Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe (pt. 6)

no P-Funk record to vote for this time out? an outrage, i say. an absolute outrage!

Kurt Cobain wrote all their albums, I reckon.

Daydream Nation obviously.

And now's a perfect opportunity to bitch about a line in that review that has always bugged me: "The only teenage riots conceivable by 1988 would've come from crack-fried neo-Panthers or domehead neo-Nazis." (124) A member of neither of those demographics, I was at the very heart of a well-reported 1990 riot in Chicago which occurred immediately after a PE and...wait for it...Sonic Youth concert and I was...wait for it...a teenager at the time. --30--

How the hell is that obvious??

Secret Treaties.

Obvious to anyone who knows me. I'll email you my top ten tonight, BM.

Ha ha, I was so cranky back then. (Though being a teen in a riot isn't the same as a riot primarily involving teens. On the other hand, if you were rioting in 1990 over SY and PE albums not being half as good as they used to be, I totally empathize.)

Speaking of Daydream Nation, Kevin recently pointed out something to me I'd somehow never noticed -- its final track is called "Eliminator Jr." only year after I'd wisecracked in a Voice review (later reprised in Stairway) that Sister was "Afterburner to Evol's Eliminator." Coincidence? You decide.

I'm voting for The Reds. Obviously.

Obvious to anyone who knows me. I'll email you my top ten tonight, BM.

^I understand.

I had a tough time deciding between ST and In Rock.

wait, so you're saying that you're neither a "crack-fried neo-Panther" nor a "domehead neo-Nazi," KJB? well, there's yet another of my most cherished delusions brutally shattered on the marble-laden steps of rationalism. sob.

oh, and it's Sister, obviously.

Yeah, not sure how I rated DN higher than Sister (which is clearly the band's best album.) Guess I was just thinking wishfully at that point.

huh, i thought it was because you thought Sister was basically an inferior retread of Evol at the time.

Well yeah, that too. (Turned out to be a superior retread in retrospect, though.)

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Voted Deep Purple, but i could easily have duplicated Kevin or Bill's votes. Or gone for Half-Life, just to honour the MX-80 fire.

Also, special mention to "Look At Yourself" since the writeup contains my favourite of xhuxk's yuks (the one about the "dope-dazzled Heepie" marveling at his own face on his heroes' album cover)

Voted Trust, which I just picked up in a nifty box set of five of their albums when I was in France. Really loving the quirkiness and catchiness of the first album, although subsequent records seem to fall into a midtempo rut.

Black Woman FTW but a lot of great music on this list.

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wow

I like Redd Kross and I like their covers. Still, given the other albums here, a Redd Kross covers album at #1 is pretty wild.

An Alex In NYC approved Redd Kross album though

REDD KROSS - Best Album/EP: The Re-Run

a Redd Kross covers album at #1 is pretty wild.

And a Redd Kross covers EP at #1 is even wilder.