12 Rock Icons as voted by the listeners of Radio Rock in Finland!

[Charger]

Well eventhough I am not a big Metallica fan or anything and I'd NEVER EVER rank them the most iconic band in history, I am rather certain they are #1.

I can't see any other options really.

[Charger]

Eventhough I personally expected these to be the other way around I'm okay with Hallowed winning this.

1. Hallowed Be Thy Name


But I am still in shock that 2 Minutes To Midnight didn't make it...especially since it gets played on the radio station almost as much as The Trooper. But as stated compared to the others the one week shorter voting time probably twisted the results a bit compared to all the other bands which lead this to be a tad bit less of a "greatest hits" list than the others.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Good! The best of te songs to make the list.

Apart from a couple of songs it was pretty much as I expected, but yes I too thought 2 Minutes 2 Midnight would be an early entry in the list.

[Charger]

I ended up getting 7 right...or 8 if you count Caught Somewhere In Time which was on my own top list.


Then I think it is time to move our eyes towards METALLICA.

I am assuming no songs past Metallica will make it to the list... I'm thinking 2 or 3 from that album and the rest from the first 3 with maybe one from Justice...that being One (which actually is my LEAST favourite from that album)...

I think I'm gonna split the lists again...one for what I think the votes will be and one personal favourites...and I'd so love to see that from Jack too knowing how much you like metallica. It would be interesting to see if we'd have ANY same songs on our lists.

[Jack the Stripper]

I'll get both my Metallica lists in tomorrow. I dare say my personal list will be made of mostly the first three albums.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I've got my list but I have no idea what the Finnish radio listeners will go for...

My List
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10.  Enter Sandman
9.   One
8.   Fade to Black
7.   Welcome Home (Sanitorium)
6.   Master of Puppets
5.   Broken, Beat and Scarred
4.   The Day that Never Comes
3.   Bleeding Me
2.   Creeping Death
1.   Outlaw Torn

... I've been into Death Magnetic recently!

[Jack the Stripper]

My personal list

10. Blackened
9. Seek and Destroy
8. Disposable Heroes
7. Battery
6. Welcome Home(Sanitarium)
5. Fade To Black
4. For Whom The Bell Tolls
3. The Four Horesman
2. Master Of Puppets
1. Creeping Death

Rock Radio list - No particular order

Fuel
Sad But True
Seek and Destroy
Creeping Death
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Nothing Else Matters
Fade To Black
One
Master Of Puppets
Enter Sandman

[Typhon]

1. Creeping Death

You guys are more metal-knowledgeable than I, but this one sounds like what use to be called speed metal, to me.

[Jack the Stripper]

1. Creeping Death

You guys are more metal-knowledgeable than I, but this one sounds like what use to be called speed metal, to me.

Well kinda but not really. Speed metal was a short lived term phrase/genre which did quickly morph into what became thrash metal. It did sorta end up having its own sub-genre with bands like Exciter, Raven, early Helloween and early Running Wild that played fast but were distinguishable from thrash. It's always been one of those sub-genres that was a little confusied and hard to categorise and never really did properly become a genre though.

[Charger]

Well I can now officially say #1 is indeed METALLICA as expected.

Jack pretty much got the list I was thinking about but I'd change one as I don't think Fuel would make it I'd pick battery instead..although might be something from the first one too...

Nothing Else Matters
One
Seek & Destroy
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Creeping Death
Ride The Lightning
Battery
Sad But True
Enter Sandman

and ofcourse the winner will be Master Of Puppets which also was the #1 song on the 500 best rock songs vote.


Then my personal list.

10. Ride The Lightning
9. Blackened
8. Of Wolf And Man
7. The Thing That Should Not Be
6. Creeping Death
5. Battery
4. King Nothing
3. Harvester Of Sorrow
2. Seek & Destroy

And #1 might be a bit of a shocker but I really do love this song.

1. Bleeding Me

I was struggling to leave Master Of Puppets out of the list but I have grown bit tired of that song to be honest. Just like Sabbath's War Pigs this song has just been played to death...and yeah yeah I know it should matter when judging the song itself but it does matter...it just does. It is a great song but honestly I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing it again...

I am happy to see that Jack and atleast have 4 in common. Honestly it was a fight between Ride The Lightning and Disposable Heroes but the opening riff of Ride is just so great that's what made the deal for it to be on the list and Heroes not.

Also KDC Damn man your list is interesting and sooooooo happy to see Bleeding Me there too!
If I'd had chosen one song from post Load I think it would have been either Broken Beat And Scarred or Cyanide.

[Jack the Stripper]

I was tossing up between Battery and Fuel and went with the later as I'm just trying to predict from a casual fans perspective that may only know what mainstream radio plays. Might be different in Finland though.

I loved Bleeding Me when it came out but I've gone right off Load & Reload in the last 10-15 years. Now that Metallica has somewhat gone back to its more heavier roots for recent albums I find the Load Reload era doesn't hold up to their heavier thrashier stuff. If I put them on shuffle it's quite noticeable and I find myself having to press skip.

[Charger]

I was tossing up between Battery and Fuel and went with the later as I'm just trying to predict from a casual fans perspective that may only know what mainstream radio plays. Might be different in Finland though.

I loved Bleeding Me when it came out but I've gone right off Load & Reload in the last 10-15 years. Now that Metallica has somewhat gone back to its more heavier roots for recent albums I find the Load Reload era doesn't hold up to their heavier thrashier stuff. If I put them on shuffle it's quite noticeable and I find myself having to press skip.

I quite understand that. I've always found myself enjoying the first half of Load a lot (which was something me and Billy had in common ), Reload on the other hand is horrible.

Fuel is not a bad choice actually as it does get a lot of radio play...but I still kind of think that the classic stuff would take the lead...but I don't know...Maiden list had few surprises so maybe this one will have too...

[Zzzptm]

My list would pretty much all be from Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets, with the Garage Days EP thrown in and also "Fuel" and "Enter Sandman", which pretty much looks like JtS' Rock Radio list.

[Charger]

Well the final Top 10 list has then started.

10. Battery

[Jack the Stripper]

About time. No surprise Battery has made the list