//the songs are the closest thing to 'scarey' music can get
I'd have to question that...

Skinny Puppy is some of the scariest.
Chris and Cosey also get quite scary.

Metal is not scary.

//Chris & Cosey
I was thinking of Electronic Ambient Remixes Volume 1... I had it playing in my toilet at a zombie party, with a strobe going off nearby. Freaked some people out.

"I dub the metal ceiling" sounds so post-punk out of context. A great Public Image Limited track that never was...

Haha.

Sorry, just amusing myself.

During my bogan years, no matter how hard I tried, I could never get into Iron Maiden . . . do you know what that is like for a bogan? I was deemed an outcast . . . .

My favs (these may not be strictly from the 80's . . . or Metal for that matter):

Metallica - Kill Em All
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Danzig - 4
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
. . . does Def Leppard count???

hmmm okay then hows about . . . Bon Jovi????

ministry

ministry
the mid 80's
post new
romantic synth
pop band

how do they
classify as
metal

That first Ministry album is hilarious. Not nearly so good as OMD or Human League, though.

//Rust In Piece is awesome. Right from the get go...I lost my mind when I first heard the opening of Holy Wars -

Yes, yes, yes . . . Holy Wars is the most insane opening track, you don't get a chance to breathe until that sitary interlude bit

i guess if
ministry
is metal

then so are
the farmers
boys & the
kane gang &
blancmange &
that song
never recorded
by feargal
sharkey & vince
from depeche
mode & yazoo

cant
remember the
name of the
band but it started with

a

//That first Ministry album is hilarious.
Ah, Work For Love.

I picked it up on vinyl for hilarities sake. Also for the fact that I heard that Al goes on missions in whatever city he is in to find and destroy all copies.

The title track is particularly amusing. I randomly found an En Esch (KMFDM) remix of it on a workmates music share... in amongst The Stooges and Black Flag. Why he had it, I'll never know. It isn't much better than the original though.

Twitch was a BIG improvement.

the assembly

i mean "no idea" oops

Never really got into metal in a big way, except on a try-hard bogan level...
but Lemmy is ok by me. And teh Sabbath.

heehee yeah, man did I rock out (very hard) to Youth Gone Wild . . .

Slave to the Grind was great too but has anyone seen Sebastian Bach on the Gilmore Girls? very funny...

And yet another good reason to not watch The Gilmore Girls. What is it with 80's rockers and TV? First Jon Bon Jovi, now Sebastian Bach? I'm waiting for Blackie Lawless to turn up on Will & Grace next.....

//You girl. :P The softest of heavy metal.

guilty as charged! What are you saying - are boys not allowed to like "Sweet Child" then? Or The Cult's Edie? Or ummm hmm, I'm struggling here to think of actual good metal ballards. Silent Lucidity! More than words! Don't want to miss a thing! (hahahah)

//And yet another good reason to not watch The Gilmore Girls.

Have you actually seen Sebastian Bach on it? he's fricking great, plays a mean parody of himself, he's pretty much the only person who could step into Seth Cohen's shoes and win.

Electric - The Cult : still one of my favourite AC/DC cover CDs. The opening riff of Wild Flower - very rock...

cant remem
ber the
name of the
band that did
girl nation

//silent lucidity

Ha ha... I used to have this Queensrychë album called 'Operation Mindcrime'... Oh the glamour...

hey you know you do the unskinny bop . . . .

Back then I pretty much only listened to hair metal as opposed to the real thing. Poison, Warrant, Exteme, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Hanoi Rocks, Slaughter, post-makeup Kiss. It was all pretty shit but of all those bands and albums I'd say the best one was...nah they were all bollocks.