August 28th, 2007 § 4
Hmmm. I have decided to ratify what I shall now call the First Jones Amendment, so Vader is off the Council of Evil, to be replaced by Emperor Palpatine. I also welcome Number Six to the Order of Action Heroes, and have purchased some reading material to help me to decide whether Mr. DiGriz may also join the Order.
As you may have been,
–c.
August 28th, 2007 § 9
Dozing on the train to work this morning, and idly recalling my post of last week (or thereabouts) re Velvet Revolver’s “Libertad”, I tried to form a top 10 of hard rock albums and found it pretty much impossible.
Any top 10/20/1000 list is going to be one of two things: entirely subjective personal opinion, or some kind of voted-for system, and this being my personal website (I tire of the word “blog”, especially now that every company in the world wants one and wants it “monetized” in some way) I decided to knock together a chart and run it up the flagpole.
As I say, hewing it back to 10 was impossible, so I narrowed my search parameters (been watching lots of “24″ recently) down to the last 20 years, and obviously I can only include albums I know of and know well. Like I say, it’s my chart. That has enabled me to get it down to 15, though I’m sure there’s one or two gems that I’m leaving off even from my own personal collection. Additionally, what exactly is Hard Rock? How hard does it need to be? Where’s the line between Rock and Metal? Damned if I know, so I’m going to completely ignore the question and just go with my own fuzzy internal definition.
Anyway, enough babble, here’s the first version of Clive’s Top 15 Hard Rock Albums (1987-2007****). Although these are presented in the traditional reverse order so as to arrive at a shuddering sweaty climax, the order is pretty rough apart from the top 3 or so. (Warning: superlatives ahead…)