BEST HEAVY METAL OF 1971 as chosen by you | Overkill Rewind

[@serroche]

Not sure about the old TV frame, it covers pretty much all the screen. Let me see my boy's vinyl collection on full display! ;)

[@jakefremantle560]

That's half the fun of it

[@soswald123]

Agreed, should have link to a full screen option. Got to see Budgie’s 1st record full screen. Bitchin’...

[@BangerTV]

Can vouch that the wall opposite to him has one of the largest CD collections I've ever seen in my life.

[@garybilton7459]

Lm k ok

[@qclegg]

Uriah Heep:Look At Yourself is excruciatingly heavy,Especially the title track,I wanna be free,Shadows Of Grief.The organ on there is really dark.

[@BangerTV]

Ripper.

[@SylviusTheMad]

I saw Heep live in 2018, and the song that got the biggest crowd reaction was Shadows of Grief. Amazing song.

[@qclegg]

Been a fan of 70’s hard rock and heavy metal since I was a teenager.

[@Drforrester31]

Absolutely love Master of Reality. Went to a friend's place to hang out, she had some records and I put on the Sabbath album, only really knowing the three hits from Paranoid, and from the instant that Sweet Leaf riff came blasting out I knew I had been missing out on some incredible music (this was probably ten years ago)

[@Morbidous]

BS - Master of Reality...probably my fave album of the whole 70's decade.

[@BangerTV]

Essential.

[@gwts1171]

The year I was born! My top six: 6) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 5) Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself 4) T. Rex - Electric Warrior 3) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 2) Alice Cooper - Killer 1) Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom Thanks, Martin!

[@hellojimmypage]

T.Rex were hugely influential to lots of NWOBHM musicians back in the day. Bolan could fire off some really crunchy riffs when he wanted. 20th Century Boy from '73 has to be among the heaviest of the whole decade.

[@BangerTV]

Great list! Happy birth year!

[@ramonace4770]

Love Budgie and Alice Cooper but "Look at yourself" is such an incredible album! Should be in the top 5!

[@williamwalker146]

Salisbury also should be in the top 5. Uriah Heep-best metal band of 1971.

[@sciencereactions8221]

Yep! Uriah Heep is missing here!

[@randigiles4132]

I really like this video style of the critics of Banger reviewing from home. Feels more... casual, conversational... Which, I like.

[@BangerTV]

Thanks for watching Randi!

[@wallaceblake6618]

Definitely needed" Look at yourself".

[@Jamie.Laszlo]

I just got into Budgie about two years go. I was missing out bigtime all those decades.

[@Danimal77]

If you've listened to all their studio albums, you should check out "The Last Stage" album, which was a collection of unreleased studio songs from 1979 to 1985.

[@BangerTV]

@@Danimal77 The Last Stage was such a treat

[@Jaggedknife11]

I'd put their first 5 albums just a tick below the legendary sabbath 6 and zeppelin 8.

[@DarkFire515]

Master of Reality is an amazing album and could legitimately be considered to be the first doom album.

[@BangerTV]

It checks off so many boxes

[@laurenzgraffilpenstein8117]

Huge Deep Purple fan, but Masters of Reality got it here..

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

When Alice Cooper hit it big with Billion Dollar Babies, "Halo of Flies" was released as a single (the full 8min!) in Holland, and it reached No 5 in the popcharts!

[@fmahave87]

Jethro Tull - Aqualung Pink Floyd - Meddle Yes - Fragile Genesis - Nursery Cryme Fleetwood Mac - Future Games

[@BangerTV]

Killer list

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Prog list

[@juliereminiec4937]

I was 9 Years old..there wasn't that much metal back then... T Rex was Glitter Rock Led Zeppelin was Hard Rock

[@tutenvanman2715]

And theres none now either just rereremakes of old songs done badly with even banaller lyrics

[@jackthomson5047]

Sabbath master of reality closest to metal youll get that year

[@DD-cc6di]

Hell yeah, dude!!!!! Love seeing guys my age passionate and doing the amazing work to keep this Metal movement alive and celebrated!!!! You rule 🤘🤘

[@ronaldwilliams2456]

I'm going to investigate Budgie immediately. Heard of them, of course, but hadn't really listened to them that much. As a San Antonio metalhead, I have no excuse.

[@BangerTV]

SO GOOD. Enjoy!

[@bruzrkgro-malog2953]

Their self titled is great!

[@floydian2007]

All great titles mentioned but three glaring omissions, Sticky Fingers, Who’s Next and Meddle.

[@ronaldwilliams2456]

Good list, Martin. Sabotage is also my favorite Sabbath album. Can't deny the power of Master of Reality, though.

[@PeteHawthorne]

Absolutely love the Overkill Rewind videos as the honourable mentions always introduce me to amazing albums I never knew about and currently have the Leaf Hound one blasting in the background. So thank you Martin! And I personally love the retro television set video style!

[@BangerTV]

Thanks so much for watching, love the Rewinds too!!!

[@mannyruiz1954]

Thank you.....Led IV. I was 13 in 1971 and this album blew my mind. Heavy album.

[@billyboy9810]

I love Led Zep IV but 'Master Of Reality' is my favourite Sabbath album full stop. I also think 'Meddle' by Pink Floyd is far better to some of the top 5 (I personally love it).

[@BangerTV]

Meddle is essential.

[@stephaneherringtoniowritin4986]

Meddle is brilliant, with the awesome and beautiful "Echos"... This period of the Floyd is often overlooked,but,is without a doubt the launchpad for what was to follow. Certainly my fave era of the Floyd ❤💙💜

[@metalpractor5150]

Sabbath, purple, heep, tull, zeppelin, Cooper -are you kidding , incredible year. Classics all the way around. Heep had two epic ones though- give a listen if you haven’t yet.

[@Fidelio116]

Incredible list. All godfathers of metal.

[@Comascape]

Time for a Budgie book?

[@Danimal77]

He's not even aware of their "The Last Stage" album, which had almost 20 unreleased studio tracks from 1979 to 1985.

[@KarlGo]

I second @Martin Popoff on this: I heard about the Chris Pike books because Martin mentioned them on the Pete Pardo KZbin show, and I contacted Chris directly, and got the books online (signed by Ray Phillips!). He has new editions of those books, and I got the first two, and they are, as Martin points out, comprehensive.

[@KowankoMusic]

No quibbles with this list! Although most of us probably never need to hear half of LZIV again, it must be recognized for what it is - a pillar of 20th century rock music. Of the two Alice Cooper albums in the running for the list, I'm glad Killer got the edge. It's just slightly more sinister - while simultaneously more accomplished - than its predecessor. If not exactly 'heavy metal' per se, it's certainly very heavy in spirit and intent. And Master Of Reality - what can one say? It's the embodiment of heaviness, a lynchpin in the metal milieu. I *am* a bit surprised ZZ Top's debut wasn't mentioned at all, though.

[@billcowan5539]

My favorite Sabbath album of all time🤘🤘

[@timmothymonaghan5236]

TULL URIAH HEEP NAZARETH my 3 Fav Honorable mentions

[@image30p]

Master of Reality definitely. After Forever with the backward gong and all those great riffs. I'm going to listen to it tonight in the car. Thanks, Martin!

[@pombdap]

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori

[@jsw0278]

It is difficult to define exactly what makes something heavy metal or hard rock at such an early date but an album I would like to have seen mentioned is the masters apprentices choice cuts album. Just to include some Australian content.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

Good album indeed Jamie ! More people should and would be very interested in Masters Apprentices.Good albums they made and I recommend this band no doubt !!

[@jakobthonen9411]

A great list of albums, obviously 🤘

[@BangerTV]

Thanks Jakob!

[@davidashmore3929]

Thank you Professor Popoff and all the people who voted. Have a nice day.

[@BangerTV]

and thank YOU for watching

[@thenash76]

Would have liked to see some mention for Dust S/T. Great heavy record.

[@thenash76]

@Martin Popoff Suicide is on "Hard Attack," I know that. You don't think songs like "Love Me Hard" and "Loose Goose" are heavy?

[@BangerTV]

Underrated too

[@Vtreti]

Latino American scene from early 70's was very hard. Modulo 1000, Aquelarre, Contraluz, Pappo's Blues, ...

[@Peatmoss0979]

Great show Martin 👏..

[@BangerTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@davidoglesby6771]

All of those albums are some of my favorite of all time! What a great fuckin' year for heavy music! And all of those bands mentioned in the top 5 ( maybe apart from Budgie ) have been responsible a lot of different sub genres that are still going to this day!!!! Sabbath with Sludge and Doom Zeppelin with Bluesy heavy rock Deep Purple with the neo-classical rock and metal euro bands And Alice Cooper with Shock/horror/trash-y bands..... All Of Those bands we're so vital for hard and heavy music!! God Bless Em' All 🤘⚡⚡🤘

[@TransAmBandit]

We all have different tastes in music. I own around 20.000 lp`s & cd`s. There is a hell of a lot of other bands that were way better than today!!!

[@michaelcali8304]

You all should do 1974 eventually. No Sabbath but you have albums from BOC, Aerosmith, Budgie, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Scorpions, two from Deep Purple, Queen, and Kiss, and my all-time favorite prog album in Red by King Crimson. Great content as always!

[@petervanbuskirk500]

I think they did 74

[@michaelcali8304]

@@petervanbuskirk500 They did 70, 71, and 75-79

[@tutenvanman2715]

Aerosmith, Kiss are weak pop bands. Rock is the last word I would use to describe either. Aerosmith both in song and stage presence were a cheap Rolling Stones cover band and Kiss were the Mutant Ninja turtles in drag.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

@@tutenvanman2715 Very well said.I had one Aerosmith album. I might have played once or twice and never went back to it again.Bit ordinary to me and sold it.Kiss on the other hand I never bought anything by them and the concert I saw they were terrible and walked out well before the end.

[@hellojimmypage]

Fireball deserved higher rating, it's Gillan's favorite and features on its title-track the first speed metal double-bass of all time. First record King Diamond and Yngwie actually bought, if I'm not mistaken too.

[@Dibbdroid]

The presenter surprisingly prefers the current Deep Purple to the MK II and hates Made in Japan so don't read too much into the score here.

[@hellojimmypage]

@@Dibbdroid Indeed. So it seems, but regardless of Martin's own opinions, which we sure respect, early Purple in terms of creativity, influence and musicianship belong to the same league as Sabbath and Zep, if not higher. That's something the score should reflect.

[@Dibbdroid]

@@hellojimmypage I couldn't agree more but unfortunately some people allow there own prejudice to skew reality. This is the same guy who thinks Down to Earth is Rainbow's best.

[@ronmercer7766]

Budgie is due for the Martin Popoff treatment ?

[@BangerTV]

Martin was saying his buddy in New Zealand has written three amazing Budgie books already!

[@nachtjager109e]

Surprised Tull's Aqualung didn't score higher. Incredibly important and innovative record.

[@mikeb4858]

Should have been #2 IMO, but hey, I expect many metal fans are still salty about that Grammy

[@paulkazakoff9231]

Yeah it's a great album and one that I remember just opened my eyes up and realised there's a bit more going on besides that strait up heavy bombastic stuff that was constantly in your face in those early 70's.Another one I bought which was just that little bit different was Death walks behind you by Atomic Rooster.Just loved it and pretty heavy.A classic to me.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

Oh Atomic Rooster released 1 album in 1971 called In hearing of.Lost the heaviness a bit but boy what a cool album it is.They are great players !

[@mikeb4858]

@@paulkazakoff9231 I love Atomic Rooster's self titled album from 1980. It is a fantastic mix of glam rock and early NWOBHM.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

@@mikeb4858 Yep it's also a goody like most of Rooster's.

[@fredrikp2089]

Two albums that just came to mind that were not talked about is Operation by the brilliant german band Birth Control and the self titled Dust album. How these albums are still overlooked is beyond my comprehension. Both of them are essential!

[@thegreatgodpancake9011]

Gotta love Martin P and the rest of the team on Banger 😁 (even though Martin thinks Paranoid is "cold and clanky" and doesn't like Catch the Rainbow) Most of my favorite albums from 71 are progressive rock albums. I haven't heard the Budgie album, so I think I'll check it out. 👍 I do miss seeing Sam though, hope everyone is doing as well as possible! 😥 Thanks for the videos!

[@garyjoyce2160]

Martin/ tremendous episode/ very informative/ thank you 👍💯

[@bazzturd9414]

Look At Yourself should have definitely made the list. Killer is a great album but more hard rock than heavy metal. The first 3 Heep albums are some of the first heavy metal albums ever released.

[@BangerTV]

Such a hard decision!!!!!!!

[@bazzturd9414]

Can we do "Best Heavy Metal of 1991" next? That's an interesting year for metal.

[@jockmctodger]

No it aint

[@historychannel123]

@@jockmctodger lol

[@jamescarlucci9867]

Led Zeppelin 4 is the greatest rock album ever recorded in my opinion..

[@paulkazakoff9231]

If it isn't it's pretty darn close to being that !

[@deepindercheema4917]

You gained my respect when you mentioned the first Glastonbury ( fayre) as it was called. The highlight was the set by Mighty Baby which has just been found ( in california) and released last year.

[@mjnation7876]

Really can’t go wrong with anything from Master Of Reality. Songs like Into The Void, Children Of The Grave, and others are some of my favorite Black Sabbath songs.

[@hakkin_d]

Thanks Pop!

[@BangerTV]

That's PROFESSOR Pop to you! Haha, cheers and thanks for watching!

[@Jackylone-]

excellent top 5! Agree Uriah Heep could have been in there as well!

[@mohammed.alfarsi.454]

Past few days I've been listening to master of reality nonstop 🤘🏻

[@KokomoJoe23]

Mountain’s Nantucket Sleighride got snubbed big time, great album. All these are great though I’m going to have to check out that leaf hound and Uriah heap album.

[@jeffjohnson1413]

Totally! Should have been mentioned along with Hawkwind's In Search Of Space!

[@AetoumaatwechJulediggerkenzi]

Time to start writing that Budgie Book . It will sell out and become out of print before it's official release date

[@majapashit666]

Speaking of led zeppelin, my daughter caretaker husband just gave me a box full of his old cds. Among them are 7 led zep cds except IV huhu

[@oldhamowls]

Martin nails it, as always, Black Sabbath at their near best.

[@clubberlang110]

Zepp IV should be #1 for many reasons! And I'm a huge Sabbath fan!

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Bur not Heavy Metal

[@clubberlang110]

@@torbjorneriksson3275 yes it is

[@zingpulse4138]

There can only be one No. 1! 01] Deep Purple - Fireball 02] The Who - Who's Next 03] Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality 04] Yes - Fragile 05] The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers 06] Black Sabbath - Paranoid 07] Jethro Tull - Aqualung 08] The Doors - L.A. Woman 09] Yes - The Yes Album 10] Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

[@myleswoods8544]

Love Killer, Love Master, outside of When the Levee breaks I have no desire to hear 4 again. Purple MK 2 will always remain awesome. Nazareth is great to. Great vid!

[@holydiver73]

Deep Purple - Fireball Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Led Zeppelin - Man with a bundle of sticks on his back Yes - Fragile Jethro Tull - Aqualing Genesis - Nursery Cryme Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink Egg - The Polite Force ELP - Tarkus Focus - Moving Waves

[@BangerTV]

Great list

[@Hy-jg8ow]

I love Tarkus. Never hears of Egg tho...

[@fabsters]

Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself should be in the top5. Also, you should make a couple of books on Heep, one record for chapter, like you already did for so many bands, Martin! Pleeeeease :)

[@Danimal77]

You mentioned on Pete's show that you don't like Stairway to Heaven. I wonder why you didn't mention that in this video when you spoke about Led Zeppelin IV?

[@swrcomswrcom5306]

he did say he wasn't a huge fan of the song

[@geoffgero6081]

The lack of Look At Yourself is criminal, it’s better than all of the top 5 including Master Of Reality

[@geoffgero6081]

Martin Popoff Oh that’s what I’m doing lol. Not blaming you, you even said it would have been on there if it was up to you.

[@flaminggalahs]

I'd like to see an 'honorable mention' for May Blitz 'Second of May'. The opening track 'For Mad Men Only' is killer!

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Only good song on the whole album

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

No Van Der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts? 🥺. Great list. Hard to argue with Zep4 and Sabbath.

[@heavymetalmusicofdestructi3430]

even though I was born in 2000 I listen to 70,s heavy metal great choices awesome video

[@BangerTV]

Thanks for watching Aidan!

[@heavymetalmusicofdestructi3430]

@@BangerTV hell yeah

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Still no love for masters apprentices.. Choice cuts was a killer album from 71

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Would ad Stonehouse,Jeronimo,Bang,Jodo,Stray,Alamo,Tear Gas,Orang-Utan

[@steveandersen469]

490th thumbs up from me!! Well, I voted the #2 album, not bad. Love Sabbath but, you can't beat Zeppelin IV!! Anthem, after anthem, after ass pounding anthem!! Even the acoustic ones beat out Master Of Reality. You can hear any of the Zeppelin IV songs on FM radio, currently. You would never hear any of the Master Of Reality songs!?! No contest, Zeppelin IV, 5 stars. Thanks Martin, peace out from the southern tip of Vancouver Island, B.C. CANADA

[@richbillionair]

This was more on heaviness rather than radio popularity

[@deepindercheema4917]

You should have included Norman Haines band 'Den of Iniquity' which includes a song which Black Sabbath demoed. with Norman during the Newtown Community Centre rehearsals, but Jim Simpson and Don Arden politics got in the way.

[@deepindercheema4917]

@Martin Popoff looks like then you don't attract any record collectors. your cohort might know about Leafhound but are ignorant of other £3000+ discs .. irony is is that Norman Haines is better

[@Danimal77]

Martin, have you checked out "The Last Stage" album from Budgie yet, which had almost 20 unreleased studio tracks from 1979 to 1985?

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Unreleased for a good reason

[@MrNeiltonoman]

Best thing about this video is the hosts NoMeansNo shirt!

[@domielakrabi3276]

Nice you mentioned MC5 - High Time Martin. A great record, that I really like a lot. Master of Reality had to win thin year, even there are albums I like more by them.

[@ffsf739]

Led Zeppelin IV >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Master of Reality.

[@Hy-jg8ow]

Ummm....no. I love Purple more than both tho.

[@dibbo9264]

Apart From The Tv frame awesome video

[@yolbermad]

there should be underated albums

[@Danimal77]

I don't agree with your rating of Budgie's debut. It deserves a 5 for me. More people need to listen to it.

[@tenbroeck1958]

I love Zep III, but IV became part of Western culture! Heavy blues, with hints of folk. The musicianship was great. Anyone who gives Budgie props can't be too bad!!

[@kamranmalik8546]

Master of Reality and Fireball is a close second

[@MrGeweldig]

I hope you going to make a best heavy metal album list of 1983

[@robiu013]

kinda saw that #1 from a mile away. considering banger's audience it really felt like the only reasonable choice :)

[@robiu013]

@Martin Popoff hm, i wouldn't be sure about this. take rateyourmusic for example. both led zeppelin iv and master of reality have top-notch reviews, but led zeppelin iv has about 10,000 ratings more (ratio between rating amounts is 3:2 for led zeppelin), meaning, that if the audience was less exclusively metal-oriented, it is not unlikely, that led zeppelin iv would have edged out in the end. that was my thought anyway. but thanks for the response :)

[@notthesameman]

Master of reality, that is my album.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

Oh Marty you had the humor going with the quarantine edition and so many people just shit all over it what a shame they didn't get the inside joke happening with the quarantine edition I thought it was awesome good choices too.

[@ezioauditore7427]

Master of Reality

[@Jamie.Laszlo]

I wonder....are the people who voted for Aqualung the same people who hate the fact that they won for best hard rock/metal performance against Metallica?

[@linusfotograf]

Probably not since they voted for them. 🤷🏼

[@mikeb4858]

Did you mean "voted against"? I know there was a lot of "they're not even heavy metal!" when they won the Grammy, despite them (Aqualung in particular) being massively important to the development of metal music.

[@larrymccarthy8215]

I agree that MC5's High Time and Nazareth's debut are great records. I'm also a huge fan of Fireball and Love it to Death, so much so that I prefer them to Machine Head and Killer.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

And there not to bad those last albums you mentioned either ! Try Kick out the Jams by MC5.Not 70's but awesome shit. You probably got it ?

[@StephenBecker]

Yeah, that was the obvious choice for #1. There's a pretty good argument to be made that the rest of those albums aren't even heavy metal, but obviously we're still at the very beginning of things here and don't have that many choices.

[@bazjed5881]

Led Zeppelin 4.... All the way !

[@Jaggedknife11]

BUDGIE BUDGIE BUDGIE BUDGIE!!!!!!!! COME ON MARTIN. FIRST 5 budgie albums are all classic. the early stuff is the most metal and creative. later stuff got less consistent and had weird funk experiments. Burke's voice is love or hate it. very similar in many ways to Geddy Lee. How can you just give them 3 outta 5?

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

Power Supply is great

[@CoolWall01]

I knew it was a long shot but I was really hoping to see Split by the Groundhogs on here

[@torbjorneriksson3275]

It`s blues rock

[@paulhaynes561]

#1 1971: Alice Cooper -- Love It To Death

[@larrymccarthy8215]

I wouldn't classify it as 'metal' or pick it as the best album of 1971, but to my mind it's the best Alice Cooper album and nothing else comes close.

[@manhattanprojekt1275]

HOLY SHIT! I was the first one to put out Killer!!!

[@kristiankrastanov5995]

Sure

[@manhattanprojekt1275]

Kristian Krastanov yeah, I was🙂

[@BangerTV]

WHOA!

[@lostcauseforkl]

It's great to see Budgie get some recognition

[@BangerTV]

And not just from Jaymz & co.

[@joshalan5125]

Your next two Overkill Rewinds need to be 1986 and 1999.

[@brentreynolds7242]

no mention... 'Battle of Evermore' ain't that on ZEP IV? smh

[@PurpleHounding]

Enjoyed

[@BangerTV]

Thanks!

[@paulmahoney5937]

Master of Reality and then everybody else.

[@thomasfarmer1730]

Alice Cooper was also an influence on punk rock

[@Falxifer95]

No Uriah Heep? [[Sad Fenriz noises]]

[@wallaceblake6618]

I know, right?

[@shaynewest8757]

I love both Alice Cooper albums but they are nowhere near metal. Its more garage rock played by top notch musicians. Uriah Heep should be up there for Shadows Of Grief alone.

[@matts8708]

Master of Reality must've been the heaviest thing around at the time. First time tuning down like that for a metal band?