In honor of our grand reopening in beautiful Central OR, Yellow Snow’s Record Shoppe is proud to present an epic shit pole tournament featuring 64 of Hardcore Husky’s favorite rock albums of all Tim. Winners of each of my previous poles from covering 1965- 1995 were given automatic bids. At large bids to round out the field of 64 were sent to strong 2nd (and a few 3rd place showings) along with some of the most deserving post 1995 albums. Poles should open tomorrow.
Disclaimer: In an effort to stave off near certain bullying, I brought in
@dnc to select and seed the 1991 – present bracket. Please direct all hate mail to him for this era; everything else can be fired my way.
The Brackets & Seedings
1965- 711) Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
16) Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead
8) The Beatles – Abbey Road
9) The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
5) The Who – Who’s Next
12) The Beatles – Rubber Soul
4) The Beatles – The White Album
13) The Rolling Stones – Beggar’s Banquet
6) The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
11) Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
3) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
14) The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
7) The Doors – The Doors
10) The Beatles – Revolver
2) Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
15) Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
1972- 791) The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
16) Bad Company – Bad Company
8) The Eagles – Hotel California
9) Led Zeppelin – Houses of The Holy
5) Van Halen – Van Halen I
12) Boston – Boston
4) AC DC – Highway To Hell
13) The Clash – London Calling
6) Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
11) The Cars – The Cars
3) Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon
14) The Clash – The Clash
7) Neil Young - Harvest
10) AC DC - Dirty Deads Done Dirt Cheap
2) Rumors – Fleetwood Mac
15) Aerosmith – Toys in The Attic
1980- 901) Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
16) AC DC - The Razor’s Edge
8) Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
9) Metallica – Ride The Lightning
5) Van Halen – 1984
12) Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
4) U2 – The Joshua Tree
13) Tom Petty – Full Moon Fever
6) Metallica – Kill Em All
11) Ozzy Osborne – Blizzard of Oz
3) Metallica – Master of Puppets
14) AC DC - For Those About To Rock
7) U2 - War
10) Metallica – And Justice For All
2) AC DC - Back In Black
15) Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime
1991- Present 1) Nirvana – Nevermind
16) The Killers – Hot Fuss
8) Green Day - Dookie
9) Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
5) Soundgardern - Superunkown
12) White Stripes – White Blood Cells
4) Weezer – Blue Album
13) Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
6) Pearl Jam – Ten
11) Tool – Enima
3) Metallica – The Black Album
14) Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
7) Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies
10) Smashing Pumpkins -Melon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
2) Alice In Chains – Dirt
15) Tool - Undertow
Comments
If you ass slapping, keg chugging, jacked up Toyota driving, NBA watching, butt plugging,, frat boy crackers fuck this up like you have every other music pole here I'm just gone. No warning.
The lack of Dylan is upsetting but no surprise. The shortage if Punk Floyd (Animals especially but Wish You Were Here too), while shit like Bad Company, Boston, Aerosmith, and The Cars made it in is also disturbing. Then again all the joking things I said before do actually apply, so there's no surprise.
But our Demographic is @Swaye and @dflea and those glue sniffers are heavily represented.
HOWSOEVER, for me, the timless tracks on Appetite are It's So Easy, Out Ta Get Me, and Mr. Brownstone. Those hold the fuck up.
Btw, Disposable Heroes is kind of the Mr. Brownstone of Master. Just epic. Gets overshadowed by the Big Three but is so bad ass on it's own. And Orion still sets the standard for what a metal instrumental can and should be. I have a boner. Peak Cliff inspired Metallica. Masterpiece.
edit: But love the penis on the still!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6j63ImEKyo