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Twisted Sister/Dee Snider Discography Rankings
Twisted Sister are forever known for two songs and videos.
They are We’re Not Gonna Take It and I Wanna Rock!
I love both songs and their videos, but to me, Twisted Sister are more than that.
Their albums and songs really speak to me and singer/songwriter Dee Snider especially is one of my favorite singers and people ever.
I’m ranking Twisted Sister’s albums here, but I’m also ranking Dee’s albums too because all of it is just as important to me.
- Stay Hungry
- Under The Blade (Secret Records Version)
- Love Is For Suckers
- Come Out And Play
- You Can’t Stop Rock N Roll
- For The Love Of Metal (Dee solo)
- We Are The Ones (Dee solo)
- Leave A Scar (Dee solo)
- For The Love Of Metal Live! (Dee solo)
- Never Let The Bastards Wear You Down (Dee Solo)/To Hell And Back (Dee solo single)/Inconclusion (Dee solo song from Dee’s movie Strangeland, which also includes a PHENOMENAL new Twisted Sister song called Heroes Are Hard To Find. I’m putting all of these together.)
- A Twisted Christmas
- Under The Blade (Atlantic Records Version)
- Still Hungry
- Live At The Marquee
- A Twisted X-Mas: Live In Las Vegas
- Club Daze Volume 1: The Studio Sessions
- Widowmaker Blood And Bullets (Dee)
- Desperado Ace (Dee)
- Widowmaker Stand By For Pain (Dee)
- Dee Does Broadway (Dee)
- Van Helsing’s Curse (Dee)
- Metal Meltdown (Live)
- Live at Hammersmith
- Live at the Astoria
- Never Say Never…Club Daze Volume 2
- Dee Snider’s SMF’s Live Twisted Forever
- Twisted Forever (Twisted Sister tribute album featuring TS covering AC/DC’ Sin City, as well as Dee appearing on another song and the rest of TS on another song)
This band means the world to me and Dee is without a doubt the nicest famous person I have ever met.
And on Wednesday, September 10 of 2025, it was announced that Twisted Sister were reuniting for some shows in 2026!! Wonderful news.
I love you all!!!
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Poison Discography Rankings
Poison are one of the biggest bands from the 1980s.
Especially from the so called “Hair Metal” era.
Singer Bret Michaels, guitarist CC Deville, bassist Bobby Dall, and drummer Rikki Rockett have made some really good albums and still occasionally get back together to tour.
And every time they do, they are very successful.
I keep hoping they will make more music together someday, but if not, I’m glad they’ve made as much as they have.
And they are very fun to see in concert.
- Power To The People
- Look What The Cat Dragged In
- Open Up And Say…Ahh!
- Native Tongue
- Crack A Smile…And More!
- Hollyweird
- Flesh & Blood
- Poison’d!
- Swallow This Live
- Seven Days Live
Sometimes Poison do not get the credit or respect they deserve, but to me, they’re huge and I think they’re great. No apologies.
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The Who Discography Rankings
The Who are one of the biggest bands of all time.
They’re right there with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
They were once in The Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest band in the world.
Singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist/songwriter/keyboardist/singer Pete Townshend, bassist/singer John Entwistle (RIP) and drummer Keith Moon (RIP) are hugely influential and have made such an impact on music.
Roger and Pete are still going strong as I type this.
Here is my ranking of their discography. I’m not going to include every live album because there are quite a few. They’re all good, trust me, but I’ll include a few. I’m mostly focusing on the studio albums
- Who’s Next
- It’s Hard
- Quadrophenia
- Who Are You
- Tommy
- The Who By Numbers
- Face Dances
- The Blues To The Bush (live album)
- A Quick One (While He’s Away)
- Endless Wire
- WHO
- The Who Sings My Generation
- Live At Leeds (live album)
- The Who Sell Out
Seek out these albums. All of the members of The Who have done solo albums too and seek out those too.
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ZZ Top Discography Rankings
That Little Ol’ Band From Texas, ZZ Top!!!
Billy Gibbons (Vocals/Guitar), Dusty Hill (Vocals/Bass), and Frank Beard (Drums)
They have made so much great music.
Here it is.
- ZZ Top’s First Album
- La Futura
- Recycler
- Live: Greatest Hits From Around The World
- Mescalero
- Eliminator
- Afterburner
- Rio Grande Mud
- Tres Hombres
- Antenna
- XXX
- Fandango
- El Loco
- Deguello
- Tejas
- Rhythmeen
- Live From Texas
- Raw
Seek out this great discography from this great band.
ZZ Top!!!
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Queensryche Discography Rankings
Queensryche are another band I became a fan of while I was in high school.
There was a late night show on Friday on the channel VH1 at the time called Rock Show, which played rock music videos and sometimes had guests musicians on to talk.
One night, Queensryche singer Geoff Tate was a guest.
As far as I knew, I had never heard of Queensryche before.
Maybe I had heard a song or seen a snippet of a video, but I just didn’t know who they were.
Anyway, I was impressed with what Geoff was saying and the latest Queensryche video at the time was played.
It was for the song The Right Side Of My Mind from their latest album at the time called Q2K.
I really loved the song and video and as I said really liked what Geoff was saying on the show.
I soon after got Q2K and fell in love with it and the band.
Before diving into more of their full on albums, I got their Greatest Hits album and dug that too.
After that, I really dug into the discography and just really became a fan.
Certain albums especially really stuck with me, even to this day.
Certain songs too have stuck with me.
One song from an album that probably most fans hate or have never heard I really love and has gotten me through hard times.
The song is actually called Hard Times.
If I ever met Geoff, I would want to thank him for all the music, but especially for this song because when times have been dark, I’ve played that song and listened to him say “Just hold on” and it means the world. I’m getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
Geoff is no longer in the band, but he’s still making great albums on his own and Queensryche are still making great albums too, so regardless of what happened I think it’s the best of both worlds as a fan.
But having said that, as much as I love the band and I love everyone in it, I’ll always be a Geoff Tate fan the most.
Not just because of his voice, but because of how he impressed me all those years ago and still does.
OK here is my ranking of this great band. I’m also including some of Geoff’s solo music too because why not?
- Operation Mindcrime
- Q2k
- Live Evolution
- Rage For Order
- Promised Land
- Tribe
- Hear In The Now Frontier
- Queensryche EP
- Dedicated To Chaos
- Operation Mindcrime II
- The Warning
- Empire
- Operation Livecrime
- Kings & Thieves (Geoff solo album)
- Digital Noise Alliance
- The Verdict
- Condition Human
- Frequency Unknown (really more a Geoff album but with the Queensryche name)
- Queensryche (2013, first album with now singer Todd LaTorre)
- Sweet Oblivion (Geoff)
- Sweet Oblivion Relentless (Geoff)
- Geoff Tate (solo album)
- Take Cover
- American Soldier
- The Art Of Live
- The Best Of Queensryche: Sign Of The Times
- The Key (Geoff under the name Operation: Mindcrime)
- Resurrection (Geoff under the name Operation: Mindcrime)
- The New Reality (Geoff under the name Operation: Mindcrime)
Thank you Geoff Tate and everyone in Queensryche.
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Quiet Riot Discography Rankings
Quiet Riot are known as the first Heavy Metal band to have a Number 1 album on the Billboard 200 charts.
Their third album Metal Health was a huge hit. It’s actually sold over 10 million copies, which is a phenomenal thing.
Unfortunately, they did not maintain that huge success.
I know it happens to many, but to me, Quiet Riot continued making great music after Metal Health.
Actually, the first two albums were done earlier on when future Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads was in the band.
And even though the band did break up in the late 80s, they did get back together in the mid 90s and are still around to this day.
Sadly, singer Kevin Dubrow and drummer Frankie Banali passed away (Kevin in 2007 and Frankie in 2020).
But one of Frankie’s last wishes was for Quiet Riot to carry on.
And they are and I can say that even though it’s not the same anymore and it can’t be, they still do rock.
Classic bassist Rudy Sarzo is there (actually Frankie asked Rudy to come back before he passed away), along with singer Jizzy Pearl (who has been in the band a few times over the years), guitarist Alex Grossi, and drummer Johnny Kelly.
I’m glad they’re carrying on the name Quiet Riot and the great music of the band.
Speaking of which, here is my ranking of Quiet Riot’s albums.
- Alive And Well
- Rehab
- Metal Health
- Condition Critical
- QR III
- Guilty Pleasures
- Down To The Bone
- Terrified
- Live At The US Festival, May 29 1983
- Road Rage
- Live In Milan
- QR
- 10
- Quiet Riot
- Quiet Riot II
- The Randy Rhoads Years
- Hollywood Cowboys
Quiet Riot, I hope, will always be remembered.
If nothing else, for proving that Hard Rock and Heavy Metal could be super successful.
Yes there had been heavy bands before then, but not many bands of any genre can say that even one of their albums have sold as much as Quiet Riot’s Metal Health album was and is.
Hats off to these guys for breaking down doors and walls for other bands.
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Queen Discography Rankings
Queen are another phenomenal band that made such a huge impact.
Singer Freddie Mercury (RIP), guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon, and drummer Roger Taylor were a group that were just made for each other.
They had great chemistry and made music that no one has ever been able to make.
They were soooo unique in the best of ways.
I really wish Freddie was still here, but thank goodness he was around for as long as he was.
- Made In Heaven
- Sheer Heart Attack
- The Miracle
- Queen
- Queen II
- Innuendo
- A Night At The Opera
- News Of The World
- The Game
- A Kind Of Magic
- Hot Space
- The Works
- A Day At The Races
- Jazz
- Flash Gordon Soundtrack
- Live Killers
- Live At Wembley Stadium
- Live Magic
Such a great discography. Such a great band. We miss you Freddie.
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Dio Discography Rankings
Ronnie James Dio (RIP) is one of the best singers ever.
I’m very happy that I got to see him twice in concert (once with his band Dio and the other with Black Sabbath, then called Heaven And Hell) and even got to speak to him on a radio call-in show once.
His work with Rainbow and Black Sabbath especially is phenomenal.
But he also had a band called Dio that were great too.
Here is my ranking of the Dio discography.
- Holy Diver
- The Last In Line
- Magica
- Master Of The Moon
- Sacred Heart
- Killing The Dragon
- Holy Diver Live!
- Intermission (live EP with one new song)
- Hear N Aid Stars
- Angry Machines
- Lock Up The Wolves
- Strange Highways
- Dream Evil
- Dio At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
- Finding The Sacred Heart: Live In Philly 1986
- Evil Or Divine-Live In New York City
- Inferno: Last In Live
- Live In London: Hammersmith Apollo 1993
I miss Ronnie and always will.
May 16th of 2025 marks 15 years since he passed away.
But thank goodness for the music and the memories.
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Winger Discography Rankings
Winger always gets made fun of by people.
People remember the character Stewart from the show Beavis And Butt-Head that wore a Winger shirt and was always the butt of jokes.
And people have seen the Metallica video where Lars Ulrich is throwing darts at a poster of singer/bassist/keyboardist/songwriter/producer Kip Winger. Lars even said “Die!” while throwing the darts.
Now I love Beavis And Butt-Head and Metallica, but I hate the slagging of Winger.
Winger are a PHENOMENAL band.
Kip to me is one of the best singers out there. Still is!!
Guitarist Reb Beach is PHENOMENAL!!
Drummer Rod Morgenstein is a monster drummer.
This band is full of PHENOMENAL players.
They were successful and still do well when they go out, but they are definitely one of the most talented bands that deserve so much more attention and respect.
I think most of their later music is actually the best stuff too.
- Winger IV
- Better Days Comin’
- Winger
- In The Heart Of The Young
- Pull
- Seven
- Karma
- Live
- The Very Best of Winger (I’m including this because it has one PHENOMENAL new song on it called From The Inside. Check it out.)
Kip has also made some great solo albums too that deserve attention and Reb has played with many other bands, including Whitesnake and Dokken and has great solo albums too, especially one called A View From The Inside.
I love Winger and I’m not apologizing for it.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Discography Rankings
Lynyrd Skynyrd are a classic rock institution.
Songs like Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird, Simple Man, What’s Your Name, Gimme Three Steps, etc. are known by millions.
Even though most of the classic members are sadly gone now, Lynyrd Skynyrd still carries on because the songs are so huge and important to people that they still want to hear them.
That’s why I love music so much.
Here is my ranking of this great band’s discography. I’ll be leaving out some live albums because I don’t have them at this point, but I’ll get them eventually.
- (Pronounced Leh-nerd-Skin-nerd)
- Second Helping
- Nuthin’ Fancy
- Gimme Back My Bullets
- Street Survivors
- One More From The Road
- Twenty
- Edge Of Forever
- God & Guns
- Southern By The Grace Of God
- Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991
- Skynyrd’s First and…Last
- Vicious Cycle
- Last Of A Dyin’ Breed
- Christmas Time Again
- The Last Rebel
- Endangered Species
- Lyve From Steel Town
- The Last Of The Street Survivors Farwell Tour
- Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-nerd & Second Helping-Live From Jacksonville at the Florida Theatre
Lynyrd Skynyrd is classic rock personified.