Your top 12 Hard Rock albums?
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Topic: Your top 12 Hard Rock albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your top 12 Hard Rock albums?
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 12:55
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I can enjoy very much Hard Rock, even maybe not quite so many different bands, and if one album per artist, my top 12 albums is something like (in alphabetical order): Alice Cooper - School's Out (1972) Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972) Deep Purple - Fireball (1971) Golden Earring - Moontan (1973) Jethro Tull - Benefit (1971) Led Zeppelin - IV (1971) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire (1974) Om - Conference of the Birds (2006) Pearl Jam - Ten (1991) Scorpions - Lonesome Crow (1972) Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself (1971) The Who - Quadrophenia (1973) What's yours?
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 13:21
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Are we considering Black Sabbath a metal band? Rainbow - Rising Led Zep - IV Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend Groundhogs - Split Deep Purple - In Rock AC/DC - Powerage Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion Scorpions - Lonesome Crow Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green Free - Heartbreaker Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards Black Sabbath - s/t ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 13:25
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I went with a baker's baker's dozen. A baker's dozen is when you ask for a dozen and they throw in one more for free. A baker's baker's dozen is when you ask for a baker's dozen while giving the secret flour signal which involves snorting and sneezing-out flour, although cocaine can fool some. Don't try it (imposters get kneaded and rolled)! That indicates that you are a member of the secret fraternity of bakers and gets you an extra extra for free. Message - From Books and Dreams (1973) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (1975) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970) Damnation of Adam Blessing - The Damnation of Adam Blessing (1970) Black Widow - Sacrifice (1970) Yesterday's Children - Yesterday's Children (1970) Satori - Flower Travellin' Band (1971) High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969) Gun - Gun (1969) Armageddon - Armageddon (1975) Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (1970) Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend (1971) Morgen - Morgen (1969) Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire (1974) Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (1970) EDIT: And added another (for 15) as I forgot to mention Black Widow. Counting is for Sesame Street... They call me The Count because I love to count. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 13:49
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In no particular order (and I didn't count either)... Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Montrose - Montrose Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Live 1978 Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Led Zeppelin - IV Rainbow - Rising Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Nazareth - Hair of the Dog Alice Cooper - Killer Alice Cooper - Love It to Death The Who - Who's Next The Who - Quadrophenia Deep Purple - Made in Japan Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 13:59
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Rush - self-titled ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap ACDC - Highway to Hell (sorry, had to pull two albums from those boys) LZ - Presence BOC - Agents of Fortune Heart - Bebe Le Strange Runaways - Queens of Noise Van Halen - Fair Warning Fanny - Charity Ball Billy Squier - Don't Say No Dio - Holy Diver Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced I can't say those are my very "top" ones, but rather the ones that came to mind first. It would take hours to ensure the word "top" was accurate. Since I ran out of space before getting to Sabbath, I'll save them for a metal list.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 14:20
We'll hear what David has to say, but for me... I would call Black Sabbath both "hard rock" and "heavy metal" based on the 1970 to 1975 period which I know best, and some other stuff, which also has doom metal qualities. Heavy metal being a kind of development of hard rock, music can be described as both. And geologically-speaking, heavy metals may be found in hard rocks. :) I felt confident in having Black Sabbath's debut as one of my choices, and would have with Paranoid and others too. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 14:52
Of the early albums, I find the debut and Paranoid to be on the borderline of Hard Rock and Metal, while the others are Metal to me. I also use to list Paranoid as my fave Metal BS album. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 15:19
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AC/DC - Back In Black Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Alice In Chains - Dirt Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Deep Purple - Machine Head Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz Pearl Jam - Ten Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Soundgarden - Superunknown Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs Van Halen - S/T |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 15:28
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Ok, I'll add Black Sabbath - s/t ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 15:54
Over half of these could be on my list. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 17:24
in no order and only 5 listed  Rainbow - Rising Led Zep - Zoso Atomic Rooster - In Hearing OfDeep Purple - In Rock Birth Control - Operation Jane - s/t Scorpions - Lonesome CrowUriah Heep - Salisbury Wishbone Ash - Argus Black Sabbath - Paranoid Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - What's Next Pat Travers Band - Makin' Magic Rush - Fly By Night AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny BOC - Secrets Heart - Little Queen Van Halen - s/t Fanny - Charity Ball Birtha - s/t Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Aerosmith - Get Your Wings Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 18:33
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A kind of traditionally oriented Hard Rock list: Led Zeppelin - IV Rainbow - Rising Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Heart - Dreamboat Annie Blue Öyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin Alice Cooper - Love It to Death Danzig - Danzig Deep Purple - In Rock Wishbone Ash - Argus Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 19:40
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These are in the approximate order that I got these albums (as far as I can recall - most were a long long time ago): Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Deep Purple - Made In Japan Grand Funk Railroad - Phoenix Montrose - Montrose Led Zeppelin - IV Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs Rainbow - Rising Kevin Borich - Celebration Van Halen - Van Halen Alice In Chains - Dirt Mastodon - Crack The Skye ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 22:39
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Lone Star - Firing On All Six Led Zep -II Sabbath - Never Say Die Purple - Whoosh! Heep - Chaos & Colour Wishbone Ash - Argus Rainbow - Rising Rush - Vapor Trails Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim Queen - Sheer Heart Attack Sweet - Give Us A Wink The Who - By Numbers
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: December 15 2024 at 23:34
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I am absolutely DIGGING this thread! Thanks for all of the Alice Cooper love! The first bands I ever saw on the big rock & roll stage were Captain Beyond and Alice Cooper, 28 July, 1972! Right now, my 12 would be: Killer: Alice Cooper School's Out: Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies: Alice Cooper Captain Beyond: Captain Beyond Fireball: Deep Purple Foce It: UFO Zoso: Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin Sabbath Volume 4: Black Sabbath Heaven & Hell: Black Sabbath I've played a lot of this material in various garage bands, great fun! "Halo of Flies" on Killer is supreme! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 00:00
Prog fans are the weirdest - they might as well go for In Through the Out Door (ok, which is half great), Coda and...
I'm trying to think if I have a mostly disliked non fan favorite like that as my personal favorite. I guess I do with Trans by Neil Young, but that's bacause I don't genuinely enjoy his "normal music". |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 00:15
Jethro Tull - Benefit Blue Phantom - Distortions Flower Travellin' Band - Satori High Tide - Sea Shanties Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking -but I do not think of any of them primarely as Hard Rock myself. Same goes for Alice in Chains (Dirt) and Soundgarden (Batmotorfinger). Those are both closer to Heavy Rock bordering on Metal to me. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 00:18
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^^ For me, Technical Ecstasy has a very strong personal nostalgic element. I do acknowledge the first six albums as absolute classics. I actually love all eight albums. In the case of Never Say Die, although it has always been my least favourite, I do find the change in sound to be quite interesting, and in more recent times, I am developing a greater love for the album, and especially the track Air Dance. As for the first six albums, I love them all pretty much equally. Before I was a Van der Graaf Generator fan, I was a Black Sabbath fan. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 00:51
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 02:37
| ^Label them exactly as you see fit, I don't care. Maybe it's you who's lost sight, and not me. |
Posted By: Raphaël
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 03:25
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 03:35
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 04:17
barely re-entered thru the chimney after being kicked out the door, and you're already a nuisance, Svettie    given how wide the answers have been (certainly don't see The Who as Hard Rock), Heart was considered by a lot as a Zep copycat by some. Good enough for me.
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 05:05
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Black Sabbath - Sabotage Van Halen - Van Halen Led Zeppelin IV Rainbow - Rainbow Rising Deep Purple - Machine Head Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Budgie - In For The Kill Nazareth - Expect No Mercy AC/DC - Powerage Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself AC/DC - Let There Be Rock |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 06:19
Nice!  My favorite with Bon Scott.
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Posted By: Emmanuel
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 07:22
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Rush - Moving Pictures Rainbow - Rising Deep Purple - Burn Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune Black Sabbath - Sabotage Slade - Whatever Happened to Slade UFO No Heavy Petting Sweet - Desolation Boulevard Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick Kiss - Kiss Silverhead - Silverhead Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 08:56
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Iantumaros
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 09:54
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Not in any particular order UFO · Lights Out Rainbow · Rising Deep Purple · Burn Trapeze · Hot Wire Judas Priest · Sad Wings of Destiny Black Sabbath · Sabotage Slade · Whatever Happened to Slade Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin IV Judas Priest · Sad Wings of Destiny Thin Lizzy · Black Rose: A Rock Legend Armageddon · Armageddon |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 11:51
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Black Sabbath – Mob Rules Blue Murder – Blue Murder Blue Öyster Cult – Cultösaurus Erectus Cheap Trick – Dream Police Cobra – First Strike Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry Dio – Holy Diver Dust – Hard Attack Sammy Hagar – Street Machine HSAS – Through the Fire Heart – Little Queen Montrose – Montrose Judas Priest – Point of Entry Motorhead – Another Perfect Day Rock Goddess – Rock Goddess Santers – Racing Time Soundgarden – Down on the Upside Rainbow – Rising Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak Triumph – Thunder Seven Uriah Heep – Firefly Van Halen – Fair Warning Wild Horses – Wild Horses Zebra – Zebra ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 12:16
All these (albums) are heavy metal in my book.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 12:18
If much of 1970s' Heavy Metal has turned into Hard Rock, then I can understand that there's not much Hard Rock in The Who, but then, I still don't really get it with Heart.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 13:39
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Aerosmith - Get Your Wings Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic Aerosmith - Rocks Tommy Shaw - Girls with Guns Sweet - Level Headed Thin Lizzy - Fighting Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation UFO - Lights Out UFO - Obsession UFO - Strangers in the Night UFO - The Wild, The Willing, and The Innocent
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 14:29
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The Who - Who's Next Johnny Thunders & Heartbreakers -LAMF BUSH - The Kingdom (Highly recommended, play loud) Filter - Short Bus Mott The Hoople - MOTT BOC - On your Feet Black Sabbath - Vol 4 Led Zeppelin - 1 Ten Years After - Alvin Lee & Co. Van Halen - Debut Album Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum Humble Pie - Live at the Fillmore
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 15:08
I guess that it's not so seldom to be Metal fan before turning to Prog aficionado. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 15:49
Well, the imagery of Heart is not very macho, they're still hard enough for me. Take a look at one of their concerts on YT to get a load of it. Where I do have a (slight) problem, it's considering TYA as hard rock, despite loving everything from Undead until RnR Music TTW ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 16:56
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No order... Led Zep 1 Led Zep 4 Who Whos Next Uriah Heep 1st Sabbath Paranoid Hendrix Are You Exp. BOC Secret Treaties Mountain Climbing Captain Beyond 1st Free Fire and Water Humble Pie st Alice Cooper Killer ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 17:15
Leppard aren't metal. Sabbath pops up a lot in the thread. Motorhead are "rock and roll"! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 18:49
Okay, I'll call it rather folkish Hard Rock. Like, I'll also call Manfred Mann's Solar Fire and Captain Beyond for progressive Hard Rock.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 19:22
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 19:44
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Here's 12 great(imo) hard rock albums that aren't in any order: 1. Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin 2. Led Zeppelin -II 3. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic 4. Rush - 2112 5. Captain Beyond - Same 6. Rainbow - Rising 7. Queen - A Night at the Opera 8. AC/DC - Back In Black 9. The Who- Who's Next 8. Deep Purple - In Rock 9. Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare 10. UFO - Lights Out 11. Alice In Chains - Facelift 12. Def Leppard - Pyromania I'm sure I'm leaving out a few good ones. Honorable mentions: David Bowie - Rise and Fall of ZIggy Stardust & spiders from mars Nazareth - Hair of the dog Rush - Counterparts Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 20:39
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I’m glad you mentioned Nazareth hair of the dog. great album. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/sleepers-2024 |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 16 2024 at 22:44
I'm inclined to think that being a Black Sabbath fan primed me to be a Van der Graaf Generator fan in particular as the heaviness of Van der Graaf Generator's music is more in line with the music of Black Sabbath than the lighter more melodic folkier music that is common in Progressive Rock. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 00:43
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For anyone - or no one interested: Some seem not to take into consideration that classic Hard Rock will soon be old enough to reach retirement. Most of the defining songs don't feel hard at all for a metalhead, or just a "modern rock fan" anymore. We're not nearly as scared watching the most terrifying horror movies from the same era either. This doesn't mean that The Omen has stopped being a horror movie - or that Seven Seas of Rhye has stopped being Hard Rock. Also a band only needed a few hard rockers for an album to qualify. The rest of the album could be more or less all over the place. But believe me, classic Hard Rock is still more than "brutal" enough for my mom and dad. Even the hardest Queen songs are a tad too much. And Deep Purple outside of Smoke on the Water - just forget about it. Here's how I view the bands that some people (including myself) are questioning in one way or another: Black Sabbath in the 1970's = Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Queen in the 1970's = I think Queen's three first albums feature more than enough genuine Hard Rock to easily qualify. To me they are Hard Rock/Classic Rock (among other things) throughout the decade, really. Heart in the 1970's = Hard Rock, Folk Rock (Classic Rock) The Who in the 1970's, but I mainly know Who's Next = Hard Rock (Classic Rock) Jethro Tull Benefit = "To Cry You a Song" is a Hard Rock song, the rest is proggy Folk Rock. Motörhead after their self titled debut = just Heavy Metal will do just fine. But a more traditionally rooted Hard Rock is always present. Judas Priest after Rocka Rolla = Heavy Metal (otherwise I would probably have included Sin After Sin). Maybe I think of them differently from Black Sabbath because the latter band always got a groove, and are more Blues infused. ...and aside from the Grunge tag I think Alice in Chains (Dirt) and Soundgarden (Batmotorfinger + Superunknown) are both closer to Heavy Rock bordering on Heavy Metal to me. But maybe some would say the same about QotSA. The Kinks = why on earth are they even mentioned? -finally I guess I consider both Flower Travellin' Band (Satori) and High Tide (Sea Shanties) too Heavy and too Psychedelic to be Hard Rock. To me Hard Rock needs just a little more straight forward/meat-and-potatoes kind of approach than those represent. But I thought of including those two albums myself. Black Widow (Sacrifice) again feel a tad to soft and nice to be considered anything "hard". I still thought of that album too for my own list. = I just mean my opinion or my association. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 02:03
First two albums they are. Even Pyromania qualifies. Not starting with Hysteria. Black Sabbath with Dio is full blown (some people like this word ) heavy metal. I see Judas Priest labelled as hard rock some places even on metalstorm. I disagree, with Priest ( and a few others in the late 70s, plus the rise of NWOBHM), metal started to stand on its own, musically and even lyrically. |
Posted By: Iantumaros
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 02:42
Budgie, Crash Course in Brain Surgery, single 1971 |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 02:59
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I have to say that I don't understand all the talk about that Black Sabbath, in the first half of the 1970s, may as well be classified as Hard Rock. To me, Black Sabbath is THE band who most clearly define Metal as a style distinguished from Hard Rock. If not them, who then? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 02:59
You misunderstood. I never said heavy metal started with Judas Priest, while the two terms "heavy metal" and "hard rock" were interchangeable for a while in the 70s, it was in the second half of the decade that heavy metal evolved and moved away from hard rock, distancing itself with blues influence. Motorhead and punk sped things up further and musicians created new sounds further on.
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Posted By: Iantumaros
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 03:15
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 03:16
^ + that too
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 05:23
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Anyway, to me, Black Sabbath is The Godfather of Metal. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 05:44
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 10:11
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In no specified ranking but almost Led Zeppelin IV Thin Lizzy : Live and Dangerous Golden Earring : Together Led Zeppelin II Deep Purple : Machine head Scorpions : Fly to the Rainbow The Who : Who's next Uriha Heep : Live Aerosmith : Rocks Deep Purple : Made in Japan Sahb : Live Golden Earring : Live (first) |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 12:25
| I tried to stay away from pure metal albums but let's face it there can be thin line between hard rock and heavy metal. That was especially true in the 70s. I think starting with the first Iron Maiden album the line became more clear. I deliberately left off Black Sabbath though even though I could have easily put Paranoid or another album by them on the list. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2024 at 22:12
| Sabbath's home city of Birmingham still had the heavy industry back in the sixties which is where the term 'Metal' came from I believe. They grew up around the factories hearing the constant pounding of the massive hammers and it was a big influence on their style. I was in Birmingham at the weekend and it was fun to see the Black Sabbath bench above the canal area in Broad Street. In general there are still a lot of signs of its industrial past with wonderful old buildings that have been converted into restaurants and other establishments. Love the place! |