top rock albums

[Andrew Pratt]

Doug and I were chatting on ICQ and we got into what we consider must haves in any rock CD collection...so before I add mine what do you consider must haves?

[Lex]

Yeah, that should be interesting! Got me to reminiscing about old LPs I have, my old sound system which I still have. I want to hear before I say too,

Lex




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[Huskerduck]

I guess It depends on what you classify as Rock.....but here would be my choices starting with older stuff moving on.
Beatles White and Sgt Peppers
Jimi Hendrix - Experianced
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Black Sabbath - Self titled and Paranoid
Led Zeppelin 4
AC/DC - any with Bon Scott
Van Halen I & II
Molly Hatchet _- Flirtin with Disaster
Pink Floyd ( not really rock but......) Dark Side of Moon, Animals and the Wall
Metallica - everything up too Black self titled but their S&M ( Metallica and the San Fran Orchestra with Micheal Kamen) DVD is a must own for any Metallic fan.
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Ronnie James Dio - any
Megadeth - all but last 2
White Zombie - take your pick
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

any others I would have to think for a couple minutes and with it hitting 90 the last 4 days this Oregonians wimping out




Mark


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[KennyG]

This list could be huge...here goes:

Queen: 1st/ II/ Night at the opera
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon/ Wish you were here
Hendrix: Kiss the Sky
Beatles: Revolver/ White Album
Johnny Winter: Still alive & well
Ted Nugent: Tooth, Fang & Claw/ Ted Nugent
Black Sabbath: From Paraniod to Sabotage
Areosmith: 1st to Rocks...add Pump
AC/DC: High Voltage/ Back in Black
Steely Dan: Any
Santana: first/ Abraxas
Steppenwolf: Seconds/ At your birthday party
Foghat: Rock&Roll/ Energized/ Fool for the city
Led Zepplin: any and all
Mountain: Nantucket sleighride/ Climbing
Oingo Bingo: Nothing to Fear
Mott the Hopple: All the young dudes
Steve Miller: the Joker
Montrose: 1st
Jethro Tull: Aqualung/ Minstrel in the Gallery/ Warchild
the James Gang: Bang
Golden Earring: Moontan
Deep Purple: In Rock/ Fireball/ Machine Head/ Burn
Iron Butterfly: with Pinera& Rhino
Nazarth: 1st/ Razamanaz
Marillion: Misplaced childhood
Genesis: Trick of the Tail/ Lamb lies down on broadway
Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Tomorrow belongs to me
ELO: Face the Music/ Eldorado
Little Feat: Dixie chicken/ Time loves a hero
the Band: Stage fright
Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny&Mutation/Secret Treaties/Agents of Fortune
Chicago Transit Authority
Van Halen: 1st/ Mean Streets
Alice Cooper: School's out/ Killer
Wishbone Ash: Argus
Uriah Heep: Magician's birthday/ Demons& Wizards
Joe Walsh: the smoker you drink, the player you get
Jeff Beck: Beck-O-la/ Guitar shop (not to old)
Hughes/Thrall band
Yardbirds: Roger the Engineer
Styx: Equinox
Red Hot Chile Peppers: uplift mofo party principle
the Stones: Goatshead soup/ Exile on main street
Trapeze: Medusa/ You are the music...we're just the band
Rush: 1st/ 2112
Ten Years After: A space in time/ Watt
Robin Trower: Bridge of signs
Procol Harem: A salty dog
Rod Stewart: Every Picture tells a story
Pretenders: 1st
Scorpions: Lovedrive
Journey: 1st/ Look into the Future (before Perry)
Manfred Mann's Earth band: Solar fire
Elton John: Madman across the water
Dire Straits: 1st/ Love over Gold
Zappa: Overnight Sensation/ One size fits all/ Apostropphe/ Zoot Allures
ZZ top: Rio Grande Mud/ Tres Hombres
the Police: Reggatta De Blanc
Metallica: and Justice for all
Tangerine Dream: Stratosphere/ Thief ST
Joe Cocker: Sheffield Steel
...........I quit

[Wireless]

Yeah, what they said.....



Joni Mitchell - Blue
Van Morrison - Moondance, Tupelo Honey
Anything by Little Feat
Allman Bros - Live at the Filmore




John
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[Crimson]

Yup, what Kenny said!




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[Andrew Pratt]

great list KennyG!

[SiliGoose]

blech!




-Sili

[KennyG]

Almost forgot the James Gang's best album..."Rides again".
Goose, who is "Blech", and what type music do they play...I'm always up for something new. The list I made earlier, I rarely listen to any of it...I have them all (and many more) but I tend to listen to newer stuff.

[JohanK]

For me, they would be:

Some fromt he 70s:

Led Zeppelin - 4
Boston - 1
Van Halen - 1
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
AC/DC - High Voltage

Some from the 80s:

Iron Maiden - 1, # Beast, Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest - Bristish Steel, Defenders, Screaming
Metallica - Kill 'Em All/Ride the Lightning/MOP
Megadeth - Peace Sells/Rust in Peace
Motley Crue - Too Fast/Shout
Def Leppard - Pyromania
AC/DC - Back in Black
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Some from the 90s:

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell/Vulgar Display
Prong - Cleansing
Nirvana - Nevermind
KMFDM - NIHIL
White Zombie - Devil Music/AstroCreep
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of American Family
Suicidal Tendencies - Art of Rebellion
Tool - UnderTow
Korn - 1
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
STP - Core

New Millenium:

Papa Roach - Infest
Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Slipknot - 1
Godsmack - 1, Awake

[Nate-Dogg]

TOOL -Lateralus
STAIND -Break The Cycle
FUEL -Something like human
INCUBUS -Make Yourself
TRAIN -Drops of jupiter
A Perfect Circle (Maynard James Keenan & Friends)

This is the new stuff I like.

Old Stuff is Most of the previously mentioned not that I own em all but they sound good.

[SiliGoose]

I said "blech" because the lists contain a lot of so-so stuff. How about naming the albums that really mattered? The ones that really opened new doors, that added to the evolution of rock? There are albums that changed the way we thought of rock. I contend that only those albums need be in everyone's collection.

It's certainly subjective but you can't tell me anything by Papa Roach, Judas Priest, Fuel, Little Feat, Styx, Foghat, etc, etc fall into the category I describe above. They might be personal favorites but nothing any of these bands did really made any meaningful impact.

I'd like to see new lists with the really big life-changing albums.




-Sili

[Andrew Pratt]

Silli I'd tend to agree with you for the most part. One could argue though that more recent bands like Nirvana did change rock...its debateable if it was for the better or not thought

[JohanK]

I'd like to see new lists with the really big life-changing albums.

Why not give us yours instead of just criticizing ours?

My 'evolutionary' list would include:

Nirvana - Nevermind (it's a grunge thing)
Van Halen - Van Halen (80s rock in the 70s)
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (ended 80s rock...great album)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (popularized the heavier stuff)
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine (popularized an industrial element in rock)

I'm not happy with the list but at least I gave it a shot.

[Wireless]

Well the thread was about must haves in a rock cd collection and I contend that although Little Feat did not have a major impact, they certainly make me boogie in the kitchen.




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[Lex]

John (wireless), I Believe it was "Live at Filmore East". I could be wrong. But since I played most of that LP in my band, I sort of doubt it. I would like to add to that "Eat a Peach".

Also, don't think anyone mentioned Led Zepelin Houses of the Holies. Did they? That's simply a must have right there with Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.

Really in terms of legendary status, my 5 LPs of choice would be:
Led Zep HH
Pink Floyd DSM
Beatles White, Seargent Peppers
Eric Clapton Layla

If I added a 6th, Filmore East. Of course, we could add some Creedence Clearwater Revival, a little Doors, and of course some Erice himself, like Cocaine!

Of course, this is all relative too, to the age of the person, or how deep into the past the young guys really dug down in the bottom of the rock pile. NPI. Having grown up while these albums were introduced, I believe them to be classics.




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[Wireless]

Doug - For accuracy's sake, just looked up the LP.
"The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East"

I would agree with your assesment as to the realtionship to the listener's age. Also add Beatle's Rubber Soul and Beach Boys Pet Sounds. Paul Simon's Graceland.




John
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[Lex]

Cool John, thanks, well, I was close anyway

Lex

[George Bellefontaine]

Most of the titles listed in this thread pretty much make up the collections of my 3 sons who are now in their thirties and forties. As for me, all the Santana and Dire Straits albums with a little Deep Purple thrown in.




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[KennyG]

Actually, this thread was started as your "must haves" not the LPs that changed music.
So for this thread I'll leave it as I wrote it.