The best rock album of all time is . . . - Page 6

Rick Nebiolo · #51 07-04-2004, 07:01 AM

Your pick is a dead giveaway you and I attended college about the same time. Two other notables from that period where King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King" and Traffic's "John Barleycorn Must Die". Another one that got a lot of airplay was "Liege and Lief" by Fairport Convention. "Matty Groves" is a great song from that album.

My pick for best rock album is "Who's Next" by The Who. Consistent all the way through and it still plays well almost 40 years later.

~ Rick

Tommy Angelo · #52 07-04-2004, 10:10 AM

"Ok, who here besides me still owns a turntable?"

I do! I do!

Not only that, it is two feet from me right now, and it works great, and I use it, and I have almost every album mentioned in this thread.

If I really had to pick my favorite of them all, I'd say Physical Graffiti, for two reasons:

1) It is the most (sanctioned) Led Zep in one package.

2) It has the song "In My Time of Dying" on it, which I think of as the John Bonham equivalent to Beethoven's ninth.

Tommy

The Dude · #53 07-04-2004, 11:02 AM

Tyler, you just gained two notches of respect in my book, leapfrogging Astroglide.

- The Dude abides.

morgant · #54 07-04-2004, 02:12 PM

i thoroughly enjoy bowies music and my order of preference would have to be hunky, man who sold, ziggy. just personal taste. jethro tull, however, i thought of mentioning them and figured i'd be flamed to death as most of my contemporaries do for my listening to a band with a lead singer who plays the flute(he kicks major arse doing it!) not sure if your jethro comment was sarcastic or not, but they rock.

astroglide · #55 07-04-2004, 02:13 PM

i know. there aren't any pictures of him in the cab on google image search.

astroglide · #56 07-04-2004, 02:18 PM

i think page is a great WRITER, but technically proficient? he's arguably the sloppiest "pro guitarist" ever. witness the mess that is the heartbreaker solo, for example. i love the guy and all of zeppelin, but he's not in even in my top 10 guitar *PLAYERS*.

slamdunkpro · #57 07-04-2004, 02:34 PM

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the album had not yet been recorded in 83

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Sorry - typo [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Andy B · #58 07-04-2004, 02:38 PM

You're way too young to vote on this. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

If you're referring to the fact that CDs have more playing time than vinyl albums, Appetite for Destruction was released on vinyl.

Softrock · #59 07-04-2004, 02:39 PM

Holy s*** - Astro and I are in complete agreement here.

bugstud · #60 07-04-2004, 02:50 PM

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You're way too young to vote on this. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

If you're referring to the fact that CDs have more playing time than vinyl albums, Appetite for Destruction was released on vinyl.

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Hmm, my source was off then, but he was younger than I am [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] At least I appreciate the classics unlike many of the youngins.