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    David Crosby Discography Rankings

    May 15 2025 / No Comments

    First off, I miss David Crosby.

    Definitely my favorite member of Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and Young and The Byrds.

    I love both of those groups and his later bands CPR (Crosby, Pevar, and Raymond), and his Lighthouse and Sky Trails groups.

    He made a lot of great music with all of these people, worked with a lot of other people on their work, and did his own work too.

    I know I’m not including everything here, but I’m ranking of David Crosby’s work with some of these people, as well as his own work.

    1. American Dream (CSNY)
    2. Croz
    3. Lighthouse
    4. Sky Trails
    5. Here If You Listen
    6. For Free
    7. Crosby, Stills, and Nash
    8. Deja Vu (CSNY)
    9. Wind On The Water (Crosby/Nash)
    10. Byrds (The Byrds)
    11. If I Could Only Remember My Name
    12. CSN (CSN)
    13. Looking Forward (CSNY)
    14. CPR (CPR)
    15. Daylight Again (CSN)
    16. Thousand Roads
    17. It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
    18. David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live At The Capitol Theatre
    19. After The Storm (CSN)
    20. Live It Up (CSN)
    21. Oh Yes I Can
    22. The Notorious Byrd Brothers (The Byrds)
    23. Fifth Dimension (The Byrds)
    24. Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds)
    25. Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds)
    26. Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds)
    27. Crosby & Nash (Crobsy/Nash)
    28. Graham Nash/David Crosby (Crosby/Nash)
    29. Whistling Down The Wire (Crosby/Nash)
    30. Just Like Gravity (CPR)
    31. Live At The Wiltern (CPR)
    32. Live At Cuesta College (CPR)
    33. 4 Way Street (CSN)
    34. CSN 2012 (CSN)
    35. Deja Vu Live (CSNY)
    36. Allies (CSN)

    This is really tough because I think all of these are great.

    I can always change my mind about where I rank them, but the whole point of me doing this is to document it.

    It’s all great and I will always love David Crosby and I wish he was still here.

    I know he made another album and he said it was done, but it’s yet to be released and I’m not sure if it ever will be.

    If it is, I will definitely get it and post it here too.

    I miss you sir and thank you for all the music and for following me on Twitter and replying to me sometimes.

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    Slayer Discography Rankings

    May 15 2025 / No Comments

    SLAYYYYYYYYYYEEEEERRRR!!

    If you’re a fan, you get it.

    Slayer are definitely the heaviest and darkest of “The Big 4” of Thrash Metal bands.

    If you are a Slayer fan, you mostly know what you are going to get.

    They’re like AC/DC in that sense.

    They’ve mostly maintained their sound over the years.

    Some have called them evil or satanic, but as vocalist/bassist Tom Araya once said in a Slayer documentary “I consider what we do art.  And art can be a reflection of society”.

    It took me a little while longer to become a fan of theirs.  I liked a couple of the albums (Diabolus In Musica and God Hates Us All), but when I heard two of their classic albums (Reign In Blood and Seasons In The Abyss) I was hooked.

    I’ve seen them in concert several times and there is no such thing as a bad Slayer show.

    They always deliver and if anyone says otherwise, they are wrong.

    Here is my ranking of their heavy discography.

    1. Reign In Blood
    2. Seasons In The Abyss
    3. God Hates Us All
    4. Christ Illusion
    5. Repentless
    6. Diabolus In Musica
    7. World Painted Blood
    8. Divine Invervention
    9. Show No Mercy
    10. South Of Heaven
    11. Hell Awaits
    12. Live:  Decade of Aggression
    13. The Big Four:  Live From Sulfia, Bulgaria (Live album/DVD set with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax)
    14. Haunting The Chapel EP
    15. Live Undead EP
    16. The Repentless Killogy
    17. Soundtrack To The Apocalypse (Box Set)

    What a collection.  Slayer is definitely not for everyone.

    They are not mainstream at all, but if you are into them, you’re into them for life.  And that’s not a bad thing.

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    Anthrax Discography Rankings

    May 15 2025 / No Comments

    Anthrax is one of “The Big 4” of Thrash Metal bands. 

    Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer are the other three.

    What “The Big 4” means is that they are the four biggest bands of that genre of Heavy Metal.

    Anthrax have been around for 44 years and are still going strong.

    They’ve had a few lineup changes, especially in the vocal department (their singer Joey Belladonna has been in the band three times or technically four times), but they’ve always kicked butt and I think all their albums rock.

    I’ve seen them three times in concert and they’re always great live.

    Here is my ranking of Anthrax’s discography.

    1. Persistence Of Time
    2. Volume 8:  The Threat Is Real
    3. We’ve Come For You All
    4. Stomp 442
    5. Worship Music
    6. For All Kings
    7. Among The Living
    8. Sound Of White Noise
    9. Spreading The Disease
    10. State Of Euphoria
    11. Fistful Of Metal
    12. Armed And Dangerous EP
    13. Music Of Mass Destruction (live album)
    14. Anthems EP
    15. Alive 2
    16. The Big Four:  Live From Sulfia, Bulgaria (Live album/DVD set with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax)
    17. Attack Of The Killer B’s
    18. Return Of The Killer A’s
    19. The Greater Of Two Evils
    20. I’m The Man EP

    I’ve been a fan of Anthrax since high school and I always will be.