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This thread reminded me I'd not listened to Jane's Addiction for years. Stunning stuff...
mikey74 - Member
They are definitely more of a hard rock band. Angus would tell you they're a rock and roll band. But If you can't count their music alongside metal then you might as well rule out a lot of other bands - Maiden, Priest, Dio, GnR etc etc etc.....even Sabbath to an extent, none of them really "Metal" in the current sense of the word. Just classic rock.What a load of crap. Maiden, Sabbath, Priest etc practically invented metal.
I'm assuming you're just taking me out of context. Since the op didn't specify any specific sub genre or type of metal a lot of people rightly mention Back in Black as maybe the best album of the 80s. If the op had been more specific and posed the question "What's the best thrash or speed or power/black/doom/industrial/nu/death/stoner/speed metal album etc etc then I doubt many people would have mentioned it. A few people were saying, "that's not metal" but when it was released it was every bit as heavy as it's contemporaries.
Hells Bells and Back in Black are as heavy as any track on British Steel, Number of the Beast or Heaven and Hell. At the time of their release there was no distinction, it was all the same; heavy metal. Obviously Maiden, Priest and Metallica would go on to become faster and heavier and DC would get slower and bluesier. But I stand my point, AC/DC are metal. They're not thrash/speed/power/black/doom/death or what the catch all term "metal" has come to mean today but they absolutely are "heavy metal" to most.
When I think of current metal bands I think of something like Machine Head or Crowbar. DC, Maiden and Priest all seem equally quaint by comparison. I suppose the term "metal" has become more synonymous with thrash metal or death metal, making the term heavy metal a bit old hat and redundant.
This'll take you back...
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1988
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet for me.
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance wowed me at the time. Appetite for Destruction, so near and yet so not quite.
I had that Ratt cover poster up in my student digs.
For me the only band I keep going back to is Motorhead and the ace of spades LP is the pinnacle for me. Primeval bass driven punk metal. I always miss the title track though as I've heard it so many times everywhere. I also loved Voivod as they were so original but still brutal.
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From 1981:
Makes some of the previous mentions look like rank amateurs! 😉
Slayer, Reign in Blood.
That's it.
That's the one.
