1981: Metal by 
Repo 
- Chart updated: 08/01/2024 03:15
- (Created: 08/21/2021 14:48).
- Chart size: 44 albums.
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Inarguably one of the best sleaze albums of all time and the rightful descendants of the the New York Dolls. This is glam rock at its finest. I don't often listen to Motley Crue, but when I do, it's always this!
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Satan’s Music
Satan is a suave, sophisticated fuck. That’s the way I think of him. The way I like him portrayed best. He’s not just an outright He leaves that to his demon buddies. No. You wouldn’t even know heHe would get you. Really get you. Tell you what you wanted to hear. Whisper your secret desires in your ear. He’s be youir be4dmate. Your lover. While you internally bleed. [First added to this chart: 11/11/2021]
Satan is a suave, sophisticated fuck. That’s the way I think of him. The way I like him portrayed best. He’s not just an outright He leaves that to his demon buddies. No. You wouldn’t even know heHe would get you. Really get you. Tell you what you wanted to hear. Whisper your secret desires in your ear. He’s be youir be4dmate. Your lover. While you internally bleed. [First added to this chart: 11/11/2021]
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1981
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610
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AMERICAN STEEL
Life ain't fair. You know it. I know it. It just ain't. Never has been. Never will be. Despite that, kids, particularly my kids, spend a gazillion hours lamenting about how things just aren't fair. How they’ve gotten the proverbial shaft. How their friends have it so much better. “Why do Hana and Jay get iPhones? And we don’t? Huh? Why, Dad?!?! Why? Why? Why? It’s NOT fair."
To which I always reply, “Yes, life isn’t fair. Get used to it!” And then I just start laughing like the crazy person I am. That shuts them up pretty quick, I tell ya. Hard to worry about life being unfair, when your Dad’s losing his grip on reality right before your eyes. And then I tell them this very story. This story about geography. The world is a big place. And our boys Riot were in the wrong place at the right time. New York City instead of Anywhere, UK.
Riot were one of the first bands to inject some molten metal into the 70s hard blues kettle mash. Along with Motorhead and Priest, they invented the whole NWOBHM sound. Yet, they've been excluded from the club! Just because some bozo rock critic from London didn't think how unfair it would be to exclude - oh, I don't know- THE REST OF THE WORLD from his pithy acronym. How imperliastic can you get? It's enough to send me into a tantrum.
So. If one band in the history of late 70s rock besides UFO have the right to squawk, it's Riot.
Riot put out an album in 1977 called Rock City that is a NWOBHM classic years before NWOBHM had even materialized. They did it again in 1979 with Narita. And then unleashed their best in 1981 with Fire Down Under. Three NWOBHM classics in a row!
And then their inimitable singer left them for a career as an exterminator. (That’s how metal his voice was! Black Flag has nothing on that!) And then they sank back down into bluesy generic rock on Restless Breed. Hell, the title track sounds like a cover of Bad Company's eponymous track. I ain’t kidding! Bad Company! That’s a slide. Luckily, they would reinvent themselves in a couple of years into one of the most influential power metal bands. But, that’s a story for another time. I got kids to tuck in. Squawking about water & melatonin gummies. Life ain't fair!
The THREE U Need!
1. Fire Down Under (1981) (E)
2. Rock City (1977) (HR)
3. Narita (1979) (R) [First added to this chart: 11/11/2021]
Life ain't fair. You know it. I know it. It just ain't. Never has been. Never will be. Despite that, kids, particularly my kids, spend a gazillion hours lamenting about how things just aren't fair. How they’ve gotten the proverbial shaft. How their friends have it so much better. “Why do Hana and Jay get iPhones? And we don’t? Huh? Why, Dad?!?! Why? Why? Why? It’s NOT fair."
To which I always reply, “Yes, life isn’t fair. Get used to it!” And then I just start laughing like the crazy person I am. That shuts them up pretty quick, I tell ya. Hard to worry about life being unfair, when your Dad’s losing his grip on reality right before your eyes. And then I tell them this very story. This story about geography. The world is a big place. And our boys Riot were in the wrong place at the right time. New York City instead of Anywhere, UK.
Riot were one of the first bands to inject some molten metal into the 70s hard blues kettle mash. Along with Motorhead and Priest, they invented the whole NWOBHM sound. Yet, they've been excluded from the club! Just because some bozo rock critic from London didn't think how unfair it would be to exclude - oh, I don't know- THE REST OF THE WORLD from his pithy acronym. How imperliastic can you get? It's enough to send me into a tantrum.
So. If one band in the history of late 70s rock besides UFO have the right to squawk, it's Riot.
Riot put out an album in 1977 called Rock City that is a NWOBHM classic years before NWOBHM had even materialized. They did it again in 1979 with Narita. And then unleashed their best in 1981 with Fire Down Under. Three NWOBHM classics in a row!
And then their inimitable singer left them for a career as an exterminator. (That’s how metal his voice was! Black Flag has nothing on that!) And then they sank back down into bluesy generic rock on Restless Breed. Hell, the title track sounds like a cover of Bad Company's eponymous track. I ain’t kidding! Bad Company! That’s a slide. Luckily, they would reinvent themselves in a couple of years into one of the most influential power metal bands. But, that’s a story for another time. I got kids to tuck in. Squawking about water & melatonin gummies. Life ain't fair!
The THREE U Need!
1. Fire Down Under (1981) (E)
2. Rock City (1977) (HR)
3. Narita (1979) (R) [First added to this chart: 11/11/2021]
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C'mon Dave, give 'em a break! Even MORE sleazy punk metal as only Diamond Dave and his crew of idiot savants could deliver. The last truly great Van Halen album as with Diver Down they just got completely lazy and 1984 (as good as it is!) was something else altogether.
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1981
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1981
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1981: Metal composition
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| Gillan | 2 | 5% | |
| Tygers Of Pan Tang | 2 | 5% | |
| Riot | 1 | 2% | |
| Vardis | 1 | 2% | |
| King Crimson | 1 | 2% | |
| AC/DC | 1 | 2% | |
| Van Halen | 1 | 2% | |
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1981: Metal chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 33rd to 34th For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) by AC/DC |
| Down 1 from 34th to 35th The Power Of Rock And Roll by Frank Marino |
| Down 1 from 35th to 36th Crazy Nights by Tygers Of Pan Tang |
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 Worlds Apartby Saga (CA) |
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From mrmcrook 03/16/2024 22:24
Love the notes. Informative of the albums I don't know. Your lists like these are fantastic discovery grounds
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