Your Top 5 Favorite Rock Albums Of All-Time

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June 12, 2014, 07:59:30 PM
Your 'Top 5 Favorite Rock Albums Of All-Time." GO! 8)

Mirror Image

#1
June 12, 2014, 08:02:05 PM
I'll go first (in no particular order):

1. Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
3. King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black
4. Rush: Grace Under Pressure
5. Yes: Relayer

NorthNYMark

#2
June 12, 2014, 09:12:58 PM
1. King Crimson, Red
2. UK, UK
3. Joe Jackson, Night and Day
4. Genesis, A Trick of the Tail
5. Crowded House, Temple of Low Men

mn dave

#3
June 13, 2014, 04:11:28 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 12, 2014, 08:02:05 PM
I'll go first (in no particular order):

1. Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
3. King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black
4. Rush: Grace Under Pressure
5. Yes: Relayer

This is just so you can mention those bands over and over.  :D

Jay F

#4
June 13, 2014, 04:22:18 AM
Warren Zevon - s/t
Hasten down the Wind - Linda Ronstadt
Rubber Soul (US version) - the Beatles
Pet Sounds - the Beach Boys
Sgt. Pepper's - the Beatles

mn dave

#5
June 13, 2014, 04:24:39 AM
Okay.

The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles - Help!
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Beatles - Revolver
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?

Sergeant Rock

#6
June 13, 2014, 04:28:00 AM Last Edit: June 13, 2014, 04:48:10 AM by Sergeant Rock
Cheap Thrills Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin

Two from the Vault Grateful Dead

American Beauty Grateful Dead

Moondance Van Morrison

The Band The Band

Runner up:

Making Movies Dire Straits


Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

escher

#7
June 13, 2014, 04:51:03 AM
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (or Lorca)
Nuno Canavarro - Plux quba
The Residents - Not available

Karl Henning

#8
June 13, 2014, 04:52:56 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 12, 2014, 08:02:05 PM
3. King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black

Interesting that you prefer this to Larks' Tongues in Aspic & Red!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10
June 13, 2014, 04:58:11 AM
Okay, the only way I can participate here is if I don't "over-think" the matter . . . .

Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery
Robert Fripp, Exposure
Zappa & The Mothers, Uncle Meat
Zappa & The Mothers, Burnt Weenie Sandwich
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Sergeant Rock

#11
June 13, 2014, 05:01:51 AM
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Mirror Image

#12
June 13, 2014, 06:31:28 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 13, 2014, 04:52:56 AM
Interesting that you prefer this to Larks' Tongues in Aspic & Red!

Indeed, Karl, but if I were to be honest about it I would place all three of these albums as equals, but The Night Watch alone, gives Starless and Bible Black a slight edge since this is one of my favorite King Crimson songs ever.

Mirror Image

#13
June 13, 2014, 06:32:53 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on June 13, 2014, 04:11:28 AM
This is just so you can mention those bands over and over.  :D

:P

mn dave

#14
June 13, 2014, 08:20:58 AM
Some would say the five "best" are...

Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Abbey Road

Some would say...

vandermolen

#15
June 13, 2014, 08:22:23 AM Last Edit: June 13, 2014, 08:24:45 AM by vandermolen
Beatles: White Album
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Beatles: Sgt. Pepper
Santana: Santana
Dreams : Dreams (US Jazz/Rock group c 1970)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#16
June 13, 2014, 08:24:14 AM
Quote from: Mn Dave on June 13, 2014, 08:20:58 AM
Some would say the five "best" are...

Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
The Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - Abbey Road

Some would say...

Could easily have included the last two on my list.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

George

#17
June 13, 2014, 08:50:46 AM
World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
Live - Distance to Here
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously." –Oscar Wilde

Papy Oli

#18
June 13, 2014, 12:07:56 PM
Neil Young - Everybody knows this is nowhere
Depeche Mode - Violator
Eric Clapton - Rainbow Concert
Rage against the Machine - s/t
Tim Buckley - Dream Letter (live)

Special mention : Mogwai - Special Moves (live)
Olivier

NJ Joe

#19
June 13, 2014, 04:25:15 PM
Quote from: escher on June 13, 2014, 04:51:03 AM
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Bravo!
"Music can inspire love, religious ecstasy, cathartic release, social bonding, and a glimpse of another dimension. A sense that there is another time, another space and another, better universe."
-David Byrne
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