Albums you would recommend.

[BARE BONE]

Anything with Dave is a given. I recommend

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Doors - L.A. Woman or Waithing for the Sun
Grand funk Railroad - E Pluribus Funk
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin Fancy
Kiss - Hotter than Hell



I could go on forever.

:smilieci:

[Hecubus]

Lynyrd Skynyrd-One From the Road
Jimi - A Band of Gypsies
AC/DC - If You Want Blood

[Hecubus]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live @ Montreaux

[EmpyreLounge44]

robert randolph & family band - unclassified

[Hecubus]

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton

[Coyote]

Originally posted by guwapo_rocker
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous rocks bro!!!!!

That's a vote for you!!

Zank yoo, zank yoo, zere is won für you as well... :cool:

[Wayne L.]

Abbey Road-The Beatles
Let It Bleed-The Rolling Stones
Who's Next-The Who
Rock & Roll Over-Kiss
Pronouced-Lynyrd Skynyrd
John Lennon Plastic Ono Band-John Lennon
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap-AC/DC
Flirtin WIth Disaster-Molly Hatchet
Get Your Wings-Aerosmith
Paranoid-Black Sabbath

[ALMOSTsaved]

The Flying Tigers self titled debut album.

Aerosmith ROCKS

Motley Crue LIVE Entertainment or Death

Ace Frehley KISS solo album

RATT Dancing Undercover

[Warham]

Pet Sounds and Today! by the Beach Boys

[Coyote]

The Darkness - Permission To Land :D
Budgie - Budgie
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Michael Schenker Group - Arachnophobiac
MacAuley Schenker Group - MSG
UFO - Lights Out and/or Obsession
Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror

[Mr Badguy]

I would recommend Alice Cooper`s "Life and crimes of Alice Cooper" box set.

I got it recently.

I had a couple of albums like "Trash" and "Greatest hits", but shit, those don`t even scratch the surface.

Now I know what all the fuss is about.

A lot of songs still have a lot of shock value, like "Dead babies", "The ballad of Dwight Fry" and "I love the dead", which is amazing for stuff that has been around for over thirty years.

Great stuff.

[flappo]

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak, Bad Reputation , Chinatown
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick , Aqualung , A Passion Play
Queen - II , Sheer Heart Attack , News of The World , Jazz , Night at the Opera , The Miracle & Gratest Hits Vol 1 & 2 .
The Who - By Numbers , Tommy , Who's Next , Live at the Albert Hall ( DVD )
Jack Jones - Sings Michel Legrand
Bad News - Bad News
Boston - Boston
and anything by Banannananaarama

[rustoffa]

L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
UFO - No Heavy Petting
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick, In Color, The complete Budhokan thing
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
The Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched
Thin Lizzy - Peel Sessions
All the fucked up mp3 discs I have with shit like Jerry Reed, Agent
Orange, Twisted Sister, the Guess Who and lord knows what else
on 'em.

[ashstralia]

iron maiden - number of the beast
frank zappa - joe's garage
jeff buckley - grace

three life changing experiences for me.

[Warham]

I also have to recommend Elvis' Memphis Sessions.

[Coyote]

Prince - Graffiti Bridge, 1999, or Purple Rain

[flappo]

anything by zep up to and including presence obv.

10cc had their moments too ( ok , slushy crap , but clever arrangements )

jeff beck - cato likes that him !

satriani - surfing with the alien is ok , if a very eddie ripoff feel imho

vai's solo stuff is mind numbingly dull

[Mezro]

Originally posted by ashstralia
frank zappa - joe's garage


Amen brother!

Mezro...I am the central scrutinizer

[Mezro]

KISS - Creatures of the Night and Revenge
The Cure - Pornography and Disintegration
Queensryche - Rage For Order and Operation Mindcrime
The Doors - Best of is a good place to start
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Garbage - Garbage 2.0
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Black Sabbath - any Ozzy, Heaven & Hell and Born Again
Ozzy - Blizzard, Diary and Bark
Last Crack - Burning Time
Lost Highway and The Crow Soundtracks
Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure III
Crystal Method - Vegas
Judas Priest - British Steel & Hell Bent For Leather
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Danzig - Danzig
David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Heroes

I could go on and on and on and on....

Mezro...music..ain't it a great thing...

[Don Corleone]

The Hives: Your New Favourite Band
The Jam: All Mod Cons
Metallica: And Justice for All
The Who: My Generation LP
The Beatles: Revolver
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast + Power Slave
The Kinks: Any Best of Album
AC/DC: Live (Recorded at Donnington)
Van Halen: Van Halen 1 (or any of the 6 pack)
The Small Faces: Ogdens Golden Nut Tobacco
Eminem: Marshall Mathers LP
Nirvana: Nevermind

Going to stop here, as I could keep going on

P.S. Don't forget the Best of Adam and the Ants

[secrets]

Rush - Signals, Moving Pictures, and Exit...Stage Left

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Jane's Addiction - Strays

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude and Jurrasic Shift

Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced? and Radio One

Aerosmith - Pump

AC/DC - Who Made Who

Led Zeppelin - 3

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

Ry Cooder - Paris Texas

Mclaughlin, Dimeola, De Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco (Live)

[Coyote]

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive

[smaz]

Originally posted by Coyote
Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous, Jailbreak or Johnny The Fox


Originally posted by Wayne L.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap-AC/DC
Paranoid-Black Sabbath


Originally posted by Don Corleone
The Hives: Your New Favourite Band
The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
The Kinks: Any Best of Album
AC/DC: Live (Recorded at Donnington)
Van Halen: Van Halen 1 (or any of the 6 pack)


All above are ace albums. Also:

The Who - New best of is great
Deep Purple - Made in Japan I think it's called.
Alice Cooper - Hell Is
The Datsuns - Self titled

Can't think of any others at the mo........

[BARE BONE]

FREE - Live(Remastered)

[Panamark]

MEGADETH -Peace Sells, buts who's buyin.

[Mr Grimsdale]

dannii minogue - neon nights (for the pictures)

[Panamark]

Grimsdale, you got to hook up with some of her Calenders..
If they dont flog em in the old Blimey, let me know and I
will send you one from Oz.......

[Panamark]

I thought you were a Kylie freak ???

[Mr Grimsdale]

i believe i am ready to handle the pair of them!

bring the sausages!

[Panamark]

Ok, I'll bring the buns and tomatoe sauce...

[Mr Grimsdale]

ooh no missus no!

[secrets]

Calm down dear...it's only a commercial.:D

[Coyote]

Anyway...

John Sykes - Nuclear Cowboy
Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels

[Panamark]

Anthrax - Spreading the Disease.

(The only Anthrax album worth owning)

[Panamark]

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King

[Panamark]

Metal Church - Metal Church

[Panamark]

Loudness - Thunder in the East !

[Panamark]

Anything Ozzy (Sabbath, Randy, Jake E Lee and Zakk)

[Carmine]

slayer- reign in blood
metal church- self titled
anthrax- among the living( joey is from my home town)
metallica- KEA, ride, mop, ajfa
cro-mags- best wishes
and of course VH 1-6

[secrets]

Originally posted by Panamark
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease.

(The only Anthrax album worth owning)

Is that the one with the album cover and songs based on
"The Stand" by Stephen King? I remember they did one like that.


efilgnikcufecin
nicefuckinglife

Yeah?

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Panamark
Loudness - Thunder in the East !

I've got that (LP). Kick ass riffs! :killer:

[Mr Grimsdale]

plop

[Jano]

Killer-iron maiden
unleashed in the east-judas priest
Double live gonzo-ted nugent
wheels of steel-saxon
live and dangerous-thin lizzy
the wall-pink floyd
add1+ up-violent femmes
NIN-the downward spiral
trust-Trust

[BARE BONE]

Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
The Cult - Electric
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly Soundtrack

[BIGBADZERO]

Originally posted by Panamark
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease.

(The only Anthrax album worth owning)

You know we get along now buddy but I gotta disagree with you on this one. Among The Living is a classic Anthrax album. State Of Euphoria's pretty good too but that's where they started to slide with me. I actually saw them on that tour April 9, 1989 at The Long Beach, CA Arena with Exodus & Helloween. It was my 21st B-Day too.

[BARE BONE]

What about Sound of white noise. I like John Bush with Anthrax.

[Coyote]

Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack
Michael Schenker Group - MSG
John Sykes - "Nuclear Cowboy" & "Outta My Tree"

[diamond den™]

Originally posted by ashstralia
iron maiden - number of the beast
frank zappa - joe's garage
jeff buckley - grace

three life changing experiences for me.

Joe's Garage by Frank Zappa is GENIUS!!!!!

:)

[Carmine]

Originally posted by BIGBADZERO
You know we get along now buddy but I gotta disagree with you on this one. Among The Living is a classic Anthrax album. State Of Euphoria's pretty good too but that's where they started to slide with me. I actually saw them on that tour April 9, 1989 at The Long Beach, CA Arena with Exodus & Helloween. It was my 21st B-Day too.

89 was when they booted Joe Belladonna, downward since then. I am biased though, I said earlier joe is from my hometown and is my friend... there is talk of a reunion though...

another to add to my list

S.O.D." speak english or die"

[Jano]

Originally posted by Coyote
Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack
Michael Schenker Group - MSG
John Sykes - "Nuclear Cowboy" & "Outta My Tree"
-Michaef Schenker is a fucking guitar player,i agree!!
;)

[smaz]

I agree with Panamark, Megadeath - Peace Sells But Who's Buyin' is great. Also, Iron Maiden's Edward The Great, it's a best of. Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles or self titled album (I think, it's the one with the grey cover with a flame/fire on it) are good albums too. Also Ash, Feeder and the Foo Fighters have good albums.

[Hecubus]

Y&T - Black Tiger
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
The Doors Live
ZZ Top - Live Nationwide

[Hecubus]

Originally posted by smaz
I agree with Panamark, Megadeath - Peace Sells But Who's Buyin' is great. Also, Iron Maiden's Edward The Great, it's a best of. Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles or self titled album (I think, it's the one with the grey cover with a flame/fire on it) are good albums too. Also Ash, Feeder and the Foo Fighters have good albums.

Hey smaz,

Which Feeder album are you talking about? I have Polythene & it rocks big time!

[Panamark]

Originally posted by secrets
Is that the one with the album cover and songs based on
"The Stand" by Stephen King? I remember they did one like that.


efilgnikcufecin
nicefuckinglife

Yeah?

I think you are thinking of "Among the Living"
had that creepy looking dude sitting alone in
a cinema. (From the stephen King film)

Cool song BTW !

[Panamark]

I cant believe nobody has said the Holy Grail Album

"Led Zep 4"

[Panamark]

Originally posted by BIGBADZERO
You know we get along now buddy but I gotta disagree with you on this one. Among The Living is a classic Anthrax album. State Of Euphoria's pretty good too but that's where they started to slide with me. I actually saw them on that tour April 9, 1989 at The Long Beach, CA Arena with Exodus & Helloween. It was my 21st B-Day too.

Actually Im going to kinda counter-agree with you.. Among the Living was a classic too. Definately worth owning. But Spreading the Disease had a new rawness about it, that they never seemed to recapture. Thats why I love it. They sounded like they were on the verge of something huge, just like early metallica.. I quite like State of Euphoria too. They really did turn to shit after this... Why ?
Was it Scott the not fucking Ian's fault ?? Who knows.....

I always think of them now as the band that could have been so much more... I think they started to think a bit too much about rap or some crap.. When they were pure metal, they were cool !

[Panamark]

And another classic, although I love the original albums the best.

AC/DC - Back in Black... Fooking Classic !!

[Coyote]

Let's add some more "royalty", shall we? :D

Prince - Dirty Mind, Controversy, Sign O' The Times.

[frenchie]

1 the dark side of the moon (PINK FLOYD)
2 still got the blues(GARY MOORE)
3 the ju ju hounds (IZZY STRADLIN)
4 Led zeppelin4
5 the wall (PINK FLOYD) everybody will have to listen this one!
6 the three first THIN LIZZY albums
7 regatta de blanc (THE POLICE)
8 war (U2)
9 paranoid (BLACK SABBATH)
10 Marching to mars (comon' it's a joke......

[Matt White]

MULESKINNER: A Potpourri of Bluegrass Jam
Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Inspiration
The Black Crowes: By Your Side
Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around
Wilco: AM
Micheal Hedges: Aerial Boundaries
Gov't Mule: Live...With a little help from our friends
Velvet Revolver
Van Halen: The Six-pack(ALL DAVE era CD's!!!!)
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengence
Kiss: Alive & Destroyer
Led Zeppelin: ALL & the Live DVD(INCREDIBLE!!!!!)
AC/DC: Powerage, Highway to HELL, & Let there be Rock
The Byrds: Untitled & Farther Along
Alice in Chains: ALL
Stone Temple Pilots: Core & Purple
Nirvanna: ALL
Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Oz & Diary of a Mad MAn(Rhandy Rules!!!!!)

[frenchie]

what's about rikki martin.maybe it could be the new vh singer

[Matt White]

Oh yeah.....here's some more...
Iron Maiden: # of the BEast, Piece of Mind, PowerSlave, Somewhere in Time
Metallica: Ride the Lightning, MASTER OF PUPPETS, LIVE SHIT; Binge and Purge
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien
Muddy Waters: Boz set
Willy Dixon: Box set
Chuck Berry: any GREATEST HITS
Buddy Guy: ALL, SWEET TEA (go buy this TODAY!!!!!!!!)
Stevie Ray Vaughan: ALL & LIVE AT THE EL MACOMBO (Will Blow Your FUCKIN' MIND!!!!!)


:killer: :killer: :killer:

[pete]

If you like Velvet Revolver

try

Jane's Addiction - Strays

[frenchie]

jane's addiction,real good band!!!

[secrets]

Jane's Addiction are great, love that new CD.

I recently got the new best of Ozric Tentacles double CD ( Eternal Wheel) which I would recommend to anybody who's never heard their stuff before.

Will not appeal to all but is a very original mixture of Progressive Rock, Guitar Insrumental, Techno, Ambient and Eastern Arabic influence.

Hard to imagine? Think of a colaborative album between Rush, Steve Vai, Leftfield and Omar Faruk Tekbilek and you come close to what this is about.

[Coyote]

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies, The Eyes Of
Phil Lynott - Solo In Soho

[DeadOrAlive]

Saturation - Urge Overkill

[scotty971]

Kiss- Every slbum up to and including Alive II

The Rolling Stones- Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers & Exile on Main Street

Rush- 2112 and Moving Pictures

Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight, Live at Budokan and Dream Police

AC/DC- High Voltage

Def Leppard- High 'N' Dry

Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti

Stone Temple Pilots- Core & Number 4

Foo Fighters- One By One

[DeadOrAlive]

Cheap Trick... GREAT STUFF!

[Coyote]

Ultravox - Vienna

[Golden AWe]

of the less-chart-topping artists:

Jerry Cantrell: Degradation trip

All Kingston Wall-records

Old albums of Wigwam like Nuclear Nightclub and Being

[sambo]

Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute

[WolfStar999]

-Tom Waits "Rain Dogs"
-Evanescence "Fallen"
-Demons & Wizards "Demons & Wizards"
-Yngwie Malmsteen "Odyssey" (Everything he did after '89 except "Concerto" sucks royal cock)
-"Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis 3" (filed under Black Flag)
-Iced Earth "Horror Show"
-Blind Guardian "Somewhere Far Beyond", "Nightfall in Middle Earth", "Tales from the Twilight World", "Batallions of Fear"
-Stratovarius "Destiny"
-Metallica "Master of Puppets"
-Thin Lizzy "The Remembering, pt. 1"
-Motorhead "Overkill", "1916"
-Billy Joel "Storm Front"
-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Murder Ballads"
-Frank Zappa "Sheik Yerbouti"
-Judas Priest "Painkiller", "Defenders of the Faith"
...that's all I can think of for now...:killer:

[diamondsgirl]

Originally posted by Matt White
Oh yeah.....here's some more...
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the Alien
Muddy Waters: Boz set
Willy Dixon: Box set
Chuck Berry: any GREATEST HITS
Buddy Guy: ALL, SWEET TEA (go buy this TODAY!!!!!!!!)
Stevie Ray Vaughan: ALL & LIVE AT THE EL MACOMBO (Will Blow Your FUCKIN' MIND!!!!!)


:killer: :killer: :killer:

Muddy, Buddy and Stevie:cool:
Nice.

[rocknrolldork]

Devil To Pay - 30 Pieces of Silver (www.deviltopay.net)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Beatles - The White Album
Jay-Z - The Gray Album
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Van Halen - Women and Children First
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Who - Live at Leeds
Nashville Pussy - Say Something Nasty/High as Hell
GURU - Jazzmatazz
Ahmad Jamal - Live at the Pershing (Vols. I & II)
Loretta - The Translation
Otis Gibbs - 49th & Melancholy

[Susie Q]

Originally posted by rustoffa
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy
UFO - No Heavy Petting
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick, In Color, The complete Budhokan thing
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
The Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched
Thin Lizzy - Peel Sessions
All the fucked up mp3 discs I have with shit like Jerry Reed, Agent
Orange, Twisted Sister, the Guess Who and lord knows what else
on 'em.

I tell ya.....The first Cheap Trick album is as good as Van Halens first album if you ask me. That thing was raw, untainted by the "business" and freakin' excellent. Daddy should have stayed in high school is the absolute best song on that album. I think Rick Neilsen is a under rated guitar player.

[tobinentinc]

Anything by Zeppelin
AC/DC - Back in Black
Metallica - Metallica
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Velvet Revolver - Contraband
Dio - Holy Diver
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
KISS - Revenge
Skid Row - Skid Row
The Who - Who's Next
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Ozzy Osborne - Blizzard of Ozz
Neil Young - Harvest
Genesis - Genesis

. . . I'll stop there

[Reverberator]

1) The holy bible Manic street preachers

2) Wish you were here Pink Floyd

3) And justice for all Metallica

4) Permanent waves Rush

5) Chas & Dave Greatest hits

These are subject to change almost by the second , and in no way is the list in order of preference .

Lets face it if you are a cockney twat at a party you are going to want to hear songs abaaaaart seafood and abaaaaaaaaaaart yer uncle Bert playing knees up mother Brown whilst a German bomb is homing in on the fackin house.

The rest of the list ... make your own mind up .

[Coyote]

The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives, Veni Vidi Vicious

[lionsfan]

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

[bueno bob]

My essential listening (as of this moment)...

Racer X - Second Heat, Snowball of Doom
Opeth - Deliverance, Damnation
Moonspell - Sin/Pecado, The Butterfly Effect, Darkness & Hope
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Saint Vitus - Live, Hallow's Victim, C.O.D.
Todd Rundgren - The Best of Todd Rundgren
Rainbow - Catch the Rainbow: Collection
Paul Davis - Cool Night
Yes - The Ladder
Possessed - The Best of Possessed
Venom - The Singles '80/'85
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Cathedral - Endtyme
Shania Twain - Up!
The Crucified - S/T
Tony MacAlpine - Edge of Insanity
Motorhead - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else
Asia - Anthology
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Mercyful Fate - The Beginning
England Dan & John Ford Coley - Greatest Hits

...anyway, that's about all I've listened to in the last three months or so... :)

[Hecubus]

Stevie Ray Vaughan Box Set
Led Zeppelin Box Set 2
AC/DC Live
Foghat Live
Jimi Hendrix & A Band of Gypsies - Live at the Fillmore East
Lynyrd Skynyrd One More From the Road

[lionsfan]

Originally posted by lionsfan
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

One more...

Dire Straits - Live at the BBC

"Down to the Waterline", "Sultans of Swing", and "Tunnel of Love" are my favorite tracks off of this album. Overall, a great performance.

:rockit:

[Dan]

1)Billy Idol - Greatest Hits
2)IceHouse - Man Of colours
3)Men At Work -The Works
4)Nirvana - Nevermind
5)Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
6)Supergrass - In It For The Money

[Coyote]

Let's put something contemporary in here:

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
(Ya have to look beyond the NY disco sounds. Check out "Take Your Mama Out" or "Mary".)

[spmusicplyr]

Steve VAi- Passion and warfare...good shit!

[DLRdelight!]

Rage Against The Machine self titled and Evil Empire
All CVH
The Doors

[secrets]

Originally posted by spmusicplyr
Steve VAi- Passion and warfare...good shit!

I prefer his first album Flex-able, but then I'm weird.

[manwiththedogs]

Black Sabbath-Volume 4
Megadeth-Killing is my Business...
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Pantera-Coyboys from Hell
Anthrax-Among the Living

[Rebel]

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned, if you don't have it, don't walk, RUN to the record store and get this one.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JCDC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Best disc of the 90's.

[Rebel]

Just checked out what clips they have on cdnow, if you aren't down with that clip from "Shine On", something's wrong with you. Everybody should have this damn cd. Honestly, there's not a bad song on the whole thing.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JCDC/qid=1093723342/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2439348-0537609?v=glance&s=music

[DrGrafenberg]

15 ESSENTIAL ALBUMS



1970-1974 | 1975-1979 | 1980-1982

Deep Purple - In Rock released June 1970
Floundering around and looking for a direction, Deep Purple's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and keyboard player Jon Lord made an agreement if Jon's project, an orchestral piece, was a huge success then that would be the direction the band would follow. If Ritchie's baby, a hard rock album, was a bigger success then that would dictate their future. That hard rock album, In Rock, was the bigger success... much to Ritchie's relief. And ours Speed King, Child In Time, Flight Of The Rat... Deep Purple had arrived.

Jimi Hendrix - Experience released 1971
Jimi exploded seemingly out of nowhere, and re-wrote the guitar rulebook. And not only did he turn guitar playing on its head, let's not forget those songs Purple Haze, Hey Joe, Fire, Foxey Lady, The Wind Cries Mary... one of the most incredible debut albums, and one which still sounds astonishingly vibrant today.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung released April 1971
Jethro Tull were a uniquely British band who, on paper, should never have existed let alone worked a bug-eyed flute player leading a motley gang through a rag-bag of folk, blues, hard rock and pastoral traditional English music. Then throw that terrifying phrase "concept album" into the equation, and alarm bells ought to start ringing. Instead, "Aqualung" is a musical tour-de-force and a genuine classic album, and one of progressive rock's more listenable classics.

Led Zeppelin - IV released November 1971
Fresh from his stint in the Yardbirds, Jimmy Page had an idea for a new band... an idea Keith Moon thought would be as successful as a lead zeppelin. However, not only were Led Zeppelin instantly successful, the band soon found they were the blueprint for any aspiring young rock band, whether it be in terms of image, attitude, myth or riffage. And so durable is that blueprint that it is just as relevant today as it was 35 years ago. Never ones to rest on their laurels, Led Zep followed their blistering first two records, and a gentler more folky third album, with a fourth album that perfected the mix of light and shade, quiet and loud from Rock'n Roll's straight ahead drive, to The Battle Of Evermore's mandolin driven otherworldliness, to the stomping blues of When The Levee Breaks. And on top of all that you get the hard rock national anthem, Stairway To Heaven.

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, IV released September 1974
With their debut Black Sabbath accidentally created heavy metal doomy minor key guitar riffs, creepy tempos, an air of dark claustraphobia and those pasty white faces pearing out from under long, lank hair. Whilst with time, Black Sabbath didn't exercise much sophistication, they did sharpen and diversify their sound, and this album is the zenith of the Ozzy Osbourne line-up... though whilst their paean to cocaine, Snowblind, was a fine Sabbath stomp, it was a clue as to where their imminent friction would stem from.

Rainbow - Rainbow Rising released 1976
A fantastic meeting of like minds, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and singer Ronnie James Dio were both inclined towards the gothic the grandiose and the mystical and this album was unlike Led Zep, or Ritchie's former band Deep Purple, or anyone else for that matter. Instead it pointed a new way forward for hard rock bands, as just one listen to Stargazer or A Light In The Black would prove.

Thin Lizzy- Live And Dangerous released 1978
Widely considered to be the greatest live rock album ever (and who cares if it was "sweetened" in the studio later). Thin Lizzy albums were often very good, certainly main man Phil Lynott was a great song-writer, but they never captured the full fire and drive of that band had when playing live. This certainly succeeds, and those songs... The Boys Are Back In Town, Jailbreak, Cowboy Song, Don't Believe A Word, Dancing In The Moonlight...

Van Halen - I released 1978
And talking of young gun-slingers, with this album, Eddie Van Halen turned the notion and rules of playing guitar on its head. One listen to Eruption would have been enough to cause many aspiring guitar players to hang up their axes... or head back to the bedroom for a lot more practice. Add into that equation some seriously great songs and the cheerleading whooping and hollering of irrepresible frontman David Lee Roth, and rock bands now had a brand new template to work from. As David Lee Roth would later say, the band inspired everyone who was to follow for the next decade bands were either desperate to be like Van Halen. Or desperate to be nothing like them.

Aerosmith - Live Bootleg released October 1978
The greatest American rock'n roll band and the perfect cross between Led Zeppelin and the Stones. It's amazing enough that Aerosmith survived the seventies (and that they did so with such a fantastic back catalogue, more so), but their resurgence in the nineties is one of rock's most incredible comeback stories. This, though, captures caught the band at the peak of the first part of their career in the late 70s.

UFO - Strangers In The Night released 1979
Another classic live album from the same era as the Thin Lizzy record (and Aerosmith's Live Bootleg. And Cheap Trick's At The Budokan... there must have been something in the air). And again it captures the often under-rated band at their peak, particularly the mercurial talent of their young gun-slinger guitarist Michael Schenker. And as good as they were, UFO were never the same without Schenker who left shortly after to team up with his brother, briefly, in the Scorpions before enjoying some success as a solo artist.

Judas Priest - British Steel released 1980
Although Judas Priest were pretty much peers of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, their breakthrough didn't come until the turn of the 80s. However, Priest had been building a loyal and fanatical audience over the ten years and seven albums before British Steel exploded, spearheading the British heavy metal invasion of the United States. With piercing, operatic vocals, twin guitar leads and a leather clad image, Priest not only defined the sound of heavy metal but also its look.

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz released 1980
And here was another amazing comeback. Having been kicked out of Black Sabbath for excessive behaviour (actually no worse than anyone elses, but Ozzy was the obvious fall-guy being being just the singer), it looked Ozzy would sink without trace (probably into a mire of cocaine and booze). But with the help of his manager's daughter, Sharon Arden (later to b Sharon Osbourne), Ozzy put totgether a crack band led by amazing young guitarist Randy Rhoads and knocked everyone for six. From the first few bars of opener Crazy Train it was obvious Ozzy's new project was something very special indeed.

AC/DC - Back In Black released August 1980
Having finally made their breakthrough with the million selling Highway To Hell, AC/DC lost their charismatic singer Bon Scott when he choked to death after a drinking binge. But the band decided to press on, found an ideal new singer in Brian Johnson, and in doingn so far out-stripped anything and everything they had recorded before. That new album was Back In Black, a turbo-charged monster that spat fearlessly in the face of death and adversity, as nearly all of the album's songs were about death and drinking. Bon Scott would undoubtedly approved.

Whitesnake - Come An' Get It released 1981
Following the messy demise of Deep Purple, singer David Coverdale wasted no time in assembling a new band, Whitesnake, which in time would feature two of his mates from Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and keyboard virtuoso Jon Lord. Whitesnake were not a heavy metal band by any stretch of the imagination, but chose to follow the direction that the later incarnation of Purple had started in on soulful hard funk and r'n b. Come An' Get It is the pinnacle of this era of Whitesnake, before Coverdale discovered expensive hair products... and MTV discovered him.

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast released 1982
Having made two well recieved and vital records, and poised on the edge of greatness, Iron Maiden lost their singer Paul Di'anno. Their next move was vitally important, and in their recruitment of Brice Dickinson Maiden had found the final key element to their evolution. Not only were Bruce's vocals stronger and more rounded than his predecessors, so too was the songwriting from the hit singles Run To The Hills and the title track, to the more epic Hallowed Be Thy Name and Children Of The Damned there wasn't a weak cut on the album - simply put, one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time.


NOT my words or choices but a radio stations

[Panamark]

Baby Animals - Baby Animals.

Just listened to this again, first time in years. FOOKIN ROCKS !

[flappo]

jeff beck - wired , blow by blow , jeff , you had it coming , truth , beck-ola

etc etc

[Susie Q]

Originally posted by secrets
I prefer his first album Flex-able, but then I'm weird.

This album I can do without. When I heard this it put me in a bad mood, and I mean that literally. The ONLY song on it that I could possibly tolerate was Little Green Men. Other than that....he was trying hard to be Frank Zappa but with his own guitar sound.

The song that will make me snap and go on a rampage is "There's Something Dead In Here."

[Seshmeister]

If you haven't got them already then this is a no brainer.

The first 2 Love/Hate albums.

A bit like early Guns n' Roses crossed with early Chilli Peppers but without the sell outs.

The best bit is that you can get them for nothing at http://www.lovehate.com

At least until their ex record company notices...:)

Like classic Van Halen what initially seems to be straight ahead rock is filled with brilliant subtleties.

If you steal one album this year make it this one.:)

With the bonus you can do it with a clean conscience because the band wants you to.

Cheers!

:gulp:

[secrets]

Originally posted by Susie Q
This album I can do without. When I heard this it put me in a bad mood, and I mean that literally. The ONLY song on it that I could possibly tolerate was Little Green Men. Other than that....he was trying hard to be Frank Zappa but with his own guitar sound.

The song that will make me snap and go on a rampage is "There's Something Dead In Here."

Susie, I didn't like it myself at first but it grew on me.

You can definately here Zappa'a influence on this album but it is not a rip off by any means.

Call it Sleep is a beutiful instrumental with a stunning guitar solo.

It probably doesn't appeal so much to most people because it's not all out heavy rock apart from Viv Woman and the Attitude Song.

It's amazing and ironic though how much better Vai sounded with lo-tech equipment.

[moose]

Without stating the obvious, I agree with most of your suggestions, one thing though most of you guys/gals have forgotten the following

In Trance
Virgin Killers
Lovedrive
Animal Magnetism
The Scorpions recorded some amazing material in the early days and I
feel that these 4 albums are essential to any collection.
Cheers:cool:

[Big Troubles]

Lovedrive
Animal Magnetism

are stellar albums. What was the Scorpions album that was all instrumental. Very old. I own it somewhere. (its the shits though) Possible self titled?

But if you love the scorpions that much I would recommend World Wide Live.

[Big Troubles]

Hey Moose. No animals were harmed in the making of that last post. :D

[moose]

Originally posted by Big Troubles
Lovedrive
Animal Magnetism

are stellar albums. What was the Scorpions album that was all instrumental. Very old. I own it somewhere. (its the shits though) Possible self titled?

But if you love the scorpions that much I would recommend World Wide Live.

My dear animal killer, it is Lonesome Crow(WEIRD ALBUM) Pretty cool to listen to when the BONGS BE SMOKIN'!!!!!!!!!

[moose]

Originally posted by Big Troubles
Hey Moose. No animals were harmed in the making of that last post. :D

ROTFLMMFAO x3

[Big Troubles]

thats it. lol Is that the first they put out? For me the scorpions were finished after Love at first sting. IMO. I cant think of any good songs past that.

[Dave's Bitch]

Exodus - Bonded By Blood,force of habit
Megadeth - basicaly anything by megadeth
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction,use you illusion 1 and 2
Motley Crue - too fast for love
Alice Cooper - Het Stoopid (thats the best alice cd ever)

[bastardog]

Originally posted by Dave's Bitch
Megadeth - basicaly anything by megadeth

I wouldn't recommend (unless you have an iron stomach) the album Risk.....all others are highly highly recommended