Greatest Metal According to Gowi/LedZep/Repo/Rocky and I!

Mercury · 2017-05-06T14:12:28-04:00

In 2012, a new member who called himself mercurydylan89 had this idea of a daily post that highlighted the major albums that had anniversaries that day. This idea was put into action quite violently and relentlessly in the spring of 2013. Met with some support and a whole lot of (somewhat justified) annoyance, mercurydylan89 trudged on for a full month or 2. Every day he would make these new posts that laid out the 3 or 2 or sometimes just one significant anniversary that day. He seemed to be having fun with it, and the sudden outpouring of his forum posts had another affect: suddenly this newbie had a gimmick he was known for. He let it go to his head. He drank it up. Even as the old guard were about 70% expressing annoyance at the daily dose of ridiculousness. One or 2 of the more meanie-leaning old school folks even straight up trolled him. All the while, he loved it! He got swept up in the notariety, let it go to his head, he became content, his output slipped, he rusted away until his moment passed him by. Then he disappeared. No one knows exactly what happened to mercurydylan89 or why he stopped posting. Until now... I AM MERCURYDYLAN89!!!! I'll give you all a chance to regain your composure. I know its been a mystery for years. Basically, I got tired of every day looking up all the data on anniversaries, creating a mildly (to my eyes anyway) aesthetically pleasing lay out for the post, posting it and then with great insecurity trying my hardest to keep the post active. So I stopped. Then I shortened my name. Then I changed my avatar from britney spears (aka Brittany) to i think GZA or Nicki Minaj. And that phase was lost to history. Well, last night as I laid my head down to sleep, an idea creeped in to make a music diary which revivified this old concept. When I woke up refreshed, the thought, surprisingly, was still right there! Had i been dreaming of this idea? I don't recall. But it was there and it persisted as I smoked and got some coffee and a poptart and i did my laundry. And now we are here... I probably will not successfully update this daily. I will try to keep it consistent. The idea is I will look at what big anniversaries are that day, I will try to listen to one or 2 albums that have bdays, and write about them. "Significant" anniversaries will take precedent over odd numbers. If one record has a 25th anniversary and another is exactly 6 years old, I will probably err on the side of the 25th anniv. album. I may not stick to that if say I'm still doing this when the 3rd anniversary of TPAB comes up, obvi. Some albums are just too great or significant for me not to give preferential treatment. I know some of you may know I had a diary earlier. It still exists. I sucked at updating it. This is my new gimmicky stab at the movement. I hope this one sticks and is somewhat entertaining for me and, I suppose, to all y'all. -Ryan Note: I'll be branching out. I'll do anniversaries too methinks. But other gimmicks and stuff as well!

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Repo wrote:

My TOP Five Hair Metal Albums would be something like this ...

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Under Lock And Key by Dokken

1. Dokken - Under Lock & Key
2. Def Leppard - High & Dry
3. Ratt - Out Of The Cellar
4. Van Halen - Woman & Children First
5. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love

I only list five since the rest of the list would just be the same bands, but different albums. Like Ratt's Invasion of Privacy, Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil and Def Leppard's Pyromania. Honestly I play these albums when I'm in the same mood for other AOR Metal of the early 80s like Ozzy, Dio & Rainbow that may or may not be considered Hair Metal, but would fit in perfectly on same playlist.

Whoops..... I forgot about Dokken! Yeah, Tooth and Nail is a very solid album.

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RockyRaccoon wrote:

I'd add Skid Row to this, at least with Slave to the Grind, which is way heavier than just about anything other hair metal bands put out (and as a result, I think it's the best Skid Row ever did).

Not as heavy as WASP or Dokken got, but yeah they had their moments. I like those two first Skid Row albums.

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Gowi wrote:

RockyRaccoon wrote:

I'd add Skid Row to this, at least with Slave to the Grind, which is way heavier than just about anything other hair metal bands put out (and as a result, I think it's the best Skid Row ever did).

Not as heavy as WASP or Dokken got, but yeah they had their moments. I like those two first Skid Row albums.

For sure. And yeah, WASP had a really interesting trajectory - they were putting out concept albums and stuff by the early 90s and then put out some like NIN industrial metal in the late-90s
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You ever heard this one Merc? (And the rest of y'all.)

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Lunar Womb by The Obsessed

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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

You ever heard this one Merc? (And the rest of y'all.)

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Lunar Womb by The Obsessed

Metal bands try not to have LOTR or Goya references challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

(Will give it a listen now, so clearly the Goya promotion stuff works)
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LedZep wrote:

Metal bands try not to have LOTR or Goya references challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

(Will give it a listen now, so clearly the Goya promotion stuff works)

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AND now this here geezer is very motivated to check out some '90s Metal!!! 😎

Listening to Carcass' Heartwork and loving it. I'm also working on 1985 Metal in my thread, but I'll definitely be starting to build some '90s Metal charts in the background!

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