What Are Your Favorite Rock Albums Ever Made?

i figured asking for a top -10 list of albums, might be a little too long for this thread and if i asked for just 1 or 2 favorite albums, that might seem not enough and too hard to choose. so i went for the middle ground and decided on letting you decide... "what are your favorite rock albums ever made" ?

the ones you would take to a deserted island. the ones you never get tired of listening to and always go out and buy replacements for. every time they wear out, break, get lost, or are permanently borrowed...

i have a lot of candidates...but some of my favorite rock albums are...and there are 10 of them...


"Love At First Sting" - 1984 - Scorpions ...best songs from it are..."still loving you" "big city nights" "coming home" "i'm leaving you" "rock you like a hurricane"

"Strange Days" -1967 - Doors ...best songs from it are..."your lost little girl" "i cant see your face in my mind" "when the musics over" "strange days" "moonlight drive"

"Led Zeppelin 4" -1971 - Led Zeppelin ...best songs from it are..."the battle of evermore" "stairway to heaven" "when the levee breaks" "four sticks" "black dog"

"Heaven And Hell" - 1980 - Black Sabbath ...best songs from it are..."lady evil" "die young" "neon knights" "heaven and hell" "children of the sea"

"Revolver" - 1966 - Beatles ...best songs from it are..."tomorrow never knows" "she said she said" "tax man" "eleanor rigby" "got to get you into my life"

"Destroyer" - 1976 - Kiss ...best songs from it are..."flaming youth" "detroit rock city" "god of thunder" "do you love me" "beth"

"Ghost In The Machine" -1982 - Police ...best songs from it are..."spirits in the material world" "every little thing she does is magic" "invisible sun" "secret journey" "darkness"

"War" - 1983 - U2 ...best songs from it are..."new years day" "seconds" "two hearts beat as one" "drowning man" "sunday bloody sunday"

"Dark Side Of The Moon" - 1973 - Pink Floyd ...best songs from it are..."time" "breathe" "money" "us and them"

"Under The Big Black Sun" - 1982 - X ...best songs from it are..."hungry wolf" "riding with mary" "dancing with tears in my eyes" "blue spark" "come back to me"

Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run

Billy Joel: The Stranger

Bruce Springsteen: The River

ACDC: Back in Black

Rolling Stones: Greatest Hits

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity

Tool - Undertow

Rush - Moving Pictures

Pearl Jam - Ten

I'm gonna have to throw a few more in...

AC/DC - High Voltage (Because the song The Jack is freaking awesome!!)

Clutch - Self-Titled

The Allman Bros - Live at The Fillmore East (22 min version of Whipping Post!)

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

ZZ Top - Deguello

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) is #1 in my opinion. I have to agree with Back in Black (AC/DC) being near the top of that list. Rumours (Fleetwood Mac) is pretty good as well.

1)Appetite For Destruction
2)Chinese Democracy

I don't really know albums.. i am going to just list my 5 fav rock bands in order
Queen
Eagles
Beatles
RHC peppers
REM

No particular order

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon collie and the infinite sadness
Radiohead - The bends
Garbage - Version 2.0
U2 - Achtung Baby
Led Zepplin - 4

Even 5 is tough but here goes.

Deep Purple - Machine Head
Boston - Boston
Van Halen - Van Halen
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
ZZ Top Tres Hombres

So many left out, but I could survive with those.

Accept "Balls to the Wall"
Annihilator "Carnival Diablos"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
Metallica "Black Album"
and believe it or not
Boston "More Than a Feeling"

The individual song Balls to the Wall is appropriate for all the "Occupy" events for real.

I've been a guitarist since 1971, so that sorta influences the music I like...

reply to post by halffinger4


Tres Hombres is awesome, but I loooove Deguello.

reply to post by iNkGeEk

Amen to that...

Pink Floyd -Meddle
Led Zeppelin -IV
King Crimson -Lizard
The Beatles -Rubber Soul
Steely Dan -The Royal Scam



Santana - Self titled first album

Originally posted by visualmiscreant
Accept "Balls to the Wall"
Annihilator "Carnival Diablos"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
Metallica "Black Album"
and believe it or not
Boston "More Than a Feeling"

The individual song Balls to the Wall is appropriate for all the "Occupy" events for real.

I've been a guitarist since 1971, so that sorta influences the music I like...

edit on 10/8/2011 by visualmiscreant because: added comment

"balls to the wall" is one of the greatest 80's metal songs ever made...

Tool-Aenima
NIN-Pretty Hate Machine
Rage against the machine-Evil Empire
White Zombie-Astro Creep 2000
Metallica-And Justice for All
Metallica- Black Album
Soundgarden-Superunknown
Lush- Lovelife
Blondie-Parallel lines
Korn-Korn
Black Sabbath-Paranoid

*I had to come back and add HyBrid Theory by Linkin Park and Paranoid and Sunburnt by Skunk Anasie...the latter being an amazing female vocalist.

i changed the headline to this thread...it's still more or less the same thing. but me asking for a "certain amount" of favorite albums did'nt seem right anymore...putting down as many as you want is better...

In no particular order:

Electric Six - Fire (They are such an underrated band and a great laugh live)
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Opeth - Heritage
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Hawkwind - Doreme Faso Latido
AC/DC - Back In Black
Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

These are only my fave Rock albums though, no metal

Originally posted by Vinterskogen
In no particular order:

Electric Six - Fire (They are such an underrated band and a great laugh live)
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Opeth - Heritage
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes
Hawkwind - Doreme Faso Latido
AC/DC - Back In Black
Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

These are only my fave Rock albums though, no metal

edit on 9/10/11 by Vinterskogen because: (no reason given)

very nice to see hawkwind in your list...a very underated band..imo...i guess there are some of what some people would call metal, in my list...like black sabbath and the scorpions and some people might not consider them metal at all but, hard rock...??? all modern music is "rock" to me, soft rock, hard rock, metal rock,whatever rock...they all rock in their own way...i had to headline this thread with something? and if i just put the word, album.some might have thought i meant, photo album? or if i wrote, cd's,some might think that i meant "only cd's"?... its all music...that rocks

This thread would really come "full-circle" if you read our suggestions, do some listening/research, and then list your "newly educated" Top 5 or Top 10 albums. Some of these, such a Aenema, Back in Black, Meddle, and Dark Side of the Moon will certainly require a full (preferably uninterrupted) listen-through to truly appreciate in all their glory.

To name a few not mentioned yet


Tenacious D- Tenacious D
Primus- Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
Prince- Purple Rain
The Cars- The Cars
Foo Fighters- The Colour And The Shape

reply to post by blocula


Yeah, i totally agree, some of those bands would have been called metal sometimes, but i suppose i'd go for defining them as Rock (at least Hard Rock) nowadays, compared to the contemporary Metal sound.
But labels are always by self definition. One mans Heavy Rock music is another mans Ambient Black Metal.

Hawkwind are fantastic though. It's a shame they're so unheard of, even here in the UK. They do a great live show, too