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

rockaction said:
This was how I found out about a ton of bands. Invaluable, the liner notes. 
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YESSSSS!!!! YESSSSSS!!!!

plinko said:
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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During the 80's I would "discover" a band and if I liked them, immerse myself in their music catalog. This is what happened for me with AC/DC. Obviously Back in Black took the world by storm and I played it till I wore out the cassette but I was blissfully ignorant of anything before that. Was at a buddy's house one night partying with him, trying to pick up one of his sisters friends and he threw some old AC/DC on. I dropped the chacita and we ended up talking about the band the rest of the night as he brought out album after album of rock goodness. I bought them all the next day, still love most everything they did from Back In Black backwards. Everything after that was kinda hit or miss for me but still a huge fan.

 
beer 30 said:
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.
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I'd also add the artwork, both on the front and back covers, and on the inside sleeve (I'm looking at you, Queen Jazz).

 
beer 30 said:
still love most everything they did from Back In Black backwards. Everything after that was kinda hit or miss for me but still a huge fan.
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Yeah, I'm much more of a Bon Scott guy and don't like that much after Back In Black. 

I also think they aggravated English teachers more than the PMRC by not titling the album/song as Who Made Whom.

 
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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Album covers and liner notes really meant a lot to me.

 
FairWarning said:
I love AC/DC but they really need to mix it up on the live stuff.  Black Ice is a pretty solid late career album.  
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I love Power Up too, feel like that could have been released in 1983, not 2020. 

AC/DC is the only band who had success with two singers where I don't know which era I like more, the Bon Scott days or Brian Johnson. They're both do damn good in different ways. Johnson more heavy hitting and in your face, Scott a bit more bluesy with a sly sense of humor. So good. 

 
I really do like Brian Johnson as a singer and a dude, but I'll take the Bon songs

I hope Bon doesn't haunt me but I'm pretty sure I'd take KISS's 70's discography over AC/DC's.. but I would have to think about it.  But give me post-70's AC/DC X1000000

(And part of the reason I ranked KISS as high as I did was because of acts they launched and helped.. to their credit)

 
I wish the radio would NEVER AGAIN play "You Shook Me".

And Heatseeker is a superior song to Thunderstruck. Although I do like the Two Cellos and The Steve'n'Seagulls version of the latter.

And Money Talks is a good revision of The Locomotion (seriously, you can sing that song along to the chorus of Money Talks)'

 
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zamboni said:
I'd also add the artwork, both on the front and back covers, and on the inside sleeve (I'm looking at you, Queen Jazz).
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The thing that CDs did worst. Everything was one quarter size and almost unreadable. And I still hate my older sis for grabbing those 8 by 11 photos out of the White Album. 

 
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plinko said:
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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The two VHS videos that I wore out most as a kid were AC/DC's "Who Made Who" compilation (featuring 5 videos of songs from the movie) and Van Halen's "Live Without A Net".

It's kind of weird how AC/DC was so huge from 1980-83 and then took a back seat for the rest of the '80s while the (younger) hair bands took over. Similar to what happened to KISS. And a lot of '70s bands I guess. That's the MTV influence, I suppose. If you didn't look pretty or have a catchy video, you were persona non grata.

 
Herb said:
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
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Oh man I totally almost forgot about this awesome cover

2015

 
[scooter] said:
The two VHS videos that I wore out most as a kid were AC/DC's "Who Made Who" compilation (featuring 5 videos of songs from the movie) and Van Halen's "Live Without A Net".

It's kind of weird how AC/DC was so huge from 1980-83 and then took a back seat for the rest of the '80s while the (younger) hair bands took over. Similar to what happened to KISS. And a lot of '70s bands I guess. That's the MTV influence, I suppose. If you didn't look pretty or have a catchy video, you were persona non grata.
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Good songs help

 
[scooter] said:
The two VHS videos that I wore out most as a kid were AC/DC's "Who Made Who" compilation (featuring 5 videos of songs from the movie) and Van Halen's "Live Without A Net".

It's kind of weird how AC/DC was so huge from 1980-83 and then took a back seat for the rest of the '80s while the (younger) hair bands took over. Similar to what happened to KISS. And a lot of '70s bands I guess. That's the MTV influence, I suppose. If you didn't look pretty or have a catchy video, you were persona non grata.
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Fly on the Wall was just awfully produced,

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

29. Lita Ford
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Put me in the overrated camp.  I know she was definitely a major part of the scene but I never said to myself "I need some more Lita Ford in my life" sans the puberty rocker chick with ####### stage.

 
I don't know if it's related, but I pretty much lost interest in AC/DC as soon as Phil Rudd left the group.  It wasn't something conscious, but I can't recall being into an AC/DC song after 1983 (and I'd stopped really hearing anything by him by the time he rejoined).

When Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience wrote King Dork, he spoke to me by comparing people who like drummers who just hit the beat powerfully (Phil Rudd types) with those who favored all the fancy frills (Neal Peart types).  Yes, this is another lame excuse for me to rag on Rush.  Not sure how Dr. Frank feels about drummers who allegedly try to hire a hitman while really, really high.

 
TripItUp said:
Put me in the overrated camp.  I know she was definitely a major part of the scene but I never said to myself "I need some more Lita Ford in my life" sans the puberty rocker chick with ####### stage.
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Hmm…may need to Wordle what “#######” is.

 
GOOD SONGS LIKE THESE----

25. White Lion

I'm sorry OK but they had three albums with some really good stuff.  This is a band that really put out a subpar effort in 1991 and thwoop! down the drain they went.

Broken Heart 
All Burn In Hell  HERE WE ARE BURNING PEOPLE IN HELL AGAIN

All Join Our Hands  that's better 
Wait my friend in hs called these cockpants 
Tell Me play this and your wife will bang you

Radar Love is it controversial to love it?  
Little Fighter
If My Mind Is Evil   not enough cowbell

 
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SteevieG said:
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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I was wrong here's who is was. Alice Cooper was President and Keith Moon VP 

Alice Cooper

Keith Moon

Ringo Starr

Harry Nilsson

Micky Dolenz

Additional members 

Keith Allison[2]

John Belushi[1]

Marc Bolan[2]

Jack Cruz[2]

Keith Emerson[2]

Mal Evans[3]

John Lennon[4]

Bernie Taupin[4]

Klaus Voormann[3]

Cooper in 2015 would form a supergroup with Johnny Depp (yes Captain Jack Sparrow) and Joe Perry by the same name in honor of the club. And Depp is a pretty good guitar player. 

 
plinko said:
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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Many of these songs were part of my soundtrack growing up. Either from TV shows/movies or stuff played at our HS dances. 

 
MindCrime said:
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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So, I've spent a couple of years trying to remember which band it was.  @plinkoalmost had me convinced that it was a shared fever dream.  Can't tell you how many times I've googled "black rock band", "afro-punk" and so on.  I even scrolled through 10 years of the Sidebar's facebook and IG pages.  No luck.

Today, I had an epiphany.  I've had google location services on for years and just forgot about it.  According to Google Maps, I've been to Sidebar three times since I moved to Baltimore.  I googled those three dates with "Sidebar" and got nada.  More creative googling led me to the FB page of a band and photo of them playing Sidebar on March 8, 2013: Pic

Ladies and gents, I give you The Veldt

 
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scorchy said:
So, I've spent a couple of years trying to remember which band it was.  @plinkoalmost had me convinced that it was a shared fever dream.  Can't tell you how many times I've googled "black rock band", "afro-punk" and so on.  I even scrolled through 10 years of the Sidebar's facebook and IG pages.  No luck.

Today, I had an epiphany.  I've had google location services on for years and just forgot about it.  According to Google Maps, I've been to Sidebar three times since I moved to Baltimore.  I googled those three dates with "Sidebar" and got nada.  More creative googling led me to the FB page of a band and photo of them playing Sidebar on March 8, 2013: Pic

Ladies and gents, I give you The Veldt
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Our long national nightmare is over

 
scorchy said:
So, I've spent a couple of years trying to remember which band it was.  @plinkoalmost had me convinced that it was a shared fever dream.  Can't tell you how many times I've googled "black rock band", "afro-punk" and so on.  I even scrolled through 10 years of the Sidebar's facebook and IG pages.  No luck.

Today, I had an epiphany.  I've had google location services on for years and just forgot about it.  According to Google Maps, I've been to Sidebar three times since I moved to Baltimore.  I googled those three dates with "Sidebar" and got nada.  More creative googling led me to the FB page of a band and photo of them playing Sidebar on March 8, 2013: Pic

Ladies and gents, I give you The Veldt
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Best internet sleuthing on this board since Bobby Sac cracked Kid C.'s alias.  

 
plinko said:
GOOD SONGS LIKE THESE----

25. White Lion

Wait my friend in hs called these cockpants 

Radar Love is it controversial to love it?  
Little Fighter
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I think Wait is the 80's #1 "Hair Band" song.

Radar Love is a GREAT cover. Certainly better than the Golden Earring version.

Everyone knows that Little Fighter is a song about Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior, right?

Lady of the Valley is one of their best.

 
scorchy said:
So, I've spent a couple of years trying to remember which band it was.  @plinkoalmost had me convinced that it was a shared fever dream.  Can't tell you how many times I've googled "black rock band", "afro-punk" and so on.  I even scrolled through 10 years of the Sidebar's facebook and IG pages.  No luck.

Today, I had an epiphany.  I've had google location services on for years and just forgot about it.  According to Google Maps, I've been to Sidebar three times since I moved to Baltimore.  I googled those three dates with "Sidebar" and got nada.  More creative googling led me to the FB page of a band and photo of them playing Sidebar on March 8, 2013: Pic

Ladies and gents, I give you The Veldt
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Lol I almost threw that one out yesterday.  I have no idea who they are but I was googling and figured since I never heard of them it probably wasn’t right

 
Andy Dufresne said:
I think Wait is the 80's #1 "Hair Band" song.

Radar Love is a GREAT cover. Certainly better than the Golden Earring version.

Everyone knows that Little Fighter is a song about Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior, right?

Lady of the Valley is one of their best.
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I spent 3 weeks in a fishing cabin with no electricity, a bunch of batteries, a walkman, and only that album.  It's seared into my brain, but I haven't listened to it in 30 years... time for a Spotify trip.

The only other time I listened to something so much was on a work trip to Mexico where the guy brave enough to drive had one CD - Pearl Jam's Ten.  The trip from the hotel to the plant took about an hour, so we listened to the full album twice per day for 2 weeks.  If you're going to be stuck with one album, that has to be a top-5 choice.

The AC/DC part made me think of ZZ Top... are they going to qualify for this list?  It's always weird when a band had a whole Greatest Hits album before I heard of them in the 80s.

 
Dan Lambskin said:
Lol I almost threw that one out yesterday.  I have no idea who they are but I was googling and figured since I never heard of them it probably wasn’t right
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Yeah, they had popped up in a few google searches previously but the pics and the backstory just didn't seem to fit.  A big whiff on my part.

 
Nobody has mentioned "When The Children Cry" yet? 

Mon dieu!

The Lionz were a fine hair metal band. Lots better than people might give them credit for. There are even strings in this song!

 
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We leave for tour tonight but we’re having a release party for our new EP when we get back! At Saint Vitus Bar on February 25th. Noir Bizarre is back! The Veldt is coming up w/ support from Spirits of Leo & Jeremy Willie Cox. Tickets are on sale now below! #noirbizarre #releaseparty #stvitus
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https://www.facebook.com/VeldtThe/

ROAD TRIP!

 
plinko said:
26. AC/DC
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Senior year, hockey, "Thunderstruck". That's probably all one needs to say. Oh wait, brief story: I wanted to skate out to the anti-war "War Ensemble" by those stalwarts in Slayer but was gently overruled and asked to wear a flag on my helmet. Criminy. I blanched, balked, protested a bit, but ultimately decided to go with it and put it on. "Thunderstruck" it was!  

The Razor's Edge was played often enough in 1991. I enjoy it. Better than people gave it credit for, kind of like AC/DC, though now us oldsters might give them too much credit. 

Bon Scott and Malcolm Young, RIP. Both suffered horrific deaths  -- or difficult ways to go, IMO. 

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

Madhouse
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Love Madhouse!

Of course I was into Among the Living and to a lesser extent State of Euphoria.  Loved Sounds of White Noise, but I was also a big Armored Saint fan with John Bush. (Symbol of Salvation still gets regular play)
 

If you haven’t listened to Worship Music (2011), you are missing out!

 
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beer 30 said:
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.
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Nothing better than a gatefold double album filled with photos. Or one huge photo- Kiss Alive, Maiden Live After Death.

Random fact that maybe I only give a sh!# about- I was listed in the liner notes with a thank you once. And the bastards spelled my last name wrong  :wall:

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
I don't know if it's related, but I pretty much lost interest in AC/DC as soon as Phil Rudd left the group.  It wasn't something conscious, but I can't recall being into an AC/DC song after 1983 (and I'd stopped really hearing anything by him by the time he rejoined).

When Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience wrote King Dork, he spoke to me by comparing people who like drummers who just hit the beat powerfully (Phil Rudd types) with those who favored all the fancy frills (Neal Peart types).  Yes, this is another lame excuse for me to rag on Rush.  Not sure how Dr. Frank feels about drummers who allegedly try to hire a hitman while really, really high.
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If you told me back in 1995 that Dr. Frank would go on to write YA fiction, I would have totally believed you, actually. 

 
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MindCrime said:
Nothing better than a gatefold double album filled with photos. Or one huge photo- Kiss Alive,
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The front and back album covers and the gatefold for Kiss Alive II probably made me more of a fan back in the ‘70s than the music did. Those vibrant colors/images were killer.

 
scorchy said:
So, I've spent a couple of years trying to remember which band it was.  @plinkoalmost had me convinced that it was a shared fever dream.  Can't tell you how many times I've googled "black rock band", "afro-punk" and so on.  I even scrolled through 10 years of the Sidebar's facebook and IG pages.  No luck.

Today, I had an epiphany.  I've had google location services on for years and just forgot about it.  According to Google Maps, I've been to Sidebar three times since I moved to Baltimore.  I googled those three dates with "Sidebar" and got nada.  More creative googling led me to the FB page of a band and photo of them playing Sidebar on March 8, 2013: Pic

Ladies and gents, I give you The Veldt
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Wait …. Their album was called Afrodisiac . Well played Veldt.

 
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MindCrime said:
Love Madhouse!

Of course I was into Among the Living and to a lesser extent State of Euphoria.  Loved Sounds of White Noise, but I was also a big Armored Saint fan with John Bush. (Symbol of Salvation still gets regular play)
 

If you haven’t listened to Worship Music (2011), you are missing out!
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I loved Spreading the Disease even if the sound is crummy.   It’s the only Anthrax album that I still listen to frequently.   I assume it’s because I prefer more of a straight ahead rock sound.  Anthrax did have a much better sound in later albums.  

 
rockaction said:
Nobody has mentioned "When The Children Cry" yet? 

Mon dieu!

The Lionz were a fine hair metal band. Lots better than people might give them credit for. There are even strings in this song!
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I didn’t like White Lion much back in the day but have come to like them much more than other hair bands.   When the Children Cry is wonderful.   They seemed extra wimpy back in the day or something.   

 
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