Martin PopoffThe Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time (Paperback)
By
Perrin Wolfson,
Pure Rock Patroller
Friday, July 25, 2003 @ 3:52 PM
(ECW Press)
When not kicking back with the latest new releases or taking in one of the summer’s many live metal offerings, many a rivethead’s fancy turns to the literary arts. If you’re a fan of the genre, Martin Popoff’s books are a must, and the latest is no exception.
Popoff, author of the stellar Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal, as well as the Goldmine Heavy Metal Record Price Guide, Heavy Metal: 20th Century Rock’n Roll (a book on metal’s most influential bands), and the Southern Rock Review, check’s his opinions at the door and let’s us, the metal community, offer ours.
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time reveals a ranking of songs based on votes received from fans in the years leading up to the writing of the book. A scoring system allows for an easy ranking of the tunes, and the cherry on top is commentary from Popoff, the metal guru, and the artists themselves on the songs and/or band. Many artists also included their personal top 10 for a little extra insight. In true Popoff fashion, the book ends with a number of appendices that slice and dice the list every which way, and of course Marty’s top 25. You won’t discover any hidden metal gems here (you’ll find that in the Collector’s Guide), the list goes, for the most part, as you’d expect, but half the fun is in seeing where your personal faves wound up and wondering what the rest of the metal world was thinking. Great reading for those hot summer nights!
Next up for Popoff will be the Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. I can hardly wait.
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larryt700 - 7/12/2005 2:28:10 AM Then billy squire, billy idol, the who and every other 80's band will be on that list with that criteria.... including duran duran! Damn that is depressing!
custardextract - 2/10/2004 4:52:44 PM "hereford": As to your post that Ian Anderson said the flute was a "heavy metal instrument" at the "awards ceremony". You obviously don't know your facts. First of all, Tull didn't even go to the awards ceremony cause their manager thought it was crazy they were nominated. Second, Anderson was making a joke. He said, "the flute is a heavy, metal instrument." Implying that it was heavy and made of metal. Go back and cry about how Metallic didn;t win the award. Yes, they should have, but they didn't. Try thinking next time before you judge someone. Ian Anderson is no fool. You are.
shadowzz - 11/14/2003 3:51:03 PM hey people...i'm downloading a cd that only has space for heavy/death metal...and i mean BAAAAD ASSSS songs...not just songs with an electric guitar...n e suggestions?
bludawg - 8/3/2003 6:05:50 PM Pat Boone and his connection to Ozzy (old next door neighbor before the Osbournes moved into the mansion they are in now and singing the cover of "Crazy Train" in the show's opening credits) makes him more metal than the Beatles.
SaintBastard - 8/3/2003 6:56:05 AM The beatles metal line was damn funny. You know who else was metal then? Pat Boone!
SaintBastard - 8/3/2003 6:54:57 AM LoveBuzz you missed my point fanboy. Nirviana is NOT metal. You brag all day about how it's not metal then the 1st chance you get to ride the metal bandwagon - ah might as well jump! And if you think Cobain was even close to the same level guitarist as Randy, then you're hopeless. The man was a standard-substandard garage player.
GodRules21 - 8/2/2003 9:08:39 PM 1)Fade To Black 2)Mean Street 3)Welcome To The Jungle 4) Back In Black 5) Jet City Woman 6) Cemetery Gates 7) Love Removal Machine 8) Screaming In The Night 9) Rock Me 10) Stairway To Heaven
beyatch - 8/1/2003 6:26:25 PM Now all he needs to do is release a compilation cd!
Imotorhead - 8/1/2003 4:37:25 PM Hells bells its Lemmy up above, a Motorhead song has to be in at least the top 25!
fallenangel19 - 7/31/2003 10:45:39 PM oh yea and angel of death
fallenangel19 - 7/31/2003 10:44:52 PM paradise lost.. embers fire should be on that list
hand_of_doom - 7/28/2003 2:29:29 PM hmmmm? maybe this list isn't so bad.
rippenterror - 7/28/2003 11:44:16 AM Number 1 was Sabbaths Paranoid, NO# 48 was Pantera--Walk, NO# 86 JP--Screaming for Vengeance, Beattles--Helter Skelter (NO# 162), and Jethro Tull--Aqualung was NO # 349. And Popoff reviews each song...either ripping it to shreds, or oozing and ahhing all over it. He makes his own top 25 list for the book, and other notables contribute their top lists too.
hereford - 7/28/2003 9:17:41 AM These are the types who voted for Jethro Tull as the first "Heavy Metal" award winner some years ago. Who will ever forget Ian Anderson's quote at the awards ceremony "the flute is a heavy metal instrument" Fuck this anus and his list if your into metal you have no time for lists compiled by jerkoffs! Now I am going back to my green room and fix my bong so I can forget about this nonsense, list this!
kegler - 7/28/2003 7:58:40 AM Book lists are usually cooler than any of the shit manufactured for TV. I will check this out for about 10 minutes at the bookstore. No sense in buying it. A cool list would be an online vote for the best 100 metal videos ever. No glam allowed. Except Guns and Roses anmd Motley Crue. No ballads. Just metal.
