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    Favorite Rock Albums

    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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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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'

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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
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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    Harvest Moon- Neil Young
    The Bends- Radiohead
    Who's Next- The Who
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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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
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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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.
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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    Quote Originally Posted by wheels View Post
    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.
    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.
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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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.

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    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

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    Quote Originally Posted by Betterread View Post
    Brain Eno - Music for Airports
    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vols. I and II
    These might be the heaviest rock albums I have ever heard!
    Awesome choices in that list.

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    Re: Favorite Rock Albums

    Quote Originally Posted by Betterread View Post
    The Who - Who's next, Live at Leeds
    I think Townsend is one under-rated guitar player.

    Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn
    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.

    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.
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