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Name the Five Best Rock Albums Ever
Posted by acousticguitarist • 2/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: five best rock albums ever
Here's Mine
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Hendrix - Cry of Love
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Santana - Abraxas
Blind Faith- Blind Faith
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
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Hmmmmm.....
The Eagles - Hotel California
Pink Floyd - The Wall
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Those are good, AG. I listen to so little rock these days, that I'm getting rusty. Albums I played a lot include Hendrix, "Electric Ladyland" and the Beatles, "Abbey Road." I loved Cream, Blind Faith, and Derrick and the Dominoes. "Led Zeppelin III" is certainly a great choice. How about the Allman Brothers, "Live at Filmore East"?
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All right! Another Duane Allman fan!
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I like Electric Ladyland, I was tossing up and then when I thought about Belly Button Window and In from the Storm, Cry of Love won hands down.
But my fave Hendrix tune is Pali Gap
Filmore East great
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Led Zeppelin IV
Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon
Elton John: Honky Chateau
James Gang: Rides Again
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
I could add about 100 more bands and albums but you said only 5. I think all rock from the 50s to the 2000s are the best. Awah Hell!!!!! all rock is awesome.-
Hey Donald! Good to see you here
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James Gang, fantastic. Joe Walsh
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Queen II - Queen
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith
Tomorrow Belongs To Me - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Up To Here - The Tragically Hip -
In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
White Album - The Beatles
The Doors - The Doors
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N Roses
(I also agree with many already mentioned)-
I'm with you on the first three.
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3 out of 5 ain't bad ;-)
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The Who - Tommy
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
King Crimson - Red-
i love hot rats
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I really love Grand Wazoo, but I think it's more jazz/fusion than rock. I guess King Crimson is more prog than true rock, but I couldn't resist.
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i like Adrian Belew, Frippie is a bit too much of an intellectual head for me.
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Yes, that makes sense. The thing about King Crimson I admire most is actually their rhythm section(s). Pretty inventive.
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X & Y - Coldplay
it fits in every genre
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Black - Metallica (Yes, it's a rock album)
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Hotel California - The Eagles
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Who's Next - The Who-
Great list!!
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Thanks, i like listening to those albums for years.
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Yes, it is a rock album.
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I'd go for
Electric ladyland-Hendrix
Dark side of the moon-Floyd
Nevermind-Nirvana
Never mind the bollocks-Sex pistols
London calling- The Clash -
AC DC - High Voltage
Aerosmith - Get your Wings
Queen - News of the World
Tool - Opiate
Green Day- Boulevard of Broken Dreams -
No love for the Stones?
"Exile on Main St." - Rolling Stones (My personal fave, but there are many I could put in there.)
"High voltage" - ACDC (cheers to rlrw2!)
"Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie
"Nirvana - "Nevermind"
Pretty much any Beatles album.
Honourable mentions:
"Appetite for destruction" - Guns'n'Roses
"Never mind the Bollocks" - Sex Pistols
"London Calling" - The Clash
Early Alice Cooper, Led Zep, the Who, the Kinks, Pink Floyd, the Doors... I could go on and on. All these bands and artists have been and still are hugely influential.
Man, I do LOVE rock'n'roll...!-
Which Doors album?
LA Woman?
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Derek and the Dominos - Eric Clapton, et al
Live Fillmore East - The Allman Brothers
Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin
Blows Against the Empire - Jefferson Starship
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix-
nice collection
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Thanks, I could go on and on. My vinyl collection totals over 1700 covering many genres.
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Do you have Jimmie Spheeris?
Buskin and Batteau?
DNed Doheny? -
Jimmie Spheeris - yes
Buskin & Batteau - no, but have listened, like it
DNed Doheny - no, unfamiliar - can you recommend something to listen to?
Most of my collection (vinyl) starts in the late 50's and runs through the early 80's. -
Hard Candy - Ned Doheny
Probably one of the best 10 acoustic albums of its time.
The other album I really liked from that time was Abandoned Luncheonette by Hall and Oates before their music went a bit funny
Do you have Ports of the Heart - Jimmie Spheeris? that is one of the other top 10 -
Isle of View
Ports of the Heart
An Evening with...
I also figure you for a Kottke fan - "My Feet are Smiling", this album taught me a lot about open tunings. -
Kottke, great player, lousy singer, the best joke teller
What really gets me about him is he plays out of time, it's so annoying, such a great player
What about Robbie Basho? -
Yeah, I believe I have only one, Zarthus (1972)
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Never heard of that Basho album.
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I pulled the album, it was released in '74. Awesome guitarist.
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I had one called Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar
The one you have, has a picture of the great sage Meher Baba on the front, born to a Zoroastran family.
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Meher Baba was also Pete Townshend's guru--the final chorus of Tommy ("listening to you..." is directed toward him, and Baba O'Reilly also comes "partly" from him (the "Baba" part...though I've never been too clear about what he has to do with the song)....
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The Beatles, Abbey Road
Pink Floyd, The Final Cut
Black Sabbath, Sabotage
Slayer, Reign in Blood
Suicidal Tendencies, How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
You can see my musical taste took a drastic turn at some point. That would be 1983 when I discovered Slayer.
My tatse took another drastic turn about 5, 6 years ago... I love Bluegrass!-
bluegrass... i love it.
Tony Rice, Steve Kaufmann, Norman Blake
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That is way too difficult. I lean toward Pink Floyd - anything, and "London Calling" and Never mind the Bollocks.....
The only thing I don't care for as a rule is "Southern Rock".-
I'm hearing lots of Les Pauls screaming
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No Skynyrd???
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Beatles - Rubber Soul
Simon & Garfunkel - their first one
Boz Scaggs - Moments
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Dylan - Highway 66 Revisted
That's just off the top of my pointy little head-
Bozz Scaggs Moments - wow, what a beautiful album
We were always sweethearts -
And everything stops when I hear Boz's version of "Somebody Loan Me a Dime"
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Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
Nantucket Sleighride - Mountain
Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
Vital Idol - Billy Idol
Cricklewood Green - Ten Years After
Labour of Love - UB40
Just to add a few-
Nantucket Sleighride - Unbelievably good
I was going to include Beck, Bogart and Appice or Rough and Ready
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Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde
The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Clash-Sandinista
Patti Smith-Horses
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation-
Honorable mentions:
Neil Young & Crazy Horse-Rust Never Sleeps
Rolling Stones-Get Yer Ya-Yas Out
The Who-Tommy
Sleater Kinney-The Woods
The Grateful Dead-Live/Dead
Jefferson Airplane-After Bathing at Baxter's -
Have you heard Tom Obrien do Enor, it's on his Red on Blonde album?
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I haven't heard of Tom O'Brian or Enor...
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Oh... you better get a listen to Senor
Also, check out his vocals on Whiter Shade of Pale on the Psychograss Album -
Is that Dylan's Senor he does?
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Yep
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I was going to include Beck, Bogart and Appice or Rough and Ready
Carmine (Vanilla Fudge) and Vinnie (Cactus) we're friends of mine, I should have thought of them
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That was a lovely album with Black Cat Moan. Some of Becks best work... oh hang on... everything is his best
Great rhythm section, if you ever see them, let them know their music was loved by some some Australians
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Tony I just hate metal, Its just noise to me.
I love Eagles,Bonjovi (on this line)-
It's a valid musical art form
But they are your ears not mine
i prefer acoustic guitar and my ears are very sensitive to loud noise -
eg Metallica, their song are just like the sound from a iron factory (even worse) LOL,
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I think that's an unfair appraisal of their music
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Lots of wussies who don't like metal on here.
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whatever, dude....
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How about The Band - The Band (their second album)
Grateful Dead - Working Man's Dead
Credence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country-
i really like creedence
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Love CCR!!
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Blessed Is The Black - Coven
Kill'em All - Metallica
Appetite For Destruction - G'N'R
America Must Be Destroyed - GWAR
L.D. 50 - Mudvayne -
1 & 2) Led Zeppelin - I and II (Led Zeppelin albums are actually interchangeable according to my mood)
3) Rush - Exit Stage Left
4) The Beatles White Album
5) Symphony X - Odyssey
Runners Up
6) Iron Maiden - The Trooper
7) Turisas - The Varangian Way-
i really like the Zeppelin 2 album
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Led Zeppelin, Rush and Symphony X. Great!
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I Want You "Shes So Heavy" really converted me... Before that I didn't like them much either. That song is stellar.
Actually now that I think about it, It wasnt the white album... it was Abbey Road.
My bad.
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ELP was a great album, but boring when they played live.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zeQPaqJnnQ&feature=related
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