Ultimate-est Hard Rock Albums

[Cosmic Harmony]

The highest scorers from all of those polls....




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[gregjohnson1229]

i really like Appetite for Destruction. Guns N Roses were at their best at this point. Issy Stradlin and Steven Adler were a part of the lineup and served as great compliments. Appetite also has the song. The song is "Welcome to the Jungle." People that don't listen to rock or or dont like rock know this song. Everytime you are at a sporting event or watching one on tv you will likely hear that song. Also when you are flipping through channels you may hear the song on a commerical. The in between primal growl and scream that Axl does at the intro of the song sets the tone for the rest of the song. Appetite is a particular important album to me because I was highly influenced by Slash's melodic blues solos. Finally as debut albums go Appetite is as good as it gets. IMO people who don't want to give Appetite its due it is because of their dislike for Axl. Don't get me wrong Axl is a cancer personally to any ban, but is a one of a kind talent. His voice IMO would be a nice fit for Zepllien, howerver I know he could not co exist with Page. My point is Appetite is iconic and IMO is as important as Nevermind as far as pulling rock away from the cheesy big hair, makeup. spandex, pyro, commerical disaster that was taking place.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

For were obvious choices for me;

Boston
Appetite for Destruction
Blizzard of Ozz
Van Halen

The fifth vote was a very hard one though. In the end I went with

Machine Head

 

[Groovy Man]

Wow...hard to narrow it down to 5, but here ya go...

Led Zeppelin II
Boston
Ted Nugent
Cat Scratch Fever
Van Halen I

It was hard to leave off the 2 Deep Purple albums and a few others.

PS - Where's Jailbreak?

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

PS - Where's Jailbreak?

"Jailbeak" only got 8 votes in the round that it competed in and that was not enough for it to make the top 20 albums of this thread.

 

[LG]

Boston
Van Halen
The Number of the Beast
Machine Head
HIghway to Hell

Pretty hard to go wrong with that selection of albums to choose from.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Look at Boston go. I didn't expect them to be in the lead. I'm delighted.

 

[electric funeral]

Van Halen
Led Zeppelin II
Highway To Hell
The Number of The Beast
Heaven and Hell

 

[WetWilly]

All of 'em are great classic albums, but the 5 I voted for are:

Heaven & Hell
Van Halen
Led Zeppelin II
Ted Nugent
Highway To Hell

 

[ThinLizzyFan]

Where is Jailbreak?