Great rock albums

[grimberg]

Jens,

Here are my top selections, excluding some that have already been mentioned:

Aerosmith - Rocks
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
Bily Joel - The Stranger
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Damned - Phantasmagoria
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Eagles - Hotel California
Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Focus - Focus III
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Kansas - Leftoverture
Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti
Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Mike & The Mechanics - Mike & The Mechanics
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Omega - 200 Years After The Last War
Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark - Crush
Pearl Jam - Ten
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Prefab Sprout - Two Wheels Good
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Photos of Ghosts
Pretty Things - Silk Torpedo
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
Steve Winwood - Arc Of A Diver
Sting - ...Nothing Like The Sun
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Ten Years After - A Space In Time
UFO - Force It
Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

 

[SY]

Wow, no Beatles? No Cream? No Dead?

 

[faustian bargin]

nor rolling stones...

 

[Peter Daniel]

The Beatles - White Album
Rolling Stones - Black and Blue

 

[grimberg]

Wow, no Beatles? No Cream? No Dead?

I skipped the obvious ones or those that others had already mentioned. I also tried to stick to only one title from each artist or band, with the exception of Led Zeppelin that I find impossible to choose only one from the first six studio albuns.
For many of those artists and bands I would suggest additional titles. But first I wanted to flush out the other old-timers.

 

[wuffwaff]

in addition to all of the nice albums already mentioned (seem to have most of them) try:


Beasty Boys- Hello nasty. very good recording (on LP) and real fun to listen to. There´s a lot of things going on in the background and everytime I listen there´s some more. (bass is unbelievable!)

Neil Young- Mirror Ball (don´t listen when you feel depressive)


william

 

[grimberg]

For a lighter side of Neil Young try:

Harvest (1972)

Harvest Moon (1992)

 

[roddyama]

If you're takin' Rock&Roll, you have to include Peter Frampton, "Frampton Comes Alive" and The J.Geils Band, "Blow Your Face Out, Live".

 

[faustian bargin]

for a laugh - i'm not sure why i thought of these:

spinal tap

and

their contemporary brothers - tenacious D (who actually do rock).

/andrew - likes some tongue in his cheeks

 

[Bricolo]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

[Lisandro_P]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

What an incredible record - it should be mandatory for every single diy'er to own a copy!

I also listen a lot to Pink Floyd - so many favourites (The wall, Division Bell, Final Cut, WYWH...)

 

[Vivek]

If you're takin' Rock&Roll, you have to include Peter Frampton, "Frampton Comes Alive"

That's a great one Rodd.

Does anyone like Skid Row, GNR or Nirvana?

 

[Bricolo]

What an incredible record - it should be mandatory for every single diy'er to own a copy!

I also listen a lot to Pink Floyd - so many favourites (The wall, Division Bell, Final Cut, WYWH...)

why only diy'ers?

 

[Da5id4Vz]

Ishtar!

Perhaps the only time that R&B was done better than Zeppelin,

Sound track from, "Ishtar"

"Falling in love can be dangerous,
You can end up playing in a rock and roll band!"

 

[fedde]

This one is one of my favourites:

Lenny Kravitz - Mama said

Recorded using retro equipment, so it's also something for all the tube fans&freaks

Fedde

 

[DIY_Peter]

Let's not forget Warren Zevon. He made some great albums, but never got much credit for it.
To bad he's not going to be with us for long...

Same for richard thompson. Maybe not really "rock", but still great music.

 

[Da5id4Vz]

Boston

As open about their influences as they have been influential to a generation of other bands, cant for get to mention the first Boston album created by that notable DIY guy, Tom Scholz.
__________________

 

[Da5id4Vz]

Lone Rhinoceros

Adrian Belew's first solo effort, Lone Rhinoceros.
A great album both for its inclusion of the rhythmic "Big Electric Cat" as well as its artful intra track contexts.

Always a fun listen, Not sure if it was ever released on CD.

 

[DRC]

And don't forget ...

Hmmmm .... 38 posts and no mention of Don Van Vliet (alias captain beefheart and the magic band)

Disc / Highlight tracks
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Trout mask replica - Pachuco Cadaver / China pig
Shiny beast - The Floppy Boot Stomp / Owed T'Alex
Ice cream for crow - 81 poop hatch / The witch doctor life

Weird but wonderfull !!!

Dave

 

[Da5id4Vz]

6 degrees of Kevin Backon....

no mention of Don Van Vliet

I used to work with a guy who spent some time playing for the Captain. (whos managers brother knows Kevin Backon)