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Friday, February 13, 2009

Best bands of the 1980's

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While making my top ten lists for albums of the 80's I began to think about top bands for the decades. So I thought about the decade as a whole and here is my list.

1-Iron Maiden
2-Van Halen
3-Motorhead
4-Metallica
5-Hanoi Rocks
6-King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
7-Judas Priest
8-Slayer
9)Scorpions
10)Motley Crue
11)Anthrax
12)WASP
13)Dio
14)Twisted Sister
15)Armored Saint
16)Def Leppard
17)Overkill
18)Guns and Roses
19)Ozzy
20)Lizzy Borden
21)Celtic Frost
22)Helloween
23)Medieval
24)Testament
25)Venom

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:21 AM

    Good list over all, but you know I'm no Hanoi fan.

    By the way, I moved my blog over to wordpress. Please update your link. :)

    www.themetalfiles.com

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  2. Though Judas Priest are my favorite band of all time, I would have to say I agree with you list here. While Priest were making some fun, great heavy metal music in the 1980's, there were other bands who were making more up to date and exciting music who didn't suffer the same blunders as Priest. Turbo has like 3 good songs on it, as does Point of Entry and Ram it Down, but I feel that Priest's best and most vital work was done in the 70's. Iron Maiden were definitely the true metal band for the 80's, even if the Paul Di'Anno era is my absolutely favorite and he wasn't around for Maiden Mania.

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  3. Anonymous11:38 AM

    slayer should be number one slayer rules

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  4. Anonymous5:05 PM

    Was Queensryche on the list?? Best show I saw that I never expected...(Went for Opening Act...SUICIDAL TENDENCIES)

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  5. so if its ironmaiden at the top, i'm sure a lot of heavy metal fans would want to see bruce dickinson in the picture. hehehehehehehehehe!

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  6. Xcursion6669:13 AM

    i agree with you about these bands
    1-Iron Maiden
    3-Motorhead
    6-King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
    7-Judas Priest
    8-Slayer
    9)Scorpions
    11)Anthrax
    12)WASP
    13)Dio
    15)Armored Saint
    17)Overkill
    19)Ozzy
    20)Lizzy Borden
    21)Celtic Frost
    22)Helloween
    23)Medieval
    24)Testament
    25)Venom
    i dont think bands like guns and roses van halen and def leppard fall into this category they seem more like hard rock bands
    here are some of my favorite 8os metal bands i think you should add to your list

    Liege Lord
    Chastain
    Nasty Savage
    Hexx
    Apocrypha
    Vicious Rumors
    Hallow's Eve
    Tyrant
    Lääz Rockit
    Forbidden
    Griffin
    running wild
    Tyton
    Cirith Ungol
    grim reaper
    candlemass
    riot
    omen
    viking
    Brocas Helm
    Jag Panzer
    Attacker
    Helstar
    warlord
    Manilla Road
    Reverend
    S.A. Slayer
    Savage Grace
    and those are just the bands on my ipod i have a lot more on my pc and in my vinyl lp collection

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  7. Xcursion666-The only ones on your list I considered was Candlemass and Cirith Ungol. You have some good bands there, but top 25 for metal's best decade? I don't think many of them come close to making that list.

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