1979: Metal by Repo

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No Remorse

Speaking of Badass. Philthy Animal Taylor's drums open up the album coming for your throat. But it was a trick. You've been ambushed, sucka. Because there's Fast Eddy Clark with a dagger of a riff coming straight for your gut, slicing up your entails, and laughing in your face. "No Class", you say? Well, we don't care. Your lame ass 70s Dadrock died right here. Its blood & guts spilt out all over the sun baked pavement. And NO, we ain't got "No Remorse." Because motherfuckin' Motorhead just took the Bad Ass crown of Metal, and those guys weren't evah looking back. No remorse! No class! Let the Extreme Metal wars begin!
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1979
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SEXXX

Bon Scott, AC/DC's legendary 70s vocalist, was not a prude. He may not have been an intellectual, but he was awake enough to embrace some good honest paganism and its honeypot of goodness. Sex is good. Girls are hot. Stinky girls are even hotter. The kind of guy who gets a little jolt of pleasure just remembering the feel of his girl's ass crack. Sliding his finger in the stink and all. Squirm if you like, but really good sex is a bit dirty. Stinky. And that was 70s AC/DC in a nutshell. Nasty, filthy, dirty boys and proud of it. No band was as bad ass as AC/DC in the 70s. A giant middle finger to middle class niceties. We forget that because they outlived their youth. They became just another product. Perhaps they needed Bon Scott to keep them real. Because more than just a vocalist, Scott kept them grounded. They needed his impish delight. His cheekiness. So raise a toast with me to Bon Scott. And to sex. Filthy, dirty heavenly sex. Amen.
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The Victory Lap

Legend has it that Halford had a cold on these nights and his vocal were re-recorded in a simulated “live” setting. Who cares! He sounds loose and the entire album has a very casual & relaxed feel to it. Halford just sounds like he owns these songs. They were a band on the rise. The were the undisputed, unquestioned kings of late 70s metal (haven taken that mantle from Black Sabbath.) And they knew it.
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Bubblegum Backlash

Kiss hadn’t gotten too big. They had oversaturated the market. Literally made action figures of themselves. And then they outright embraced disco. That was the last straw. They were cancelled by cool culture. But the thing is… it worked. Kiss were always a commercial pop band with a a good grasp on the pulse of recent trends. They’re the ones that mainstreamed The New York Dolls to begin with. Not the Ramones. Not the Dictators. Plus, they assimilated some of the best elements of Ace Frehley’s masterful 1978 solo album on this. Far too much fun to be denied, this is a Pop Metal masterpiece.
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Secret Sauce

It doesn’t get more classic Southern Rock than this. It just doesn’t. After checking out Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet is the next best stop. Their first two albums - Molly Hatchet and Flirtin' With Disaster are the motherlode. Two of the best Southern Rock albums of the entire 70s. Talent wise they were loaded with not one, not two, but a THREE-pronged guitar attack. But, their secret sauce were the gravelly, swamp stewed pipes of Danny Joe Brown. And that became pretty bloody obvious when diabetes forced him to take a break from the rigors of being a rock star after this here platter. Molly Hatchet's next release - Beatin' The Odds beat heck all and was a sickly limp noodle without Danny Joe's weathered, whiskey soaked pipes. Stay clear of that weak sauce, kids. But, here Molly Hatchet (and their epic cover art) reign supreme. Highly Recommended!
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The Blindspot

Boy oh boy do I have some catching up to do. Seems like Rory was killing it for the entire 70s, and I'm just finding out now. d'oh! From a bit of reading and a bit of listening, it sounds like our hero switched gears just a bit in the late 70s from Hard Blues to Hard Rock. It was a subtle shift to be sure, and everything I've heard has been lightning! As soon as I heard this particular album - Top Priority - during my broad sweep of hard rock and heavy metal albums a few months back, I knew that I'd have to circle back. And eventually it even wormed its way into my Top 10! Which says a lot since he's brand new to me. But it's not my fault I'm so clueless! Wink I just don't think he was promoted probably in the States. My friends are pretty clueless about him as well. Maybe he was just too much a bluesman for us American Metal heads? Think Regardless, this is quite the Hard Rock album and a splendid jumping off point to discovering this brilliant Irish axeman.

Highly Recommended!
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Counselor!

Motorhead’s South Of Heaven as it were. Motorhead slows thing down a bit after the rip-roaring, bordering on Speed Metal, intensity of Overkill. The lyrics are some of their best. Lemmy sings “Sweet Revenge” like he means it. Good God! I’d hate to be his ex-wife! And how on "Step Down", they channel their own Ted Nugent (who honestly was quite the bad ass until the 80s. Even and up until his 1980 outing Scream Dream.) Not quite on par with Overkill, Motorhead take a bit of a dip here following their genre defining?/smashing?/who-the-hell-cares! Overkill. But, it’s still bloody good y'all and comes… Highly recommended
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Somebody Give Me A Shot!

On Van Halen II, Van Halen double down on putting on a show that only they could make. Part Vaudeville. Part 60s Girl Group. All showmanship. Monumentous pizzazz. Inane, effervescent, goofy yet lovable. Diamond Dave’s charisma drips snakeoil with a knowing wink from every groove of the record. It'd probably be annoying on its own, but Eddie’s creative & ingenious intros, solos and textures keep you grounded and hooked for what’s coming next. They were Ying & Yang. They were Rock & Roll. And we will never see their like again.
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The closest Accept ever game to sounding like Motorhead! [First added to this chart: 09/03/2023]
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White Russians
And Viking Prog Metal (1979)

You know all those times you swear off drinking. The wasted days. The splitting headaches. The realization that you are literally poisoning yourself. And then two days later you’re right back at it. Opening that second bottle of wine when you know damn well that one was more than enough. Well it doesn’t have to be that way it turns out. Some enlightened people actually learn and swear off the demon juice. Find God. And (unfortunately) break up the band in the process.

And that special someone was drummer Raymond Frigon of cult metal favorites Legend from New Haven, Connecticut (Go Pats! The playoffs have come early for us, but we got this! Right?! Pray ) The funny thing was that Raymond didn't really drink. He was pretty much a teetotaler which didn't quite fit in with his bandmate's vision of their rock band's image. So the guitarist and bassist conspired. Schemed. Whipped up a strategy to get him nice and drunk knowing his predilection for milk. That’s right. Milk. So they had a couple of their cute groupies feed him eleven White Russians. Eleven! I would have barfed from the milk alone! Needless to say he felt pretty sour when he woke up the next day. And his bandmates showed up bright and early the next morning just to needle him. Laughing at how they had made him a heathen just like them. Girls and milk would be his downfall. His descent from grace. But the joke was on them. Taking the ice pack off his head, he cooly declaimed "I’m done". Became a born again Christian on the spot. Swore of liquor. Swore off the band. And that was that. Wouldn't even allow their music to re-released in later years when the legend of Legend grew and labels came a clamoring. "All them heavy metal labels support Satanism," Raymond declared stoically. Which, come to think about it, they kind of do. Lol. So they were relegated to a footnote in rock history with this here vinyl LPs Fröm The Fjörds fetching astronomically prices on Ebay. ( Although he eventually caved in rather recently after meeting some nice blokes from Italy, but that's another story.).

Which is too bad as Legend scratched a particular itch back in 1979. A super heavy late 70s prog metal band singing about Vikings whose members were chiefly influenced by prog rock and jazz fusion. Needless to say they were pretty unique. And if you’re into that whole Viking Metal thing, well this is pretty much a no-brainer I'm guessing. It’s NOT the lost classic that some would have you believe. But it will show up in my FIVE that YOU don’t know that you NEED to know list for 1979 Metal/Hard Rock.

Recommended. (R)
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1979: Metal composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 29 97%
1980s 1 3%
1990s 0 0%
2000s 0 0%
2010s 0 0%
2020s 0 0%
Artist Albums %


Motörhead 2 7%
Aerosmith 1 3%
Ted Nugent 1 3%
Samson 1 3%
Rainbow 1 3%
AC/DC 1 3%
Blackfoot 1 3%
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Country Albums %


United States 13 43%
United Kingdom 10 33%
Canada 2 7%
Germany 2 7%
Ireland 2 7%
Australia 1 3%
Live? Albums %
No 27 90%
Yes 3 10%

1979: Metal chart changes

Biggest fallers
Faller Down 1 from 16th to 17th
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by Nazareth
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Lovedrive
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Faller Down 1 from 18th to 19th
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1992: Even More Gems by Repo (2023)
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2017 Tourney by Repo (2018)
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1994: Even More Gems by Repo (2023)
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Skinny's Tourney by Repo (2021)
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2021 AOTW Queue: Decisions, Decisions!!! by Repo (2021)
2021 ALC by Repo (2021)
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Post-Punk by Repo (2021)
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2020 Tourney by Repo (2021)
1980: Punk by Repo (2023)
1987: Metal by Repo (2024)
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1990: Metal by Repo (2024)
1988: Metal by Repo (2023)
1981: Metal by Repo (2024)
1993: Even More Gems! by Repo (2024)
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1989: Metal by Repo (2023)
1985: Metal by Repo (2023)
1971: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
1973: Metal by Repo (2023)
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1983: Metal by Repo (2023)
1982: Metal by Repo (2024)
1986: Punk by Repo (2023)
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1986: Metal by Repo (2024)
1983: Punk by Repo (2023)
1984: Punk by Repo (2023)
1982: Punk by Repo (2022)
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1989: Punk by Repo (2023)
1991: Punk by Repo (2023)
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1978: Metal by Repo (2024)
1974: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2023)
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2010: Metal by Repo (2021)
1970: Punk by Repo (2021)
1980: Even More Gems! by Repo (2022)
2019: Metal by Repo (2023)
2018: Metal by Repo (2022)
2017: Metal by Repo (2023)
1987: Punk by Repo (2022)
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1977: Punk by Repo (2024)
1973: Punk by Repo (2023)
1977: Metal by Repo (2024)
1971: Punk by Repo (2021)
1993: Punk by Repo (2024)
2015: Metal by Repo (2022)
2003: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2023)
1997: Metal by Repo (2024)
2001: Metal by Repo (2023)
1995: Metal by Repo (2024)
1992: Punk by Repo (2023)
1994: Punk by Repo (2022)
80s_thrsh by Repo (2022)
1966: Heavy Shit!!! by Repo (2023)
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1972: Metal by Repo (2023)
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1988: Punk by Repo (2022)
1985: Punk by Repo (2023)
1994: Metal by Repo (2024)
1995: Punk by Repo (2023)
1970: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
2002: Metal by Repo (2023)
2000: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
2006: Metal by Repo (2023)
2005: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
1999: Metal (+ Hard/Prog Rock) by Repo (2024)
1996: Punk by Repo (2023)
2022: Metal by Repo (2023)
2020: Metal by Repo (2024)
1969: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
2011: Metal by Repo (2022)
2002: Punk by Repo (2022)
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Riot Fest '22 by Repo (2022)
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1997: Punk by Repo (2022)
1998: Punk by Repo (2022)
2001: Punk by Repo (2022)
1999: Punk + Post-Rock by Repo (2024)
LA Punk by Repo (2022)
1993: Hip Hop by Repo (2023)
1992: Hip Hop by Repo (2022)
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1990: Country by Repo (2022)
The Meditation Zone by Repo (2022)
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Chicago, Baby! by Repo (2023)
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Riot Fest '23 by Repo (2023)
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1995: Hip Hop by Repo (2023)
1995: More Gems by Repo (2023)
No Bullshit!: '90s Metal by Repo (2023)
Repo Rank 'Ems: BREEDERS by Repo (2023)
2004: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)
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1989: MORE GEMS by Repo (2024)
2023: Even More Gems by Repo (2024)
2009: Heavy Shit! by Repo (2024)

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