Albums you are suppose to hate, but don't...

Black Sabbath "featuring" Tony Iommi - Seventh Star

This album got roundly trounced when it first came out, but I loved it then...and still do. It should have been "Tony Iommi - Seventh Star" but Warner Brothers wasn't having any of that.

detuned wrote:

Black Sabbath "featuring" Tony Iommi - Seventh Star

This album got roundly trounced when it first came out, but I loved it then...and still do. It should have been "Tony Iommi - Seventh Star" but Warner Brothers wasn't having any of that.

I love that album, but agreed, It ain't no Sabbath album.

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Required Fields wrote:

Testament - Souls of Black

Didnt know that was hated. One of my favorites along with Ritual.

Who hates this? Hodads!

Good call on BLACK SABBATH - "Seventh Star"! Great album!

I'll follow that up with all the non-Ozzy BLACK SABBATH albums. I really like pretty much all of them.

What is supposed to hated about Judas Priest's Nostradamus? I like this album, so I guess that might be one of mine.

I think most of Tool's stuff is hated by metal people. I had developed a bit of liking for them at one time. Don't know what I would think now?

I also like all of that stuff that other folks here are saying is hated.

Black Sabbath- Born Again

You always get so many ignorant people who put this down.

One of my favorites of all time.

Flotsam & Jetsam's "When the Storm Comes Down". I've read a lot of bad reviews of this record, but I've always liked it. Not the best production, but there are some really good songs on it. I guess it looks weak when compared to the first two records.

When the Storm is my personal favorite F&J.

Testament-The Ritual
Metallica-The Black Album
Iron Maiden-The X-Factor
Bruce Dickinson-Skunkworks
Dio-Lock Up The Wolves
Tourniquet-Crawl To China
Overkill-I Hear Black
Judas Priest-Nostradamus
Iced Earth-Framing Armegeddon
Flotsam & Jetsam-Cuatro
Dream Theater-Falling Into Infinity
Deliverance-Assimilation
Savatage-Fight For The Rock

Good call on "Cuatro".

Leatherface wrote:

Flotsam & Jetsam's "When the Storm Comes Down". I've read a lot of bad reviews of this record, but I've always liked it. Not the best production, but there are some really good songs on it. I guess it looks weak when compared to the first two records.

Im really gettin into these guys. Been lookin into gettin a few shirts.

Stryper's Reborn (outstanding melodic hard rock), Demolition Hammer's Time Bomb (f*cking excellent), & Napalm Death's Scum (a masterpiece in extremism).

Metallica-St. Anger (I've always stood up for this one its not amazing but its got a majority of good tunes)

Misfits-Famous Monsters (Alot of people hated this because it wasnt with danzig but this is my favorite Misfits Album and possible favorite Punk record ever)

High On Fire-Surrouned By Theives (often called there weakest album but Its one of my favorites only maybe 1-2 songs that arent up to par on this one)

all I can think of right now

mc666 wrote:

Stryper's Reborn (outstanding melodic hard rock), Demolition Hammer's Time Bomb (f*cking excellent), & Napalm Death's Scum (a masterpiece in extremism).

WHOA! People hate SCUM?! :kickbutt: Lemme at em.

DallasBlack wrote:

Testament-The Ritual
Metallica-The Black Album
Iron Maiden-The X-Factor
Bruce Dickinson-Skunkworks
Dio-Lock Up The Wolves
Tourniquet-Crawl To China
Overkill-I Hear Black
Judas Priest-Nostradamus
Iced Earth-Framing Armegeddon
Flotsam & Jetsam-Cuatro
Dream Theater-Falling Into Infinity
Deliverance-Assimilation
Savatage-Fight For The Rock

Skunkworks and I Hear Black are both fine choices! Never understood why people disliked either one. Wish I could still FIND a copy of I Hear Black, seems to be one of the few Overkill albums that are M.I.A.

detuned reminded me...

I'd like to add all of the Gillan/Hughes/Martin Sabbath albums to the list!

As a metal fan, there are tons of albums I like that most metal fans would snicker and laugh at.

Phil Collins - Face Value
The entire Peter Gabriel catalog
glam bands such as Nitro, Britny Fox, Dangerous Toys, etc.
Phil Keaggy's wonderful instrumental albums
Kieth Green's catalog

Taking on Ult's lead -

The Cure - Wish - one of my favorite albums!
Live - Throwing Copper - could have been a metal album if production was different!

Man, who hates 'Throwing Copper'? Their songwriting has slowly taken a dive after that album, but that album is awesome.

ultmetal wrote:

As a metal fan, there are tons of albums I like that most metal fans would snicker and laugh at.
glam bands such as Nitro, Britny Fox, Dangerous Toys, etc.

I wouldnt consider Dangerous Toys glam.They were more of a sleazy southern metal.And I Love em.Cant imagine any metalhead laughing about them.

Enya - we used to play it as sleep music when my kids were babies

Phoenix Reign Drummer wrote:

Helloween- Chameleon

Wow. I know you're a Helloween diehard, bro, but you must have ears of steel to actually like that one. It's the only Helloween album I got rid of. Ugh!!

ultmetal wrote:

As a metal fan, there are tons of albums I like that most metal fans would snicker and laugh at.

If they'd snicker and laugh at you, they'd die laughing at some of the stuff I listen to:

John Denver
Billy Joel
Neil Diamond
Kenny Rogers
Beach Boys
Heuy Lewis
Bryan Adams
Elton John (not the later stuff though)
Hall and Oats
John Elefante (Corridors/Defying Gravity)
Nelson
Ronnie Milsap

Plus many more band/artists that a "self-respecting" metal fan would never listen to.