The whole album is a masterpiece...It's impossible to pick just one from each decade but I went with the albums i'm most likely to listen to front to back. Could have easily picked Wish You Were Here or Dark Side, The Wall to me is overrated unless your high and watching the movie.
It's just that for such a one hit wonder from out of nowhere it really torques me that they still get airplay for that lame shit. No sir, I don't like it.
Don't get me started. The original singer blew his brains out with a shotgun, the stand-in bassist for DMDS bragged about murdering the band leader and also went to prison for burning churches. He recorded a few albums in prison and is now a free man. And the drummer was an ape man. Edit: also, this bears explaining, at the time a friend of mine gave me a tape of DMDS (1992?) there really wasn't a widespread recognition of the Black Metal genre, there was hard rock, thrash, hair metal, death metal, and a couple others (hardcore?) I can't name at the moment. When groups like Venom, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Darkthrone, Immortal, Mayhem etc were becoming popular, everyone I knew considered them part of the DM genre, part of my mind stills considers them that way.
I'm pretty sure I watched a documentary on Mayhem....anyways I was part of the NYDM wave in the early 90's that included Suffocation,, Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia and Doom metal bands like Winter and Sorrow...good times!
I went to so many NYDM shows in the city in the late 80s and very early 90s, also a lot of hardcore shows, that was such a fun and intense scene. Showed up to basic training in 2002 after a Sick of it All/Suicidal Tendencies show (maybe at CB's, can't remember the venue) with a broken nose and black eye, the fucking instructors had a field day with me.
LETS GO, don't care Pantera - Cowboys from Hell & Vulgur Display of Fuck You Alice in Chains - Dirt Faith No More - Angel Dust Megadeth - Rust In Peace STP - Core, Purple
Hmmmm, this should be easy. 60's. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 70's The Who - Who's Next 80's Metallica - Master of Puppets 90's Alice in Chains - Dirt 00's Lamb of God - Ashes Of The Wake 10's Haven't head it yet.
I got into Death Metal in the mid 90's and went to a few concerts. Wow. Those were some fun times. A friend of mine who was around the Florida DM scene got me into the late Chuck Schuldiner and Death. The Sound of Perseverence (for me at least) is the ultimate album of that sound..... just an amazing mind blowing album. As techically amazing and explosive as anything I've ever heard. You don't get any better than that.
I think I saw 3 for Metallica Master of Puppets 80s....I think I like Ride the Lightning just a little better though For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black, Creeping Death are probably better than any 3 on MoP together but maybe MoP is more stacked overall Very very close call there
Chuck was amazing for American DM, and yes I have that album near the top, you just made me put it back in my rotation. Had a friend in the service who was from Ybor that turned me onto a number of Florida DM bands I may not have ever heard about.
Being a fulltime dj I'm going to recuse myself from this...oh, not because I can't but because my fuking head would explode!
Honestly I was just kidding around--of course there's no right answers--thought it would be funny--guess not
Awesome thread. Love this idea. I'm going to have to think long and hard about this. The 70s are going to be near impossible to pick a single good album. 90s are tough too.
That album had a few good songs on it, I don't know if they fit the criteria of a one hit wonder. Maybe 3 hot wonder but they've gotten a lot of mileage out of those songs as their other albums are shit. It's like they took music steroids for that contract year and then were pure shit after.
