Mott the Hoople - Mott
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Heavy metal but still rock and roll.
Neil Young - Live Rust
I just finished downloading the entire Led Zeppelin discography.
I listened to them religiously when I was young but it’s been a while.
Possible stating the obvious but THEY ARE INCREDIBLE!
Sandman said that they are a blues band. While of course I agree that they are very bluesy I think and many others do as well that they are the first “Heavy Metal” band.
Great write up about the from Allmusic.com
allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am … rnac48z~T1
Robert Plant’s vocals are paralleled by none in the genre of “Heavy Metal”.
Jimmy Page is one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Again, I am stating what is obvious to a lot of people. But I am in heaven. It’s been a long time since i’ve “rock n’ rolled” to Led Zeppelin.
Listening to “When the levee breaks”
YEAH!!!
I’m heading over to tonight’s metal party at The Wall. Let’s hope we’ll hear some good tunes. 
Written in 1929 by that stalwart of the heavy metal scene, Memphis Minnie (who used to bite the heads off live bats on stage). 
Heavy metal for me means the likes of Metallica, Judas Priest and all that stuff.
[quote]The Metal Fairy-Tales…
HEAVY METAL
The protagonist arrives on a harley, kills the dragon,
drinks a few beers and fucks the princess.POWER METAL
The protagonist arrives riding a white unicorn,
escapes from the dragon, saves the princess and
makes
love to her in an enchanted forest.THRASH METAL
The protagonist arrives, fights the dragon, saves
the
princess and fucks her.FOLK METAL
The protagonist arrives with some friends playing
acordions, violins, flutes and many more weird
instruments, the dragon falls asleep (because of all
the dancing). Then all leave…without the princess.VIKING METAL
The protagonist arrives in a ship, kills the dragon
with his mighty axe, skins the dragon and eats it,
rapes the princess to death, steals her belongings
and
burns the castle before leaving.DEATH METAL
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon, fucks the
princess and kills her, then leaves.BLACK METAL
The protagonist arrives at midnight, kills the
dragon
and impales it in front of the castle. Then he
sodomizes the princess, drinks her blood in a ritual
before killing her. Then he impales the princess
next
to the dragon.GORE METAL
The protagonist arrives, kills the dragon and
spreads
his guts in front of the castle, fucks the princess
and kills her.Then he fucks the dead body again,
slashes her belly and eats her guts. Then he
fucks the carcass for the third time, burns the
corpse
and fucks it for the last time.GRIND METAL
The protagonist arrives, screams something
completely
undecipherable for about 2 minutes and then
leaves…DOOM METAL
The protagonist arrives, sees the size of the dragon
and thinks he could never beat him, then he gets
depressed and commits suicide. The dragon eats his
body and the princess as dessert. That’s the end of
the sad story.GOTHIC METAL
The princess in a velvet costume starts singing
soprano. The protagonist completes the duett by
adding
the beast part, while the dragon plays the flute.
Suddenly he swallows up the pipe and
accidently scorches the beauty and the beast and
suffocates to death.
All their souls are damned in hell’s eternity.PROGRESSIVE METAL
The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a
solo
of 26 minutes.
The dragon kills himself out of boredom. The
protagonist arrives to the princess’ bedroom, plays
another solo with all the techniques and
tunes he learned in the last year of the
conservatory.The princess escapes looking for the HEAVY METAL
protagonist.INDUSTRIAL METAL
The protagonist arrives wearing greasy overcoat,
makes
anobscene gestures towards dragon, and gets escorted
out of fairy tale land by security guards.SPEED METAL
Suddenly there, short solo, dragon is confused,
someones screaming weird stuff, princess realizes
she’s been deflowered, dragon and
princess are still looking for the one who did this.CHRISTIAN METAL
The protagonist rides in on his way home from church
and sings a mushy power ballad to the dragon about
how
much Jesus loves him and that the
dragon should turn to Him. The Dragon is immediately
converted, and when the princess wants to ‘thank’
the
protagonist he replies, “sorry, but I don’t believe
in
having sex before marriage.”GLAM METAL
The protagonist arrives, the dragon laughs at the
guy’s appearance and lets him enter. He steals the
princess’ make up and tries to paint the
castle in a beautiful pink color.BATTLE METAL
The protagonist arrives with a legion of a hundred
brave footman, war chariots and a dozen elite
warriors
and, as a master tactician, flanks
the dragon in a bloody siege that lasts six hours.
The
princess gets bored.NU METAL
The protagonist arrives in a run down Honda Civic
and
attempts to fight the dragon but he burns to death
when his moronic baggy clothes catch fire.EMO
The protagonist sees the dragon and moans about how
hard it will be to get the princess to fall in love
with him, he gets eaten. The princess
is very happy, because he was a whiny fag anyway. [/quote]
Jethro Tull, because as Ian Anderson said, “The flute IS a metal instrument.”
love it to death-alice cooper
dunno if it’s already been mentioned. i can’t be bothered to read the entire tread
Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
Ride the Lightning - Metallica
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Kill 'em All - Metallica
All Iron Maiden up to Powerslave, and including Live After Death from the Powerslave tour.
I would consider Guns’n’Roses to be rock music, and Appetite is fantastic.
If Deep Purple are heavy metal then the 24 Carat Gold Purple or whatever it’s called live album is tremendous.
Led Zeppelin are hardly metal, but I love the first one, especially “Babe I’m Going to Leave You”. The best cover version I’ve ever heard other than some by Johnny Cash.
Thank you to Ted Nugent for the phrase “The term ‘heavy metal’ sucks large quantities of dead penguin dick”.
Ted Nugent’s live album of old standards is a favourite of mine, as is “Scream Dream”. Judas Priest owe a lot to Ted Nugent, especially Rob Halford, whose car accessory business appears to be flourishing despite the lack of tassled leather seat belt adornments.
Judas Priest’s cover of “Mr Crowley” is sublime.
Yes I still love Heavy Metal and I’m not ash… damn some of you know my real name!
I mean Whitesnake and Van Halen come to mind too, as do AC/DC, but I suppose they were considered HM back in the day… But a lot of Slide It In and Women and Children is blues.
Also, I saw Status Quo in 1984 on the End of the Road Tour and it was like meeting God Almighty Himself. I even bought a 1982 Telecaster when I had the money. God bless him. That David Coverdale haircut I got so much stick for at school was actually a homage to Rick Parfitt.
GnR - Appetite For Destruction is one of the greatest debut albums ever. The rest of their stuff is crap though. It was heavy metal to me as a 15 year old, but listening to it recently and it just sounds like rock.
Was never a huge fan of Iron Maiden, but I went to high school with the son of the guy who designed most of their album covers. I got to see quite a few designs that didn’t make the cut. The same guy was also the artist behind Live Aid 85 and numerous other 70/80s UK bands. Then he and his family moved to Australia and he became one of the first web designers in Oz.
I could never work out why people called Led Zep heavy metal. I love Zep, but there’s just as much acoustic stuff and blues variations on their albums as their is heavier stuff. Bonzo could sure play the drums loud though.
And surely an honorary mention must me made to Steppenwolf “Born to be Wild” with the lyric “heavy metal thunder”. They may not have been heavy metal but they did coin the phrase.
Guns’n’Roses were brilliant. Great memories. The band I was in at school went down to [a school], Co. Dublin to play at their school dance, to which young ladies were invited from St. Anchor’s Convent (?) and the Jesuits were keeping order (no comment) - and hello Caoimhe McGlinchey you made my night despite our basist nearly getting us all expelled - and anyway we played a few G’n’R covers and some Led Zep and what have you. I think what made Appetite for me was the fact that it was something you could aspire to learn to play, and before that we were all desperate to learn how to play Led Zep. There is a reason I don’t laugh at people trying to play Stairway - some of the Beatles’ stuff is brilliant to play on guitar too. Many nights I have spent singing along with friends at uni to Rocky Racoon and Babe I’m Gonna Leave You and Needle and the Damage Done when, believe me, it was deeply unfashionable to like such music. It goes without saying that drugs were involved. Obviously in the original recordings, but also in their amateur reproduction by a bunch of born-too-late stoners.
As I listen to Time by ELO (“Here is the News”) as I’m posting this I am reminded of the day someone brought along a Prophet 5. What I wouldn’t give for one of those now. We had a Korg Vocoder too. Madness. They were throwing them out in the 90s and now you can’t buy them for love nor money.
My band played ‘Marquee Moon’. Much too art school for all that.
“Art” Punk. I have to ask: was the sex good? (Well I don’t have to ask, but if you’re still up you might answer!)
Okay. I’ll see your Television and raise you Venus in Furs and possibly Secret Affair depending on [I can’t possibly finish this sentence for reasons that I’m absolutely dying to explain but can’t - cough-]
No, no feeling in my fingertips.
Aaaargh! You’re being cryptic! It didn’t say anything about fingertips on Wikipedia!
‘How do you sleep?’ John Lennon. Hehehe.
“How do you sleep”??? Stone Roses surely!!!
It’s the same string bendy thing for 9 minutes. Ow.
Nope. ‘The sound you make is muzak to my ears.’
I am listening to:
Night Hunting Time (Paul Brady)
Drank all of the whiskey
But I still can’t get no rest
Brain trapped on a roller coaster
Got a pain in my chest
Cold water on my eyeballs
Send a shiver up my spine
Hit the street in the wee wee hours
This is the night hunting time
Don’t know what I’m doing here
Got to get my senses clear
Sort of an Irish Tom Waits…
Sounds good, I will have to track some down.
I am listening to ‘Seamonsters’ by the Wedding Present. It is not heavy metal but was produced by Steve Albini so has the really sexy, knarly guitars.
‘Suck’
We’ve talked so long, suddenly it’s Tuesday
We still don’t know
If what we want is wrong–I just love hearing you say
“Oh please don’t go”
Darling can’t you keep your head next to my head
Oh just stay here
Because I can’t fall asleep even in my own bed
Until you’re near
No, you’ll go away, of course that’s not what I want
Oh I’ve missed you
That’s what I thought you’d say but you must know that I can’t
Resist you
You suck it all right out of me
You suck it all right out of me
I didn’t have to search for you, I knew where you’d be hiding
You astound me
There’s nothing I won’t do to feel your body sliding
All around me
No, no, no, don’t stop, I think I must be dreaming
I’ll just hold you
I’m just about to drop, you thrill me with your screaming
I adore you
You suck it all right out of me
You suck it all right out of me
You suck it all right out of me
You suck it all
I guess it’s pretty northern English. The Wedding Present are sexy indie-pop.