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)

Funny that I'm such a listoholic when it comes to albums, but when I contemplate ranking songs, my brain seizes up. I didn't get a song ballot in, but knew it was in capable hands. A fun, diverse list, thanx!

Only one other person voted for "Rock You Like a Hurricane". ;_;
Only one other person voted for "Nobody's Fool". ;_; ;_; ;_;

Oh wait, I essentially voted twice for those, because they were on EZ's ballot. Never has the message been clearer to me that I am an island.

I think basically what this tracks poll establishes is: a) a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread, b) Supernaut and Ace of Spaces are rock-solid heavy metal exemplars, c) Metallica used to be good.
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Nicely put Glenn.

Yes. That was the Stargazer of post-poll wrapups.

132,The Osmonds - Crazy Horses,241,8,30.125,0

This was my #1 so...um...er...

wait if you are serious i need to check if something went wrong here

would your ballot be under the name kevin john bozelka or kjb or what?

also did you get a confirmation email?

email me if you dont want your ballot name out in public or whatever obv

It was under Kevin John Bozelka as far as I recall. pfunkboy even castigated me for including Kid Rock, etc.

wait and this was a tracks list?

i show an album list from you, but no track list at all.

let me check further and get back to you

Yup. Track list sent on 7/21/10 at 6:12pm CST.

a bunch of people discovered "Stargazer" in the Dio-RIP thread,

That may be the case, then they discovered a real treat. My memories of it go back to Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show all time tracks pollin the early 80s where it would always finish in the top 3 with 'Smoke on the Water' and 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Thanks to all for organising, looking forward to the Spotify playlist and of course the albums poll!

but this list is rather reactionary, no offence *shit-eating grin*

What does this even mean? Reactionary because there's very little god-awful prog rock, a genre that is arguably horribly reactionary itself? In other words, unless you have something positive to contribute, maybe try something new and keep it shut.

^

'twas a lot of fun, thanks v much guys

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This list is fucking bonkers but if it was like a Spotify playlist round someone's house w/ a bunch of beers I'd be completely fine about listening to it

I didn't vote but I almost never vote in ilx polls

word. shocked (and delighted) by the winner, fwiw.

kjb , will need to get glenn to check the results, but we definitely got your ballot, i dunno what happened. fuck

Definitely no KJB tracks ballot in the spreadsheet, and thus none in Needle. Obviously no technical problem with adding it now, but no doubt riots would ensue if it changed the winners. So maybe declare martial law briefly before updating?

glenn, im on googlechat, will chat to you when you get on.

osmonds till wouldnt make it btw. a couple of songs would move up a bit.
kjb im really really sorry, i dunno what happened.

Great that a song I've never heard of before won it. But it wouldn't have won if Ronnie James hadn't popped his clogs this year, would it?

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle. But in the end, I learned about a few much more basic bands that I should have been paying attention to anyway.

they dont vote, but albums list will be more to your (and maybe their) liking.

Well yeah, I know they don't vote, but like, shadowy images of them or something.

: )

I don't think you will be disappointed by the results

An army of miniature Roxy- and John-shaped demons that pour out of that hole in the backyard where the tree fell down after the lightning strike.

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle. But in the end, I learned about a few much more basic bands that I should have been paying attention to anyway.

This is what I was expecting, too.

Shit like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4h3suwonk

My original hopes for this poll would be that every voter besides myself would be like Chon D and Roxy and various other serious metal dudes and they would all have pretty serious opinions about the merits of exciting occult shit like Methgaroth and Burning Tomb and Funeral Battle.

So glad it wasn't like that!

lol

It was a Metal AND Heavy Rock poll after all

I feel tempted to do a straight glam/hair metal poll, since that genre seemed to almost completely get the shaft.

It's my honest hope however, that after this ILM will have sated itself on polls.

For a while, at least.

Wow. Entire poll redeemed right at the very end. Well done "Stargazer". Shoulda been more Rainbow and some Purple (and Montrose!) in the 100 though.

Also:
437,Thin Lizzy - Do Anything You Want to Do,59,1,,0 :(

It's my honest hope however, that after this ILM will have sated itself on polls

You mean after the Top 300 Metal/ Heavy Rock albums poll? That's THREE HUNDRED

Are you an accountant? ;)

I don't think I've heard more than 15 of these songs. But then I prefer the Cardigans' version of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" to the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpFOtZm9Fc0

genius cover!

don't think I've heard more than 15 of these songs. But then I prefer the Cardigans' version of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" to the original.

― jaymc, Friday, August 6, 2010 9:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Welcome to Challop Town.

Kevin's errant tracks ballot has been located and added. You'll get to see and explore the full data after the album countdown, so I won't repost everything. The order of the top 5 didn't change, though Kevin's votes for Supernaut and Ace of Spades increased the gap between the top 3 and everything else. His votes for "Search and Destroy", "When the Levee Breaks" and "Immigrant Song" pull those up from 15/17/14 to 6/7/8. Which should reinforce my point about the tracks poll having too few votes for any of the placements below 3 or 4 to mean much.

He also voted for "Kick Out the Jams", which moves it from the excellent countdown-opening #100 to a completely uninteresting #74.

Here's the new top 10, with notes for where the points went up:

1. Rainbow - Stargazer (1174/24)
2. Black Sabbath - Supernaut (1111/23 from 1069/22)
3. Motörhead - Ace of Spades (948/23 from 915/22)
4. Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls (748/18)
5. Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (630/14)
6. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy (623/16 from 576/15)
7. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks (618/13 from 569/12)
8. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (614/14 from 577/13)
9. Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera (610/15)
10. Nirvana - Aneurysm (593/14)

He also voted for "Kick Out the Jams", which moves it from the excellent countdown-opening #100 to a completely uninteresting #74.

LOL - thanks a lot, Kevin.

The weird stat that Kevin's votes didn't change is that everybody's last-place track got at least one other vote.

I like "Stargazer" OK but, except that it's less overplayed, I'm not sure why someone would rank that higher than the best Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath. I don't think the melody is all that original tbh. It actually feels a bit like a Tea Party song.

I generally love this thread though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6IPBN6ARkE&feature=related

So was The Osmonds upset punk insurrection or metal routine?