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)

So glad to watch this unfold, even if I never did get my shit together to submit a ballot.

98. Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (315 points - 10 points)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk

Here is a version that works in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohCk4HrLlLs&feature=avmsc2

I think this might be something called britpop but I am only 14 months old so I might be missing some nuances. Can't help but notice that no one in this video is the devil or worshiping him, which is a problem.

Henry don't be rude to the people

Okay, I've never heard any MSP album post-Generation Terrorists, which I could imagine might have been eligible for inclusion here, but that Motorcycle Emptiness song is not metal, not heavy. Not even particularly hard. In fact, it's pretty flimsy. I scowl at whoever nominated and voted for this shit.

It's off the 1st album.

It is? I don't even remember it.

Anyway, blech.

really? it's their big song from it, probably their best song. It's a fucking classic slice of 90s britrock.

Anyway time for one more and its METAL

To make up for that travesty I have made my dumb owner go out and pick up my poop, and now present the worthy british fixer of that mistake

97. Diamond Head - Am I Evil (316 Points 10 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlatOLl0NDg

I'm a rare American fan of the Manics, and Motorcycle Emptiness is indeed a fine song. But it doesn't belong anywhere near a list of the 100 greatest metal/heavy rock songs of all time.

I just looked and the running order of that album is a little different in the US than in the UK. "Motorcycle Emptiness" was buried in the second half of the album and, since I had it on cassette, I got in the habit of only listening to the first side.

No arguments over #97

I'll sheepishly admit to never having known Am I Evil was a cover when Metallica did it.

tbf to metallica, they did their best to raise the profile of Diamond Head.

From here on out I am just going to switch "Good Dog!" with "AM YOU EVIL?" in the same approving voice and i bet H does not notice and will in fact react with his usual floppy-headed smiling. also it will amuse me

"Am I Evil" is a fucking incredible number, and shd be top 10 material!
I saw them live, when they were on their way out, as "Canterbury" was failing to sell in the shops, they gave it their all & were terrific, "Am I Evil" was the encore. I wish they'd made it, they were such a damn good band.

"Motorcycle Emptiness" is OK for a manics track, but shouldn't be in a list of heavy rock tracks. Baffled by its inclusion

Hey dumb owner, you shut up. I wish I had been adopted by Danzig according to plan instead of you, you big nancy.

In the meantime, here is the last one for tonight.

96. Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General (318 points, 8 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGP4OvwAsR4&feature=related

Love that song! Didn't vote for it though.

Now that's a great song.

oh whoops. Henry Kvlt Pvp seems to have posted while uh still logged into my account how odd

kicking myself for my lack of paying attention to witchfinder general, that is fucking awesome.

Woot! burn those witches to the stake!

A good start methinks. Hopefully everyone will check out these youtubes before we start again.

Oh for fuck's sake why'd I forget to vote in this poll...

Herman, I can squeeze in an albums ballot if you'll allow it. :/

sorry, results tabulated etc. I msgd you yesterday reminding you!

you didn't remind me!

Totally agree that the magnificent "Motorcycle Emptiness" has no business being anywhere near this poll. I could see the argument for "Slash and Burn", maybe, but even that seems like you're really just being difficult. Somebody defend this. Your votes will be revealed at the end, so don't think you can just hide. (Except, of course, I didn't vote, so who cares what I think!)

lj as much as i will miss your ulver votes (YOU GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH) this has been open for like 3 weeks dude, and bumped every 2 hours or so.

Can't remember if I voted 'Motorcycle Emptiness' or not, but pretty sure I nominated it - mostly on the basis that it's the best thing from the first album, which was at the very least an attempt at a metal album (the second one is definitely within the aesthetic). If I can vote for 'Wind of Change' or 'Don't Cry', I ought to be able to vote for this. And I can't vote for those, then it's not a poll I'm going to be particularly interested in.

did you like the youtubes of the other songs?

Haven't checked them yet - I'm doing this on the phone. 'Kick Out The Jams' was #51 on my ballot iirc, so pleased to see I didn't scupper it.

94 TIE.
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis / Soundgarden - Rusty Cage (318 Points, 11 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPuNLlhrLT0&feature=avmsc2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0&feature=avmsc2

hmmm it didnt embed the soundgarden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0&feature=avmsc2

Revenge of the early 90s!

Why are you posting ties simultaneously?

I mean, it's still a list of 100 songs and each song deserves its own moment in the sun.

because we have to get through to #61 tonight (at a decent time so euros can see it).
Cant leave all the work to poor henry!

but OK, i'll post ties 5 mins apart should we get anymore.

Albumist! ;)

(also, adding the year to these might not be a bad idea, considering it's an ALL-TIME poll.)

you want jam with that? ;)

Both of those are from 1992 btw. Will get john to add the years later using his mod powers.

Having the years would be ace, actually.

I did consider voting for 'Midlife Crisis', but then thought it was too much down to nostalgia and not enough a genuine critical appraisal of the song, so left it off.

Rusty Cage is from 1991, fwiw.

ahh, it came out in the UK as a single in 92.

I gave 'Midlife Crisis' fewer points than it deserves - great track.

I'll post years as long as emil.y promises to watch every youtube!

Hm, I'll have to switch computers, but okay.

Let's do our 2010s POXes

(inspired by listening once again to Blut Aus Nord's 'Epitome XIV' and thinking to myself 'it doesn't matter what else this guy does, he basically wrote the best metal track of the last ten years')

rip henry :(

ah yeah that too :(

tentative MMX POX(I)

Oranssi Pazuzu - Vasemman Käden Hierarkia
Blut Aus Nord - Epitome XIV
Jute Gyte - I Am In Athens And Pericles Is Young
Liturgy - Follow II
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Mesarthim - The Great Filter
Thantifaxath - Gasping In Darkness
Virus - Afield
Cleric - Triskaidekaphobe
Mastery - V.A.L.I.S.V.E.S.S.E.L.
Basarabian Hills - Morning Hoarfrost

couldn't bring myself to cut poor BH from this. besides, the Virus isn't really metal. look I put a big line through it

It's been too long since the last Menace Ruine album.

yes it has

now your tracks POX please

in the cold light of day, including BH was overly sentimental and Virus can consider themselves restored

Glaciation - Les fiancées sont froides
Primordial - The Mouth of Judas
Yob - that one track at the end of one of their albums
Yakuza - a long one with sax

I don't pay enough attention to tracks for this exercise

found the Yakuza and the Yob:

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/be-that-as-it-may

https://yobislove.bandcamp.com/track/adrift-in-the-ocean

Oh I like that Glaciation track!

I've made a playlist out of my top ten tracks. It is 2h 10m long ffs

That's like TWO Dopesmokers

was that Glaciation track from the album i championed strongly and won loads of voters over with it?

AFAICT no one compiled the original list into a Spotify playlist so here you go

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/3xgqc0EnmzPqhR1677qgo2?si=MP8HmyAkSqObNDE7aVrqsA

Whoops, just made it public

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/3xgqc0EnmzPqhR1677qgo2?si=_6g6psTsRxOR8uAEUi9mNA

was that Glaciation track from the album i championed strongly and won loads of voters over with it?

I don't remember anyone other than me championing this album but kudos to you if you did!

the album even made this rollout
https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=104546#unread

TOO LOW!

Doing this was a headache:

Deathspell Omega - Devouring Famine
Krallice - Telluric Rings
Torche - Kicking
Gris - Igneus
Spectral Lore - The Cold March Towards Eternal Brightness
Dispirit - Odyllic Void
Vektor - Recharging the Void
Yellow Eyes - Light has Fallen
Gorguts - Pleides' Dust
Pyramids - Consilience

It could be worse, they could have all been Krallice.

Did we not do a tracks version of lifetime of ILM metal poll?

If simon and seandalai are up for it then I'd be up for it

I don't think there's that much enthusiasm for that unfortunately. I usually find it hard to pick out/remember individual tracks personally, probably a result of listening to too much album-based introverted prog gubbins. I'd be interested in what someone with a more populist taste in metal could come up with, there's got to be some bangers from the last few years.

I made my ten into a Spotify playlist, if anyone's interested. Looking forward to all of yours! :D

Will check out ultros' in painstaking non-playlisted fashion though

Ha, mine's very dissatisfactory to me but I tried to get an even-ish spread of years. It's basically all long bm tracks and a power-pop song in sludge clothing. Will check out the things on yours I haven't heard but the rest already has my approval, mostly.

fyi The Black Stone juuuust missed the cut. Kayo Dot would definitely be in a post-2000 POX! ___on limpid form, obv

well, we could have a month long noms period where we listen to things we like and then nominate the tracks we like best.

Perhaps we could allow a sort of unlimited nominations in that we can nominate as much as we want BUT each person can only nominate 1 song per album. If you ask others to nominate another thats fine though, lol

put it all on spotify then have a month long voting period to allow listening to tracks . The longer period i think would benefit a tracks poll unlike albums.

Maybe forks would help out with spotify as he's really good with that?

I don't think it should be a poll, I think it should be in a shared playlist format

If something isn't on Spotify then the playlists could be made in Garageband and uploaded to Sendspace or w/e

omg Basarabian Hills are adorable

ikr! :3

The guy's protests when they wouldn't let him onto one of those big awful metal databases were about as endearing as you'd hope

lol yeah I found them when I looked him up. metal-archives is a very good resource in many ways but what they allow on the site or not is quite petty. Lustre counts but BH doesn't?

This guy's stuff is quite low in content but it's so warm and calming that I don't mind

100. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (1968) [313 points, 8 votes]
99. TROUBLE - Memory's Garden (1992) [315 points, 7 votes]
98. MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Motorcycle Emptiness (1992) [315 points, 10 votes]
97. DIAMOND HEAD - Am I Evil (1980) [316 points, 10 votes]
96. WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Witchfinder General (1982) [318 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE 94. SOUNDGARDEN - Rusty Cage (1991) [318 points, 11 votes]
TIE 94. FAITH NO MORE - Midlife Crisis (1992) [318 points, 11 votes]
93. MINISTRY - Just One Fix (1992) [319 points, 8 votes]
92. GUNS N' ROSES - Welcome to the Jungle (1987) [319 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
91. CELTIC FROST - Mexican Radio (1987) [319 points, 10 votes]
90. SEPULTURA - Territory (1993) [320 points, 10 votes]
89. CELTIC FROST - I Won't Dance (1987) [320 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE 87. SLAYER - War Ensemble (1990) [320 points, 12 votes]
TIE 87. DANZIG - Mother (1988) [320 points, 12 votes]
86. MANILLA ROAD - Necropolis (1983) [321 points, 9 votes]
85. ANGEL WITCH - Angel Witch (1980) [322 points, 9 votes]
84. HELMET - Unsung (1991/92) [322 points, 13 votes]
83. SEPULTURA - Refuse/Resist (1993) [324 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
82. SOUNDGARDEN - Outshined (1991) [324 points, 10 votes]
81. JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (1968) [325 points, 8 votes]
80. OZZY OSBOURNE - Crazy Train (1980) [325 points, 9 votes]
79. METALLICA - Whiplash (1983) [325 points, 10 votes]
78. FUNKADELIC - Super Stupid (1971) [326 points, 8 votes]
77. BLACK SABBATH - Children of the Grave (1971) [326 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes]
76. DANZIG - Dirty Black Summer (1992) [327 points, 11 votes]
75. METALLICA - One (1988) [329 points, 8 votes]
74. MONSTER MAGNET - Space Lord (1998) [329 points, 9 votes]
73. BOSTON - More Than a Feeling (1976) [330 points, 9 votes]
72. IRON MAIDEN - Number of the Beast (1982) [331 points, 8 votes]
71. JANE'S ADDICTION - Mountain Song (1988) [334 points, 9 votes]
70. WITCHFINDER GENERAL - Burning a Sinner (1981) [336 points, 8 votes]
69. DIO - Holy Diver (1983) [338 points, 9 votes]
68. MELVINS - Boris (1991) [338 points, 10 votes]
67. BURZUM - Det Som en Gang Var (1994) [340 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
66. PUBLIC ENEMY - She Watch Channel Zero (1988) [340 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
65. VENOM - Black Metal (1982) [341 points, 12 votes]
TIE 63. SLAYER - Raining Blood (1986) [342 points, 8 votes]
TIE 63. IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden (1980) [342 points, 8 votes]
62. KYUSS - Supa Scoopa and Might Scoop (1994) [342 points, 9 votes]
61. MASTODON - March of the Fire Ants (2002) [342 points, 11 votes]
60. HAWKWIND - Silver Machine (1972) [343 points, 9 votes]
59. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (1980) [348 points, 8 votes]
58. HIGH ON FIRE - 10,000 Years (2000) [348 points, 12 votes]
57. JUDAS PRIEST - Victim of Changes (1976) [354 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
56. CROMAGNON - Caledonia (1969) [355 points, 11 votes]
55. LED ZEPPELIN - Dazed and Confused (1969) [356 points, 10 votes]
54. JANE'S ADDICTION - Three Days (1990) [358 points, 9 votes]
53. LED ZEPPELIN - Achilles Last Stand (1976) [359 points, 8 votes]
52. ENTOMBED - Left Hand Path (1990) [359 points, 9 votes]
51. GUNS N' ROSES - Paradise City (1987) [360 points, 8 votes]
50. AC/DC - Back in Black (1980) [363 points, 8 votes]
49. BLACK SABBATH - Into the Void (1971) [366 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]
48. KING CRIMSON - 21st Century Schizoid Man (1969) [369 points, 10 votes]
47. MANILLA ROAD - Flaming Metal System (1983) [380 points, 11 votes]
46. AC/DC - Highway to Hell (1979) [381 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
45. BLACK SABBATH - Iron Man (1970) [382 points, 10 votes]
TIE 43. METALLICA - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (1986) [387 points, 11 votes]
TIE 43. FUNKADELIC - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow (1970) [387 points, 11 votes]
42. TURBONEGRO - Get it On (1999) [414 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
41. LED ZEPPELIN - No Quarter (1973) [423 points, 11 votes]
40. BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - Don't Fear the Reaper (1976) [433 points, 11 votes]
39. SLEEP - Dragonaut (1993) [440 points, 11 votes]
38. RUSH - Tom Sawyer (1981) [448 points, 12 votes]
37. BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs (1970) [451 points, 12 votes]
36. BLACK SABBATH - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) [453 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
35. SOUNDGARDEN - Jesus Christ Pose (1991) [455 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes]
34. MONSTER MAGNET - Negasonic Teenage Warhead (1995) [459 points, 13 votes]
33. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Avon (1998) [460 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
32. OZZY OSBOURNE - Mr. Crowley (1980) [465 points, 12 votes]
31. IRON MAIDEN - Running Free (1980) [470 points, 13 votes]
30. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - If Only (1998) [483 points, 13 votes]
29. DARKTHRONE - Transilvanian Hunger (1994) [485 points, 14 votes]
28. MAYHEM - Freezing Moon (1994) [491 points, 14 votes]
27. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Regular John (1998) [505 points, 14 votes]
26. ELECTRIC WIZARD - Funeralopolis (2000) [506 points, 12 votes]
25. CELTIC FROST - Procreation (of the Wicked) (1984) [507 points, 13 votes]
24. SLAYER - Angel of Death (1986) [508 points, 12 votes]
23. LED ZEPPELIN - Kashmir (1975) [512 points, 15 votes]
22. METALLICA - Seek & Destroy (1983) [514 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]
21. BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath (1970) [558 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes]
20. BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid (1970) [559 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
19. SAINT VITUS - Born Too Late (1986) [563 points, 18 votes]
18. METALLICA - Creeping Death (1984) [566 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
17. LED ZEPPELIN - When the Levee Breaks (1971) [569 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE 15. MASTODON - Crusher/Destroyer (2002) [576 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
TIE 15. IGGY AND THE STOOGES - Search and Destroy (1973) [576 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
14. LED ZEPPELIN - Immigrant Song (1970) [577 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
13. BURZUM - Jesus Tod (1996) [577 points, 16 votes]
12. JUDAS PRIEST - Breaking the Law (1980) [577 points, 18 votes]
11. HIGH ON FIRE - Devilution (2005) [579 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote]
10. Kyuss - 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up) (1992) (584 - 13 - ONE #1 vote)
9. Metallica - Fade to Black (1984) (584 Points, 15 votes)
8. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (1982) (589 Points, 14 votes)
7. Nirvana - Aneurysm (1991) (593 Points - 14 votes)
6. Iron Maiden · Phantom of the Opera (1980) (610 points · 15 votes)
5. Guns 'N Roses · Sweet Child O' Mine (1988) (630 points · 14 votes)
4. Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1984) (748 Points, 18 votes)
3. Motörhead · Ace of Spades (1980) (915 points · 22 votes - 2 number one votes)
2. Black Sabbath · Supernaut (1972) (1,069 points · 22 votes - 4 number one votes)
1. Rainbow - Stargazer (1976) (1,174 Points - 24 votes - FIVE #1's