Perfect Rock Albums.

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[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Basically, no "best of" or "compilations" albums. These are the best albums that you could listen without skipping a track. I broke it down by decade.

The 1960's:
Beatles - Revolver
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money
The Stooges - The Stooges
Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
Cream - Disraeli Gears

The 1970's:
Big Star - #1 Record
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here Are The Sex Pistols
Kiss - Alive
Doors - L.A. Woman
Clash - London Calling
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Bob Dylan - Shot of Love
Police - Outlandos d'Amour

The 1980's:
Black Flag - Damaged
Police - Ghost in the Machine
Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Duran Duran - Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Ministry - Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Cars - Heartbeat City
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
They Might Be Giants - Flood

The 1990's:
Nirvana - Nevermind
Green Day - Dookie
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Cure - Wish
U2 - Achtung Baby
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Sonic Youth - goo
Soundgarden- Superknown
Rollins Band - End of the Silence
Weezer - Weezer (1st Album)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet

The 2000's:
um . . . um . . . um . . .

[laissez- faire]

Great list, here are my additions....

70s

Pink Floyd "Animals"
Led Zeppelin "II" and "IV"
Rush "2112"

80s

Rush "Moving Pictures"
Metallica "Master of Puppets"
Iron Maiden "Powerslave" and "Piece of Mind"
Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime" and "the Warning"

90s

Dream Theater "Awake"
Tool "Undertow"
Fates Warning "Parallels"
Alice In Chains "Dirt"
Mindfunk "Dropped"
Damn the Machine

00s

Rush "Vapor Trails"
Dream Theater "Train of Thought"
Fates Warning "fwx"
Alter Bridge "One Day Remains"

[angcat]

OMG

[angcat]

I saw Dio in the 80's. I remember he had the stage filled with swords and bizarre Tin Men that moved. LOL

[angcat]

Kick ass Album!

[nonliberal]

When there's ligthning
You know it always brings me down
Cause its free and I see that its me
Whose lost and never found

That guitarist, Vivian Campbell is now in Def Leppard.

[nonliberal]

Damn the Machine

Chris Poland's post-Megadeth project. I forgot about that one!!

[angcat]

Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm yeah yeah
Holy diver you've been down too long in the midnight sea oh what's becoming of me
Ride the tiger you can see his stripes but you know he's clean oh don't you see what I mean
Gotta get away holy diver yeah
Got shiny diamonds like the eyes of a cat in the black and blue something is coming for you look out
Race for the morning you can hide in the sun 'till you see the light oh we will pray it's all right
Gotta get away get away
Between the velvet lies there's a truth that's hard as steel yeah
The vision never dies life's a never ending wheel say
Holy diver you're the star of the masquerade no need to look so afraid jump jump
Jump on the tiger you can feel his heart but you know he's mean some light can never be seen yeah
Holy diver you've been down too long in the midnight sea oh what's becoming of me no no
Ride the tiger you can see his stripes but you know he's clean oh don't you see what I mean
Gotta get away get away gotta get away get away
Holy diver sole survivor your honour's clean
Holy diver holy diver never cut in the middle comin' after you holy diver
Oh holy diver yeah alright get away get away get away
Holy diver holy diver whoa holy diver hmm hmm hmm hmm

[laissez- faire]

Vivian Campbell recently released a "blues" cover album where he's playing guitar and on vocals. IT's not bad.

[sully777]

Ecclectic greatest Rock albums--just a few in no order:

John Coltraine-Thelonious Monk "Live At the Five Spot"
Steely Dan "Aja" and "You Can't Buy A Thrill"
The Who "Who's Next" "Quadraphenia"
Sublime "Sublime"
Van Halen "Van Halen" and "Women and Children First"
Ramones "Ramones"
Def Leppard "High N' Dry"
Doors "Morrison Hotel" and "Waiting For The Sun"
Billy Joel "52nd Street"
Madness "One Step Beyond"
Meatloaf "Bat Out of Hell"
Heart "Little Queen"
Yes "Fragile"
Beatles "Abbey Road"
Ted Nugent "Scream Dream"
Bruce Springsteen "The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle"
Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes "I Don't Want To Go Home"
Blondie "Parallel Lines"
Talking Heads "More Songs About Buildings and Food"
Tom Tom Club "Tom Tom Club"
REM "Fables of The Reconstruction" "Murmur" "Life's Rich Pageant"
B-52s "B-52s"
Paul McCartney "Paul McCartney" "Ram" "Wings" and "Band On The Run"

[Space Wrangler]

You have to get Beastie Boys: Liscence to Ill into the 80's for sure.

[JRios1968]

Notice, my dear FRiend, I didn't post it in the list. However, I was asked for a good starting point for enjoying Rush, and I believe Chronicles is a great sampler.

For what it's worth, "Exit, Stage Left" is the best live album I have in my collection, and it's on permanent rotation in my CD changer.

[AnnaZ]

I really liked AIC's Dirt, but now when I think of them all that comes up are amputations and dying alone and unnoticed in a $hitty flat in Hollywood.

Damn depressing.

[AnnaZ]

Has anyone mentioned Pearl Jam's Ten? That was a pretty solid album, as far as the 90s were concerned.

[AnnaZ]

I've never really watched South Park, so is there a reference I'm missing there?

(Loved Team America, tho'! Does that excuse me?)

[dfwgator]

It's sad when the reaction to Layne Staley's death was that it was merely a matter of time. What a waste. They blew away any of the other Seattle bands.

[dfwgator]

It's from the "Mecha Streisand" episode where they hire Robert Smith who morphs into Mothra to defeat Streisand. And at the end of the episode as Smith is leaving Stan says to him that "Disintegration is the best album ever."

[AnnaZ]

Exit... Stage Left was released my first year in high school, and it was the definitive album for that year (I was raised in Canada, if that helps...) (and along with Def Leppard's High 'N dry, and Van Halen's Women and Children First and Fair Warning [must've played Unchained 1000 times] [how I hated 8-tracks!]).

With Rush, having been listening to them for so long, I go through phase chunks, which is why Chronicles is such a blessing. Right now it's all Force Ten/Time Stand Still, all the time. I've progressed up Disc 2.

= )

[wordsofearnest]

1970's Marshall Tucker Band "Carolina Dreams"

[AnnaZ]

It was a horrible waste. And to have shone so bright, only to die alone, undiscovered for days... Sad. (I had friends who lived in the same building...)

O/T: Has anyone mentioned Soundgarden? LOVED Chris Cornell! (And Superunknown rocked! GREAT live.)

[dfwgator]

Soundgarden rocked!