Metal Lists

The superb heavy metal journalist Martin Popoff had a poll on his site asking people to name their Top 25 Heavy Metal Songs and Albums of All Time. I detest lists. Unless, of course, the lists are ones that I come up with. Here are my contributions:

MC5

Top 25 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time 

  1. "Kick Out the Jams" - MC5
  2. "Wango Tango" - Ted Nugent
  3. "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
  4. "Jailbreak" - AC/DC
  5. "Panama" - Van Halen
  6. "Snowblind" - Black Sabbath
  7. "School's Out" - Alice Cooper
  8. "Trampled Under Foot" - Led Zeppelin
  9. "You're So Vain" - Faster Pussycat
 10. "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns n Roses
 11. "Rocket" - Def Leppard
 12. "Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
 13. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" - Metallica
 14. "Detroit Rock City" - Kiss
 15. "Stealin" - Uriah Heep
 16. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick
 17. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
 18. "Walk This Way" - Run-DMC
 19. "El Scorcho" - Weezer
 20. "We're An American Band" - Grand Funk Railroad
 21. "Lonely Is The Night" - Billy Squier
 22. "Black Blade" - Blue Oyster Cult
 23. "Stone Dead Forever" - Motorhead
 24. "Peace Sells" - Megadeth
 25. "Raw Power" - The Stooges

Fair Warning

Top 25 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time 

 1  Fair Warning - Van Halen
 2  Sabotage - Black Sabbath
 3  Master Of Puppets - Metallica
 4  Untitled Fourth Album - Led Zeppelin
 5  Greatest Hits - Alice Cooper
 6  Appetite For Destruction - Guns 'n' Roses
 7  Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith
 8  Raw Power - The Stooges
 9  Pyromania - Def Leppard
10  Highway To Hell - AC/DC
11  Machine Head - Deep Purple
12  Too Much Too Soon - New York Dolls
13  Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone
14  Face To Face - Angel City
15  Raising Hell - Run-DMC
16  Dance Hall At Louse Point - John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey
17  In Utero - Nirvana
18  Mott - Mott the Hoople
19  Kick Out The Jams - MC5
20  Louder Than Love - Soundgarden
21  Powertrip - Monster Magnet
22  Vitalogy - Pearl Jam
23  Broken - Nine Inch Nails
24  Mystery Road - Drivin 'n' Cryin
25  Heaven Tonight - Cheap Trick



[Back to Exiled on Main Street] [Other Writing] [Poetry] [Contact Bill Tuomala]