Are you a punk rocker or metal head?

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

Fishpo31 said:

Metal started ramping up when I was in college (early 80's), as I was getting into older stuff (Stones, Beatles, Byrds, Who, Doors), and also into Punk/New Wave, with the dawn of Mtv. I have grown to like some of it (Motorhead, Metallica, and a few others), but it just didn't resonate with me as a genre...

If the Ozzy version of black Sabbath is metal then that strengthens it a lot for me. I pretty much like the standard metal songs otherwise...Metallica in other words.

Sabbath invented metal so therefore metal.

Thats a neverending debate though. They weren't the first to rev up the blues and weren't the first to feature a jazz drummer. Progenitor of metal is a label I see more frequently, but the same label can apply to Led Zep, Deep Purple and others...hell even Hendrix and Santana.

I feel like Sabbath became more metallic over time, mainly after Paranoid. I really know fuckall though.

Hard to say, my vinyl collection (mostly bought back in the day) tends to favor Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Rainbow, etc. but also a decent selection of the Ramones. I've also got a lot of shit albums that I bought because I liked the videos at the time. As an old guy I prefer southern/country rock.