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Originally Posted by William_the_Bloody
That being said, I do think Shout at the Devil should have been put in the top 3, but I think I might see where your coming from? The Crue's musical skills were subpar in comparison to many of their peers (Iron Maiden, Def Leppard ect) thus I kind of view Shout at the Devil in the same light as Never Mind the Bollocks, a one off fluke of brilliance.
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Well I think
Too Fast for Love is as good as
Shout at the Devil even though it doesn't have the big pumping riffs of
Shout at the Devil. So I don't think of Motley Crue as a one off album band. I'm not really into punk but
Never Mind the Bollocks is easily my favourite punk album from its time period.
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Anyways I'm happy you decided to put Kill em All in the top 3 only because the onset of thrash was a real game changer for heavy metal. I honestly believe that if it wasn't for bands like Metallica & Slayer people would have been driving around in their cars listening to underground punk bands like GBH & the Exploited. In this way thrash had more of an impact than NWOBHM, though the latter needed the former.
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I prefer Slayer and even Megadeth over Metallica, but Metallica imo were the only ones of the 'big four of thrash' to be the complete package on their debut album.
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Finally, I would have put Def leppard ahead of Iron maiden this year only because this album enshrined the coming dominance, of pop/glam metal for the rest of the decade, but hey who am I? everyone's a critic, and I confess that Def Leppard's 1987 Hysteria is one of my favourite metal albums of all time. 
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Well its a trade off between the pop/glam metal of Def Leppard against the truer metal sound of Iron Maiden here. Personally I sooner throw on Pyromania over Piece of Mind 9 times out of 10, even though I know that the Maiden album is metal perfection.
