Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

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Well that would explain it. I'll definitely try to get it soon.
 
I find it hard to decide between Mob/HnH. I wouldn't class Turn up the Night as anything similar to Neon Knights and both have their merits, but I think I side with Turn'.

Lonely is the Word is one I often find overlooked but thoroughly enjoy, and Die Young as well (particularly live versions help to sway this).

As for Dio's best? I don't find Magica that amazing on the whole but it has my favourite Dio track... but Holy Diver just can't be left out. Honestly I find DYK an awesome album, and whilst I do enjoy the Rainbow material I find it very inconsistent/varied on the albums, with some amazing tracks and some not so, same as most of the Dio albums. With DYK, it had had quite a long time for riff's/melodies to be dreamt up by the guys which I think helped to give it a more consistent solid feel. Bible Black is one of my favourite Dio tunes.
 
Rules are here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/best-album-ever-survivor.25528/

Eliminated last round: A Different Kind of Truth, A Dramatic Turn of Events, Black Clouds and Silver Linings, British Lion, Call to Arms, The Hunter, Made of Metal, Nightmare, Thirteen, Three, Wasting Light, Worship Music, Yellow and Green

The next group of songs will be 1975-76. Nominations open for the duration of this round.
In:
Kiss — Destroyer
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
Queen — A Night at the Opera
Led Zeppelin — Physical Graffiti
Aerosmith — Toys in the Attic
Thin Lizzy — Jailbreak
Judas Priest — Sad Wings of Destiny
Rush — 2112
Rainbow — Rising
Queen — A Day At The Races
Blue Oyster Cult — Agents of Fortune
Nominated:
Van den Graaf Generator — Godbluff (The Flash, Mosh, Vap)
Van den Graaf Generator — Still Life (The Flash, Vap)
Bob Dylan — Blood on the Tracks (SixesAllTheWay, Kill Devil Hill)
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run (Kill Devil Hill, SixesAllTheWay)
Boston — Boston (Kill Devil Hill)
Ramones — Ramones (_____no5)
 
My nominations:

Black Sabbath – Sabotage (1975) (imo by far the biggest omission in mckindog's list!)
Hawkwind – Warrior on the Edge of Time (1975)
Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)


I have more albums that I love from this period by a certain Mr called Steve Hillage but I am afraid he is too unknown here (though I did post a song by him in the Random review topic which didn't have very bad reactions ;-).
 
  1. Abbey Road — The Beatles
  2. In Rock — Deep Purple
  3. Led Zeppelin II — Led Zeppelin
  4. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles
  5. Mob Rules — Black Sabbath
  6. Countdown to Extinction — Megadeth
  7. Images and Words — Dream Theater
  8. Innuendo — Queen
  9. The Devil You Know — Heaven and Hell
  10. King Animal — Soundgarden
 
Nominations:
Hotel California - The Eagles
High Voltage & Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
Presence - Led Zeppelin
Fleetwood Mac - s/t

I also second the nominations of Sabotage and Born To Run.

Voting against: everything below Screaming for Vengeance.
 
@Cornfed:
(Especially) from mckindog's point of view I expect that you haven't changed a thing in the promotions of each era. The first two eras did not get a single vote. In the other two eras you voted for all songs.

Naturally I understand it better from your point of view: I guess you hope all first era albums stay longer in the game than the last two era albums (?)

EDIT:
Still, I think it's better to choose favourites within a certain era. In order to help promoting your favourites you need to "sacrifice" other albums from the same period. So, when playing this game, at some point (which can happen later of course) one needs to be more subtle in their preferences (or dislikings).
 
Cornfed Hick said:
By the way, I'm reminded of this post I made not too long ago about the ridiculous amount of good music made in 1975: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads...eplies-to-this-post.193/page-1893#post-368337
Click to expand...


The Who - The Who by Numbers
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Neil Young - Zuma
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Nazareth - Hair of The Dog
UFO - Force It
Kansas - Song for America
Emmylou Harris - Pieces of The Sky
Roy Harper - HQ
Outlaws - Outlaws
Rory Gallagher - Against The Grain
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
Wings - Venus and Mars
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Al Stewart - Modern Times
Thin Lizzy - Fighting

Probably a hundred others too!
 
Sgt. Peppers
Mob Rules
Awaken Broken

I didn't vote for albums I don't know, in case you wonder why these instead of something else.
 
Fire of Unknown Origin
Signals
Dirt
Innuendo
Night of the Stormrider
Vulgar Display of Power
The Devil You Know
King Animal
 
NP — Images and Words
Decided Dirt is the best from that era, need to pick a runner-up
 
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