Classic Rock Albums - your recommendations

[The Sock of Poskett]

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

Oooh, had forgotten Rory Gallagher! Would add Walter Trout and Joe Bonamassa if you like blues guitar rock. And Ten Years After.
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Aqualung + Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
Moving Waves - Focus
Marquee Moon + Adventure - Television

 

[northstandnorth]

classic - bought this in Rounder records for 99p

Thats inflation for you.My 12" vinyl copy came from the old Virgin Record store that was sited where Boots is now in North Street,it was a promo deal for 50p in 1974.

In those days Branson wasn't the total crook he became and did promos of Albums for the same price as singles.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Probably not heavy enough for some, but Damn The Torpedoes by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers is pretty much a classic rock album. IMHO, like.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Quadrophenia and Who's next - The Who
Reckless - Bryan Adams
Eliminator - ZZ Top
Best of Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac)
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Van Halen I and II

I was just going to post about Fleetwood mac's greatest hits - from the Peter Green era - just watching a documentary from channel 4 about peter green - fantastic music coming out of some very dark drugs and mental health stuff..... but he was described as the greatest British blues guitarist of all time. His "I need your love so bad" is elsewhere on here in a greatest guitar solos of all time thread.

Would also go along with Disraeli Gears by Cream, and raise it to Wheels of Fire by Cream - great studio album with a phenomenal live album to boot.

But to the OP, there's some stuff on here I think is great, and some I wouldn't give the time of day, and I am sure others would feel the same and about different albums. Make your own mind up.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not quite rock, but a classic metal album is Slayer's Reign in Blood. A true masterpiece.

 

[Aristotle]

As said before, so many... But here are a few I don't think have been mentioned:

Soundgarden - Superunknown
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - Ten
Faith No More - Live at the Brixton Academy
INXS - Kick, X

 

[jakarta]

Hawkwind - Space Ritual - definitive live album from 1972 - goodness me that is 40 years ago!

 

[Meade's Ball]

These things I say, may seem kinda cruel
So here’s something from my heart to you
Looking at you, reminds me of looking at the sun
And how the blind are so damn lucky

I rock out a bit to the Kvelertak album too. Norwegian growling.

 

[mlg57]

You might want to try Alter Bridge and AB III superb album, look them up if you haven't heard of them.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Well, Robin Gibb has just died (gutted)... Staying Alive was a classic, all be it pop

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

BBC2 tonight at 10pm: Sounds of the 70s 2 Rock featuring Alice Cooper, The Faces, Nazareth, Bad Company, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake and Black Sabbath.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

MSG - MSG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjJ1fDecP1o&ob=av2n

 

[Superphil]

If you've never given Death Metal a go, then try Entombed, their album Left Hand Path is a masterpiece of the genre, don't knock it till you've tried it.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[colinz]

In no particular order.

Bob Dylan - Desire
Peter Gabriel - So
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Doors - Weird Scenes inside the Gold Mine
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Wishbone Ash - Theres the Rub
Graham Parker & the Rumour - Heat Treatment
Graham Parker & the Rumour - Stick to me.

 

[Seagull Steve]

Anything from AC/DC, from a personal point of view, they haven't made a bad album.
Iron Maiden-Fear of the dark
Judas Priest-British Steel
Metallica-...and justice for all and the black album
Guns n Roses - Appetite for destruction and use your illusion 1-2

 

[maltaseagull]

2 more!

Colosseum Live
Genesis Foxtrot

 

[Peteinblack]

These!

 

[Chris45]

Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell.

 

[Peteinblack]

These!

Having problems uploading images:

Should also have shown album covers for:

Hawkwind's Space Ritual (first band I ever saw live, Worthing Assembly Hall, about 1974)

Black Sabbath Volume 4 (opening track, 'Wheels of Confusion' one of my all time favourite rock tracks).