Thread: Top 25 Non-metal albums

As promised i made up my top 25 non-metal albums.


1. Rush- Moving Pictures
2. Pearl Jam- Ten
3. Ratt- Out of the Cellar
4. Van Halen- 1984
5. Dokken- Tooth n Nail
6. Soundgarden- Supreunknown
7. The Police- Synchronicity
8. Prince- Purple Rain
9. Faith no More- Angel Dust
10. Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream
11. Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine
12. Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic
13. Extreme- Extreme
14. Def Leppard- Hysteria
15. 311- Transistor
16. Beck- Mellow Gold
17. Project Pitchfork- Daimonion
18. Stryper- Soldiers Under Command
19. Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil
20. Nirvana- Nevermind
21. Filter- Title of Record
22. Dave Matthew's Band- Crash
23. U2- Zooropa
24. Jane's Addiction- Ritual De Lo Habitual
25. Collective Soul- S/T

Rush is definitely my favorite non metal band. However, I find their last two cd's really wander. Almost like prog rock/jazz. It just goes on and on and the songs all sound the same.Peart's lyrics are still solid but Geddy and Alex have dropped the ball in the music dept. Where their early stuff usually had really good hooks I find their newer stuff sorely lacking in that department.

Some of those are iffy as whether their not metal?
Def Leppard was NWOBHM in late 70's.
Dokken not metal?
However Motley Crue, Stryper, Ratt are likely closer to hard rock.

I hate defining music genres, there not clear cut like movies comedy, drama.

Originally Posted by Ceriman

Some of those are iffy as whether their not metal?
Def Leppard was NWOBHM in late 70's.
Dokken not metal?
However Motley Crue, Stryper, Ratt are likely closer to hard rock.

I hate defining music genres, there not clear cut like movies comedy, drama.

Nah, at that time as a young teen i definitely thought all the bands like Crue, Dokken, Def leppard, and the like were metal. But as time has passed on and ive experienced a lot heavier bands and have heard the differences it has become clear that those bands I listed are more Hard Rock than metal. The only more well known bands during that era that eclipsed the hard rock mantra were Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

I'm a big Prog Rock fan, so I guess my top 25 non-"hardcore" metal albums would be...

1. Operation Mindcrime I - Queensryche
2. Empire - Queensryche
3. Rage For Order - Queensryche
4. Operation Mindcrime II - Queensryche
5. Promised Land - Queensryche
6. The Warning - Queensryche
7. Hear In The Now Frontier - Queensryche
8. Queensryche EP - Queensryche
9. Tribe - Queensryche
10. Q2K - Queensryche
11. Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
12. Images And Words - Dream Theater
13. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
14. Dogman - Kings X
15. Awake The Guardian - Fates Warning
16. Chasing Time - Fates Warning

Kings X
Guns n Roses

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

I'm a big Prog Rock fan, so I guess my top 25 non-"hardcore" metal albums would be...

1. Operation Mindcrime I - Queensryche
2. Empire - Queensryche
3. Rage For Order - Queensryche
4. Operation Mindcrime II - Queensryche
5. Promised Land - Queensryche
6. The Warning - Queensryche
7. Hear In The Now Frontier - Queensryche
8. Queensryche EP - Queensryche
9. Tribe - Queensryche
10. Q2K - Queensryche
11. Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
12. Images And Words - Dream Theater
13. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater
14. Dogman - Kings X
15. Awake The Guardian - Fates Warning
16. Chasing Time - Fates Warning

Kings X
Guns n Roses

If you havent yet check out "Ayreon". I guarantee you will love that stuff.

Originally Posted by Anubis

If you havent yet check out "Ayreon". I guarantee you will love that stuff.

Already have...good stuff

Those bands can definitely be consider "Glam Metal"
I don't know about you but Dokken's "Mr Scary" or "Tooth N Nail" sound closer to metal than some of Judas Priest's songs like " Livin' After Midnight" or "Another Thing Comin'"

Originally Posted by Ceriman

Those bands can definitely be consider "Glam Metal"
I don't know about you but Dokken's "Mr Scary" or "Tooth N Nail" sound closer to metal than some of Judas Priest's songs like " Livin' After Midnight" or "Another Thing Comin'"

Certainly at certain spots in those bands careers it could be deemed metal. Tooth n Nail and Shout at the Devil were those bands heaviest moments no doubt. But overall i just cant find myself to really include them as metal bands.

Originally Posted by Anubis

Certainly at certain spots in those bands careers it could be deemed metal. Tooth n Nail and Shout at the Devil were those bands heaviest moments no doubt. But overall i just cant find myself to really include them as metal bands.

What about bands like Saxon or Diamond Head?
Could you explain to me the difference between Black and Death Metal. I can't tell by listening.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul; Abbey Road
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here; Animals; Atomic Heart Mother
Rush - 2112; Hemispheres
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire or The Battle of LA
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mum - Finally We Are No One
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes
Jet - Get Born
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Boston - Boston
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Alice in Chains - Dirt; Jar of Flies
Scorpions - Blackout
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The White Stripes - De Stijl
Digable Planets - Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
The Offspring - Greatest Hits



It's not in any order...but those are some that I listen to often.

Faith No More for life mang.

Originally Posted by Ceriman

What about bands like Saxon or Diamond Head?
Could you explain to me the difference between Black and Death Metal. I can't tell by listening.

When it comes to Death and Black the most obvious comparison boils down to vocals and lyrical content. Death Metal spends most times with deeper vocal growls while Black Metal is more screechy or higher pitched vocals. Lyrically DM concentrates on horror, personal, and political themes whereas BM deals with anti-christian, paganism, and national socialism themes. As for Saxon and DH i would consider those metal bands.