Your Top 5 Favorite Rock Albums Of All-Time

[Sergeant Rock]

As a criteria, In case of a house fire, I'd save those first:

Neil Young - Harvest
Depeche Mode - Violator
Mogwai - Special Moves (live)
Chris Rea - Dancing down the stoney road
Status Quo : Quo + Live

Then I'd run back in for :

Crosby Stills Nash - Deja Vu
Creedence Clearwater Revival - best of
Serge Gainsbourg - Ballade of Melody Nelson
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

If I were at your house when the fire started, I'd save the second five first, saving you from having to go back in 

Sarge

[Baron Scarpia]

If I were at your house when the fire started, I'd save the second five first, saving you from having to go back in 

Sarge

If I were at your house when the fire started, I'd save the Mahler cycles, saving you the trouble of going back in after saving the Ring cycles. 

[Alek Hidell]

Crosby Stills Nash - Deja Vu
Creedence Clearwater Revival - best of
Serge Gainsbourg - Ballade of Melody Nelson
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

For the Dylan, I assume you mean Bringing It All Back Home?

I considered some CCR too: Willy and the Poor Boys, an all-time fave. I'd hate to leave behind Green River, but the former is better.

[Sergeant Rock]

If I were at your house when the fire started, I'd save the Mahler cycles, saving you the trouble of going back in after saving the Ring cycles. 

  But we'd need more help (17 Mahler cycles, 14 Ring). With luck Papy will be on hand to help carry the load 

Sarge

[Baron Scarpia]

  But we'd need more help (17 Mahler cycles, 14 Ring). With luck Papy will be on hand to help carry the load 

Sarge

Yes, we'd be immolated, just like in Gotterdamerung. Better to just run, and download the sets from iTunes.

[Papy Oli]

For the Dylan, I assume you mean Bringing It All Back Home?

That's the one, Alek, yes. I seem to remember one was the US title and the other the UK title ?

[Papy Oli]

  But we'd need more help (17 Mahler cycles, 14 Ring). With luck Papy will be on hand to help carry the load 

Sarge

Like they say in Jaws, We're gonna need a a bigger wheel barrow.... 

[Alek Hidell]

That's the one, Alek, yes. I seem to remember one was the US title and the other the UK title ?

Hm, looks like you're right - or at least it does seem to have had that title "in several European countries," as Wikipedia says.



Anyway, great album.

[bwv 1080]

Keeping in line with the geriatric nature of this thread:

Alman Bros - Eat a Peach
Blind Faith
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Rolling Stones - Exiles on Main Street

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Keeping in line with the geriatric nature of this thread:

Geriatric, or was 1965-1975 just an especially good period for rock music?

[Karl Henning]

Keeping in line with the geriatric nature of this thread:

Alman Bros - Eat a Peach
Blind Faith
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Rolling Stones - Exiles on Main Street

I do regret the omission of Jethro Tull

[Baron Scarpia]

Geriatric, or was 1965-1975 just an especially good period for rock music?

Geriatric. Great music continued to be made (and there was an ocean of tripe in the 'classic' days). I just don't connect with the newer pop music as I did with stuff I heard when I was young.

I couldn't get past 4, and I was tempted to put Paper Lace on my list (as a joke), until I remembered that BTO stuff.



Anyone who doesn't tear up when listening to "Billy, Don't be a Hero" has to be a monster!   

[LKB]

Beatles: Beatles for Sale

Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

Queen: Greatest Hits

Simon and Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence

Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Humming,

LKB

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Limiting myself to group stuff:

The Beatles, The Beatles (aka "White Album")
The Band, Music from Big Pink
Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jethro Tull, Aqualung

and one greatest hits anthology:

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle

[nodogen]

Sticking to one album per artist (as it would be pretty much all Cardiacs otherwise):

Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea



Along with Sing To God this is the album that many fans cite as their finest. Too many highlights to mention them all but The Duck and Roger the Horse and Buds and Spawn are quintessential Cardiacs, and closing song The Everso Closely Guarded Line would surely make many a progger's heart swell. 



Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts



Still their best album IMO, due in no small part to A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, but the other songs don't slack either.



King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King



A classic from the day it was released, and so it remains.



Xhol Caravan - Electrip



One of the greatest Krautrock albums, a wonderful blend of prog/psych/jazz.



Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

   

A double album with not a dull moment from start to finish. His best and most experimental album. Great stuff.

You've managed to include the first two albums I bought - In the Court and Pawn Hearts. They are what set me off on my love of music. Still got them (on CD).

[nodogen]

Egg - Egg
Guapo - Elixirs
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
This Heat - This Heat

[Turner]

Am probably transgressing the classic category of rock, but these are among the favourites
(I´ll exclude local bands from Scandinavia not generally well-known):

- Tori Amos - To Venus and Back, the live album (very different from her studio productions)
- Massive Attack - Blue Lines
- Alanis Morisette - Supposed Former ...
- Björk - Homogenic
- Portishead - Portishead

[Baron Scarpia]

- Alanis Morisette - Supposed Former ...

That is some good stuff!

[Turner]

That is some good stuff!

Yes, and musically unusually rich and satisfying 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Egg - Egg
Guapo - Elixirs
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons
This Heat - This Heat

Wow, I've never heard of any of these...but my breakfast today consisted of Egg - Egg, cooked over This Heat - This Heat (with some Bacon - Bacon on the side).