Best all time rock & roll album or song-Your choice

Gordy · « **Reply #20 on:** 26 Aug 2006, 09:23 pm »

Clash / London Calling

Led Zeppelin / I & II

Jimi Hendrix / Are You Experienced

Rolling Stones / Beggars Banquet

Beatles / Rubber Soul

Elvis Costello / My Aim Is True
Neil Young / Harvest
Small Faces / Ogden's Nut Gone
Paul Simon / Graceland
Patty Smith / Horses
The Kinks / Preservation Society
Genesis / The Lamb Lies Down...

ecramer · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 Aug 2006, 11:11 pm »

post

the father - bad company - bad company
the son - deep purple - machine head
the holy ghost - Black Sabath - Paranoid

mid

Lynyrd Skynyrd - one more from the road
Jethro Tull - thick as a brick
meat loaf - bat out of hell

now

Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains GRind is a great tune
dream theater - change of sesons
Nick cave and the bad seeds - let love in

eico1 · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Aug 2006, 11:58 pm »

If you limit it to one album, I know I've worn through at least one copy of The Allman Brothers Band Fillmore East, though I forget if I went through Yessongs first.

steve

TomW16 · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 03:13 am »

AC/DC - Back in Black

RoadTripper · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 05:17 am »

James Gang - Funk 49

JoshK · « **Reply #25 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 06:14 pm »

Added... (post reading other's)
If you picked the best tracks from Guns N Roses Use your Illusion I & II and made it one album I think it would easily grace the list.
As Gordy points out below... Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced I'd place here too, maybe even Beggars Banquet.
Pearl Jam - Ten, I'll concede
Alice in Chains - Dirt
But no way would I add Master of Puppets (by Metallica) even though it is one of my favorite of theirs. Just too many filler songs like with all their albums. Two of the worst Metallica songs are on this album so I think this disqualifies it in my mind.
How could we forget AC/DC - Back in Black??
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De La Habitual
A little known album that I would place here is
Finger Eleven - Greyest of Blue Skies

I'd also place Fugazi - 13 Songs on the list but I think it is a compilation of their history, which disqualifies it.

Thebiker · « **Reply #26 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 06:33 pm »

Best Album....Doors: "Soft Parade".

Mag · « **Reply #27 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 07:14 pm »

Lots of good suggestions, some I've heard most I haven't.

For me best album:
Made in Japan- Deep Purple

Best Song:(difficult choice)
Inside Looking Out- Grand Funk- Caught in the Act

Joules · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Aug 2006, 07:23 pm »

Ok this is difficult and will change moment to moment with my mood. but here goes...

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
or
Triumverat - Sparticus
or
Toy Matinee
or
Moving pictures
or...

...Oh never mind

jqp · « **Reply #29 on:** 28 Aug 2006, 02:10 am »

Wow I like Trilogy, it is up there in my list. I like a lot of progressive rock like Yes, ELP, and I would probably add Pink Floyd here and Alan Parsons Project, yet I like country rock, delta, blues, texas rock. This would include Alman Bros, Neil Young and some CSNY stuff, Little Feat, Stevie Ray. So what qualifies for Rock n' Roll among my favorites? The Who, Brian Wilson and the Boys, The Beatles, Led Zep, Eric Clapton in many bands. Now Viacom (the people who brought us MTV VH1 CMT and now BET) Country is rehashing all the Classic Rock styles. For me a nearly impossible task to name one album or song. But fun to think about it all.

Skynyrd · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Aug 2006, 03:23 am »

I like "live" rock and roll, even when touched up in the studio...

Anything live by Led Zeppelin. Even their worst 1980 European bootlegs have great moments. Clearly the ultimate live rock n' roll band. Easily available are "The Song Remains the Same (noticeable studio touch-ups) and "How the West Was Won". Tons of bootlegs out there, Dallas 3-4-75 is highly recommended.

Uriah Heep "Live 1973": Ken Hensley B.C. Great album, too bad the band crash'd and burned so hard. I'd repent after living through that, too.

Rainbow "On Stage" 1976. Ronnie James Dio and the living penis Ritchie Blackmore actually tolerated each other long enough to put out this great live album. Deep Purple's "Made in Japan" doesn't make the cut compared to this Rainbow double-live LP.

Allman Brothers: Can't miss "Live at the Fillmore..." of course, but check out their live DVD "At the Beacon" from 2003. The new blood in this band are clearly musicians of a high caliber.

Bob Dylan: Live 1975. Particularly good on many tracks, as there are many musicians besides Dylan performing!

Phish: Get all six CD's of "Hampton Comes Alive" : Definitive live Phish with great fidelity.

Rush: "All the World's a Stage". Perhaps this will be surpassed by their excellent live DVD "R30". Only time will tell.

UFO's 1977ish "Strangers In the Night": This album is a nut n' bolts how-to on playing rock and roll. Mandatory listening for anyone in a rock n' roll band.

Skynyrd

china · « **Reply #31 on:** 28 Aug 2006, 05:15 am »

Hello Again,

Since I started this thread!!! Thanks for all the replies!!! Very interesting!!! But what about"Fleetwood Mac's", "Rumours" (I can't remember the correct spelling!!!) and "Joe Crockers", Greatest Hits", "You Are So Beautiful". The best thing about the music, never minding what it is! Just putting it on and enjoying!!!
Oh! Well!! Thanks for the thoughts and responses. As always, all the best!!!

From China

warnerwh · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Aug 2006, 05:26 am »

Rumours is one of my top three. It's a Beautiful Day by Beautiful day and Abbey Road by the Beatles. In Search of the Lost Chord and On the Threshold of a Dream by the Moody Blues are right behind.

Orson Garnsey · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Aug 2006, 05:30 am »

Vintage:

Houses of the Holy
Back 'N' Black
2112

Modern:

Blink-182 (2003, gotta love tight trios, drummer is the #$%&)

Vintage Song:

In My Time of Dying (Physical Graffiti, Just listen to BONHAM on this one, sheesh!)

Modern Song:

I Miss You (Blink-182)

drphoto · « **Reply #34 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 02:58 am »

Well if the question is what do you personally like, vs what is...."best" ('cause best opens up a whole can of subjective worms),

my "like", has to be Neil Finn's "Seven Worlds Collide" DVD (the CD version is incomplete)

I almost get tears in my eyes when I listen to this, not because it is sad....but because it is so beautiful.

MarkM · « **Reply #35 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 03:23 am »

A couple that come to mind, but not limited to these two,

Van Halen-the vinyl remaster from DCC.
Rush-Moving Pictures, still love it.

mca · « **Reply #36 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 05:11 am »

I tried to narrow it down to just a couple songs!

Accept - Balls to the wall
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Allies - Emma Peel
Blackfoot - Train train
Blue Cheer - Summertime blues
Blue Oyster Cult - I love the night
Box of Frogs - Back where I started
The Cult - She sells sanctuary
Faith No More - We care a lot
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Hollies - Long cool woman
Jethro Tull - Skating away
Joe Walsh - The confessor
John Mayall - Room to move
King Swamp - Is this love
Kings of the Sun - Serpentine
Montrose - Bad motor scooter
Motorhead - Ace of spades
Mr. Big - Addicted to that rush
Neil Young - Cinnamon girl
Red Rider - Lunatic fringe
Robin Trower - Tear it up
School of Fish - Three strange days
Sniff n' the Tears - Drivers seat
Ted Nugent - Great white buffalo
Thin Lizzy - Jail Break
UFO - Love to love
ZZ Top - Manic Mechanic

Woodsea · « **Reply #37 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 06:23 am »

My most played albums:
Brothers in Arms
Ten
Moving Pictures
IV
Operation: Mindcrime

I am 41, grew up in Bellevue...not the Mental Health Hospital.

Greatest Rock and Roll song-Hound Dog by Elvis Presley (AKA the King).

mcrespo71 · « **Reply #38 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 12:37 pm »

Rock-n-roll album- Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street/Beggars Banquet/Let it Bleed
Pop Album- Beatles- Revolver and Abbey Road

Song- Rolling Stones Satisfaction

Gooch · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Aug 2006, 01:59 pm »

Best Rock Albums

Van Halen I
Van Halen II
Van Halen Mean Streets
Kiss Alive
Ozzy Blizzard of Ozz