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Headbanging wars!!! Best metal track ever!!!!

Best Heavy Metal Tune Ever!!!

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I have very little knowledge of metal of any kind so have consulted my Headbanging Metal advisor (Mr. QofG's) who says this


"HTF did those monkeys from Venom ever EVER get on a top list of metal? That Maiden choice is unworthy of the band (it was their first single) and I would draw voters' attention to the mighty Number of The Beast which beats it on every count: riffs, vocals, lyrics, references to devil worship and spoken word intro. I have more views but I have one more letter to write today"

I would like to point out that now the metal beast has been unleashed I am going to have to listen to those "more views" all evening. All fucking evening :(
 
:D Tell him that Venom were included because they were the originators of death/speed metal in many ways and thus deserve at least the chance for the public to decide how they fit into the headbanging panopoly of heavy metal music. (Given that they're the only one without a vote, he's got a point tho!)

As for Running Free, I seriously think that it is Iron Maiden's best single, I loved it when they released it and I still love it now. Number of the Beast is a good tune and a cracking album and I concede it potentially ticks many of the right boxes but I love the punked-up nature of Running Free as it came at a time I was making a transition from punk to metal.

Happy chatting (and tell him to vote too)
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
:D Tell him that Venom were included because they were the originators of death/speed metal in many ways and thus deserve at least the chance for the public to decide how they fit into the headbanging panopoly of heavy metal music. (Given that they're the only one without a vote, he's got a point tho!)

As for Running Free, I seriously think that it is Iron Maiden's best single, I loved it when they released it and I still love it now. Number of the Beast is a good tune and a cracking album and I concede it potentially ticks many of the right boxes but I love the punked-up nature of Running Free as it came at a time I was making a transition from punk to metal.

Happy chatting (and tell him to vote too)
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I shall pass your comments on to him and ask for his vote (he is in a not-able-to-access-urban-zone)

I can see that the quiet pint after work I was promised is now going to be a lecture on heavy metal followed by Iron Maiden on the CD (oh god and on DVD as he bought one t'other day :() when we get home.

Thanks Paulie :mad::D
 
Lay down your soul to the God's rock n roll!

Since no one else has voted for them I thought I would. Venom should be included if only for inventing the most ridiculous sub genre of heavy metal, Black Metal,which is still going strong (I was just listening to Satanic Warmaster - a disclaimer: there are a lot of crap 'politics' in BM which I have no time for. I just like the music, man ;)).

And for the fact that the 13 year old me would have voted for them, just to be awkward.

Griselda
 
El Jefe said:
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actually, i scored a manowar album recently for a laugh just to hear what they were like. must say i was quite monumentally disappointed. they're just really crap. kinda like that post NWOHM band Vardis, but not even that good. Just mince. Full marks for having a song called "Real Men Play At ten" though. And looking like how a heavy metal band would look if there was a heavy metal band in Riverdance.

And I like the guy in the middle's style. I remember in the early seventies when you'd get folk who actually had hair and 'taches like that. Though they would generally wear harringtons, celtic tops or those 'Y' cardigans and big flarey jeans like the post-bloody sunday rioters. Fucking good look. Not when you're dressed like a cock from a panto though.
 
chico enrico said:
actually, i scored a manowar album recently for a laugh just to hear what they were like. must say i was quite monumentally disappointed. they're just really crap. kinda like that post NWOHM band vardis, but not even that good. Just mince. Full marks fo having a song called "Real Men Play At ten" though. :D
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I don't think I've actually heard one of their records. They were funny enough without tbh.
 
Griselda said:
Lay down your soul to the God's rock n roll!

Since no one else has voted for them I thought I would. Venom should be included if only for inventing the most ridiculous sub genre of heavy metal, Black Metal,which is still going strong (I was just listening to Satanic Warmaster - a disclaimer: there are a lot of crap 'politics' in BM which I have not time for. I just like the music, man ;)).

And for the fact that the 13 year old me would have voted for them, just to be awkward.

Griselda
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"To hell and back" off Black Metal is an absolutely brilliant song. I think that must have single-handedly influenced Antisect, Life Cycle and a load of other bands of that ilk. Not to mention St Vitus.

The rest of their stuff is well pish though. I picked up a live album of their in a charity shop once which was so unrelievedly woeful it simply beggars belief how they could have officially released it. the drumming was atrocious. Every song was so utterly out of time it may as well have been Stephen Hawking playing.
 
chico enrico said:
actually, i scored a manowar album recently for a laugh just to hear what they were like. must say i was quite monumentally disappointed. they're just really crap. kinda like that post NWOHM band Vardis, but not even that good. Just mince. Full marks for having a song called "Real Men Play At ten" though. And looking like how a heavy metal band would look if there was a heavy metal band in Riverdance.

And I like the guy in the middle's style. I remember in the early seventies when you'd get folk who actually had hair and 'taches like that. Though they would generally wear harringtons, celtic tops or those 'Y' cardigans and big flarey jeans like the post-bloody sunday rioters. Fucking good look. Not when you're dressed like a cock from a panto though.
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i agree with you about MOW's output, it was all a bit embarassing.

i disagree that Vardis were post NWOBHM, they were at the forefront iirc. they had that funny looking bloke with long blond hair and a flying v guitar and were quite thrashy weren't they?
 
Nah I like Man-o-War, they have some classic beer swilling songs which are a good laugh when your pouring cans of stells over your head in the snow with no t-shirts on :D
 
It's got to be an AC/DC track - Riff Raff, maybe? Bad Boy Boogie? Not Highway to Hell though.

Bomber from Motorhead I reckon, although I always liked We Are The Road Crew :)

ETA : I voted for Highway to Hell over Ace of Spades cos if the poll were by band I'd go AC/DC.
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
i agree with you about MOW's output, it was all a bit embarassing.

i disagree that Vardis were post NWOBHM, they were at the forefront iirc. they had that funny looking bloke with long blond hair and a flying v guitar and were quite thrashy weren't they?
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Objection m'lud, NWOBHM was 1979/1980 at the latest. I remember it cos it was round about the same time as you started getting those second wave of punk bands and every week sounds seemed to have either Saxon or the Cockney Rejects on the cover for ages. Vardis were never a big band, though you're right about the viking looking geezer with the flying V. I'm pretty sure that was a bit later as I remember going shopping with my next door neighbour, who was a rocker, when he was in search of an album with a black & white sleeve, i think called 100 M.P.H. having heard a track on Tommy Vance.

A rather bombastic title, he was forced to concede later as even with a faulty speedometer it wasn't. It didn't sound like the drummer could have kept up. They just sounded like your school band covering Judas Priest.
 
For headbanging it's got to be Whole Lotta Rosie hasn't it? Not too fast, not too slow and it's about a whole lot of woman. Angus.
 
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