Top 10 Rock Albums Alltime

[midnight Target]

I think Nuke is sorta right. It isn't about age so much as the time in your life when music started meaning something to you. But near enough.

I had the pleasure of a college roommate who was the best guitar player in the dorm... (it was a very big school). People would congregate at our room for jam sessions and to play new music or whatever. Left to my own devices I probably would have never heard one tenth the music I was exposed to in those days. It was wonderful.

And as a side benefit the chicks were plentiful.

[Schism]

These albums are missing from your top ten.

Undertow
Aenima
Salival
Lateralus
10,000 Days

And for those who don’t know, the artist is: TOOL

[Mustaine]

in no particular order:

Ten
Siamese Dream
Seasons in the Abyss
Physical Graffiti
Weezer
Rust in Peace
Resolver
Gish
Vs.
Led Zeppelin I



sort of rock:

Whatever and Ever Amen
No Need to Agrue
Kick
The Sky is Crying

[SirLoin]

Hmm..Semi Chronological

50's to 70's

1:Chuck Berry-The Great Twenty Eight
2:Buddy Holly-Golden Greats
3:Eric Clapton-Bluesbreakers(Beano Album)
4:Jimi Hendrix-Are You Experienced
5:The Who-Live At Leeds(Deluxe Edition)/Rolling Stones-Get Yer Ya Ya's Out(tie)
6:Allman Brothers:Live At Fillmore East
7:Marvin Gaye-What's Goin' On
8:The Clash:The Clash(1st Record)
9:The Sex Pistols:Never Mind The Bollocks
10:Rush:A Farewell To Kings

80's to present

1:SRV-Texas Flood
2:The Clash-London Calling
3:Neil Young-Ragged Glory
4:Rush-Counterparts
5:Tool-Aenima
6:Pearl Jam-Verses
7:Mogwai-Rock Action
8:The Black Crowes-Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
9:Green Day-Dookie
10:SRV-Coudn't Stand The Weather

[Mini D]

These threads always seem to turn into a kluge of a band's uniqueness when the album is released, obscurity, popularity and so forth. It's more remember what your favorite was than what your favorites are. Memories can be so deceiving.

I'd expect to see "Under a Blood Red Sky" or "October" on the list before "Joshua Tree" because those two are supposed to be on the list. Under a Blood Red Sky had an excellent tin-ness to it and was just raw. October was U2's breakout album. But, if I look at what music I like best from U2, Joshua Tree definately captures it. I could still listen to that album front to back and not think "they were great back then". It's still good.

Rush is another one that you get the odd distribution for. I'll see people go right to the 2112 card (I guess because it's easy to remember) or go for the more obscure Hemispheres or Farewell to Kings stuff. Even the occassional "Rush - Rush" refference. I personally think their early live stuff blew all of that away. All the World's a Stage and Exit Stage Left were my absolute favorite albums from them. They always seemed so anticeptic on their studio albums.

I do get a chuckle reading through this stuff and do wonder how much is posted out of prefference and how much is posted for show.

[Waffle]

No one likes The Cult - Electric?

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by Mini D
These threads always seem to turn into a kluge of a band's uniqueness when the album is released, obscurity, popularity and so forth. It's more remember what your favorite was than what your favorites are. Memories can be so deceiving.

I'd expect to see "Under a Blood Red Sky" or "October" on the list before "Joshua Tree" because those two are supposed to be on the list. Under a Blood Red Sky had an excellent tin-ness to it and was just raw. October was U2's breakout album. But, if I look at what music I like best from U2, Joshua Tree definately captures it. I could still listen to that album front to back and not think "they were great back then". It's still good.

Rush is another one that you get the odd distribution for. I'll see people go right to the 2112 card (I guess because it's easy to remember) or go for the more obscure Hemispheres or Farewell to Kings stuff. Even the occassional "Rush - Rush" refference. I personally think their early live stuff blew all of that away. All the World's a Stage and Exit Stage Left were my absolute favorite albums from them. They always seemed so anticeptic on their studio albums.

I do get a chuckle reading through this stuff and do wonder how much is posted out of prefference and how much is posted for show.

for me i actually spent about 1/2 hour on the albums i listed.

i did the whole thing where i even looked up the album on amazon and read the tracks in case i forgot something.

each of the albums has a Maximum of 1 so-so song, otherwise the entire album had to be something i like. examples would be on siamese dream i have never liked "quiet" but the rest of the album is genius. seasons, i dont like skeletons of society. on Vs. i dont like w.m.a.

i dont know about the rest but i definately took the time and put thought into my list.

just realised i have to add Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly to my list too.

[FiLtH]

In no particular order..

  Pink Floyd - The Wall
  Led Zepplin- (cant remember name..one with old guy carrying sticks)
  Aerosmith- Dream On album
  Lynyrd Skynyrd- Pronounced
  Metallica- Justice
  Anthrax- Among the Living
  Slayer- South of Heaven
  Sepultura- Beneath the Remains
  ACDC - Back in Black
  Deep Purple - Machinehead

   Ya some arent "rock" but its what I like.

[Nifty]

Originally posted by FiLtH

  Led Zepplin- (cant remember name..one with old guy carrying sticks)

That's because technically, it has no name.  The symbols are the name, but most refer to it as Led Zeppelin IV.    Fantastic album.  I find it hard to rank the Zep albums, as I really love them all.

[Sombra]

These 2 albums have been important in history of music and haven't been mentioned here:

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Soft Machine - Third

[Guppy35]

Kinda tough to really nail it down cause it changes over time in my opinion anyway.  What I thought was great when I was in High School back in the 70s isn't the same as what I'd say now.  

Having kids changed it too.  Getting my son to play guitar also involved feeding him things like the old Blues players like along with SRV, Jeff Beck, Clapton and the like.

That's the beauty of it.

Of course I can connect certain sounds to different times.  I'll hear a song and it will remind me of a certain event going back as far as my little kid days.

I had no time for AC/DC first time around, but my son really loved them and I grew to appreciate their stuff.  In the 70s we got absolutely saturated with Led Zeppelin to the point I couldn't stand them.  Again my son really loving their stuff made me take another listen.

Maybe the tougher question is what album would you pick if you were stuck with  only one for the rest of your days to listen to, not that I could decide that one at the moment.

Marvin Gaye's "What's going on." is the one in the CD player in the car at the moment so I guess that's up there right now.

[SirLoin]

Originally posted by Mini D
I'd expect to see "Under a Blood Red Sky" or "October" on the list before "Joshua Tree" because those two are supposed to be on the list. Under a Blood Red Sky had an excellent tin-ness to it and was just raw. October was U2's breakout album.Rush is another one that you get the odd distribution for.

I'll see people go right to the 2112 card (I guess because it's easy to remember) or go for the more obscure Hemispheres or Farewell to Kings stuff. Even the occassional "Rush - Rush" refference. I personally think their early live stuff blew all of that away. All the World's a Stage and Exit Stage Left were my absolute favorite albums from them.

I do get a chuckle reading through this stuff and do wonder how much is posted out of prefference and how much is posted for show.

I'll take it you are a U2 fan..If you were you would of mentioned U2's "War" LP...It was sorta an Eighties "Who's Next"

The "2112 Card" was Rush's breakthrough LP..Their record label was about to drop them..So they did this recording "their way"...Nothing to lose..Instant classic..

Early live Rush is not "Exit Stage Left"..It is "All The World's a Stage" & the even better "Live At The Odeon" "Different Stages" bonus CD ...

Why don't u post ur "Top 10"..?

[SirLoin]

Originally posted by Waffle BAS
No one likes The Cult - Electric?

"Duh Nuh Nuh Nuh..!"

Wildflower!!:D

[Mini D]

Exit Stage Left and All the World's a Stage were the first two live albums.. .right?

They did a few compilations, but they always try to insert 2112 even though Geddy can't hit the high notes any more. It's not bad, but it's just not as good.

I don't have a top 10 albums list. Not by any means. I think these lists are a farce and more enjoy the posturing people take while presenting theirs. I'm not trying to argue that Joshua Tree is the best U2 album, I'm saying I like it best.

When these threads start up you see the exact same things posted as if there's only 10 different sets of tunes to put up here. There's those that feel obligated to post the classics, those that insist that true classic connesours always love a different album from the band that had one of the classic's listed in another thread (Pink Floyd - Animals... if you said "Dark Side of the Moon" or "The Wall" you're uneducated) and the guys that have to pick decent, yet incredibly obscure bands while trying not to come off like they're just doing it to prove how they're really into music and then the guys that just pick the albums they like.

It's more fun to sit back and watch. I chuckle at how different my oppinions on the subject are when I see Sgt Pepper's listed... as I think it's probably the 4th best Beatles album. There's a bunch of others that I chuckle at too, but it's not that I know more about music, it's that my tastes are so drastically different.

Inevitably, these threads always turn into a competition of sorts.

[Nilsen]

Almost everything by The Doors and Michael Jackson.. minus Michael Jackson