Ladies and Gentleman, My Top 10 Albums

Here we go in no particular order:

1.  Metallica
"Master of Puppets"
1.  Battery
2.  Master of Puppets
3.  The Thing That Should Not Be
4.  Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5.  Disposable Heroes
6.  Leper Messiah
7.  Orion
8.  Damage, Inc.

2.  Led Zeppelin
"Led Zeppelin II"
1.  Whole Lotta Love
2.  What Is And What Should Never Be
3.  The Lemon Song
4.  Thank You
5.  Heartbreaker
6.  Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)
7.  Ramble On
8.  Moby Dick
9.  Bring It On Home

3.  Opeth
"Blackwater Park"
1.  The Leper Affinity
2.  Bleak
3.  Harvest
4.  The Drapery Falls
5.  Dirge For November
6.  The Funeral Portrait
7.  Patterns In The Ivy
8.  Blackwater Park

4.  Black Sabbath
"Heaven and Hell"
1.  Neon Knights
2.  Children of the Sea
3.  Lady Evil
4.  Heaven and Hell
5.  Wishing Well
6.  Die Young
7.  Walk Away
8.  Lonely Is The Word

5.  Rush
"Moving Pictures"
1.  Tom Sawyer
2.  Red Barchetta
3.  YYZ
4.  Limelight
5.  The Camera Eye
6.  Witch Hunt
7.  Vital Signs

6.  Dream Theater
"Images and Words"
1.  Pull Me Under
2.  Another Day
3.  Take the Time
4.  Surrounded
5.  Metropolis, Pt. 1 ("The Miracle and the Sleeper")
6.  Under a Glass Moon
7.  Wait For Sleep
8.  Learning To Live

7.  Deep Purple
"Perfect Strangers"
1.  Knocking At Your Back Door
2.  Under The Gun
3.  Nobody's Home
4.  Mean Streak
5.  Perfect Strangers
6.  A Gypsy's Kiss
7.  Wasted Sunsets
8.  Hungry Daze
9.  Not Responsible

8.  Joe Satriani
"Crystal Planet"
1.  Up in the Sky
2.  House Full of Bullets
3.  Crystal Planet
4.  Love Thing
5.  Trundrumbalind
6.  Lights of Heaven
7.  Raspberry Jam Delta-V
8.  Ceremony
9.  With Jupiter in Mind
10.  Secret Prayer
11.  A Train of Angels
12.  A Piece of Liquid
13.  Psycho Monkey
14.  Time
15.  Z.Z.'s Song

9.  Pink Floyd
"The Wall"
1.  In the Flesh?
2.  The Thin Ice
3.  Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1
4.  The Happiest Days of Our Lives
5.  Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2
6.  Mother
7.  Goodbye Blue Sky
8.  Empty Spaces
9.  Young Lust
10.  One of My Turns
11.  Don't Leave Me Now
12.  Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 3
13.  Goodbye Cruel World
14.  Hey You
15.  Is There Anybody Out There
16.  Nobody Home
17.  Vera
18.  Bring the Boys Back Home
19.  Comfortably Numb
20.  The Show Must Go On
21.  In the Flesh
22.  Run Like Hell
23.  Waiting For the Worms
24.  Stop
25.  The Trial
26.  Outside the Wall




















John Petrucci
"Suspended Animation"
1.  Jaws of Life
2.  Glasgow Kiss
3.  Tunnel Vision
4.  Wishful Thinking
5.  Damage Control
6.  Curve
7.  Lost Without You
8.  Animate-Inanimate

Eight of these albums are highlighted with some of the greatest guitar players ever recorded: Kirk Hammett, Jimmy Page, Alex Lifeson, John Petrucci, Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Satriani, and David Gilmour.  Of these, Petrucci is my favorite guitar player of all-time, and, as you can tell, two of these studio albums have him playing lead guitar.  Hopefully, I'll be able to come up with a variety of topics to talk about on this blog.  Anyway, thank you for reading.

My Very First "Metal" Album

In spite of not listening to Metallica's self-titled 1991 release since probably college ten years ago, it is the album that got me interested in looking up older Metallica songs (probably because I purchased their "Live Sh*t: Binge and Purge" boxset once I could buy it legally without having my mother there-yes, she was one of those types of parents).  However, my very first Metallica album was "Ride The Lightning."  I know, I know, I've gone off on three tangents already.  Anyway, after listening to the live boxset, I thought to myself "Wow!  How did I miss out on all this REAL MUSIC!"  I mean "Kill 'Em All" was better than the black album, but once I got into "Lightning" it led to purchasing "Master of Puppets" and "...And Justice For All."  For the record I hated "Fight Fire With Fire" at first, even though I love it now, but that's another rabbit hole which I might go down later.  I would probably rate "Master of Puppets" as my favorite metal album of all time, even though "Ride The Lightning" is a close second.  Still, "One" could not have been written any better than it was and I lament the fact that it was on Metallica's last great album.  And while Metallica has gone down a much different path leading to more rockstar songs instead of using their initial musicianship, their four '80s albums are, at least for me, some of the greatest metal albums ever written.

Introduction: How I Intend to Use This Blog

I am not much of a writer, but I thought, you know, what the heck, so here we go!

I am a guitar player/music enthusiast whose tastes include mainly classic rock and metal (like what's played on SiriusXM's Ozzy's Boneyard) but I also am interested some in more modern metal.  Since I can no longer post about my top 100 music albums on a website that doesn't include computer viruses, I thought, you know, I'll just post whatever I feel like posting about on blogger.  I hope that someone enjoys my opinions about the bands and albums that I listen to, so here's to whoever actually enjoys reading my future posts.