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Your favourite rock album?

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  • #52
    Raif Severance
    Registered Users Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Raif Severance


    RodgersLFC wrote: »
    Haha cheers :D

    Some great albums you've listed there, although I must confess, I have never gotten into The Doors at all. Could you recommend a starter album? Self titled one or?

    Try the ones I've listed. I'd even recommend the 2nd Album, Strange Days. But if you must try just one, then go with LA Woman. Their first Album is like their Sgt. Pepper's while LA Woman is like their Let It Be. Meaning, it's Back-to-Basics. More Raw Rock and Roll and much easier to get into.

    Try their other albums, only if you've already become a fan. Not that they are bad, far from it. It's just that they are more experimental and progressive in nature. But then again, you do listen to Pink Floyd, and they are not as "Out There" as the Floyd.

    Not to mention, those albums does contain some really great songs. Here's 2 examples:
    DOORS - Roadhouse Blues - Morrison Hotel

    The Best Rock & Roll/Blues Song, IMO.

    DOORS - Shaman's Blues - Soft Parade

    As someone who loves AIC's Bluesy songs, I know you're going to love this one.

    And oh, do skip the ones without Jim Morrison, they are rubbish. :D

    And the Album, American Prayer, maybe nice, but it might not tickle your fancy. Think Jim Morisson reciting his Poetry with The Doors Music as his backdrop. For fans only.


  • #53
    Myrddin
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    Another vote for Appetite For Destruction


  • #54
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    Hard to pick just one. It changes from week to week between:

    The Beatles - The White Album
    Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
    The Clash - London Calling
    David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (amongst other Bowie albums)
    The Doors - The Doors
    Lou Reed - Transformer
    The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
    The Who - Who's Next


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    stanley1 wrote: »
    feats don't fail me now by little feat, superb band who opened for a lot of big bands and promptly blew them off the stage.

    Their eponymous first album and Sailing Shoes are also class.


  • #56
    RodgersLFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭RodgersLFC


    Raif Severance wrote: »
    Try the ones I've listed. I'd even recommend the 2nd Album, Strange Days. But if you must try just one, then go with LA Woman. Their first Album is like their Sgt. Pepper's while LA Woman is like their Let It Be. Meaning, it's Back-to-Basics. More Raw Rock and Roll and much easier to get into.

    Try their other albums, only if you've already become a fan. Not that they are bad, far from it. It's just that they are more experimental and progressive in nature. But then again, you do listen to Pink Floyd, and they are not as "Out There" as the Floyd.

    Not to mention, those albums does contain some really great songs. Here's 2 examples:
    DOORS - Roadhouse Blues - Morrison Hotel

    The Best Rock & Roll/Blues Song, IMO.

    DOORS - Shaman's Blues - Soft Parade

    As someone who loves AIC's Bluesy songs, I know you're going to love this one.

    And oh, do skip the ones without Jim Morrison, they are rubbish. :D

    And the Album, American Prayer, maybe nice, but it might not tickle your fancy. Think Jim Morisson reciting his Poetry with The Doors Music as his backdrop. For fans only.

    Thanks a lot for the tips. I'll start with the first album and go from there. Cheers again :)


  • #57
    Berlin at night
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Berlin at night


    Thread really should be titled fav 20 classic rock albums - impossible to name just one as the one, because I tried that and the folliowng post mentioned Powerage that I had forgotton about. So sad real music is dead now, lost to the vultures of art destruction ala XFactor and that sort of mind numbing drek.


  • #58
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    I can narrow it down to 2

    Led Zeppelin II - Absolute legend of an album, the "tricky second album" has never imo been done better than this.

    Or
    Dark Side of the Moon - Because its just a non-stop epic of awesome music, still hate Apple for fighting with them over the one-track 45, it is supposed to be listened to in one, kind of like just looking at Mona Lisa's smile. Brain Damage just puts the hairs on the back of my neck standing up, every time.


  • #59
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Cream - Disraeli Gears


  • #60
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    What a question. Couldn't pick really, but if pushed it might be Fireball or maybe even Who Do We Think we Are?


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  • #61
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Gotta love Neil Young & Crazy Horse Ragged Glory.


  • #62
    200motels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭200motels


    Machine Head Deep Purple.


  • #63
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Hard to be definite about this but Darkness on the Edge of Town and London Calling would definitely be up there. I've probably listened to London Calling more than any other album. Maybe these aren't exactly classic rock though so I'll throw in Revolver too.


  • #64
    tedobrien98
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭tedobrien98


    I see the title has changed from Classic Rock to Rock so I'm gonna be bold and say What's the story morning glory by Oasis and I am prepared for whatever abuse you may throw at me. :P

    Not my favourite rock album, but I like to be controversial. ;):)


  • #65
    newcavanman
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭newcavanman


    Any of the late 70s to early 80s Rush album . I drove the truck home from naas to cavan this evening , listened to Signals twice . It brought me back to that night in may 83 whdn i first saw Rush live in wembly. Nearly 30 years later and they sound better than ever


  • #66
    [Deleted User]
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    tedobrien98 wrote: »
    I see the title has changed from Classic Rock to Rock so I'm gonna be bold and say What's the story morning glory by Oasis and I am prepared for whatever abuse you may throw at me. :P

    Not my favourite rock album, but I like to be controversial. ;):)

    I preferred 'Be Here Now'.


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  • #67
    kerrywoman1
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭kerrywoman1


    It has to be appetite for destruction the one and only.


  • #68
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Joy Division - Closer

    Nirvana's Nevermind usually comes as a guilty pleasure for me though


  • #69
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Rainbow - Rising

    What an album


  • #70
    Manc-Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭Manc-Red


    Live in Japan ~ Deep Purple


  • #71
    thrashmetalfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭thrashmetalfan


    Manc-Red wrote: »
    Live in Japan ~ Deep Purple

    thats a great live album. i love deep purple!!


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  • #72
    afro man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭afro man


    some classics which started me into the real music :D

    rose tattoo( rose tattoo) 1978

    motorhead (ace of spades ) 1980

    ac/dc (let there be rock ) 1977


  • #73
    Strawberry Fields
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Strawberry Fields


    THIN LIZZY BLACK ROSE

    AC/DC BACK IN BLACK

    HENDRIX JIMI PLAYS MONTERREY - if only for the greatest version of like a rolling stone ever even if he misses a verse.


  • #74
    archicraft
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭archicraft


    Has to be appetite for destruction by G’N’S ,final track on album ,Rocket Queen, brings back great memories:):)


  • #75
    kamc
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭kamc


    London Calling - The Clash


  • #76
    cack_handed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭cack_handed


    Some day surely I will get tired of listening to London Calling over and over and over again...but have been saying this for more years than I care to remember. Even writing this gives me the urge to spin it one more time and surprise myself, as I do each time, of the gob-smacking brilliance on each and every groove


  • #77
    SubBusted
    Site Banned Posts: 224 ✭✭SubBusted


    Let it be - Replacements. Anyone who thinks music in the mid-1980s was all ZZ Top/Springsteen/UB40 give this a listen.


  • #78
    Achtung Maybe
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Achtung Maybe


    Each day it veers from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby...today its Achtung Baby


  • #79
    BrenCann
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭BrenCann


    Pearl Jam - Ten , can't go wrong , it changed my life.


  • #80
    chughes
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    Boston - Boston

    Great music for motorway driving although you have to be on your own in the car and the volume up loud.


  • #81
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street.


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  • #82
    Eiresmith
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Eiresmith


    Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith...........stone cold classic !!!!


  • #83
    lardzeppelin
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭lardzeppelin


    More a top ten really....

    Emerson, Lake and Palmer / Trilogy...
    Triumvirat / "Old Loves Die Hard"...
    Genesis / The Lamb Lies Down On Broabway...
    King Crimson / Red...
    Frank Zappa / Tinsle Town Rebellion / Joes Garage acts 1,2,3 / Sleep Dirt....
    The Enid / Six Pieces....
    UK / UK....
    Eddie Jobson - Zinc / The Green Album...


  • #84
    dwsl280
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭dwsl280


    Def Leppard - Hysteria. Love this Album, cannot count how many times I have listened to it.


  • #85
    ConstantLove
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭ConstantLove


    Pink floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


  • #86
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Although it was way before my time, Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction definitely has to be my favourite Rock album, the opening riff to Welcome To The Jungle - goosebumps every time it comes up on my iPod, and Appetite is just brilliant from start to finish


  • #87
    PropJoe10
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    Led Zeppelin IV, probably the greatest hard rock album of all time. Its got everything - hard rock, acoustic numbers, and the timeless Stairway to Heaven. And Stairway isnt even in my top 4 songs on the album. Truly brilliant, timeless music.


  • #88
    Naraka
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Naraka


    Tom Petty - Wildflowers
    Rush - Moving Pictures
    Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
    Alice In Chains - Dirt
    Therapy - Infernal Love


  • #89
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Queen - Sheer Heart Attack


  • #90
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Deep Purple Machine Head :P


    Followed by Rush's Moving Pictures/2112 (cant decide between the two)


    Though London Calling is timeless


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  • #91
    Rock fan
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭Rock fan


    sticky fingers whats not to like the stones one fire with Mick taylor sway how good is that and it doesn't even feature Keef !!


  • #92
    Myrddin
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    Would 'These Days' by Bon Jovi count as classic rock? Some damn fine tunes on that album, kinda dark stuff given the artists usual up beat type ballads. Really love the album


  • #93
    cack_handed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭cack_handed


    Not exactly knockin it but think jurassic rock is the technical term you're lookin for


  • #94
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Greatest Hits

    :P


  • #95
    HRR
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭HRR


    Kungfu wrote: »
    Alice Cooper- Welcome to my Nightmare
    Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
    Circus of Power - Magic and Madness
    Badlands - Badlands
    Badlands - Voodoo Highway
    Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

    to name a few.

    I can't believe somebody in Ireland actually knows Badlands.

    HRR


  • #96
    Hagar the Nice.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Hagar the Nice.


    Jimi Hendrix Experience. Electric Ladyland.
    Neil Young. Rust never sleeps.
    Rory Gallagher.Notes from San Francisco.
    Rush. Exit,stage left.
    Queen. A night at the opera.
    Led Zeppelin 4.
    Cream. Wheels of fire.
    The Who. Who's next.
    Steve Via. Fire garden.
    Thin Lizzy. Live and dangerous.
    Joe Satriani. Flying in a blue dream.
    Deep Purple. In rock.
    Bruce Springsteen. Born in the USA.
    Groundhogs.Thank Christ for the bomb.
    If you have never heard of TCFTB then give it a wee listen,the guitar work on the title track is incredible.

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=n1wfoMKd_M4


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  • #97
    gccgandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭gccgandalf


    The Butterfield Blues Band: East West - dual guitars of Mike Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop, harp by Paul Butterfield.
    Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
    Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
    John Mayall: Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
    The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
    The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
    The Who: Who's next
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
    The Band: Music from Big Pink
    Daniel Lanois: Acadie
    Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
    Grateful Dead: American Beauty


  • #98
    liamaseire
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    The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet


  • #99
    4Sticks
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    Whatever Rory Gallagher CD I am playing at any moment.

    Or Led Zep ... or AC/DC ...or Rush


  • #100
    HRR
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭HRR


    Well, I don't have just one but some of them are:

    Motley Crue - Motley Crue (the 1994 Album with John Corabi singing, this is the most underrated Album of all time)
    The Scream - Let It Scream
    Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
    Lynch Mob - Lynch Mob
    Badlands - First
    Badlands - Voodoo Highway
    Skid Row - Slave to The Grind
    etc.

    HRR


  • #101
    ohigg84
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭ohigg84


    Berlin at night wrote: »
    A mate of mine saw Bon SCOTT in the Olympia on the 1977 Powerage tour - lucky sod.

    Powerage was released in 1978.


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