Are the reviews in the album guide the same that appeared in the magazine? I'd read in one of the Sabbath books that RS gave them crap reviews initially and I thought Zeppelin did as well, from another book.
The RS album guide does not have full album reviews... more of a compilation. not sure if the scores are same as what was in the mag. "The post-Ozzy records are simply impossible to tell apart"... hilarious.
Just for kicks, here is how the Top 10 in the recent RS list were scored in the 1992 RS album guide. 1 Paranoid [3.5 stars] 2 Master of Puppets [4 stars] 3 British Steel [3 stars] 4 Number of the Beast [3 stars] 5 Black Sabbath [2 stars] 6 Reign in Blood [2 stars] 7 Motorhead -No Remorse [4 stars] 8 Peace Sells [3 stars] 9 Blizzard of Ozz [2.5 stars] 10 Vulgar Display [n/a]
Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin III Led Zeppelin IV Houses of the Holy Physical Graffiti Presence In Through The Out Door Coda
At least two of those don't belong on a metal list...methinks people forget that metal is supposed to be blues based harder rock...not Korn.
If someone has an email or a phone number for Taylor, that way we can tell him what albums he's allowed to like.
That is an incredibly ignorant statement. If a music writer can't tell the difference between Heaven & Hell, Born Again, Dehumanizer and Eternal Idol, they should be replaced by someone who can.
CB, Lemmy help you out here. Repeat after me: the bands that I like are alternative metal; the bands that I don't like are nu metal.
PM me his number and I'd be glad to...I'd love to know his reasoning for putting them on a metal list.
Any metal fan print out these lists to have in their back pocket to pull out if they're getting flack for liking some grunge, alt-metal, or nu-metal. "See, even Ozzy, Halford, and Lars, the guys in YOUR top 10 like these bands."
I guess everyone has a personal definition of what is metal . I have no problem identifying Lucifer's friend, B.Sabbath , moments of LZ going into KISS, Scorpions then J.Priest , NWBHM, speed, thrash , death and black metal, but for some reason I can't get on board with Grunge, Nu-metal etc. Korn, rage against the machine even Slipknot, I don't know why that is . I can understand why some would cite them as HM though but I feel they are missing something
That Slipknot list was pretty solid I thought. Although I'm generally loath to most things nu-metal, I do like the S/T Korn album
