What albums do you like that most others don't ?

Sword Of The Heretic wrote:

I can't even take most of the reviews on Metal Archives seriously at all. The way the purists talk so much seems almost cult-like.

Worst of all, it seems like most of their highly rated/low rated reviews are written mostly for spite. Especially if the album's average score is really high or low.

I will add:

Helix - It's a Business Doing Pleasure

Def Leppard - Adrenalize - Bar none, hands down, no compromise, my favorite album by these guys. Not Metal by any stretch just a solid hook-laden hard rock album.

DakotaRogers wrote:

Vexer6 wrote:

Most people seem to not like Set The World On Fire much compared to the rest of Annihilator's catalog, and a lot of fans find Obsessed By Cruelty to be Sodom's weakest effort(mainly due to the poor production).

Compared to what? Annihilator's first 3 releases are pretty much the only worthwhile albums from the band, aside from a few good songs scattered across their discography.

And, oh man... If one thing ticks me off, it's people who are turned off because an album doesn't feature a crystal-clear production. Maybe they're perusing the wrong genre of music.

Well I strongly disagree with you there, lots of people like Annihilator's later releases such as Carnival Diablos(which I consider their best album), Waking The Fury, Criteria For A Black Widow, Schizo Deluxe etc.

People are willing to tolerate bad production to a point, but sometimes it's so bad that it completely overwhelms everything else(I.E. St. Anger, the Queen box set) and while I personally don't mind it on OBC, I can fully understand people not liking Sodom's debut, production issues aside lots of people feel that the songs simply aren't up to par with material from albums like Code Red and Agent Orange.

Also agree with Adrenalize and It's A Business Doing Pleasure.

DakotaRogers wrote:

Vexer6 wrote:

Most people seem to not like Set The World On Fire much compared to the rest of Annihilator's catalog, and a lot of fans find Obsessed By Cruelty to be Sodom's weakest effort(mainly due to the poor production).

Compared to what? Annihilator's first 3 releases are pretty much the only worthwhile albums from the band, aside from a few good songs scattered across their discography.

Ahem... Carnival Diablos? That album is just brilliance. Waking the Fury, too.

Kreator-Endorama. Ok, so it's not a brutal thrash assault, it's still a very good metal album. Yet, i've seen people claiming it sounds like glam metal. Last i checked, bands like Poison werent writing songs like "Soul Eraser".

Lari wrote:

Ahem... Carnival Diablos?

No thank you.

ultmetal wrote:

007 wrote:

Leatherface wrote:

Onslaught-In Search of Sanity

Good call !

Love it. Still my favorite Onslaught album. Grimmett rules!

Celtic Frost - Cold Lake

That Cold Lake is GREAT album imho and hated by many...

Vexer6 wrote:

KISS- Crazy Nights, Hot In The Shade, Carnival Of Souls
Judas Priest-Turbo, Ram It Down, Demolition
Megadeth- Cryptic Writings, Risk
Metallica- Load, Reload, Death Magnetic
Saxon- Rock The Nations, Destiny, Innocence Is No Excuse, Solid Ball Of Rock
Deep Purple-Masters And Slaves, House Of Blue Light, The Battle Rages On
Rainbow-Bent Out Of Shape, Difficult To Cure, Right Between The Eyes
Black Sabbath-Forbidden, Headless Cross, TYR, Seventh Star, Eternal Idol, Dehumanizer, Cross Purposes
Ozzy-The Ultimate Sin, Ozzmosis
Accept-Russian Roulette, Metal Heart, Eat The Heat
Night Ranger-Man In Motion, Big Life
Dokken-Dysfunctional, Shadowlife, Long Way Home, Erase The Slate, Hell To Pay
Whitesnake-Slip Of The Tongue
Slayer-Divine Intervention, Diablous In Musica, God Hates Us All
Queensryche-Frequency Unknown, Promised Land, Hear In The Now Frontier, American Soldier, Dedicated To Chaos
Raven-Pack Is Back
Savatage-Fight For The Rock
Fastway-On Target(original 1989 mix, not the reworked version) Bad Bad Girls, Waiting For The Roar
Tygers Of Pan Tang-Burning In The Shade
Guns N Roses-Chinese Democracy
Anthrax-Stomp 442
AC/DC-Ballbreaker, Stiff Upper Lip, Blow Up My Video, Flick Of The Switch, Fly On The Wall
Ted Nugent-Penetrator
Sodom-Obsessed By Cruelty/In The Sign Of Evil
Van Halen-Balance, III
Poison-Native Tongue, Hollyweird
Motley Crue-s/t, Theatre Of Pain, New Tattoo
Blackfoot-Verticle Smiles, Ricky Medlock and Blackfoot
Molly Hatchet- The Deed Is Done
Great White-Shot In The Dark, Can't Get There From Here, Sail Away, Let It Rock, Rising, Hooked, Psycho City
TNT-Transistor
Rush-Grace Under Pressure, Roll The Bones, Counterparts, Hold Your Fire, Power Windows
King Kobra-Hollywood Trash
Celtic Frost-Cold Lake
Pantera-Metal Magic, Projects In The Jungle, I Am The Night, Power Metal
Diamond Head-Canterburry
Loudness-Hurricane Eyes, On The Prowl, Soldier Of Fortune, Ghetto Machine, Dragon, Biosphere, Spiritual Canoe, Heavy Metal Hippies, Engine, s/t
L.A. Guns-American Hardcore
Faster P*ssycat-Power And The Gloryhole
Dio-Sacred Heart, Lock Up The Wolves, Strange Highways
Annihilator-Set The World On Fire, Remains, All For You, Metal
Danzig-Danzig 5 blackaciddevil
W.A.S.P.- K.F.D., Helldorado, Inside The Electric Circus
Iron Maiden-No Prayer For The Dying, Fear Of The Dark, The X Factor, Virtual XI
Two-Voyeurs
Doro-Machine II Machine, Love Me In Black
Sepultura-Chaos A.D.,Roots, Nation, Against, Roorback, Dante XXI, A-lex, Kairos
Sonic Syndicate-We Rule The Night
Scorpions-Savage Amusement, Face The Heat, Pure Instinct, Eye II Eye
Def Leppard-Slang, Euphoria, X, Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
MSG-Perfect Timing, Save Yourself, M.S.G., Arachnophobiac
Flotsam And Jetsam-Cuattro, High, When The Storm Comes Down, Drift
ZZ Top-Eliminator, Afterburner, Recycler
Motorhead-March Or Die, Basterds, Sacrifice, Another Perfect Day, Rock N Roll
Thin Lizzy-Renegade
Europe-Out Of This World
Venom-Calm Before The Storm, Prime Evil, Possessed, Temples Of Ice, The Waste Lands
Helix-Long Way To Heaven, Rockin In My Outer Space
Lita Ford-Lita, Stiletto, Dangerous Curves, Black
Joan Jett-Notorious, Good Music, Fetish
Bonfire-Free
Firehouse-O2, Prime Time
Y&T-Down For The Count, Contagious, Ten, Musically Incorrect, Endangered Species
Warrant-Belly To Belly, Ultraphobic, Dog Eat Dog
Uriah Heap-Equator, Raging Silence, Different World
Twisted Sister-Come Out And Play, Love Is For Suckers
UFO-Misdemeanor
Triumph-The Sport Of Kings, Surveilance, Edge Of Excess
Yngwie J Malmsteen-Eclipse, Fire And Ice
Alcatrazz-Dangerous Games
Machine Head-Burning Red, Supercharger
Krokus-The Blitz, Change Of Address
Autograph-That's The Stuff
Dangerous Toys-R*tist 4*merly Known as Dangerous Toys
Alice Cooper-Trash, Hey Stoopid
Heart-Brigade
Eric Steel
Ratt-s/t, Reach For The Sky, Detonator
Genesis-s/t, I Can't Dance, Calling All Stations
Quiet Riot-Condition Critical, QRIII, s/t
Cheap Trick-The Doctor, Lap Of Luxury, Busted

Load is my fav metallica album, Love Osmosis and Chinese Democracy too glad im not alone

Guns n Roses- Chinese Democracy

Alice Cooper- DA DA

Twisted Sister- Love is for Suckers

Never could understand what people didn't like about Tin Machine!!



Or this album!

You can add to Tin Machine to albums, hell side projects I liked

jettafiend wrote:

I will add:

Helix - It's a Business Doing Pleasure

Took me a few years to dig this one. Partially because it was the first post-Paul album and it you could feel it. Also, because, it was 1993... I can officially say now that I enjoy it as musch as any Helix album [or, for that matter, anything that Vollmer has ever done].

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

jettafiend wrote:

I will add:

Helix - It's a Business Doing Pleasure

Took me a few years to dig this one.  Partially because it was the first post-Paul album and it you could feel it.  Also, because, it was 1993...  I can officially say now that I enjoy it as musch as any Helix album [or, for that matter, anything that Vollmer has ever done].

That is a Helix album in-name-only, it was originally supposed to be a Volmer solo effort, but the record company insisted on putting the Helix name on it(kind of like what happened with Black Sabbath-Seventh Star)

Vexer6 wrote:

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

jettafiend wrote:

I will add:

Helix - It's a Business Doing Pleasure

Took me a few years to dig this one.  Partially because it was the first post-Paul album and it you could feel it.  Also, because, it was 1993...  I can officially say now that I enjoy it as musch as any Helix album [or, for that matter, anything that Vollmer has ever done].

That is a Helix album in-name-only, it was originally supposed to be a Volmer solo effort, but the record company insisted on putting the Helix name on it(kind of like what happened with Black Sabbath-Seventh Star)

The same thing was the case with Manilla Road - The Circus Maximus and Demolition Hammer - Time Bomb. Both bands had split up by the time these albums were released, and were by new bands with former members, but the record label would only release them under the condition they release the albums under the old band names.

I won't argue. But, to me, Vollmer IS Helix. Read "Give Me an R" to see where the passion has lied in that band since 1975. Plus, didn't one or two of the musicians on that album become permanent members of Helix until Doc n Fritz came back? My memory sucks, so I may be way off on that.

I mean, you could say that Guns n Roses is GnR in name only as well. Shit, for that fact, Metallica is Metallica in name only too.

I dig Tin Machine as well.

manny wrote:

Guns n Roses- Chinese Democracy

Alice Cooper- DA DA

Twisted Sister- Love is for Suckers

Love is for Suckers gets my vote too. My favorite Twisted record. Pretty much, though, any time any band steers in a more pop metal direction, I am all over it.

One album I see mentioned a lot is Born Again. I feel like that one no longer qualifies as an album most people hate. It's picked up so much steam in the 21st century, kind of like Crue '94 (as I mentioned in another thread), but unlike that Corabi Crue album, Born Again completely deserves the adoration.

But also, people don't like DaDa? The early 80s Alice records are brilliant...so I guess I just assume everyone enjoys them as much as I do. Heh.

The Yes thread made me think of this, 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' a lot of times is panned almost as bad as stuff like 'Big Generator' but it's always been one of my favorite 2 or 3 Yes albums. I think it's made somewhat of a popularity comeback also.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

The Yes thread made me think of this, 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' a lot of times is panned almost as bad as stuff like 'Big Generator' but it's always been one of my favorite 2 or 3 Yes albums. I think it's made somewhat of a popularity comeback also.

I'd have to agree with this. I have always liked TFTO.

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

I mean, you could say that Guns n Roses is GnR in name only as well.  Shit, for that fact, Metallica is Metallica in name only too.

Or Whitesnake and Megadeth. Talk about frontmen owning the band and sound.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

The Yes thread made me think of this, 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' a lot of times is panned almost as bad as stuff like 'Big Generator' but it's always been one of my favorite 2 or 3 Yes albums. I think it's made somewhat of a popularity comeback also.

Speaking of Yes, i'm a big fan of Big Generator as well as Union and Talk.

KISS - Animalize

This one seems to get looked down upon but it's my favorite album of their's

chewie wrote:

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

The Yes thread made me think of this, 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' a lot of times is panned almost as bad as stuff like 'Big Generator' but it's always been one of my favorite 2 or 3 Yes albums. I think it's made somewhat of a popularity comeback also.

I'd have to agree with this. I have always liked TFTO.

My favorite Yes album, my favorite prog album, and a complete masterpiece.

KISS--Besides the others already mentioned like the brilliant Music From: The Elder, I would add Gene, Peter, and Paul's 1978 solo albums.