Top Metal/Hard Rock Albums of the 80's

[Nosferatu]

Just talking about this at work.

Top three Metal/Hard Rock albums of the 80's

My choices

Ronnie James Dio - Holy Diver

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Alot of people said Back in Black, while it was agreat album i'm a Bon Scott fan and think they were much better with him, imagine how good that album would have been had he not died.

Others that come to mind in no particular order are... GNR Appetite, Ozzy Blizzard, Crue Shout at the Devil, Metallica Master of Puppets, Maiden Piece of Mind, Black Sabbath Mob Rules, Mercyful Fate Don't break the oath. There are obviously many more and some of these had multiple albums that could be considered but I just wanted to include a few.

What you got?

 

[Nosferatu]

Another I forgot, Van Halen Fair Warning...

 

[Nosferatu]

Kiss : Lick it up

 

[Banned 10x]

There are a lot of good rock/metal albums that came out in the 80s but one of them stands head and shoulders above the rest...

 

[navamind]

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Anthrax - Among the Living

 

[spacedoodoopistol]

1. Operation: Mindcrime - Perfect 10, flawless execution of sophisticated music, Geoff Tate's pipes at the peak of their powers. Impeccable and legendary.
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets. Nearly flawless and definitive thrash.
3. Tony MacAlpine - Edge of Insanity. All instrumental rockers with complex, classical songwriting and probably not a bad note on the whole album.

 

[Banned 10x]

1. Operation: Mindcrime - Perfect 10, flawless execution of sophisticated music, Geoff Tate's pipes at the peak of their powers. Impeccable and legendary.
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets. Nearly flawless and definitive thrash.
3. Tony MacAlpine - Edge of Insanity. All instrumental rockers with complex, classical songwriting and probably not a bad note on the whole album.

Operation: Mindcrime was a great album.

 

[douggie]

Man, I always liked Rush- Moving Pictures. But for great heavy metal now I like Tool. I know, judge me...

 

[Nosferatu]

Scorpions - Love at first sting...

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

AC/DC -- Back in Black

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

I like "Rising Force" & "Odyssey" by Yngwie Malmsteen.


*on the whole I wasn't a huge fan of the genre, quite honestly....but there were a few albums that piqued my interest....including "I Am the Night" by Pantera....and "Girls,Girls,Girls" by Motley Crue.

(one of my roommates in college was a huge fan of Slayer and Venom) lol

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

Love at First Sting by The Scorpions.

 

[Wazmankg]

Not my favorite genre either but no love for early Sabbath ? Black Sabbath , Paranoid, Master of Reality ?

 

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[LALakersboy24.7]

Ratt - Out of the Cellar (1984)

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[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Not my favorite genre either but no love for early Sabbath ? Black Sabbath , Paranoid, Master of Reality ?

*we're talkin' 'bout the 80's....


ftr: I love those albums, but then again.. I was still in HS in the early 70's when they came out....lol

 

[Wazmankg]

*we're talkin' 'bout the 80's....


ftr: I love those albums, but then again.. I was still in HS in the early 70's when they came out....lol

Oh.. lol. I guess actually reading the whole thread title would help.

I was still in HS then too. I'd moved on to other things by the 80s. Carry on...

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

*we're talkin' 'bout the 80's....


ftr: I love those albums, but then again.. I was still in HS in the early 70's when they came out....lol

The genre was changing, and it didn't have the same appeal for me as it did in the 70's....but as I said, there were a few in the 80's that I liked.

 

[Nosferatu]

The genre was changing, and it didn't have the same appeal for me as it did in the 70's....but as I said, there were a few in the 80's that I liked.

Metal was great in the 80's until shit bands like Poison, Cinderella, Great White and other glam bands took over, it was over at that point!

 

[DragonfromTO]

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