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Rock Album Survivor
The Metal Album Survivor thread has been a success, so why not just a general thread for rock itself? Obviously this would be a far more extensive venture, and cover a lot of genres which I have little to no familiarity with, so there would have to be a lot more participation from all of you as to what genres and albums to include, so comments are not just appreciated, but necessary.
And metal will not be included. Not because it doesn't deserve to be, but there's already a thread for that, so whatever album ends up winning that thread can be used whenever this thread comes to a final stage. These are the genres that I've come up with in five minutes, so it is in no way complete. This is just spit balling. Punk Hardcore Post-hardcore Noise rock Power pop Prog rock AOR Hard rock Southern rock Industrial rock Grunge Garage rock Proto-punk Arena rock Glam rock Pop New wave Folk rock Brit pop College rock Crust punk Shoegaze Blues rock Stoner rock Goth rock Indie rock Indie pop Krautrock Post-rock Ska Soft rock Space rock Synth pop Psychedelic rock |
Awesome idea! Let me know if/when you want suggestions for psychedelic and folk rock. That's my territory. :thumb:
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All suggestions are wanted at all times.
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I'll suggest a few for whatever you're looking for first.
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You know you can rely on me for the proggy goodness! ;)
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Fun twist: I pick the prog albums and Trollheart picks the hardcore albums.
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I'm not really looking for anything FIRST. This is still in the embryonic stage. I want to get a few lists down before I start, and first come first serve. Remember, the lists are top tens. So quit bull****ting and start throwing albums at me.
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Psychedelic rock (these are all from the '60s, so we can trim it and throw in a few from other decades):
Beatles - Revolver Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Doors - The Doors Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico Love - Forever Changes United States of America - The United States of America Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? I'm assuming it's OK to include two Beatles albums? |
Nah, only one album from one band.
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That's fine, because I just realized that I forgot to include Hendrix.
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I'd like to point out though, that a band can have more than one album on another list, just not on the same one.
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EDIT: Just realized that art rock isn't listed in the OP. |
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EDIT: Well, you don't have the last two either. |
Though this isn't my favourite genre, and I haven't listened to many albums that are associated with this title, here's some suggestions for Britpop:
The Auteurs - New Wave Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah! Elastica - Elastica Oasis - Definitely Maybe Blur - Parklife The Boo Radleys - Wake Up! Doves - Kingdom of Rust Travis - The Invisible Band The Verve - Urban Hymns And some for Garage Rock: Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker The Coathangers - The Coathangers Holly Golightly - Painted On The Gories - Outta Here Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP Apache Dropout - Bubblegum Graveyard Apart Aside - Goodbye Bill Murray Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black The King Khan & BBQ Show - What's for Dinner? |
Krautrock
Sand - Golem Faust - Faust IV Neu! - Neu! Can - Tago Mago Amon Düül II - Yeti Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaos Cluster - Zuckerzeit Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia |
One of Kraftwerk's krautrock albums would fit better I feel
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Krautrock is so nebulous that I have no idea what it means.
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I'm no expert either but I'm pretty sure The Man Machine doesn't really fit the bill. At least a whole lot less than this
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Let's go with Autobahn. Wiki says its kraut and I like it better anyway.
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Here's a list of some proper Glam Rock as opposed to someone doing a list full of ****ty hair metal and calling it Glam Rock instead.
T. Rex - Electric Warrior David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed New York Dolls - S/T Kiss - Destroyer Heavy Metal Kids - S/T Silverhead - S/T The Tubes - S/T Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Sweet - Desolation Boulevard Mott The Hoople - Mott Slade - Slayed Roxy Music - S/T Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. Girl - Sheer Greed Lords Of The New Church - Method To Our Madness Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock n Roll The Dogs D'Amour - In The Dynamite Jet Saloon The Throbs - The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds feel free to pick any 10 of those |
Prog rock
Yes - Close to the edge Rush - 2112 Genesis - Selling England by the pound King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king Pink Floyd -Dark side of the moon Marillion - Script for a jester's tear Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn hearts ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) - Tarkus That's just off the top of my head. Don't sue me. |
^ No Crime of the Century? :(
EDIT: Mind you, I realize how tough choosing only ten is, and you may have considered including it. Just wanted to make sure you hadn't forgotten it. |
I mean, at least Marrillion is helping the case for some of my favourite albums.
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You better add Japan - Adolescent Sex too.
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These are just the preliminary sketches of just a few of the lists I'm working on. Most obviously need to be filled in, all of them need review, and plenty more lists need to be started in the first place. I'm just looking for input at this stage. I'm working on glam rock ATM, and hope to have the battle officially up by Tuesday at the latest. Bear with me, I want to get this moving, but I don't like having half-assed lists that leave off important albums that I end up kicking myself over later.
* I'd have a lot more done, but I've been taking the last few days to transfer a ****load of files from my cloud drive to my new external hard drive, and it's kind of taking up most of my time and bandwidth. Spoiler for Lists:
Also, any suggestions of genres I'm leaving out would be appreciated. I've already realized I left ol' school rock'n'roll (e.g. Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc). Considering just how massive a genre rock is, I'm also wondering if I shouldn't include certain movements, like the British Invasion, on their own. I'm already doing krautrock after all (which is just artsy, German prog rock). @ Urban Thanks for your glam suggestions. It gives me something to smugly point to when people complain about me putting Motley Crue on the same list as Lou Reed. Still making my way through a bunch of those albums though, as they're moderately hard to find. BTW, I always thought of glam rock as more of an arty thing (Bowie and Roxy Music), but I never knew just how much a lot of it was rooted in straight-up blues. I don't know that I'll use them for glam, but The Sensational Alex Harvey Band could very well find themselves on the blues rock list. |
I propose a no wave list.
DNA - DNA on DNA Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Everything The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards Swans - Filth James Chance and the Contortions - Buy Daisuck & Prostitute – 死ぬまで踊りつづけて Glenn Branca - The Ascension Massacre - Killing Time Suicide - Suicide The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire |
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I think Urban has given you a very good glam list but it's a bit too diverse for it's own good. Maybe you need to simplify it even more or have two different sections there. I mean how are you going to put Motley Crue on a list with Roxy Music? I'd vote Motley Crue everytime there but the rest of the forum's non-metal fans would go with Roxy everytime, so you're going to end up with battles from bands that have two very different client bases.
I'd put bands like Roxy Music, Lou Reed and David Bowie on an Art Rock list and keep the glam list to those bands that have a rock/hard rock and metal feel on another one. Btw will drum up some lists for you a bit later as well. |
Before I pass out, this is what I've got so far.
Spoiler for idfbv:
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For Glam Rock, Suzi Quatro had a killer debut album, and it's consistently rated as one of the best Glam albums of the UK...
For Garage Rock, Paul Revere and the Raiders were way more awesome and influential than some of those choices in my opinion, and "Midnight Ride" is a killer album (especially the song "Steppin' Stone", which went on to become one of the most popular and defining songs of Garage and Punk Rock. Everyone from The Monkees to The Sex Pistols got in on the Steppin' Stone action)... And for Proto Punk, you could basically just call it "Garage Rock Part Two" :laughing:. Anyway, don't forget about Killing Floor. Also, a bunch of Garage bands had some good albums with Punk moments here and there, like The La De Das, The Zakary Thaks, and The Shadows of Knight... Spoiler for examples:
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EDIT: This Heat's Deceit deserves a spot on the post-punk list for not only being one of the best post punk records but also for being one of the best all around records. I think it'd be safe to take Talking Heads off and put Remain in Light in a new wave battle instead of post punk to make a spot of Deceit. TH is still post punk, it's just that their new wave element is a little higher up on their totem pole of styles. It'd also be nice to see Television's Marquee Moon on the list, but it's difficult thinking of who to throw off. EDIT (PART TWO): USA and Fifty Foot Hose should replace a few of the questionable albums on the psychedelic rock list. |
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That's why I took a liberal view to garage rock, otherwise the list would just be the redheaded stepchild of the rock and roll list. Garage rock revival bands for the most part are far superior to the bands that inspired them. And I threw Jon Spencer in there cause he's garage rock enough to qualify, and I just wouldn't know where else to put him. |
I think I'm starting with straight up rock and roll as it was a relatively easy list to come up with. Any problems with this list before we officially begin?
And if anyone is bothered by the relative lack of early cracker rock like Jerry Lee Lewis or Gene Vincent, then you can suck it. White people didn't catch up to black rock and roll until the British learned how to do it in the sixties. Deal with it. If I could justify taking Elvis and Buddy Holly off the list, I'd do it in an instant. Rock and Roll 1. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley 2. Little Richard - Here's Little Richard 3. Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up 4. Buddy Holly (The Crickets) - The "Chirping" Crickets 5. The Who - My Generation 6. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath [UK version] 7. Small Faces - The Small Faces ['66 debut] 8. Bo Diddley - Have Guitar, Will Travel 9. Chuck Berry - Berry Is on Top 10. The Animals - The Animals [UK version] |
May as well get the crappy ones out of the way first.
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The only person on this forum that I'm even aware of that likes this ancient 50s stuff is Neapolitan and I think Janszoon likes it as well. So you've got just two players there Batty, not even an old man like Trollheart listens to this stuff ;)
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Not my fault if a bunch of idiots need their music to be shiny.
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