The Hudson Valley Squares: Our Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Albums of 1984



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49 thoughts on “The Hudson Valley Squares: Our Favorite Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Albums of 1984”

  1. Sign of the Hammer isn't as good as Hail To England but, I still like it quite a lot. Thor(The
    Powerhead), Mountains, Sign of the Hammer, The Oath are all killer and who can deny Guyana(The Cult of the Damned)? "Thank you for the Kool-aid Reverend Jim"

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  2. 1) Queensryche – The Warning
    2) Iron Maiden – Powerslave
    3) Dokken – Tooth & Nail
    4) Exciter – Violence & Force
    5) Black N' Blue – Self Titled

    H/M
    Fastway – All Fired Up'
    Kick Axe – Vices
    Merciful Fate – Don't Break The Oath
    Metallica – Ride The Lightning
    Ratt – Out Of The Cellar
    Triumph – Thunder Seven
    Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
    Armored Saint – March Of The Saint

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  3. Great Year for hard rock and metal – tough one. Here aremy top five – no ranking.

    1. Queensryche "The Warning"
    2. Iron Maiden "Powerslave"
    3. Metallica "Ride The Lightning"
    4. Bon Jovi "Bon Jovi" …yeah….there I said it 😀
    5. Europe "Wings Of Tomorrow"

    Honorable Mentions: Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers", Scorpios "Love At First Sting", Van Halen "1984", Fates Warning "Night On Bröcken", Rush "Grace Under Pressure"

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  4. 1. Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith
    2. Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers
    3. Dio – The Last In Line
    4. Whitesnake – Slide It In (Original version, but the American one is just fine as well)
    5. Iron Maiden – Powerslave

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  5. Metallica – Ride The Lightening
    Merciful Fate – Don't Break The Oath
    Iron Maiden – Powerslave
    Queensryche – Warning
    Dio – Last In Line
    Hm : We Want Moore , Trouble Psalm9, SRV Can't Stand The Weather, Deep Purple Perfect Strangers, JP -Defenders Of The Faith Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force.

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  6. Bathory & Celtic Frost are my favourites for 1984 (I like the debut Black n Blue and the Dokken album too), but other than those …. Wendy 'O Williams – WOW; Minor Threat – self titled; Toto – Isolation; Frank Zappa – Thing-Fish; John Waite – No Brakes.
    The debut Bon Jovi is their only listenable album, Jimmy Barnes – Bodyswerve, the debut Giuffria ….. nothing from Kansas; Cheap Trick; Styx; Aerosmith ….. can't praise Animalize by Kiss although it's okay.

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  7. 1984 IMO
    1. 7 Seconds- The Crew
    2. Agnostic Front- Victim in Pain
    3. Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales
    4. Samhain- Initium
    5. Metallica- Ride the Lightning

    Best Movie Soundtrack of 84
    Repo Man

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  8. 1) Ride The Lightning 2) Metal Church 3) Defenders Of The Faith 4) Winged Assassins 5) Morbid Tales
    Honorable Mentions: Perfect Strangers, The Warning, Violence & Force, Fugazi, Gates To Purgatory, Don't Break The Oath, Powerslave, The Last In Line, Stay Hungry, Night On Bröcken, Out Of The Cellar. Crazy good year.

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  9. 1. The Warning – Queensryche. 2. Powerslave – Iron Maiden. 3. Ride the lightning – Metallica 4. Rock Will Never Die- MSG 5. Grace Under Pressure – Rush

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  10. 1 Mercryful fate Don't break the oath 2 Metal Church Metal Church 3 Jag Panzer ample destruction 4 running wild gates to purgatory 5 Exciter Violence and force changed a hell of a lot over the years

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  11. my top 5 for 1984 5-Deep Purple-Perfect Strangers, 4-AC/DC-74'Jailbreak, 3-Ride the Lighting-Metallica, 2-Whitesnake-Slide it In, 1-Scorpions-Love at First Sting

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  12. Lots of great albums mentioned. Still quite a bit of greatness left – like:
    Medieval Steel's self-titled EP!
    Q5 – Steel the Light!
    Tank – Honor & Blood
    Queen – The Works
    MSG's live Rock Will Never Die
    Raven's Live at the Inferno
    Ostrogoth – Ecstacy and Danger
    Torch – Electrikiss
    Paul Chain Violet Theatre – Detaching From Satan
    Phenomena's debut
    Stormwitch – Walpurgis Night
    Helstar – Burning Star
    Black Death – Black Death
    Triumph – Thunder Seven
    Warlock – Burning the Witches
    Warlord – And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun…
    Y&T – In Rock We Trust
    Lee Aaron – Metal Queen
    Cloven Hoof – Cloven Hoof
    Tokyo Blade – Night of the Blade
    Faithful Breath – Gold 'n Glory
    Avenger – Blood Sports
    Exxplorer – Symphonies Of Steel
    Tyrant – Mean Machine
    Steve Vai – Flex-Able

    Quite a year!

    My top albums:
    Metallica – Ride the Lightning
    Dio – The Last in Line
    Iron Maiden – Powerslave
    Omen – Battle Cry
    Queensrÿche – The Warning
    Metal Church – Metal Church
    Ratt – Out of the Cellar
    Cirith Ungol – King of the Dead
    Tank – Honour & Blood
    Q5 – Steel the Light

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  13. Metal Church, Queensryche and Mercyful Fate released their best albums in 1984. I totally agree with that. Regarding Judas and Maiden – not so much. For me their earlier stuff was clearly superior. Ride the Lightning was great when it came out, but it doesn't give me the same thrill today. Pretty Maids' Red Hot and Heavy is a fantastic album. And I agree that Haunting the Chapel is one of Slayer's best songs ever!

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  14. Solid picks everyone! Thinking back I had these on my list that I didn’t hear mentioned: Fastway All Fired Up; Rods Let Them Eat Metal; Raven Live At the Inferno; Ramones Too Tough To Die.

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  15. 1. Metallica- Ride the lightning 2. Metal Church- Metal Church 3. Sortilège- Mètamorphose 4. Mercyful Fate- Don't Break The Oath 5. Leatherwolf- Leatherwolf Greetings from the Netherlands!

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  16. five i like from 1984, 1984 van halen, Powerslave Iron maiden, Perfect Strangers Deep purple, slide it in whitesnake, not really heavy metal/hard rock but I like Couldn't stand the weather Stevie Ray Vaughn.
    HM Bryan Adams Reckless, Grace under pressure Rush. ride the lightning metallica, Last in line Dio

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  17. I would add:

    Van Halen – 1984. I mean cmon.

    Black Flag – My War. Side two is alt sludge metal, give it a listen.

    Agnostic front – victim in pain. The defining NYHC album.

    Scorpions – Love at First Sting. Not my #1 but thought it would get an honorable mentions at least.

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  18. I’ve been watching Bryce on his own channel for a while, seeing the two merge for a regular appearance is awesome. Now it’s time to get the Prog monster on the prog seat Pete.

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  19. Deep Purple. Perfect Strangers.
    Kick Axe. Vices.
    Armored Saint. March Of The Saint.
    Metallica. Ride The Lightning.
    Metal Church. S/T.
    Bryce is cool. Great addition to the show.

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  20. Was super fun guys! Loved every bit of it

    My ranking
    Metallica-ride the lightning
    Iron maiden-powerslave
    Mercyful fate-dont break the oath
    Van Halen-1984
    Deep purple-perfect strangers

    Honorable mentions
    Judas priest-defenders of faith
    Trouble-psalm 9
    Slayer-haunting the chapel
    Europe-wings of tomorrow
    Metal church-metal church

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  21. 1984! What a great year for metal. Of course i was 9. Love the Manilla Road, the Cirith Ungol, the Celtic Frost…but I'll go with what influenced me the most and what ive actually heard the most so it would be a toss up of Ratt, Dio, Prince, Scorpions, Van Halen, Iron Maiden or Metallica, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Wasp or Trouble, or Kiss….or grim reaper.
    Enjoy y'all

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