Motorhead may very well be my favorite heavy metal band of all time. Twice I have seen them in concert now and twice have I been massively impressed by their ability to bring their music to life. Each of their albums is a treat. Even on album’s I like less (Snake Bite Love and We Are Motorhead would probably be the two I would pick to fit this bill) Motorhead still brings it all, and comparatively to most music, is top notch. Face it, I like all their albums. It is this consistency of awesomeness that makes ranking their…

In the 90’s, I didn’t listen to much in the way of music. I owned four albums maybe, Spin Doctor's “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” The Offspring’s “Smash” The Red Hot Chili Pepper’s “One Hot Minute” and Weezer’s “Weezer (Blue Album)” and really, that was all the music I needed to be happy. But I grew up and got more into music and at some point, stepped on my copy of Weezer’s album.

It wasn’t until recently that I can really say what a tragedy this was. I relisten…

When I think of this album, I think of “Man in the Box.” “Man in the Box” is an anthemic song, with crunching guitars, the memorable droning chants and the intense layered vocals. Everything about this song is right and next to everybody will be able to recognize. It brings a solid and heavy riff to the forefront along with the almost chanting vocals ala Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath. Then it brings that ultra harmonized chorus, which is just a wall of sound.

I like to think of Alice in Chains as a great link that…

It was a magical time when I ended high school. I had college to look forward to, with all the new friends I would meet, all the girls I’d woo, all the beers I’d drink and probably some learning in there somewhere. And it was also a time of broadening musical horizons for me. I had never been much of a metal head, though I did listen to some metal. Metallica. Pantera. Iron Maiden. But as the summer drug on, I found myself falling in love with metal to a new degree, becoming very interested very quickly.…

On my original list, I ended up cutting this once I remembered another album I had forgotten earlier on the list (I believe it was David Bowie’s “Hunky Dory”). That was a sad situation, as the Fiery Furnaces have come to mean so much in my life. Intraweb superstar Jeph Jacques brought up one of their earlier albums, “Blueberry Boat” which sounded like the kind of musical anarchy that I first started loving in Captain Beefheart. So I listened to these strange songs, musical ramblings which somehow still managed to thread a smile onto…

A couple of years ago I did a Top 50 Albums list in order to stave off the boredom of a long summer. Luckily, I am a list fetishist and enjoy doing this sort of thing. So I originally made up a Top 100 list hoping to be able to do more detail in my reviews than I did for the Top 50, but I ended losing interest quite a while ago and stopped after only 5 or 6 reviews.

Well I got a new computer, which means all my iTunes data is gone and I have to re listen…

Favourite death metal band: Immolation and Death
Favourite black metal band: Bathory, if they count.
Favourite thrash band: Megadeth
Favourite power metal band: Sonata Arctica
Favourite traditional metal band: Motorhead
Favourite doom metal band: Geeze… Electric Wizard or Agalloch
Favourite Gothic Metal band: Paradise Lost
Favourite "other" metal band: Woods of Ypres
Favourite song: Cathedral "Hopkins the Witchfinder General"
Favourite ballad:
Favourite instrumental: Can't think of one off the top of my head
Favourite live album: Death - Live and Raw
Favourite festival: Haven't been to one
Favourite tour: Ozzfest I guess, since I haven't been to any others (yeah…

5. Revolver

I seem to recall that VH1 onced listed this as the greatest album of all time. There's no denying it's a great album, even all of those members of the anti-Beatles coalition have probably engaged in a chorus of Yellow Submarien once or twice. On this album the Beatles do what the Beatles always did, combine rock and pop with their talented song writing and production values to create great songs. Each song has its merits, whether its Here There and Everywhere one of the Beatles most tender love songs or Love You To demosntrating the expanding influence…

I fear this may become a fairly boring affair from here, since it will be predominately classic rock, but you like what you like I suppose.

10. Cowboys from Hell

I said it before, but I'll say it again: Where I come from Pantera is metal. This album is hwat captures the Pantera sound, bordering the fine line of dissonance and melody. Songs like Psycho Holiday and Art of Shred are ifne examples of this, producing the closest things to metal sing a longs I can think of. The title track is a foot stomping metal anthem that is one…

15. Houses of the Holy

Here's what I love about Zeppelin: they incorporate so many different kinds of music int otheres. D'yer Mak'e is reggae, The Rain Song has country elements, and No Quarter is a progressive rock number. Zeppelin does a lot here and they do it well. They take what made their first four albums so good and build something new here. Keeping the Zeppelin sound alive and doing something different is no easy task, but if nayone can pull it off it's them.
Faovrite Track: Dancing Days

14. Animals

Animals encounters Pink FLoyd at awkward stage between…