Great Rock Albums discussion

[DVV]

Ninjaman: My Weapon
Ninjaman: Ting a ling a ling school pickney sing ting
Ninjaman: Hold me like a M16
Ninjaman: Out pon bail
The Pogues: Rum, sodomy and the lash
The Pogues: Red roses for me
Pharoah Sanders: Thembi
George Thorogood: Boogie people
The Meteors: Sewertime blues
The Cramps: Songs the Lord taught us
Phyllis Dillon: Love is all I had
Johnny Cash Sun Recordings
all Eddie Cochran
...but first of all, all rocksteady hits from 1966 to 1969

[kensei]

Using the criteria of albums that I can listen to all the way through and love every song, here are four that roughly mark the quarters of my life (very roughly, as I am 42):

Pink Floyd- The Wall
Tears for Fears- Songs from the Big Chair
Sarah McLachlan- Surfacing
Evanescence- Fallen

[Rick Mattix]

Not in any particular order but:

Beatles: Abbey Road, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, White Album
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, Nashville Skyline
Rolling Stones: Aftermath, Sticky Fingers
Led Zeppelin: fourth with "Stairway"
Steppenwolf: first, Seven, and Monster
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
MC5: Kick Out the Jams (best live rock album ever) and Back in the USA
Iron Butterfly: In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
John Lennon: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine
Paul McCartney: Band on the Run
Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation, After Bathing at Baxters, Volunteers
Zappa/Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
Janis Joplin/Big Brother: Cheap Thrills
Grateful Dead: American Beauty and Workingman's Dead
Allman Brothers: Eat a Peach, Live at Fillmore East, Brothers and Sisters
Crosby Stills & Nash: first
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
John Prine's untitled debut album
Black Oak Arkansas first album
Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes, Dreaming My Dreams, This Time
David Allan Coe: The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, Rides Again
Willie Nelson: Red Headed Stranger
Steve Miller Band: Fly Like an Eagle
Eric Clapton: Cream: Wheels of Fire, Derek and the Dominoes, Slowhand
Savoy Brown: Hellbound Train
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies
New Riders of the Purple Sage: first and Panama Red
Joan Jett: Bad Reputation
anything by Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, Lynyrd Skynryd, Marshall Tucker Band, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep.

[Robert]

And then there is the man who perhaps single-handedly started the whole metal phenomenon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS61PESUWY

[DVV]

Excellent, Robert.
No wonder the youths were violent at that time.

[Jon Guy]

Gotta say, apart from Kiss, you guy`s are into some cool stuff

[johns]

Yes the Kiss reference worried me too.

Before I go any further, my best mate was into Kiss way back in the 70s but I never liked them after I saw the cover of their Destroyer album and thought...

"Now that looks as heavy as a ton of lead! I gotta listen to them."

Then I heard it... ooooh disappointing isn't a strong enough word. All show and no go.

Ah well each to their own but I just don't "get" them at all. My mate doesn't like to talk about when he liked them.

[SteveS]

Hi Guys and Gurls
What a brilliant response from you so far...and a right royal selection of great albums.

There are some names I have heard of but have not dipped my toe into their rock pool so to speak.

I love the Beatles, Dylan, Bowie, Roxy Music and Springsteen and love pretty much all they have done.

The exceptions would be Dylan's Self Portrait album which is shite. And a lot of Bowie after Let's Dance but the rest is a pretty impressive body of work.

Some more all time favourites (not previously mentioned) again in no particular order.

The Band - Music From Big Pink/The Band/Rock of Ages(live)/Last Waltz(live)
John Cale - Paris 1919
The Stones - Let It Bleed/Beggars Banquet
Radiohead - The Bends/OK Computer
Joni Mitchell - Blue/Court and Spark/Hissing of Summer Lawns
Van Morrison - Moondance/Veedon Fleece/Too Late To Stop Now(live)
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
John Martyn - Solid Air
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat/Time Passages/Love Chronicles
Russ Ballard - Winning
Belle and Sebastian - Boy With The Arab Strap
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Peter Gabriel - 1/2/3/4/Plays Live
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Scott Walker -Scott/Scott 2
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Clash - London Calling
Brinsley Schwartz - Greasy Truckers(full show now on CD, vinyl would be hard to come by these days. The vinyl only has hightlights of the gig)

More when I have some spare time soon.

Thnx
Steve

[DVV]

Gotta say, apart from Kiss, you guy`s are into some cool stuff

Hi Jon, listen to Ninjaman's "My Weapon", and you'll change your mind!

Amitiés mon cher,
David

[Limehouse]

Oh dear!

This is causing me a dilema of pedantry! You see, when you talk of 'rock' i can think only of rock and therefore only mentioned 'rock'. However, if by 'rock' you mean contemporary music from the last 50 years then I just have to mention a few more favourites!

Dylan - all of his 'folky' stuff and that most romantic of ballads Lay Lady Lay.
Other 'folky' stuff such as Leonard Cohen, Tom Paxton, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary and Joan Baez.
Rock/blues/country cross overs such as Tom Waits and THE MOST FANTASTIC NEIL YOUNG!!
Rock/punk cross-overs such as The Clash and the Buzzcocks
Moody Blues
David Bowie
The sexy, oh-so-sexy Rod Stewart (but only his bluesy stuff, none of that 'hot legs' rubbish)
The Beatles - Revolver, Rubber Soul, St Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour
Judy Collins
Janis Ian

I could go on and on...

[Jon Guy]

listen to Ninjaman's "My Weapon", and you'll change your mind!

David, my friend, you are kidding aren`t you?

[DVV]

David, my friend, you are kidding aren`t you?

Ah, my dear Jon, no more than Ninjaman saying: "At the age of 2 I killed 5 policemen"... or again: "Sometimes I make mistakes and kill innocent men"...
In the same sweet song he enters a church and kills the pastor, and incidentally a woman, during a bank attack.

[lynn cates]

additions

Hello Limehouse. Finally, someone has included the Moody Blues. So I thank you.

Now, if someone wishes to include the greatest group of all time, the Electric Light Orchestra . . .

Cheers.
LC

[belinda]

Hello Limehouse. Finally, someone has included the Moody Blues. So I thank you.

Now, if someone wishes to include the greatest group of all time, the Electric Light Orchestra . . .

Cheers.
LC

ELO are Brilliant

And Roy Wood and The Move are recently discovered treasures

[lynn cates]

reply

Hello Belinda. Thank you! Your reply is Out of the Blue.

Cheers.
LC