I was careful to word the title with "favorite" instead of "best." So, here is a typical offseason music kind of thread. What are your favorite rock albums of all time? Do a top 5, top 10, top 25, top 100, I don't care...
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I was careful to word the title with "favorite" instead of "best." So, here is a typical offseason music kind of thread. What are your favorite rock albums of all time? Do a top 5, top 10, top 25, top 100, I don't care...
in no order
Paranoid- Black Sabbath
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Led Zeppelin - III
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Slayer - South of Heaven
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Led Zeppelin - III
Clash - London Calling
AC/DC - Let there be Rock
AC/DC - Back in Black
Van Halen - Van Halen
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
AC/DC- Back In Black
Guns N Roses- Appetiate for Destruction
Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy
Van Halen- Best of Both Worlds
Def Leppard- Hysteria
Elvis Costello-My Aim is True
Counting Crows-August and Everything After
Clash-London Calling
Bruce Springsteen-Darkness on the Edge of Town
Squeeze-East Side Story
This is more a combination of Metal and rock but...
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Disturbed - Indestructible
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Metallica - And for Justice for All
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
old guy here...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
London Calling - The Clash
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Abbey Road - The Beatles
At Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers Band
Electric Ladyland - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek and the Dominos
Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
Something/Anything? - Todd Rundgren
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
Damaged - Black Flag
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Harvest Moon- Neil Young
The Bends- Radiohead
Who's Next- The Who
I am keeping this in a rather self-defined "rock'n'roll vein" so I am not allowing myself to go into the country/folky area at all with this list. My first take, certainly omitting some of my own faves...(I think there's 25 here)
The Doors - Waiting For the Sun
Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
AC/DC - Back In Black
Mother Love Bone - Apple
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
The Dogs D'Amour - In the Dynamite Jet Saloon
Hanoi Rocks - Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes...
Def Leppard - High'n'Dry
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Led Zeppelin - II
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Hanoi Rocks - Self Destruction Blues
G'n'R - Appetite for Destruction
AC/DC - Powerage
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Album
Beatles - Revolver
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Hendrix - Live at Winterland
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Pearl Jam - Ten
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Nirvana - Nevermind
5. The Stooges - Fun House
4. Stones - Let it Bleed
3. Ramones - Rocket to Russia
2. The Saints - Stranded
1. The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy
Of course, ask me next week and this could change.
Well if it's just our faves, then, here comes a terrible list, as I am a pop music addict.
Survivor- Vital Signs
Def Leppard- Hysteria
The Outfield- Play Deep
Bruce Springsteen- All
Journey- Escape and Frontiers
REO Speedwagon- Hi Infidelity
Foo Fighters- All
George Michael- Faith
The Killers- Hot Fuss
Don Henley- Building the Perfect Beast and End of the Innocence
Weezer- Green Album
U2- All but Zooropa
Rick Springfield- All
Too many to mention here....
The Who - Who's Next
The Who - Quadrophenia
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Pink Floyd - Animals
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Doors - Strange Days
Rush - Rush
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Bruce Springsteen - Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Yes - Close to the Edge
Not exactly 'rock' in the radio rock/classic rock sense of the word but these will do.
Weezer - Pinkerton
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The National - Boxer
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
Nada Surf - Let Go
Thursday - Full Collapse
U2 - Joshua Tree
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Led Zeppelin- IV
The Stones- Some Girls & Steel wheels
Metallica- The Black Album
Neil Young- Unplugged
U2- Live under a blood red sky
The Police- Outlandous D'amour
G n' R- Use your Illlusion 1 & 2
Ronnie Wood- Slide on this
Ramones- Their toughest hits
Foo Fighters- Skin & bones
Rush- Live in Rio
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood, sugar, sex, magic
Nirvana- Unplugged
Peter Tosh- Legalize it and Captured Live
Eric Clapton- 24 Nights
Stone Temple Pilots- Core
Pearl Jam- Ten and Vs
Throw these in the Ipod and hit Shuffle. good tunes