heh Dan, everybody knows that if it isn't rap, then it's old school

actually this poll should be changed to have a single option of "songs about sex" because almost every song at least subtally hints on the topic. I'm serious, especially Disney songs that Brenda plays. Weird.

Rock owns Rap all the way. Old school heavy metal is some good shyt! (I am in mood for swearing now) lol

Above all stand rock and metal ... Old school 4 teh w1n!11!

I semi put ACDC and a good portion of Led Zepplin's stuff in that category.

I hates them

You've got it wrong then, and it's not purely based on personal views. You are saying that you dislike it when people call heavy metal, rock - I agree. Yet you are clearly doing this yourself since the mentioned bands are rock bands, not heavy metal. You want heavy metal? You should compare Zepplin to Cryptopsy or anything like that (I forget exact names). What is ignorant then?

The discussion of the history of heavy metal, from its 1960s precursors to the proliferation of heavy metal sub-genres of the late 1980s, can be summarised in the following key artists from three main waves of bands that to a large extent came out of Britain:

1. influential rock bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who and The Rolling Stones in the 1960s;
2. "early" heavy metal exemplified by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple in the early and mid 1970s; and
3. the New Wave of British Heavy Metal pioneered most successfully by Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The earliest music commonly identified as heavy metal came out of the Birmingham area of the United Kingdom in the late 1960s when bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath applied an overtly non-traditional approach to blues standards and created new music often based on blues scales and arrangements.

However, it was the release of Led Zeppelin in 1969 that brought worldwide notice of the formation of a new genre.

The early heavy metal bands, like Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, UFO and Black Sabbath are often called hard rock bands rather than heavy metal, especially those bands whose sound was more similar to traditional rock music. In general, the terms heavy metal and hard rock are often used interchangeably, in particular when discussing the 1970s. Indeed, many such bands are not categorised as "heavy metal bands" per se, but rather as having contributed individual songs or works that contributed to the genre; few would consider Jethro Tull a heavy metal band in any real sense, for example, but few would dispute that their song Aqualung was a quintessential early Heavy Metal song.

"pure" heavy metal in the lineage of the "grandfathers" - Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

I am not really a "Metal-er"

It's called Metalhead .