GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[Vegard Pompey]

@ the entire last page

 

[HamburgerBoy]

i don't care about the lyrics particularly, it just implies laziness and lost focus that they abandoned the concept halfway through is all

"Implies laziness", lol. That's exactly the attitude I'm talking about. Why have an opinion when you can just infer one? lmao.

 

[no country for old wainds]

here's another opinion i've inferred: the only reason you go such lengths to explain away differences in opinion as dishonest is that the terrifying alternative is accepting your brain works differently from the rest of humanity and that you're just a gay alien who will definitely die alone

lists bros? @rms @Burkhard @Bloopy @Phylactery @ClichéUserName @I-TEND-TO-DIE @Serjeant Grumbles @Mort Divine

 

[Mort Divine]

i'll get mine in tomorrow after work

 

[CiG]

at the gates' second album is my most listened to metal album of all time so i can't quite agree with all of that, not to mention metallica obviously have ATG beat in the descending into pure shit stakes. metallica have more classic albums and were more influential etc ofc. it isn't at all outrageous to prefer ATG to metallica though.

Well sure, often the bands with the highest peak material are also guilty of the lowest quality material.

I don't want to say I'm outraged that anybody would take At the Gates' best over Metallica's best, in fact I'm not really surprised at all considering this is UM where people think "extreme" metal is the ultimate embodiment of metal's quality or some other pontificated fartsniffing opinion.

Sometimes I seriously think if metal had ended in 1986 half this board's metalheads wouldn't be metalheads.

The Red in the Sky is Ours is obviously easily better than any Metallica album as are 3-4 The Chasm albums.

That's all this opinion deserves.

 

[alex76]

Well, at least its easy to shitpost in here. That's always fun!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

here's another opinion i've inferred: the only reason you go such lengths to explain away differences in opinion as dishonest is that the terrifying alternative is accepting your brain works differently from the rest of humanity and that you're just a gay alien who will definitely die alone]

My mom told me that she sung me "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" all the time starting at the age of 2. I know I'm special.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Well sure, often the bands with the highest peak material are also guilty of the lowest quality material.

i really only said that 'cause you mentioned atg going to shit - i don't tend to judge bands based on their shitty stuff. i mean, it's easy to ignore a shitty album, they don't negatively impact me much unless i'm forced to listen to them repeatedly for some reason. quantity and quality of the good stuff is what i really care about. i'll happily name slayer and metallica as two of my favourite bands in full knowledge that they've been releasing crap for decades now.

as for the rest... this board is pretty trad-biased though? certainly a lot moreso than it used to be and way more than a lot of the other major metal message boards.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I could be relistening to a classic Exodus album instead.

How many classic albums do they have?

 

[CiG]

i really only said that 'cause you mentioned atg going to shit - i don't tend to judge bands based on their shitty stuff. i mean, it's easy to ignore a shitty album, they don't negatively impact me much unless i'm forced to listen to them repeatedly for some reason. quantity and quality of the good stuff is what i really care about. i'll happily name slayer and metallica as two of my favourite bands in full knowledge that they've been releasing crap for decades now.

Sure I agree with all of this, but I wasn't judging any band based on them going downhill, I was merely pointing out the absurdity of you saying to leave At the Gates out of this as if they're even remotely consistent compared to The Chasm or Ares Kingdom, which will make sense if you go back and read again @TechnicalBarbarity's comment that you initially reacted to.

as for the rest... this board is pretty trad-biased though? certainly a lot moreso than it used to be and way more than a lot of the other major metal message boards.

It's not trad-based at all, about half the regulars on here like a lot of traditional metal, which maybe seems like a huge amount here?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

How many classic albums do they have?

Four (first three and Tempo).

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

...lulz.

 

[Baroque]

Four (first three and Tempo).

 

[-CC-]

Can we roll the RNG dice early ahead of the next thread so I can go on a relistening spree? I'm itching for a purposeful binge. Throw a year at me dammit.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm leaving these threads open for 2+ weeks, how much of a relistening binge do you need lol

 

[-CC-]

2+ weeks isn't a long time for you? That shit is an eternity. I've already listened to Court in the Act like 20 times this week.

EDIT: I do understand that it would take focus away from this thread, so on second thought, I'll just RNG it myself and have a list ready by the time that thread is made (although I'm betting you're gonna be sick and tired of tallying votes after a few more of these threads)

EDIT 2: RNGe'd between 1980-2016. Got 2003.

EDIT 3: Man I was such a little shit back in 03, listening to Arch Enemy and the likes. Looks like I missed a great deal. Pretty good year. No doubt The Work Which Transforms God is gonna win like a motherfucker though (and deservedly so).

 

[CiG]

Just read a UM debate, time will slow down.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Fabulous Disaster is such a fucking masterpiece. I took a long break from it for whatever reason but last year I listened to it in the car and I forgot how quality it was. People bitch about the covers but whatever, it's still a really strong eight song album without them. No band will ever make such an amazing fun-thrash album again.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Sometimes I seriously think if metal had ended in 1986 half this board's metalheads wouldn't be metalheads.

I might not be one tbh and I'm pretty trad-biased. No Dark Quarterer or Adramelch, and the latter was instrumental in getting me into "real" heavy metal (and out of shitty prog metal).

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Sometimes I seriously think if metal had ended in 1986 half this board's metalheads wouldn't be metalheads.

How would metal have ended in 1986? Is it a scenario where the kitchen ran out of metal and had to 86 it?