This list needs some explanation

My son and I talk music, pretty much all the time. We share some common ideas, even if our tastes are significantly different. I know more about Hip Hop than I ever expected to. Recently, list making has become a bit of a hobby of sorts and after reviewing several of his I was encouraged to make a Top 100 of my own. I am not listing my entire Top 100 here, as I made two separate Top 100 lists for Heavy Metal/Hard Rock and Other Music. So ... this excerpt is from my Heavy Metal/Hard Rock list, with my own definition of what constitutes said genres implied ...

I also did some detail in a list we went over where I picked out favorite songs and lyrics from each record, but typing that up seemed incredibly tedious and OCD ...

... and for the record, lists like this are fluid and open to change and revision and updates at any time. Also, this is a favorite list, a list of the records that i would and still can play over and over again and in some cases have purchased in multiple formats over the years.



Jeff's Top 50

1 - Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
2 - Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
3 - Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos
4 - Mother Love Bone - Apple
5 - Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6 - Lacuna Coil - Comalies
7 - Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
8 - Warlord - Deliver Us
9 - Metal Church - The Dark
10 - Riot - Born In America
11 - Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
12 - Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
13 - Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
14 - Sanctuary - Refuge Denied
15 - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
16 - Dio - Holy Diver
17 - Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
18 - Psycho Motel - Welcome To The World
19 - Raven - All For One
20 - Queensryche - Rage For Order
21 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Marching Out
22 - Saxon - Power And The Glory
23 - KISS - Destroyer
24 - Pearl Jam - Vs.
25 - My Sister's Machine - Diva
26 - Nightwish - Once
27 - Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything
28 - Mudhoney - Mudhoney
29 - Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost
30 - Iron Maiden - The X Factor
31 - Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
32 - Halford - Resurrection
33 - Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
34 - Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
35 - Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
36 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Odyssey
37 - Guns 'n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
38 - Anthrax - The Sound Of White Noise
39 - Slayer - South Of Heaven
40 - Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
41 - Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
42 - Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
43 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
44 - Green River - Rehab Doll
45 - Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
46 - Ratt - Out Of The Cellar
47 - Bulletboys - Bulletboys
48 - Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
49 - Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
50 - Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos