Favourite Year

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

Matty35 wrote:

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

1974

Pete wrote:

Matty35 wrote:

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

1974

Would that have anything to do with a certain album release?

1987 & 1988 are faves of mine, here's the reasons why..

1987

Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist and Yell
Anthrax - Among the Living
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Dio - Dream Evil
Dokken - Back For The Attack
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Frehley's Comet - Frehley's Comet
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Judas Priest - Priest...Live!
Kiss - Crazy Nights
Mötley Crüe - Girls, Girls, Girls
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
W.A.S.P. - Live...In the Raw
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Y&T - Contagious

1988

AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Britny Fox - Britny Fox
Cacophony - Go Off!
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Dokken - Beast from the East
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come
Kiss - Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
L.A. Guns - L.A. Guns
Lillian Axe - Lillian Axe
Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!
Metallica - …And Justice for All
Ozzy Osbourne - No Rest for the Wicked
Poison - Open Up And Say...Ahh!
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Ratt - Reach for the Sky
Riot - Thundersteel
Slayer - South of Heaven
Van Halen - OU812
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Warrant - Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
Winger - Winger
Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Odyssey


Monsters Of Rock Donnington Park line up 87

Bon Jovi
Dio
Metallica
Anthrax
W.A.S.P.
Cinderella

88 line up

Iron Maiden
KISS
David Lee Roth
Megadeth
Guns N' Roses
Helloween

Matty35 wrote:

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

Hell yeah!!!


1976!!!

Destroyer, Rock And Roll Over, Rocks, Rainbow Rising, Helluva Band...what a freakin year!!!!!...

And we had a REAL summer!!! Tarmac road melting hot!!!

Those were the days!!

RFFB wrote:

Matty35 wrote:

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

Hell yeah!!!


1976!!!

Destroyer, Rock And Roll Over, Rocks, Rainbow Rising, Helluva Band...what a freakin year!!!!!...

And we had a REAL summer!!! Tarmac road melting hot!!!

Those were the days!!

Christ Adam!, you can remember how hot in was in 1976?

I was still peeing & pooing in my nappy then

Matty35 wrote:

Christ Adam!, you can remember how hot in was in 1976?

I was still peeing & pooing in my nappy then

Yeah! I was 12 and not pooing in my nappy!!!

Seriously, the tarmac melted! Walking home from school and you could see the bubbles in the road! Bugger when it stuck to the bottom of your shoes tho...then walked into the house and hadn't taken your shoes off...

76 & 77 - 3 months each year of solid summer sun!! Outside playin footy and marbles...think thats when I lost mine!! Kids bein kids...good days...

RFFB wrote:

Matty35 wrote:

Christ Adam!, you can remember how hot in was in 1976?

I was still peeing & pooing in my nappy then

Yeah! I was 12 and not pooing in my nappy!!!

Seriously, the tarmac melted! Walking home from school and you could see the bubbles in the road! Bugger when it stuck to the bottom of your shoes tho...then walked into the house and hadn't taken your shoes off...

76 & 77 - 3 months each year of solid summer sun!! Outside playin footy and marbles...think thats when I lost mine!! Kids bein kids...good days...

Wow, that's crazy!!

The 70's were great I'd love to go back for a week,..flares, sideburns, wide collars, cheap fags, cheap beer, bushy hair, Kiss, The Sweeney, & Sid James! ohh yes

Matty35 wrote:

Pete wrote:

Matty35 wrote:

Do any of you guys have a favourite year (or years) in rock / metal?

1974

Would that have anything to do with a certain album release?

No. It's my birth year!

I am just going to narrow it down to mid 80's. Dokken, Kiss, Ratt, IM, Motley Crue, ACDC, Ozzy, etc. Nothing better than 80's metal.

laxcdn wrote:

I am just going to narrow it down to mid 80's. Dokken, Kiss, Ratt, IM, Motley Crue, ACDC, Ozzy, etc. Nothing better than 80's metal.

Probably the best decade in metal, Mike

if only i could have been my age now, but from 1970 - 1990. in fact. just 21 every year, how cool, yeah how old are you, 21.... ALRIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

laxcdn wrote:

I am just going to narrow it down to mid 80's. Dokken, Kiss, Ratt, IM, Motley Crue, ACDC, Ozzy, etc. Nothing better than 80's metal.

1984 was as influential as it gets

'Scope

'Scope wrote:

laxcdn wrote:

I am just going to narrow it down to mid 80's. Dokken, Kiss, Ratt, IM, Motley Crue, ACDC, Ozzy, etc. Nothing better than 80's metal.

1984 was as influential as it gets

'Scope

As much as I resist saying this "Scope your right"