Metallica is my choice. VH has some great hits with DLR. Metalica's Hardwired to self destruct was pretty damn good.
Yeah when you look for mean streets live it was that or the lip sync version with Dave from French TV. The other live footage is crap. I can ignore Gary I just wanted the best footage of EVH playing, thats why I chose it. Van Hagar had a few moments of greatness drowning in a bed of ehhhh, probably like some of the later Metallica if I'd give it a serious re-listen. A lot of bands are great when they're fresh then later jump the shark to a degree. Happened to some of the best of them.
I agree. It amazes me that so many of my all-time favorites were recorded by people barely out of high school and that very few of them ever topped their early successes. I agree about Sammy too. Great voice, but it wore on me, as did his lyrics and personality.
i never heard any van cherone, but i was pretty impressed with how he sung that song. VH at the height of their powers... i dont know why but i was listening to VH daily for about a year before eddie died. those first six albums are about as good a run as any band ever had. i never paid much attention to this song, but it became one of my favorites recently...thats michael mcdonald on keys! "The song's subject was inspired by a woman wearing men's underwear in a Calvin Klein print media advertisement.[5] Roth pinned up the ad beside his Sony Trinitron television and addressed the lyrics to the model.[6]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'll_Wait
i think van halen vs. ac/dc would be a better comparison - both hard rock. that would be a very difficult choice for me. and metallica vs. judas priest or iron maiden or even slayer - metal vs. metal!
Metallica: Kill Em All through And Justice For All is the best metal that anyone has ever metal'd Van Halen: Van Halen through 1984 is the greatest hard rock ever ...and @jo mama, shame on you for comparing Metallica to Judas Priest. Shame. Shameful ****.
It is literally a toss-up for me - when they were both in their primes, they could be unstoppable. VH was at their best with DLR as their frontman and although the Hagar albums aren't terrible, they really can't measure up to what had come before. Meanwhile Metallica in the beginning was awesome and reached their zenith with "Master of Puppets". The Black Album was okay and everything after it is pretty much garbage, IMO. So, I will take a focused Metallica with hunger (like they were in the beginning) just barely over the DLR fronted Van Halen.
ill take priest over metallica, but thats just me. alex jones wanted to fight me at a judas priest concert b/c i called him bill hicks - true story! brah! you give me **** for comparing metallica to priest and then put megadeth over slayer??? i find that very questionable.
Yes, liking Judas Priest more than Metallica is a just you thing. Slayer/Megadeth/Iron Maiden are interchangeable to me, but that's just me. I remember you telling that Alex Jones story before, it's ****ing awesome.
Van Hagar has some really underrated stuff but I love the black album so what do I know. I’d lean Van Halen. Nobody looked cooler on stage then Eddie. Maybe Jimmy Page.
Outside of Pantera, who peaked in the early 90s, these lists read like a metal-head favorites list from the 80's. There were great metal bands before and after. Danzig, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Alice in Chains, Winger, Judas Priest, White Zombie, Lamb of God. AC/DC, Gojira, Disturbed, Cannibal Corpse
