JGuy Grungeman

Personally, I find that a little rude. I care about rock operas, and I had nothing to do with the metal album survivor. Saying I don't care enough is finger-pointing becuase I'm the one who proposed the rock opera list in the first place. I put that album there because it is a ROCK opera. It may be more metal, but metal evolved directly out of rock. Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Uriah Heep are some of the bands that helped to form the sound, and later rock acts like Judas Priest and Motorhead took it and made it heavier, thus creating heavy metal.

I'm not saying this to keep Mindcrime on the list. I would've likely chosen something else if it were easy. In fact, putting this list together was a little hard, since I can only use one album for a band. And nobody ever told me about what's going to happen with Ziggy Stardust. In fact, I would actually prefer Ziggy over Mindcrime. But saying I don't care has no real grounds, especially since I wrote two lists to contribute. I'm probably one of the biggest rock opera fans on this website. But trying to find popular choices is hard enough.