UPDATE 1/5/2010: Check out my new list, The Top 50 Metal Albums of The Last Decade
Starting Friday I will be posting the top 100 metal songs (as I see it, obviously). Ten will be posted each week, probably on late Friday afternoon. I judged them based on the following criteria, in order of importance:
1. Overall sound
2. Composition
3. Production
4. Emotional impact
5. Lyrics
Note that judging based on production causes a large number of older songs to fall of the list, because the other factors have to be very good to bring it up. Note also that the list will be lopsided toward recent songs because there have been a far larger number of metal releases in recent years than in the past, but several decades are represented. Also note that several musicians are represented many times on the list. This is because they belong there several times.
There are some surprises in store, things that you would not expect, including the number one song.
Note also that I don’t expect anyone to look at this list and say, “Oh, well now that’s my #74 too.” I hope to spark discussion (if anyone actually reads it) and, primarily, I do this for myself because VH1 doesn’t know what they’re talking about (read: Mötley Crüe does not belong here—party metal is not true metal).
And yes, you may ask “Did you forget _____?” I may have, but probably not. You may also ask, “Are you crazy? That doesn’t belong at #81, it should be #1!” Like I said, discussion is the goal, but I already anticipate that people will ask this precise question, right down to the numbers.
But, with the exception of the top ten, don’t get hung up on whether number 92 is better than number 89.
Tune in Friday for numbers 100 through 91.
Links to other posts in this series:
100-91, 90-81, 80-71, 70-61, 60-51, 50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, and the Top Ten
UPDATE 1/5/2010: Check out my new list, The Top 50 Metal Albums of The Last Decade
I can't really tell you which band member sang the song, but the song can kiss my ass. Yeah, they probably do count as party metal, but even if they didn't nothing they wrote would be good enough to be on the list. It's a stage show, not a rock band, albeit a highly entertaining stage show.
ReplyDeleteI do know what instruments they played:
Gene (the demon): bass
Peter (the cat who nobody wants to be when they dress up as the band): drums
Ace (space man?): guitar
And . . . I had to look this name up, but Paul (star child): guitar.
And yes, southern metal does count, but that is only southern metal, i.e. anything Zakk Wylde has done without Ozzy or any of the members of Pantera have done, but not Lynrd Skynrd (did I spell that right?).
I didn't know Syndrome of a Down was metal, I thought it was just noise llike Shitknot and Evanonsense
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