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...
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
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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
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
Harvest Moon- Neil Young
The Bends- Radiohead
Who's Next- The Who
When I see the 2016 Reds, I see a 100 loss team and no direction.
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
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
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.
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Exactly!
Being now an old foggy, I am of course a die hard fan of those traditional super groups of the 60's/70s. It seems I always have a Beatles, Who, Zeppelin, or Pink Floyd CD in my car. Those use to 8-tracks by the way.
Right now I'm listening to....
Meet The Beatles (still sounds as fresh today as it did 40+ years ago)
Who Live At Leeds (wore the grooves off this album back in it's day)
David Gilmour - About Face
Allman Brothers Live at Filmore East (ahhh - Memory Of Elizabeth Reed)
I always get depressed when I read threads like this because it shows my age.
I don't recognize a lot of the stuff you younger people are listing.
OH MY GAWD! I'M MY DAD!
Now I know this is about personal favorites, but I noticed that there are some very popular albums, from back in the "heyday", that haven't been listed. Where is there any?....
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Deep Purple
Aerosmith
Boston
Kansas
No Jethro Tull. No Supertramp Crime of the Century or Breakfast In America? No Cars or Cheap Trick either.
And I can't believe this one hasn't been listed.
I guess it shows that some bands (albums) endure the test of time, and reach across better to future generations, when others don't.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
I still have an original "Frampton Comes Alive" record (vinyl for the younger folks) which I never opened. I don't really know why I never opened and played it.....
I changed over to classical many years ago; but have to have classic rock on my MP3 when I run. My favorite five:
1. Abbey Road by the Beatles. This was not my "breakout" Beatles album (that was the Hey Jude album).....But I felt it raised rock and roll up to a different level at the time.
2. The Wall by Pink Floyd. I used this to indoctrinate my oldest daughter. She's 31 now and her tastes are much different, except for the music on that album. I never get too old for this.....She never forgets how we listened to this when she was about five.
3. Tommy by the Who.
4. Greatest Hits by the Moody Blues. The original two record/tape/cassette/CD version. The Air Force sent me to Oklahoma in 1973 (I've been here ever since); and for many years that was my traveling music coming back to Cincinnati to see my family.
5. The White Album by the Beatles.
There can't be a complete list for me, however, without mentioning two other albums. Led Zepplin with "Stairway to Heaven" and perhaps the greatest true rock song ever written, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly. Just the mentioned songs are enough to put these albums in my top ten.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Bob
Woody GUthrie - Dust bowl ballads
Woody Guthrie - Songs to grow on for mother and child
Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
The Congos - the Heart of the Congos
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Brain Eno - Music for Airports
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vols. I and II
The Who - Who's next, Live at Leeds
Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn, Wish you were here
Boston
Dinosaur - Bug
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Big Black - Atomizer
B'Hole Surfers - Psychic, Powerless...
Van Halen
New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box /Second Edition
The Fall - Grotesque, Hex Enduction Hour
Sonic Youth - EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Brighten the Corners
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Stooges - Raw Power
Jonathan Richman - Rockin and Romance
The Modern Lovers
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
The Clash
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Velvet Underground & Nico
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies
Metallica - Master of Puppets, ..and justice for all
Slayer - Reign in blood
Nirvana - Nirvana
Talking Heads - The name of this band is talking heads
Killing Joke
The Jam - Setting Sons, Sound Affects
I think Townsend is one under-rated guitar player.
I tried to give this album another "listen to" a couple months ago. I understand that is considered to be a prime example of British psychedelic music and avant-garde free-form, with most of the album's tracks predominantly written by Syd Barrett; but I never got into the Barrett hype. I fully understand that Syd had a lot of problems, so there is that sympathy factor; but his overuse of LSD didn't help matters.Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn
I guess it's a situation of different strokes for different folks when it comes to the Piper album. I did like "See Emily Play" though.
By the way... did anyone watch VH1 Classics yesterday? They had an all day marathon on Pink Floyd. Had some really good stuff.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
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