Vote For Your Five Best

[Jack the Stripper]

1980 - A watershed year in metal and and hard rock. So many great albums were released that would come to be viewed as all-time classics!

But which album is the greatest from that year?

Vote for what you consider to be the best five albums of 1980.

Once this poll is done and we have a winner we'll move onto 1981 and so on...

Then we'll put all the winners from the years 80-89 up against each other to determine the greatest metal/hard rock album from 80's.

I think I've got the list covered and maybe a little too much but it saves someone posting "man you left off this or that" 

Poll will run for 5 days before closing.

Vote away 


Mod Edit:
Beat -> Best

[Tyr66]

so hard to choose !
I must let down so many like first MSG , Trust , Ozzy , Motörhead , Saxon , UFO ,  Diamond Head ...
I never know if I should choose in relation to what I felt in 1980 or my current feelings towards these pivotal albums, so I do with both

[Jack the Stripper]

That's a good way to vote TYR. First impressions should always be taken into account, especially when you're finding it hard to seperate a bunch of albums.

I found five that were clear cut. Originally I was gonna make it three but that made it near on impossible for me and I assume for everyone else so I decided on five.

[Charger]

Took me a while to figure out what there was to beat in this one...

But I guess you meant Best...


Anyways...a great idea for a poll indeed.


Pretty easy choices here

Heaven And Hell
British Steel
Ace Of Spades
Blizzard Of Ozz
Iron Maiden

Gillan is left out just barely...the other albums don't even compare to these...not even close.

[Jack the Stripper]

They were my choices too Charger. A lot of great albums there but couldn't go past those five.

I actually hit post the topic by accident(workong on an iPad) before I could go over everything and make sure I had everything spot on and then saw it said beat   

[Charger]

Well I fixed it for you bud!


I got inspired by this actually and went on and did a Top 5 albums list on my facebook too with some added notes...I'll copy it here too:

 #5:
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
(Musically Maiden was ready to go with the first one...but what brings the album down ofcourse are the vocals from Paul DiAnno that are okay at best...and that is being bit generous)

#4:
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
(Ozzy's first solo album is a cracker and Randy Rhoads' guitar playing is out of this world and Bob Daisley's lyrics are for the most part great!)

#3:
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
(Album features Motörhead's biggest hit but there is so so so much more going on here like Shoot You In the Back, Fast And Lose, We Are The Road Crew and Fire Fire just to name a few...incredible album from start to finish)

#2:
Judas Priest - British Steel
(Priest's most even album of all time...not a single bad song. Eventhough Rob holds his screams to a minimum on the album it still features some fantastic vocal preformances)

#1:
BLACK SABBATH - HEAVEN AND HELL
(Sabbath's second coming was incredibly strong and the beyond suberb vocals and lyrics of the master Ronnie James Dio were not a small part of that. But Tony Iommi is back with the fire in his riffs and solos that he had in the early days of the band! H&H not only remains as one of Black Sabbath's best albums ever but one of Heavy Metal's biggest classics of all time)

[Typhon]

Is it alright to vote for less than 5?  I'm afraid I am unfamiliar with most of these.  My knowledge on metal is limited.

[Jack the Stripper]

By all means Typhon. Vote as you want.


@Charger, I noticed I didn't put the Scorpions next to Animal Magnetism, can you add that?

[Tyr66]

However, great idea for all these coming threads, Jack   

[Charger]

@Charger, I noticed I didn't put the Scorpions next to Animal Magnetism, can you add that?

Done.

[Zzzptm]

I picked 7 to start with, then dropped the two I felt weren't totally up to the level of the other five.

[Zzzptm]

And this is going to be a fun adventure, watching how metal developed through the 80s.

[Billy Underdog]

^^^ Yup

Well, i had to go for the classics...

AC/DC - Back In Black
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Judas Priest - British Steel

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Fun idea, I went with

Sabbath
AC/DC
Rush
Judas Priest
Ozzy

... but I feel I should have gone for Motorhead perhaps instead of Ozzy or JP.

[Typhon]

Only 3 votes for me:

AC/DC
Ozzy
Sabbath