Nicko McBrains I've met.

So they went ahead and blew the doors off, from there

Run to the Hills
The Number of the Beast

Hallowed Be Thy Name - all time plinky for best metal song

Their ideas for videos were very.. British

The Trooper
Where Eagles Dare

Aces High LIVE  you have to have the speech

2 Minutes to Midnight
Rime THIS IS A STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BIRD ####S ON YA #35YearsSameJoke

If I had to say there was a slight drop in quality, it would be this album?
Wasted Years
Stranger in a Strange Land

But 7th Son is glorious, just soak it in
The Clairvoyant Donington
The Evil That Men Do

Throughout the 1980's, these cats were the undisputed Metal Band To Beat

I wasn't a fan of the next, No Prayer Left For The Dying.  Pretty much lost my full attention at that.  I'll still check em out.  New one Senjutsu is pretty good, better than the last couple I had heard.  They've never really stopped, some turmoil at singer when Bruce left for a while in the late 90's.  I don't like the Blaze Bayley Maiden stuff very much.. but I do like other Blaze Bayley stuff!

My favorite post-7th track -- The Wicker Man

Dusty old maiden playlist

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This is the band I've always tried to turn people onto the most, if they showed a taste for it ;)    Most of the tasteful, unsuspecting ladies who've come along, wised up and left, have at least pretended to muster up a grudging appreciation!
 
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I love Maiden. Whenever theres a new good full concert of them uploaded to Youtube I'm always watching it. One of my bucket list f bands I've yet to see. 

This is probably my favorite song live from them though after Fear in The Dark The Clansman Live Rock of Rio 2001

 
good lord, i dig Maiden, but "The Number of the Beast" is so infantile  :lmao:

"LET HIM WHO HATH UNDERSTANDING RECKON THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST"

so ... SCARY 

:lol:

 
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MindCrime said:
Could have been 1 on this list, probably would have had them between 1-3 depending on the day you ask me. 
I got into Maiden via Live After Death, possibly my all time favorite live album by any band, then I started digging through the catalog. 7th Son was the first new album from them I purchased and still holds up to me as one of their finest as well.

An all time favorite due to the live visuals and 250,000 people singing the melody- Fear Of The Dark- Live (Rock in Rio)
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 IMO, Maiden is the greatest metal band of all time.   I like QR more but Maiden is the better band.   Priest is good but like many folks, they lost their luster a long time ago.

So glad that Mindcrime included Fear of the Dark in his post.  It shows the magic of Maiden live.   It is a good song but magical live when the crowd sings along while bouncing away.  It also shows just how good Maiden is.   Fear of the Dark is a good album and contains some songs that I really enjoy but is nothing compared to a handful of their other albums.

Number of the Beast is my favorite album and is just great song after great song, even if the devil thing is goofy.  The title track is certainly a great song but is problem my fourth favorite on that album.   22 Acacia Avenue or Hallowed are my favorites.   I still remember hearing Number for the first time around 82.  When you remember hearing an album for the first time 40 years later that tells you something.   I had heard Maiden a year or two earlier and liked them a lot but Number was mind blowing to a young metal head.  

I have seen Maiden a handful of times and every show has been outstanding.   I got to meet Maiden after the Powerslave tour in Pittsburgh.   We were trying to sober up to drive home after the show standing near a side or rear entrance of the venue.  A tour bus pulls up with the band coming out of the venue shortly after.   The band was really friendly (except for Bruce) and spent time shaking our hands, signing tickets and jean jackets, and making small talk.   Nicko and Steve did a lot of the talking.  I have met a few bands over the years and I will always remember how cheerful Nicko and Steve were after busting their butts on stage.  Bruce was not friendly.   He just huffed and puffed by us and didn’t even say hello.   

If you are a fan of R&R, seeing Maiden live is a must.  There are only a handful of bands I will bother seeing at this point in my life.  Maiden is one of them.   

 
I like the big three popular songs of Number of the Beast/Wasted Years/Run To The Hills, but just have never really bothered to try anything else. No real reason why. :shrug:

 
plinko said:
4. Iron Maiden

How many people knew Iron Maiden were from Maryland

Oh, popular theories you got me again.
The things we learn when reading about Iron Maiden

The birthplace of Maiden, (Steve Harris and a bunch of whodats), mid-70's

I'm a fan of the early Di'Anno work.  I'm a fan of all of it really, albums 1-7, no gaps.

Phantom of the Opera

Purgatory

Di'Anno couldn't get off the horse and was replaced by Bruce Dickinson, who had been in Samson along with drummer Clive Burr.. who was promptly replaced by Nicko McBrain, who doesn't really look like most Nicko McBrains I've met.

So they went ahead and blew the doors off, from there

Run to the Hills
The Number of the Beast

Hallowed Be Thy Name - all time plinky for best metal song

Their ideas for videos were very.. British

The Trooper
Where Eagles Dare

Aces High LIVE  you have to have the speech

2 Minutes to Midnight
Rime THIS IS A STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BIRD ####S ON YA #35YearsSameJoke

If I had to say there was a slight drop in quality, it would be this album?
Wasted Years
Stranger in a Strange Land

But 7th Son is glorious, just soak it in
The Clairvoyant Donington
The Evil That Men Do

Throughout the 1980's, these cats were the undisputed Metal Band To Beat

I wasn't a fan of the next, No Prayer Left For The Dying.  Pretty much lost my full attention at that.  I'll still check em out.  New one Senjutsu is pretty good, better than the last couple I had heard.  They've never really stopped, some turmoil at singer when Bruce left for a while in the late 90's.  I don't like the Blaze Bayley Maiden stuff very much.. but I do like other Blaze Bayley stuff!

My favorite post-7th track -- The Wicker Man

Dusty old maiden playlist

New ####

This is the band I've always tried to turn people onto the most, if they showed a taste for it ;)    Most of the tasteful, unsuspecting ladies who've come along, wised up and left, have at least pretended to muster up a grudging appreciation!
 
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They are my fav non Beatles band. I've seen them at least once on every Bruce fronted tour that came through Michigan from Number of the Beast to the last  one 4 years ago (16 times I think?). I figured they would be 1 or 2 especially since their 7 best albums all came out in the 80s

Up the Irons!!

 
Maiden is my #1 on this list. Hands down.

I was 14 years old when I heard Piece of Mind…that was the record that brought me onboard. Of course I went back and Number is  a timeless classic. But Piece is my number 1. Revelations maybe my favorite all time Maiden songs….too many to list actually. Saw them on the Powerslave tour. That was my first Maiden show only to be followed by half a dozen more. 6th row for Seventh Son tour and my mind was blown!!!!

I have also immensely enjoyed their prog era that started with Brave New World which is a killer album!!! Also A Matter Of Life and Death is must listen Maiden. The new double album Senjitsu is my favorite record since Seventh Son for sure.

My top 10 rankings:

1. Piece

2. Seventh

3. Number

4. Power

5. Somewhere 

6. Senjitsu

7. Matter Of Life and Death

8. Brave New World

9. Book of Souls

10. Dance of Death

Yeah…..I am all about Bruce Dickenson era Maiden. I simply don’t like the debut and Killers….not my thing even though I like a few tunes.

Niko is a super cool dude and we frequent his Rock N Roll Ribs down here where we live. Went there for dinner for my birthday in fact this past week. Best ribs in town.

 
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otb_lifer said:
good lord, i dig Maiden, but "The Number of the Beast" is so infantile  :lmao:

"LET HIM WHO HATH UNDERSTANDING RECKON THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST"

so ... SCARY 

:lol:
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Bet the whole reckon thing was said differently down South. 

"Boy, I reckon you listen to that Satan music from up North!" 

 
plinko said:
I mean, do these look like the kind of guys who would have a nude child pose luridly on a record called Virgin Killer?

Holiday

The Zoo

We puritans never really lighten up but the tunes get better and having nowhere to go but up, the covers get slightly more respectable.  By 1982 Blackout is out and the western rock audience is on board

Dy-no-mite!
No One Like You

World Wide Live .. I had it, I enjoyed it, particularly trying to parse out between-song banter, this would later serve me well in my military job assignments
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Thanks(?) for that picture. Sent on to my buddy - in high school we played many hours of Atari listening to Blackout. That's when we "discovered" them. We played the heck outta World Wide Live which introduced us to earlier stuff.  Helluva run from Lovedrive to Crazy World (agree with @plinko there was a drop off on last 2 of that 6 album run). Props to them for still getting after it though.

 
plinko said:
Give me Dokken's catalog, over this, and it's not even a question.  But Ratt had the one HUGE hit and the name and the look.. I think they are somehow just on the right side of "iconic"
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100% agree! Dokken had the better, heavier songs thanks to Pilson & of course Lynch.

But Ratt had great hooks and much better videos. Warren DeMartini ranks in the upper level of guitarists from the era & Stephen Pearcy was grittier and knew how to take advantage of MTV way more than Don Dokken!

 
foxco said:
Love Ratt way more than they deserve probably. They'd be in my top 5 on this list easily. Great guitar sound, Warren DeMartini is an absolute beast, one of the more underrated guys out there. Lots of catchy tunes. Lay it Down is one of the best guitar riffs out there. But Wanted Man, Back for More, Slip of the Lip, You're in Love, I Want a Woman, lots of really good tunes. 

Pretty much all of Invasion of Your Privacy rocks for me, even the deeper cuts like Dangerous But Worth the Risk and You Should Know By Now. 

Plus one of my favorite concert moments came from a Ratt show. Went to see them when I was 19 at L'amour the Rock Capital of Brooklyn in '90 and worked our way to the 2nd row in general admission. 

This is the Detonator tour and it wasn't a great album, but there's a song on their called "Heads I win, Tails You Lose," that Jon Bon Jovi sings backup on. They're playing that song and when the chorus comes up Stephen Pearcy's right in front of me singing, and I'm mouthing the words to Bon Jovi's lines. He catches this, points to me and grins, then runs away and does his thing on the other side of the stage. When the chorus comes back up Pearcy runs over to me and jams the microphone right in my face so I get to sing "Heads I Win" for the crowd - my friends are going crazy clapping me on the back. Best part is there are these girls next to us who must have thought we were friends with the band because all of a sudden one of them is all over me. I'm in the 2nd row sucking face with this tatted up chick who's hot in the never meet your mom way, one of my friends says Pearcy made a comment about us making out but I didn't hear it. So I'm loving this show playing touchy feely half the night, but as soon as it ends the girls realize we have absolutely nothing to do with the band and won't be bringing them backstage or anything and they make cartoon cutouts in the wall they flee so fast. But anyway, I got props from Pearcy, so Ratt, yeah, good band. 
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I love the concert & band experiences brought out in this thread!

 
Wasted Years never fails to make it move for me.

Also love Can I Play With Madness, among the other classics (Run to the Hills, etc). 

 
So if I'm not mistaken two of the remaining 3 acts begin with the letter "M".  Can't nail down the last one.

 
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TripItUp said:
So if I'm not mistaken two of the remaining 3 acts begin with the letter "M".  Can't nail down the last one.
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I got those 2 but am having trouble with the 3rd. I'm guessing it's a hair band since I was never a fan and don't really know the favorites.

 
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