Best Rock Album - 1986?
Best Rock Album - 1986? 29 votes
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Graceland - Paul Simon@swaye Puppets is one of the great heavy stuff albums of all time and in a lot of years it would get my vote. But Graceland was the best record of 1986 and it's not all that close. It was the soundtrack of our family road trips. Metallica was for the scary looking hesher dudes at the High School.
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaI have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaHey, a Bon Jovi sighting. On that note, I was a little surprised we made it through yesterday without mention of Whitesnake, or at least a Tawny Kitaen gif or two.
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Graceland - Paul Simon
AC DC is the GOAT one trick pony. But they ran of ideas after FTATR. Mid 80s AC DC sucks. Even @dflea agrees with me.GrundleStiltzkin said:I have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
Doesn't really count...
But still, hooj for me. -
I wasn't secure enough in my manhood to mention Poison but they had some good stuffGrundleStiltzkin said:I have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
Doesn't really count...
But still, hooj for me. -
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Agree. The title track is the exception that proves the rule.YellowSnow said:
AC DC is the GOAT one trick pony. But they ran of ideas after FTATR. Mid 80s AC DC sucks. Even @dflea agrees with me.GrundleStiltzkin said:I have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
Doesn't really count...
But still, hooj for me. -
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Master of Puppets - Metallica
Great call Race. Fuck you all, Night Songs is a great album.RaceBannon said: -
The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaSometimes you just run into a buzzsaw. Master is that buzzsaw. Magnum Opus level shit.
Bought the tape on release week. Only knew it was release week because Hit Parader, the metal magazine, dutifully reported it. Zero airplay, and zero MtV, you had to just know who Metallica was back then. Popped in the tape, hit play, and then Battery started. Um, yeah, it was like being kicked in the teeth by about 3000 pounds of pissed off bull. Then Master starts. Epic. By the tim I got to Sanitarium I think I was shadow boxing. And Disposable Heroes and Orion made the back end stand up for all tim. Just a great great album. My favorite ever. Any REAL Metallica fans favorite ever. Peak Metallica.
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Graceland - Paul SimonReally struggling here...in 86 I was listening to new wave/punk/cow punk/with some country thrown in...
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Graceland - Paul Simon
Vote. It’s on the ballottheknowledge said:
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The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Done.YellowSnow said:
Vote. It’s on the ballottheknowledge said:
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Master of Puppets - Metallica
I'm really not a metal fan as a rule. These guys had something that rose above and it peaked here.Swaye said:Sometimes you just run into a buzzsaw. Master is that buzzsaw. Magnum Opus level shit.
Bought the tape on release week. Only knew it was release week because Hit Parader, the metal magazine, dutifully reported it. Zero airplay, and zero MtV, you had to just know who Metallica was back then. Popped in the tape, hit play, and then Battery started. Um, yeah, it was like being kicked in the teeth by about 3000 pounds of pissed off bull. Then Master starts. Epic. By the tim I got to Sanitarium I think I was shadow boxing. And Disposable Heroes and Orion made the back end stand up for all tim. Just a great great album. My favorite ever. Any REAL Metallica fans favorite ever. Peak Metallica. -
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaLaocoön said:
This a great album, too.
https://youtu.be/Q1bJWuZsIb8
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Graceland - Paul Simon
Cause @Swaye wants a 1 seed and is trying to run up the score.joeEDangerously said:Why play the game?
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Master of Puppets - Metallica
Almost. Flick of the Switch is also a pretty decent album. After that though, they struggled to put out a good album, even if they did manage a few big hit songs along the way. The Bon Scott albums are SO good, though, that if they never had a good song after that, they'd still be one of the best rock bands ever - and easily one of the best live bands.YellowSnow said:
AC DC is the GOAT one trick pony. But they ran of ideas after FTATR. Mid 80s AC DC sucks. Even @dflea agrees with me.GrundleStiltzkin said:I have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
Doesn't really count...
But still, hooj for me. -
Graceland - Paul Simon
If You Want Blood You’ve Got It is to this day one of my favorite live albums, and was my intro to AC/DC...Whole Lotta Rosie...RIP BONdflea said:
Almost. Flick of the Switch is also a pretty decent album. After that though, they struggled to put out a good album, even if they did manage a few big hit songs along the way. The Bon Scott albums are SO good, though, that if they never had a good song after that, they'd still be one of the best rock bands ever - and easily one of the best live bands.YellowSnow said:
AC DC is the GOAT one trick pony. But they ran of ideas after FTATR. Mid 80s AC DC sucks. Even @dflea agrees with me.GrundleStiltzkin said:I have a soft spot for that Poison record, it's great for what it is.
Master is damned near perfect.
Doesn't really count...
But still, hooj for me.
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaOther vote would have been for Depeche Mode Black Celebration
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaAlso Beastie Boys License to Ill
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Master of Puppets - MetallicaFrom Rolling Stone, who ranked it the 2nd best metal record of all tim (beaten by Sabbaths Paranoid):
It begins like a Western with ominous acoustic guitars playing a triumphal, Spanish-sounding melody, but the intro to “Battery” is just a preamble to the galloping, crushing, grim and pugilistic riffs to come in the next hour. From start to finish, Master of Puppets is a masterpiece. Just two years after they introduced prettier melodies to the savage thrash they helped pioneer on Ride the Lightning, Metallica perfected the sound on Master with intricately arranged songs that ran a little longer and covered more musical ground. “Master of Puppets,” a tune frontman James Hetfield wrote after becoming disgusted from seeing junkies pass out at a party, stretches to eight-and-a-half minutes and fuses thrash with hardcore sing-alongs; jazzy, lyrical soloing; and maniacal psychodrama – it remains the band’s most requested and performed song at concerts. Meanwhile, “The Thing That Should Not Be” is a full-on sludge rocker, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” is the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest of metal ballads and the lengthy instrumental “Orion” – which features roaring lead bass by Cliff Burton, who died while touring in support of Master in 1986 – plays out like a classical composition, so full of musical drama that lyrics would kill its effect. Meanwhile, heavy, mid-paced rocker “Leper Messiah,” whose title references David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust,” foreshadowed the more groove-oriented, radio-friendly path the band would take on the Black Album in 1991. Only three years removed from Kill ‘Em All, they’d even perfected the pure sound of thrash: “Battery” hurls by at 190 punishing beats per minute, closing track “Damage Inc.” blindsides listeners with walloping stop-start rhythms at a death-defying pace, and “Disposable Heroes” is like a master class in thrash with its militaristic rhythms, catchy hooks and Hetfield snarling “Back to the front!” Master of Puppets is the sound of a band in top form, and it’s the album that made Metallica. “When I listen to Master of Puppets now, I just sit there and go, ‘What the fuck? How do you do that?'” Lars Ulrich said with a laugh in 2016. “It’s very gutsy music.” -
Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
NOC, fake news.Swaye said:From Rolling Stone, who ranked it the 2nd best metal record of all tim (beaten by Sabbaths Paranoid):
It begins like a Western with ominous acoustic guitars playing a triumphal, Spanish-sounding melody, but the intro to “Battery” is just a preamble to the galloping, crushing, grim and pugilistic riffs to come in the next hour. From start to finish, Master of Puppets is a masterpiece. Just two years after they introduced prettier melodies to the savage thrash they helped pioneer on Ride the Lightning, Metallica perfected the sound on Master with intricately arranged songs that ran a little longer and covered more musical ground. “Master of Puppets,” a tune frontman James Hetfield wrote after becoming disgusted from seeing junkies pass out at a party, stretches to eight-and-a-half minutes and fuses thrash with hardcore sing-alongs; jazzy, lyrical soloing; and maniacal psychodrama – it remains the band’s most requested and performed song at concerts. Meanwhile, “The Thing That Should Not Be” is a full-on sludge rocker, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” is the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest of metal ballads and the lengthy instrumental “Orion” – which features roaring lead bass by Cliff Burton, who died while touring in support of Master in 1986 – plays out like a classical composition, so full of musical drama that lyrics would kill its effect. Meanwhile, heavy, mid-paced rocker “Leper Messiah,” whose title references David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust,” foreshadowed the more groove-oriented, radio-friendly path the band would take on the Black Album in 1991. Only three years removed from Kill ‘Em All, they’d even perfected the pure sound of thrash: “Battery” hurls by at 190 punishing beats per minute, closing track “Damage Inc.” blindsides listeners with walloping stop-start rhythms at a death-defying pace, and “Disposable Heroes” is like a master class in thrash with its militaristic rhythms, catchy hooks and Hetfield snarling “Back to the front!” Master of Puppets is the sound of a band in top form, and it’s the album that made Metallica. “When I listen to Master of Puppets now, I just sit there and go, ‘What the fuck? How do you do that?'” Lars Ulrich said with a laugh in 2016. “It’s very gutsy music.” -
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So - Peter GabrielWith these shitty music polls @Laocoön has really come alive
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Graceland - Paul Simon
Calling out his fav fag tracks brings out the best in @Laocoön one Tim I had @89ute over to listen to all the Stones and Beatles vinyl and laocoon boycotted cause no Skinny Puppy.DerekJohnson said:With these shitty music polls @Laocoön has really come alive
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Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
Or maybe he didn't want a three-way. Did you ever think of that?YellowSnow said:
Calling out his fav fag tracks brings out the best in @Laocoön one Tim I had @89ute over to listen to all the Stones and Beatles vinyl and laocoon boycotted cause no Skinny Puppy.DerekJohnson said:With these shitty music polls @Laocoön has really come alive
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The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Nah, just didn’t want to be ‘that guy’ who suffers a mind explosion after experiencing such a sonic epiphany. I would have been like the 3 year old who asks way too many questions and ruined your Stones’ Bro-fest. You probably would have even made me walk all the way home afterwards.YellowSnow said:
Calling out his fav fag tracks brings out the best in @Laocoön one Tim I had @89ute over to listen to all the Stones and Beatles vinyl and laocoon boycotted cause no Skinny Puppy.DerekJohnson said:With these shitty music polls @Laocoön has really come alive
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The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
Nope, too short! Not tall enuff for Yella’s liking. He likes ‘em well over 6 ft. & blonder....and way prettier!BennyBeaver said:
Or maybe he didn't want a three-way. Did you ever think of that?YellowSnow said:
Calling out his fav fag tracks brings out the best in @Laocoön one Tim I had @89ute over to listen to all the Stones and Beatles vinyl and laocoon boycotted cause no Skinny Puppy.DerekJohnson said:With these shitty music polls @Laocoön has really come alive
https://youtu.be/MCOrtJMQmVs
https://youtu.be/Zt3675WbJBI
https://youtu.be/lYNHjmnlZbA