Greatest Rock Album?

[JohnBudd]

Looking thru my stacks of LP's, and trying to decide which is the best. I guess is a matter of taste but I have my preferences. Here is a short list ....

1. Rush 2112
2. Beatles White Album
3. Allman Bros Eat a Peach
4. Jethro Tull Auqalung
5. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
6. Grateful Dead Steal your Face
7. Frank Zappa All of them!

And lets go for the worst.....when I hear this song my stomach turns......
Crystal Gale.......don't it make my brown eyes...(gag) blue

Rock n Roll is not music......its a lifestyle....party on Garth!

 

[Guest]

agree...beatles white, also think metalicas black album was awesome. pink floyd the wall. rollin stones, the one with the big red lips on the cover. kiss alive what a show

CBF

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

MC5 'Kick out the Jam's!'........or The Stooges 'Raw Power'....

 

[mtnjohn]

little feat "waiting for columbus" gets my vote for best live album
so many to list

van morrison " into the mystic"
fishbone "truth and soul"



yea , i start thinkin bout this and it gores on and on

 

[Guest]

JB

MC5 'Kick out the Jam's!'........or The Stooges 'Raw Power'....

Gypsy you suprize me / I still have this Album=very early heavy metal; Kick out the jams Mother Fuc#%*#

I still have over 500 albums

Some of mine; no order

The Who - Who's Next
Zep. - #1 & #4
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon
Stones - Exile on Main Street
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper
Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
The Allman Brothers - At the Fillmore East
AC/DC - Back in Black (not the biggest fan - but this album rocks)




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Worst Albums I own;

Yoko Ono what the hell was this about?
Melanie – (pair of roller skates)

 

[I Used To Grow]

I have to agree on Metallica's "Black Album"...great stuff from them in their prime.

You have songs like "Nothing Else Matters" and "Enter Sandman".

Metallica owned on that album.

 

[HappyHemphog]

I'm going with Led Zeppelin II. Every song on that album gets radio play to this day and I defy anyone to say one of the tracks sucks.

Cheers!
Hempy

 

[Gamera]

tHE wHO "Live at Leeds"!
Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" and "Are You Experienced"
Hole "Live Through This"
Judas Priest "Screaming for Vengeance"
The Melvins "Stoner Witch"
Rollins Band "The End of Silence"
Pantera "Vulgar Display of Power"
Cypress Hill "Flesh and Bones"
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath"
THe Beatles "Abbey Road" and "Sgt. Pepper"
The Stones "Let It Bleed" and "Beggar's BAnquet"
Nirvana "Nevermind"
FEVER TREE
Bowie "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust" "Space Oddity" "Aladdin Sane" "Diamond Dogs"
Green Day "Dookie"
Lou Reed "Transformer
New York Dolls "New York Dolls" and "Too Much Too Soon"
Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine"
ALL PIXIES!
QUEEN "A night at the Opera" "A day at the Races" "News of the World"
Fugazi "13 Songs"
THe Clash "Combat Rock"
Wishbone Ash "Argus"
Alice Cooper "Killer"
Steppenwolf "Steppenwolf"
There's more.....

 

[Guest]

I dig Rush Chronicles.
I play it from begining to end and it's so killer to hear the differences in the band from alblum to alblum.
I think Hempy nailed it with Led though.

 

[Rellikbuzz]

Some very fine entries so far. I have noticed the "classic" rock slant so let me be the first to bring things up to date a decade or two. Of course. I have to start with the obligatory Black Sabbath from the 70's (my prerogative ).

1. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
2. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers (probably but so many other great ones too)
3. Queensryche - Operation Mind Crime
4. Valen Halen - Van Halen (the first one)
5. Journey - Trial By Fire (their finest and most underrated album)
6. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (the best by far!)
7. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (my 2nd favorite Sabbath album)
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (an obvious choice, sorry)
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz

and my favorite album from my favorite band of all time . . .

10. Fates Warning - Pleasant Shade of Grey (an all time classic with the greatest drummer in Rock)
That's my anyway!

 

[Gamera]

Good ones! I saw Judas Priest and Queensryche last year. Killer show.

 

[Rellikbuzz]

Good ones! I saw Judas Priest and Queensryche last year. Killer show.

Yes, killer show, indeed! I would've put a Judas Priest album up there but, as much as I loved Priest, I really liked Halford's band Fight even more! So, as a bonus album, I would put Fight's "War of Words" up there as well!

 

[Gamera]

I'll have to check out Fight. Oh yeah, "Wish You Were Here" and "Machine Head".

 

[Guest]

Gamera - Wishbone Ash = an early fav of mine as well

A few more

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - DÈj‡ Vu
Iron butterfly - Inagodadiva
Door’s – Morison hotel
Cream - Fresh Cream
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Santana - Abraxas
Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Boston – Boston
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Peter Framptom – Comes Alive
10 Years After - Live

 

[tricky]

hey
AC/DC
IF YOU WANT BLOOD YOU GOT IT

BACK IN BLACK

ALSO GOOD BUT BON SCOTT ROCKS

 

[sparobis]

jimi hendrix live at......
monteray
isle of white
band of gypsys
live at woodstock
and not necessarily in this order
peace
sparo

 

[guineapig]

sonic youth "daydream nation"
jane's addiction "XXX"
beatles "white"
pixies "death to the pixies"
johnny cash "folsom prison blues"
sex pistols "never mind the bollocks"
nine inch nails "pretty hate machine" (although "fixed" rocks harder)
violent femmes "violent femmes"
velvet underground "loaded" (although the box set should be included)
lou reed "transformer"
david bowie "the rise and fall of ziggy stardust"
pink floyd "dark side of the moon" (although should mention "the wall")
can "tago mago"
talking heads "remain in light"

gpz

 

[AbbieDoobie]

Here's my picks:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon - my favorite band. (well, duh!)
Led Zep 2 - a totally rockin' feel-good album
Jimi Hendrix - any album
Queen - A Night At The Opera & News Of The World - two classics!
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - prog masterpiece
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King - and another
Yes - Close to the Edge - and one more
Peter Gabriel - Security - awesome album
Porcupine Tree - Coma Divine - an awesome live prog album
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - a masterpiece, but in small doses, please
Iggy Pop - The Idiot - a slow-groovin' masterpiece
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Leh-'Nerd 'Skin-'Nerd - has the wonderful Tuesday's Gone, Gimme Three Steps, & Free Bird!
Seal - Seal II - probably my favorite 'pop' album
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - greatest jazz album
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - also the greatest
Chet Baker - Chet - some fine cool jazz here
George Carlin - Class Clown - classic!

 

[vta]

Pink Floyd...The Wall
Led Zep......The Box set rocks
AC/DC........Back In Black
Metallica.....And Justice for All...their peak, down hill from there.
Ozzy..........Diary of a Madman
Steely Dan..Any album
Onigo Boingo...Only a Lad...lol, Danny Elfman rocks!

The last couple of years I've really enjoyed System of a Down

 

[Rattrap]

Don't forget these!
Meatloaf.....Bat out of hell
George Throughgood..... any of his!
The Angels
midnight oil.
Easybeats