Great Rock Albums discussion

[DVV]

Need some info for some little work I'm currently doing about the Kemper case.
And since I was too young....I'd like to know what did young people listen in the early seventies...

Wow.. there are so many to choose from...lets say

Anything by The Beatles
Anything by The Who (well... maybe not It's Hard... but we'll let that slide)
Anything by Be-Bop Deluxe
I would say about 85-90% of Frank Zappa's work
Everything The Kinks did (well until UK Jive anyway)
Anything Alice Copper did between 1968-1979
.... wow.. i guess i am starting to sound old eh? ok.. lets go with some more recent stuff....

well.. i'll stay with Liverpool and go with all of Ladytrons stuff.....under rated (In America anyway) and the first 2 White Stripes albums

[brummie]

I think After Forever and Floor Jansen were excellent but I've been told they have now called it a day,pity. I get quite jealous of the European music scene as in UK everything is dominated by bland insipid pop (unless you listen to Kerrang).So many outstanding bands from the continent though especially female fronted bands like Epica,Leaves Eyes,Xandria and Sirenia, not to mention The Gathering and Anneke Van Geisbergens new project Aqua De Annique

[Magpie]

Well You just made me a happy man!
For ages now I thought I was the only Within Temptation fan in the UK.every time I extoll their brilliance to others all I get back is "who?".Sharon Den Adel has the most amazing voice,in my opinion.

Their version of "Running Up That Hill" is amazing, and I speak as someone who thought that attempting to cover it was sacrilege.

Have you ever heard "After Forever"? Very similar sound, and also Dutch.

[brummie]

Your welcome

I forgot to mention Within Temptation, too.

Well You just made me a happy man!
For ages now I thought I was the only Within Temptation fan in the UK.every time I extoll their brilliance to others all I get back is "who?".Sharon Den Adel has the most amazing voice,in my opinion.And just bought Lacuna Coil album, Shallow Life,love it.Other bands I really enjoy include Evanescence, Paramore,Delain and Flyleaf. On the subject of Finnish bands as well as Nightwish (especially with Tarja) and Children Of Bodom add to the list Katra, their song Beast Within Is excellent.

[Magpie]

Cheers Magpie - already know Lacuna Coil, they're pretty good. The others I know of but haven't really listened to - thanks for the recommendations!

Your welcome

I forgot to mention Within Temptation, too.

[Magpie]

Hello Magpie!

Kiitoksia Tuonelasta! (=thanks for Tuonela! )

No problem Jukka! Finland has some great bands at the moment--Children of Bodom and H.I.M. Stratovarius and of course the mighty Nightwish. But Amorphis is not only the grandpappy of them all, but they also have the most "Finnish" influences, musically and lyrically.

[Becks]

mattwill and Becks.

I'd recommend the following, if you aren't already aware of them :

Katatonia: Viva Emptiness, Night Is The New Day
Opeth: Damnation, Deliverence, Watershed
Sentenced: Frozen, A Cold White Light
Lacuna Coil: Comalies
Paradise Lost: Symbol Of Life
Amorphis: Tuonela

Cheers Magpie - already know Lacuna Coil, they're pretty good. The others I know of but haven't really listened to - thanks for the recommendations!

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Magpie!

Kiitoksia Tuonelasta! (=thanks for Tuonela! )

Since I've got loads of favourite albums, I'll have to choose one blind-folded...
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And the winner is (ta-damm!):

The Rolling Stones: Aftermath...

Oh-oh...

All the best
Jukka

[Magpie]

mattwill and Becks.

I'd recommend the following, if you aren't already aware of them :

Katatonia: Viva Emptiness, Night Is The New Day
Opeth: Damnation, Deliverence, Watershed
Sentenced: Frozen, A Cold White Light
Lacuna Coil: Comalies
Paradise Lost: Symbol Of Life
Amorphis: Tuonela

[DVV]

Shortage of nutella.

[DVV]

Pipe on the rocks.

[Chris]

You can't beat The Rutles!

[Becks]

Wow, I thought I might be the first to answer with some metal albums, but I was wrong. So, here goes with a few of my favorites (not all metal):

Metallica: Everything but Load, Reload, and St. Anger (I do like some of the stuff on those though)
Overkill: Taking Over, The Years of Decay, Feel the Fire, From the Underground and Below, and KIllbox 13.
Brainstorm: Liquid Monster and Soul Temptation
Testament: The New Order and The Gathering
Weird Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid and Weird Al Yankovic In 3D
Judas Priest: Painkiller

Woohoo another metalhead! Painkiller is seriously one of the most perfect metal albums around I believe, it's just sublime. The Gathering by Testament is awesome too, love that album! St Anger was ok in bits, but I agree with the sentiment it has the worst drum sound ever.

[Magpie]

Metallica: Everything but Load, Reload, and St. Anger (I do like some of the stuff on those though)

I'd go half and half on Load--half good, half crap. "St. Anger" had some great songs, but crappy performance, coupled with the worst drum sound in history.

Overkill: Taking Over, The Years of Decay, Feel the Fire, From the Underground and Below, and KIllbox 13.

What? No "Necroshine"? For shame!

Testament: The New Order and The Gathering

I prefer "The Ritual", but NWO is good.

Weird Al Yankovic: Dare to Be Stupid and Weird Al Yankovic In 3D
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Weird Al rocks--I actually prefer some of his original stuff over the parodies--especially on "Even Worse".