Essential Classic Rock Albums.

[Mr. Shadow]

 

[Ezequiel]

For me some definite essential albums are these:

Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of Unknown Origin

The songs "Fire of Unknown Origin", "Joan Crawford" and "Vengeance" are my favorites on this album

Queen - Innuendo

"Innuendo" is a great song but "Bijou" is the best song on this album

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

"Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" is the ultimate PT classic. Need I say more?

Golden Earring - Grab it for a Second

"Cell 29" is an awesome song. Quiet, sensetive but still rock

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

Besides the titlesong I get goosebumps everytime I hear "School"

 

[LG]

Some great choices since I last looked in here. I don't have a copy of Grab it for a Second though, I will have to add that to my shopping list.

 

[Foxhound]

This one!



The original Fleetwood Mac at their best!

 

[taha]

Tres Hombres

Toys In The Attic

Ted Nugents (1st)

 

[LG]

I have all of yours Taha,,,but I don't have the Fleetwood Mac you posted Fox...and I see it coincides with one of your latest polls.

 

[Magic]

Tres Hombres

Toys In The Attic

Ted Nugents (1st)

I had to look Tres Hombres album cover up....I was thinking it looked different:





"Waitin' for the Bus" (Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill) – 2:59
"Jesus Just Left Chicago" (Gibbons, Hill, Frank Beard) – 3:30
"Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" (Gibbons, Hill, Beard) – 3:23
"Master of Sparks" (Gibbons) – 3:33
"Hot, Blue and Righteous" (Gibbons) – 3:14
"Move Me on Down the Line" (Gibbons, Hill) – 2:32
"Precious and Grace" (Gibbons, Hill, Beard) – 3:09
"La Grange" (Gibbons, Hill, Beard) – 3:52
"Shiek" (Gibbons, Hill) – 4:05
"Have You Heard?" (Gibbons, Hill) – 3:15

My essential from ZZ Top would have to be :





"I Thank You" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 3:23
"She Loves My Automobile" – 2:24
"I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" – 4:46
"A Fool for Your Stockings" – 4:15
"Manic Mechanic" – 2:37
"Dust My Broom" (Robert Johnson) – 3:06
"Lowdown in the Street" – 2:49
"Hi Fi Mama" – 2:23
"Cheap Sunglasses" – 4:48
"Esther Be the One" – 3:31

I love the funky sound of this album.

 

[CP/M User]

Hmm, in terms of what is absolutely essentual and what makes a great album from a 60s point of view are two different things cause you could buy an album which is a compilation of songs from say "The Beatles" nowadays, though the trouble I found is it may not necessarily have what an individual is looking for.

To me it's very difficult to say what's essentual cause not everyone will like what I would suggest, though if someone asked me what I thought are must have albums to have from the 60s I would mention:

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Younger Than Yesterday - Byrds
Horizontal - Bee Gees
Realization - Johnny Rivers
Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Forever Changes - Love
Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
In Concert - Peter, Paul & Mary
It Ain't Me Babe - The Turtles

 

[LG]

Hmm, in terms of what is absolutely essentual and what makes a great album from a 60s point of view are two different things cause you could buy an album which is a compilation of songs from say "The Beatles" nowadays, though the trouble I found is it may not necessarily have what an individual is looking for.

To me it's very difficult to say what's essentual cause not everyone will like what I would suggest, though if someone asked me what I thought are must have albums to have from the 60s I would mention:

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Younger Than Yesterday - Byrds
Horizontal - Bee Gees
Realization - Johnny Rivers
Days of Future Passed - Moody Blues
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
Forever Changes - Love
Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
In Concert - Peter, Paul & Mary
It Ain't Me Babe - The Turtles

I agree with the 4 I put in Bold CP/M, and have all of them in the collection.

 

[CP/M User]

Lord Grendel wrote:

I agree with the 4 I put in Bold CP/M, and have all of them in the collection.

You need to get Peter, Paul & Mary - In Concert. It includes the best version of "The Times They Are A' Changin'" I've ever heard and is pack with some wonderful folk songs and a great blend of comedy from Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. This album usually goes largely unnoticed because 1. Peter, Paul & Mary came from the States and 2. This album came out in 1964! However it did manage to make the Top 20 US Albums for 1964!

I think you'll need "Forever Changes" by Love the problem for me was I brought the album because lots of people tend to fuss over it and it came out at that time music was getting a bit harder and psychedelic - I essentually didn't know any of the songs on it until I got it and listened to it.

Younger than Yesterday from the Byrds is personally an album I play again and again, more people might say The Notorious Byrd Brothers is the essentual Byrds album and they might be right, and while I think The Notorious Byrd Brothers is a great album, the album itself is perhaps the hardest hitting of all the Byrds albums - where's Younger Than Yesterday offers a range of diverse range of tracks from your harder edge songs, songs with a country emphasis as well as that connection between where the Byrds went in the years to follow and where they had been in the past with albums like Mr. Tambourine Man and Turn, Turn, Turn.

Horizontal from The Bee Gees is personally my favourite of the 60s Bee Gees albums and it's a bit like Younger Than Yesturday in it offers a range of songs - some have a bit of an edge, some are a bit softer and there's the odd satire song with "Harry Braff" been thrown in. It's a bit of an album which I think gets overlooked.