Heavy Metal 1976 - 1989 THE BEST OF THE BEST!

Queensryche takes the cake, followed by "Kill 'em All" und Dokken.

5 votes for G 'n R?!

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

King's X gets the win for me, followed by Queensryche. Blame it on my love for prog.

My favorite album by my favorite band!

The rest in order (fav-least fav):

Iron Maiden-Killers
Judas Priest-Stained Class
Judas Priest-Hell Bent For Leather
Metallica-Ride The Lightning
Black Sabbath-Heaven And Hell
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Guns & Roses-Ape Tit For Destruction
Judas Priest-Sin After Sin
Metallica-Kill Em All
Judas Priest-Sad Wings Of Destiny
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
King's X-Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

I went with GnR.

Only 30 total votes so far, and Sabbath is in the lead by 1 vote.

kmorg wrote:

Muthallicah - Raid Thu Laighthnin

Went with Kill 'Em All, That album hit me like no other....



















.....until I heard Close to The Edge by Yes

Killers got my vote.

So the top 5 are:

Iron Maiden - Killers
Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Had to push the button for Metallica's KILL'EM ALL. It was a game changer and if it weren't for its release, I may not have become the metalhead I am today.

The rest of my top 5 would probably look something like this:

1. KILL'EM ALL
2. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
3. RIDE THE LIGHTNING
4. OPERATION MINDCRIME
5. HEAVEN AND HELL

...though I gotta say I own and love just about every album on that list (except for GRETCHEN; never been much more than a casual King's X fan)

Went with Heaven and Hell, by the narrowest of margins...

Number of the Beast
Ride the Lightning
Sad Wings of Destiny
Kill Em All

...round out the top five from the list.

Stained Class!

Heaven and Hell by far.

I voted for Killers. Slayer's Show No Mercy would be my pick if it had been an option.

Ride the Lightning.

rounding out the top 5...

2 - The Number Of The Beast
3 - Ride The Lightning
4 - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
5 - Sin After Sin

Appetite!

This is almost like picking your favorite album of all time, way too hard to do. Of this list, I gotta go with "Ride The Lightning", but I don't really believe Metallica should be on this list as they certainly arent heavy metal. But that is a discussion for another day.

Greatest from the '76-'89 list:

Killers
Heaven & Hell
Stained Class
Somewhere In Time
Sad Wings

there are tons of great albums that didnt make the list like Aerosmith "Rocks" and Rush "2112" and Van Halen 1 on so on and so on....

stepcousin wrote:

This is almost like picking your favorite album of all time, way too hard to do. Of this list, I gotta go with "Ride The Lightning", but I don't really believe Metallica should be on this list as they certainly arent heavy metal. But that is a discussion for another day.

Greatest from the '76-'89 list:

Killers
Heaven & Hell
Stained Class
Somewhere In Time
Sad Wings

there are tons of great albums that didnt make the list like Aerosmith "Rocks" and Rush "2112" and Van Halen 1 on so on and so on....

Cool, Im not the only one who ranks SIT high.

Ride The Lightning fer me

mc666 wrote:

1976-2011 = Sin After Sin

That's what I voted for too

DallasBlack wrote:

stepcousin wrote:

This is almost like picking your favorite album of all time, way too hard to do. Of this list, I gotta go with "Ride The Lightning", but I don't really believe Metallica should be on this list as they certainly arent heavy metal. But that is a discussion for another day.

Greatest from the '76-'89 list:

Killers
Heaven & Hell
Stained Class
Somewhere In Time
Sad Wings

there are tons of great albums that didnt make the list like Aerosmith "Rocks" and Rush "2112" and Van Halen 1 on so on and so on....

Cool, Im not the only one who ranks SIT high.

heck yeah. The worst song on it is probably "Wasted Years" and the rest are as good or better than anything from the two albums that bookend it (Powerslave and 7th Son) except maybe "Powerslave" or "Rime". SIT is in my top 3 Maiden albums.

GrandNational wrote:

mc666 wrote:

1976-2011 = Sin After Sin

That's what I voted for too

great minds think alike.

Went with Stained Class, its a "molten metal masterpiece" ( ~ ultmetal)

How did SOMEWHERE IN TIME beat MASTER OF PUPPETS in 86?