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Top 10 Classic Rock albums?
What do you guys think are the top 10 classic rock albums? Why? What is the greatest classic rock band? The Doors? The Stones? The Who? AC/DC?
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Classic rock is more of a radio format than a genre of music. It's like having a "Top 10 Easy Listening albums". If you went off of what is played on the classic rock radio station where I live, the top ten would consist of Journey, Foreigner, and Supertramp.
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Does Led Zeppelin 1 and 2, and Pink Floyd Wish you were here qualify?
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http://www.10ledzeppelin.com/ledzepp...e-Plant-02.jpg ...and they said it best as well, "It's not a matter of us being the #1 rock band in the world, it's about how much farther ahead we are of #2". Sure, there are plenty of detractors now, sure the critics hated them initially, sure the music is predictable and played out by this point; but that's because every other rock band that's sprung up since the 70s has been directly influenced by them. Whether or not they were trying to 1up them like so many hair metal bands, or trying to decry their worth to society and culture like so many punk bands who wanted to strip away the excess and debauchery of the arena rock largesse, it was all still as a result of the one and only. I also agree with CaptainCaptain that Classic Rock is more of a radio format than genre, my local 'classic' rock station routinely plays Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. A more proper definition of Classic Rock is needed to better organize a Top 10. |
When Soundgarden Rocks asks for classic rock albums, I`m 99% certain that he`s referring to essential rock albums so here are 10 essentials from the 1960`s and Soundgarden if you already have any of these, I`ll replace them with other albums. All these albums have 1960`s release dates, I`ll suggest some 70`s stuff later.
Beatles- Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Beatles- Abbey Road Beatles- White Album Kinks- The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Kinks- Something Else By the Kinks Buffalo Springfield- Buffalo Springfield Again Byrds- Fifth Dimension Byrds- Younger Than Yesterday Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin II Free- Tons of Sobs Doors- Doors Doors- Strange Days Love- Forever Changes Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix- Electric Ladyland MC5- Kick Out the Jams Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica Grateful Dead- Aoxomoxoa Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River The Band- Music From Big Pink Zombies- Odessey and Oracle Moody Blues- Days of Future Passed Mothers of Invention- Freak Out! Velvet Underground- White Light/White Heat Who- The Who Sell Out Who-Tommy Pretty Things- S.F Sorrow BTW there`s a bit more than 10 here:laughing: But any serious music lovers should have these albums in their collection imo. BTW I don`t like the Rolling Stones but even I`ve got "Beggars Banquet" and "Let it Bleed" so maybe you want to consider these and even the borefest called Bob Dylan.:laughing: |
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I myself, suggest Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard of Ozz as a candidate. Debut of Randy Roads. Ozzy has introduced an array of rock guitarist through the years. |
Derek & The Dominos ~ Layla and other assorted love songs
The Beatles ~ Abbey Road Bob Dylan ~ Blood On The Tracks The Who ~ Who's Next The Doors ~ The Doors The Rolling Stones ~ Let It Bleed Led Zeppelin ~ II The Kinks ~ The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Cosmo's Factory The Band ~ Music From Big Pink |
Led Zep-1, 2 and 3
Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde The Beatles-Revolver Pink Floyd-Wish you were here The Stones-Beggars` Banquet Deep Purple-In Rock Derek and the Dominoes-Layla and other assorted love songs Leonard Cohen-Songs of Love and Hate |
i'll stick to the 70s (classic rock stations here mostly play 70s stuff):-
1. Led Zeppelin 2 2. Who's Next 3. Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars - David Bowie 4. Red - King Crimson 5. Blood on the Tracks - Dylan 6. Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings 7. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 8. Deep Purple in Rock 9. Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith 10. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow |
From my definition, which is albums with songs I would generally hear on classic rock radio:
1. The White Album- The Beatles 2. Ziggy Stadust- David Bowie 3. Abbey Road- The Beatles 4. Van Halen 5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles 6. Led Zeppelin IV 7. The Who Sell Out 8. Outlandos D'Amour- The Police 9. Appetite for Destruction- Guns N' Roses 10. Led Zeppelin II |
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