Interesting, 6 #1 votes and not even in the top 20 for Funhouse. A piss poor showing for the greatest rock album of any sort, light, heavy, soft, hard or metal. Makes me wonder if there are people who voted in the poll who never heard it.
Also surprised to see Master Of Puppets fail to make the top 5. Maybe it was overplayed and votes split with Ride The Lightning.
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath was indeed voted the first modern metal album - What's the first modern metal album?
I disagree, but I do think it is an awesome album, not just because it was first. It certainly measures up close to Sabbath's three other best albums which will apparently be ruling the top 20.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Appetite was my #2. Johnny's right btw.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
17 Darkthrone · A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) (855 Points, 20 points - ONE #1 vote)http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/1/2/612.jpghttp://open.spotify.com/album/4ywDt046dDB2OtWLqKwvMF
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
OK FUCK YOU PEOPLE
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
awesome
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
can someone do me a favor and list out which of the death/black metal guys are horrible racists and which ones aren't so I at least have some goalposts to go by as I investigate this stuff
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
never rly HEARD any Darkthrone, but awesome
Johnny, if Kix showed up, I don't think people would be saying "OK FUCK YOU PEOPLE"
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
because for real, I don't care how talented you are, if you are saying shit about me and mine you need to never see any of my money ever and hopefully one day you will be killed
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: yeah don't be so sure about that
Dan, just avoid Burzum, Drudkh and Enslaved and you should be ok
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
How does that work?
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
dan this is about Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Some pressings have the phrase 'Norsk Arisk Black Metal' (Norwegian Aryan Black Metal), but due to the negative response of many distributors around the world,that phrase was replaced by "True Norwegian Black Metal" in later pressings.
the reason I've never checked them out.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, my main complaint here was that we're in the top 20 now and earbreaking bullshit like this is being listed. I don't know their politics. Just that they sound like trash.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Drudkh arent racists apparently
didnt know enslaved were. "smithy" is a big fan of them (and darkthrone too i think)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that this poll is so fucked that we have to determine which bands are racists and which aren't.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
so just avoid listening to LJ and ask someone who knows what they're talking about.
Avoid Graveland obviously, they are genuine NSBM.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck Ian MacKaye.
― r.i.p. soup (kkvgz), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
johnny fever, is axl rose racist or homophobic? or racist and homophobic?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Metallica's music is so bad that they may as well be lumped in w/ the racists imho.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure why anyone should be surprised that the most highly regarded black metal and death metal albums are showing up near the top of a hardrock/metal poll
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He's probably a little of both, or was at one point, but that was never a proud selling point of GNR. xps
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW, Master Of Puppets was released March 3, 1986. The last day of recording was December 27, so no chance it was released in 1985.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
btw Axl is why I'll never own a Guns 'N Roses album
also even though I love the albums I have by them, I've never bought a Jane's Addiction album after learning about the existence of "Whores" (never bought the first one, lol) so my inconsistency has a little bit of consistency
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ok I read somewhere that Drudkh and Enslaved might be dodgy but this is looking RONG upon inspection
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah Burzum and Darkthrone you'll be wanting to avoid, Dan
i had to google the lyrics for that JA song, been a while since i heard that album. Some good stuff on it but yeah, that song.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I think darkthrone have denied being racists/nazis too fwiw
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw this is why I don't really pay attention to metal, even though apparently half of my musical predilections fall into that category
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not pay a cent for my copy of Transylvanian Hunger and I have no idea what they're saying.
― r.i.p. soup (kkvgz), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
really not that many 'good' metal bands are racist - the ones that are receive lots of attention
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I have one friend who has a pretty good black metal collection of a few hundred albums, and he doesn't like any by Darkthrone as far as I know. I've heard some bits, nothing compelling enough to convince me to check them out more thoroughly. He also doesn't like Ulver, but I do like their recent one enough to be curious about their earlier ones.
I've read plenty of Enslaved interviews. They're intelligent, enlightened guys who are not remotely racist.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
no other genre screams "white music for white people" as much as metal, particularly when talking about the extreme subgenres (I still maintain that all of the original metal albums are hard rock as I don't really see any direct link between the Black Sabbath I know and the Iron Maiden I know)
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
any genre of music has racist or sexist or homophobic or plain old bigots. metal is no worse than others.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Implication that more bad ones are?
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Polka's pretty white-for-whites.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
16 Sleep · Dopesmoker (released 2003) (860 Points, 25 votes)http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/3/0/9/23096.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Betting it's worse than disco
― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleep = properly named band.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
lol, googling "racist dance music" just brings up Das Racist and Mia Michaels
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Am feeling pretty bad now - got my wires completely crossed about Enslaved to the extent to which they seem like the sort of band I'd really dig - really, really hating on whomever suggested they might be racist.
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
googling "racist hip-hop" is simultaneously totally expected and really, really confusing
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://hiphopwired.com/2010/04/07/man-slashes-dog-for-being-racist/
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ have you heard Cynic?
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
btw Dan, I know you mentioned in the past, one of the reasons you hated metal was because of the people at your school who liked it (and why you were wary of jj at first), but were they into thrash stuff like slayer/anthrax/metallica/megadeth, hair/glam metal or iron maiden/priest stuff?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
all three of those styles were what 80% of the school listened to
not heard Cynic
― AVANT-ELECTRO METAL IST KRIIIIIIIEEEEGGGGGGGGGGGG (acoleuthic), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
the other 20% liked top-40 radio and country
― How could you forget the crazy hooker? (HI DERE), Friday, 13 August 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link