Post your top 5 rock albums of all time
 

A continuance of the Top 5 Rock Bands thread.

Mine are (no in order);

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
AC/CD - Back in Black
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
The Eagles - The Long Run
Van Halen - 1

I couldn't pick just one Rolling Stones album and I thought Hot Rocks was a cop out so I didn't include it.

Anything by Styx, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston or Foreigner.

Nickelback - Greatest Hits
Creed - Greatest Hits
Limp Bizkit - Greatest Hits
Good Charlotte - Greatest Hits
Lifehouse - Greatest Hits

excellent list

Nickelback - Greatest Hits
Creed - Greatest Hits
Limp Bizkit - Greatest Hits
Good Charlotte - Greatest Hits
Lifehouse - Greatest Hits

How can you have a greatest hits album with only a few albums ever recorded?

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Love Their Country
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Pink Floyd - Animals

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Born in the USA - Springsteen
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Born to Run - Springsteen
Boston - Boston
Wrecking Ball - Springsteen

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones
Nevermind - Nirvana
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Pearl Jam - Ten
AC/DC - Back in Black

I listen to everything on random now so don't really listen to "albums" any more. I guess I'll list the favorite album by each of the bands I listed on the other thread.

1. Toss up between Wish You Were Here and The Wall
2. Used to be Presence but is probably Houses of the Holy now.
3. Easy - Faith
4. Moonhead
5. Gashed Senses & Crossfire

Alice Cooper- Welcome To My Nightmare
Kiss- Alive
Marilyn Manson- Holy Wood
Pearl Jam- Ten
Gin Blossoms- New Miserable Experience

Because those albums were all full of brilliant songs. Better than that boring old man music.

respect, though Yield or No Code woulda got my nod over Ten, and Powerage over Back In Black.

Stones - Exile on Main St.
Stones - Let It Bleed
Beatles - Self-titled (White Album)
Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion


Without question, my top 5 ROCK albums of all-time.

Honorable mentions : Stones - Aftermath, Tattoo You, and Some Girls, Beatles Abbey Road, ABB Fillmore East, Humble Pie Rockin' The Fillmore, Neil Young Everybody Knows this Is Nowhere and Zuma, Black Crowes Amorica and Three Snakes & One Charm, Van Halen II, Fair Warnin and Women & Children First

lol

funny thing is, I'm probably younger than you.

I just know the difference between 'good' and 'crap'.

Like, I don't eat from a drive-thru. Good Charlotte, Korn, Limp Bizkit, et. al?? Drive-thru music.

AC/DC-Back in Black
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Guns 'n Roses-Appetite for Destruction
Metallica-S&M
Aerosmith-Permanent Vacation

Another album that is great but doesn't fit this category 100%
Oasis-What's the Story Morning Glory?

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Classic Rock:
Beatles-Abbey Road
Stones-Let It Bleed
Led Zepp-Physical Graffiti
The Who-Who's Next?
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here

Hard Rock:
AC/DC-Back in Black
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Ted Nugent-Ted Nugent
ELP-Brain Salad Surgery
Alice Cooper-School's Out

New Wave:
Elvis Costello-My Aim Is True
Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
Devo-Are We Not Men?
The Clash-London Calling
Patti Smith Group - Horses

Punk:
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Incredible Shrinking Dickies - Debut Album
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
Buzzcocks - New Kind of Tension

Single Featured Artists:
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
Tom Petty & Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes

HUGE Alice Cooper fan, LOVE WTMN ('Cold Ethyl' has some SICK guitar work) grew up in that shit. My faves are the early stuff - Pretties For You, Love It to Death, Killer, and Billion Dollar Babies - Dennis Dunaway = SICK freaking bassist.

As for Manson, I'm down with The New Shit, (s)Ain't, and mObscene from GAoG, but I mean, Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals are so much more realized and more epic, and to me, it seems that those two albums have a depth that truly regards them as 'classic', wouldn't you agree??

Just found it odd that you would pick that particular one; I think that Antichrist Superstar was the apex of that whole industrial/goth-metal thing. And Mechanical Animals is like MM's 'Tusk' or 'Tunnel Of Love', insofar as they couldn't do their biggest record over; it had to be completely different. And that one, MA, was genius.

I just picked up Mechanical Animals on vinyl - 2 discs, one is 'Alpha' and the other 'Omēga', with the original tracklisting. My turntable LOVES it, haha!!

GNR- Appetite
PJ-Ten
Police-Ghost in the Machine
Zep-II
U2-Joshua Tree

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
Radiohead - Ok Computer

No Particular order:

Metallica: Master of Puppets
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Filmore East
Alice in Chains: Dirt

Boston - Boston
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
AC/DC - Back in Black
Journey - Infinity
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

For pure stupidity and fun, I'd pick:

5. Zappa-Joe's Garage
4. The Tubes - What Do You Want From Live?
3. Todd Rundgren - Something? Anything?
2. Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted
1. Stephen Lynch - A Little Bit Special

VH II
Led Zeppelin II
Metallica Master of Puppets
AC/DC Highway to Hell
Tesla Mechanical Resonance

Led Zeppelin III
Beatles- Abbey Road
Porcupine Tree- Lightbulb Sun
Days Of The New- II (Green Album)
Pink Floyd- DSOTM

Alice is probably my favorite rock artist of all time although Kiss is very close. Saw him live for the first time on Fathers Day this year.

I love everything I've heard from MM but I don't have all his albums including Anti-Christ Superstar so I can't speak to that one. I've heard some of it. I mis spoke naming GAoG. I meant Holy Wood. That was the first Manson album I bought and I probably have some extra affinity to it for that reason... however I do completely love it. I like that it's more raw than a lot of his other stuff including Mechanical Animals. I like that one too I just prefer the more raw sound over the more produced. I think Eat Me Drink Me is fantastic too.

Good list.

get Antichrist Superstar and Portrait of An American Family - easily the most 'raw' and 'industrial' of his entire catalog. If you like Holy Wood, you will LOVE Antichrist.

Also, I can send you mp3s of the Pre-Reznor mixes of Portait - probably the most raw Manson you'll ever hear. PM me your email.

Mechanical Animals might be my favorite; it has grown on me to the point where I consider it an 'essential' album. It's like a David Bowie/Thin White Duke for the new frontier or somesuchshit. It's ahead of its time, at least for me; I bought ot the day it came out and I'm just now starting to catch up to it.

Guns N Roses Chinese Demacracy

Primus Pork Soda

Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Primus Green Naugahyde

Buckethead has over 50 albums to chose that all are my favorites.

Thanks man! Mechanical Animals is very good. I listen to it from time to time. I have Smells Like Children, Holy Wood, GAoG, Mechanical Animals and Eat Me Drink Me.

Yummy.

I go back and forth on "Lightbulb Sun" and "Stupid Dream." Might depend on my mood.

For reals? I thought some of it was OK. IMHO, it can no way compete with Appetite.

The more I listen to it the more I love it. Appetite was is great I just love the new GNR line up & think it's better than anything. Oh yeah it has Buckethead.

1) metallica ride the lightning/killem all/master of puppets (pick 1)
2) led zeppelin II
3) black sabbath-paranoid
4) operation ivy - energy
5) sublime - 40 oz to freedom

or even the Illusions. I mean, I have the record, and some of it sounds like the Dracula stuff in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Dude's a bug Buckethead fan, and he's pretty wizard-y with the guitar. I saw him do the nun-chucks solo, shit's crazy. But it's more 'shredd-y' guitar than the bluesy guitars of Izzy and Slash. I prefer Izzy and Slash.

Would prefer the original GN'R, but can't shit on the new line-up, either. Liked Brain better than Farrer, but DJ Ashba is a badass, so...it's apples and oranges, ya know?? Some people dig it...

At the end of the day, The only 'shredder'-type guitarists I'm into would be like, Van Halen, Dimebag, Al DiMeola, etc.

I get ya. Right now I'm in more of an upbeat mood.

lol

you're trolling right?

"Russia on Ice" will bring you right back down. :D

Zep IV
Pink Floyd-Dark Side
Rush-Moving Pictures
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Californication

I really want to throw something more modern in there like White Stripes, The Killers, Radiohead, Muse, but I can't decide.

And now we know the real reason...

:)

Nah, it picks up at the end. I do listen to Don't Hate Me about once a month. Flute/Sax solos they need more of.

I got a tie at 5th place....and don’t you ****ing laugh! I was born a poor black child and Flashlight is one of the greatest songs ever written!
if you don't know what I'm talking about - edumacate bitches!

seriously...if you've never heard this song, you should check it out....

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Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
Living Colour – Vivid
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Ledbetter Heights
Big Head Todd – Sister Sweetly
Stevie Wonder – Song Review - A Greatest Hits Collection / Parliament Greatest Hits


EDIT - uh.....rock albums....shit.....Parliament & Stevie still kick major ass. SRV and BHT are blues..close enough....

Correct answer is:

Aerosmith - Rocks (Toys in the Attic also acceptable)
Van Halen - II (Fair Warning also acceptable)
Led Zep - II
AC/DC - Back in Black (Highway to Hell also acceptable)
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (too hard to pick one)

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
AC/CD - Back in Black
RUSH - 2112
Led Zeppelin II
Riot - Restless Breed

Ain't nothing wrong with Parliament. Or Funkadelic.

I am kinda shocked there is no White Zombie on anyone's list.

except I just noticed the OP said rock.
I listened almost exclusively to KPRS until I was in high school.
any KC locals remember that station? twarn't too many white boys singing songs on KPRS!

I dig 'em....but they don't make my top 5 fav albums.
Rob has new stuff out...

The Clash- Sandinista
Cheap Trick- Live at Budokhan (yes Dane, we know, but we still like it)
U2- Just consider everything from Under a Blood Red Sky to Achtung Baby one album....
Sasha and Digweed- Northern Exposure
Talking Heads- Speaking in Tongues

Any list that includes a greatest hits can't be the correct answer.

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Actually Oasis was amazing, IMO. But, Definitely Maybe is their best effort. :evil:

It would be in my Top 10.

If it's storming hard, and I'm driving in it, I put on El Phantasmo every time and turn that shit UP.

Scares the hell out of me.

a few?

Nickleback has 6
Creed has 4
Limp Bizkit has 5 and one remix album

the others ... well... .. enough to have a greatest hit album

when you crap out gold records, it's really easy

All across the spectrum here....

Joy Division/New Order - Substance (2 different "Substance" albums)
Boston - Boston
Green Day - Dookie
U2 - Achtung Baby
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

What about live albums? 'Cause Deep Purple's Made in Japan has to be on my list. If not, I'll just take Machine Head instead.

Plus...

Rush - 2112
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Pink Floyd - Animals
Aerosmith - Rocks

Hey now Axl put his stamp on it too, his vocals are great & all the songs are awesome. I think they all kick ass, Chinese Democracy is just on another level of music tallent.

I'm ready to hear what they put out with DJ Ashba & Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal

Insert either Fandango or Tres Hombres for Greatest Hits and Powerage for BIB and I'll take it!!

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

I think Loochy likes NIN.

...not positive though.

Maybe just a little.

Maybe I also like Broken, but I couldn't put that in the list because it was too short of an album.

I included Kiss "Alive" on my list. I'm just one who can't see a greatest hits album as something new or fresh in any way so to me they shouldn't count. There's no concept behind them other than making money. JMO. It wasn't defined that way in the OP so I guess anything is fair game.

loochy is a male model with a pretty wife. Have you seen him? I hate him for it.

Buckethead has some beautiful songs that arn't about shredding he can play real emotional ballads. He plays great funk & has stuff with Bootsy Collins and Snoop Dog he is very diverse musician. Buckethead > Slash & Slash has been my favorite for a long time I just recognize a superior guitarist. Now I think Slash is over rated and he doesn't put forth the effort to push himself. He has drop off from his days in GnR & they all try to hold on to that fame with the band recognition and Slash and Duff arn't in it.

The RRHF was a joke they sold out & Axl didn't want any part of it.

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how is it that you don't consider Kiss Alive a greatest hits album??
(I used to have every Kiss album on vinyl....I liked Alive II better - my fav Kiss album though is Rock And Roll Over with one of the coolest album covers ever)

No love for Saliva or Buckcherry?????

I wore that record out. It was a double album and I believe Rundgren played all the instruments.

It is a greatest hits but it's live. I know... very small gray area. If you noticed I kind of backed off my "no greatest hits" stance earlier. I shouldn't have included Alive if someone else shouldn't include greatest hit but that's not defined here.

Rock and Roll over is good, I agree. As far as my favorite album cover I have to go with Dressed To Kill.

Awesome...NIN is my all-time favorite band. Have seen them live 6 times...1 of the 6 was up front at Lollapalooza 2009. Nobody does it like Rez. What's also cool about Reznor is that he has good taste in music with other artists...whenever I see a list of shit he is into or hear an interview of him giving some band props, I immediately check out the band and they are almost always awesome. I wasn't quite able to get into Throbbing Gristle...not sure what their even about, but the rest of his recommendations are superb. I was hooked from the first time I heard the song, "Burn" on an MTV commercial when I was 11 years old.

You must be crazy bitch.

Broken is probably my fave - Wish/Gave Up as an opener = WOW.

Loochy's #6 Album
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Not gonna argue with any of that.

I have a Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains show from '06 that is stellar.

I'm an Izzy guy anyway - his albums are ****ing GREAT.

How about when they stick 1 or 2 new songs onto the latest greatest hits package? That's a great move for fans. Not as big of a deal in the iTunes era, but I always hated that they made me buy a whole CD of songs I already had just to get the 1 or 2 new ones.

You know what? I have fond memories of music from the 'Hoff because Dirk Nowitzki likes the 'Hoff so they played his songs a lot during the Mavs finals runs. :thumb: