Gin Blossoms “New Miserable Experience”
Bonnie Raitt “Nine Lives”
Re: OP
As soon as I saw the thread title, first thing that popped into my head was “Pearl Jam - Ten.” Right at the top of your list! Badass.
Seconds, thirds, or whatever for Stone Temple Pilots - Core, and U2- Joshua Tree, and many others…
Aaron Neville - The Grand Tour - I don’t care how many people don’t like his falcetto voice.
He has the voice of an angel in the body of a fullback. Bring it on, baby.
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Guys & Dolls Soundtrack
The Music Man Soundtrack
I recognize many of the bands listed, but most seem to be within the past 10 years or so. sigh.
For the record: Carole King’s Tapestry
and the already mentioned Fleetwood Mac Rumours…
thanks for making me feel old…
HenrySpencer:
- The Velvet Underground & Nico *(the banana album) would be a fine album if you got rid of the “& Nico” part. Man, that bitch had the most irritating voice. Totally gets in the way of listening to Cale wail on the viola for me. The non-Nico songs (Heroin, Waiting for the Man) are pretty good, but White Light/White Heat is a much better album.
** gigi**:
Actually, I would reverse these. The River is a decent album, except the title track is the most maudlin, melodramtic piece of crud Bruce has ever written. Born to Run * is quintessential Bruce, while * Darkness… was the first album where he seemed to break out of his “Poor man’s Dylan” mode. To be fair, “Adam Raised a Cain” is a live standard, and comes off much better than the studio version, but it’s not a bad song. Not nearly as annoying as “The River”
Most everything else here seems right on. I know someone mentioned Grand Illusion by Styx. I personally think Dennis DeYoung could peel paint with his voice alone it’s so annoying, but I will concede that if you LIKE Styx (and that style of power-ballad falsetto hollar-rock), than it IS a quintessential album.
In addition to a few of the great albums already mentioned (especially the Zep), I’ll add the following:
Jethro Tull – Original Masters
Dead Kennedys – Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Operation Ivy – Operation Ivy
Vol. 4 Remix Wars – Funkervogt and Velvet Acid Christ
Praise the Fallen – VNV Nation
I’ll probably think of more later…
MR
Police: “Synchronicity”
Oingo Boingo: Most of em…
U2: “Joshua Tree”
Beatles: duh…
Jimmy Cliff: “The Harder They Come”
Jethro Tull: “Warchild” and “Think as a Brick” (granted, that’s only one song that’s an album long, but it is a damn good song)
10,000 Maniacs: “Our Time in Eden”
TMBG: “Flood”
Yes: “90125” (I think that’s the number, anyway)
Talking Heads: “Stop Making Sense” and “Remain in Light”
I think that’s about it from what I own, ignoring greatest hits collections, which I don’t think count.
Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I, II, IV, Houses of the Holy
Rolling Stones - Beggar’s Banquet, Exile on Main St.
Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising
that’s all i can think of for now…
Queen-News Of The World
My top choice, which has been mentioned several times, is my favorite album of all time: Graceland by Paul Simon
Second choice: Green by REM.
Another, off the top of my head: Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
I won’t mention all the good stuff everybody else has - except to reiterate “Physical Graffiti” by Zeppelin.
They pull it off with a double album - hard to do.
“Hot Rocks” by the Rolling Stones, although that’s a greatest hits album, so that’s kind of cheating.
“Gish” and “Siamese Dream” by The Smashing Pumpkins. (They are my favorite band. I think their “Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” is one of the most underrated rock albums of all time, but it does have a song or two on the double-album that just don’t do it for me.)
“Desolation Boulevard” by Sweet
“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” by AC/DC
“Paul’s Boutique” by the B-Boys.
“Superunknown” by Soundgarden
“Nevermind” by Nirvana
“Destroyer” by Kiss
“A Show of Hands - Live” by Rush
“Dirt” by Alice in Chains
and that’s probably enough
Just out of curiosity, chief, what don’t you like on Led Zep III?
irish_bill says:
If I were gay, I’d do you right now. Whatever is one of the top 5 pop albums recorded in the last 15 years, bar none. And the other two are no stiffs.