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Tag: Heavy Metal
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy: #22 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Many times I’ve lied, many times I’ve listened. Many times I’ve gazed along the open road.
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction: #25 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Welcome to the jungle.
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II: #30 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m gonna give you my love, I’m gonna give you my love.
Downset – Downset: #52 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Anger: hostility towards the opposition.
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV: #56 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
Living Colour – Vivid: #57 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Look in my eyes, what do you see? The cult of personality.
Tenacious D – Tenacious D: #91 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is just a tribute, you’ve gotta believe me.
Metallica – Master of Puppets: #114 of best 1,000 albums ever!
End of passion play, crumbling away, I’m your source of self-destruction.
Metallica – Metallica: #134 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Exit light, enter night. Take my hand – we’re off to never never land.
Living Colour – Time’s Up: #137 of best 1,000 albums ever!
How you gonna stop the clock when the well runs dry?
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin: #161 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Been dazed and confused for so long it’s not true.
Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I: #231 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Everybody needs somebody, you’re not the only one.
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III: #233 of best 1,000 albums ever!
What did you bring me my dear friends to keep me from the gallows pole?
Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II: #238 of best 1,000 albums ever!
‘Cause you could be mine, but you’re way out of line.
Queen – Sheer Heart Attack: #269 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She’s a killer queen, gunpowder, gelatine, dynamite with a laser beam. Guaranteed to blow your mind anytime.
Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door: #349 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light to chase a feather in the wind, within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight there moves a thread that has no end.
Queen – A Night at the Opera: #355 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.
Def Leppard – Pyromania: #365 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock, rock, ’til you drop. Rock, rock, never stop.
Living Colour – Stain: #423 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I will never be satisfied until it ends in tears.
Led Zeppelin – How the West Was Won: #442 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Made up my mind to make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart.
Faith No More – The Real Thing: #457 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it all, but you can’t have it.
Various Artists – The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience: #484 of best 1,000 albums ever!
UH-HUH HUH, HEH HEH YEAH… but no, this is actually, like, a really great album. Like seriously (UH HUH YEAH).
Van Halen – 1984: #511 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ah, can’t you see me standing here? I got my back against the record machine. I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen, ah can’t you see what I mean?
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic: #538 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You talk about things that nobody cares, wearing out things that nobody wears. You’re calling my name but I gotta make clear, I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year.
Guns N’ Roses – G N’ R Lies: #572 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Said woman take it slow, and it’ll work itself out fine. All we need is just a little patience.
Danzig – Danzig: #622 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Warning is come upon your heels – feel your dreams slip away.
Whitesnake – Whitesnake: #629 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t know where I’m going, but I sure know where I’ve been.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
Wolfmother – Wolfmother: #672 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You see right through me – I got the feeling of love.
Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix: #687 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To be the best we got to pass the test we gotta make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
Skid Row – Skid Row: #713 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t wait for 18 and life to check this one out.
Fishbone – Truth & Soul: #734 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It might not be for ma nor pa, but this Fishbone dish is sizzling.
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality: #767 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heavy metal is bestowed upon We Mere Mortals. And it is good.
System of a Down – Toxicity: #797 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A genuinely unique, truly eclectic (oddball?), moving, memorable, alternative (nu?) metal rollercoaster.
Led Zeppelin – Coda: #849 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, it’s my love. Ooh, it’s my own true love.
Audioslave – Out of Exile: #853 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The supergroup comprised of Rage Against the Machine (minus Zach de la Rocha) and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell finds their cohesive sound.
Scorpions – Love At First Sting: #859 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well-crafted hair metal. You might say it’ll rock you like… a powerful force of nature.
Judas Priest – British Steel: #898 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not including it would be akin to, say… breaking the law, for example?
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1: #916 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An undeniable hurricane of thrashy, trashy, dirty, funky metal that gets under your skin like very few albums can.
Europe – The Final Countdown: #459 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do I need to finally say it? Do I need to count it down?
Living Colour – Collideoscope: #933 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A lesser work of one of great hard rock bands still easily makes this here list.
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath: #949 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The definition of heavy metal.