Historic Rock 'n Roll Albums

[Colt45]

I'm not typically big on these type of threads, and I realize there are any number of monumental R 'n R albums, but to make a not too long

story short, I think my top pick would be the first Van Halen album.

To me it was a watershed moment and completely changed the game - the face of Rock 'n Roll.

[MPS]

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - 1965

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?

[Habanos2000]

how do you classify rock and where do you even begin? I think these albums all made certain changes in rock as it was known.

Led Zeppelin II & IV

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Nirvana - Nevermind

[Wicky]

Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown - 1969. (are you freekin kidding me?) I was 10 years old then and never looked back!

[GTS21]

Most early Queen albums

[Wicky]

Most early Queen albums

Modern Times Rock and Roll. !

(didn't pay attention after their 4th record.)

[Ken Gargett]

I'm not typically big on these type of threads, and I realize there are any number of monumental R 'n R albums, but to make a not too long

story short, I think my top pick would be the first Van Halen album.

To me it was a watershed moment and completely changed the game - the face of Rock 'n Roll.

first, i get bagged for off piste topics?!?!

secindly, van halen? are you taking the piss?

thirdly, to the gentleman who nominated dylan, absolutely spot on.

off top of head, toss in magical mystery tour and from left field (though surely nowhere near as left as van halen), as a concept album, meatloaf's bat out of hell. zeppelin and a few others probably pretty close as well.

naturally, anything by the boss.

finally, rob has texted in and would like me to nominate, on his behalf, anything by the bay city rollers.

[Wicky]

Bay City Rollers. woo woo woo!

[StumpyJoe]

first, i get bagged for off piste topics?!?!

secindly, van halen? are you taking the piss?

thirdly, to the gentleman who nominated dylan, absolutely spot on.

off top of head, toss in magical mystery tour and from left field (though surely nowhere near as left as van halen), as a concept album, meatloaf's bat out of hell. zeppelin and a few others probably pretty close as well.

naturally, anything by the boss.

finally, rob has texted in and would like me to nominate, on his behalf, anything by the bay city rollers.

Yes Ken, Colt has an actual point in nominating Van Halen's first album. Not the poets that Dylan was, but then that isn't actually necessary...nice, but not necessary. Eddie truly redefined rock guitar just as the guitar greats before him. And Diamond David Lee Roth is perhaps the greatest American frontman ever...nuts...but a true great. Heck, I would come close to voting them the greatest American Hard Rock band...but they do have alot of baggage. I like Bruce...but he's not Hard Rock.

My vote is for Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow. Heck, even Martin said it was the best album he produced...and that's saying something from the man who produced how many Beatles albums?!?!

[Jimmy2]

Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath

Jimi Hendrix Experience-Are You Experienced

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach

[Ken Gargett]

Yes Ken, Colt has an actual point in nominating Van Halen's first album. Not the poets that Dylan was, but then that isn't actually necessary...nice, but not necessary. Eddie truly redefined rock guitar just as the guitar greats before him. And Diamond David Lee Roth is perhaps the greatest American frontman ever...nuts...but a true great. Heck, I would come close to voting them the greatest American Hard Rock band...but they do have alot of baggage. I like Bruce...but he's not Hard Rock.

My vote is for Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow. Heck, even Martin said it was the best album he produced...and that's saying something from the man who produced how many Beatles albums?!?!

beck and perhaps even more so, the nomination for jimmy hendrix i have no problem with.

still not convinced by van H though i will concede i enjoyed their version of pretty woman even more than orbison's.

no argument re roth as a showman though i suspect that is a slightly different idea to colt's original.

and colt nominated rock and roll, not hard rock, so tough to rule bruce out because he isn't perceived as hard rock. the more i think about it, the more i would have his 'born to run' right up there. highway 61 is hardly hard rock.

[khomeinist]

Motörhead. S/T

Judas Priest. Stained Class.

Iron Maiden. Killers.

AC/DC. Highway to Hell.

Sonic Youth. Sister.

Wire. Pink Flag

Sabbath, Hendrix, Can, Blue Cheer

all eat David Lee Roth for breakfast

[hoyopr]

Definitely, Hwy 61 Dylan also add, Springstein Born To Run, Jethro Tull Aqua Lung, Rolling Stone Beggers Banquet, Frank Zappa Joes Garage & Roxy and Else Where, Beatles Sgt Pepper.

[skindiver]

I sang Beetles hits in Havana with Ken. It wasn't pretty, but also not my fault, he was way off key!

[Ken Gargett]

I sang Beetles hits in Havana with Ken. It wasn't pretty, but also not my fault, he was way off key!

never said i could sing, just that i do! but stan, had you been there the night my mate woody and i did 'piano man' for the staff of el ajibe as they were closing up, high kicks and all, you'd never be so cruel. 15 cubans sat around in total stunned silence! there was alcohol involved. us, not them.

and i meant sgt peppers before. love aqualung though whether it is as important, not so sure.

and nothing from the stones?

[StumpyJoe]

beck and perhaps even more so, the nomination for jimmy hendrix i have no problem with.

still not convinced by van H though i will concede i enjoyed their version of pretty woman even more than orbison's.

no argument re roth as a showman though i suspect that is a slightly different idea to colt's original.

and colt nominated rock and roll, not hard rock, so tough to rule bruce out because he isn't perceived as hard rock. the more i think about it, the more i would have his 'born to run' right up there. highway 61 is hardly hard rock.

Ken, you are absolutely correct about Colt not limiting the conversation to Hard Rock, but given his nomination I had a difficulty separating VH from the hard variety of Rock. Bruce is a legitimate add to the list...and not just cause I say so.

Khommie...gonna have to disagree with your assesment...right up until you mentioned AC/DC. Bon Scott was and is amongst the greatest. Miss him greatly.

[mazolaman]

I guess anything that has an electric guitar is rock n roll.

Any Deep purple album(Richie Blackmore,what a guitarist)

Axis Bold as love

The Who,live at Leeds,tommy,quadraphenia

Niel Young,Everybody knows this is nowhere,After the goldrush

Whitr Stripes.....

[Ken Gargett]

I guess anything that has an electric guitar is rock n roll.

Any Deep purple album(Richie Blackmore,what a guitarist)

Axis Bold as love

The Who,live at Leeds,tommy,quadraphenia

Niel Young,Everybody knows this is nowhere,After the goldrush

Whitr Stripes.....

neil young was one i was going to add, for sure.

trivia quiz? why was that album named 'after the goldrush'? to what did it refer?

[Colt45]

I really had no thought of separating genres or time periods - I guess it would depend on how old you are and obviously what you were listening to.

I wasn't thinking best album or favorite album etc, and I don't think there is a right or wrong answer (except mine - thanks KG ).

Stumpy has made points re VH, and I'll try to add my thoughts. There were plenty of great albums from that era, many already mentioned - Aerosmith,

Zep, Stones, etc. But in the U.S. disco was huge at the time, and it seemed like rock was a bit of an afterthought. Along comes the first VH album.....

Not only was Eddie's playing "unique", but their whole sound was huge. To me there had been absolutely nothing like it.

[jmasterj]

Any mid 1970-very early 80s AC/DC album. No matter where you go for an American football game you'll hear AC/DC pumping up the crowd and your team. That raw and powerful sound that seems to be coming from the depths of the earth is a very unique characteristic of this band that is created by no other.

[bassman]

King Crimson- In The Court Of The Crimson King

Allman Brothers- Live At Fillmore

Grateful Dead- Live Dead

Jeff Beck Group- Truth

Willy Dixon- I Am The Blues

Bob Dylan- Desire

Yes- The Yes Album

Jefferson Airplane- After Bathing At Baxters

Bob Marley- Natty Dread

Cream- Disraeli Gears

Stones- Sticky Fingers

Hendrix- Are You Experienced?

Beatles Sgt. Pepper's

Pink Floyd- Meddle

Love- Da Capo

Santana- Abraxas

Traffic- John Barlycorn Must Die

Gotta be old to be classic

[joeypots]

You show your age with these threads and you know your getting old when Elvis Costello is the last rock and roll artist you were really into. His first three were up there with some of the best.

The first cut on the first Zepplin album is simply one of the greatest hard rock songs ever and they just kept coming.

Who's next?

Quadrophenia

Exile on main st, sticky fingers, beggars banquet

Skull and bones (live dead), Europe '72

Voodoo child. As neil Young said, "There is no one even in the same building as Hendrix"

[tdlfoto]

something from more recent history that I think was a definitive album of its time would be something like 'Urban Hymns' by The Verve.

[T297]

Jimi Hendrix

Black Sabbath

CCR

AC/DC

Allman Bros.

Didn't mention any specific albums cause I like'em all!!!

[bassman]

You show your age with these threads and you know your getting old when Elvis Costello is the last rock and roll artist you were really into. His first three were up there with some of the best.

The first cut on the first Zepplin album is simply one of the greatest hard rock songs ever and they just kept coming.

Who's next?

Quadrophenia

Exile on main st, sticky fingers, beggars banquet

Skull and bones (live dead), Europe '72

Voodoo child. As neil Young said, "There is no one even in the same building as Hendrix"

Yeah, I'm old. Those are the albums that influenced me late 60s- mid 70s while in high school & college. Two more...

Dire Straits- First album

Steely Dan- Royal Scam

First Led Zep tune ( Good Times, Bad Times) and Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) might be the best rock songs less than 3 minutes long.