The HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL Thread Continued

@johnnotkathi A few that I like are Bad Asteroid, Flatlands, Get it like that, Sittin with a duck on a bay. Worth a listen. 

…and for some fun hard rock and roll, you can’t go wrong with Sweaty Knockers”. 

@johnnotkathi Just found "Better than a stick in the eye" on vinyl in Switzerland. Was my first SNFU title I found in CD in '92, back in Swansea, Wales, where I did my master's project. Also found their first "and no one else wanted to play" also on vinyl in Switzerland. 
If you dig SNFU, definitely check out Rites of Spring. The vinyl has been re-released, but Warbler Records in Santa Barbara, California, currently has an OG press for $90. Also Big Black, of course, and Rhythm Pigs's "Choke on this". You may also like Bastro's "Diabolo Guapo" out on famous Homestead Records.

@johnnotkathi Re pure HC punk: Canal Terror, Upright Citizens, Razzia's Tag Ohne Schatten, One Way System, Lard as some of the lesser known ones, I really like. I still like it (Dividing lines, Ötzi, Arctic Flowers ...), but gravitate these days a bit more towards post-punk, darkwave, cold wave, neofolk, and weird "pop" (e.g., felte label out of Los Angeles; Hackedepicciotto, Mission to the Sun, Svesor Bhrater). Got away from Flipper, Conflict, GBH, and similar stuff.

Rush - Moving Pictures - first CD print from West Germany, as a DDD CD the production is phenomenal. This was one of the very early Rock CD’s demoed in many audio stores to show off the introduction of the Compact Disc to the rock crowd.

Metallica - Black album, a lot went into this album, a noticible bump in quality from anything from the heavy metal bands before it, rumored is $1M was spent on production.

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell - beginning to end, synthesizers and guitar work are the standout, very dynamic album.

Queensryche - Empire, great production, very clean, I have the early release CD, the later prints seem to have the gain over annenuated.

Seether - Disclaimer, I also have Karma and Effect, I find the production to be solid on Disclaimer, my Karma and Effect album I tend to hear distortion in some peak areas.

Pat Benetar - Crimes of Passion, I have all of her albums, but I find this early print to be a standout album on production, you notice it right away with the opening track Treat me Right.

Def Leppard - Pyromania, I like the 2 albums before this one more, but the production of this album is off the chart for 1983, the first print CD from West Germany does not dissappoint.

Linkin Park - Meteora, I noticed a slight jump in production quality from Hybrid Theory, the Minutes to Midnight album the gain is turned up too high. My go to is the Meteora ablum.

Many other good Hard Rock and Heavy Metal genre albums out there, I could keep going, these above come to mind to me for sound quality and dynamics.