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The Greatest Rock Albums

radcen said:
We had such a good thread with the 100 greatest guitarists, this seems like a good discussion, too. :)

The Greatest Rock Albums

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I thought this list was totally messed up good albums but Genesis #1 WTF!
Sill me thinking they would start at #1 and not bothering to actually look at the numbers.

Now that that is out of the way the list is pretty good but its subjective, Heck depending on the day, what I just hear don the radio, alignment of the stars etc... My list changes
 
Bruce Springsteen Greetings From Asbury Park
The James Gang Rides Again
The Band, The Band
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks
Bad Company, Bad Company
 
Well, obviously I'm driven by personal biases and I'm going to stretch the definition of "rock" a little bit, but, from lighter to heavier/more metal-like:

Stones - Exile on Main Street (I might actually have put that as #1, not #3, if I made that list. Every track different but good lord were they ingenius at their peak)

Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Stones - Let it Bleed

(Beatles, I generally consider more prog-pop, if that even exists, than rock. But if they count, I suppose I'd go with Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's)

(I'd say Led Zepplin, but I have a hard time pointing to a single album as "best". I love a smattering of songs across the albums, but there's not just one album where everything is awesome for me, like Black Sabbath - Paranoid, or Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction).

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Alice in Chains - Facelift

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Tool - Aenema

(Each of those four are often considered "metal", but to me they sound somewhere between really heavy rock and metal. But then, I haven't listened to all that much metal so I don't know, for example, how close Sabbath is to Doom Metal or Black Metal, etc. One major difference is that unlike a huge amount of metal bands, you can actually hear and understand the lyrics, which are sung instead of growl-barked).

Mad Season - Live at the Moore (1995)

Nirvana - In Utero

Pearl Jam - Ten
 
Winchester said:
Greatest Rock Opera. :2razz:

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And one of the greatest albums of al time!!!!!
 
Mr Person said:
Well, obviously I'm driven by personal biases and I'm going to stretch the definition of "rock" a little bit, but, from lighter to heavier/more metal-like:

Stones - Exile on Main Street (I might actually have put that as #1, not #3, if I made that list. Every track different but good lord were they ingenius at their peak)
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Tumbling Dice is sooo good.
 
Lutherf said:
Sgt Pepper's was a great album
DSOTM was a great album
Led Zeppelin IV was a great album

This is the greatest

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I can't say any of them are "the greatest", but that was awesome. One of the "not one crappy song" bunch. That's about as far as I go with this stuff. Too many favorites.
 
Redress said:
See, that is a good example of a great album, but not one I might think of as greatest. If I was making a list like this based simply on my preferences, it would make the top 100, but trying to be as objective as possible, I don't think it makes the cut quite.
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Perhaps influence alone would suffice.

But ill reluctantly agree.

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Totally underrated (never rated) album

 
Ten ones I think are really good-some are on that list some are not

1) Led Zep One
2) Aqualung-Tull
3) London Calling-Clash
4) Blind Faith-Clapton/Winwood
5) Tommy-Who
6) Eat a Peach-ABB
7) Live Dead-Grateful Dead
8) John Barleycorn Must Die-Traffic
9) Nantucket Sleigh Ride-Mountain
10) Blows Against the Empire Jefferson Starship-in reality Kantner, Garcia, Crosby
 
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Rolling stones magazine ranked this the greatest record of the 1980s and I agree. Ahead of such gems as Purple Rain, Thriller, Remain in Light (Talking Heads) and Richard & Linda THompson's last record together (IIRC)
 
Mr Person said:
Well, obviously I'm driven by personal biases and I'm going to stretch the definition of "rock" a little bit, but, from lighter to heavier/more metal-like:

Stones - Exile on Main Street (I might actually have put that as #1, not #3, if I made that list. Every track different but good lord were they ingenius at their peak)

Stones - Beggar's Banquet

Stones - Let it Bleed

(Beatles, I generally consider more prog-pop, if that even exists, than rock. But if they count, I suppose I'd go with Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's)

(I'd say Led Zepplin, but I have a hard time pointing to a single album as "best". I love a smattering of songs across the albums, but there's not just one album where everything is awesome for me, like Black Sabbath - Paranoid, or Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction).

Guns n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Alice in Chains - Facelift

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Tool - Aenema

(Each of those four are often considered "metal", but to me they sound somewhere between really heavy rock and metal. But then, I haven't listened to all that much metal so I don't know, for example, how close Sabbath is to Doom Metal or Black Metal, etc. One major difference is that unlike a huge amount of metal bands, you can actually hear and understand the lyrics, which are sung instead of growl-barked).

Mad Season - Live at the Moore (1995)

Nirvana - In Utero

Pearl Jam - Ten
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Exile on Main street might be my favorite stones album. All down the line being my favorite track. The stones are like LZ to me-there is stuff I like on every album but other than LZ I, there is stuff that I am sort of neutral about on all their records too. The reason I put LZ I so high is it was the start of probably the single best rock band ever and the variation on that record was tremendous. LZ (or the New Yardbirds) opened for Iron Butterfly and after hearing Page et al do Dazed and Confused, IB lead guitarist Eric Brann asked Page to keep playing and take what IB had been paid as the headliner, EB-who had been a child prodigy as a violinist, noted in one of the papers of the day, that "these guys were going to be the best ever". He was right IMHO
 
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