METALWORKS '67-'12... or Another useless list of my all-time favourites

Me? A fanboy? Naaah... Well... Maybe I am. I guess it depends on the way you define what a fanboy is. Yes, I am very fanatic about music. If I love something I will banter (and write blog entries?) for days about a single riff or lyric or note on a single song. If I hate something I will ridicule and curse it for days. That is, of course, because I am a music afficionado (a better word for a person who has absolutely no personal life and gets more excited about a song than anything available in the immediate surroundings). So, the less life you have the more obsessed you become with details.

I am passionate about music, however, maybe I am not a real fanboy after all. There is not one single band that would have never made a bad album. Actually, it's probably the other way round: Probably most decent rock / metal bands have made at least one good album. Still, I tend to get stuck with these following sons of cactuses' anuses (yeah, I know it should be cacti... but nobody says cacti...).

THE VARIETIES OF METAL ONE CAN GET HIGH ON... or, which the haters can shove up their anusholes:

70s GODS:
1.BLACK SABBATH (master, bloody, sabotage) essential for heavy music! I would rank 'em my alltime #3.
2.URIAH HEEP (salisbury, look, live january) a bit progressive and occasionally silly, but still great

3.GENESIS (foxtrot, live, lamb) progressive, but sometimes heavy (cf Knife, Hogweed, parts of Supper)
4.KISS (kiss, hell, alive, creatures, lick, alive III) childhood fave, still enjoy their heavier stuff. Alltime #4?
5.RUSH (fly, 2112, kings, hemi, pics) progressive rock, usually intelligent lyrics, but still rock attitude
6.THIN LIZZY (jail, fox, live, black) a rare quality group in that they kept getting heavier
7.JUDAS GODDAMN PRIEST (wings, sin, stained, killing, unleashed, painkiller) number one, easily!!!

70s demigods:
JIMI HENDRIX (experience, axis, rays) the great influencer
QUEEN (sheer, jazz my faves, others in between good too) very versatile, rarely heavy, but often rock
SCORPIONS  (trance, virgin, blackout) roth was amazing! a really interesting band in the 70s
SPARKS (woofer, kimono, propaganda, insdiscreet) not heavy by any means, but perverted pop rock

70s small mercies:
DAVID BOWIE (man who sold the world) probably his only heavy album
IGGY POP & THE STOOGES (raw power's dickinson mix) punk, i know... but with attitude
SAXON (saxon) good basic rock 'n' roll. they're still touring, making albums... shaved version of motörhead

Dickinson says in the LAD video that Maiden isn't interested in selling pimple cream or jeans for a radio channel...

... well, I guess boxers and figures don't count. Especially when the money goes to the band, not a radio station.

80s REIGNING TYRANTS:
8.IRON MAIDEN (beast, piece, power, after, time) way overrated, but still brilliant! #2
9.LOUDNESS (devil soldier, law of devil, disillusion, thunder) japanese answer to metal, technically flawless
10.MEGADETH (killing, peace, rust,  wembley 90, count, cow 92) technical but melodic and ballsy
11.SLAYER (reign in blood, seasons, decade, divine) murder
12.MORBID ANGEL (altars, blessed, formulas) mind-bending and yet brutal, the heaviest stuff I'm into

80s middlemen (and one woman):
MOTÖRHEAD (no sleep, orgas) the original murder
GILLAN (glory, future) better than Purple for me... heavier, faster, even sillier lyrics:D
OZZY (blizzard, diary, even bark & sin) this should be probably among the tyrants actually...
KATE BUSH (never, dreaming) no, not heavy. but genuine pop music with experimentation and inspiration
DEAD KENNEDYS (fresh fruit, in god-ep, plastic surgery) Jello for president!!! This hc punk is pure chaos
ACCEPT (breaker, restless) what can I say... Udo... Udo's voice... well, you got to check it out for yourself
DIO (diver, last) not a big fan of the dragons or Leppard's Campbell, but the riffs still get me...
MERCYFUL FATE (nuns-ep, melissa, oath) best thing ever to emerge from Denmark, not Lars in Legoland
KING DIAMOND (conspiracy) a bit theatrical, but the humour, the complexity of "At The Graves"...MAN!
KREATOR (pleasure, extreme, kapitulation-live) tight, brutal, yet angrily melancholic german thrash
VOIVOD (dimension hatröss, nothingface, angel rat) weird, apocalyptical, always recognisable 
BELIEVER (extraction from mortality) the only white metal band worth more than fly's shit
DAVID LEE ROTH (eat em, skyscraper) Steve Vai... and do i sense little hints of self-irony in Roth's lyrics?
METALLICA (kill, ride, master) wayyyyyyyyy overrated... but Cliff was great and the early albums kick ass

This sums it up

90s METAL:
HALFORD (resurrection*, crucible*, insurrection* the new versions) outdid anything JP has done since 90..
DICKINSON (chemical, scream) outdid anything Maiden has done after 86..
PESTILENCE (spheres) yep, I know it's an odd choice but I've never heard anything like this
PANTERA (cowboys, vulgar) O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D! but who cares... amazing riffs and solos.

ANNIHILATOR (live 90-91) Jeff Waters was talented, but never seemed to make that stand-out album.
THE HAUNTED (the haunted) their first release before all the nonsense began... kick in the balls!
SKUNK ANANSIE (sunburnt) Skin is a rarity: opera, pop AND punk rock! Angry, vicious, direct.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN (toxicity, hypnotise) ATTAAAAACCCCKKKK!!! stupid and genious at once
VAN HALEN (different kind) surprisingly fresh sounding... but they are old demos from the mid-70s or early 80s re-played, and in the meantime, the quality of music HAS gone down a bit...

...aaaaand I guess I probably forgot something else too... but yep, that's pretty much the list of my favourite bands AND albums... and as for now, I'm sticking to it!

Oh yeah... and to understand how deeply f*cked up I am, I never once had to check a band's name or album when I was writing this list. Way too much sparetime...

"All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy All play.." >:D