R&P: In your opinion what are the best albums by the following bands?

maiden progressed through the years, i saw piece of mind live and the album was a gem, but the first 2 or 3 rocked and stood out from the crowd of early metal. the next 3 showed a progressed sound and style, the thing is as maiden was progressing metal, especially theme metal was dying.

so powerslave i think was the next album then somewhere in time then i saw maiden with slayer and slayer rocked while maiden was the opening act.

i liked the raw sound of killers but number of the beast was when i discovered maiden, the video just grabbed me.

crue too fast for love is a rocking good time, i would have loved to see a re recording of the material, they thrived the whole metal days going from the satan metal through glam rockers to post glam.

tommy had a gr8 reality career.

shout at the devil was their hey day.

def leppard high and dry videos played at the same time maiden was breaking out, in fact a whole british invasion was breaking out with mtv. pyromania was pretty much pop music but did rock, they managed to have an extended career even with the drummer loosing an arm.

rush too had an extended career going more pop and well refined sound going from all most jam band to using electronics. though more recent rush bores me the old videos were great.

metallica, i liked the early raw sound but justice for all and the black album seemed too commercial to me, not exactly the music but the production and recording.

the bass and drums are boring with little impact, like the recording engineers and mixers just mixed the music with predetermined settings, even on high end systems i just hear a chuffing sound where there should be bass.

dave left metallica for megadeath and they like maiden progressed and their sound and style were high quality and many used the music to evaluate sounds systems streghnts and weakness.

dream theater idk.

priest is incredible, each album is close to masterpiece, defenders of the faith was my most memorable album but even their early stuff was recorded and produced well even close to singer songwriter status, i believe halford produced his own music and it shows.

i do not like acdc, it seems too basic, although they rock i saw an interview with them and when asked if they will change their style ever they said no, our style is what fans love and expect so unlike others in this question they never progressed and anytime i hear back in black i cringe.

kiss is another that either progressed survived or reinvented themselves, though they are kind of a pop metal band they marketed themselves with some good rock.

look at the unmasked album and tour, family jewels like ozzy brought rock reality into our homes as well as brett mMichael'sof poison, rock of love.

i saw the last poison tour and they were great.

There's a couple that I haven't listened to yet but this is how I'd rate the one's I've heard: Neil Young - 6/10 - The Loner Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - 9/10 - Cinnamon Girl After The Gold Rush - 10/10 - Tell Me Why Harvest - 9/10 - The Needle And The Damage Done Time Fades Away - 9/10 - Don't Be Denied On The Beach - 10/10 - Ambulance Blues Tonight's The Night - 10/10 - World On A String Zuma - 9/10 - Cortez The Killer American Stars N Bars - 7/10 - Like A Hurricane Comes A Time - 7/10 - Comes A Time Rust Never Sleeps - 10/10 - The Thrasher Hawks And Doves - 8/10 - Little Wing Re-Ac-Tor - 7/10 - Opera Star Trans - 7.5/10 - Little Thing Called Love Everybody's Rockin' - 6.510 - Wonderin' Old Ways - 6/10 - Misfits Landing On Water - 6/10 - Weight Of The World Life - 6/10 - Around The World This Note's For You - 6.5/10 - This Note's For You Freedom - 8.5/10 - Don't Cry Ragged Glory - 9/10 - Over And Over Harvest Moon - 9/10 - Natural Beauty Sleeps With Angels - 8/10 - Sleeps With Angels Mirror Ball - 7/10 - Act Of Love Greendale - 7.5/10 - Bandit Prairie Wind - 6/10 - The Painter Living With War - 6.5/10 - Let's Impeach The President Chrome Dreams II - 7/10 - No Hidden Path Fork In The Road - 6/10 - Just Singing A Song Le Noise - 6/10 - Love And War Americana - 7/10 - Tom Dula Psychedelic Pill - 8.5/10 - Walk Like A Giant

Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast or Killers

Motley Crue: Too Fast For Love or Shout At The Devil

Def Leppard: Hysteria

Rush: A Farewell To Kings, 2112, Exit...Stage Left

Metallica: Master Of Puppets and The Black Album

Dream Theater: not really that familiar with them

Judas Priest: Sad Wings Of Destiny, Hell Bent For Leather, Screaming For Vengeance, British Steel

AC/DC: Highway To Hell, High Voltage, Back In Black

KISS: Dressed To Kill, Destroyer, Alive II

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Rush - probably Moving Pictures

Metallica - Death Magnetic, then Master of Puppets [ awesome band BTW]

Dream Theater - Octavarium, then Scenes From a Memory [also a really good band!]

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

AC/DC - Back In Black

Kiss - Destroyer

Not sure about Def Leppard or Motley Crue, don't really listen to them. Good choice of other bands though!

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

Dr. Feelgood.

Eurphoria

Moving Pictures

Ride the Lightning

Metropolis: Scenes from A Memory.

Hell Bent for Leather

Back in Black

(Ehh.) Destroyer.

Iron Maiden - Poweslave (Bruce), Killers (Di'anno)

Motley Crue

Def Leppard

Rush

Metallica - Kill 'Em All

Dream Theater

Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

AC/DC - Powerage

KISS

Metallica's best albums is Ride the Lightning.

AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You've Got It)

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Maiden - Killers

Priest - Painkiller

Metalica - KEA

Piece of mind or Powerslave or The number of the beast

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Ride the lightning

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Hell bent for leather

Let there be rock

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