Proper Metal Poll with Real Bands
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Topic: Proper Metal Poll with Real Bands
Posted By: PROGMAN
Subject: Proper Metal Poll with Real Bands
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 04:43
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I've delibretaly kept to a 1960s / 70s list to avoid using bands like METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN etc as I want a Great Poll and a Challanging One. Strictly non 80s and 90s and 00s ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 04:50
No Blue Oyster Cult? Well, Black Sabbath for me then.-------------  |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 04:56
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Forgot about Blue Oyster Cult sorry
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 05:59
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Most of these aint Metal. Not to my way of thinking anyway. Ive gone for Judas Priest oh they're not there! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 11:44
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Intriguing; like Snow Dog, I don't consider many of these groups to be true heavy metal. Although my favourite group are present, Uriah Heep, they aren't really heavy metal so they don't merit a vote. For me, the three greatest TRUE metal bands were Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. However, as Sabbath are the only one present, they'll do! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 12:21
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These guys invented metal and coined the phrase. Hard rock/heavy rock/heavy metal were pretty much interchangeable in the 70's. Progman where's Rainbow????? No "Motor City Madman" either!!!!! No AC/DC,Thin Lizzy,UFO No Bachman Turner Overdrive? There were many great bands but the best I saw live were Led Zep. Scorpions were a good band in the 70's,surprisingly.Best band i ever saw play Bolton Institute of Technology at any rate. Montrose's eponymous first album is great in a bubblegum kind of way-"Rock The Nation", "gonna shake it and I aint gonna break it! Aint gonna quit til it all comes out!!!!!!!!!!"
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Posted By: AyreonTheMute
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 12:26
| I wouldnt exactly consider Zeppelin metal, but they're the best band up there so... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 12:29
Exactly. If I can't have Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, I'll take Sabbath or Deep Purple. |
Reed Lover wrote:Posted By: Gentle Ronnie
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 12:30
| Yeah, I agree, this poll sucks. |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 13:01
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Hard Rock poll actually |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 13:43
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We are not in the 70's anymore Reed,these bands aint considered metal anymore. Times change and the meaning of metal has too. If I remember correctly The Troggs were called the first Heavy Metal band, they wouldn't be considered metal now though would they. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Keke
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 13:52
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The first ''Metal'' song for musicologists is, if I recall correctly, ''Sympathy for the Devil'', but I guess all of these -had- some heavy metal like sounds. Purple it is, for me. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 15:03
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wheres slipknotPosted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 15:05
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They slipped of their knot! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 15:11
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Where's Iron Maiden? Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 15:12
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Posted By: Rhayader
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 15:22
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Out of those, Led Zep, but I would have voted for Rainbow or Thin Lizzy if they were there
------------- "Sadder still to watch you die than never to have known it..." Rush - Losing It |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 17:01
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The Scorpions were fantastic - but Motorhead have always been the ultimate "proper" heavy metal band IMO. How could you exclude the 1980s and the NWOBHM I know you were trying to exclude Iron Maiden and Metallica - but they're just as "proper" IMO, especially Metallica, who changed the entire landscape of metal - twice, before they jumped the shark big time. I would have drawn the line at the mid 1980s. Since then it's generally been more of the same old same old. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 17:12
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Those bands really aren't heavy metal. If you were shooting for the 70s, why not the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal Bands? Diamond Head, Saxon, Tygers Of Pan Tayne, I'm pretty sure most of them did work in the mid to late 70s. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 17:17
YES!!! Fantastic bands!!! ...and Gillan, Raven, Praying Mantis, Riot, April Wine, Van Halen - even Def Leppard produced good stuff back then. Where's my copy of Axe Attack...? |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 18:45
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I don't think any of these groups would be classed as 'Metal' as we know it now. Back in the 70s, they were known as 'Heavy Metal' groups and the same today are Classic RocK!! On the basis of this poll I would have to vote Black Sabbath who were the pioneers of the metal sound. Led Zep, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep for example (and imo)lent more towards progressive rock in many of their albums but not heavy enough to be metal - more like 'heavy rock'. aargh it is all a matter of semantics as well as individual choice is it not??? ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 18:46
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...ps I always thought that "Iron Butterfly" fell into the catagory of Psychedelia!! -------------
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 19:29
inded, and shall we add Accept! and judas priest become to be TRUE metal with the album represented by my avatar, NOTv before: point of entry is EXTREME hard rock ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 19:38
OOOOOOh I dont agree with that, I would say though that they became MORE Metal with the mighty Screaming for Vengeance though! Accept were way before their time.True metal...Fast as a shark!!!!!!!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 23:03
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the best polls seem to be topics asking what your favorite is, without the poll part ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 23:09
| this poll looks more just like classic rock, when i think metal, its bands like metalicca. but with your choices i would go for cream, i love em! |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 13 2005 at 23:41
Where's Menudo? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Abbath
Date Posted: April 14 2005 at 00:08
| I dunno... maybe if any of those bands were metal I'd be able to pick. |
Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: April 14 2005 at 05:32
| Scorpions. |
Posted By: Jools
Date Posted: April 14 2005 at 07:18
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I voted for the Sabs, nearest to doing convincing prog, especially Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Technical Ecstacy and some of Never Say die. Music that builds on music. ------------- Ridicule is the burden of genius. |
Posted By: Abbath
Date Posted: April 14 2005 at 22:33
Doom metal really. I can't really find many prog elements... |
Posted By: arkitek
Date Posted: April 15 2005 at 04:46
Brilliant poll i voted all of these as they all produce brilliant music
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Posted By: Jools
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 08:15
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Depends what you're looking for. A lot of the Sabs seventies stuff was horizontally complex in the way there was three or maybe four little riff based songs within one longer song and many changes of pace and mood, listen to Killing Yourself To Live from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for a good example. Quite a few synths featured on the later 70's ones as well. I agree not strictly prog and more doom metal but appeals to me and I'm sure many other prog fans as well. ------------- Ridicule is the burden of genius. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 08:38
Great job! It's a good metal poll this time  ! Of those listed, I most go with the immortal Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple and Black Sabbath come in to a close, but tied second place.
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Posted By: silvertree
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 10:14
| What do you mean by "metal" ? Metal as in "Heavy Metal" or "Nu Metal" ? The question should be clearer. Looking at the bands listed for the vote, I guess the term should be "Heavy Metal" ! Strange Iron Maiden isn't mentioned... Guess I'll vote 'others' then. |
Posted By: Abbath
Date Posted: April 19 2005 at 11:55
Nu-Metal is an odd term... there's no metal in there... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 20 2005 at 04:53
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The only real metal bands in this poll would be Sabbath, Budgie and Scorpions, Montrose and Motorhead. The others did hard-rock. Judas Priest was also around in those years. Sad Wings Of Destiny. ------------- 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 |