GMD Poll: Slough Feg's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Slough Feg's 10 albums. Order and number each album 1-10. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 10 points, your second place album earns 9 points, etc.

Rules:

• You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted.
• If you list less than 10 albums, the first placed album will still get 10 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.
• If you don't number your list then it will be assumed that it is in ranked order

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until Sunday February 2nd at 9 AM PST to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg (1996)
Twilight of the Idols (1998)
Down Among the Deadmen (2000)
Traveller (2003)
Atavism (2005)
Hardworlder (2007)
Ape Uprising! (2009)
The Animal Spirits (2010)
Digital Resistence (2014)
New Organon (2019)

 

[CiG]

1. Twilight of the Idols (1998)
2. Traveller (2003)
3. Atavism (2005)
4. Down Among the Deadmen (2000)
5. Hardworlder (2007)
6. New Organon (2019)
7. Ape Uprising! (2009)
8. The Animal Spirits (2010)
9. Digital Resistence (2014)
10. The Lord Weird Slough Feg (1996)

Might change.

 

[Krow]

Anyone want to sell me a copy of the s/t?

 

[J.]

Atavism
Hardworlder
Traveller
Down Among the Deadmen
Twilight of the Idols
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Digital Resistance
Ape Uprising
The Animals Spirits

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Traveller - every bit as well-written and hooky as any of the greatest trad or power metal albums of the 80s, 9.5/10
2. Down Among the Deadmen - virtually as excellent as Traveller, the trade-off being a little less complexity but a little more atmosphere and moodiness, might swap the albums' positions, 9.5/10
3. Twilight of the Idols - merely great writing overall, the worst songs are still solid, the best songs still some of trad's riffiest, 8/10
4. Atavism - underrated album that defines 'whole > sum of parts', love the concept behind the album and there's a certain kind of uplifting purity in its simplicity that the later albums lost, 7.5/10
5. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - sounds more like a rough demo than a proper album but there's some cool stuff, 5/10
6. Hardworlder - too simplistic and goofy, 5/10
7. Digital Resistance - generic, 5/10
8. Ape Uprising - offensively bad, 2/10

Haven't heard New Organon and I think I've only heard The Animal Spirits once.

 

[barongan]

The Animals Spirits
Atavism
Digital Resistance
Traveller
Twilight of the Idols
Hardworlder
Ape Uprising

 

[Krow]

One of my favorites bands of all time.

1. Twilight of the Idols
2. Traveller
3. Down Among the Dead Men
4. Hardworlder
5. Ape Uprising!
6. The Animal Spirits
7. New Organon
8. Atavism
9. The Lord Weird Slough Feg
10. Digital Resistence


Top three are 10/10 perfection (twilight being one of my all time favorite metal albums)
4-6 are high 9s
7/8 slip a bit but are still great heavy metal.

9-10 are alright but just don’t stack up as wel.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Hardworlder
2. Down Among the Deadmen
3. Traveller
4. Atavism
5. The Animal Spirits
6. Twilight of the Idols
7. Digital Resistance
8. Ape Uprising!
9. The Lord Weird Slough Feg
10. New Organon

 

[Slammed]

1. Twilight of the Idols
2. Traveller
3. Atavism
4. New Organon
5. Down Among the Deadmen
6. Hardworlder
7. The Animal Spirits
8. Ape Uprising!
9. The Lord Weird Slough Feg
10. Digital Resistence

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1. Traveller
2. Hardworlder
3. Down Among the Deadmen
4. The Animal Spirits
5. Atavism
6. New Organon
7. Digital Resistance
8. The Lord Weird Slough Feg
9. Ape Uprising!
10. Twilight of the Idols

 

[Master_Yoda77]

1) Down Among the Dead Men
2) Traveller
3) Hardworlder
4) Twilight of the Idols
5) Ape Uprising
6) Atavism
7) The Animal Spirits
8) New Organon
9) The Lord Weird Slough Feg
10) Digital Resistance

 

[HamburgerBoy]

10. Twilight of the Idols

y

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1. Traveller
2. Hardworlder

correct.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

36 hour warning for votes and revisions.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lol i completely forgot about this. oh well

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Twlight of the Idols
2. Ape Uprising!
3. Traveler
4. Slough Feg
5. Atavism
6. Hardworlder
7. Digital Resistence
8. Down Among the Deadmen
9. New Organon
10. The Animal Spirits

Strong band. None of their albums blew me away, but all their albums are at least decent.

 

[Dane0670]

Ok, so my ranking would look like this:

1. Twilight of the Idols (1998)
3. Traveller (2003)
2. Atavism (2005)
4. The Animal Spirits (2010)
5. Down Among the Deadmen (2000)
6. Hardworlder (2007)
7. New Organon (2019)
8. The Lord Weird Slough Feg (1996)
9. Ape Uprising! (2009)
10. Digital Resistence (2014)

 

[crimsonfloyd]

10) Digital Resistance (2014)

Average points per vote: 2.8/10

....i thought digital resistance was their best since atavism.

I've only listened to Digital Resistance once and haven't bought it yet, but as it went on I was actually pleased as well.

That first track on Digital Resistance,

Not saying it's bad, just... wow.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

9) The Lord Weird Slough Feg (1996)

Average points per vote: 3.1/10

The self-titled debut, definitely. I believe the quality descends with each album btw. Which says a lot because Atavism is still pretty cracking.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

8) Ape Uprising! (2009)

Average points per vote: 3.8/10

Ape Uprising is fantastic sing alongable planet of the apes metal. I didn't like Hardworlder that much originally but I tend to listen to it more than most of their stuff now.

Ape Uprising is definitely the best of their 2000s albums. I think they really nailed it with that one. Really diverse, lovely warm production and simply great riffs.