the new Kerrang! book of Greatest Rock albums of all time is out in the shops now. with the number one album being... GNR with Appetite For Destruction!!!

 

this is up from #5 in this 1989 poll.

 

so how many of these 'Heavy Metal' :lol: albums do you own and how many are so embarrassing now?

 

Kerrang! 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time poll from 1989

 

1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

2. Van Halen - Van Halen

3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4. Montrose - Montrose

5. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction

6. Def Leppard - Hysteria

7. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

8. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

9. Aerosmith - Rocks

10. AC/DC - Back In Black

11. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation

12. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

13. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

14. Rainbow - Rising

15. Deep Purple - In Rock

16. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

17. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

18. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

19. Def Leppard - Pyromania

20. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

21. Kiss - Alive

22. Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

23. Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith

24. Rush - 2112

25. New York Dolls - New York Dolls

26. AC/DC - Powerage

27. Slayer - Reign In Blood

28. UFO - Lights Out

29. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

30. Van Halen - Women And Children First

31. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

32. Journey - Escape

33. Legs Diamond - Legs Diamond

34. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

35. Deep Purple - Machine Head

36. Kiss - Destroyer

37. Aerosmith - Draw The Line

38. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

39. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

40. Bad Company - Bad Company

41. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

42. Metallica - ... And Justice For All

43. Rush - Moving Pictures

44. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

45. Motörhead - Overkill

46. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

47. UFO - Strangers In The Night

48. Black Sabbath - Vol 4

49. Bryan Adams - Reckless

50. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous

51. Moot The Hoople - Live

52. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

53. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

54. Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi

55. The Stooges - Funhouse

56. UFO - Obsession

57. Black Sabbath - Sabotage

58. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

59. Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent

60. Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power

61. MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

62. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune

63. Angel - Angel

64. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East

65. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

66. Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry

67. Van Halen - 1984

68. Magnum - Chase The Dragon

69. Iggy Pop - Instinct

70. David Lee Roth - Eat'em And Smile

71. Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning

72. Blue Öyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening

73. Judas Priest - Stained Class

74. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

75. Deep Purple - Made In Japan

76. Van Halen - Van Halen II

77. Magnum - On A Storyteller's Night

78. Michael Bolton - Everybody's Crazy

79. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

80. ZZ Top - Eliminator

81. Whitesnake - Ready An' Willing

82. Iron Maiden - Live After Death

83. Boston - Boston

84. Starz - Violation

85. Rush - Rush

86. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

87. Foghat - Foghat Live

88. Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

89. David Lee Roth - Skyscraper

90. Mother's Finest - Iron Age

91. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

92. Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees

93. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits

94. Starz - Starz

95.Saxon - Wheels Of Steel

96. AC/DC - If You Want Blood - You Got It

97. Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

98. Queen - A Night At The Opera

99. Iron Maiden - Killers

100. Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion

There's a few in there i wouldn't even consider metal.

Where's Kings Of Oblivion by The Pink Fairies. The best hard rock album of all time :(

An impressive list of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal down through the ages, one or two sort of 'huh??' moments, but all in all it's a respectful list from a team of real music journalists who clearly knew what constituted the genre and have a good sense of its history.....

 

Can you imaging what a similar Top 100 list from today's Kerrang would look like now...? My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Busted in the Top 10 more than likely..... <_<

I own:

 

1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

5. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction

6. Def Leppard - Hysteria

10. AC/DC - Back In Black

12. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

13. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

18. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

 

I used to own MC5 and that's it.