Classic Rock Albums - your recommendations

[Hungry Joe]

Oh yes and add to that The Southern Death Cult album from '83

I'm fond of a spot of Cult action. Electric was good fun too. Got to strum Billy Duffy's Gretsch White Falcon (oo err) during the Brighton Dome gig on that tour.

 

[Silk]

Oh yeah. Forever Changes by Love

 

[brakespear]

'Meddle' - Pink Floyd ('Echoes' is my favourite Pink Floyd track)
'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' - Genesis
'Welcome to my Nightmare' - Alice Cooper
and a more recent one:
'Angel Dust' - Faith no More

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Another vote for King Crimson
Also The Yes Album and Going for the One by Yes
A Trick of the Tail by Genesis
Lynyrd Skynrd - greatest hits
Fugazi - Marillion
Morning View - Incubus
666 - Aphrodite's Child

Fugazi..What an album!

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Not sure this counts as classic, but ....

 

[Tinycox]

Must have albums:
Iron maiden - number of the beast
Judas priest - British steel
Rush - A farewell to Kings
ACDC - Highway to Hell
Thin Lizzy - Jail Break
Manowar - Kings of metal
Krokus - Metal Rendez-Vous
Whitesnake - Ready an' willing
Lone Star - Firing on all six
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine

 

[Silk]

Fugazi..What an album!

Yup! Rothery's guitar solo on "Jigsaw"- fantastic.

 

[Jim D]

Lots of the above and I would also recommend Argus - Wishbone Ash and Everybody Knows this is nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

 

[Superphil]

A final one, sort of NWOBHM, Michael Schenker Group self titled album of 1980, the track Bijou Pleasurette is a delight.

 

[Silk]

Throwing Copper- Live

 

[METALMICKY]

Too many to mention that any serious rock fan should have in their collection so I had to narrow it down to just the 3 albums I could take if cast away on a desert island:

Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album)

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

SF sorrow - Pretty Things
Playing with fire - Spacemen 3
Rubber Factory - Black keys

Just to throw a few 'slightly' alternative albums into the mix

 

[Norman Potting]

Can't miss out "Stupidity" by Dr Feelgood.
Drive-by Truckers - Ugly buildings, whores and politicians - greatest "hits" 1998-2009 - the music is as good as the title. Also "The Dirty South" from the same band, all their stuff is worth a listen.
Anything by or featuring ("The Blasters" f'rinstance) Dave Alvin
"Live at Montreux" by Rockpile.

 

[cirC]

The Strawbs .. Hero & Heroine - The perils of drug taking
Tom Petty - Running down a dream
Bruce Hornsby & the range - The way it is
Neil Young - Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnAgc1kgvLc

 

[jakarta]

classic - bought this in Rounder records for 99p

Very dangerous, once you get into Gong you may well drift into the whole avant garde jazz rock genre and end up listening to things like Frank Zappas Black Page (as I am at this very minute). Not really Rock but rather wonderful....

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

OK - here are a few more to get your teeth into:

Down by the Jetty - Dr Feelgood
One Live Badger - Badger
The first Foo Fighters album
Best of Mountain
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Fragile - Yes
Pilgrimage, Wishbone Four - Wishbone Ash
Band of Joy - Robert Plant

And a few newer ones ...

D - White Denim
Blunderbuss - Jack White
Pretty much anything by The Black Keys, Porcupine Tree or Pineapple Thief
:guitar: :guitar:

 

[ExmouthExile]

Hawkwind - Alien 4
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
Marillion - Marbles
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour
Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday Of Life
Rush - Roll The Bones

 

[Superphil]

Very dangerous, once you get into Gong you may well drift into the whole avant garde jazz rock genre and end up listening to things like Frank Zappas Black Page (as I am at this very minute). Not really Rock but rather wonderful....

All of your points are correct!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Dio - Holy Diver
Dio - The Last In Line
Ozzy - Diary of a Mad Man
Scorpions - World Wide Live

 

[Martinf]

Not everyone's cup of tea but here's a shout for the Scorpions - Lovedrive, Animal Magnestism and Blackout.


Edit - didn't see post above!