ILM : The Top 100 Metal/Heavy Rock Tracks Of All Time - Presented By Our Host, Henry, ILM's Favourite Heavy Metal Dog! THE END IS NIGH! (FIN)

My number 1 is still alive.

Ok, time to start counting down the stuff that matters and wasn't popped in here by lonely losers wasting their votes I guess.

Interesting that you say you are a "pup", I think there was a post saying you are 14. Lying about your age is unbecoming.

(jj check email)

bill, 14 in doggy years

2 years old still aint no pup, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

20 Black Sabbath · Paranoid (1970) (559 points · 12 voters - 1 number one vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZyVZFJGX5g

Paranoid from the album Paranoid ok you get the drill. The lyrics to this are a pretty good precursor to the fact that Ozzy was never going to make a goddamn bit of sense from here on out.

BONUS WIKIPEDIA TRIVIA:
"In Finland it is an old joke that somebody who doesn't at the moment like the music the band is playing in any concert, is generally bored with current concert (any concert) or wants to peak his/her feelings at that moment shouts (loud so that everyone around and the band can hear) "play Paranoid!" ("soittakaa Paranoid!") just like "Free Bird" is often requested in the United States, and "Stairway to Heaven" in the UK."

really this explains so much

Man, those Finns are crazy.

#20?!!! WTF YOU PEOPLE!

too high?

No, too low! I thought that was a probably top 10, and maybe even #1.

well its not like we've had a dearth of of Sabbath... its kind of getting boring now.

"In Finland it is an old joke that somebody who doesn't at the moment like the music the band is playing in any concert, is generally bored with current concert (any concert) or wants to peak his/her feelings at that moment shouts (loud so that everyone around and the band can hear) "play Paranoid!" ("soittakaa Paranoid!") just like "Free Bird" is often requested in the United States, and "Stairway to Heaven" in the UK."

The "play Paranoid!" shouting is so common on Finnish gigs that some bands even make preparations for it. Once I was on a gig where some local indie band was playing, and between songs someone shouted "Play Paranoid!", and all of sudden one band member raised a sign that said "PARANOID 100 MARKS, 80 MARKS WITH STUDENT DISCOUNT". (Mark was the Finnish currency before the Euro.) Then someone in the audience started collecting donations in a hat, and he managed come up with 80 Marks, so he gave that money to the band, which then promptly went on to play "Paranoid".

Tuomas!!! Hi!!! Did you like the public enemy track making the list?

No, too much metal in it.

lol

The only metal tunes I like are "Nothing Else Matters" and "Hero of the Day" by Metallica.

Nothing in this thread at all so far then?

21 Black Sabbath · Black Sabbath (1970) (558 points · 13 voters) (2 number one votes)

AND there goes my number one pick

― SAUSAGE LIVES ON IN MY HEART (and much of my gi tract prob) (jjjusten)

I was the other #1. Far too low.

Have you ever seen Spinal Tap, Tuomas?

The Funkadelic tunes are quite okay, but I don't see how they're metal.

(x-post)

Yeah, that's a funny movie.

and now we go back to the 80s, mr fevers fave decade

theyre heavy rock, tuomas

my #7

19
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (1986) 563 Points, 18 voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RnRDizzBM0
Every time I'm on the street
People laugh and point at me
They talk about my length of hair
And the out of date clothes I wear

They say I look like the living dead
They say I can't have much in my head
They say my songs are much too slow
But they don't know the things I know

I know I don't belong
And there's nothing I can do
I was born too late
And I'll never be like you

In my life things never change
To everybody I seem strange
But in my world now something's died
So I just stare with these insane eyes

I know I don't belong
And there's nothing that I can do
I was born too late
And I'll never be like you

Saint Vitus is cool and all. I even voted for them, but not above, what, 7 or 8 other Black Sabbath tracks? You people are mad.

its called vote splitting, everyone has their own faves

I see this as a positive development in the countdown. Much of the Sabbath vote-splitting is out of the way now. Saint Vitus gets a ton of people rallying behind a common unifying track. I can't listen to this right now, but look forward to it when I get home.

xp

Love that Saint Vitus song, the album it's from roolz

The Funkadelic tunes are quite okay, but I don't see how they're metal.

Yes, that "Super Stupid" is not heavy in the slightest, duh

18 people voted for it, so you cant really argue with it. Plus when do you ever see vitus in an alltime countdown? ILM excelling itself here for now

I love this song, it was very high in my ballot.

Some songs are "canon" within their genre, but aren't well known outside of it. So it surprises some people (especially ones who dont hang out on the rolling metal thread). But if they vote, they get represented, and hurrah for that.

Oh, I fully expected "Born Too Late" to show up. But it should probably be somewhere between 51-100.

i wasnt really talking about you, you've been known to pop up in that thread!

still in the 80s for the next one btw..

I just realized this countdown is missing "Barracuda". Did anyone even remember to nominate Heart? :(

18
Metallica - Creeping Death (1984) (566 Points, 15 voters - ONE #1 vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VMh0-grQQY

RIP Cliff Burton

and over to Henry for the next one

^ one of my votes btw

Metallica used to be so godlike

I guess the problem here is with metal fans being beholden to their precious albums, and representing those albums at all costs in a tracks poll despite there being so many good or great tracks out there that stand alone whether you have any attachment to the particular album or not.

The Funkadelic tunes are quite okay, but I don't see how they're metal.

Yes, that "Super Stupid" is not heavy in the slightest, duh

― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Thursday, August 5, 2010 1:12 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is sarcasm, right?

It's the only language Tuomas understands .... apart from Finnish, English and probably a dozen others

I'm guessing Thin Lizzy won't show up on this poll now. How depressing.

eh idk, that definitely wasnt how my ballot worked, but i know theres some stuff in my top 10 that might look like that from a certain perspective, but i was dead serious about it being a trackworthy alltime number idk 8 or whatever.

xpost to JF

My ballot was done in all honesty, thinking in "tracks/singles/songs I love" mode, not trying to get certain artists higher placed or whatever. Metallica fans are starting to just piss me off now.

You cant fuck with these metallica tracks placing (so far at least)
they would grace any metal list.
It's funny though that ppl complain there's too much by x bands but then everytime a Sabbath track places a whole chorus of "too low!" goes up!

that's cuz Sabbath rule