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

Speaking of Lemmy and Hawkwind, they may have one of the most influential rock songs of the 70’s.  Video is so Spinal Tappish with a flutist, a bubble machine, and the 6’1” groupie on stage strung out.  
 

Silver Machine

 
Got-damn! I don't check the thread for a few days and Plinko goes ape#### on bands that I love. I'll catch up in a bit, but since Motorhead was mentioned most recently, I feel compelled to discuss them first. 

Three people that I've never known have died that caused me to actually shed tears. Lemmy Kilmister was the first (guessing one other will be mentioned in this thread at some point). Motorhead is definitely in my top 10 all-time favorite acts. I actually didn't love some of their early stuff, and I'm sorry but Ace of Spades may not make my personal top 40 of favorite Motorhead tunes. The stuff they did from Iron Fist through 1916 was the best of their career, and 1916 is likely a top 10 all-time album for me. I was lucky enough to see them twice in concert, the second time with Anthrax opening, and that was one of the best shows of my life. The stuff they did from the mid-90s to the early aughts was pretty mediocre, but they came roaring back with Inferno, which was fantastic. 

I'm a big punk fan, and the weird thing about Motorhead is how many punks that typically wouldn't get into a metal band loved them.  I even announced Lemmy's death in the official punk/hardcore thread when I heard. It's been 6 years and it still makes me sad. 

Anyhow, here's some Motorhead:

From Inferno: In the Black

Favorite track from Rock N Roll: All For You

Favorite track from March or Die: Too Good to be True

There was an FBG, was it @Evilgrin 72? that insisted he hear this song on New Years, every year: Doctor Rock

 
plinko said:
29. Lita Ford

Kiss Me Deadly
Close My Eyes Forever

Still the queen tho, if only by default..
 
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Saw Lita Ford open for Halestorm back in 2016. It was the most 80s feeling and looking show I might have ever seen, and I mean that in a good way. You could have told me Ford was 38 years old, not 58, and I would have believed you. The set ended with a Bobby Rock drum solo, Cherry Bomb, Close My Eyes and Kiss Me Deadly and the crowd loved every bit of those 25 minutes.

 
And since Lita Ford was also mentioned, she did a song on her breakthrough album, Lita, that was co-written by Lemmy and is my favorite track from that album, which I still consider a classic. It sounds like Lita covering a Motorhead song.

Can't Catch Me

Sheesh, I had forgotten how truly sexy she is...

 
God, I was so into Aerosmith in high school, after Pump and Permanent Vacation came out. Then I caught up on their old stuff, and loved it. I had posters, t-shirts, all their albums, I just LOVED that band.

Fast forward to today and I don't care if I never hear another Aerosmith song again. Unless, of course, I'm watching this.

 
Bogart said:
Saw Lita Ford open for Halestorm back in 2016. It was the most 80s feeling and looking show I might have ever seen, and I mean that in a good way. You could have told me Ford was 38 years old, not 58, and I would have believed you. The set ended with a Bobby Rock drum solo, Cherry Bomb, Close My Eyes and Kiss Me Deadly and the crowd loved every bit of those 25 minutes.
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I caught them once, they were pretty fun

 
Kiss was mentioned, and I don't have anything to say that hasn't been covered. I actually liked a lot of their stuff from the 80s, and was keen to post a link to Crazy, Crazy Nights, but Plinko took care of it for me. I think I wore out my cassette copy of Smashes, Thrashes, and Hits, but nowadays they're similar to Aerosmith to me, although I enjoy hearing Kiss more than Aerosmith. 

I always really liked Fathter Puttytat. Kudos to those of you that remembered the cover of You're So Vain, which I hold in much higher esteem than the original. Also, I don't remember anyone posting a link to this gem, so I'm obliged: Babylon

 
plinko said:
39. Great White

You know I'll keep it kind and gentle.. though truth be told even back in the eighties these LA natives had a reputation as among the most jackholiest in an ocean of jackholes.  One or two super punchable faces here.

But, anyway.. They were good, not great.  Indisputably white.

Earlier stuff.. Streetkiller

Face The Day

Rock Me . . only an all-timer

Save Your Love better ballad than Angel Song

Never loved OBTS but here it is for completists

DEATHS, yes there were deaths  100 dead and 230 injured can still make you shudder..
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Always thought the were underrated.  I can still listen to Rock Me and be transformed back to HS.  I love heavier stuff, but I always thought Great White, Cinderella, Whitesnake, and Telsa were decent hair metal.  Telsa's The Great Radio Controversy, is actually a very solid album

 
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Dan Lambskin said:
I like them.  Not sure id ever willingly go see them but if they opened for someone I liked or were part of a festival or something I’d check them out
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Caught Halestorm at the House of Blues in Cleveland in support of their first album.   Hale has a solid voice and it is obvious that she loves playing music.   I don’t think it would have been as good on a big stage in a big venue.   

 
plinko said:
Like I said, that first FP record is killer, hooks a-plenty, and the reason they are this high

And now for something completely different

34. Pantera 

I think the first song I heard by them was This Love and I wasn't feeling the whole gruff angry thing.  Seemed like around then, everybody BUT me was listening to these dudes.  There was plenty to listen to, anyway.  So I was a little late to the party but I appreciate their place and style.  These cowboys bridge the gap between 80s metal and, for better or worse, where metal was going.

The brothers Abbott, surely partying down with Meat Loaf this very second

DIME  :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned:
VINNIE  :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned:

Cemetery Gates
Walk

TIMES THEY WERE A-CHANGIN'.  I felt they deserved a spot.
 

ETA - I meant to throw a shout-out to fellow "groove metal" pioneers Sepultura .. funny, of all people, my girlfriend said the other day "Is Sepultura on your list?"  Uhhh...
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First saw Pantera along with Wrathchild America in the summer of 91 at the Airport Music hall in Allentown PA. Still have a copy of the cd signed by Dime and Vinnie (RIP).

Years later, worked for a band who was close with those guys. Every time we were in Dallas, it was a Party if the brothers were in town. New Years Eve 2001, played a show at the Bronco Bowl in Dallas. Dime and Vinnie put together a cover band called Gasoline and opened the show. Needless to say, we ended up at the clubhouse. I never made it to my hotel room, cabbed straight to the airport to fly home. Can’t believe they let me on the flight after the amount of booze i consumed. Drink it or Wear it!

 
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#2.. and #3 is not completely obscure..
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24-7 Spyz

eta- Sorry, getting caught up on this, I’m a bit behind. Theres one more band , I remember they took their name I believe from a Public Enemy song. But damned if i can come up with it right now.

ETA 2- Follow For Now

 
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Brunell4MVP said:
Always thought the were underrated.  I can still listen to Rock Me and be transformed back to HS.  I love heavier stuff, but I always thought Great White, Cinderella, Whitesnake, and Telsa were decent hair metal.  Telsa's The Great Radio Controversy, is actually a very solid album
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Saw Great white and Tesla back in 89. Great show! 

 
MindCrime said:
So this thread has inspired me to grab a book that has been on my “want to read” list for a bit. Nothin But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the ‘80s Hard Rock Explosion

I’m half way through, and it is amazing. It is almost all interviews, very little author narrative, but the interviews are intertwined into cohesive stories. For example,  It covers Quiet Riot on the west coast while flashing over to Twisted Sister on the east coast.  It tells the stories of bands like GnR, but from the interviews of not just the band members, but the other players like Tracii Guns, etc. highly recommend it!
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Thats been on my books to get for yrs. 

 
plinko said:
36. KISS

1980.. Peter Criss is gone, Ace Frehley is leaving.  Anton Fig bangs the skins for a while, but he's just a session guy.  They bring in Eric Carr, and then in Ozzy-like fashion, they find a young virtuoso to play guitar.  Turns out he's insane.. what say let's make today a Vinnie day.

So, no grey area here, their "MTV period" is marked clearly by all these big dumb gobstoppers--

I Love It Loud  Vinnie Vincent wrote and played on Creatures but Ace appears on the cover and in the video

The makeup comes off.  These dudes are ugly.

Lick It Up

Vinnie Vincent is fired because like a feral dog he cannot be told to stop playing solos.  No ####.  This would continue to be a problem for Vin.

Heaven's on Fire
 This is KISS's third most popular song on Spotify.  Not sure how that is possible

Mark St. John is their guitarist for an album but he gets arthritis and has to leave.  Which sucks.  Enter Bruce Kulick, who had played with Meat Loaf - his name was Robert Paulson :banned: - and Michael Bolton, not the Office Space guy.

Tears Are Falling  I like this one best I guess.  Finger-cheek move is primo shtick
Crazy Crazy Nights from the short lived US version of Top of the Pops
Let's the X in Sex
 Smashes Thrashes and Hits also included a re-recording of their biggest hit ever - their old drummer's love song Beth, sung by their new drummer.  Only KISS would do this.

Forever - big dumb ballad co-written by the Big Bolton himself.
God Gave Rock and Roll to You II - Argent cover.  Around this time Eric Carr gets cancer and passes away :(

Meanwhile, Ace had his own adventures with the bottle but got his act together for a late eighties run with Frehley's Comet .. Anton Fig makes another appearance here.. my Fig boner comes from being a big Letterman dork..
Rock Soldiers

In the aftermath of all this, the original KISS members would reunite.. for a short while, and the saga would carry forward into the new millennium.  Their drummer has been former Badlander Eric Singer, for some time now.
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I liked Early KISS but I loved 80s KISS even more. I think they have a ton of underrated Songs in this era. Bruce Kulick was in here too during that time. Tommy Thayer was a backstage hand sessions guy who helped on their tours and eventually replaced Ace for the last time. it was an easy transition for Tommy as he knew the set up and songs already playing with them. Just wish they had allowed him a different character. However 80s Kiss is so Underappreciated. I saw the new documentary that recently came out over the last few months of KISS Really found a new appreciation to Paul Stanley. KISS was one of my first hard rock bands. 

 
plinko said:
Like I said, that first FP record is killer, hooks a-plenty, and the reason they are this high

And now for something completely different

34. Pantera 

I think the first song I heard by them was This Love and I wasn't feeling the whole gruff angry thing.  Seemed like around then, everybody BUT me was listening to these dudes.  There was plenty to listen to, anyway.  So I was a little late to the party but I appreciate their place and style.  These cowboys bridge the gap between 80s metal and, for better or worse, where metal was going.

The brothers Abbott, surely partying down with Meat Loaf this very second

DIME  :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned:
VINNIE  :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned: :banned:

Cemetery Gates
Walk

TIMES THEY WERE A-CHANGIN'.  I felt they deserved a spot.
 

ETA - I meant to throw a shout-out to fellow "groove metal" pioneers Sepultura .. funny, of all people, my girlfriend said the other day "Is Sepultura on your list?"  Uhhh...
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RIP DIME and VInnie Paul. I loved these guys growing up. Was in HS when Dime was murdered. A few of my buddies and I had tears that next day and ended up rummaging through my one friends parents liquor cabinet to toast one to Dime. Dam Shame Vinnie and Phil couldn't get along. I honestly don't think it was all Phil's fault and Vinnie's wife and Dime's ex both held grudges against Phil for yrs. Loved Vinnie band Hellyeah though 

Also Pantera started off as a glam band. The tapes and recordings from those days are pretty rare to fine if I'm not mistaken. There was a whole thing on this on their behind the music 

 
plinko said:
31. Living Colour

Born in London and raised in NYC, Vernon Reid cut his teeth in jazz and rock bands throughout the eighties, solidifying the Living Colour lineup after he met aspiring actor Corey Glover (spoiler- he lives!) at a party.

Cult of Personality
Middle Man  
Glamour Boys 
Open Letter (To A Landlord)

Sophomore effort Time's Up wasn't as successful, but was still damn good, perhaps lacking for a radio hit
Love Rears Its Ugly Head
New Jack Theme Live at the Grammies
Type

Stain had some good stuff too

Leave It Alone
Nothingness

Many years ago, @scorchy and I caught an older (than us, slightly) black rock band one night at the Sidebar, and we determined at the time that they must have been the FOURTH most successful black rock band in the late 80's / early 90's.  But we can no longer remember or figure out what they were called.
 
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Liked them but Cult of Personality became huge once wrestler CM Punk started using it. 

 
plinko said:
Fath-ter Puttytat.. I like it

29. Lita Ford

Not a ton to say here.. she was 16 when she joined the Runaways in the mid-70's.  After they fell apart, she was hard at work on a solo career but her music was highly unremarkable until she signed on with Sharon Osbourne Management.  Then her music became only kind of unremarkable.

Was engaged to Tony Iommi in the mid-80's, I did not know this.. then was married to Chris Holmes for a spell before finally settling down with renowned vocal instructor Mr. Jim Gillette.  Two kids, lots of drama, they're divorced now.  Still tours a lot, looks great, and my man Bobby Rock backs her up on the sticks.

Dancing on the Edge - earlier work

Kiss Me Deadly
Close My Eyes Forever

Still the queen tho, if only by default..
 
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Disappointed you didn't link the live version of kiss me Deadly. I love me some Lita Ford 

 
plinko said:
28. Motörhead / Fastway

I guess we find ourselves on a horndog run then

Motorhead w Girlschool - Please Don't Touch  but Lemmy was touching guitarist Kelly Johnson

Stand By Your Man with Wendy O. Williams - the collaboration that allegedly made Fast Eddie Clarke quit
But who knows.. per wiki...

Surely Lips was upset they wouldn't let him wear gimp clothes and play solos with a rubber dong

I have to admit, I love Ace of Spaces and Overkill but most Motorhead stuff was a little same-ish to me.  They were pounding through the eighties, up to all kinds of shtick, but I never liked any of those MTV era albums, at least until 1916 in 1991

I'm So Bad (Baby I Don't Care)  

Lemmy had a hell of a life of course.  Before Hawkwind, he was with someone called Sam Gopal, who played an Indian percussion instrument called tabla.  Here is an interesting old ### Lemmy track

Yesterlove  

Then Hawkwind for a while.  He was canned after getting arrested for drug possession, and general erratic behavior. 

The Psychedelic Warlords   smoke a bowl and get low

Kicked off Motorhead, picked up a guy called Philthy and Fast Eddie Clarke and it was off to the races.  Seems like it's always been a bit of a fustercluck, but by all and I mean all accounts Lemmy was a hell of a man to have a drink with, or ten, or twenty.

:banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:   :banned:  

FASTWAY

Eddie Clarke got together with Pete Way, ex-UFO, but Way left the group before the recorded anything.  They found a singer though, and he is still thriving today-- it's Dave King of Flogging Molly  

Say What You Will

..as for UFO

Eddie Trunk's favorite band is truly great, but also truly 70's.  DISQUALIFIED
what the hell though.. Too Much of Nothing

bonus -- fresh video action---

Hellraiser - 30th Anniversary animated video starring Lemmy and Ozzy
 I guess we also find ourselves on an Ozzy duet run
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Lemmy with DIo and a few others was part of The Rainboy's Hollywood Vampires club back in the day and was still a part till he died if I'm not mistaken. 

 
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I caught them once, they were pretty fun
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I know Halestorm. One of the few bands that are local. Izzy and her brother Arjay are awesome and so is the rest of the band. Their tour bus caught on fire the other day do to an electrical issue. No one hurt lost a few things that are replaceable. Was suppose to go to their show last Sunday in Camden NJ at the concert venue there but because of bad weather in the Northeast that never materialized as bad as I thought my buddy and I decided not to go 

 
DocHolliday said:
Caught Halestorm at the House of Blues in Cleveland in support of their first album.   Hale has a solid voice and it is obvious that she loves playing music.   I don’t think it would have been as good on a big stage in a big venue.   
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Izzy reminds me of a modern day Joan Jett on Guitar. However I found this interesting. Izzy's voice sounds so similar to this Croatian band I found who does covers of famous songs. 

Halestorm Mistress for Xmass

Daria is amazing and sexy they do a ton of covers like I said and just found them last year when I ironically was watching a Joan Jett video and they came up in suggestions. Daria is 26 or 27 I believe. Daria and Izzy's voice sound almost exactly alike. Played this for my buddy who is a talent buyer and he thought Izzy had a solo version of this and I told him nope. 

Sershen&Zaritskaya feat. Kim and Shturmak Mistress for Xmass

Halestorm grew up 1 hr from me. the local WMMR Rock Station (our only soul surviving rock station now) played them when they first started and support them no matter what. I've met them a few times and such great people. Izzy lives in Nashville now. Not sure why but it's becoming a popular place for rockers to live 

 
DocHolliday said:
Saw Aerosmith in the late 80s.  Dokken was opening and the main reason I was there.   I loved Aerosmith at one time but they were pushed aside for the 80s metal acts.  Aerosmith put on a good show and was much better than expected.  
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👍 I went to same tour for same reason. Always liked Aerosmith & they put on a good show. Saw them few years later but again mainly for their opener - GnR. Unfortunately due to huge traffic mess we only saw last 2 songs by Guns.

 
27. Anthrax / S.O.D.

SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE  

This incredible piece of crossover thrash/punk/metal came courtesy of extra purchased studio time, after the recording of Spreading the Disease.  It may not blow the minds of anybody over 30 today, but after I heard it around age 14 I had to pick my teeth up off the floor.
Sargeant D/ March of the S.O.D.  
Pre Menstrual Princess Blues  
I Want Some ####### Milk

Billy Milano was from another NYC band called The Psychos.  He tried to carry forward with the banner, as M.O.D., that's worth a mention but none of the magic.. it was all about Scott and Charlie really, they blazed a trail here..

As for Anthrax.. 

Fistful is solid, original singer Neil Turbin

Deathrider  
I'm Eighteen for you Alice fans.. don't go anywhere..

Spreading the Disease is a good metal record.  Kinda sounds like ### though

Madhouse
A.I.R. (Adolescence In Red) 

Among the Living, now we're talking, this is a great metal album, but not exactly in the transcendent category with Peace Sells and Puppets

Caught In A Mosh Live, more recently
Indians
  If there's a more 80's take on a sensitive issue, I can't think of it.  No worries.. Intentions were good!

I'm The Man .. not feeling it anymore but it was something back then..

Next couple of albums, State of Euphoria and Persistence of Time, weren't bad but not so great, to me..

Antisocial

Got the Time - killer Joe Jackson cover is their second biggest song on Spotify, behind the Guitar Hero one

Reasons for Joey Belladonna's departure aren't super clear to me but the word on wiki is "Creative and stylistic differences."  In other words the records weren't doing great

I won't get too much into "Big 4" talk, because whatever, but by 1991 the other 3 had left this 1 behind

John Bush of Armored Saint (shout out!) was brought in as the new singer, and they made two albums I personally enjoyed -- Sound of White Noise and Stomp 442

Only

Nothing

Remember Tomorrow killer Maiden cover

We're well past the MTV era here, but these guys kept on cranking out pretty good stuff.  Belladonna back, Bush back, both back? I don't know they shuffle it around and it's 2022, I've lost track..

Bonus-- S.O.D.'s original demo, Crab Society North

The demo was recorded in the kitchen of Pyramid Sound studios with a walkman put into a speaker.
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Sounds great! I would not have known

 
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27. Anthrax / S.O.D.

SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE  

This incredible piece of crossover thrash/punk/metal came courtesy of extra purchased studio time, after the recording of Spreading the Disease.  It may not blow the minds of anybody over 30 today, but after I heard it around age 14 I had to pick my teeth up off the floor.
Sargeant D/ March of the S.O.D.  
Pre Menstrual Princess Blues  
I Want Some ####### Milk

Billy Milano was from another NYC band called The Psychos.  He tried to carry forward with the banner, as M.O.D., that's worth a mention but none of the magic.. it was all about Scott and Charlie really, they blazed a trail here..

As for Anthrax.. 

Fistful is solid, original singer Neil Turbin

Deathrider  
I'm Eighteen for you Alice fans.. don't go anywhere..

Spreading the Disease is a good metal record.  Kinda sounds like ### though

Madhouse
A.I.R. (Adolescence In Red) 

Among the Living, now we're talking, this is a great metal album, but not exactly in the transcendent category with Peace Sells and Puppets

Caught In A Mosh Live, more recently
Indians
  If there's a more 80's take on a sensitive issue, I can't think of it.  No worries.. Intentions were good!

I'm The Man .. not feeling it anymore but it was something back then..

Next couple of albums, State of Euphoria and Persistence of Time, weren't bad but not so great, to me..

Antisocial

Got the Time - killer Joe Jackson cover is their second biggest song on Spotify, behind the Guitar Hero one

Reasons for Joey Belladonna's departure aren't super clear to me but the word on wiki is "Creative and stylistic differences."  In other words the records weren't doing great

I won't get too much into "Big 4" talk, because whatever, but by 1991 the other 3 had left this 1 behind

John Bush of Armored Saint (shout out!) was brought in as the new singer, and they made two albums I personally enjoyed -- Sound of White Noise and Stomp 442

Only

Nothing

Remember Tomorrow killer Maiden cover

We're well past the MTV era here, but these guys kept on cranking out pretty good stuff.  Belladonna back, Bush back, both back? I don't know they shuffle it around and it's 2022, I've lost track..

Bonus-- S.O.D.'s original demo, Crab Society North

Sounds great! I would not have known
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the Dinner with Anthrax episode of Married…With Children is one of my all time favorites 

also enjoy Startin Up A Posse

 
DJackson10 said:
Lemmy with DIo and a few others was part of The Rainboy's Hollywood Vampires club back in the day and was still a part till he died if I'm not mistaken. 
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Funny you should mention that. 

Years ago (early to mid 80s) a friend and I were in Hollywood to see another friends' band at, I think, The Roxy.  After the show we decided to go to the Rainbow Bar.  The place was pretty busy as  you would expect on a Friday or Saturday night, but there was a booth unoccupied near the back of the bar.  We figured someone had just left so we sat down with our pitchers and proceeded to drink beer. 

About 5 minutes later this big ugly guy walks up to the booth with a gorgeous blonde and he just sits down next to me on one side of the booth and she sits next to my friend on the other side.  Neither of them acknowledged us for a few minutes until the big ugly guy looks at me and says, "You were just leaving, right?"  Before I could answer him he and she stood up to let us out of the booth and they sat back down and continued their conversation. 

My friend and went and got another pitcher or something when we realized at the same time it was Lemmy.  We didn't know at the time the booth we sat in was his anytime he was at the Rainbow (and he was there often) and that is why it was unoccupied.  That is about as close to a music legend as I've ever been.

 
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27.  S.O.D.

SPEAK ENGLISH OR DIE  

This incredible piece of crossover thrash/punk/metal came courtesy of extra purchased studio time, after the recording of Spreading the Disease.  It may not blow the minds of anybody over 30 today, but after I heard it around age 14 I had to pick my teeth up off the floor.
Sargeant D/ March of the S.O.D.  
Pre Menstrual Princess Blues  
I Want Some ####### Milk
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I still listen to this (one of the only acts in this countdown besides Hanoi that I really earnestly do), in on the joke now, bashing away and not ironically or with too much nostalgia. This will absolutely still knock your teeth to the floor and sounds fresh as a daisy for something so metal. The riffs are just monstrous, and deserved their use as the introduction and bumper music for the nationally-aired MTV show Headbanger's Ball (I can't believe it hasn't gotten a shout yet. Headbanger's. With VJs posing in leather clothes and then later with Riki Rachtman of Lip Service -- the clothing company -- vein). 

I still have the Speak English Or Die cassette my friend Dave lent me in college once I had worn/used mine out. Bash bash bash bash bash. I'd reprint the lyrics from memory, but I'd catch banhammers.

S.O.D. Aside from Slayer, the greatest thrash outfit there was. 

 
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And Anthrax was a really good band, always a little better in personality and intent than in delivery and execution. I still enjoyed the heck out of them, and while "I'm The Man" was a little bit corny and doesn't hold up, it got a ton of kids who listened to metal into hip hop and rap in general. Still a lot of racism in the metal scene back in the late '80s, and it took guts for Anthrax to pump "Bring The Noise" by Public Enemy and record their own earnest yet humorous "I'm The Man."

I'm the man/I'm the man
I'm so bad I should be detention
I'm the man
Shut shut shut up/NOT!

 
plinko said:
I’ve mentioned the Ball once or twice, yes great theme music.. march and chromatic death 
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Ah, yes. I meant the commenters latching on, really. I might have missed yours or their mentions, actually, though I've tried to keep up with the entire thread. My apologies, plinko! 

"Chromatic Death" which then led right into "Pi Alpha Nu" right after, IIRC. Sweet. So awesome. 

 
DocHolliday said:
Caught Halestorm at the House of Blues in Cleveland in support of their first album.   Hale has a solid voice and it is obvious that she loves playing music.   I don’t think it would have been as good on a big stage in a big venue.   
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I'm a huge Halestorm fan, have seen them probably a dozen times, and completely agree. They are best at the House Of Blues sized venues. As much as I enjoy their music, Lzzy and Arejay tend to dominate the stage presence of a live performance, leaving Smith and Hollinger kinda out in the cold. Comes across uneven and not great for large venues. 

 
Herb said:
My favorite thrash album ever, although admittedly I was never a huge thrash guy and never "got" Slayer. Caught In A Mosh was probably my favorite off that record, but coming in a close second was the song about comic book hero Judge Dredd, I Am The Law
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"Caught In A Mosh" is such an awesome song. The live version is cool, too. (I think they put out a live album.)

Slayer I'll save until it's their time. Headliner time. 

 
One thing that grabs me from this thread is how much albums meant before the internet, and now it's for the most part about song releases.  Too bad for the kids these days.  There were great unheard tracks that never hit the radio (and often couldn't due the content or length... GNR's Appetite being a good example of content and like Rush being an example of too long for airplay).  I bought albums more for the stuff you couldn't get on the radio than I did for the hits.  There are some incredible songs from these bands that didn't get a minute of airplay.

 
Brunell4MVP said:
One thing that grabs me from this thread is how much albums meant before the internet, and now it's for the most part about song releases.  Too bad for the kids these days.  There were great unheard tracks that never hit the radio (and often couldn't due the content or length... GNR's Appetite being a good example of content and like Rush being an example of too long for airplay).  I bought albums more for the stuff you couldn't get on the radio than I did for the hits.  There are some incredible songs from these bands that didn't get a minute of airplay.
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One of the cool things I remember about getting new vinyl was 1.) listening to whole thing and trying to find the next song on it to drop on my friends before anyone else did and 2.) the credits. Used to love reading all the people associated on an album and the inter-connectivity of the music business with who worked/contributed to who's album.

 
beer 30 said:
2.) the credits. Used to love reading all the people associated on an album and the inter-connectivity of the music business with who worked/contributed to who's album.
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This was how I found out about a ton of bands. Invaluable, the liner notes. 

 
26. AC/DC

OK, nobody freak out.. Back In Black was 1980, MTV started in 1981 so we're really talking the post-BIB run of records, along with overall impact.  

This video came out six years later, when the track was reissued on Who Made Who..
You Shook Me All Night Long  No cheating!

Live '91 For Those About To Rock.. FIYAH

Flick of the Switch.. Fly on the Wall.. relatively unspectacular

Shake Your Foundations

Who Made Who, now we're talking, I love this song and the album (Maximum Overdrive soundtrack) was pretty much a greatest hits  

Blow Up Your Video.. not much to write home about.. but then came the Razor's Edge in 1990, and monster cut Thunderstruck.  Thanks Bruce Fairbairn

I saw them on this tour, in 1990, with L.A. Guns, who I SOMEHOW have ranked above them.. what can I say, I can't control the numbers.

 
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