Top 5 Classic Metal Albums/5 Ways to get kicked outta house

#1. Metallica – Master of Puppets

Metallica are a band that opened many doors for a lot of fans/bands. They also managed to open my father’s door who actually almost kicked me outta the house cuz it was too loud and “shooor wallla music”.For the next 4 years i always heard the album on my Walkman

Much of their material post “the black album” slmost qualifies as heavy metal, but in their prime this band dealt out thrash metal that was second to none! Just listen to “Damage Inc.” or “Battery” and even today they still stand up against what has come along.

#2. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast

It is of no surprise that IRON MAIDEN comes close to the top spot. Culling fans from all areas of the metal spectrum, Iron Maiden, clearly are one of the true innovators in heavy metal. The intro to the track “Number of the Beast” has become one of the “prayers” of heavy metal with just about every fan knowing it word for word.

#3. Slayer – Reign in Blood

REIGN IN BLOOD is hailed by many as the definitive Slayer album. As I’ve said before, listening to this album is like a religious experience. “Angel of Death” is one of the best Slayer songs ever written. The whole album plays like the soundtrack to hell. Learn the sacred words of praise, hail SLAYERRRRRRR!!!

#4. AC/DC – Back in Black

Some of you youngsters will no doubt say “WTF is a classic rock band doing in a heavy metal list?” It is true that AC/DC has become darlings of the classic rock radio circuit, also their performance with the Rolling Stones in Canada to several hundred thousand people only goes to show that their appeal extends well outside of the metal realm. All this aside, that does not mean that their contribution to heavy metal in the 70’s and 80’s should be ignored! BACK IN BLACK is not only one of the best heavy metal albums of all time, it is also one of the best selling “normal” albums of all time as well!!

#5. Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance

Rounding out the top 5 is SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE, the essential Priest album in the eyes of many. Fronted by the metal god Rob Halford, Priest have been one of the defining bands of the metal movement.

Others who almost made it to the list :

Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime

Megadeth – Rust in Peace

Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

Dio – Last in Line

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Made in 17 days and at a cost of less than $150K, Once is a musical which reflects a Dublin of 10-15 years ago when it was much poorer and more working class.

A simple story of a street musician in Ireland, singing covers during the day for Euros, and his own music at night for cents. A verging on middle aged man, still living with his Da, repairing vacuums in a tiny shop and writing songs to his lost love in his tinier bedroom. Approached by girl, an immigrant, who loves his songs, understands the pain that gave them life, and soon they are in a music shop with the girl playing the piano and together they prove that art isn’t produced from big budgets.

It is bittersweet and romantic, with great music (not Irish music, but the singer/songwriter type) as the two main characters collaborate on their songs and help each other become stronger and face the romantic challenges they both are suffering from. The end of the film is wonderful and Hollywood-cliché-free!

Winner of the Oscar in 2008 for “Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song“, another 13 wins & 19 nominations, time just flies by like a butterfly watching this awesome musical.

I myself have watched it more than 5 times and keep listening to its songs without a sign of boredom. You’ll fall in love with the soothing music and the simplicity of the story. And I bet you are gonna watch it more than just… Once…

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Vitalogy – Pearl Jam

Vitalogy – Pearl Jam

For those of you who don’t know “Pearl Jam”, please get a life!!

This was the third album from Seattle based band and it rocked!! It had amazing tracks on it which will live forever, in tracks like ‘Spin the Black Circle’…..‘Not For You’…. ‘Nothing Man’…..‘Corduroy’…..‘Better Man’ and “Immortality’ you can truly feel the same power and emotion as their debut release “Ten” (which by the way sold over 10 million copies just in U.S.)

This album is packed with great songs and hooks, overall a stunning effort.

This album seems to grow on you each time you listen to it, showing that it has tremendous longevity.

I remember “Vitalogy” being there in my car stereo for months.

This album is a must!!

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John Lee Hooker – The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965 – 1974

John Lee Hooker – The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965 – 1974

Let me just get to the point on this one.

Im a hard core ‘blues’ guy n i make my guitar squeal like its supposed to. For Blues you have to be born with a ’soul’.Its all about the ’soul’ and this place is too short to express how i feel about it.

I just want to introduce today’s lost generation to the great and amazing genre of blues and would be an honor to start it with John Lee Hooker.

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Them Crooked Vultures

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Ladies and gentlemen, Them Crooked Vultures — the second-best band John Paul Jones has ever been in! The Led Zeppelin guys never made much of a splash in the supergroup scene, unless you’re the kind of die-hard fan who still busts out those old records by the Honeydrippers or the Firm. But when John Paul Jones got the hard-rock supersession itch, he didn’t mess around. For Them Crooked Vultures, he hooks up with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), two of Zep’s smartest disciples.

Them Crooked Vultures perfectly fit the classical supergroup model. There’s the jokey name and song titles: Interlude With ‘Ludes, Caligulove, Mind Eraser, No Chaser. There’s the occasional sense, as on the camp pomp-rock lumber of Warsaw, that you’re being exposed to a rehearsal room in-gag, with the feeling that the point of the band’s existence might have more to do with what the participants get out of it than the audience.

Not bad, give it a listen !!

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Chickenfoot

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What do you get when you blend half a Van Halen with one Red Hot Chili Pepper then spice it up with some Satriani? The result is “Chickenfoot”, a new ‘supergroup ‘.

Chickenfoot is constructed from pieces that don’t look like they should fit together but they all fit like a glove. Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony spent time together in the Mach II lineup of Van Halen, Chad Smith is the drummer of the funk/pop/rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Joe Satriani is a guitar wizard known for his technical proficiency.

(For ppl who are new to this please listen to Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and of course Joe Satriani. I promise to cover each of them shortly).

This album has a great line up of tracks, it has everything (funk, groove, energy, rock, etc….)

Recommended tracks “Soap on a Rope,” “Oh Yeah,” “Get it Up” and “Sexy Little Thing,” and “My Kind Of Girl” along with “Avenida Revolution” which has a very unique sound.

Honestly this is one of the few good acts that have come up in the ‘commercial’ music industry today.

Definitely a must listen!!!



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Effloresce – Oceansize

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Effloresce – Oceansize

For a while, I found Effloresce a cool album but impossible to listen to for a long period of time. The complex time signatures and longer song lengths boggled my mind; I found the album passing me by.

I had no recollection of what happened. Over the past 9 months or so, I am not sure whether I underwent a musical evolution or simply matured in my taste, but I finally understand Effloresce. Maybe I just noticed the qualities of different tracks because my iPod mixed up the order of the songs and I heard some of the later songs first. Over time, Oceansize’s Effloresce has become one of my favorite albums of the time. Not a classic, but absolutely fantastic and original.

Oceansize presents a world of music drawing from post-rock, progressive, grunge, and even electronica. With open minds and virtuoso talent, their possibilities are unlimited.

Give it a shot!!

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Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band

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Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band

Honestly, you cant stop listening and loving this album. Each time you listen to it you are just gonna get deeper and deeper into it.

This is the band’s first studio album since 2005’s Stand Up and the first release since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore(R.I.P.).
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 424,000 copies in its first week.
On “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” the major difference is felt as much as heard in a deeper, beefier bottom end, “drum beats louder” — into a mantra, and a hook will make sure you’re grooving, tapping your foot n loosing your mind. Beauford and Lessard swing the heaviest lumber of their careers. Electric, rather than acoustic, guitars also add weight. When Matthews’ falsetto vocal threatens to float away on “Seven,” he’s brought back to earth by the band’s newfound toughness.

The album is not without its flaws: Matthews can still be a frustratingly simple-minded lyricist when it comes to lust (“Shake Me Like a Monkey”) or a frustratingly mush-minded one when it comes to the state of the world (“Funny the Way It Is”).Having Mark Batson has had some benefits: the songs are punchier, and Cavallo has given the band a bigger, more immediate sound.

Though the ensemble still flirts with exotic musical strains, they’re used judiciously. The Eastern accents on “Squirm” and the bluegrass banjo on “Alligator Pie” amp up the energy, rather than defuse it.

Believe me ladies n gentlemen when i say this, this band will leave an impression in your mind for a long long time and DMB is the worlds second costliest band (First is ‘Rolling Stones’)

This album will stay in my car stereo for a long long time.

Definitely buy, steal ,beg or borrow this one!!!

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Before These Crowded Streets

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Crush is the song which introduce me to DMB and Before These Crowded Streets is the first album which I heard of DMB.

They mix all kind of blues ,jazz,rock n pop and blend it to there own genre.

It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release, which in turn knocked off the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.

Don’t Drink The Water is my second favorite from this album.The song is so well written and blended.

If you like to dive into the music of DMB start from this album.

Enjoy!

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Black Gives Way To Blue – Alice In Chains

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Black Gives Way To Blue – Alice In Chains

This is a fantastic ‘come back’ album.

Alice in Chains was responsible for some of the most eclectic heavy rock of the ‘90s, fusing together unlikely metal and vocal elements into a small but influential catalog that has aged better than the work of most of its grunge contemporaries.
Listening to Black Gives Way to Blue really is a rollercoaster-like experience both musically and emotionally, meaning that, even within songs, you really never know where the band will take you next or how that sudden drop, turn, or twist will affect you.

It was an emotional and cathartic experience for the band to record “Black Gives Way to Blue” because their dear friend, Layne Staley, couldn’t be part of that experience (R.I.P.).

Watch the official video of their single “Your Decision”.

The album’s opening track, the rumbling “All Secrets Known,” starts with the lines “A new beginning/Time to start living” before advising, “There’s no going back.” The rest of Black Gives Way to Blue follows that advice – this is a dark record about trying to pull yourself out of the chaos and pain of the past. Granted, Alice in Chains were never a sunny, friendly band even in the ‘90s, but the clenched-fist angst of Black Gives Way to Blue is considerably bleak. And yet, the album’s surging, determined songs feel downright inspiring, especially on tracks like “Check My Brain” and “A Looking in View” in which Cantrell and DuVall’s guitars fight and claw to escape the lyrics’ jet-black despair. Black Gives Way to Blue ends up being the group’s darkest and brightest album simultaneously.

Believe me guys it is really difficult to get the desire to go on making music when a friend (fellow musician) passes away. I have seen many famous bands crumble down due to this, the only reason Alice In Chains are still on the map is purely because of their awesome music and die hard fans.

Give it a shot!!….not for faint hearted!!

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Pearl Jam – Backspacer

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Pearl Jam – Backspacer (2009)

This is Pearl Jam’s best album of the 2000s. Continuing where Pearl Jam left off, the band matches the energy of their last outing with better, tighter songs. The lyrics (notably, all are credited to Vedder) are exceptional. No longer bound by anti-Bush righteous rage, Vedder seems to feel freed to sing songs with more empathy and positive energy. There are still plenty of songs about troubled souls and surfing, but the overall tone is warmer and filled more with empathy than anger.

The band’s playing is excellent as always, and Brendan O’Brien’s return to the fold is welcome – this album, even more than the Ten Redux cd, is proof positive that O’Brien is THE man to produce Pearl Jam’s albums. He adds a few touches of keyboards and strings here and there to augment the standard guitar/bass/drums rock format, and the result is a sound perfectly suited to Pearl Jam’s strongest batch of songs in years.

Pearl Jam fans who have been waiting for a new great album but weren’t quite convinced by their previous cd should give this one a shot, and fans who have stuck with the band all these years will not be disappointed. This is Pearl Jam for 2009 and beyond.

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John Lee Hooker – The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965 – 1974

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John Lee Hooker – The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965 – 1974

Let me just get to the point on this one.

Im a hard core ‘blues’ guy n i make my guitar squeal like its supposed to. For Blues you have to be born with a ’soul’.Its all about the ’soul’ and this place is too short to express how i feel about it.

I just want to introduce today’s lost generation to the great and amazing genre of blues and would be an honor to start it with John Lee Hooker.

John Lee Hooker was born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. For all those who are educated enough will know what ‘Mississippi’ means (i mean musically).

This is really a great best of collection i have come across, most of John’s better-known songs can be found on this disk. Throughout it all, Hooker’s music remained unchanged. His rich and sonorous voice, full of ancient hurt, and his brooding and savage style remained hypnotic but unpredictable. To the strains of his own guitar, he sang of loneliness and confusion. Neither polished nor urbane, his music was raw, primal emotion. His one-chord boogie compositions and rhythmic guitar work were a distinctive sound that influenced rock ‘n’ rollers as well as rhythm and blues musicians.

A Must have!!

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Them Crooked Vultures

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Ladies and gentlemen, Them Crooked Vultures — the second-best band John Paul Jones has ever been in! The Led Zeppelin guys never made much of a splash in the supergroup scene, unless you’re the kind of die-hard fan who still busts out those old records by the Honeydrippers or the Firm. But when John Paul Jones got the hard-rock supersession itch, he didn’t mess around. For Them Crooked Vultures, he hooks up with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), two of Zep’s smartest disciples.

Them Crooked Vultures perfectly fit the classical supergroup model. There’s the jokey name and song titles: Interlude With ‘Ludes, Caligulove, Mind Eraser, No Chaser. There’s the occasional sense, as on the camp pomp-rock lumber of Warsaw, that you’re being exposed to a rehearsal room in-gag, with the feeling that the point of the band’s existence might have more to do with what the participants get out of it than the audience.

Not bad, give it a listen !!

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Chickenfoot

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What do you get when you blend half a Van Halen with one Red Hot Chili Pepper then spice it up with some Satriani? The result is “Chickenfoot”, a new ‘supergroup ‘.

Chickenfoot is constructed from pieces that don’t look like they should fit together but they all fit like a glove. Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony spent time together in the Mach II lineup of Van Halen, Chad Smith is the drummer of the funk/pop/rock group Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Joe Satriani is a guitar wizard known for his technical proficiency.

(For ppl who are new to this please listen to Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and of course Joe Satriani. I promise to cover each of them shortly).

This album has a great line up of tracks, it has everything (funk, groove, energy, rock, etc….)

Recommended tracks “Soap on a Rope,” “Oh Yeah,” “Get it Up” and “Sexy Little Thing,” and “My Kind Of Girl” along with “Avenida Revolution” which has a very unique sound.

Honestly this is one of the few good acts that have come up in the ‘commercial’ music industry today.

Definitely a must listen!!!



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Effloresce – Oceansize

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Effloresce – Oceansize

For a while, I found Effloresce a cool album but impossible to listen to for a long period of time. The complex time signatures and longer song lengths boggled my mind; I found the album passing me by.

I had no recollection of what happened. Over the past 9 months or so, I am not sure whether I underwent a musical evolution or simply matured in my taste, but I finally understand Effloresce. Maybe I just noticed the qualities of different tracks because my iPod mixed up the order of the songs and I heard some of the later songs first. Over time, Oceansize’s Effloresce has become one of my favorite albums of the time. Not a classic, but absolutely fantastic and original.

Oceansize presents a world of music drawing from post-rock, progressive, grunge, and even electronica. With open minds and virtuoso talent, their possibilities are unlimited.

Give it a shot!!

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Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band

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Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King – Dave Matthews Band

Honestly, you cant stop listening and loving this album. Each time you listen to it you are just gonna get deeper and deeper into it.

This is the band’s first studio album since 2005’s Stand Up and the first release since the death of saxophonist LeRoi Moore(R.I.P.).
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 424,000 copies in its first week.
On “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” the major difference is felt as much as heard in a deeper, beefier bottom end, “drum beats louder” — into a mantra, and a hook will make sure you’re grooving, tapping your foot n loosing your mind. Beauford and Lessard swing the heaviest lumber of their careers. Electric, rather than acoustic, guitars also add weight. When Matthews’ falsetto vocal threatens to float away on “Seven,” he’s brought back to earth by the band’s newfound toughness.

The album is not without its flaws: Matthews can still be a frustratingly simple-minded lyricist when it comes to lust (“Shake Me Like a Monkey”) or a frustratingly mush-minded one when it comes to the state of the world (“Funny the Way It Is”).Having Mark Batson has had some benefits: the songs are punchier, and Cavallo has given the band a bigger, more immediate sound.

Though the ensemble still flirts with exotic musical strains, they’re used judiciously. The Eastern accents on “Squirm” and the bluegrass banjo on “Alligator Pie” amp up the energy, rather than defuse it.

Believe me ladies n gentlemen when i say this, this band will leave an impression in your mind for a long long time and DMB is the worlds second costliest band (First is ‘Rolling Stones’)

This album will stay in my car stereo for a long long time.

Definitely buy, steal ,beg or borrow this one!!!

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Before These Crowded Streets

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Crush is the song which introduce me to DMB and Before These Crowded Streets is the first album which I heard of DMB.

They mix all kind of blues ,jazz,rock n pop and blend it to there own genre.

It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release, which in turn knocked off the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.

Don’t Drink The Water is my second favorite from this album.The song is so well written and blended.

If you like to dive into the music of DMB start from this album.

Enjoy!

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Black Gives Way To Blue – Alice In Chains

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Black Gives Way To Blue – Alice In Chains

This is a fantastic ‘come back’ album.

Alice in Chains was responsible for some of the most eclectic heavy rock of the ‘90s, fusing together unlikely metal and vocal elements into a small but influential catalog that has aged better than the work of most of its grunge contemporaries.
Listening to Black Gives Way to Blue really is a rollercoaster-like experience both musically and emotionally, meaning that, even within songs, you really never know where the band will take you next or how that sudden drop, turn, or twist will affect you.

It was an emotional and cathartic experience for the band to record “Black Gives Way to Blue” because their dear friend, Layne Staley, couldn’t be part of that experience (R.I.P.).

Watch the official video of their single “Your Decision”.

The album’s opening track, the rumbling “All Secrets Known,” starts with the lines “A new beginning/Time to start living” before advising, “There’s no going back.” The rest of Black Gives Way to Blue follows that advice – this is a dark record about trying to pull yourself out of the chaos and pain of the past. Granted, Alice in Chains were never a sunny, friendly band even in the ‘90s, but the clenched-fist angst of Black Gives Way to Blue is considerably bleak. And yet, the album’s surging, determined songs feel downright inspiring, especially on tracks like “Check My Brain” and “A Looking in View” in which Cantrell and DuVall’s guitars fight and claw to escape the lyrics’ jet-black despair. Black Gives Way to Blue ends up being the group’s darkest and brightest album simultaneously.

Believe me guys it is really difficult to get the desire to go on making music when a friend (fellow musician) passes away. I have seen many famous bands crumble down due to this, the only reason Alice In Chains are still on the map is purely because of their awesome music and die hard fans.

Give it a shot!!….not for faint hearted!!

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Pearl Jam – Backspacer

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Pearl Jam – Backspacer (2009)

This is Pearl Jam’s best album of the 2000s. Continuing where Pearl Jam left off, the band matches the energy of their last outing with better, tighter songs. The lyrics (notably, all are credited to Vedder) are exceptional. No longer bound by anti-Bush righteous rage, Vedder seems to feel freed to sing songs with more empathy and positive energy. There are still plenty of songs about troubled souls and surfing, but the overall tone is warmer and filled more with empathy than anger.

The band’s playing is excellent as always, and Brendan O’Brien’s return to the fold is welcome – this album, even more than the Ten Redux cd, is proof positive that O’Brien is THE man to produce Pearl Jam’s albums. He adds a few touches of keyboards and strings here and there to augment the standard guitar/bass/drums rock format, and the result is a sound perfectly suited to Pearl Jam’s strongest batch of songs in years.

Pearl Jam fans who have been waiting for a new great album but weren’t quite convinced by their previous cd should give this one a shot, and fans who have stuck with the band all these years will not be disappointed. This is Pearl Jam for 2009 and beyond.

Read more at:

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