1985 Heavy Metal TIE BREAKER

1985 tie breaker
Dokken - Under Lock And Key
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command

Not a chance you'll get me to vote for either of those.

I voted for Dokken by default. I never heard the Stryper album, aside from maybe a song or 2.

Rockin' with Dokken on this one

85 must have been a slow year since those two made it to the top.
Voted for Stryper, good album but hard to understand it would be the best album released that year.....

Love both records, but UNDER LOCK AND KEY has aged better than SOLDIERS in my book. Sorry Stryper, you lose this one.

I voted for Dokken. I just love "Unchain the Night" and "Lightning Strikes Again" whereas I don't particularlly like Stryper.

Olafsto wrote:

85 must have been a slow year since those two made it to the top.
Voted for Stryper, good album but hard to understand it would be the best album released that year.....

Sort of weird that those two made the Top 2 for the year. I guess we have a lot of Dokken and Stryper fans here. Most other years are dominated by Maiden, Priest, Metallica and Anthrax.

Went with Stryper put of those two

Don't get me wrong, I like the Dokken album...but it's a commercial pop-metal album...and there were SO MANY better (and heavier/edgier) records that year.

DOKKEN

Of those two lps....Stryper

If it was "tooth and nail" different story

Stryper. One of my all time favorite albums.

detuned wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I like the Dokken album...but it's a commercial pop-metal album...and there were SO MANY better (and heavier/edgier) records that year.

100% agree but it is either Dokken or bumble bees chucking Bibles at your brain case in this poll

Definitely Dokken

Dokken here. Soldiers Under Command is an awesome tune but the rest is kinda meh to me (Battle Hymn of the Republic ?)

manny wrote:

100% agree but it is either Dokken or bumble bees chucking Bibles at your brain case in this poll

I always wondered if anyone at a Stryper gig has ever been injured by a flying Bible. Who knows, maybe someone's not paying attention, then all of a sudden POW! New Testament right between the eyes!

007 wrote:

Dokken here. Soldiers Under Command is an awesome tune but the rest is kinda meh to me (Battle Hymn of the Republic ?)

Hahaha is that really a song title? That's funny.

Nico wrote:

007 wrote:

Dokken here. Soldiers Under Command is an awesome tune but the rest is kinda meh to me (Battle Hymn of the Republic ?)

Hahaha is that really a song title? That's funny.

Yes, that is a song, but it's not a Stryper song. It's a cover...

Quote :

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War. Since that time it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song.

Nico wrote:

007 wrote:

Dokken here. Soldiers Under Command is an awesome tune but the rest is kinda meh to me (Battle Hymn of the Republic ?)

Hahaha is that really a song title? That's funny.

I have a jazz album with a song called "Battle Hymn of the Republican".

ultmetal wrote:

Nico wrote:

007 wrote:

Dokken here. Soldiers Under Command is an awesome tune but the rest is kinda meh to me (Battle Hymn of the Republic ?)

Hahaha is that really a song title? That's funny.

Yes, that is a song, but it's not a Stryper song. It's a cover...

Quote :

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War. Since that time it has become an extremely popular and well-known American patriotic song.

Oh, well that's different. It just seems really cheesy coming from an '80s band that dressed like bumblebees. It almost sounds like a political Manowar song or something.

Quote :

Of those two lps....Stryper

If it was "tooth and nail" different story

Exactly.

Dok..Dok...DOKKEN!

STRYPER!! Only because that CASSETTE got more play time in my stereo than any other that year.